Personally, I never knew Chia, never talked to him. But I extend my deepest hopes that he will pull through, and remain a prominent member of this tightly woven community. And in the update, it gives the address to send flower. What about i-cards? whats his email so we can send him an i card so he can them when hes better, or now, if he has access to a laptop or something.

cataclysm wrote on Sunday, 12/16/2001 - 5:34 pm:

: My friend and fellow Myth community member, Chia (David
: Pindrys), was recently involved in a serious car accident.
: Driving home from school, he was struck head on by a truck.
:
:
: He was in a coma for a week, and remains in the hospital
: with extended brain damage.
:
: The news report can be found here:
:
:
: http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/archives/2001/dec/1/teenseriously1.htm
:
: I think we, as a community, should do something. But I'm
: not sure what.
:
: Any ideas?

I've been in touch with David's familly and lawyer and am currently setting up www.helpdavidpindrys.com with pertinent info and such. It should be up by tom'w.

Right now, flowers are verboten in the hospital, for various reasons, and no visitors are allowed. He is, for all intents and purposes, still comatose, so gifts of any kind really won't help.

David and his family have a long hard road ahead, but his mother is being very strong in all this and I applaud her for that. I insisted that we send cards or banner to try to make the environment more cheerful, but she herself insisted that it was not necessary....

The short of it is that really the best thing that can be done at this moment is to send money to them. They really really need it. There's a fund that his aunt is setting up that as soon as I clear it with their lawyer, will be featured prominently on the page.

I've know Chia for a while, he's even featured prominently in several Bungie Sightings slideshows. Hell, the man designed my site! We kinda lost touch the last year or so, but every now and then we'd chat on AIM and it was always good to hear how he was doing with his school and aspirations for college. My wife had given him some advice on some schools that had good Art programs, and his mother tearfully told me that he was so looking forward to checking out some colleges besides the ones he had already looked into.

Folks, he only had his license for TWO days. How cruel is that?

Anyway, I've been posting updates over at the mythvillage.com forums, feel free to check over there for any info I may have missed relaying here.

Geez... just drove 2500 miles to get from San Diego to Tampa and now I read this. Not comforting since I'm about to step in the car and drive another 300 to Miami.

This blows. I don't know what I can do right now except for offer my condolences. I'm not having regular computer access, but otherwise I'd be doing whatever I could to help. I'll be checking in and trying to come up with some ideas.

Get well, friend.

Matt Martinez

though I don't know him, I'll be thinking of him.

Drive a few hours and pick one up in the US maybe, im suprised they are only 500 Canadian right now, especially with the exchange rate. I would be guessing it should be 550 or 600 Canadian.

gl trying to find one, but sometimes you just have to dish out the cash, i doubt the price will go down any time soon.

rhino - badlands

Welcome NeoBob.

a little hint on posting and disscussions. when you post, try to do it at a time when people are online and willing to respond, posting it at a time when people aren't will to respond leads to a dead end post in no time.

no I don't know when that is, I'm still trying to figure it out.

the only exception to this rule, is if you flame someone. unless, you flame some one higher on the food chain, say Narcogen. see I can say "HAHA Narcogen SUCKS!!!" and everyone knows that's so redicules that they don't respond :-)

oh yeah, I'm bored....

Earendil

PanZerschreck wrote on Wednesday, 12/19/2001 - 12:37 am:

:
: I am in French, in 9th grade, French I. As I read through
: the fall of reach for the third time, it hit me. :) I
: finally realized Cote D'Azur sounded French ( i guess i just
: never thought about.) So i asked my teacher what it meant.
: It turns out Cote D'Azur is actually a place in France near
: Toulouse, and refers to that area of coastline in France.
: Odd. Wonder if Mr Nylund thought of that when he wrote the
: book. I dont remember Cote D'Azur in the book being near
: water. ?

It's a human colony - we tend to name things to remind us of what we love, or what we left. New England is nothing like England, nor is it surrounded by water. New York is quite different from York. And so on.

Cote D'Azur was probably founded by a spacefaring Frenchman. :)

I'm currently working on helpdavepindrys.com It should be up in another hour or so. I'll make sure that there's a guestbook feature added.

Loren Petrich wrote on Monday, 12/31/2001 - 7:42 pm:

: It's been nearly a year with no news -- does anyone know
: what's happened?

Well, it's been a goodly while, hasn't it? I'm thinking that either Nathan got smart and shut everything up until they had something to show, or the whole project simply vaporized at the first ray of sunlight. Right now I'm leaning towards the latter possibility, since at last report they had a number of designers, story people and "advisors" - including some questionable individuals (who frequently displayed questionable judgement and disreputable behavior) from the small fan community - but not really anyone to do any serious coding. Such an inelegant team composition doesn't produce confidence. Or working titles. They were also looking for funding, IIRC. Startups like that need a wad of cash - because you need to be able to feed yourself (and maybe your family) during the X number of months (or YEARS) where you're still working on that first, profitable product.

It's awfully hard to tell the wannabe groups from the real thing at the earliest stages... I think that there was a certain extra amount of attention that many people paid Nathan and Island Four just because Nathan had been a designer for Halo (pre-acquisition) with Bungie, years ago.

Not that I'm trying to be excessively harsh... but we are attempting to discuss the few facts that were known about an attempt to operate within the real business world. The software development industry is becoming more and more harsh, lean and unforgiving.... hence the extinction of greats like Looking Glass, the acquisition of numberless companies by numberless corporations, and the trend towards lower budgets, tighter schedules and plentiful me-too-formula titles on the market.

p.s. - Amazingly enough, having a Mac is helping to prevent me from having to "sift the wheat from the chaff" myself, since the better and more popular titles tend to be the ones which are ported or developed, cross-platform.