The official 2020 death pool
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Bye bye, Mrs Peel.
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Keeping the garage out of this, but wow.
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@Atazhaia never heard of him before I saw stories about him dying.
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@boomzilla
It's been established that you're a bit of a though
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https://www.legacy.com/news/celebrity-deaths/terry-goodkind-1948-2020-best-selling-fantasy-author/
Terry Goodkind, the author who made a bestselling career out of producing blatant knockoffs of The Wheel of Time with the serial numbers filed off and a new coat of grimdark-colored paint, just passed away due to an undisclosed cause.
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@Mason_Wheeler I wouldn't say grimdark. His was more political anvil themed.
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@Mason_Wheeler I gave up reading his stuff due to far too high a rate of blatant pull-out-of-ass events in his writing. Too much deus ex culus and I just stop caring.
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@dkf My personal favorite was at the climax of the one with the evil pacifists when, by doing The Right Thing and aligning his thoughts with the ways of righteousness, he suddenly knows the lost secret to an extremely complicated process that's needed to produce a life-saving antidote to the poison that's killing him.
For a series that makes such a big deal out of its rationalism and its atheism, that looks nothing at all like reasoning and everything like divine revelation...
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One of the Grandsons of the 10th President of the US (1841-1845) died at the age of 95 (a brother is still alive):
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/timesdispatch/name/lyon-tyler-obituary?pid=196886231
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@loopback0 said in The official 2020 death pool:
Taking this opportunity to re-watch old videos, and am reminded at how whack Van Halen videos were. Damn, the 80s were pretty cool.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-sessions-obituary-idUSKBN23K0E9
It's old, but somehow everyone missed it
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@cabrito I think the most cringy moment was when he challenged a psychokinesis hack who was literally just blowing on things to make them move. All he had to do to disprove him was put very light packing peanuts in front of a phone book he'd turn the pages on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZVnaXyu9ug
The guy spends like 15 minutes figuring out how to get this to work, and then makes up bullshit saying the peanuts cause static electricity interference with his powers. I should add this guy got caught fondling kids years later and served a few decades in prison. (The hack, not Randi)
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@The_Quiet_One said in The official 2020 death pool:
I think the most cringy moment was when he challenged a psychokinesis hack who was literally just blowing on things to make them move. All he had to do to disprove him was put very light packing peanuts in front of a phone book he'd turn the pages on.
His real talent must have been that he wouldn't go .
In the commentary of that video they claim that when the styrofoam was brought out the "psychic" actually had tried to move the phonebook pages for 50-90 minutes or so. Imagine having to stare at this sad display and not going "this isn't worth my time".
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@JBert That was in front of a live audience, too. God I hope they got their money back.
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Damn you 2020!
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@e4tmyl33t Shomehow, that shucks more than ushual.
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@dkf I moustache if you feel any shame for such punch.
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@e4tmyl33t said in The official 2020 death pool:
Damn you 2020!
"Zed's dead, baby, Zed's dead."
(Line from a completely unrelated movie that applies here because Zed was the name of Connery's character in "Zardoz".)
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@The_Quiet_One You missed an opportunity:
This beloved host of Jeopardy died at 80 as a result of a long battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Actress Olivia de Havilland died July 26, age 104.
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@El_Heffe said in The official 2020 death pool:
Actress Olivia de Havilland died July 26, age 104.
Wow. She doesn't look one day over 28 in that picture.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The official 2020 death pool:
We shall always remember his greatest accomplishment: Jeopardy for the Sega CD.
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@El_Heffe said in The official 2020 death pool:
Actress Olivia de Havilland died July 26, age 104.
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Also, we should add the Arecibo Observatory to the list of causalties.
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