Proposal Discussion Station named in memory of hardcore gamer, and entertainer Robin Williams

Would you have a problem with FD adding a memorial to Robin Williams in game?

  • I'd have no problem with their being a station, star, planet or moon in honor of him

    Votes: 183 67.3%

  • I'd have no problem with their being a star, planet or moon in honor of him

    Votes: 6 2.2%

  • I'd have no problem with their being a planet or moon in honor of him

    Votes: 5 1.8%

  • I don't think there should be any memorial in game

    Votes: 78 28.7%
  • Total voters
    272
  • Poll closed .
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Sylv3r

Sylv3r
noodle said:
Don't see y'all clamouring to name suns after Palestinian children :p
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Yeah i know this kind of thinking .. many wars started with it .. you're in a good way. Demagogia is the worse comportment i know. Good point you won all the wallet !
 

jabokai

jabokai
noodle said:
I do find it interesting that the death of a comedian prompts a massive outpouring of expressions of grief and desires for memorials, while other tragedies barely get a mention. It was a serious point.
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Human nature innit - we all mourn, or pay tribute to, those who've been a part of our lives, either directly or indirectly. My dad dies, I cry buckets... The tsunami kills quarter of a million and, while I feel sad for the waste of life, I shed not a tear.

I'm not going to cry over Robin Williams of course, but he was a (very small) part of my childhood and life since then. I'm not actually sad at all that he's died (he's a guy I never met, or knew, after all) but I suppose I feel a twinge of something that a tiny part of my memories has come to a close, if that makes sense. The situation in Gaza is, of course, terrible... but it's a completely different topic and a different emotion.
 
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Kiffin Rockwell

Kiffin Rockwell
Silektuo99 said:
In addition, as much as I liked his films and his comedy, if the guy deliberately committed suicide, we don't need to pay tribute to people who opt out of life.
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I don't think the point was to recognize him for opting out of life, so much as adding to it for so many people, particularly from SciFi perspective.
 

noodle

noodle
jabokai said:
Human nature innit - we all mourn, or pay tribute to, those who've been a part of our lives, either directly or indirectly. My dad dies, I cry buckets... The tsunami kills quarter of a million and, while I feel sad for the waste of life, I shed not a tear.
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I agree with that, to a point. But then it does mean that calls for memorials in situations like this are a little... subjective.

I'm not going to cry over Robin Williams of course, but he was a (very small) part of my childhood and life since then. I'm not actually sad at all that he's died (he's a guy I never met, or knew, after all) but I suppose I feel a twinge of something that a tiny part of my memories has come to a close, if that makes sense. The situation in Gaza is, of course, terrible... but it's a completely different topic and a different emotion.
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I don't find it a different topic. If I was asked whether I'd prefer to see a sun named Robin Williams, or Gaza 2014, I think I'd opt for the latter.
 

Joe Spivey

Joe Spivey
Hermit said:
They're two completely different topics.
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No, they are not. Just that one is much more serious than the other. Harder to come to terms with maybe? Certainly less 'comfortable' to deal with. I would be more inclined to have a memorial to those innocents who had life taken from them than a man at the end of his time who gave his life away.
 

Hermit

Hermit
Joe Spivey said:
No, they are not. Just that one is much more serious than the other. Harder to come to terms with maybe? Certainly less 'comfortable' to deal with. I would be more inclined to have a memorial to those innocents who had life taken from them than a man at the end of his time who gave his life away.
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Jabokai explained it well enough in his previous post as to the difference.
 

jabokai

jabokai
noodle said:
I agree with that, to a point. But then it does mean that calls for memorials in situations like this are a little... subjective.
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Yeah, true. I just don't really think of it as "memorial" I guess - as I've written before I just see it as a tip of the hat, or raising a glass... nothing so serious as a memorial. :smilie:
 
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