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Ok, it's November. I'll go ahead and get the ball rolling here. What is it? It's a Secret Santa gift exchange between your fellow Halforumites. Everyone who signs up will be randomly assigned another participant. You are then tasked to buy that person a gift. As a recipient, you should leave a...

Suzanne Somers, who gained fame initially by playing a ditsy blonde on the sitcom “Three’s Company” and then by getting fired when she demanded equal pay with the series’ male star — and who later built a health and diet business empire, most notably from the ThighMaster, a workout device — died...

https://apnews.com/article/mitnick-hacker-ghost-wires-cybersecurity-social-engineering-5648301b615635cb4c781f0c220681d9

https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/37812697/the-iron-sheik-pro-wrestling-legend-hall-famer-dies-81

Whup, there it goes. https://www.npr.org/2023/05/15/1173260377/vice-media-bankruptcy

Yeah that was my bad. Should be fixed now. Sorry about that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/music/harry-belafonte-dead.html

The beaten, unwanted stepchild of music has grown on me secretly since I was young. It's not hard to see how a lot of modern pop, Eurodance, and EDM has roots in Disco. So what are Disco tracks that you enjoy? I'll start with a few: The Trammps - Disco Inferno Parliament - Flashlight Olivia...

"A brief illness." https://apnews.com/article/raquel-welch-dies-obituary-3f6ba36da0bd11edb2973c219cee77e8

So, as I'm sure I've mentioned a number of times, my guilty pleasure (well, at least the one I can talk about in polite company) is Reaction Videos. Sure, I've posted quite a number of "Kids React" and "Elders React" and "Tribals React" type videos in other threads, but really it makes up so...

https://apnews.com/article/david-crosby-dies-obit-3a1142b65616fa95c34c837a94f2c69f

Due to real life developments, it looks like Emrys is not going to be able to run the Secret Santa this year, so if nobody objects, I'll step up and take over this year. What is it? It's a Secret Santa gift exchange between your fellow Halforumites. Everyone who signs up will be randomly...

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/12/23400943/warner-bros-cartoon-network-layoffs-david-zaslav

His oeuvre eclipsed that of Shakespeare, according to JCM. I disagreed. The thread went over 20 pages. But the man went out a hero, trying to save an 11 year old and mother from drowning. https://nypost.com/2022/10/13/yu-gi-oh-creator-kazuki-takahashi-died-trying-to-save-woman-child/

I've started a shared save if anybody is interested in playing Grounded. It's kind of like a dedicated server, but not. It will let us all play in the same "world" even simultaneously, just with whoever happens to be playing at the time is the "server" and other people join them, and if...

It is with sadness I pass on information from Overflight/@Computergate via discord that @twitchmoss, aka "Moss" passed away this morning after a hard fight against aplastic anemia that evolved into leukemia. I always liked the guy, we hung out a lot on the Halforums minecraft server and IRC...

For some reason I thought he died years ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/25/business/choco-taco-discontinued/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/13/entertainment/fred-ward-obit/index.html

Age 59, Lung Cancer. https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-kirk-baily-ug-from-salute-your-shorts-1848610742 TIL he was also a prolific voice actor, playing Shin on Cowboy Bebop and Knives on Trigun.