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"Once you've gotten hooked on Descent
it's like a drug,
each time you find yourself wanting the rush to be even better"
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Dedicated
to
Robert
Berzins
7/10/65 - 7/2/99 |
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Artist Unknown
To Robert Berzins, may your memory continue as long as
there is a Descent'r!
Thanks Robert for all your help and assistance!
I had started this work shortly after Roberts passing and
thing in my own life were devastating, I have lost much
correspondence between Robert and myself that I originally
planned to us to so how hard that man worked for us!
KoolBear
Below are pages that I had originally intended to have
links to but they are no longer working url's.
At least I did capture these to let those of you that may
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| 7/6/99 |
| Hi, everyone.
I should inform you that Robert Berzins,
Interplay's Grand Webmaster, died this weekend in
a motorcycle accident.
He will be missed.
I don't have anything to add to that.
-Colin
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Author Unknown
This site is dedicated to Robert Berzins, who was my roommate,
friend and my family. Interplay's Grandwebmaster (interplay.com),
he displayed his brilliance on their website. His heart,
however is on his personal site www.copesetic.com.
On July 3, 1999, his life was taken in a motorcycle accident.
There isn't a formula to calculate the long-range effect
an individual can have on history, but I assure you this:
The world won't ever be the same because he lived. For that?
I love and thank him! But sadly, it will always lack a substance
for we were cut off from his lifeblood prematurely.
Buster, his 9-yr. traveling companion, and I miss him
deeply! (Arlene, he would be so proud if he could see us
now!)
 
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Posted by Big Kahuna
(Ranked on staff Ladder) on July 06, 1999 at 12:22:11:
I wanted today to tell you of the passing of a man who
has helped myself and Case's Ladder along over the past
several years.
His name is Robert Berzins and he was the Webmaster for
Interplay, he was also what I would consider
a friend. I first met Robert several years ago when I had
a network game store. Robert above all else loved to play
games. He truly personified the gamer in our computer industry.
He understood the value of community game play, he also
was one hell of a Webmaster, if you got to Interplays website,
that was Robert in every way, he was the bridge between
corporate business and the gamer. If you see the Descent
3 competition for $50K, well, I want you to know that Robert
was instrumental in putting that together. He knew what
players wanted and he also knew how to get them what they
needed. Today is a sad day for both myself and Case's Ladder.
Robert passed away this weekend, doing what he loved best,
playing games. He was in a motorcycle accident in the desert.
I want to say to his family, his friends, his co-workers
and gamers everywhere that our world was both brightened
with his life and has been darkened with his passing
Frank Westall
Case's Ladder
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he tried to get me to go to burning man every year.
he used to tease me for being a mac person, i used
to tease him for being laid back.
when he started in web, he called me, i was about
2 days ahead of him. i told him what i could and
we swapped ideas for the next year. we were infants
together in this medium.
he tried to lure me away from my wretched employer.
instead, i sent him all my people. and complained
to him, which he was always willing to listen to.
he helped me nurse this passion in my life.
he eventually gave me a job when i wasn't sure what
do with myself.
i'm not sure what to do with these memories.
sometimes we went for a long time without speaking....
but, i always felt that we had each other's backs.
i think he felt that way too. he was always good
at having more confidence in me than i did. but
that was robert's trick, this quiet wonderful support
he gave people because in a casual way he understood
the best in them. and if you were willing to hear,
that understanding could bring it out in you. he
was a friend, but he was also the first person i
ever thought of as a collegue as well. that means
a lot to me. when i think of the phrase 'good people'
he comes to mind, always has.
and i was just thinking we could go to burning man
this year.
fuck.
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