by Docano » Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:31 am
What the fuck man! This really bums me out.
Must've spent hundreds of hours chatting in #hbpriv, on vent, and in-game with Nick back in the day. Like josh said, he could be a bit much sometimes, but what hb guy couldn't?
Here's a pic of the first time we met IRL back in 2004:
http://dod.docano.com/cpl/2004.summer/day1-nick-doc.jpg
That's the goofy ass, fun dude I remember. I think I actually ran into him by chance on a DoD pub a year or two ago. He hadn't changed. Still a sharp gamer with the flair for having fun in any situation.
One particular match I remember with him was on merderet. We (Highball) were Allies playing God knows who, God know when. Tellah and Chosen were respawning. DarkHorse (or marshall? or that kid that was loud-mouthed and started the hb- script thread on the old 1911 forum?) was in the loft, holding it down like only that dude could do. I dunno who our sixth was, but whoever doesn't matter. It was Nick and me on the Axis side of the bridge. I had just hopped down from rope house. Nick was already at the Axis second. Then I see one kill of his pop up. Kar (someone dropped it). Then another kar kill. And another. Then a colt. He recaps the flag and pushes a bit farther. Then there's like a 5 sec pause before I see a double grenade kill of his pop up. I think he killed one more guy before dying short of their last flag. As I finished off the last 2 or 3 guys and capped out, he just sort of chuckled on Vent at all the idiots he had just taken out. Note that he didn't say anything. He just chuckled. He knew what he had done. We knew it. Nothing needed to be said.
That's something that's stuck with me. For all his shit-talking, antagonizing, blah blah, he played to have fun man. If he won, cool. If he died a lot, cool. If we lost, oh well that's still cool--he'd just have his fun through shit-talking the people that had proned us everywhere or whatever. And he never meant any genuine harm by what he said. That was just his style of "good humor."
I dug Nick. I still miss killing time with him, josh, Mr. Beasley, Chosen, marshall, Steve, Cyan, etc etc. My DoD years were at minimum unproductive and at worst a complete waste of time, but characters like Nick made the experience worthwhile for me.
RIP Nick, miss ya man.
What the fuck man! This really bums me out.
Must've spent hundreds of hours chatting in #hbpriv, on vent, and in-game with Nick back in the day. Like josh said, he could be a bit much sometimes, but what hb guy couldn't?
Here's a pic of the first time we met IRL back in 2004: http://dod.docano.com/cpl/2004.summer/day1-nick-doc.jpg
That's the goofy ass, fun dude I remember. I think I actually ran into him by chance on a DoD pub a year or two ago. He hadn't changed. Still a sharp gamer with the flair for having fun in any situation.
One particular match I remember with him was on merderet. We (Highball) were Allies playing God knows who, God know when. Tellah and Chosen were respawning. DarkHorse (or marshall? or that kid that was loud-mouthed and started the hb- script thread on the old 1911 forum?) was in the loft, holding it down like only that dude could do. I dunno who our sixth was, but whoever doesn't matter. It was Nick and me on the Axis side of the bridge. I had just hopped down from rope house. Nick was already at the Axis second. Then I see one kill of his pop up. Kar (someone dropped it). Then another kar kill. And another. Then a colt. He recaps the flag and pushes a bit farther. Then there's like a 5 sec pause before I see a double grenade kill of his pop up. I think he killed one more guy before dying short of their last flag. As I finished off the last 2 or 3 guys and capped out, he just sort of chuckled on Vent at all the idiots he had just taken out. Note that he didn't say anything. He just chuckled. He knew what he had done. We knew it. Nothing needed to be said.
That's something that's stuck with me. For all his shit-talking, antagonizing, blah blah, he played to have fun man. If he won, cool. If he died a lot, cool. If we lost, oh well that's still cool--he'd just have his fun through shit-talking the people that had proned us everywhere or whatever. And he never meant any genuine harm by what he said. That was just his style of "good humor."
I dug Nick. I still miss killing time with him, josh, Mr. Beasley, Chosen, marshall, Steve, Cyan, etc etc. My DoD years were at minimum unproductive and at worst a complete waste of time, but characters like Nick made the experience worthwhile for me.
RIP Nick, miss ya man.