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Gordon Hall has died
- smokelegend 6y agoIMHO one of the greatest of all time games, thanks for the memories...
- Flex247A 6y agoRIP
- jonny383 6y agoThanks for the memories. I think one of the bad things about getting older that people don't seem to discuss is the increase in death of both those you know or those you know of.
- s5300 6y agoI think it just seems like most things surrounding death in the U.S. are in an abysmal state. Mexico/good portion of the East seem to do things much better regarding it. (These are just the places I'm personally familiar with. Sure there's many others that approach death much differently than the U.S. does as well.)
- dukeofdoom 6y agoYeah, watch out for Brain Aneurysm if you have high blood pressure. Internal pluming related death is probably the leading cause of early death at that age. Don't clog your pipes people! Don't sit at the computer for too long either. You can get blood clots in your legs. Take care of your heart. Go for a walk everyday
- uncledave 6y agoGood advice. Also don’t start doing this tomorrow. Do it today. I know at least three people now who have pushed off everything to next week for years and ended up with irreversible bad health outcomes.
- Teknoman117 6y agoMan I have to lose weight and get healthy. I'm young enough (28) where I probably have enough time for things to recover but I'm out of time and excuses to start doing something. Need to halve my mass by the time I hit 30. Never had a healthy relationship with food. Parents were always stuck on yoyo diets :(. They're still here, thankfully. I just, you know, don't want to die before them. My siblings would kill me. I'd also love to fit on rollercoasters again.
- uncledave 6y agoGenuinely do it. It was the best improvement I made in my life. All I did was eat less crap and walk a lot. Turned out i liked walking so I now walk up mountains and stuff. I started over 10 years after you so you’re good still :) If you’ve got a smart phone get a calorie tracker app like Nutracheck and use it. Job done.
- mindvirus 6y agoIf you can afford it, I recommend hiring people to help. Seeing a personal trainer just once a week has been life changing for me. I just have to show up. Just being accountable to someone else has been huge.
- petecooper 6y agoI will echo the replies to your comment. I made a decision to fix myself last August. I switched my diet to lower carb and more protein, drank more water, started getting up earlier, intermittent fasting, plus some other things. I've lost ~23kg (~50lb) since then, and my quality of life has improved. Don't set out to half your mass, just set out to lose a little, then a bit more, and keep going. Don't fail before you start. Drink lots of water, your brain and skin will thank you for it.
- pfarrell 6y ago100% agree about water and about setting smaller goals that you can celebrate. This thought clicked for me. If you can lose 10 lbs (4.5 kg), that’s like setting down a bowling ball you are carrying all the time. You will definitely experience a quality of life improvement when you do that. Good luck. Then, do it again.
- intricatedetail 6y agoIf you feel unwell everyday (mainly fatigue and chronic pain) and exercise makes you feel worse how can you force yourself to exercise?
- graeme 6y agoThis really depends on the issue. If, for example, you have a mobility issue, and walking directly hurt the mobility issue, then the solution is physio or massage to resolve the mobility issue. But for your more garden variety “I am tired and my joints hurt” then exercise tends to be a virtuous circle. You push yourself to do a little, and it is rough, but it improves the body’s capacity. Then you feel a bit better later and can do more. Being unhealthy is an equilibrium, and you can push yourself into a better equilibrium with exercise, food and sleep. For 90% of people reading this what I wrote will be true. But you may be in the 10% where you have an underlying issue to fix first, so check with a physio and a doctor.
- nucatus 6y agoThen you must take some rest. Get a good recharge of your batteries and get back on the field only when you got stronger. Enjoy life, eat well and move around a lot.
- Angostura 6y agoSet small achievable goals? "I will walk to the end of the garden path twice a day?"
- dctoedt 6y ago> "I will walk to the end of the garden path twice a day?" Brings to mind how (the late) Captain Sir Tom Moore started his famous walk(s). https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52324058 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-5232405...
- esimov 6y agoIt might sound as a spoiler, but the slogan of a well know brand it should be motivating: "Keep walking!".
- TaupeRanger 6y agoJust lift weights 3-5 times a week and walk often (preferably on hilly terrain). You'll be fine. Don't worry too much...that could be worse than lack of exercise.
- agumonkey 6y ago- efforts - walking - eating well - sleeping regularly - fun and non toxic people The top 5 futuristic health tricks from the 4000BC era
- fortran77 6y agoOr do none of these things and get special front-of-the-line treatment for Government programs, including first access to the COVID vaccine, and preferred parking spaces.
- mrbonner 6y agoCan confirm. My dad died last year this time due to a huge stroke happened during an endoscopy. Turned out he had a big chunk of cholesterol at the aorta. The endoscopic procedure probably broke it and sent more fragments to the brain. He had an earlier stroke 4 weeks ago and blood thinner didn’t seem to work. He was very active, though. So mind you, eating well is also a key to go along with exercise!
- Angostura 6y agoAnd then when you get to my late parent's age - mid 90s when they died, basically all your peers are dead. Al those people with shared memories of childhood and youth. No one to reminisce with. They coped with it well, but it must be so weird.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 6y agoVice city had the best cast.
- Hamuko 6y agoApparently Vice City was a turning point for the franchise when it came to hiring big name cast members since apparently many of them were kinda full of themselves and hard to work with. Not that this is really related.
- qrbLPHiKpiux 6y agoWilliam Shatner - you say sabotage. I say sabotage.
- cryptoquick 6y agoThey say the brightest rockstars die the quickest, but are the most beautiful. Rest in peace, it was a life not wasted.
