RIP 2023

[Parkbandit]

Anita Pointer

[Makkah]

Lola "Gangsta Boo" Mitchell RIP

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Ken Block, 55 (Hoonigan racing, DC shoes founder)

[MotleyCrew]

Earl Boen, 81

[Methais]

Earl Boen, 81


https://media.tenor.com/-knGAG-LP9kAAAAC/terminator2-cigarette.gif

[MotleyCrew]

Adam Rich, 54

[Ardwen]

Guitar god, Jeff Beck... of bacterial meningitis at 78.

[Malvadere]

Guitar god, Jeff Beck... of bacterial meningitis at 78.

My tennis partner said he couldn't play tonight because he was too depressed he died...I had to look him up.

[Winter]

Lisa Marie Presley, 54.

[MotleyCrew]

Robbie Knievel, 60

[Bhaalizmo]

Robbie Knievel, 60

Twice as far as I had him down for.

[Ardwen]

Robbie Bachman, drummer for the rock group Bachman Turner Overdrive at 69. This week really has sucked

[MotleyCrew]

Sister Andre, 118

[MotleyCrew]

David Crosby, 81

[Ardwen]

3 weeks in and this year already totally sucks.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

3 weeks in and this year already totally sucks.

I think we are getting to the point in our lives where we are closer to the end than the beginning, and seeing our idols, friends and family pass away.

[beldannon5]

I think we are getting to the point in our lives where we are closer to the end than the beginning, and seeing our idols, friends and family pass away.

That is very true. I used to always say man 50 i will be middle aged(i am 49) and now i am thinking middle age is actually probably early 40's with life expectancy. Yikes!

[Solkern]

That is very true. I used to always say man 50 i will be middle aged(i am 49) and now i am thinking middle age is actually probably early 40's with life expectancy. Yikes!


Yeah for sure! I just hit 40 and I’m like damn, half my life is gone already.

[MotleyCrew]

Lloyd Morrisett, co-creator of the iconic children’s television series “Sesame Street,” has died. He was 93.

[Parkbandit]

Bobby Hull, hockey legend. He was 84.

[MotleyCrew]

Hazel McCallion, 101

[MotleyCrew]

Lisa Loring, 64

[MotleyCrew]

Annie Wersching, 45

[Lord Orbstar]

100,000 plus Russians. haha. burn in Hell.

[MotleyCrew]

Cindy Williams, 75

[MotleyCrew]

Raquel Welch, 82

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Raquel Welch, 82

One of the most beautiful women of her time. Sad to hear this.

[MotleyCrew]

Richard Belzer, 78

[beldannon5]

so many people dying. Of course as we all age, that is bound to happen. Still sucks

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Well, the clock is ticking for Jimmy Carter, he just went into hospice care.

[MotleyCrew]

Gary Rossington, 71

[Parkbandit]

Tom Sizemore, 61
https://i.insider.com/6405d2ae934c2c001802b67a?width=700&format=jpeg&auto=webp

[MotleyCrew]

Robert Blake, 89

[MotleyCrew]

Bud Grant, 95

[Ardwen]

I am somewhat shocked Parkbandit didn't post Topol had died, sadly odds are most of us don't know who Topol is

[Parkbandit]

I am somewhat shocked Parkbandit didn't post Topol had died, sadly odds are most of us don't know who Topol is

Honestly, had to look him up :(

[Ardwen]

Here I pegged you as a huge Fiddler fan.

[Parkbandit]

Here I pegged you as a huge Fiddler fan.

I'm not sure what in our 25-30 years of knowing each other that would lead you to believe me for a Fiddler fan...

[Ardwen]

Jesus Christ Superstar then!

[Parkbandit]

Jesus Christ Superstar then!

Kinda before my time. I was 6 when the album came out.

