A friend in dire straits.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 28 Feb 2007, 20:55

I have received the grim news that Harrier, one of my associates with the Freelancer modding community, is on death's door with cancer, and may not live through the next 24 hours. Since this was my last stop before arriving here, I thought it was appropriate to share.

This is terrible news. He was a fine painter and modeler, and an asset to that community- one of those helpful, friendly and useful people who are so rare in the maelstrom of rudeness, ignorance and apathy that is teh Internets.

None of you know him, and probably none of you even know his work. I just offer my public tribute here because I think that you should know he existed. The pool of people like him is always small, and he was admirably attached to that community and its people.

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 28 Feb 2007, 21:01

Wait, Harrier has cancer?

I never knew that. Damn, he's a damn good modeler...

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 28 Feb 2007, 21:20

Thats pretty sad. I never knew Harris, but he sounds like a real nice person and I'm saddened by his immenent death. I can only hope that he might pull through. Stranger things have happened.

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 28 Feb 2007, 21:22

I wish him luck

Strategia · Post by **Strategia** » 28 Feb 2007, 21:31

May he survive and live to a ripe old age.

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » 28 Feb 2007, 22:06

Thoroughly worn out is this body, a nest of diseases, perishable. This putrid mass breaks up. Truly, life ends in death.

Through many a birth in samsara, wandered I, seeking, but not finding, the builder of this house. Sorrowful is it to be born again and again.

AF · Post by AF » 28 Feb 2007, 22:37

Thats terrible, could someone link to some of his work?

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 28 Feb 2007, 22:51

Hopefully he will pull out of this hellish dive... If not, it shall be unfortunate for his death... I don't know him, in any way, but if he understands video games and modding, I already love em

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 01 Mar 2007, 08:09

He has died

The most fitting tribute I can make for him is a link to some of his work. It's a pity that there aren't better screenshots of some of his more amazing models, frankly- he was a truly dedicated and skilled artist:

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/forum/t ... OD&M=False

This is one of my favorite pieces by him- a real masterpiece of skinning:

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » 01 Mar 2007, 09:16

For him who is assailed by death there is no protection by kinsmen. None there are to save him ├óÔé¼ÔÇØ no sons, nor father, nor relatives.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 01 Mar 2007, 10:52

damn, that sucks man.

I fucking hate cancer, I lost my uncle and grandmother to it.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 01 Mar 2007, 13:21

Some nice work there...
Sorry for your loss, cancer sucks..

Fanger · Post by **Fanger** » 01 Mar 2007, 16:08

this irritates me just like that damn bridge to terebithia movie..

PEOPLE NEED TO STOP THIS DIEING STUFF!

Masse · Post by **Masse** » 01 Mar 2007, 19:51

reading those posts he made made my eyes wet :/

Lindir The Green · Post by **Lindir The Green** » 01 Mar 2007, 23:42

Fanger wrote:this irritates me just like that damn bridge to terebithia movie..

PEOPLE NEED TO STOP THIS DIEING STUFF!

Y'know, I read the back of that book several years ago, and I decided not to read the whole thing because I could tell that one of the main characters was going to die.

I think it said something like "when tragedy strikes..." or "then a horrible thing happened..."

BlackLiger · Post by **BlackLiger** » 02 Mar 2007, 08:10

Against death doth no door hold bar.

"Evil? No, I Am Not Evil. I Take Away The Pain, The Suffering. But This Death Of The Mind, I Do Not Understand. - Death, Discworld.

rcdraco · Post by **rcdraco** » 16 Mar 2007, 01:58

Even though the body dies the soul lives on in his beautiful works.

Unflppin real, he made models that put the obelisk to shame, better than Supreme Commander infact.

Spring RTS Engine

A friend in dire straits.

A friend in dire straits.

The truth