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Subject: If a member on bungie.net died would you care
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Poll: Would you be sad if a member of bungie.net died  [closed]
no:  10%
(2 Votes)
yes:  38%
(8 Votes)
depends on who it is:  52%
(11 Votes)
Total Votes: 21

How sad or how happy would you be then

[Edited on 12/23/2004 10:09:25 PM]

  • 12.23.2004 10:09 PM PDT
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Complete apathy.

  • 12.23.2004 10:10 PM PDT
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If it was me then yes.

  • 12.23.2004 10:10 PM PDT
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it wouldnt ruin my day, but still

  • 12.23.2004 10:10 PM PDT
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...How would we know?

  • 12.23.2004 10:11 PM PDT
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Posted by: Tanikaze
...How would we know?

I was wondering the same thing.

  • 12.23.2004 10:12 PM PDT
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Sure. Unless it was davester,... then I would do a happy dance.

  • 12.23.2004 10:13 PM PDT
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Good point Tanikaze.

Unless..

In their very last moments of life, in the hospital they request a computer and leave a goodbye note on Bungie.net.

  • 12.23.2004 10:13 PM PDT
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Partial apathy, for spite.

[Edited on 12/23/2004 10:18:05 PM]

  • 12.23.2004 10:16 PM PDT
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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."

  • 12.23.2004 10:17 PM PDT
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I would kinda be weirded out because it would drive home the point that the people on here are actual people. Although, Tankikaze's photo already did that. Still, i might be a little sad.

  • 12.23.2004 10:17 PM PDT
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I don't know them that well, so to be honest I'm not sure if I would care or not. I think everyone appreciates them at least a little for their hard work keeping these forums in a semi-decent state(as far as posting goes...) though.

  • 12.23.2004 10:18 PM PDT
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Posted by: Douglas Brown
I would kinda be weirded out because it would drive home the point that the people on here are actual people. Although, Tankikaze's photo already did that. Still, i might be a little sad.


Then let's start posting pictures of ourselves.

[Edited on 12/23/2004 10:37:17 PM]

  • 12.23.2004 10:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: Halifax
Posted by: Tanikaze
...How would we know?

I was wondering the same thing.

I don't know, but if i did i would be sad. If it was someone close, it would hurt so bad. I can't take things like that.

  • 12.23.2004 10:37 PM PDT
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A long time ago on a forum I used to go to, someone actually did die and their mom posted a message on our board about it. Only topic on that board ever to die(2 months later) with no insults, no jokes, just real human sorrow.

I don't know if it would be the same here, even if we were alerted to their death.

  • 12.23.2004 10:38 PM PDT
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What is pwned?

  • 12.23.2004 10:41 PM PDT

Devil is Double is Deuce and Joker always trumps Deuce.

I would be a little sad, because after a few months on here you start to form friendships and come to know the other members on here.

  • 12.23.2004 10:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: Tanikaze
A long time ago on a forum I used to go to, someone actually did die and their mom posted a message on our board about it. Only topic on that board ever to die(2 months later) with no insults, no jokes, just real human sorrow.

I don't know if it would be the same here, even if we were alerted to their death.


I was once on another forum, and somebody did that, as a joke. He was trying to turn himself into an icon before leaving, but he was caught, and banned from the site. Contemptable.

  • 12.23.2004 10:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: Douglas Brown
What is pwned?


http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pwned

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Posted by: MCs Brother
I would be a little sad, because after a few months on here you start to form friendships and come to know the other members on here.


yeah that's true.

  • 12.23.2004 10:42 PM PDT
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You're absolutely right, Recon. Over the internet, it's hard to fathom that these pages and pages of posts and text and avatars are real people with real lives and families. It's much harder to be sad for them. Combined with the fact many people are already lacking in respect for the dead, we would probably get a few people who would read the message and laugh.

[Edited on 12/23/2004 10:44:19 PM]

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Posted by: Tanikaze
A long time ago on a forum I used to go to, someone actually did die and their mom posted a message on our board about it. Only topic on that board ever to die(2 months later) with no insults, no jokes, just real human sorrow.

I don't know if it would be the same here, even if we were alerted to their death.


It probably would be. I believe feeling sorrow for death is a sociologically picked-up behavior, and that groups of people feeling 'sad' feed off eachother. Many times even the most introspective person has a lot of difficulty placing with certainty why they are sad. All they know is that they are.

Of course, people can miss other people. But I believe on a whole not every person weeping 'for' someone who died actually does.

And why do people weep for people who've died? They're dead. It doesn't make sense, especially given so many "life-after-death" worldviews.

  • 12.23.2004 10:44 PM PDT
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Within the first page, some idiot would write "pwned".

That made me chuckle.

Is this foreshadowing things to come?

  • 12.23.2004 10:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: MCs Brother
I would be a little sad, because after a few months on here you start to form friendships and come to know the other members on here.

true, ive found my brother on here

  • 12.23.2004 10:47 PM PDT

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