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Post by Definitely Not Axe Hack on Oct 17, 2012 18:19:46 GMT -5
On an unrelated note, the memorial has attracted impersonators. You might have noticed Josh Clark in Quartly, but...Check the profile. It's not the real Josh Clark. urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=1966685Note the capital "i" instead of the lowercase "L".
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Post by asshole doctor™ on Oct 17, 2012 22:02:11 GMT -5
lets kill him.
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Post by Marcel Swann on Oct 18, 2012 6:39:23 GMT -5
The memorial is inevitably going to attract griefers, and we'll just have to deal with it best as we can. I recommend keeping the focus on remembering winka and not giving the griefers any more attention than necessary. Though we will need to kill and dump them just to shut them up, probably. That's life in Malton. Hopefully winka is looking down and laughing at the antics.
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Post by cptfastbreak on Oct 18, 2012 7:50:41 GMT -5
So here's a thought. How about a wikipage on UDWiki to honor Winka? Of course, this wouldn't qualify to be on the main space, so you'll have to put it under a group's subpage. Since the Rangers are hosting Winka's memorial, I'd say make a wikipage dedicated to Winka in either the Malton Rangers' namespace or NMC's namespace. That's a great idea. I don't know that much about the wiki, so it would be cool if someone else could make the page. Otherwise, I'll figure it out. We could direct people to post their tributes there as well as here and in Quartly on Friday. I could forward the URL to her family, although I'm not sure they know quite what to make of UD. I could do the wiki stuff, but I wouldn't know what to write. If someone else makes the text, I can put it on the wiki all pretty.
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Post by danr on Oct 18, 2012 15:35:40 GMT -5
urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=1271340 this lovely person is in the quartly. I have him in my black list (space I keep for people who pk'd me who didn't go idle), but I guess he could be here for non-pk'ing reasons. But just sayin'
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Post by jethlm on Oct 19, 2012 2:22:57 GMT -5
I just scouted Neal Cinema and saw to my great alarm that about 20 Prudence Pussies are sitting in there. I'm assuming they're here for us so we may want to consider striking first.
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Post by cptfastbreak on Oct 19, 2012 6:03:22 GMT -5
urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=1271340 this lovely person is in the quartly. I have him in my black list (space I keep for people who pk'd me who didn't go idle), but I guess he could be here for non-pk'ing reasons. But just sayin' Me too, but I'm pretty sure he's there for winka. Isn't it one of SexualHarrison's alts?
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Post by Marcel Swann on Oct 19, 2012 7:53:50 GMT -5
Yeah, Your Own Guilt is SexualHarrison's PKing alt, but in this case he's here for the memorial. Unsurprisingly, a band of PKers showed up to grief the memorial, but also unsurprisingly, we're not going to let them stop us. I'm swaying at Swansborough Park and I'll be right back to the memorial as soon as I've gotten the needle. My personal plan is to not even acknowledge the existence of the griefers until the memorial is over, but of course everyone is free to deal with them as they wish. I also hereby declare that Swansborough Park is the location of the zombie memorial for winka. If you are in zed form, come to the park to celebrate her in appropriate or inappropriate fashion!
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Post by cptfastbreak on Oct 19, 2012 7:58:52 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm swaying there too. Have like 8 needles on me and almost 30 AP.
Also, I'm feeling increasingly sorry for this Cockfucktus guy. If he spends a considerable amount of his day coordinating his 30 alts all by himself, his RL must be pretty sad.
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Post by Marcel Swann on Oct 19, 2012 9:03:24 GMT -5
Also, I'm feeling increasingly sorry for this Cockfucktus guy. If he spends a considerable amount of his day coordinating his 30 alts all by himself, his RL must be pretty sad. I feel sorry for him too. I think he's been at this for a while.
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Post by Marcel Swann on Oct 19, 2012 9:57:18 GMT -5
Her grandson sent me the eulogy he gave at her funeral. Here it is:
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My grandmother was a self-made woman.
I don’t mean this in the standard, pulled-himself-up-by-his-bootstraps sense, I mean that she was a woman who decided who she was in life, and made these ideas into her reality.
She was born on a farm in west Texas in the year of the dust bowl, when this country and its people experienced a depth of privation that most of us are unlikely ever to have to face. Her early life was shaped and constrained by these circumstances, and later she would work to reflect these conditions in some of the images you see around you.
Later in her life, she moved into the social fishbowl that was the life of a Houston oil company wife and socialite. She had to be prepared every day and every week for “surprise” visits from other oil company wives, and if she failed to make the proper impression, she risked the very career prospects of her husband. She had to become who these people expected her to be, to become a reflection of them.
Then she dealt with the illness and death of my grandfather, tending to him over those long years, making voyages around the country to visit specialists, friends and family for support, all the while tending to the man she loved as he struggled.
When I asked her about her life after grandpa’s death, she told me that initially she felt lost, rudderless. So much of her life to that point had been based on where she grew up, who she married, where she lived, what she owed to others, that she didn't have a clear sense of what she owed to herself.
But then, she decided that her life was hers to do with as she wished. She could be who she wanted to be, live how she wanted to live, and make her life her own creation.
We have all witnessed the results of this decision: a woman who was eternally young at heart. She played Dungeons and Dragons with college students all night. She was a major figure in an online zombie fighting game. She learned to use all of the incredibly complicated modeling software needed to make the pictures you see around you now. She had entire “housecoat” days, where she scheduled time not to leave her pajamas.
My grandma was a self-made woman. She decided who she wanted to be in this world and in this life and made that vision into her reality.
I hope we can all learn from her example and try, each in our own ways, to be what we truly want to be, and to live how we truly want to live. She has shown us the way, all we need is the strength that she had to persevere.
We love you grandma. We miss you, and we’ll never forget you.
Thank you.
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Post by Definitely Not Axe Hack on Oct 19, 2012 12:38:07 GMT -5
If you guys don't mind, I think I might send the Prudence zergs to Resenz, you know? See if we can get some Zerg Hunters backing us.
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Post by 23skidoo on Oct 19, 2012 14:18:12 GMT -5
Thank you for posting the eulogy, it's incredible. How many people get a grandma that was both a Texan socialite and a zombie slaying legend. Gor Winka indeed!
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Post by jethlm on Oct 19, 2012 14:43:15 GMT -5
I do feel somewhat responsible for getting the Cult's attention so I do apologize for that guys.
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Post by Marcel Swann on Oct 19, 2012 15:20:30 GMT -5
I do feel somewhat responsible for getting the Cult's attention so I do apologize for that guys. No, you had nothing to do with it, they always give out made-up excuses like that. They were definitely there for the memorial. Don't worry about it. Come join me in Quartly.
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