[smilymzx]

As Posted Here!

May this person rest in peace, poor soul!

Comment and Pray about him here,

[Dr Lancer-X]

Not the news I wanted to wake up to this morning.

I never knew him, but I know asgromo liked him a lot, and this just makes me feel really sad. What an awful thing to happen.

[Exophase]

This is really terrible. My condolences go out to asgromo and all his other friends. I can't say I really knew him beyond that person who seemed too smart and weird for me to really understand and whom I didn't really look much deeper into. I just remember asgromo really respected and admired him to the sheer extent where I'd almost say I respected him by proxy, at least way back when when he was brought up here.

Somehow all this made me feel compelled to read the chat logs.. I mean, since he seemed to want people to (but maybe not people like me). I'm really sorry if anyone in the logs feel like I invaded their privacy in doing this, I guess I didn't really know that's what I'd be reading at the onset. The sad thing is I feel most of what he said wasn't too smart or weird for me to understand at all.

[djtiesto]

I'll admit I'm not familiar with the person but my condolences. RIP

[Lachesis]

RIP flimsy

Obituary

Exophase, on 03 September 2015 - 08:27 PM, said:

Somehow all this made me feel compelled to read the chat logs.. I mean, since he seemed to want people to (but maybe not people like me). I'm really sorry if anyone in the logs feel like I invaded their privacy in doing this, I guess I didn't really know that's what I'd be reading at the onset. The sad thing is I feel most of what he said wasn't too smart or weird for me to understand at all.

asgromo says it's no problem

[asgromo]

OK i guess i'll stop petulantly validating for this. thank you so much, though, Lachesis, and don't edit your post on my account.

Exophase all he really wanted was for people to understand him and where he was coming from, so there's no issue whatsoever in his hypothetical mind or anyone else's with people reading what he put up. His friends are (mostly (sort of)) unconcerned with privacy, and no one in the group he quoted on that page has a problem that they've mentioned.

Thanks so much for the concern you guys : (

If he did have an influence on you or make a connection with you that you'd like to honor, you can write or draw etc. any kinda item that can be displayed on a wall, as suggested in the obituary that Lachesis linked above, and mail it to the address listed. And if it so happens you can make it to the wake, feel free, just RSVP. (source: Joan Parkins)

not to be morbid, but if you're curious, here's my final conversation with him: https://dl.dropboxus...ith%20jack.html can't say it makes as artful an epilogue as was the rest of the story, but it's there

finally, jsyk, i'm a mess, and the mzx community is lovely people. thanks for being that

This post has been edited by asgromo: 04 September 2015 - 09:53 PM

[Baby Bonnie Hood]

I played his version of Town of ZZT. It was a strange glitchy experience. Other than that, I never knew the guy; however, I still think this shouldn't have happened to him

[GetDizzy]

I never really connected with him, and I think it's partly because it always seemed like there was something he was saying that was on a level above, something I couldn't quite understand, and didn't have the time to work out.

That is, perhaps, the point.

My condolences to everyone involved. The world is noticably lesser without him.

[Caitiemew]

I haven't been here long, and I hadn't even heard of his comic, but I can see how much his passing has affected people. My condolences as well.

[Otto Germain]

You have my most heartfelt condolences in this difficult time, Asgromo.

I don't really know what to say... I've lost a lot of people in my life, but not like this.

Take care of yourself, and give yourself time to grieve... it's important.

[burstroc]

Late to the thread but that's really awful to hear. I got a chance to talk with Flimsy quite a bit during my heyday around these parts. There were many conversations in PM but sadly they are now lost.

He was crazy, but he distinguished himself from the rest of the crowd easily by how ultimately friendly he was. For example, years ago when #rawr found out I'm kind of a stocky dude, amongst the shoddily-concocted jeers he quipped, "You subsist on a diet of fatty hams!".

I didn't talk to him very much later on. He did mention the battles he had in his mind and how they left him weary. I felt helpless listening to that. But he only talked about that rarely, and the topic varied from gaming to music to doings in the community and otherwise. Wish I could say hi to him again.

My condolences to asgromo. Hope you're feeling a little better by now.

[Ando]

I know that this is a very late reply (I mean, I don't think that I've been here for at least two years) but this is nothing short of creepy.

I feel really bad for him. Yeah, I knew him back when I was around z2, but I wasn't his friend. I'm pretty sure that he thought that I was an idiot (justifiable, since I had very bad social skills and poor impulse control back then). He did like my voice acting, though.

He must have used his sense of humor to deal with the fact that he (supposedly) a lot smarter than others around him (something that I can kind of relate to, although back then hardly anyone thought that I was smart). And when that exhausted itself, he did what he did. Either that, or he was just bored with life. I get that way, sometimes.

Was what he did foolish in my eyes? Sure it was. Then again, I have no idea what drove him to that; all that I can do is just guess, and that doesn't lead you anywhere.