- nojvek 6y agoI have spent many years of my life playing GTA. Starting from GTA1 all the way to GTA5. Definitely a generation defining series. Are they ever going to release GTA6? RIP. Thanks for all the entertainment and joy you have brought me and my friends.
- ekianjo 6y agoGordon Hall worked specifically on the mobile versions of GTA (like Chinatown wars) not the other canonical episodes in the series. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Chinatown_Wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto:_Chinatown_Wa...) The original GTA was from by David Jones and Mike Dailly, and the series were led by Rockstar North (ex-DMA design), not Rockstar Leeds.
- electro_blah 6y agoReminds me of that episode of The Office. Also, that username.
- bovine3dom 6y agoThere seems to be some confusion in the comments here. Rockstar Leeds [1] worked on mobile games (like the excellent GTA: Chinatown Wars) and ports of games from other Rockstar studios. It was founded as Möbius Entertainment and rebranded as Rockstar Leeds when Take Two acquired it for Rockstar. It is not the same studio that made GTA 1 - 5. Still an enviable legacy - the studio made some of the best PSP games. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_Leeds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_Leeds
- ekianjo 6y agoYup, commented on this same topic in another reply. Rockstar Leeds is not related to the main GTA titles that most people have played.
- NetOpWibby 6y agoI listen to the Chinatown Wars remix track that MF Doom did with Ghostface Killah. I also have the radio stations playing as I work sometimes. What a fantastic game.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoMost GTA games were developed by Rockstar North. This reminds me of how the release of another confusion... when the release of Pokemon Go affected Nintendo's stock price. https://time.com/4421450/pokemon-go-nintendo-shares-tokyo/ https://time.com/4421450/pokemon-go-nintendo-shares-tokyo/
- forgotmypw17 6y ago
- softwhale 6y agoI remember watching this video (initially posted in 2009) with Gordon Hall discussing what R* was looking for programmer wise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G15hTiOZWw&ab_channel=ATM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G15hTiOZWw&ab_channel=ATM
- jibanes 6y agowasted... j/k.
- petecooper 6y agoNot appropriate.
- ReptileMan 6y agoReally? This is literally the death screen game message. And I think the head of a bunch of studios that was pushing the limits about R rated gaming content would appreciate it as a tribute, not take offense.
- petecooper 6y agoI understand what is is. I don't think it's appropriate.
- geferdeba 6y agoNes afe doacae picwss.
- andreygrehov 6y ago51? WTF?! What was the cause of death?
- throwawayboise 6y agoHas not been made public, as far as I can tell.
- matthewmorgan 6y agoBuried by the so-called British Broadcasting Corporation in the UK regional news section, yet if he'd been some random US 'rapper' his death would've been on the front page.
- carmen_sandiego 6y agoTaylor Swift’s Tweets are front page at this point.
- mhh__ 6y agoNo they aren't? Currently the BBC news front page is dominated by reporting of a very dramatic murder case, for example. https://snipboard.io/1YdnX8.jpg https://snipboard.io/1YdnX8.jpg
- carmen_sandiego 6y agoYes, "at this point" doesn't mean "literally this second". "This point" just means "this far past the threshold of lazy, shallow journalism". Not a point in time. Her Tweet about Netflix was on the BBC front page a few days ago, on a day I'm sure many other murders happened. Even if you didn't see that one, surely you saw a ton of space dedicated to the minutiae of silly Royal drama worthy of the tabloid press. Every minor comment received a brand new front page bump.
- mhh__ 6y agoThose other murders weren't committed by a police officer.
- carmen_sandiego 6y agoWhat does that have to do with anything? That story wasn't even known at the time of the Tweet. I'm comparing the prominence that the Tweet was given with that of any other murder in the period it was on the front page. Unless your ranking goes police officer murder > Taylor Swift Tweet > regular murder? Even now, the front page is tracking Twitter rather than reality. There are multiple articles about women being unsafe on the streets of the UK, and how no-one cares about their plight. Women aren't even close to the most at-risk demographic for violent attacks. But that hashtag isn't trending, so who cares, I suppose. That's what news = engagement gets you. You can't use the BBC or most modern news to get any sense of the relative magnitudes of society's issues. Rather, you get a feedback loop of the same topics that social media algos push.
- thisisjohnwill 6y agoAfter years of lurking & a few throwaways, this is my first comment on HN as myself. Few people we meet stand out in such a way as Gordon did for me. Unfortunately it too often takes tragic life updates to have these fleeting connections return to the surface of your daily thoughts. Gordon was just some guy I met who was a) in the games industry and b) hosting a (killer btw) party at SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans. I had shown up looking for a job in gfx like a year too early - and got this party invite instead. Foreign concept to my engineer brain that those two were actually not only related but often on the same path... which Gordon took the time to explain to me over shots of “I don’t even know what” while overlooking Bourbon St & the still ongoing party shenanigans inside. After another half hour of “but seriously though how does one make games for a living” crash course, I left that party lighter than air. Fast forward more than a decade and I still qualify that as one of my favorite days ever. A few minutes given freely can make a seriously outsized difference. Take the time. Pay it forward. You’re already a mentor to more people than you think. Thanks Gordon. Rest easy.
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- jimsmart 6y agoSad news. I worked with Gordon at a couple of places back in the 90s, in his pre-Mobius days. He was a good guy, big heart, always positive and motivational. And his sleight of hand with a deck of cards was the best I've ever witnessed. Good memories. RIP