Now, I will give you him as Dr Hans Zarkov in Flash Gordon.. but compared to Flash and Ming, he wasn't the main character.

https://i0.wp.com/www.bulletproofaction.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DaleZarkovFG.jpg?resize=600%2C315&ssl=1

[Tolwynn]

Lance Reddick, 60

[beldannon5]

Lance Reddick, 60

damn. I didn't know the name, but I looked and he was good in john wick. Sad

[Solkern]

damn. I didn't know the name, but I looked and he was good in john wick. Sad

Yeah it’s sad! He was damn good in wick

[Ardwen]

Willis Reed, 80, Knick Great... and man there aren't many of those.

[Ardwen]

Al Jaffee, 102. artist for Mad Magazine for decades.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Len Goodman. 78. Dancing with the Stars Judge.

[Solkern]

Jerry Springer - 79

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

throws a chair

[Wrathbringer]

This is going to be odd. I'm okay with that. I hope you are as well.

Hi. Some of you, I know. If you're new here, you're not missing anything, except maybe the Repageddon thread. I've enjoyed Gemstone off and on since 1995. It was a place I could go to escape and experience the positive vibes of friendships and helping one another to achieve goals. Goals in a text-based game from the 80's aren't super important, but the people I met impacted me in a positive way. One of these people was Warclaidhm. I still have a character that has his Warrior's Guild pin, "Warclaidhm - Master of Warcries".

A couple of years back, I did some traveling, alone, without my phone or any tech, and hid some treasures in the continental US. In January of 2022, I began a novel with clues to the locations. I finished it last November and self-published 100 leather-bound copies, which arrived roughly a month ago (see pic). They turned out okay, I guess. They'll be available via the website if you can find it for the next four months or so. After that, who knows what will happen to them. I think that's exciting. Eventually, I expect the IRS will come calling. I've arranged that they'll be handed a book. I think that's funny.

As many of you know, I'm generally bad at life and have been from the beginning. I've multiple mental illnesses and personality disorders. They affect my life and especially close relationships in a profoundly negative way. I've had to make a different way besides the typical 9-5, and that served me well, but then my perspective of what is truly important changed. My goals changed. Some things are more important than 100 oz of gold, a hard drive with 5.6 bitcoins, a pile of silver or a 30 lb beautifully sculpted Canyon Diablo meteorite, for example. I have two children. I've done all I can for them, and no one escapes childhood unscathed. It's okay. In 100 years, no one will remember any of us anyway.

To anyone here who has ever responded to any of my posts, or left me any sort of reputation whatsoever, thank you for making me feel like I existed, no matter what you said. If you were kind to me, I was moved, no matter how seemingly insignificant your message or act appeared to you at the time.

I guess I'm just comfortable in my anonymity here, as I've always been, and feel the need to vent some of this to random people with which I might have at least one thing in common. A game we enjoyed.

On September 23 of this year, I'm going to go back to one of these places and go to sleep. I'm not sad. I'm excited. I'm as sure as I can be that everything will go off as planned, but I have some experience with this sort of thing. There are a lot of moving parts, and I can't control when one of those missing will be discovered. I can only guarantee that when anything is found, it will make the news, and the legend of any find will surpass any legend of the treasures that came before. Not because of the treasures themselves, but because of what will be found with them. This is how I know they're still there. Of the locations, there is only one to which I dare return now.

This is my final post. I always wondered how high my post count might go. Now we know. 12,640, or, 13. Appropriate. My best to all of you. All of you. May you all find happiness and peace, if you haven't already.

-WB

10010
10011
10012

Listen closely. Here’s an example of the kinds of things you can expect. Consider the solution, which can be arrived at multiple ways, a message from me.

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.” -Plato

This quote from Plato is one of my favorites. One brilliant book written so long ago, the key to so many unspoken truths today, and he just gives them all away for nothing. I love that. Finding these splashes of color on the otherwise dark canvas of life is a wonderful way to start a morning, I think. Absolutely heavenly.

