RIP Nick "Oxossi" Coppola

Aether · Post by **Aether** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 5:42 am

I decided to post this here because I'm sure there a lot of people around here who knew Nick, whether personally or by reputation. Nick had been missing for about 8 months, his body was recently located and I'm sad to say that he is dead. Not much else I can say, his death is still being investigated so no one is entirely sure what happened yet.

Anyone who ever competed seriously at DoD knew who Oxossi was and for anyone who was lucky enough to get to know him it's horrible news.

Here's a news link for anyone who wants it or thinks I'm trolling: http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-body-i ... 2784.story

R.I.P. Nick

mg_ · Post by **mg_** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:33 am

Fuck, man.

pdxstar · Post by **pdxstar** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 7:10 am

I didn't know him, but obviously it is a bad notice.

R.i.P

mogers · Post by **mogers** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:36 am

Crus · Post by **Crus** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:51 am

Terrible news. RIP

likwid · Post by **likwid** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:10 am

Saddening news. I hope they found out what happened for the family's sake.

R.I.P.

stevehisey_ · Post by **stevehisey_** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:47 am

heard about this yesterday.. rip nick. hopefully his family can finally find peace. from the search party website it sounded like he was loved very much.

Jb_ · Post by **Jb_** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:56 am

I played with him for many years and was even on highball with him. Great player, was very annoying but this is very sad indeed. R.I.P Kankles

The website link is down

What exactly happend? I remember someone making a post a couple months ago about him missing, but I thought they were refering to him missing from the dod community.

xone · Post by **xone** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 10:59 am

i remember puging with him a few times never really talked thats terrible hope they find the bastards......rip

james- · Post by **james-** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:53 am

What a shame, must be really hard on his family for him to simply have gone missing and then find out one day that he just died =[

Hope they find some answers.

Sears · Post by **Sears** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:03 pm

Super sad, but I'm glad that the family finally has some kind of closure.

Expunge · Post by **Expunge** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 12:29 pm

sad news, RIP

he was good competition back in the day

PUNKYETi · Post by **PUNKYETi** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:07 pm

Gonna miss playing wow with nick blaxossi... pulling whole rooms with my hunter doing tab attacks will always be know as pulling an oxossi...

catch you on the flipside nick...

Schmiggs · Post by **Schmiggs** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:13 pm

Sad news. What the fuck is it with DoD players going missing and getting killed. This is like 3 or 4 of them. We're not that big of a community for fuck's sake.

RIP Nick. Hope your family finds out what happened.

toxinatoR · Post by **toxinatoR** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:21 pm

RIP "das_w00t"

dorito · Post by **dorito** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:23 pm

RIP Nick

wintehs · Post by **wintehs** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:52 pm

Wow... saw Dane and a few other's posting about this on facebook the last couple of days. Pugged with him a few times and played WoW with him occasionally. Shit is crazy, RIP Nick

unpro · Post by **unpro** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 1:56 pm

theshizz · Post by **theshizz** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:23 pm

I remember playing with him a long time ago, i was never on a team with him, but he was a beast. good gamer good man. R.I.P.

Jb_ · Post by **Jb_** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 2:33 pm

I just watched a a video from dec 10th when he went missing, and they said he was apart of a religious cult in the area. Thats kinda creepy.

Cnile · Post by **Cnile** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 3:08 pm

Very sad news R.I.P Ox

Narc · Post by **Narc** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 8:57 pm

RIP das_w00t

Knew this guy from beta days. Always nice to me, sad to see this happen to him, and to think the last day he was seen was my b-day, I'll remember this for life.

mg_ · Post by **mg_** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:28 am

Who has his account now in WoW because the name still comes online but it isn't obviously him

Creeping my shit out.

Aether · Post by **Aether** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:38 am

You might be seeing Ian Gilmore playing on his SC2 account. I don't think his WoW account is active, but he gave Ian his Starcraft account a couple of days before he disappeared.

For the people who are thinking that he was murdered, we don't know for sure what happened yet, but at the moment what seems most likely is that he froze to death in a blizzard during the winter. Again, we don't know for sure yet, but from what I know this seems like the most likely scenario.

mg_ · Post by **mg_** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:38 am

Aether wrote:You might be seeing Ian Gilmore playing on his SC2 account. I don't think his WoW account is active, but he gave Ian his Starcraft account a couple of days before he disappeared.

