Be Excellent To Each Other

Very sorry to hear this news.

Oh man, his minecraft stuff...

I didn't know Owen that well, other than crossing paths on here and WoS, and whilst playing Minecraft and Wii Animal Crossing online, but he always came across as a credit to our community. My thoughts are with his family.

I would very willingly to chip in if we get a collection going.

Sorry to hear this sad news.

Very sad to hear this. Had known The Rev somewhat online for almost a decade. Always good for a laugh, and his marriage seemed to have made him blissfully happy. RIP.

The border is a nice touch but can we pin this? Student fees debate shouldn't be above it, nor should anything really.

I've made a brief post on WoS. Hope no one minds.

Terrible, terrible news. My thoughts are with his family and friends.

Heh, that's my most popular & interesting picture on flickr. Everyone loves Owen

Whenever I see a pic of him I immediately think "Terry Pratchett"! They both have a penchant for epic head wear, I think.

I can hardly believe this, it's just awful.

My last tweet to him before I went to work this morning ended with get well soon
WTF !! FUCK FUCK FUCK !!

I didn't really get a chance to meet Owen, but he was an absolutely awesome guy, a real gent. I knew him (as much as you can through the internet) back in the old Dead Journal days and I'm sad that he's no longer around in fact I'm pretty devastated. I am glad however that I got to read about his relationship with Patience and just how happy in life he was.

Like Zio, I can't make the cottage but would very much like to be part of anything that is done to remember one of the good guys.

He did have shockingly lax taste in movies, and was a particular fan of Star Wars, so maybe you could have a lightsabre salute to him, or do a marathon watch of all six SW movies

I can't believe he's gone. It's funny how real a virtual presence can take and it must be all the more shocking as it unites a close knit group of people in here. Owen was a very gentle, sweet, intelligent and kind man. He's one of the few people I've encountered regularly on the internet over the last 12 or so years that I never disagreed with. Sure, I wound him up on time to time when he couldn't see flaws in a particular movie or he eulogised about a particular game. But that was him. Cut him in half, and like a stick of rock he would have fairness and forgiveness running through him. He was a fucking sweetheart and maintained a child like devotion to simple pleasures. There was no artifice or sophistry and in the virtual sense he epitomised a gold standard in the virtual world. WYSIWYG. People like him are rare and they deserve to be remembered well. RIP Owen, truly man, rest. in. peace.

I've always thought that, too. I thought I was alone.

Very well said, that man. It sounds silly but just by knowing him on here, WoS and Twitter he came across as a genuinely bloody lovely bloke.

Really sad to hear this awful news. His family are in my thoughts.

He helped me out loads when I went to see Harry Hill in February. He'd been a few weeks before so he gave me advice on what time to get there and such like.. He seemed like a damn nice guy and even alerted me to the Tardis inside BBC studios.... and all this through Twitter.

Horrible news. He was an excellent poster and always seemed like a top chap. Thoughts are with Patience!

R.I.P.

Well said David

So, so sorry to hear this.

We shared a few sneaky lunchtime minecraft sessions with a non boss-telling pact. Castle Rev is a fantastic place and will be a lasting memory of a great man.

My thoughts are with Patience and her family

Just heard via the #digi grapevine and thought this would probably be best place to say anything at all.

My interactions with him are all sadly well in the past, from alt.digitiser, occasionally #digi and the uk games newsgroups, and via deadjournal. In a way it's bad I only ever knew him from that era when while he wasn't exactly miserable continually, he wasn't ever as happy as he appears to have been more recently, reading through this thread. I suppose the only comfort to be found from my limited knowledge of his recent life is he had found love and was happy at the end of his life, but his life ended far too soon. There are very few people I ever talk to online that I've met in person, and I'm glad Owen was one of them, he was a genuinely nice bloke. It's still a massive shock to hear he's passed away. Just like to leave my condolences here, should they be of any use to anyone.

Oh man, this is so sad RIP dude x

RIP Rev.

I can always remember his contributions to that game Grim... made, where you started a story and you had two choices which you made up as you went along. Rev Owen's contributions stood out and were genuine laugh out loud funny [link anyone, I can't find it?].

Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine et lux perpetua luceat eis. Exaudi orationem meam. Kyrie eleison. Requiem sempiternam. In paradisum deducant te angeli.

A truly, truly, sad and bitter loss for a man who, exemplified, above all others how to Be Excellent.

I'm raising a beer to you tonight, good Rev, and dearly hope you know how many people you made so, so very happy.

The fund is now at $2500. Hopefully Patience will have her mum with her soon.

I'm tired, so I am going to sign out for the night, and raise a glass of something strong and beardy to Owen.

i am sorry to hear about this. My thoughts go out to his family..

That made me cry a wee bit again. I think both their families will feel very proud to know that Owen had so many great friends. I'm having a drink for him right now.

Feel like I've been kicked in the stomach and I've never met the fella. Known him on-line for more years than I care to remember going back to alt.digi, ugvm, wos and here.

The world is a much shitter place without him around.

Such terrible news, don't really know what to say, feeling pretty gutted to be honest.

His wife has had such a tulmutuos year already, but they were just getting it together with her visa and whatnot.. ffs.



only a couple of years older than me too

RIP

Malc

After Joans managed to put potatos on the hob, then filled the oven with chips too I sent him to the shop for wine. I think it says a lot about Owen that his passing has affected even those that never met him IRL.

I think a toast to him at the weekend is definitly in order.

Samuel L Jackson found weeping outside The Rev's house.

(it's an a.d thing)

Fuck.

The Excellence Per Head of Europe just plummeted.

Just seen this on the Rav fourms so thought I would keep you updated and give Mimi a wee break;

It looks like her Mom, Dad and brother are coming over if they can get emergency passports/visas/time off work.

*crosses everything for them*

I hardly knew him but he clearly was a lovely bloke, this is very very sad. Reading all this makes you realise how many peoples' lives he enriched.

Fuck.

This is awful news

Condolences to all his friends and family, poor, poor Patience, I cannot think what she's going through but it makes my heart ache so much trying to imagine. She really should have her mum with her as soon as possible.

I will be adding a donation from both Ramsea and I, he's in Zurich with only mobile internet atm but I've text him the news, he's gutted too.

Fuck.

Really sorry to hear this awful news. He seemed like a genuinely nice guy and 37 is no kind of age to go.

RIP Owen. A bloody lovely man.

I know it's going to tear me up when his resignation in Words With Friends comes through in a couple of weeks.

I hope this isn't somehow an insensitive question, but how did this happen, do we know? He was having trouble breathing last night from his tweets

Well, I donated to the fund for the folks, it seems better to keep it all at that link I guess.

Been wandered around his minecraft buildings (till the game started crashing every time)...

Yeah, a few of us put flowers or torches in his cave. Seems weird, the amount of stuff people leave behind nowadays.

Yes he has been been having breathing difficulties for a few days, these were unfortunately signs of heart pains & something worse to come

Fuck. RIP Owen. Again, its amazing how never meeting someone you can be so thrown about their passing. I'll he raising a glass for him and his family tonight. Thoughts with his family

Bloody hell. Can't say I knew him well apart from his posts here, but he always seemed so enthusiastic about his family and a really nice guy. So sad, particularly at such a young age.

Only known him briefly from here, mainly through Mafia Scum and more recently his castle of fun in Minecraft, but he was truly a most excellent fellow, and will be sorely missed...


*salute*

Very weird, and aye, I put one next to crasters, oustide where he had signed his name.