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Title: Robin Williams died
Post by: Mongoose on August 11, 2014, 06:28:15 pm
Oh man...Robin Williams committed suicide. :(
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Post by: headdie on August 11, 2014, 06:33:44 pm
Oh man...Robin Williams committed suicide. :(

Wow, thats heavy.  never a particular fan but still, wonder why?
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Post by: Lorric on August 11, 2014, 06:39:52 pm
Oh man...Robin Williams committed suicide. :(
The World loved that man. That's ****ed up on so many levels. I've come over all sombre.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Luis Dias on August 11, 2014, 06:50:29 pm
This is so ****ing depressing on so many levels
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Lorric on August 11, 2014, 07:06:11 pm
This is so ****ing depressing on so many levels
I didn't realise I appreciated him so much. It's really made me sad.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Luis Dias on August 11, 2014, 07:20:53 pm
Oh captain! My captain!
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Post by: Sololop on August 11, 2014, 07:53:09 pm
I'm in shock... :(
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Post by: Mongoose on August 11, 2014, 07:55:53 pm
Depression is just...**** it.  So hard.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Boomer20 on August 11, 2014, 08:01:09 pm
He always sounded like a positive and happy guy when you heard him in interviews. Kinda shocking to find out that he committed suicide.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: mralexs on August 11, 2014, 08:21:45 pm
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/08/11/robin-williams-dead-at-63/

What a shame. The only movies I've seen with him in it are Jumanji, Aladdin, and Mrs. Doubtfire.   :(
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Phantom Hoover on August 11, 2014, 08:37:23 pm
I'm still kind of expecting to wake up tomorrow and find it was all a hoax. It just seems so... wrong.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Luis Dias on August 11, 2014, 08:58:01 pm
It was widely known he suffered from heavy depression for decades now.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Mongoose on August 11, 2014, 09:26:47 pm
Merged a bunch of posts from WHIYL in here, which is why it looks like I started the thread instead of mralexs.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Boomer20 on August 11, 2014, 09:27:33 pm
It was widely known he suffered from heavy depression for decades now.

Regardless you still don't really expect these things to happen.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: DarkBasilisk on August 11, 2014, 10:23:45 pm
It was widely known he suffered from heavy depression for decades now.

Regardless you still don't really expect these things to happen.

Age can tip matters since it adds more stuff to the pile of things to deal with. Someone that's been dealing with it for a long time is often treading water rather than actually stable.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: MP-Ryan on August 12, 2014, 12:17:35 am
Very, very sad.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: deathfun on August 12, 2014, 12:38:45 am
Meanwhile, my reaction to hearing it was:
"Okay. Just because?"

I think my emotional responses are broke
Ah well. Great actor, fantastic movies, life goes on. Just be happy he has been immortalized through his countless films and that many more people will still be able to enjoy what he's done for comedic relief
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: watsisname on August 12, 2014, 03:41:30 am
I want to feel like I could comment with a good Williams joke with his style of humor but… no, there's nothing funny about this at all.  It just sucks. :(
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Phantom Hoover on August 12, 2014, 01:17:29 pm
The damn BBC news obituary reminded me that he was in Being Human, which in its own small way has just made me even sadder.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Luis Dias on August 12, 2014, 02:21:26 pm
And now that PZ Myers' post. I mean, I don't even go there, but twitter had to ragelink to it. Jesus F Christ. Sometimes even at these times with the islamic fanatics and so on it's so hard to believe there are people who I just have no capacity of adjectivizing. "Scum" is such an euphemism, a baby word.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Phantom Hoover on August 12, 2014, 03:55:42 pm
It's funny how in attempting to demonstrate a sense of perspective he has in fact lost all sense of perspective.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Luis Dias on August 12, 2014, 03:57:24 pm
That's a very accurate and generous description. It even paints the guy as a tragic figure. I'll take it.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Bobboau on August 12, 2014, 04:58:13 pm
And now that PZ Myers' post. I mean, I don't even go there, but twitter had to ragelink to it. Jesus F Christ. Sometimes even at these times with the islamic fanatics and so on it's so hard to believe there are people who I just have no capacity of adjectivizing. "Scum" is such an euphemism, a baby word.

what the **** did that pretentious narcissistic asshole do now?
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: NeonShivan on August 12, 2014, 05:17:47 pm
While I personally don't pay much attention to the actors themselves it is still sad all together for people to pass on, I'm sure he's in a better place now doing what he does best.

