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all the excessive gushing over Leonard Nimoy is creepy and wierd

admiraltroikaadmiraltroika Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited March 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Yeah, fine, he was a good actor in a decent show, and this is a Star Trek MMO. That doesn't excuse acting like you lost a family member. It's not like any of you ever knew him personally.
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  • cidjackcidjack Member Posts: 2,017 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    admiraltroika wrote: »
    Yeah, fine, he was a good actor in a decent show, and this is a Star Trek MMO. That doesn't excuse acting like you lost a family member. It's not like any of you ever knew him personally.

    Stay on Vulcan long enough, you will run into someone who new him. (I never had), but I will agree with you.
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  • gfreeman98gfreeman98 Member Posts: 1,200 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    So I had to know him personally to mourn his death ???
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  • coupaholiccoupaholic Member Posts: 2,188 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    This should be interesting.
  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    How very 1984 of you OP.
  • cidjackcidjack Member Posts: 2,017 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    gfreeman98 wrote: »
    So I had to know him personally to mourn his death ???

    I do believe he is talking about the people who are going over the top, I saw people who mentioned they can't stop crying, the one's who left work early because the could not handle it, or the ones who mentioned they cannot watch WoK because it will upset them to much.
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  • roadghostroadghost Member Posts: 394 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Get the popcorn people, it's time for trollin-trollin-trollin, flame war!
  • architect13architect13 Member Posts: 1,076 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    admiraltroika wrote: »
    Yeah, fine, he was a good actor in a decent show, and this is a Star Trek MMO. That doesn't excuse acting like you lost a family member. It's not like any of you ever knew him personally.

    I think posting about how creepy and weird it is, is creepy and weird.
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  • thutmosis85thutmosis85 Member Posts: 2,358 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Meh there is a difference between "paying Tribute" & "actual mourning" ... I don't think most people will stay awake for a week, crying their eyes out, being emotionally crushed for months etc ... (aka how most people would react, after loosing a family member ...)
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  • khanharnkhanharn Member Posts: 37 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Troll Alert,
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    cidjack wrote: »
    I do believe he is talking about the people who are going over the top, I saw people who mentioned they can't stop crying, the one's who left work early because the could not handle it, or the ones who mentioned they cannot watch WoK because it will upset them to much.

    For many people, Star Trek TOS has been a major part of their youth. And Spock, above all others, even Kirk, personified Trek. When someone like that is suddenly ripped away from you, it's not just 'some actor' who died, but a part of your own history (and thus, after a fashion, a part of yourself, really).

    I myself choked up when I first heard the news. And I remember finding that rather strange of me. But dammit, man, he *was* Trek. And I am part of the legacy of Trek, in heart and spirit. So I mourn. Can't make it any simpler than that.
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  • admiraltroikaadmiraltroika Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    cidjack wrote: »
    I do believe he is talking about the people who are going over the top, I saw people who mentioned they can't stop crying, the one's who left work early because the could not handle it, or the ones who mentioned they cannot watch WoK because it will upset them to much.


    This guy gets it.
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  • grendelthewise#0990 grendelthewise
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    edited February 2015
    I hear the faint cry of a troll. If you are going to post something on the forums, please check your spelling. Weird is not spelled Wierd. You just made yourself look like a moron.
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  • admiraltroikaadmiraltroika Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    monodoso wrote: »
    I hear the faint cry of a troll. If you are going to post something on the forums, please check your spelling. Weird is not spelled Wierd. You just made yourself look like a moron.

    Wow, there are seriously still people who pettily pick away at someone's spelling in the year of our Lord 2015?
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  • gonaliusgonalius Member Posts: 893 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I haven't seen that much (Other than the 101 threads created on the subject), but then I haven't looked.

    It does seem to have become fashionable in recent years to yell out your mourning across the internet for all to hear.

    What I do find creepy, is that a lot of people seem to be morning Spock - A made up character, and not Nimoy the actor.
  • thutmosis85thutmosis85 Member Posts: 2,358 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    gonalius wrote: »
    What I do find creepy, is that a lot of people seem to be morning Spock - A made up character, and not Nimoy the actor.

