snaptrap member has been gravley injured

[Alex]

Welcome back, Snap.
I don't know you, I mean, you and I have never talked about anything until now... But it has been hard to know that you had to live this. Take good care of yourself...
And yes, I agree, motorcycles are WAY TOO dangerous... Cause cars / trucks / bus drivers do not even watch out for motorcycles. In fact, I think that riding a motorcycle = risking your life, nowadays...

Some will say that life IS risk...
Well, that's true in some way... But I'm really not in a hurry to die faster.

[Snaptrap]

Originally Posted by Alex

Welcome back, Snap.
I don't know you, I mean, you and I have never talked about anything until now... But it has been hard to know that you had to live this. Take good care of yourself...
And yes, I agree, motorcycles are WAY TOO dangerous... Cause cars / trucks / bus drivers do not even watch out for motorcycles. In fact, I think that riding a motorcycle = risking your life, nowadays...

Some will say that life IS risk...
Well, that's true in some way... But I'm really not in a hurry to die faster.

yeah, motorcycles place your life in greater risk than it already may be. they are often unoticed on the road by larger vehicles or by careless drivers. my cycle was a few months old and i was just getting used to the motorized two wheel thing. the experience of being struck while driving one is a memory i wish to forget.

the last few memories of the accident are just of loud sirens and people chattering to me. my guess is that they were asking to see if i was alright which i obviously was not. even now i still feel a little disoriented as my injuries are still healing and the reprocussions are still well apparent. i completely feel and look like crap. my whole body aches like a sob now that i am able to get up and move around. being trapped in a bed for such a long time left me unable to experience the aches, especially after waking up. they got me doing some simple exercises to help the recouperation process. i squeeze a ball to strengthen my hands so that i can type without using two index fingers.

you know, the thing about death is that it would've happened and i wouldn't even have know it did. in that situation i was unaware of the seriousness of my condition nor was i concious enough to understand that i was dying. i honestly have no fear of dying from what i went through. you come so close to death that what you got is life many times over.

i have to go in for a checkup tomorrow afternoon for more scans to see how i'm mending internally. aside from the stiff joints i am good for that. my bro said that the mod can also wait. i read someone else was making one anyway and if one doesn't exist before i am good enough to continue, then i will do so. see you guys tomorrow.

[Snaptrap]

Originally Posted by DrBeast

Hey hey hey! Welcome back, trooper!

hey you. thank you for the great words of inspiration. when ron relayed the information to me about what people were saying in my mail box and the couple forums i visit, it really gave me more will to stay alive. sadly though, those words were at times completely forgotten under the strain i was enduring. no matter how much you fight to live, reality sets in and the fact that injuries can be too severe to recover from. living a healthy lifestyle is important to quick healing. the longer it takes for your body to heal, the more chance that your body is going to shut down from what it has to endure.

i do not want to see anyone go through those hardships.

[THE_MASK]

Your back , yay

[limkol]

Welcome back Snaptrap. Great to have you back.
Forget the mods, get yourself A1 again. You modders improve the game again and again. Thanks to the work that you all have done, it's made the game 100 times better. There's no rush to get back to modding work (unless it helps you get through the day).
It's not the modding work that matters most to me. It's the fact that I can ask a question (however dumb or obvious it may be), and a complete stranger from Arizona or Andalusia will get on the forum just to help guys like me out. We all appreciate the fact that the modding community is there behind us, there to support us when the day is darkest. Good people there for each other. People from all kinds of social, political, etnical, religious backgrounds. The thing they have in common is not subs or u-boats or computergames. The thing they have in common is that they are decent people. You have helped me when I had an install problem, it's not forgotten. You are one of those decent people.
Good luck to you and Ron and all around you.

[Snaptrap]

Richard is no longer with us. His liver had failed completely a few days ago. Whether or not he was in the hospital would not have changed anything. There was not much that could be done for him except hope that this organ would be able to function normally. Some things just don't work out the way we want them to in the end. He did some final work on his Silent Fire program for the sub game before the weekend. Then we were going to work on something else together. Once I figure out how to upload his creation to the site he uses I will put it there and update thee thread he created. A few friends and I will be editing the readme page to include some information to honor my brother and the work he put into that program.

Ron.

[peabody]

So sorry to hear that Ron!!! I also lost a brother and it is not an easy thing..My thoughts are with you and your family. Keep the memories of the good times it will help you heal !!!
"The tears will stop. The memories will not"

Peabody

[gimpy117]

I offer my humblest condolances,

I guess we all never know when It is our time, God somtimes winds our clocks good and long, and other times he only gives it a few turns, all we can do, I guess, is live every day like it's our last and see where it takes us, and, ever so untimely it may be, I can hazzard a guess that your brother lived well and to the fullest every day.

with you,
-Gimpy117

[kylesplanet]

God Ron I don't know what to say. I had been reading the previous post and was so happy that he was recovering. I'm so sorry this happened and I hope your family will remember Richard and celebrate his life. I just don't have the words bro. If I can help, just let me know.

May God bless you and your family and lift you up in this trying time.

[joegrundman]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[Zero Niner]

My condolences...

[stabiz]

R.I.P Snaptrap.

[Xantrokoles]

R.I.P Richard
and thank you for your work.

[DrBeast]

I'm lost for words...all I can say is I'm sorry for your loss. He and Dave will have a lot to discuss, now

[claybirdd]

I am so sorry. Words simply fail me.


"Unto almighty God we commend the soul of our shipmate departed, and we commit his body to the deep, in the sure and simple hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life, when the sea shall give up her dead and the life of the world to come."