myoptikakaka wrote:
I think we should hold some kind of memorial at the weekend.
He did have shockingly lax taste in movies, and was a particular fan of Star Wars, so maybe you could have a lightsabre salute to him, or do a marathon watch of all six SW movies
I can't believe he's gone. It's funny how real a virtual presence can take and it must be all the more shocking as it unites a close knit group of people in here. Owen was a very gentle, sweet, intelligent and kind man. He's one of the few people I've encountered regularly on the internet over the last 12 or so years that I never disagreed with. Sure, I wound him up on time to time when he couldn't see flaws in a particular movie or he eulogised about a particular game. But that was him. Cut him in half, and like a stick of rock he would have fairness and forgiveness running through him. He was a fucking sweetheart and maintained a child like devotion to simple pleasures. There was no artifice or sophistry and in the virtual sense he epitomised a gold standard in the virtual world.
WYSIWYG. People like him are rare and they deserve to be remembered
well. RIP Owen, truly man, rest. in. peace.