Haha I didn’t know I was known as Scary Tom. It was nice seeing you and lots of familiar faces too but too bad under these circumstances.
Never met Dasrik face to face, but I remember his posts from back in the early SRK days lurking the forums. The man always had something relevant and informative to say. He will be missed. RIP man.
RIP and condolences to his family & friends.
Y’know, I would post up the newest installments of the Dogface Shows and next thing I’d know, Dasrik would take some throwaway joke of mine and make some subtle comment or take it to the next level. He was capable of seeing something inside the box, and outside the box, and also understand human nature and call people out on it.
I never really *knew *him, except for his SRK personality. But in some ways, that’s one of the most personal ways to know someone in this world. Here, we get to be who we want to be. Some are helpful, others are assholes. But Dasrik, what I liked about him, is he expected the best out of you. And if you didn’t give your best to a post, or a comment, he called you out on it.
I want to thank him for bringing out the best in us. The people that do that are really rare, and when they cross your life, it’s a real blessing to know that an idea or thought you had was initiated by the questions of someone operating at a higher level. Someone who wanted to bring you to his level, so you could see the world the way he saw it.
Thank you and R.I.P Ricardo “Dasrik” LaFaurie. My condolences to the family. And thank you to Joe ZaZa for giving us the full story and letting us in. Your brother will be missed.
My condolences.
R.I.P. Dasrik.
Too young to know who Dasrik is. That being said, Rest in Peace.
I only knew Dasrik from SRK, RIP and my regards to all his family and friends on their loss.
i remember countless posts from him and I have learned so much from his posts. Even now prayer goes out to his family RIP Dasrik.
Wow. Someone told me about this a few days ago.
I knew Rick only through SRK and through AIM. For awhile we talked a lot, but I hadn’t spoken to him for a few years. We never got the chance to meet up, I dunno the last time everyone else met up with him but it had to be after I spoke to him last since I remember SF4 wasn’t out yet. He mentioned the dialysis and other procedures that were going on with him and like others have said, he didn’t really let on about it. But if you know anything about these procedures you know how draining they are and how intensive this stuff is. But that’s the type of guy he was, he wasn’t going to sit there and let you pity him or anything, he was much too strong for that. I did want to meet up with him but I remember him saying he didn’t want me to see him the way he was at one time. But I figured he must have gotten a bit better since I heard about him being at Evo so I figured it wasn’t an issue anymore. But of course it was always there, he just hid it from me just like he hid it from everyone else.
We talked a lot about a lot of things. He was a spiritual guy and he knew a lot of things that he could talk about in depth. He told me this brilliant creation story that I don’t remember but to this day I don’t know if he made it up or got it from another source, it was just brilliant and I really remember enjoying it. I was thinking about it just awhile ago and wanted to ask him next time I saw him online or even log onto SRK, but now obviously that’s just another memory I have of him and I can’t talk to the guy ever again.
I’ll miss the guy. And I hope he is in peace now, free of all the pain he constantly had to go through.
Dasrik was an inspiration for me. And I’m sure he inspired a lot of the rest of you as well. He is going to be missed.
When I first heard about Das’ death I was truly in shock and didn’t really say what I think deserves to be said about him. Now that I’m coming to terms with it I’ll attempt to do so…
When I first met him on this site we saw anything but eye to eye. I can honestly say that I didn’t like the guy as a poster. I felt I had something to offer to the MvC2 community and that he (and others) had shot me down w/o even trying to understand what I was trying to say. I’m not the type to just hate someone though so I continued to post and even tried to see where he was coming from. With time I began to take on some of his beliefs (and I later found that he even adopted some of mine).
A couple years later we were friends and I would talk to him outside of SRK. This is when I learned of his illness. I didn’t sympathize with him b/c by that time I knew that he didn’t want pity and special treatment. I also learned that he was the kind of person that cared for others, even going so far to neglect his own help in the process. I learned this b/c a couple years back my gf became fatally ill. She contracted some kind of illness that all but crashed her liver, pancreas, kidneys, lungs, and immune system. During this time, when I wasn’t at the hospital, he was one of the people I would confide in for support. Despite his own health he would selflessly talk with me during the late hours. During the worst of that time, when they gave her 24 hours b4 her liver would be deemed useless and she’d need an immediate transplant, I was talking to him. I had almost no faith that she would somehow make it but he told me ONE thing that got me back on track mentally. He told me, “go be with her in the hospital. She’ll want you there tomorrow.” I spent that night at the hospital as he said. I woke up the next morning to a doctor speaking out in surprise to a 75% improvement in her liver. The doctor had the stats checked two more times b/c an improvement like that should take months (not ONE night). Thanks to Das I was there when she came out of the drugged out daze that she had been in since she entered the ICU later that day. When I told him this he just said in his usual form, “Heh, I knew it…” Something that made me laugh for the first time since she got so ill. After that time, I had no doubt she would make a full recovery despite the other greatly weakened organs or her having to get dialysis almost every day. Since then I felt a closeness to him that I would consider brotherly.
When I started the beginning phases of the Blackheart tutorial that Magnetro and I made, I would constantly consult with him over things I was recording. I attribute a lot of how it came together to him since he instilled in me the concept of how it should flow.
I got the chance to meet him in person for the first time earlier this year. It was a big deal to me for obvious reasons if you read what he had done for me above along with where his health was at during that period of time. I only wish that I could have made it to the tuesday service. It’ll never be adequate payment for what he did for me, but I plan to donate money to help with the expenses as soon as my financial aid comes in from school.
There’s no illness where you are now Das and you will be missed. More than just a poster on SRK, you were friend.
R.I.P Dasrik my fellow SRKer.
Wow, Dasrik sounded like quite the guy. Thanks for that BlackHeartKing. I’ve seen his posts around but never payed much attention… now I’m sad that I’ll never have the chance to talk to him.
rip brother. 
Dasrik, you were never anything but a pleasure to understand. I hope that you are well and joyful, wherever you are now.
i read this too late and missed service yesterday
but dasrik knows we were cool
too bad the only times i got to see him were in the SHGL days
Joey Zaza give your fam my best and sry for your loss
R.I.P. Dasrik
Darsik passed? Man, that’s awful. His family and friends will be in my prayers. RIP, Darsik.
R.I.P, Dasrik. I remember back in the day, reading your MvC2 posts. :C
RIP Dasrik. I didn’t know you. But I remember reading your blogs/forum posts. I think you had some interesting posts comparing Yugioh and SF. I also play Yugioh and SF. Good shit.
Joe Zaza, sorry for your loss.
From what little I talked to him on IRC, I enjoyed our conversations. It was fun and enlightening. Felt different than the typical heads that plague SRK and #capcom. I have never met Dasrik in person, but had the location of the funeral not been so vastly far, I would surely attend to pay my respects.
Dasrik, may you rest in peace.