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Knew he was sick, but didn't think he was in that bad of shape. 

(https://toomanyposts.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/wok-spock-death.jpg)

A little more of my childhood dies.  Damn.

Thanks for making Sheldon Cooper possible.

Fuck Today.

What a fucking loss.

RIP Old Man, not many people could make Bruno Mars bearable for me (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dULOjT9GYdQ)

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NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Fuck me.

Always wondered what it was going to be like losing him and Shatner. I'd rather go back to wondering.  :cry:

He was the highlight of the trauma my mother inflicted upon me by dragging me to Star Trek conventions back in the day. Meeting him at a signing at one of them changed my views on the conventions.

 :heartbreak:

I loved him for In Search Of and for voicing Civ 4, with Spock a distant 3rd. What a great voice.

He was sent to the hospital earlier this week. I had a bad feeling because of his age, but was hoping it would be recoverable.

RIP, Lenoard. You've been such an amazing chunk of my geekhood that I can't fathom the landscape from here. You also never took yourself quite so seriously that you couldn't have fun with what you were doing and it showed.

Blilbo Baggins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU

I forgot about Civ 4. Man what a fucking awesome VO job he did with that. I can still hear him now going "Beep...Beep...Beep."

All we need is a Genesis Device and a Klingon Bird-of-Prey.

As long as he transferred his katra, then yeah... we're all good.

Damnit. Fuck this week.

Sad day indeed.

That came as a surprise.

Baws.

Saw he'd gone into hospital earlier in the week, had a suspicion this was where that was going.

Very sad, but he'd lived a damned awesome life.

I also liked his brief appearances in "Fringe" as William Bell, a somewhat disturbing but fascinating character. With Star Trek, he gave life to one of the most (if not *the* most, considering it goes beyond the "sci-fi nerds") iconic character in the history of both the small and big screen.

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I've played so much Civ IV that his VO lines ring in my head like a giant brass hammer.  RIP good sir, you had a great career and hopefully a great life.

Fuck me, this sucks :cry:

RIP

Incredibly sad day :(

I Grokked Spock.

I rolled a new STO toon just to hear his voiceovers.

I have that installed but have never played. I think this is an excellent reason to give it a whirl.

Fuck.

(http://i.imgur.com/dGjwb6K.gif)

Zachary Quinto vs. Leonard Nimoy: "The Challenge" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkByAkAdZs)

Funny as hell.

I dont care how cheesy I sound, but Nimoy was practically the last person I'd want to see pass (aside from close relatives).  That's how I feel about this.  Fuckin sux.  I was sitting in lab (back in school <aerospace EE>; largely due to trek and his character btw) when I got the txt.  Could no longer work.  Started shaking.  You think something like this wouldn't effect you that much, but it does.  Just imagine how some of the old NASA hats who idolized this guy feel; they're all hardcore trekkers.  Armstrong or Glenn dying?  Nothing compared to losing Nimoy.

Ironically, I'd been trying my damnedest to get to a convention before something like this happened (school and lack of funds prevented me each and every time the past few years).  He hadn't been attending that many regardless; but now the chance is lost.

Realize, you're talking about losing (without a doubt) the man with the highest and most rabid ever fanbase, actor or otherwise.  His popularity was unmatched.  Big big loss.  Nevertheless, I will enjoy watching the impending tributes all over the tv/internets.  The geeks will be out in force and full creativity mode.  Should be fun.

(http://i.imgur.com/IYxClE6.jpg)

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So apparently chewing scenery leads to longer life?

Gold shirts die last I guess.

Owch. That picture hurts.

Just when you thought they couldn't possibly get themselves hated any more, the WBC threatens to picket Nimoy's funeral:

http://www.inquisitr.com/1881975/westboro-baptist-church-announces-intent-to-picket-leonard-nimoys-funeral/

Don't even post that shit and give them even one more eyeball of attention.

Uh oh, pitting WBC against a bunch of spergy nerds? Nothing could possibly go wrong, right?

Maybe someone will doxx them.

