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About what DE said, I agree that gamepages do prevent discussion in a way. When you post a topic in the forums where regulars visit multiple times every day it is very easy to get a lot of feedback, but with gamepages it's a lot harder to get people to actively discuss a lot. However, I don't want to blame gamepages, as I think they are a good thing. Neophyte is right that some people can generate a lot of discussion.

Although I've really stopped using RMN to get feedback, and instead I ask people personally outside of the forums for feedback and whatnot. I mean I upload a bunch of screenshots or blogs but people don't really talk about them much.

Yep.

I've never had a close relative pass away. But there are people around me who have died.
The first one that comes to mind was my neighbor. She was my classmate through elementary school, and when I moved into her neighborhood in the middle of 7th grade, I remember her family dropped by with a tin of chocolate chip cookies as a welcoming gift. I never really knew her well and I can't recall talking to her much, but one day, she drowned on a rafting trip. I can still remember that morning very clearly. It was the summer after 8th grade -- right between middle school and high school. She never got a chance to go to high school. We both lived right across the street from the school.
I had a cast on one of my legs and my best friend was over, and we were about to go to church, like we usually do Sunday mornings. Then my dad stepped out of the house and came to the car and said something that I didn't really understand. Then I realized what he said: she had died the day before. I was quiet the rest of the day.
It's strange. I remember seeing her at school sometimes and riding the bus. And then she was gone.
That one is the most powerful to me. The second one that comes to mind is my friend's aunt. She had cancer and visited our house twice a week on a regular basis to ask my mom for medical advice, as my mom had once been a doctor and still works in health care. I can remember talking with her several times at a variety of gatherings, and one day, she too vanished.
There was a third one--it was someone I didn't know, but her death affected our family. She was good friends with my mom, and I knew her kids. One was a daughter around the age of my young sister, and the were (and still are) good friends. However she was sent to China to live with her grandparents as her father could not care for both kids. (The other one was a son about my age.) It was kind of strange, because I saw her from time to time and how she developed without a mother. We even visited her when our family traveled to China.

All of these occured around the same time. I never really had an experience with death beforehand and not really much afterwards either.

I don't have much else to say on this matter. I'm sorry for your loss.

Yeah :(

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