    Meh : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Spock
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  • gonaliusgonalius Member Posts: 893 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    thutmosis85 wrote: »
    Meh : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Spock

    Whats that got to do with anything?
  • thutmosis85thutmosis85 Member Posts: 2,358 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    gonalius wrote: »
    Whats that got to do with anything?

    Pretty much explains the whole thing ... for most people Nimoy was Spock ... and Spock was Nimoy (including himself)... it's his "Life's Work", so it's not just an imaginary character ... on the other hand most people don't know "Nimoy - Husband & Father" ... so the Vulcan influencing generations of Sci-Fi-Fans is "all we got" ...

    That's why asking for a "Nimoy-Memorial" is actually pretty silly ... pretty sure it's going to be a tribute to Spock ... it's only logical ...

    PS : I guess, "Abstraction" isn't your thing ... :P
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    What I find creepy and weird is how some people manage to twist something as healthy as a communal sense of loss into something negative. Probably the same distasteful people that were disrupting our wake today on Vulcan, with their chidish horns and balloons.
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  • cidjackcidjack Member Posts: 2,017 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    What I find creepy and weird is how some people manage to twist something as healthy as a communal sense of loss into something negative. Probably the same distasteful people that were disrupting our wake today on Vulcan, with their chidish horns and balloons.

    You never sent balloons to a wake?
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  • antoniosalieriantoniosalieri Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    What I find creepy and weird is how some people manage to twist something as healthy as a communal sense of loss into something negative. Probably the same distasteful people that were disrupting our wake today on Vulcan, with their chidish horns and balloons.

    Well if you did use that word... I imagine you where asking for a party no ? ;)
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  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    antoniosalieri wrote: »
    Well if you did use that word... I imagine you where asking for a party no ? ;)

    Not necessarily. Although I would typically associate a wake with a party, I found when I looked it up that this is not how everyone uses the term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_%28ceremony%29

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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    cidjack wrote: »
    You never sent balloons to a wake?

    Not one for Spock, no (or ever, actually, come to think of it). It got so bad today, we needed to go to someone's bridge, where we made some great group photos, and no one was disrupting anything. It's really sad, though, that ppl cannot find the decency to leave ppl to their mourning. And mourning, in case you didn't know, is also bonding. Especially considering what Spock stood for, and Star Trek, I, for one, felt a bit of that 'humanity united' thingy Trek is all about: you know, being part of something larger than yourself.
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  • roadghostroadghost Member Posts: 394 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    What I find creepy and weird is how some people manage to twist something as healthy as a communal sense of loss into something negative. Probably the same distasteful people that were disrupting our wake today on Vulcan, with their chidish horns and balloons.

    Protip - when you want to go to a vigil for someone in a video game. Expect all kinds of cartoon people to behave in all kinds of cartoon ways. Best to park your avatar, then maximize chat.. you know, so you can actually share memories and stories, and not just sit there waiting to be offended when some pixel appears out of place.
    meimeitoo wrote: »
    Not one for Spock

    Ummm, Spock didn't die. The real live human being who played the fictional character Spock died.
  • thutmosis85thutmosis85 Member Posts: 2,358 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    roadghost wrote: »
    Ummm, Spock didn't die. The real live human being who played the fictional character Spock died.

    And his "Life's work" seized to continue ... (aka the Stuff we knew him for)
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  • carlosbflycarlosbfly Member Posts: 682 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    This kind of comment 24 hours after the death of an absolutely massive Trek and sci-fi icon on a Trek board? I know these trolls are thirsty but damn.
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    roadghost wrote: »
    Protip - when you want to go to a vigil for someone in a video game. Expect all kinds of cartoon people to behave in all kinds of cartoon ways. Best to park your avatar, then maximize chat.. you know, so you can actually share memories and stories, and not just sit there waiting to be offended when some pixel appears out of place.

    No, I really expect them to behave. Not in the sense of 'demanding' it, but in the sense of hoping, and counting on that they will: not because someone makes them, but because they choose to do so of their own volition, simply out of decency.

    Naturally, I'm often dissolution that way. I keep expecting it nonetheless. Hope springs eternal.
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