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Remembering Ryan Davis, 1979 - 2013

Anth0ny said:
Can someone please hook me up with a ribbon avatar? Thanks.
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Adam Boyes mentioned in the Harmonix stream chat that Ryan was the reason Transistor is on the PS4. Ryan is so cool.
 
Are people dropping off flowers or anything in front of the CBSi building? I thought by going there on my way home but I didn't.
 
What I find particularly disturbing, I guess it's just me, is looking at tweets from all the different gaming journos, cracking their jokes, linking click throughs etc, I guess most of the industry people probably knew by the 4th, and have finished mourning the loss by now, but still, feels weird having just found out about Ryan, and seeing Gregg Miller tweeting some arbitrary dumb shit just minutes ago, just seems disrespectful in light of the news.
 
Sandy Nipples said:
What I find particularly disturbing, I guess it's just me, is looking at tweets from all the different gaming journos, cracking their jokes, linking click throughs etc, I guess most of the industry people probably knew by the 4th, and have finished mourning the loss by now, but still, feels weird having just found out about Ryan, and seeing Gregg Miller tweeting some arbitrary dumb shit just minutes ago, just seems disrespectful in light of the news.
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Do not judge people for their reactions to loss. Everyone is different.
 
Sandy Nipples said:
What I find particularly disturbing, I guess it's just me, is looking at tweets from all the different gaming journos, cracking their jokes, linking click throughs etc, I guess most of the industry people probably knew by the 4th, and have finished mourning the loss by now, but still, feels weird having just found out about Ryan, and seeing Gregg Miller tweeting some arbitrary dumb shit just minutes ago, just seems disrespectful in light of the news.
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The show must go on. That doesn't mean that people don't send condolences at some point. Nothing personal.
 
Sandy Nipples said:
What I find particularly disturbing, I guess it's just me, is looking at tweets from all the different gaming journos, cracking their jokes, linking click throughs etc, I guess most of the industry people probably knew by the 4th, and have finished mourning the loss by now, but still, feels weird having just found out about Ryan, and seeing Gregg Miller tweeting some arbitrary dumb shit just minutes ago, just seems disrespectful in light of the news.
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Life goes on. I'm sure ryan davis wouldn't want people to dwell on it too long. That's the kind of guy he is.
 
Messi said:
To grieve?
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It's hard for most people to imagine, but whenever someone is a public figure, they (including their family) have an extra layer to deal with when it comes to a death in the family. People want to talk about it, and media wants to cover it. Just imagine if someone in your family died. And then imagine thousands of people asking you questions about it, when you just want grieve and process the situation.

I've seen other families of public figures wait a couple days before announcing a death to everyone else. It makes sense, and if you were in their shoes, it might be easier to understand.

Fact is, as much as people like Ryan touch others lives, and people feel like they know him, they aren't immediate family. Obviously this doesn't change the fact that people are grieving too, so naturally they want to know as much as possible (it's a natural response). But it's understandable that the family wanted to process it on their own first.
 
Terrible news. He was such an influential guy. Watched him and Jeff for the last decade (or more).

I am still interested in the cause. He was young for his health to give out.
 
Every time I load up gaf it hits me again just seeing this thread, still can't believe someone I've listened to for over 7 years of my life is gone at such a young age.
 
Watching the very end of Patrick's Windy City bombastica, at a little less than a minute from the end he is low on health and he goes "I wonder what happens when you die" and then immediately gets super bummed out and shuts off the video

:(
 
Sandy Nipples said:
What I find particularly disturbing, I guess it's just me, is looking at tweets from all the different gaming journos, cracking their jokes, linking click throughs etc, I guess most of the industry people probably knew by the 4th, and have finished mourning the loss by now, but still, feels weird having just found out about Ryan, and seeing Gregg Miller tweeting some arbitrary dumb shit just minutes ago, just seems disrespectful in light of the news.
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A. Stop overanalyzing it.
B. Not everyone knew by the 4th.
C. Who the hell cares? Everyone grieves in their own way. Returning to business as usual is how some people cope.
 
I only ever listened to the Bombcast on occasion but this is still hitting me pretty hard. My condolences to his family, wife, friends, and fans.

RIP Mr. Davis, I hardly knew you but you still managed to make an impact on my life.
 
I would like to know if there's anything anyone is doing to send condolences, cards, or what have you to either the Giant Bomb crew to send to his family or wife or anything of that nature.
 
WoodenLung said:
Makes me smile somewhat to see him getting recognition from papers all around the world, didn't expect a paper like le monde to write about it.

http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/...pecialiste-des-jeux-video_3444533_651865.html
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That's crazy! I sometimes like to check Le Monde just to see what stories from the US make their way over there, but I never would've thought this would be picked up. Shows what a special man he was that, even for a small community, the grief is felt around the world. Maybe today even China cares?
 
At least he had one last day of pure happiness at his wedding. Looking at some of those wedding pictures you could see he was absolutely beaming. Everything about this seems so awful and so sad but at least he had that.
 
Eterniti said:
I would like to know if there's anything anyone is doing to send condolences, cards, or what have you to either the Giant Bomb crew to send to his family or wife or anything of that nature.
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Ryan Davis' dad tweeted his appreciation about the positive outpouring from fans, friends and colleagues earlier on twitter. The whole day has been nothing but love for RD. You don't need to send a card, but I'm sure if you wanted to you could find a way.

Personally, today has been bittersweet. It royally sucks that Ryan is gone, but seeing how many people loved the man is amazing. I've never seen anything like this.
 
Seiru said:
It's probably been posted before, but this is the obvious choice for those of us wallowing in sadness right now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-f2y1QC_yg
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAsV5-Hv-7U

I've been listening to this while I drink myself into oblivion tonight. As much of a fan as I was of Ryan and GiantBomb, I never signed up to be a member or comment on the site. I did that tonight before leaving work after catching myself tearing up multiple times at work. I typed out a long post, but there was an error or something during the post and it didn't transfer. I know now how Don Mclean felt.
 
I'm going to bed on a lighter note than what I was feeling when I first found out. Part of me is still refusing to believe it while I tear up without warning. Things will be strange with Ryan gone, but I look forward to GB's future. There are so many videos to watch, podcasts to listen to and reviews to read and that's great. He'll always be around.

Happy Tuesday.
 
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