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Post by yeahchris on May 9, 2014 20:45:46 GMT
Hello all, I'm sure that most of our regulars have been following recent threads documenting GeebsTweeker's (aka Shawna's) battle with cancer and declining health. Recent revelations are forcing me to come out today and break to you all some awkward news. Namely, it appears as though Shawna probably isn't actually a real person. We were contacted by Shadow's wife, who was (naturally) a little bit curious as to who this person was that Shadow was so close to, having text chats with ( as per this thread), and going to visit without her knowing anything about it. Subsequent to this, she asked him, and he stated that GT3D was in fact his alternate account. After looking at what IP addresses and Computer IDs have been connecting to Shadow's and GT3D's forum and game accounts, we can say with an extremely high degree of certainty that they are in fact the same person. Especially once you take into consideration that Geeb's forum avatar seems to have been painted by Shadow's wife. She also confirmed that he didn't leave town on the date he went to visit her. Awkward though this news may be to break, it's only fair that you all should know that you were likely misled, as the outpouring of well wishes and emotion for Shawna's situation was genuine. Now that that's done, we can all get back to playing videogames.
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Post by sgtsammac on May 9, 2014 20:50:49 GMT
Well ain't that a kick to the head...
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Post by Leore on May 9, 2014 20:50:51 GMT
Well then. That escalated quickly.
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Post by Rusty Shackleford on May 9, 2014 20:58:41 GMT
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Post by gollee on May 9, 2014 20:59:30 GMT
That is low. Very damn low.
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Post by gt3d on May 9, 2014 21:00:21 GMT
this is the wife. i was was easily able to get onto "shawnas" account. im sorry for the troubles this has caused.
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Post by Mewoykyinuis on May 9, 2014 21:13:35 GMT
Okay. I know I am mostly in a joking manner at times, but this strikes close. Before everybody attacks me, this is directed to Shadow himself.
A long time ago, I did something similar to this. It was more of a way to get out of an awkward situation I was in, but I still faked cancer. Looking back, it was a really fucked up thing to do, because I just left without warning. The people I knew as friends, they thought I had died, and since then, I've lost touch with them, and I don't even know if they'd want to talk to me.
Basically, Shadow, I don't know what your motive for this was, or even if you're still listening. I can only hope, whatever you do, please do not do this in the future, because you do not know the repercussions of your actions.
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Post by frances on May 9, 2014 21:23:52 GMT
Okay. I know I am mostly in a joking manner at times, but this strikes close. Before everybody attacks me, this is directed to Shadow himself. A long time ago, I did something similar to this. It was more of a way to get out of an awkward situation I was in, but I still faked cancer. Looking back, it was a really fucked up thing to do, because I just left without warning. The people I knew as friends, they thought I had died, and since then, I've lost touch with them, and I don't even know if they'd want to talk to me. Basically, Shadow, I don't know what your motive for this was, or even if you're still listening. I can only hope, whatever you do, please do not do this in the future, because you do not know the repercussions of your actions. I have actually seen people fake cancer and other assorted illnesses fairly regularly in my years of internet-going (And somehow, the word always comes out. Why is it always cancer, though?) I don't really have much to say, but I still felt like chiming in - I feel unfazed and unsurprised by this, although it might be the pessimist in me talking. There's really not much to do in situations like these; while most of them are a cry for attention from a younger member of a community and are thus somewhat excusable as mistakes of youth (really, most people faking illnesses or self-harm I've encountered were in their early teenage years), this is sort of a more depressing example because (as far as I'm aware) Geebs/Shadow is a full grown adult :I So yeah, I don't know. I guess one good thing that came out of this is that we saw how tightly knit the community here can be, and I gotta say that I really really appreciate what you guys did, even if it was in vain. Other than that, I don't think there's much left to say here.
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Post by farcry11 on May 9, 2014 21:27:22 GMT
... Well then.
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Post by halorocks22 on May 9, 2014 21:33:41 GMT
um..
ok
To be honest, it seemed a little suspicious to me from the beginning. It sucks that this was a lie to get some attention.
EDIT: nontehlass we didnt du notheing rong by beliebing in shadow so ja we did gute thing ist gute
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Post by tuiee on May 9, 2014 21:43:17 GMT
The amount of love and fellowship present in this community astounded me, regardless of the false nature of "Shawna's" predicament.
Let he who is blameless cast the first stone. I have no right to judge Shadow for this, but I would like to commend the player base for coming together to support what we perceived to be an ailing friend.
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Post by VoltageHero on May 9, 2014 21:45:08 GMT
Well, okay. I mean, it was a pretty annoying thing to do, but it happened, and Shadow most likely won't be coming back on after finding out we found out.
I'm just hoping that he doesn't try to blame his wife for this.
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Post by yeahchris on May 9, 2014 21:50:01 GMT
um.. ok To be honest, it seemed a little suspicious to me from the beginning. It sucks that this was a lie to get some attention. There were red flags, yes. I probably could've figured this out earlier if I had just listened more to my cynicism, but at the end of the day I want to believe in the goodness of people and give the benefit of the doubt, and so it carried on.
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Post by Rusty Shackleford on May 9, 2014 22:46:49 GMT
It's rather sad how I am always skeptical about these kinds of things. Too bad I turn out to be right in most cases. Oh well.
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Post by Covert0ddity on May 9, 2014 23:15:05 GMT
That's... low.
That's really low. I can't believe I actually spent time worrying about someone. That was fake.
I've never actually witness this happen on any community I was apart of. It's left an odd, empty, lied too, spit upon, used feeling in my gut, even though the only thing I extended to Geebs was, in fact, some good words.
People confuse me. They do. This is why I am an antisocial, it's because people would be sick enough to manipulate the entire feelings of a tightly-knit together server, like us. And to what end? How long would it have gone?
Lesigh.
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Post by deatacita on May 10, 2014 3:28:52 GMT
This makes me sad D:
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Post by robotik on May 10, 2014 3:45:48 GMT
As much as I hate to say this, I knew there was something fishy the moment when the questions were being answered rather quickly by shadow. Just as shocked as you folks are that someone would actually do this..
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Post by Nightmare on May 10, 2014 6:01:11 GMT
*scratches his head* Right
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Post by Dalekfodder on May 10, 2014 8:59:40 GMT
geebstwerker twerked us.
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Post by forgottentraveller on May 10, 2014 10:53:49 GMT
This made me feel hollow in my middle.
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