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And now that PZ Myers' post.

Someone mind quoting what PZ Myers said?
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Post by: Bobboau on August 12, 2014, 05:22:16 pm
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/08/12/robin-williams-brings-joy-to-the-hearts-of-journalists-and-politicians-once-again/

Robin's suicide was a conspiracy to distract from the stuff happening in St.Louis. Robin needs to check his white privilege.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: NeonShivan on August 12, 2014, 05:34:39 pm
How hateful and disgusting.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Boomer20 on August 13, 2014, 12:52:55 am
I swear conspiracy theories are the scourge of the earth.
The amount of crap I've read recently regarding conspiracies. Do these people have a life or any sanity?
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Nuke on August 13, 2014, 01:18:49 am
all great art is made of suffering
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: zookeeper on August 13, 2014, 04:13:03 am
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2014/08/12/robin-williams-brings-joy-to-the-hearts-of-journalists-and-politicians-once-again/

Robin's suicide was a conspiracy to distract from the stuff happening in St.Louis. Robin needs to check his white privilege.

But that's obviously not what it said.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Luis Dias on August 13, 2014, 04:34:36 am
He was just taking Bob's summation litteraly. PZ's not that dumb. His wrongness is another.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Boomer20 on August 13, 2014, 05:41:13 am
While I stand by my original statement of disgust of the utter rubbish most conspiracies are, I have to admit that I probably should have read that article with a bit more focus than I did.
Regardless he does seem to imply what Bobboau said which to me is stupid and to link his death with politicians agendas and media cover-ups of other issues is disgusting.
But frankly I'm not surprised
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: karajorma on August 13, 2014, 11:24:59 pm
Hmmmmm. While I think that the PZ Myers' post is disgusting, I can see the point he was trying to make, that the news and politicians aren't interested in covering complex issues that might turn off their viewers/constituents. And that point is a very valid one. I think one of the biggest problems with the American electoral system has nothing to do with the system itself, and everything to do with the fact that news channels can't be objective since their viewers will simply switch channels if the news isn't jerking them off about what they personally believe.

Pity he couldn't express his disgust at that without disrespecting Robin Williams.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Boomer20 on August 14, 2014, 12:09:23 am
The strange thing is here in Australia the media seems to light up with there nasty things happening.
MH17 for example the news reporters sounded so excited to have breaking news of a tragic incident, the more people that die the more excited they almost seems.
I do agree with you Kara with the point about covering up issues that it is a valid issue (given that I don't live in America I can't say whether PZ Myers example was true or not but the point is valid) I just don't think the why he expressed his point was of poor taste, particularly with implicating a man suicide as an ulterior motive of someone elses. 
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Bobboau on August 14, 2014, 05:07:13 pm
because nothing, absolutely nothing is more important than his "Social Justice".
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Luis Dias on August 14, 2014, 05:13:58 pm
Of course that's not true. You forgot his own ego.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: haloboy100 on August 26, 2014, 01:08:45 am
I think cracked wrote a really nice article (http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/robin-williams-why-funny-people-kill-themselves/) about comedians and why they are depressed in reflection to this event, and I recommend it.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: Lorric on August 26, 2014, 10:57:37 am
I think cracked wrote a really nice article (http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/robin-williams-why-funny-people-kill-themselves/) about comedians and why they are depressed in reflection to this event, and I recommend it.
That's super ****ed up. Surely there must be some people who simply have a talent for making people laugh and use it and besides that are perfectly secure in themselves or at least not self-destructively suicidally insecure. Unless that is the difference between having that talent and going up on stage to use that talent.
Title: Re: Robin Williams died
Post by: MP-Ryan on August 26, 2014, 01:05:47 pm
I think cracked wrote a really nice article (http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/robin-williams-why-funny-people-kill-themselves/) about comedians and why they are depressed in reflection to this event, and I recommend it.

That's good reading