Keep me still and we're preserved,
Republics guard us jealously,
In One in darkness I’m reserved,
Conveyed to light the death of me.

10013

[Suppressed Poet]

This is going to be odd. I'm okay with that. I hope you are as well.

Hi. Some of you, I know. If you're new here, you're not missing anything, except maybe the Repageddon thread. I've enjoyed Gemstone off and on since 1995. It was a place I could go to escape and experience the positive vibes of friendships and helping one another to achieve goals. Goals in a text-based game from the 80's aren't super important, but the people I met impacted me in a positive way. One of these people was Warclaidhm. I still have a character that has his Warrior's Guild pin, "Warclaidhm - Master of Warcries".

A couple of years back, I did some traveling, alone, without my phone or any tech, and hid some treasures in the continental US. In January of 2022, I began a novel with clues to the locations. I finished it last November and self-published 100 leather-bound copies, which arrived roughly a month ago (see pic). They turned out okay, I guess. They'll be available via the website if you can find it for the next four months or so. After that, who knows what will happen to them. I think that's exciting. Eventually, I expect the IRS will come calling. I've arranged that they'll be handed a book. I think that's funny.

As many of you know, I'm generally bad at life and have been from the beginning. I've multiple mental illnesses and personality disorders. They affect my life and especially close relationships in a profoundly negative way. I've had to make a different way besides the typical 9-5, and that served me well, but then my perspective of what is truly important changed. My goals changed. Some things are more important than 100 oz of gold, a hard drive with 5.6 bitcoins, a pile of silver or a 30 lb beautifully sculpted Canyon Diablo meteorite, for example. I have two children. I've done all I can for them, and no one escapes childhood unscathed. It's okay. In 100 years, no one will remember any of us anyway.

To anyone here who has ever responded to any of my posts, or left me any sort of reputation whatsoever, thank you for making me feel like I existed, no matter what you said. If you were kind to me, I was moved, no matter how seemingly insignificant your message or act appeared to you at the time.

I guess I'm just comfortable in my anonymity here, as I've always been, and feel the need to vent some of this to random people with which I might have at least one thing in common. A game we enjoyed.

On September 23 of this year, I'm going to go back to one of these places and go to sleep. I'm not sad. I'm excited. I'm as sure as I can be that everything will go off as planned, but I have some experience with this sort of thing. There are a lot of moving parts, and I can't control when one of those missing will be discovered. I can only guarantee that when anything is found, it will make the news, and the legend of any find will surpass any legend of the treasures that came before. Not because of the treasures themselves, but because of what will be found with them. This is how I know they're still there. Of the locations, there is only one to which I dare return now.

This is my final post. I always wondered how high my post count might go. Now we know. 12,640, or, 13. Appropriate. My best to all of you. All of you. May you all find happiness and peace, if you haven't already.

-WB

10010
10011
10012

Listen closely. Here’s an example of the kinds of things you can expect. Consider the solution, which can be arrived at multiple ways, a message from me.

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.” -Plato

This quote from Plato is one of my favorites. One brilliant book written so long ago, the key to so many unspoken truths today, and he just gives them all away for nothing. I love that. Finding these splashes of color on the otherwise dark canvas of life is a wonderful way to start a morning, I think. Absolutely heavenly.

Keep me still and we're preserved,
Republics guard us jealously,
In One in darkness I’m reserved,
Conveyed to light the death of me.

10013

Jesus dude…I’m not playing your creepy postmortem scavenger hunt. Nobody cares about that shit. I sincerely hope you get some help and don’t kill yourself.

PS: please don’t shoot up a school

[loxe]

Gorden Lightfoot 84

[Bhaalizmo]

Jim Brown pro football hall of famer, 87

https://apnews.com/article/nfl-jim-brown-03d88c7da08840a0921ae8d8dd0a6aaa

[MotleyCrew]

Ray Stevenson, 58

[Parkbandit]

Ray Stevenson, 58

Damn, he was young too.

