World of Warcraft Rank 1 Player Reckful Commits Suicide

[Kenobi]

Finally a lethal he didn't miss!

Reckful Missed Lethal @ BlizzCon - A Compilation

Reckful missed lethal at BlizzCon. Twitch chat reminds Reckful of that in all ways they can think of. That's what this video is about. We still love you Reck...

www.youtube.com

The reddits are all talking about how "harrasment and bullying are the real problems" and thats why people are killing themselves and that twitch should take steps to moderate comunites even more.
But come the fuck on! Nobody gonna talk about the fact that he was depressed, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and he had a drug habit including heavy psychedelics. Or the fact that he was on lithium for several years.

Reckful was a ticking timebomb but i would say most other people who are suicidal gamers aren´t. They are just people who have given up and are slowly sinking to the bottom piece by piece. Using gaming to fill a hole in their soul
The fact is being locked in a room 24/7 only going out for food isn´t healthy. What most of these people need are outside of twitches control. Its to build themselves up again as humans and to be productive members of society :

1. A community of friends/family we are social animals and we need more things then just talking to each other on discord. You need people to support you

2. Exercise, there is no feling like that of a girl looking at you with attraction in their eyes or looking in the mirror and saying damn i look good.

2. Work, In order to not go fucking nuts you need to do something, playing vidya fore 8 hours a day might sound nice but in the end its fucking empty its not advancing you forward and you are literately wasting your time away.
Even if your paid for it, you aren´t feeling needed or useful. Coming home from work with grease stained hands and a sore back might fucking suck but its all forgotten when your dad looks at you and says thats how a man looks like son. You also earn the respect of the comunity for doing so.

 

[Lady Adjani]

Of course Asmogold made a reaction video.

"Asmogold learns about Reckful's death"

There's nothing these people won't talk about on stream if it generates enough clicks and views. People trying to get their 15 minutes on the back of someone taking their life - are scum, no better than the e-thots that posted nonsensical reply videos to every major youtube video back in the day.

Of course everyone online is a self-diagnosed bipolar schizophrenic with major depression, so someone making suicide references and jokes doesn't raise as many red flags as it should. Unlike a lot of people, he was financially well off and could easily seek out professional help, but I guess it's much easier to sit in your empty apartment and feel sorry for yourself.

 

[Fluffy Yaks]

It really isn't.

Spoiler: Kinda powerlevelly armchair diagnosis stuff

I suffer from bipolar type II so I can't relate my own experiences to this guy but.

This sounds like it happened in a mixed episode. The proposal and his an heroing not even 3 hours earlier are so yin and yang that it's my only possible explanation for such a thing happening.

it's stuff like this why mental health needs to actually be taken seriously.

But with people actually going out of their way to romanticize it, or expecting you to suck their dicks for being mentally ill, it seems like that's far off.

He stated to have Bipolar but also Borderline, which is honestly a shitty combination. I don’t know much about the mixed episode you mentioned, but proposing to his ex (maybe his “favourite person”, a term they use to describe the people BPD judge their self worth and depend on) and hours later killing himself is actually very in line with BPD.

 

[rng_ascii]

Of course Asmogold made a reaction video.

"Asmogold learns about Reckful's death"

 

[GenociderSyo]

Being mentally sound has consequences like not having an excuse not to be personally responsible for oneself and their actions.

People want to cry into their pillow and yell and scream, punch holes in walls and abuse others for their own failures and say "but I'm mentally unwell stop judging" because it's far, faaaaar easier than having to man up and take responsibility.

The worst side effect of that mentality is at this point people with actual mental issues are having a harder and harder time getting help as schedules of professionals get clogged up by overgrown kids having panic attacks because life isn't always rainbows and/or Orange Man Exists.

Burns you out fast too I'm guessing. Luckily I work with the extreme end of mental illness which is hard to fake, though seen some rarer threads on here of people doing just that.

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Is smug just his resting face? Raided with him once he seems to beleive hes above doing mechanics and died almost every pull.

