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Post by odin on Apr 9, 2007 3:25:01 GMT -5
Unfortunatly the founder of Balamb Garden the most popular Final Fantasy VIII RPG site on the internet 'Squall' real name Brett Avram has passed away at 24 years of age. Though he was well known for his practical jokes this seems lamentably genuine. His obituary; www.legacy.com/tucson/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=87061328And Myspace: www.myspace.com/avramI think some of us are from B.G, well at least Alex and I and I know one of the Admins talked to him regarding FFI. I thought I ought to post it up here for all those who may have had contact with him in any way. |
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Post by Alexander THE GIRL on Apr 9, 2007 3:57:43 GMT -5
...Oh my God... I mean, of course I didn't know the guy, and BG turned out not to be my kind of place, but if he hadn't created it then I'd have never found this place, and I'd have never made some of my friends.
It's scary to think this could happen to any one of us, and nobody online would know unless they spoke to our family members. Hey, if I ever leave this place then I'll tell you I'm leaving. I won't just stop coming. If I stop coming...well...
I'd like to take this moment to hug Aerith. Makes a guy appreciate his admin. Heh. *hugs Aerith*
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Post by odin on Apr 9, 2007 4:01:37 GMT -5
It's very very surreal and it does sorta prompt you to think, 'Well if died, who would tell all my online friends?' which quite depressing, but important. I didn't know him either, but he seemed like a really nice clever cool guy.
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Post by Aerith Gainsborough on Apr 9, 2007 22:04:18 GMT -5
Wow... I don't know what to think of this. It's wierd. For some reason it's like most of these people on the other end of a message board - especially the big ones - don't really exist. In fact, they're not really real until I start actually talking to them. I really had the utmost respect for him. I mean, look at that site! He started just like us, and look where he got! Granted it's only a message board, but it's an accomplishment anyway.
Aww, thanks Alex. I <3 you guys, too. I mean, most of the people who've been here for a while or have made a difference are real friends. Really, I don't know what I'd do without you guys.
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Post by odin on Apr 10, 2007 2:37:06 GMT -5
I feel totally loved. I will like send you cyber flowers...and chocolate.
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Post by tidus on Apr 10, 2007 16:42:19 GMT -5
AWWZ GROUP HUG.
And that is very sad and scary, about that guy...I wonder, how did his aunt gain access to his myspace to tell everyone? How would anyone online know if someone else they knew online died...?
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Post by Cloud Strife on Apr 10, 2007 18:04:17 GMT -5
Sounds like a practical joke to me. It's been done before.
If he is really dead, my condolences to those who knew him.
I looked at his myspace page, and EVERYONE is dropping an RIP comment. Hm.
As far as 'this can happen to any of us', that's true. Then again, it ALWAYS has been true. Besides, I don't think the guy, from what I'm reading about him, would want everyone crying over his death. He probably wanted a clown at his funeral. I know I do.
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Post by Alexander THE GIRL on Apr 10, 2007 20:16:17 GMT -5
His aunt only posted in the comments section of the last post he made.
It might be an April Fools joke, but the more I read up, the more I have my doubts. If you read back in his journal, he was taking a mood stablizer and an anti-depressant. In one of his last posts he mentions smoking more and eating less, having a terrible breakup, losing a job, and having several previous suicide attempts. Really, it's not hard to guess what happened...
Yes, Cloud, obviously it's always been true. But you don't stop to think about these things until you see it actually happen. I don't, anyways. At least I try not to. Nobody wants people to mourn them unless they're assholes, obviously, but the fact is that death is sad. Who's crying? I'm paying my respects to what I owed him, and saying his death makes me think about my own.
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Post by Cloud Strife on Apr 10, 2007 21:46:49 GMT -5
I still would like a clown at my funeral.
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Post by Alexander THE GIRL on Apr 10, 2007 22:00:40 GMT -5
Well, obviously. Who wouldn't?
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Post by Cloud Strife on Apr 11, 2007 19:25:27 GMT -5
Or the guys from Avenue Q. Internet is for porn, hehehe.
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Post by Squall Leonhart on Apr 18, 2007 18:29:32 GMT -5
Oh Brett. Oh no. He was the coolest person in my myspace friends.
On a lighter note, I, like thousands of others, want the only song played at my funeral to be "Stairway to Heaven." Over and over.
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Post by Alexander THE GIRL on Apr 18, 2007 20:52:57 GMT -5
I'll have six hours of random songs and intruct everyone to sit there and listen to them all. It'll serve them right for failing to keep me alive! Bwahaha!
Heh. Really though, I've never thought about what I'd like at my funeral. Hmm...
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Post by Aerith Gainsborough on Apr 18, 2007 23:07:22 GMT -5
I figure that I won't be around to see what's going on.
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Post by Alexander THE GIRL on Apr 19, 2007 2:33:47 GMT -5
Hey, you never know. The situation might arise where you need to fake your own death and then attend your funeral as a distant cousin just to see everyone one last time before you start your new life on the ocean fighting pirates with a rag-tag crew of people who can never return to shore and a plucky young sidekick named Elliot.
...It could happen.
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