Steel was definitely one of our defining members, holy shit man I feel sick. He was posting just a few months ago, didn't his dad also pass away from cancer? Must be the most horrible time for his family.

And so young he had only the future a head of him but it was cut short by cancer.

I hardly even got the chance to communicate with him, considering I've only joined last year, but never really posted that much until this summer when he wasn't online so much. However, it is sad to see people to fall prey, especially so young.

In some odd way, I figured that poor Patrick Swayze would've died eventually from his cancer, not because I'm a cruel person, but because that's the nature of cancer. That's just how it is. Cancer will kill you in no time unless you have the strength to fight it, but only LUCK will get you through.

All I can say is my condolences go to his family. To those who knew him well as a friend, now is the time to cherish your best memories with him and learn to cope with the pain.

Rest in peace.

This is really awful. Like everyone else I never expected him to actually lose to this, I didn't think that's the kind of thing that'd actually happen.

I'm not really sure what to do with this.

Man, I learned a lot from Amark. He was an extremely levelheaded and insightful guy who was here for me during my gradual transition from an ignorant high school teen to a college student. I've got plenty of AIM conversations saved with him that I figured I would look back on in the future to remind myself of how dumb I was, just for the hell of it. It sickens me; I never imagined that the next time I re-read them, I would be basically examining the memories of an outstanding person.

What you guys have written here is all true. He was an intelligent guy who had selfless plans for the future and was bound to make a difference in the lives of many. Unlike a few of you, this HAS sunk in for me, and the thought of his permanent departure combined with the touching comments is bringing me to near-tears. And I never met the guy.

Velfarre is spot-on. Steel was definitely my #1 motivation for coming here every day. Losing that morsel of hope that he was going to come back and start posting again has made me realize just how empty GW has felt for the past few months.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

He was such a fucking character. I have literally only known 3 people more interesting than Steel, even though I only knew him by words on the internet. It's genuinely absurd that the best guy here had to go first.

As the song says the good die young.

i thought this whole thing was just going to be like one of his breaks and he'd be back and we'd be arguing about stupid crap again, goku vs superman or whatever. i feel like ash ketchum if gary oak died, like he wasn't a RIVAL or anything but i guess he was competition and i think he made a lot of us GROW.
"come on guys, you can do better than this," and we did. thanks steel.

fuck.

jesus christ.

This is absolutely horrible. I just decided to lurk some at the forums today and the first thing I saw was this. I can't say I always agreed with steel's opinions but I most definitely respected him and thought he was one of the most defining members of GW, especially throughout the last couple of years. I will definitely miss him, and even though I didn't speak to him that much, I still feel really really shitty right now.

This is really awful. After he stopped posting and Sredni stopped updating I guess I thought deep down that this was just a FEINT so he could surprise us with good news and that any day he'd suddenly pop up and say that the cancer was in full remission and he was feeling better already. Even now on some level I'm expecting him to post AHAHA NAH JUST FUCKING WITH YA *relieved laughter from all comers, whistling, roll credits*. I never really talked to him outside the forums but I still learned a lot from the dude and as pathetic as it might be to take life lessons away from gaming forum I respected him a hell of a lot and he was a big factor in trying to hold myself to some higher standards of behavior than being gross rpgmaker nerd #55709. The fact that like velfarre said the whole forum kinda died when he stopped posting is testament to his personality.

this is so fucked up

I mean you read about all the shit he's gone through and had to deal with growing up. Plus the months of cancer and surgery and then this happens, this is so terrible.

I know this sounds bad but I feel that if I hadn't read what this guy had to say on here and teach people, even if unintended. I'd be alot less thoughtful and more of a stupider person.

he was also the funniest guy on here no doubt

This is so terribly sad.
Since this topic started I always feared this could happen, and tried to stay relatively away from it because I knew it would affect me less that way, but I can't believe he died this young.... I don't know what to say.
The only thing I can remember is something that my dad told me when I was younger and I lost a friend, that instead of thinking what could have been if he was alive and all the things that he and everyone will miss, it's better to think and remember the good times he/we had. For us that didn't really know him outside of the forums it might only be a funny post or story, but for those that knew him better at least they have much more to remember...
This has made me pretty damn sad even though I never actually talked to him directly, but reading about his health all along in this topic made me (and probably all of us) much closer to him.

i will remember the good times, bro. i do not know what his favorite song is but, i will play hotel california tonight in his honor.

no fair

he was a quality guy

no fair

man it is the simplest phrase and yet this is exactly how i feel right now

i feel like shouting NO FAIR at god

he was a huge factor in shaping the mentality of GW and all the people in it, and as catamites said he tought people (maybe indirectly as well as anything) to not be the standard forum nerd and step up your game a notch. a truly remarkable and inspirational person.

you will be sorely missed