I've experienced death in my life a lot. My best friend in high school strangled himself for sexual pleasure when he was 17, ended up in a vegetative coma and then died the day after Christmas. I had another friend that was murdered over a girl he no longer cared about when he was 20. My own mother died four years ago from Ovarian cancer; that was, pardon my French, really fucking terrible. A good friend of mine from graduate school got in a car accident over two years ago, and I found out only seven months later. Another friend who knew that friend almost died from a heart attack at the age of 29 because he drank too much (fortunately, he is better now). I've also known many suicides, and one of my former jobs revolved around gathering data from obituaries.

At 32, I'm well acquainted with death. I think about my own death almost every day, and perhaps what is worse, how meaningless my life might currently be. But I like myself and I like the part of the world that I live in, so I don't think that I'm going to go anywhere, although death can strike at anytime.

What is even more creepy is that I just discovered this almost exactly a year after he did that. Nuts. Perhaps he wanted me to see this? I don't know; I do believe in God, but I can't say anything more.

Coincidentally, drac0 died from an overdose about nine months prior; didn't know that, either. I'm not surprised about that, though, and I only said so much as three sentences to him or so and as such I cannot comment further.

Also strange how I just got done reading 'The Savage God' by A. Alvarez. It goes into the poetic and general history of suicide.

Kind of weird how the communities have gotten to the stage where members can realistically die and never come back.

[smilymzx]

Ando's 666th post, Wow!

I still think that Flimsy was pretty awesome, even though to tell everyone the truth, I never met Flimsy personally, But the thing is that Flimsy will be missed as both a Fellow ZZTer and an all around coolsauce person!

This post has been edited by smilymzx: 04 September 2016 - 06:57 AM

[Exophase]

Ando, on 30 August 2016 - 06:07 AM, said:

Kind of weird how the communities have gotten to the stage where members can realistically die and never come back.

There was an MZXer from the 90s who died in a car accident sometime around 2002-2003. I'm sure there have been others. It's jarring to think about.

I had a best friend in elementary school whom I later had a falling out with.. a while ago I tried looking him up only to find out he died some years back. I wish I tried to contact him sooner.

But I haven't yet had to deal with anyone I personally know well committing suicide.. that's not something people would normally consider themselves lucky for but at this point I think it is, and it may well just be a matter of time before that changes. I'm sure that's a very harsh thing to deal with.

[djtiesto]

^ Yeah, that was Crus (known for "Bomb Threat").

[Old-Sckool]

Funny thing is that I thought Flimsy Parkins was a made up character for a dumb MegaZeux game (one of Kuddy's perhaps?) until I came across this post last year.

On the topic of death, I was a pallbearer for a childhood friend of mine back in April. Use to hang out tons when we were younger, but we kind of drifted apart when he got into alcohol/drugs, and I got into MegaZeux and MMOs, and I didn't want to get into drinking and all that at the time because there was a bit of a chance of me becoming something better once. Kind of wanted to hang out with him again, since he wasn't necessarily a bad person, just fucked up and had issues with his mother. Died of an overdose on heroine, and I think there was some Fentanyl in him too.

[asgromo]

in memoriam, video jack may have at the time titled literally https://www.youtube....h?v=mfeUevV8uz0

watch 'em all!!1

[asgromo]

no, wait, just watch star trek instead https://www.youtube....h?v=wZWXWYk8pkA

This post has been edited by asgromo: 08 September 2016 - 02:10 AM

[djtiesto]

Old-Sckool, on 07 September 2016 - 11:38 PM, said:

Funny thing is that I thought Flimsy Parkins was a made up character for a dumb MegaZeux game (one of Kuddy's perhaps?) until I came across this post last year.

On the topic of death, I was a pallbearer for a childhood friend of mine back in April. Use to hang out tons when we were younger, but we kind of drifted apart when he got into alcohol/drugs, and I got into MegaZeux and MMOs, and I didn't want to get into drinking and all that at the time because there was a bit of a chance of me becoming something better once. Kind of wanted to hang out with him again, since he wasn't necessarily a bad person, just fucked up and had issues with his mother. Died of an overdose on heroine, and I think there was some Fentanyl in him too.

Damn, heroin addiction is rough... It ravaged a lot of well-to-do communities here on Long Island; my ex's brother for instance was an addict, as was a number of people I went to school with.

[Verasev]

I can't think of anything to say to this that doesn't sound cheap. Wish he'd stuck around.

[Dark-Star]

On behalf of members of the ZZT community and fans of his webcomic who have just recently learned of his passing, I've made an original poem for him. I also send belated sympathy emails to the addresses listed here. Hopefully they reached their intended recipients. Flimsy really seemed to exist on another level and I enjoyed his "Town" ZZT world as well as his aptly-named Poorly Planned Webcomics. He also had a youtube channel which was as unique as his games.

If tears could build a stairwell and memories a lane,
we'd ZAP a path to heaven and bring you back again.
If death were nothing more than just a dark and winding path,
We'd +give a million torches and we'd light your way right back.
If Charon's ferry worked both ways if one could pay his fee,
We'd +give a million gems so that your face again we'd see.
If life was like game where you could simply be revived,
We'd +give you all the health you'd need to bring you back alive.
We loved your games and comics, your rants and insights too,
But most of all we loved the one who made them...and that's you.

This post has been edited by Dark-Star: 02 June 2017 - 01:03 PM