 

[IamnottheNSA]

The reaction to his death has been.... well I don't know what I expected.

• 'We just need to force more positivity, ban all negativity'
• 'Just shout down people that disagree with you if you think they are toxic'
• *uses death to attempt to start a conservation on why this is all actually about racism*
• 'People just need to be better; No social media isn't the problem'

All these 'solutions' to prevent more suicides I am hearing are just going to drive more people to suicide in the long term.

Twitter was a mistake.

 

[Null]

I iced this fag in 2s back in wrath on stream. He was playing a prot-holy paladin, and it was so stupid and tedious that I wished death on him.

Nice to see it finally took, 10 years later.

Found the true gamer

 

[Thistle]

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found it. (on metered data, can't archive videos today)

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Finally a lethal he didn't miss!

Reckful Missed Lethal @ BlizzCon - A Compilation

Reckful missed lethal at BlizzCon. Twitch chat reminds Reckful of that in all ways they can think of. That's what this video is about. We still love you Reck...

www.youtube.com

The reddits are all talking about how "harrasment and bullying are the real problems" and thats why people are killing themselves and that twitch should take steps to moderate comunites even more.
But come the fuck on! Nobody gonna talk about the fact that he was depressed, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and he had a drug habit including heavy psychedelics. Or the fact that he was on lithium for several years.

The redditors saying that, I guarantee you, would be more than happy to harass and bully anyone for any reason they liked, such as being a cop or voting for Trump or, well, anything.

 

[Pepsi-Cola]

-guy with longstanding history of severe mental illness that was not being treated commits suicide

-twitter and other hives of retarded individuals spin it into a narrative that matches whatever social issue they decided to care about this morning

where have I heard this one before?

Spoiler

 

[eternal dog mongler]

He stated to have Bipolar but also Borderline, which is honestly a shitty combination. I don’t know much about the mixed episode you mentioned, but proposing to his ex (maybe his “favourite person”, a term they use to describe the people BPD judge their self worth and depend on) and hours later killing himself is actually very in line with BPD.

Yeah that's just a shit sandwich. Someone with BPD facing rejection (even if it's just imagined) during a hypomanic episode I can very easily see killing themselves.

 

[Sperghetti]

It;s almost always a poor decision when your solution is to change the behavior of others, something you really can't control. Negativity will always and has always existed.

It's much more effective to focus on the things people can control, their own reaction and emotions to the negativity. Think of it this way. The same actions elicit different reactions from different people; not everyone has the same reaction to the same "toxicity." Those emotions are less a result of the action, and more a result of one's expectations and beliefs, which vary from person to person. This is a good thing because we are in control of that while controlling others is almost always futile. Does not mean promoting a positive environment shouldn't happen but if the solution is "everyone needs to stop x now" then it really isn't a solution.

edit: Kinda hard to read, don't feel like rewording it though, also I wouldn't apply this line of thinking to children being bullied, we are talking about grown adults who voluntarily put themselves on exhibition and then consume the content of those criticizing them. Many purposefully feed it for gain as well when it suits them.

Hey, you’re in good company with that line of thought. Robin Skynner once said, “If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior.”

 

[Nick Gars]

The people who really are going to do it and seriously want to die wont tell you they are going to. A lot of people who go "hey i'm gonna kill myself" want attention for some reason. It's the ones that say nothing that you have to worry about the most.

You're not entirely wrong, but not entirely right. Gonna power level a bit here simply because I have a dangerous amount of experience having to fight mental illness. Usually "I'm going to kill myself" is just attention seeking, but for some it is a genuine plea for help. I may make suicide jokes like everyone else, but I never say out loud "I'm gonna fucking kill myself" unless I'm on that edge and ready to jump.

Power leveling over, just wanted to add to the conversation.

 

[UnKillFill]

Sounds like a blessing in disguise. At least he didn't go for a high score.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

At least he got it over with early. Imagine how he would have taken it when she inevitably cheated on him. All women are whores.

 

[BOLDYSPICY!]

