When I read the system tower prompts about > search neighbour >search memorials
and the moving response 'Is there a place for the lost ones? A memorial?
I immediately thought about YT streamer Xxio and @Macforaday. Xxio because of his astonishing creativity over the years that inspired me and my building and desire to try to learn some glitch building. I was deeply saddened when I learned of his passing, though I never knew him personally. At the time there was much heartache and outpouring of grief expressed through much creativity by the community who knew him more closely. Xxiou built some truly amazing creations in the game with his Xbox. His art works and moving story continue to inspire players.
It so happens I sent a request memory timestamp a day or so ago about Xxiou but wasn’t sure if it was appropriate to publish it. Reading the thread here, I would like to share what I wrote, as I too believe those last two lines possibly could be interpreted as memorial memories and was my immediate thought on reading them too and could impact the development of the System.
Timestamp Request in the summary:
Summary
1595286000 date of youtube channel start
Christopher Adam Lasala (Chris Legg) was a much beloved No Man’s Sky player, who inspired thousands of players with his creativity building wonderful works of art and bases in the game.
His YouTube channel Xxiou Games has some wonderful examples. Known by No Man’s Sky players around the world for some of his extraordinary builds and was soon fondly referred to by players as Xxiou.
https://www.youtube.com/@XxiouGames
Some of his most inspired sculptures were the
KALEIDOSCOPE builds:
https://youtu.be/KX3UzbWWoJ4?si=A9BgWHD1nTRc9eKT
Xxiou’s Heaven planet in Eissentam has many tributes to him and can be found at the Portal Address: 317BF7B00B64
From his online biography:
“Chris began his Xxiou Games YouTube channel in 2020. Since then, he uploaded 613 videos, primarily featuring the game No Man’s Sky, of which he was a great enthusiast. His channel was growing, with over 12,900 subscribers and 1,920,139 views. At the core of Xxiou Games was a great sense of community, with much of his content focusing on bringing together people that shared his love for No Man’s Sky and helping new players get up and running with the game.” Narrative Anarchy Cell - Space Travels by Chris Legg
Godbless you Xiou.
I do however caution how any memorial material may be handled as some content may still be emotionally sensitive to those affected by the loss of loved ones. Xxiou has a biography online available and his YT channel Xxiou Games is still accessible is to anyone interested to read, so in his case I felt it should be okay to send a memory timestamp request, knowing that memory requests may possibly be accepted and published.
I do think we must tread cautiously with our enthusiasm to acknowledge the passing of these wonderful people and players and to be aware of their families wishes. It may be appropriate to reach out to their families and friends for their blessing that they are okay with our intentions, especially If we are uncertain in anyway, that material of their loved ones may be published or exposed in an ARG they may be unaware of.
I mention this because MacForADay’s moving tributes to his family at the time of writing, were deeply emotional and moving no only to Mac but to many who read that profound thread in this forum. I’ve never forgotten it. At the time, 8 years ago now, I created a memorial for his family’s loss, for him and his sister, which I believe to this day he may never have seen. I wanted him to witness it by himself first because of the contents. This happened because it was built on PC and Mac at the time played on PS4. Cross-save was not a thing and bases were not compatible across game modes. The memorial I have kept going and is still there to be discovered one day by Macforaday. However the contents may be quite emotional for his family, still to this day.
A couple of days ago I reached out to Macforaday a member of ETARC since Waking Titan days when Mac was very active, in a personal correspondence, mentioning that the memorial still exists and also mentioned about this ARG. I don’t know if he has read that yet. I noted it has been 7 years since I last corresponded and last sent him the original portal code. I hope he will be okay with me mentioning his emotional thread from so long ago. I didn’t publish in the thread or pictures of the memorial because I wanted him to be first to see it. It was not only about his mother. It was a very difficult time for Mac. However I hope if he does read it he may agree to a request memory timestamp about that moment in time. It would be a lovely way to have an echo in the system about the memorials or perhaps even a quiet little window in the Tower where he could reflect and remember his memories of those he loved.
That’s the other thing I wanted to mention. It could be a nice thing if a prime window might even be requested for those names of friends who passed in the decade since No Man’s Sky was released and has brought so much Joy to many over the years.
There is no other game or interactive work of art quite like NMS, (which No Man’s Sky unexpectedly has evolved to become since 2016), that I can think of that allows player to express such empathy on many personal subjects. That should be applauded somehow. But again, requests of that nature must be treated sensitively perhaps with blessing by the those families affected.