That's really awful... I'm gonna ignore all the lame and irrelevant posts that i read up to this point. I haven't been playing much SC for a long time, though i was working on nexusD a bit recently... I think i may have even noticed (i guess i'll go with "her") her a month or two ago...
She was a very interesting and funny friend, we often talked on West probably well over a year ago now, i have no idea how long it was now... i remember helping her with coming up with a name for her map editor, and saying she should use something with fusion, as she was combining a couple different editor things, i don't even remember what now... and obviously cuz she was nuclear. =P I remember asking her to make it for windows first instead of mac jokingly... and also noticing it get very little progress. Did she ever finish something like this?
I really pray she had an epiphany before her end. I meet very few people in this world that make me interested in them. I always actually looked forward to talking with her, even though at the time i merely assumed she was prolly a guy. Note that guys don't usually score high in my book, so it would make some sense actually, if she was a girl after all. But, in any case, it is hard on me when i hear of someone that i respected and even looked up to in a way, has passed, and not without warning. I unfortunately ... now that i come to think of it, i think i did hear her say that, that she had a brain tumor... i wonder if i'm making things up, but i think i thought it was prolly a joke... i hope i was sensitive to it at the time if that was so.
Nuclear was one of the few people that would say hi to me when i came into the custom maps channel, and that i actually cared. I hardly ever go on SC any more, i wonder if she ever was / still is on my friends list... it'll be an awful feeling to have to delete that.
And by the way, I find the memorial section a very good idea. It's not like you have to visit; it's just there to pay respects, just like we do for people in the outside world. It certainly isn't being obsessed with it. Just being respectful. I would ask that this thread would be put in such a section, but it seems kind of like a disgrace now, 9 pages of mess. Perhaps it could simply hold some thoughtful notes on the subject, and their accomplishments / part in the community.
At that, I ask that she be respected. And I genuinely hope and pray you find peace in this death, NuclearRabbit.
[Edit: this song just came on, i wanted to post the lyrics i happen to have on me.]
[edit: jpn lyrics got a typo in transition.]
gotten from:
http://members.rogers.com/avcd-30050/rakuen.htm (no clue if it exists still.)
"Rakuen"
-Do As Infinity
verse:Dare mo ga Minna shizteru
Keseyashinai Kizu wo
Dorekurai Tsuzuku no?
Mou Iranai yo
Dare mo ga Minna Matteru
Arasoi no nai Hibi wo
Senjou no Heishizachi
Omoidashize yo
Ima Haha no nukumori wo
chorus:Kono hateshinaku hiroi Sekai ni
Jibun dake no chizu Egaite
Namida koraete Bokura wa
Aruite yukou
Tachiagare ima Hora nando demo
Nemureru shishi yobiokoshize
Ikite yukun da
Ashiza e
verse:Dare mo ga Minna Motteru
Hitokakera no Ai wo
Nikunde mo Nani hitotsu
Umarenain da yo
Sonna no mou iranai yo
chorus:Kono kagiri aru jikan no naka de
Mada minu rakuen mezashize
Dokomade datte bokura wa
Aruite yukou
Furimukanai de Mae dake wo mite
Sono karada Kuchihateru made
Ikite yukun da
Mirai e
partial verse:Omoidashize yo
Ima Haha no nukumori wo...
chorus:Kono hateshinaku hiroi Sekai no
Mada minu rakuen mezashize
Dokomade datte bokura wa
Aruite yukou
Furimukanai de Mae dake wo mite
Sono karada Kuchihateru made
Ikite yukun da
Mirai e
-Do As Infinity- Rakuen ("Paradise")
Translation by: Trish Pellerito
verse:Everyone understands
The scars won’t fade.
How long will they last?
We don't need them anymore.
Everyone yearns for the day
There will be no fight.
Wounded soldiers,
You recall a
A mother’s warmth.
chorus:In this desolate, endless world,
Drawing our own map,
Restraining our tears,
We keep going.
Stand up now,
See however many times
Sleeping lions awake,
We go on into tomorrow.
verse:Everyone carries
A fragment of love,
Although we feel hate,
Nothing will be born from it.
That is a useless thing.
chorus:There is little time for a journey
A paradise we've yet to see.
As far as it takes us,
We keep going.
Don't look back.
Look only forward.
Until your body withers,
Live on to the future.
partial verse:You remember
A mother's warmth.
chorus:In this desolate, endless world,
Drawing our own map,
Restraining our tears,
We keep going.
Don't look back.
Look only forward.
Until your body withers,
Live on to the future.