For the people who are thinking that he was murdered, we don't know for sure what happened yet, but at the moment what seems most likely is that he froze to death in a blizzard during the winter. Again, we don't know for sure yet, but from what I know this seems like the most likely scenario.

Ugh, this is all just sad. :/

stevehisey_ · Post by **stevehisey_** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:39 am

i remember one of the matches he played with us (jetty) on chemille back in the CAL days... we decided to wear our tags and names backwards like this "yesih YTTEJ"

nick had his name as "tnuc YTTEJ" and he played the entire match with his flashlight on...

scorch- · Post by **scorch-** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:49 am

I think that most of Nick's friends and family have been preparing for this moment for a while now. Even though I wanted to believe this was just Nick being spontaneous and reaching for something that he wanted, the longer the search dragged on, the more difficult it became to believe that one day he would show up with a story. I can't feel that there's anything good about this news, but at least Nick's family can give up the search and deal with their grief head-on.

Nick was probably the nicest person I've met in the past decade. He talked a lot of shit and never gave someone the disrespect of false courtesy, but when it came time for action you could see just how much he cared about everyone around him. Those that knew him personally should be able to attest to it.

When I think of Nick, I remember him as I met him in Dallas, with a smile on his face and a pink dildo in his hand - ready to create laughter with the next person he met, weary from traveling across states and nations to play video games. I'm not sure if it came easily for him, but I never had a hard time laughing with him.

I remember how he traveled all the way to San Diego to play in a silly DoD tournament thousands of miles away and years after we had stopped playing the game. And how, even though he was suffering from serious back pain, he found time to buy wrestling cards and a ridiculously tiny pink t-shirt for my birthday.

I remember how he would valiantly defend his honor every time I jokingly accused him of cheating against us in a match on Chemille. I was an idiot for that. Nick loved competition and he loved beating other people at games, but it was always fun because he knew that whoever won, they had both tried as hard as they could.

I remember that he played games like no one I had seen before. Mousepad behind his monitor, eyes inches away from his screen. And how fast was he? Nick was talented. Whether you liked him or not, there was never an argument about how good he was. He was fearsome to play against and great to play with. Teams rose and fell with how well he was playing on any given day.

I wish that I had known Nick outside of games and ventrilo, but I didn't. I feel blessed to have known him at all. I hope that if there's a heaven, Nick will be there to greet us all with a smile on his face.

cassinoroyale · Post by **cassinoroyale** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 9:29 am

whoah scorch... what a one-of-a-kind friendship story...

its always sad to lose someone you really like whether he or she being a friend or relative.

RIP and godspeed for their parents dealing with the pain

Narc · Post by **Narc** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:34 am

Nick was AgentX in these screenshots.

scorch- · Post by **scorch-** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:41 am

cassinoroyale wrote:whoah scorch... what a one-of-a-kind friendship story...

its always sad to lose someone you really like whether he or she being a friend or relative.

RIP and godspeed for their parents dealing with the pain

I wouldn't say I was nick's best friend, or that I knew him better than other people. A lot of people knew him better than I did.

He was one-of-a-kind though.

mg_ · Post by **mg_** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 12:20 pm

scorch- wrote:
cassinoroyale wrote:whoah scorch... what a one-of-a-kind friendship story...

its always sad to lose someone you really like whether he or she being a friend or relative.

RIP and godspeed for their parents dealing with the pain
I wouldn't say I was nick's best friend, or that I knew him better than other people. A lot of people knew him better than I did.

He was one-of-a-kind though.

He really was. We talked a lot on real id/steam friends about KU and Mizzou, him going to the latter and me the former. My first "wow" experience was him, Blanton, Aether, and Jake running me through Deadmines. Funny guy, hilariously on-point DoD sense of humor. I think he was part of some of the funnier stuff over the last 4 years, notably the "funny names" thread on gotfrag.

Blaxossi and his Niggerstompers will be missed.

Aether · Post by **Aether** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:23 pm

heh yeah the whole funny names thread was a result of him and eric macaluso making up stupid names in ventrilo.

ward · Post by **ward** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 2:24 pm

Met him at CPL, he was a good guy. It's a shame.

ohhhhbeeee · Post by **ohhhhbeeee** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:26 pm

this sucks.

