thank you for all the time i had ever spent talking to you and thank you for the memories. as sad as this day is i do have 2 very fond memories of you. one is not so nice but it made me realize how fucked up the world is because some idiots were picking on you at SHGL and i had to punk em up, but the second one is on a much lighter note where you talked in irc about eating out some “older lady” rofl…
again, sorry to seem rude by trying to lighten up an ever so sad day but may you rest in peace and hope everyone in your family can find peace aswell.
I just found out through Omni what went down. Man i dont think i can say it better than most of the other guys here but this comes as a complete shock to me. I remember talking to him back in iRC in good ol channel #duma with all the other marvel kids and shit as well in #capcom. Sad just the other day i was going through old logs i had saved from iRC from 2000-2004 and old pics i had from SHGL and b5 when he was around with the rest of the heads. He was cool as fuck and he will be missed. RIP Dasrik , you will be missed.
I will always remember the beatings and the knowledge he gave me back during the Pentland/PSM days as well as his reasoning for playing a one-eyed one-armed woman back in the early GGXX days.
You know there is nothing really for me to say, other than the fact that I would say thanks for all the good times we had. Journey well Ricky, and we’ll meet up again mayyyne. So till that day my friend… and Jose if you need anything, hit your old boy up.
I have to say, I’m still in shock. At one point, I remember Rick faking his death on the forum, and for a short while I believed it, until I talked with him on IRC not too long ago. I asked him if he was ok since he’d always complain about dialysis like Joe said, and so far he said it was good. This can’t have been no more than 2 months ago.
He was one of the first people I met in Cali when I went there for the first time in 2002. I remember going to SHGL and much like everyone who met him, I was shocked when I first saw him. Such a little guy. I knew about the health problems from talks in IRC but I didn’t know they would leave him so weak. But like Jay said, he never let it get him down in person.
Rick will always be a fighter, no matter where he is. I consider myself extremely lucky to have met him.
I think the worst part of all of this for me is that, whenever I go to Evo now, there’s one less face to be looking out for, and it’s a familiar one that was very nice to me the first time I ever went out of Puerto Rico to go play some games, and that face will definitely be missed.
After 8 pages I had to stop reading. For someone I do not know personally AT ALL, aside from reading his posts for years, this is somehow pretty emotional to me. It’s like when you take a celebrity death to heart. But you know what…? Dasrik was our celebrity! I usually don’t post in these threads, but I read his brother’s thread and read most of this and felt the need to post something. I genuinely liked the guy.
No, we are a community connected by a fighting spirit. No matter what there is always a respect for the spirit of battle in all our member. We are SRK, in dead, all our warriors will have our respect. I respect all my opponents, they are my brothers. I respect Dasrik’s spirit. I feel emotions for anyone who shared in my passion and can no longer join the struggle. I love Street Fighter. We all do.
