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    3 months ago

    My second year of University a guy fell off the roof and didn’t make it. Everyone was sent home while they cleaned everything up. That was the first time I cried for someone I didn’t know.

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    I didn’t cry, but was pretty sad when Mitch Hedberg passed. And earlier, when I learned my childhood fave Harry Chaplin had been gone for a few years.

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    No never but I know when Jackie Chan passes away I’m going to be really hurt.

    Man was my hero growing up with his movies and doing his own stunts.

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    Marie Fredriksson of Roxette, especially with the circumstance of her illness.

    It was just a kind of perfect music.

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    Leonard Nimoy was a pretty tough celebrity death for me. It was like losing a super cool uncle, a person who’d been in my life for my whole life, but hadn’t seen in a long while, was dead.

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    Carrie Fisher really hit me hard. I don’t know why. I guess she’s always just has a soft spot in my heart.

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    I was watching American Manhunt: Osama Bin Laden the other day and the details about 9/11 really got me emotional. The suddenness and intensity of the attack, the efforts of first responders and government agencies, and the heroism of the passengers of flight 93 affected me very deeply.

    I remember seeing another video once of firefighters hearing the sound of people jumping from the towers and crashing into the roof of the building they were in. Absolutely unimaginable how that day must have felt to the people that were there…

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    Technoblade.

    I’d watched him with my kids for years. He’s an amazing player and a really smart guy. I got my kid a leather bound copy of “The Art of War” because of the Potato Wars. Our shared love of video games, especially Minecraft, kept me involved with them during a pretty bad divorce.

    So when they came to me, tears in their eyes, I wept as well. Because he was a connection to my children. And I wept for Technodad, as any other father would.

    Congrats on 20 mill, Techno. May you never die.

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      3 months ago

      even just remembering this makes me cry again without fail

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    Adam Yauch.

    Was sad for weeks and took me years to even listen to Beastie Boys again without getting weepy. Here was a guy that was a standard issue kid, making obnoxious music for laughs and fun, that showed the world how to really grow up and mature. We were supposed to get a couple more decades of his creativity and unstoppable kindness before it got taken from us.

    I will forever miss MCA

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      Iain M. Banks too. ;-; Hydrogen Sonata was so good, and I remember seeing if there was another one in the works but turned out, no. Never will be…

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        I’ll be honest, one of his books was my least favourite I’ve ever read - Player of Games. I hated it the whole way through, just kept reading because I figured it would get better, and it didn’t.

        The Wasp Factory was good though, albeit fucked up.

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      On the subject of authors, Robert Pirsig. His book made a bigger impact on me than any other, and I constantly re-read it anytime I feel lost or depressed or in need of some kind advice. It’s the kind of advice I wish my dad had given me. Losing him was like losing the dad I wish I’d had.

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      I’m reading through Discworld for the first time now. Terry’s genius cannot be overstated. Each next book is an absolute revelation (well. Eric was good not maybe not a revelation…). The way the characters grow and become individuals, seemingly with their own real lives. It hurts to know Sir Terry will never be able to tell us more about this fantastical, commentary-laden, hilarious world.

      GNU Sir Terry Pratchett.

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    When Carrie Fisher died, I was very sad and for the next week I found myself rolling back a few tears every now and then. I was a SW fan from a young age and she was always like the sister I never had.