Teapot_Dome · Post by **Teapot_Dome** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:00 am

Sears · Post by **Sears** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:48 am

If anyone is up for contributing to a retrospective article on Nick for the the front page let me know. I'm sure his family would appreciate knowing the impact he had on others, even if it was just a bunch of DoD nerds that he came to know in such a dorky way.

sevEN · Post by **sevEN** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:37 pm

what a tragedy. as many have said, he was one of the funniest guys to be around, and that is truly what will be missed about him. we paired up in my early days and joined rSports together, then the two of us joined x6 together with plans on going to wsvg, and then later on i brought him into JETTY. during that time span, he was one of my all time favorite teammates both in game and out of game. there wasnt a funnier guy to hang out with in vent, and there wasnt anyone with his sort of quickness, aim and reaction time. it was seriously UNREAL to watch him play DoD, and i am very privileged and honored to have been able to play with him as much as i did. I am also grateful that i got a chance to meet him in person at the san diego socal lan. i didnt know from experience, but i had heard stories from others that he was an incredible quake player too. he was just naturally gifted at games, and that comes from having a naturally gifted mind. i dont claim to have known him as well as others amongst the rSports crew, but i played a great deal with him. enough to get to know him pretty well and enough to feel very saddened over this. He is the epitome of why i have loved playing dod and just gaming in general so much. There are so many interesting, funny, and amazing people all around the united states that none of us would have ever gotten a chance to meet or associate with in our lifetimes had it not been for competing in online games, and he was DEFINITELY one of those gems. RIP nick, and sorry to aether purdy ian dan crus scotty and all the rest of those guys who i knew were really close with him.

motive · Post by **motive** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:40 pm

<3

anyone who never got to talk to nick on vent missed out on some great laffs

<33333

m0Nsterr · Post by **m0Nsterr** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 1:18 am

I didnt know him, but any news like this to the dod community is truly a shame. I hope his family can find out what happen to him and possibly bury what ever remains they find left of him so he can finally be at rest. Truly tragic, and to any who were friends of his or close to him it seems that no matter if you met him in real life or never beyond ventrillo and dod he has obviously made a impact on this community in more ways then one forever.

RIP

Godspeed

stevehisey_ · Post by **stevehisey_** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 9:56 am

match from cal-m season 13, 2005 possibly?

Cnile · Post by **Cnile** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 6:07 pm

Played with him for a while in Highball, was a lot of fun.

tenks · Post by **tenks** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 12:15 pm

Holy shit this is horrible! wow..Ive see a billion of these things on gf over the years but always fake....knew something wasnt right if Aether was posting....can't believe this!

I had the pleasure to meet and play against him at a couple LANs over the years, RIP nick.

Polak · Post by **Polak** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:44 pm

I remember Ox making me rage in vent, it was one of the few times I lost in it ventrilo when I wasn't play a scrim or a match. I also think I ran into at CPL. He was quite the character from what I remember. Geeze they only found his skull? That's fucking nuts man.

k4b00m · Post by **k4b00m** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:12 pm

Didn't know him, but this is sad news indeed. RIP Nick.

JaGGoNdd · Post by **JaGGoNdd** » Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:46 pm

RIP nick... so horrible. he was a great player and the few times i spoke with him on vent and what not he was always a really cool guy. i hope this at least brought some peace to his family, i know they, along with many others, were putting everything into finding him when he went missing

mare · Post by **mare** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 2:45 pm

This is really sad. Ox was always a funny guy and I always liked him.

In the spirit of his memory, I was just looking at all the ytmd sites he made and remember this one as being my favorite. After having not have seen this in years, I can honestly say I laughed out loud (sorry Ian, haha).

http://ianlife.ytmnd.com/

RIP man.

Sears · Post by **Sears** » Sun Sep 11, 2011 7:27 pm

mare wrote:This is really sad. Ox was always a funny guy and I always liked him.

In the spirit of his memory, I was just looking at all the ytmd sites he made and remember this one as being my favorite. After having not have seen this in years, I can honestly say I laughed out loud (sorry Ian, haha).

http://ianlife.ytmnd.com/

RIP man.

http://ytmnd.com/users/ox/sites

Haha, they are all pretty awesome.