Parksie

Anyone have a clue why he did it? Hell I miss the guy and I really didn't know him at all, but I recognize the name and the duck.

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Originally posted by Arc
Anyone have a clue why he did it? Hell I miss the guy and I really didn't know him at all, but I recognize the name and the duck.

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Probably none of our business really.

Why, when you really need one, is there no Undo key, or "Restore to known-good settings" menu? There's no hard disk big enough to retrieve a backup from.

:(

very sad, remmeber talking to him a few times on IRC :(
His last post on VBF was only 3 days ago.

RIP Mike :(

I was going to be my usual silly self but am not in the mood any more.

Cya Rubber Ducky:(

With Respect

Ranj

Ouch! :(

This is never a good situation for anyone involved, friends, family and loved ones. They are the ones who my feelings go out to. Hang on in there.

My 16 yr old cousin committed suicide 3 years ago. She was experimenting with rope and a door, and ended up hanging herself in a copycat suicide like a lad in her class at school did a week earlier. The story was a 2 page spread in most national tabloids in the UK.
Reading this thread has brought back some memories :( Although a good thing in a funny sort of way as I haven't thought of Kate in a while.

If you don't mind me asking, was confirmed that it was actually suicide? My cousins suicide was left as an open verdict as they think she didn't mean to hang herself :confused: :(

I thought of an idea, which would be a nice touch. Could we get a rubber duck smilie in memory of Mark? :parksie:

Wokawidget

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Originally posted by Wokawidget
Could we get a rubber duck smilie in memory of Mark? : parksie:

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Good idea.

:cry:




Bruce.

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Originally posted by Wokawidget
I thought of an idea, which would be a nice touch. Could we get a rubber duck smilie in memory of Mark? :parksie:

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Good idea if someone can find/make one. And its Mike. ;)

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...postid=1776215

Stephan

I love the idea of the duck smiley. I reckon parksie would laugh at that.

They seem to have duck smilies here but I've just been told to stop messing around on the web by my boss.

Maybe one of you guys could have a look.

http://www.nhyrvana.com/smile2.html

Those are very gay.

The least gay one I could find (but still a bit camp...)

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...postid=1776302

I found this one

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...postid=1776303

I am sure Parksie would have wanted to be remembered by a ray-band wearing homosexual duck :D

I had a look a few hours ago, but couldn't find anything.
I tried to make a duck smilier, but it looked more like a malnutritioned squirrel.

I'll let someone else find one.

Woof

How about this?

http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.p...postid=1776320

http://nutria.msn.no/gallery/emoticons/duck.gif

http://www.vbforums.com/ http://www.vbforums.com/ http://www.vbforums.com/ http://www.vbforums.com/ http://www.vbforums.com/ http://www.vbforums.com/ http://www.vbforums.com/ http://www.vbforums.com/ http://www.vbforums.com/ http://www.vbforums.com/

I like this one, someone get it on the boards quick!

The tag should be :mike: rather than :duck: imho.

I like that duck smilie...sould be :parksie: though since no one knew him as Mike.

Woof

Yeah, I think parksie is better.

but that would conflict with the :p icon wouldn't it!

:parksie:
:parksie:
:parksie:

: p gets in the way.

Unless they change that also.

does :Parksie: do the same ?

I created an avatar in rememberence of Parksie, just in case any of you are interested in using it to show your respect.

Christ! I thought he was more like 30 or something, 21 is nothing.

Totally bogus. He really must have hit hard times.

I bet he'll be writing some kickass app for God's mainframe by now :)

cout << "Thou shalt not use MFC!";

An update:

He died from heart failure, as a result of an overdose of painkillers.

There isnt really much else I can say. Thanks for everything everyone has said.

:duck:

He was a most awesome guy.

:cry:

thankyou for keeping us up to date

Was it ruled a suicide?

Lost a friend that way at about that age.:cry:

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Originally posted by Shaggy Hiker
Was it ruled a suicide?

Lost a friend that way at about that age.:cry:

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No, the inquest has been put on hold, waiting for some more IRC logs from when we last spoke to him.

If you don't mind me asking, do you have any indication to why he did this?

Woka

Yes, there are reasons, if you don't mind though I'd rather not go into them. Suffice it to say he was very unhappy, but being the person he was could tell hardly anyone, which just compounded his lonliness.

Thank you.
Am thinking about you, and his family :)

Questions and answers
Sometimes easy, sometimes hard.
This one is unsolved.

RIP

Holy Sheit :(

RIP Man

VB Code:

dim f as integer
f = freefile
Open "VBF:\Parksie.dat" for binary as #f
...

-- Error, File not Found --

Me and Mike used to talk a lot in the past... sortof lost touch a year ago. I emailed him on a couple of addresses and left a message on his mobile phone. Nobody answered the phone.

Hosting a new Doom session on the big server in the sky.

Parksie is causing me to lose my mind! Grrrrrrr
Many users now have the same avatar, the one I am using.
I keep seeing this, thinking it's a post I made, then stare at the screen thinking "I didn't type that? Was I that drunk/stoned last night I can't remember posting!!!"

Then I realise it's someone elses post :D

Haha

Woof

Some support for the Parksie smilie, please.

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=303355

At first I was thinking I hadn't spoke to that much, then I realised the duck wasn't always his smilie. Once I remembered he used to have a gif using all the VBF smilies ;), I realiesed I had spoke to him more than I thought, mostly when I was a new member though :(.

Commiserations to his friends. :(

Right I've heard from a guy on IRC who was speaking to the police. Looks like its true :(

Tribute Page: http://parksie.pagefault.net/index.php

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should be :Parksie: though not : duck :

:parksie: kicked ass!

:parksie:

Yay its been done :D

:parksie: Not working yet :confused:
:duck:

Thank you!

:duck: = duck

:parksie: = parksie

Parksie would not be pleased being called a duck.:(

We can now use both . Brad just added :mike: :)

:duck: and :mike:

:mike: :duck: :mike: :duck: :mike: :duck:

mike duck mike duck mike duck.


Good!
:afrog:

:mike: :mike: :mike: :mike: :mike:

all your rubber duckies are belong to parksie

It's times like this you'd wish the person could see how much he's missed, and that would make him regret his actions... a lot of the big forums he were on are sorrowing for him, and this is only on the internet... imagine him in real life... he must've been great...

:mike: - this one's for you mike...

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Originally posted by vbNeo
It's times like this you'd wish the person could see how much he's missed, and that would make him regret his actions... a lot of the big forums he were on are sorrowing for him, and this is only on the internet... imagine him in real life... he must've been great...

:mike: - this one's for you mike...

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Which other forums ?

:duck: from me too. Bad to see someone the same age as me to pass away... don't feel all that old yet. Out of curiosity, what was parksie's birthday?

Right now i can't believe this. The loss is too much to bare. :cry:

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So Sorry...

***!!!

Someone just told me like 5 fcking minutes ago that a high school friend who was about to become a doctor (top of his class) died in a climbing accident, unbelievable.....


oh and did I mention that a co-worker died over the last weekend? man this is just weird...:(