The Community Spotlight - 07/05/2013

To Ryan. I never met you, but I loved you.

my short ryan davis story, tucked away on the internet

and what might honestly be the hardest part of all this for me, put into quote form because it's a forum post elsewhere

fuck.....

my little brother and I have listened to bombcasts together for well over a year now. he has anxiety and a learning disability and just a really hard time dealing with life sometimes but he loves the bombcast and giantbomb. it's the only game site he's ever looked at ('cause I RAISE KIDS RIGHT, YO)

ryan was one of his straight up favorite guys and he talked about wanting to meet him at E3 one day and wanting to cover games and DO that because of the stuff ryan would put out on the website and how funny he seemed and how himself he always was

he's at scout camp until sunday and was having a hard time so he called me tonight and we were talking and he said "hey is there a new bombcast? i wanna listen when i come home with you, i miss you"

i don't know how to tell a 12 year old ryan davis is gone.

I didn't do this, but @cesson done a lovely pixel art on the FTB server, I'm not sure if Ryan would appreciate being made out of wool or not but he will always bring us laughter and good times, as long as his influence lives on.

^took about an hour to type that, words don't really work at times like this.

The saddest Costco trip I've ever taken.

These guys pushed me into studying journalism, for which I can never thank them enough. Ryan Davis helped me choose my major. He helped me choose my college. He helped change my life, and give me direction when I needed it most. I imagine he's had that influence on many others besides me, and he'll never know.

That's the worst part.

I'll miss you.

So much goodwill for Ryan out there, they need to make a movie of his life.

I'm getting the ball rolling.

A short little montage I felt compelled to do during the worst part of grieving. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7CPBEhTTc0

I don't know if more "I'm so sad" words are what you're looking for, particularly from someone who hardly gets involved in the community. But I felt compelled to write a blog. Personally I'd love to see them all shared in one place - being able to read what Ryan meant to different people will help put into perspective what kind of guy he was and the legacy that he'll leave.

One of my favorite Giant Bomb moments. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOI4XJecOc0

I feel like Jeff's prophecy must come true. In this time of sadness, we will rise up and offer the stupidest things possible in the hopes of bringing even the slightest smile to the crew and community.

In that spirit, I made this dumb/beautiful image as thoroughly described by Jeff in the memorial Bombcast.

In honor of Ryan...

It was hard to get my words onto the paper (or screen, in this instance), but I tried:
http://rmack.tumblr.com/post/55078225284

I wrote a little something. Hope it's alright. http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/gbrading/blog/memory-motel/102004/

Flying Ryan, what I want to think he is doing. Drew this last night.

Right, the custom sign was finished this morning, so put the portrait up, and also planted some more flowers :)

A lot of nice blog entries and stuff here guys, really nice to see. :)

Man.. gonna miss the guy :/

@zombiepie said:

It's all good. I understand.

I made an art tribute thing for Ryan.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/sanj/blog/baller-time-art-thing-thanks-ryan/102091/

@spellbot5000: it really gets me that Chris Rock is playing Patrick, haha

Here's my dumb blog post that doesn't begin to describe the ways in which he impacted my life, and how much I miss that man.

http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/snail/blog/it-was-so-much-more-than-just-the-laughs/101953/

Wrote a bit about Ryan, doing something for him tonight: http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion-30/sending-ryan-davis-into-space-1444635

I wrote about why people shouldn't feel embarrassed for grieving over a man they may have never met... And also made these for New Leaf:

As always, my blog.

<- This newbie here wrote this Thank You Ryan Davis

Also, this isn't a picture of Ryan or an art tribute, but some really dumb figure posing I did during my break at work. Iron Man, Queensbury Rules, I post it in hopes that it's something dumb that some of you may get a laugh at.

It's featured in the Bomb Shelter, but in case you missed it here's my blog entry.

And here's that Miiverse sketch again.

Still found time for a regular blog this week. It's going to feel a little out of place next to all these obits, though. If anyone's idea of levity is a 2500 word blog about a fourteen year old PC RPG, go have at it.

The next spotlight is going to be amazing.

The latest Spotlight is up here.