:(

[Bhaalizmo]

Damn, he was young too.

:(

Yeah, like 40 years your junior.

[Parkbandit]

Yeah, like 40 years your junior.

Yea. Because I'm 98.

https://i.imgur.com/BJMKkJB.gif

Retard.

[Bhaalizmo]

Yea. Because I'm 98.. and weetawded.

Yes, you stupid old ass fucker.

[Parkbandit]

Yes, I am a retarded faggot.

Let's contain your stupidity to your "OMGIAMSOTRIGGEREDBYTRUMPSTILLBECAUSEIAMAFUCKINGLOS ER!" thread about your mental illness.

No need to spread it all over.

Here is the link to a future study on your extreme mental illness: http://forum.gsplayers.com/showthread.php?127100-Fuck-Donald-Trump

[loxe]

Tina Turner.

[kutter]

John Beasley

[Bhaalizmo]

The Iron Sheik, 81.

Last tweet: "FUCK THE WILDFIRES"
Refuses to elaborate
Dies
Rip to a legend

https://twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1666246676409905152?s=20

[Parkbandit]

Pat Robertson - 93


https://marvel-b1-cdn.bc0a.com/f00000000039764/www2.cbn.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/pat-robertson-headshot-web-large.jpg?itok=prROVpiF

[MotleyCrew]

Ted Kaczynski, 81

[Ardwen]

Treat Williams, 71, after a motorcycle accident

[Parkbandit]

Tori Bowie - US olympic star died from childbirth complications.

https://akns-images.eonline.com/eol_images/Entire_Site/202343/rs_1024x759-230503122852-1024-Tori_Bowie-17th_IAAF_World_Athletics_Championships_Doha_2019-gj.jpg?fit=around%7C1024:759&output-quality=90&crop=1024:759;center,top

[Solkern]

Tony Bennett 96

[Winter]

Sinéad O'Connor 56

[Solkern]

Randy Meisner 77

[Parkbandit]

https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Paul-Rubins-Dead-Pee-Wee-Herman.jpg?w=1000&h=562&crop=1

Paul Reubens - Pee Wee Herman - died from cancer at 70

[onurb]

Mark Margolis aka Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad

His death, at Mount Sinai Hospital following a brief illness, was confirmed in a statement on Friday by his son, Morgan Margolis.

he was in a bunch of movies and tv shows
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Margolis

https://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2023-08-04/503310_8928363_updates.jpg

[Solkern]

Yevgeny Prigozhin - 62 “plane crash”

Lol

[Suppressed Poet]

Yevgeny Prigozhin - 62 “plane crash”

Lol

What an unfortunate & unexpected accident.

[Solkern]

What an unfortunate & unexpected accident.

I’m shocked, and completely surprised this happened.

[onurb]

Terry Funk - 79

https://mlpnk72yciwc.i.optimole.com/cqhiHLc.IIZS~2ef73/w:376/h:287/q:75/https://bleedingcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/funkcap-1.jpg

[beldannon5]

windham rotunda. better known as bray wyatt (36) sigh

[Ardwen]

Bob Barker, TV Legend, at 99.

[Methais]

Bob Barker, TV Legend, at 99.

This is even worse than Betty White.

Today is now the worst day ever and it's all your fault.

THANKS ARDWEN


https://i.gifer.com/jU.gif

[Ardwen]

i do my best!

[Parkbandit]

Gil Brandt - NFL Hall of Fame - "Father of modern talent scouting". He was 91

[Ardwen]

Jimmy Buffet, Margaritaville Singer and cultural icon at 76.

[Parkbandit]

Bill Richardson - politician He was 75

https://cdn.britannica.com/47/102147-050-5E091256/Bill-Richardson.jpg

[Solkern]

Steve Harwell, smash mouth

[Ardwen]

David McCallum, actor of more then 60 years experience, most recently Ducky on NCIS. He was 90.

