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i love newgrounds' sense of community. the rise and downfall of many a artist is documented with these posts, where anyone can add their two cents, usually in either blind support or senseless indignation. its a continual reminder that real people run this site through and through, and in the end we're all just flitting by to get a bid of attention.

that sounds really bitter, but i'm genuinely pleased that the site is the way it is, and that its not cold and aloof enough to not care about mentioning the people that make/have made it what it is.

a memorial page of sorts, despite how i'm sure people will figure out how to take a digital piss on digital graves, still sounds like a good idea.

i'm actually writing up a goodbye doc for someone to post on my page when i'm gone

How did he die? :(

omg that's so sad

Awww! I get sad when I think of how long Newgrounds will last and how all the people I know here will eventually be gone... :(((

RIP Ben

Awww. I trust you will make a wonderful collab in his honor, Tom and everyone else involved.

Rest in Peace, Ben.

I didn't know him personally, but I was all too familiar with his work. I literally grew up watching it. It would be fair to say his stuff was one of many that truly inspired me to take up Flash. I only recently discovered he was also a musician, which had me even more impressed. So sad to see such an amazing talent pass.

RIP Ben.

Even today, his Pimp's Quest is an opus to contemporary status.

Goodbye Ben! It's been real.

Does MC shoots up too? I wonder why nothing new if coming up on NG.. chat is "delayed", Pico 2 is "upcoming"
YOU GUYS STOP SNORTING SPEEDBALLS AND DO SOMETHING ELSE OTHER THAN PIERCING YOUR BALLS

Well, I can't say I knew him... or really, anyone who knew him here...

I can say I'm sad for his mother, and other family...but I personally have no pity for someone who's life ends because of a choice like drugs...

It was inevitable so...To the family; I'm sorry your son had to go out like that. To the man himself?... I hope you get another chance to make things right.

man... I cant believe this at all, it seems impossible to me. his work is amazing and has been inspiring to me ever since I started coming here, way back in the day.

seems like the good really do die young..

We will miss you, Ben, very much :(

I may not be very active in the NewGrounds community these days, but I remember Stick Slayer being one of the first series I saw when I started coming here.
It's never nice when someone of such creativity and friendliness is no longer with us.

Are you serious? Wow, can't believe it. I barely heard of hij but it's so sad to hear a fellow Newgrounder pass away at such a young age. R.I.P Newgrounds will miss you. :'(

i can't believe ben is dead..pimp's quest was an excellent game and yet there will be no sequel maybe someone should do one in memory.

Sad to read this, rest in peace. Hopefully you have Newgrounds access wherever you are now..

Well, I hope we don't honor Jeff Weise.

Ben was my friend. I'm proud to say so.

Ben's final Facebook status message to the world, a week before he passed.

"Good luck, bad luck, good news, bad news. Hooray for life!!"

We should all live with such an outlook. Shit, I'm gonna miss him.

FUUUUUUUUCK
After winning an iPod from school fundraiser, And going to the best birthday party ever, I come onto newgrounds and find that ben is dead.
Fuck.
:(
R.I.P.

R.I.P Ben.

At 10/23/09 06:36 PM, tally1989 wrote: How did he die? :(

Heroin overdose :/

I felt really sad when I saw his mums page...of all drugs he had to overdose on heroin.

i have never seen this guys work

still this is very sad

R.I.P. Ben

"Winners don't use drugs" well apparently they do :S

R.I.P, I would pay respects with the collab, but I ain't such an old user, so I'm probably not eligible.

Once again sorry to hear about the loss, i saw some of his flashes, he had something going for him :(

:-(

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What a horrible way to go.

My condolences..

At 10/23/09 04:24 PM, TomFulp wrote: As some of you may have seen on the Stick Slayer page and MindChamber's post, NG has lost a beloved artist.

Ben Spurgin (ben-spurgin and benspurgin) made his Flash debut in 2000 and became an NG celeb with his Stick Slayer series. Ben's joy of animating was infectious and inspired many artists to follow in the same path.

Ben was back at it almost a decade later, with Stick Slayer IX on the way. He was only 31.

Our thoughts are with Ben's Mom and family. Losing a loved one is never easy.

So sad to have to lose a loved one so tragically for any family and friends especially coming up to holidays when it's the time of year to take a little time off from our hectic work lives, school/college or even military deployment to spend some precious moments to reconnect with those we love.

I intend for NG to last the next 100 years!

Oh yeah!

*salutes*

May future NG leaders who get the torch (welder?) passed down to them (be they Fulp or otherwise) continue to reach ever higher new-grounds; discovering/saluting the unique independent animators, musicians, programmers and artists/writers with each passing year.

Although many NG users ultimately move along they will always leave an impact, however big or small with their contributions to this site.

All the best to the amazing NG team as 2009 slowly begins to wrap up!

What wonderful surprises can we NG users except to see in 2010?

I know I will be logged in to find out!

At 10/23/09 05:26 PM, deathhold333 wrote: wow, what is too be done with his account?

Nothing, they would just leave it alone, like Livecorpse.

That really sucks, I enjoyed his Stick Slayer movies and even emailed him once or twice years ago when I was planning on making a flash with a similar idea, just to see if he minded, he seemed like a pretty cool guy. I never did make that movie in the end.

R.I.P.

man that sucks....this is also the day my grandma died....

At 10/23/09 04:31 PM, Lizzardis wrote: Rest in peace.

May I ask...How did he die?

He died of a drug overdose. :'(

Thats some very sad news.
R.I.P. Ben.