Ever lost an internet acquaintance?

PardonTheWait said:
Pyro from here. We used to talk on MSN sporadically, great guy. Such a shame :(

And an acquaintance from Yahoo chat ages ago died of cancer, he was only young.
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This sadly. I used to banter with him quite regularly then one day he disappeared and a little while after the news was posted on here.

RIP buddy.
 
My deepest sympathies to everyone who has posted in this thread about people they've known that they've lost. :(
 
there was a guy on another forum i frequent who was run over by a taxi on a forum night out in London. there was one thread that all the peeps were using to organise the night out, they were all excited and stuff, then the next they were trying to work out where he'd gone (they thought he'd pulled and gone off somewhere) but then it became clear that he'd been killed. i didn't know the guy but it was a heartbreaking thread RIP Nikiseven :(
 
I had a friend I chatted to for a few years via MSN Chat. He used to have a really busy chat room, help with the bots etc....I signed in on messenger one evening after work to find his mother on there informing everyone that he had hung himself in the garage and one of his wishes was to pass his chat room over to me and manage. Kept it running right up until the October that Microsoft canned MSN Chat.

RIP :(
 
Muban said:
I'm sure lots of people will remember Pyro too. I remember seeing the thread that day and my heart sank. He is missed.
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I spent a happy evening in Leeds with him, Gilly and Davey_Pitch. We had a meal and then went bowling. He was a really nice guy and I couldn't believe it when I heard what had happened to him.
 
Hitman_Leon said:
I subscribed as a life member on gamespy and I dont use anymore but on the odd occasion I have logged in he's still there on the friends list as Adam R.I.P (his family changed his tag after he died) and it might seem odd but it spooks me seeing his name there but I wont drop it from my friends list it seems kind of disrespectful.
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I know the feeling, my best mate at uni died at xmas 2007 and he's on my facebook, every time it comes up with showing my friends or friends mutual friends when on someone else's profile I see his and just think :(, but it's wrong to remove it, even if it'll never be updated again. :(


As for the OP, that I know of, I've not lost friends I've played on line with, but then lately (last year or so) I don't really play on line anyway so have separated from most of the gaming communities I was a part of.
 
Silverpaw from OcUK is one for me, used to be a big poster in the sports forum, 1 car accident later and :(. Didn't really know him but he seemed such a nice bloke and was well liked. Its nice that the prediction league is still named after him.
 
A few years ago I spoke to a girl from Pittsburgh quite regularly on MSN. Then she went on a "short vacation" to New York on the 9th Sept, 2001. Never spoken to her again....
 
I'm an admin at another forum for my Folding team and we lost a member. He just stopped posting one day but his DPAD points kept on coming in. Then one day, his sister sent an email to ell us that he'd died of a heroin overdose having been an alcoholic for years. We all thought we knew him and it turned out we didn't at all. He left a young wife and little boy.

His family and friends are still running the DPAD software in his honour years later.
 
Weird timing, a friend of mine I have talked to for 10 years has disappeared and I'm pretty worried about her. She hasn’t logged into any forums she is active on for a far while or MSN. She has a few health issues so it’s hard not to assume the worst.
 
About 9 years ago when I was an internewbie used to use ICQ to find people close to where I live to talk to, anyway got talking to this girl that also supported the swans etc spoke to her for a couple of years then she suddenly disappeared offline.

At the time didn't think much of it as things go on etc only to find out she went to her sisters wedding in Australia, and when she got back to this country she suffered a blood clot on the lung and passed away :(
 
I recently found out that a mate I used to spend most of my days playing online games with had died in a car accident and he was only 18. I hadn't spoke to him for about two years as we both sort of went our separate ways but it still hits you when you find out that you'll never speak to them again.

I never even had the chance to meet him as we kept putting it off due to distance and us only being ~15.
 
I used to play a game called Legend of Mir 2, and someone passed away in a motorbike accident, he was a nice bloke, can't remember his alias for anything though. We had a slence on the game (may seem sad) but there was an option to shout over so big a radius and some absoluely nob jockey ran around shouting "motorbike + <name> = owned", will never really be a funny joke, and I try to laugh the subject off most of the time.
 
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