[Parkbandit]

Dianne Feinstein - Senator from CA. She was 90.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/10/28/multimedia/28dc-feinstein-pfqz/28dc-feinstein-pfqz-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale

[Solkern]

Tim Wakefield 57 cancer

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Dianne Feinstein - Senator from CA. She was 90.

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2023/10/28/multimedia/28dc-feinstein-pfqz/28dc-feinstein-pfqz-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale

Hated her politics, but man did I feel bad for how she got used the last few years of her life by Pelosi and her daughter. Really sad.

[beldannon5]

Dick Butkis 80

[Anebriated]

Dick Butkis 80


If I was smart enough to be a doctor, I'd be a doctor. I ain't, so I'm a football player

RIP Dick

[Parkbandit]

RIP Dick

Man, the Bears stood up last night for him.

[Parkbandit]

Suzanne Somers - She was 73

https://www.threescompany.com/content/uploads/2016/08/Suzanne-Somers2.jpg

[Methais]

Suzanne Somers - She was 76

Fixed.

Her bday is tomorrow too. :sad:

[Ardwen]

Actress Piper Laurie as well yesterday. at 91.

[Bhaalizmo]

Actor Richard Roundtree, has died at 81.

https://apnews.com/article/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-580aacdfa6ecac5cf79c553dd972f7e9

https://media.giphy.com/media/P8K5ihbHTnMru/giphy.gif
https://media.giphy.com/media/QWe5U2c1be6Aiatwfy/giphy.gif

[Anebriated]

damn, was always my favorite name to use for my penis. RIP

[onurb]

Richard Moll - 80

I used to watch this show alot back in the day. Great show.

https://i.ibb.co/wR9G7jQ/richard-moll.jpg

[Methais]

Richard Moll - 80

I used to watch this show alot back in the day. Great show.

https://i.ibb.co/wR9G7jQ/richard-moll.jpg

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[Anebriated]

Matthew Perry drowned at 54 years old.

[beldannon5]

damn that sucks :( Friend of mine goes it might be too soon, but it doesn't seem to be his day his month or even his year :(

[Suppressed Poet]

Drugs are bad.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Matthew Perry drowned at 54 years old.

After a heart attack I believe in a bathtub. We need to outlaw bathtubs.

[Methais]

After a heart attack I believe in a bathtub. We need to outlaw bathtubs.

If it saves even one person from drowning, it's worth it.

[Ardwen]

Coach Bobby Knight at 83.

[Suppressed Poet]

Coach Bobby Knight at 83.

He was coaching at Texas Tech while I was a student. I shall toss a folding chair tonight in his memory.

[Suppressed Poet]

Pat E. Johnson

https://i.redd.it/xy3r8fb8bl061.png

[Solkern]

Andre Braugher, 61

Brooklyn 99 - Raymond Holt

[Parkbandit]

We missed a lot of celebrities dying:

Rosalyn Carter - 96

Frances Sternhagen -93
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ0MDUwNzA0OF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwOTU2MzU1MjE@._ V1_.jpg

Henry Kissinger - 100 Secretary of State

Sandra Day O'Connor - 93 First woman on the SCOTUS

Norman Lear - 101 Prolific producer of tv series

Ryan O'Neal - 82 Actor

https://i.abcnewsfe.com/a/3a532b6a-37ec-4960-a625-bd6b3de01a92/231209_gma_connelly4_hpMain_16x9.jpg?w=992

[beldannon5]

Andre Braugher, 61

Brooklyn 99 - Raymond Holt

Aww

[rolfard]

https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/bfd0999/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4684x3168+0+0/resize/1200x812!/quality/75/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fca%2F45%2F4f8319454d 288cfbd00d25f6bd70%2Fobit-andre-braugher-21956.jpg

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/arts/television/andre-braugher-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[Suppressed Poet]

Gaston Glock, 94
https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/12/SC-Gaston-Glock-Comp-copy.jpg?w=620