I know it was in the OP but I hate when people make especially insincere posts like this. Nothing says grief like the Valley Girl adding-extra-letters-to-words thing. "ohhhhh nooooooo he's dead whyyyyyyyy"

Bitch shut the fuck up.

 

[Il1k3m3m3s]

When will all of this reach a climax? It looks like I'm living in a time loop; The exact same thing happened with Etika a year ago

 

[EmpireOfTheClouds]

as someone whose life is dominated by fears and depression with few things to hold on to I can tell you that the vast majority of people posturing about this are the kind of people that would never in a million years give this guy the time of day or be a shoulder for him to cry on or whatever.

as with most on the farms it's no secret I hate the woke bullshit and let me tell you, in all dimensions the woke people are the cruellest, least caring people you'll ever meet. depressed? The woke people will make fun of you about it to your face and egg you on. I guarantee other Kiwis have felt and seen the same in their lives. The sob sisters are the sickest people on Earth.

Yeah the people who often claim to demand better mental health care are ironically, and unsurprisingly the kinds of people who would love to ruin your lives over an ignorant or bigoted comment from aeons ago, then celebrate by sharing K-pop GIFS on Twitter when you finally decide to an hero over it.

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I know it was in the OP but I hate when people make especially insincere posts like this. Nothing says grief like the Valley Girl adding-extra-letters-to-words thing. "ohhhhh nooooooo he's dead whyyyyyyyy"

Bitch shut the fuck up.

Yeah, gotta love when people make tragedies all about them.

i made a video about my thoughts on Dr. K and Rectful. There is way to much to go over and explain but I think its enough to start the conversation.

I would like some feedback too if I can improve it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVpRD9VTcps

Bitch, nobody cares about your gay ass video.

I hate the current trend of it, but I honestly wish this asshole got cancelled/metoo'd.

Hypocritical of me?

Yeah, I would probably agree, but cliffyb annoys me in a way that no other in gaming does. He is worse than yandev, Druckmann, those assholes that made Sunset and every gaming journalist combined.

He have/had talent and were involved in some good games, but it is not worth that attitude he had to begin with, and somehow he managed to only get more dickish as time went on.

Jesus Christ, where's the "edgy" react for comments like these?

 

[KingFrampt]

Finally a lethal he didn't miss!

Reckful Missed Lethal @ BlizzCon - A Compilation

Reckful missed lethal at BlizzCon. Twitch chat reminds Reckful of that in all ways they can think of. That's what this video is about. We still love you Reck...

www.youtube.com

The reddits are all talking about how "harrasment and bullying are the real problems" and thats why people are killing themselves and that twitch should take steps to moderate comunites even more.
But come the fuck on! Nobody gonna talk about the fact that he was depressed, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and he had a drug habit including heavy psychedelics. Or the fact that he was on lithium for several years.

Reckful was a ticking timebomb but i would say most other people who are suicidal gamers aren´t. They are just people who have given up and are slowly sinking to the bottom piece by piece. Using gaming to fill a hole in their soul
The fact is being locked in a room 24/7 only going out for food isn´t healthy. What most of these people need are outside of twitches control. Its to build themselves up again as humans and to be productive members of society :

1. A community of friends/family we are social animals and we need more things then just talking to each other on discord. You need people to support you

2. Exercise, there is no feling like that of a girl looking at you with attraction in their eyes or looking in the mirror and saying damn i look good.

2. Work, In order to not go fucking nuts you need to do something, playing vidya fore 8 hours a day might sound nice but in the end its fucking empty its not advancing you forward and you are literately wasting your time away.
Even if your paid for it, you aren´t feeling needed or useful. Coming home from work with grease stained hands and a sore back might fucking suck but its all forgotten when your dad looks at you and says thats how a man looks like son. You also earn the respect of the comunity for doing so.

the saddest part about the heavy shroom use is that Destiny encouraged it

 

[Benet_Bandito284]

found it. (on metered data, can't archive videos today)

second one made the next day