RIP Nick "Oxossi" Coppola

[Jb_]

I just watched a a video from dec 10th when he went missing, and they said he was apart of a religious cult in the area. Thats kinda creepy.

[Cnile]

Very sad news R.I.P Ox

[Narc]

RIP das_w00t

Knew this guy from beta days. Always nice to me, sad to see this happen to him, and to think the last day he was seen was my b-day, I'll remember this for life.

[mg_]

Who has his account now in WoW because the name still comes online but it isn't obviously him Creeping my shit out.

[Aether]

You might be seeing Ian Gilmore playing on his SC2 account. I don't think his WoW account is active, but he gave Ian his Starcraft account a couple of days before he disappeared.

For the people who are thinking that he was murdered, we don't know for sure what happened yet, but at the moment what seems most likely is that he froze to death in a blizzard during the winter. Again, we don't know for sure yet, but from what I know this seems like the most likely scenario.

[mg_]

You might be seeing Ian Gilmore playing on his SC2 account. I don't think his WoW account is active, but he gave Ian his Starcraft account a couple of days before he disappeared.

For the people who are thinking that he was murdered, we don't know for sure what happened yet, but at the moment what seems most likely is that he froze to death in a blizzard during the winter. Again, we don't know for sure yet, but from what I know this seems like the most likely scenario.

Ugh, this is all just sad. :/

[stevehisey_]

i remember one of the matches he played with us (jetty) on chemille back in the CAL days... we decided to wear our tags and names backwards like this "yesih YTTEJ"

nick had his name as "tnuc YTTEJ" and he played the entire match with his flashlight on...

[scorch-]

I think that most of Nick's friends and family have been preparing for this moment for a while now. Even though I wanted to believe this was just Nick being spontaneous and reaching for something that he wanted, the longer the search dragged on, the more difficult it became to believe that one day he would show up with a story. I can't feel that there's anything good about this news, but at least Nick's family can give up the search and deal with their grief head-on.

Nick was probably the nicest person I've met in the past decade. He talked a lot of shit and never gave someone the disrespect of false courtesy, but when it came time for action you could see just how much he cared about everyone around him. Those that knew him personally should be able to attest to it.

When I think of Nick, I remember him as I met him in Dallas, with a smile on his face and a pink dildo in his hand - ready to create laughter with the next person he met, weary from traveling across states and nations to play video games. I'm not sure if it came easily for him, but I never had a hard time laughing with him.

I remember how he traveled all the way to San Diego to play in a silly DoD tournament thousands of miles away and years after we had stopped playing the game. And how, even though he was suffering from serious back pain, he found time to buy wrestling cards and a ridiculously tiny pink t-shirt for my birthday.

I remember how he would valiantly defend his honor every time I jokingly accused him of cheating against us in a match on Chemille. I was an idiot for that. Nick loved competition and he loved beating other people at games, but it was always fun because he knew that whoever won, they had both tried as hard as they could.

I remember that he played games like no one I had seen before. Mousepad behind his monitor, eyes inches away from his screen. And how fast was he? Nick was talented. Whether you liked him or not, there was never an argument about how good he was. He was fearsome to play against and great to play with. Teams rose and fell with how well he was playing on any given day.

I wish that I had known Nick outside of games and ventrilo, but I didn't. I feel blessed to have known him at all. I hope that if there's a heaven, Nick will be there to greet us all with a smile on his face.

[cassinoroyale]

whoah scorch... what a one-of-a-kind friendship story...

its always sad to lose someone you really like whether he or she being a friend or relative.

RIP and godspeed for their parents dealing with the pain