Heh, I'm awaiting the day when the heads of the WBC get their emails yanked and we find out they are fucking 8 year olds on the side.

Looks like William Shatner is catching some flak for not attending the funeral.  He already had a prior commitment for a charity ball in Florida benefiting the Red Cross.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/01/entertainment/feat-william-shatner-nimoy-funeral/index.html

The New York Daily News will do anything to get attention/sell papers (or click bait for ad revenue).

Fuck those giving Shatner flack. This is NOT something someone else gets to have a fucking opinion on.

I mostly just feel sorry if he was unable to attend. Going to my good friends funeral some years ago was an importance piece of closure. It would have left a bigger wound to have not attended. Hopefully he can pay his respects shortly and achieve a similar effect.

Whatever he'd done someone would have given him flack on the internet. It's the internet, fuck 'em. And I like the fact that Shatner pretty much said as much, diplomatically.

I saw somewhere that a later tweet said something along those lines, apoc.  "If I'd canelled this charity event, you'd have had nothing to say then either, right? ;)" Or some such.

At least Shatner seems to get the "you can't win" reality of the internet.

Ironically, I suspect it would be a different part of the internet pummelling him for that.

But he's broadly correct.

My feelings are thus:  the Red Cross is an utter shitpile for various reasons that belong in the politics thread.  Whatever charity function he was doing was a "charity," not a charity.  I doubt his presence would've been that missed anyways, and likely would've made a better showing had he telepresenced from Nimoy's funeral instead had he went. (to me that would have been the more endearing presentation)

Second, he could have flown privately after the redcross function.  He likely just didn't want to spend the money, nor break his contract (which likely would have cost him some coin as well).  Which is ironic given the circumstances.

Lastly, just because something is a non-profit occasion, does not mean it's suddenly immune to standard practices at the workplace... y'know, like attending funerals of close friends and families.  And in this case, it's not like his presence would have caused any shift in the bottom-line.  He's not missing a major corporate merger or a federal investigation; really.

/shrug  Shoulda went.

People deal with things in their own ways, Ghambit.  I think this is a shitty way to sit in judgement of another human being.

Not judging him.  Just sayin' what I and many many others would've done in his place.  The only general exception in this particular case is you're talking about a rich celebrity, and as we know, they behave much differently than the average citizen.  Shatner said his reasoning; he didnt say "this is how I'm dealing with it."  So I'm going simply on what he says, not how he may "feel."  Realize again, he was not even a headliner at this thing.  Just your typical bourgie palm beach event to massage your ego.

Here's the expose on the event btw:
http://www.local10.com/entertainment/shirley-maclaine-wayne-newton-william-shatner-headline-red-cross-ball/31553054

Draw your conclusions.  Whatevs.  I'll keep mine.  Many have said Shatner was a complete money-grubbing douche (recall he never truly got along with either Nimoy, Takei, and others); this has money-grubbing douche written all over it.  For all we know, deep down he may only look at his "friends" as co-workers.  Okay, so maybe I am judging him.   :awesome_for_real:

You really, really are....

Really, really judging him.

You can't know how Shatner felt and it's not your business.  That's between the two of them, and one of them is isn't going to be complaining.  Whether it was the 'right' choice or not will be on Shatner and no one else.

For what it's worth, I didn't go to the funeral of my best friend.  Does that make me a terrible person?  I didn't even have the excuse of a prior 'charitable' commitment.

At least I'm not old enough to say I saw Star Trek on the first go around, but damn I'm gonna miss him, and thanks guys for those songs! Godspeed Leonard.

What are you trying to say here...   :heartbreak:

Me neither, but that does not stop a Trekkie mother from brainwashing her spawn by watching reruns of that show. Until I had seen them all. Even that wasn't enough to relate to it, but the movies... that is where they started to feel like my family.

You actually saw them? I was glued to any re-runs that would come on :) I did get to see the Saturday morning cartoons of it. And of course all the movies in the movie theater.

I've only seen a few of TOS episodes recently enough to remember them, but my mother says we watched a lot of them together when I was a baby, with me sitting in her lap while she studied flashcards for one of her undergrad courses.