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Monty Oum, animator at Rooster Teeth, has died

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For context, he was the creator of the famous machinima Haloid (Halo + Metroid) back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-mR79GErU

I'll always remember him for his ridiculous work ethic and amazing combination of art and tech (I believe he created his own animation library for RWBY or something like that to give it it's unique cel-shading kind of look)

Many people are mourning together on the Rooster Teeth subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/roosterteeth

So sad. Such a young guy. And from a selfish point of view, we'll never get another Dead Fantasy ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAsq3HkYbUs). Created some pretty great fan service back in the day.

Does anyone have any info about what kind of allergic reaction could have caused this?

I'm fearful of hospital procedures for reasons like these. How'd the doctors let it slip by? But it's a dumb fear and I'm trying to break myself of it.

It's possible they gave him some medication that nobody knew he was allergic to and by time they caught it it was too late. It's also possible that someone fucked up and didn't read his chart before a procedure. Or it might be something completely different. I don't know if this'll help the fear, but this is one of those crazy random ways you can die and there's not a whole lot (aside from having an up to date and complete chart) that you can do about it. The only thing being afraid of it does is lower your quality of life.

It didn't 'slip by', it likely happened very quickly, without warning, and the doctors and nurses certainly did everything they could to save him (I don't know anything about the specifics of this case, but I'm familiar with the general practices).

There are various medications used for sedation that you wouldn't be exposed to in the course of 'normal' life, so the first time you're exposed to them is on the operating table. That makes it very hard to predict things like this.

It's also possible it wasn't actually an allergic reaction, but one of a handful of other life-threatening reactions that can take place during medical procedures (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_hyperthermia )

No procedure is without risk. It is important to weigh benefits of the procedure against the risks (your doctor should be able to help you judge your specific risk factors and explain the benefits).

Came to HN to distract myself from this news and here it is. Monty was a great inspiration to me mainly for his relentless work ethic and amazing creations. He is sorely missed in the RT community.

33 is too young to die.

I was trying to distract myself from bad news here, too. Hard to escape it sometimes. Hope you're doing better now that it's a few days later.

>Ten days ago Monty suffered a severe allergic reaction during a simple medical procedure that left him in a coma.

Such a young guy. Remember that you can never be sure how many "tomorrows" you get.

If you are curious, and don't happen to follow such things, you can see some work he was involved in, in the form of the RWBY series on Crunchyroll. (I'm not associated in any way with Crunchyroll.)

The combination of Blocks World style AI with Machinima has the potential to change human culture in radical ways. (It already is, IMO.) What would it do to language, if we could just think of a video scene in our heads, and our mobile computer could just synthesize it and show it to others? I suspect the use of "like" is related to the effect video media has already had on language.

And also the creator of the "Dead Fantasy" fan work, where Final Fantasy characters are opposed to the Dead or Alives characters in a serie of videos.

That's not the best of his works, but I first heard of him when he was still working on it, and it always impressed me how well made they were for something that he didn't get any money for.

> I suspect the use of "like" is related to the effect video media has already had on language.

I'm not sure what you mean by this, can you explain?

Well, like, when people use "like," it's like they're narrating a video scene in their own heads in a way that would cause another person from a video-soaked culture to, like, make it play in their heads too. ;)

It's the same as how such narration worked before, but it's also different in that we have a corpus of video culture to make references to. Before widespread video, we were always referring to the imagined "movie scenes" evoked in our heads by narration. Now, we can refer to a corpus of specific pre-rendered movie scenes.

> Well, like, when people use "like," it's like they're narrating a video scene in their own heads in a way that would cause another person from a video-soaked culture to, like, make it play in their heads too. ;)

The syntactic filler likes, or the "its' like they're..." like? Those are very different. Syntactic filler such as that is universal in human speech and languages, but tends to be different depending on the language and speaker. There's nothing unusual about Americans attaching to the word "like" as syntactic filler.

Or do you mean "like" as a synonym for "such as"? Like/Such as in this example here? I don't see how that has anything to do with video culture. People have spoken in hypotheticals since long before video.

The syntactic filler likes, or the "its' like they're..." like?

If you pay close attention, you'll find that it's not always filler. Often, people are prefacing references to visuals from the common culture.

The Red Trailer is just spectacular. It's some of the most action-packed elegant violence I've seen choreographed. It's also one of the few times we have an answer to how a hundred pound anime teenager can become a whirlwind dervish of mayhem. Add very large bullets. (I mean, it explains where the force comes from... She's also apparently a world-class ballerina-clutz).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYW2GmHB5xs

RWBY is now on Netflix I believe.

In case anyone else is unable to get past the "checking your browser" page (whatever that means...) like me:

>Our friend, inspiration and co-worker Monty Oum passed away yesterday afternoon at 4:34 PM surrounded by people who loved him very much. Ten days ago Monty suffered a severe allergic reaction during a simple medical procedure that left him in a coma. Although he fought bravely, his body was not able to recover.

And wow, I'd been planning to catch up on RWBY this week. Sad news...

Checking your browser is a cloudflare thing. FWIW.

I seem to be getting that at about 30% of the sites I go to today.

Makes you think I remember a few years ago reading about some on who had a allergic reaction to the same drug I was on at the time and died she was only on 20mg a day more than I was.

Ugh, this is tragic. Such a talented person gone too soon.

Now I don't want to say it was life changing for me, but I greatly enjoyed watching his earlier videos (Dead Fantasy series, Haloid).

But with RWBY (his most recent work) he spawned a universe out of nothing that is now loved by thousands and thousands of people.

True creative talent and dedication at his level is rare, and while we'll never get to see more from him, I have no doubt that his work has inspired countless people to create their own universes, and for that we should be happy.

This is terrible, I've been following Monty since before Haloid. I thought it was awesome when he joined roosterteeth to work on RvB.

He was incredibly talented young man and certainly died way too early. I hope his family will be able to get through this, it will certainly be very tough to handle this.

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