I thought I would follow up on this. D.P.W has passed. This actually happened a lot earlier in the year but I am just now finding out myself. I know we all occasionally were thinking about him but I only found it fair to share what I know with y'all. I would like to share a few fond memories about him, if you would like to do the same please go ahead.

I remember meeting him on Purple Valley way back in 2013-2014. He didn't talk much but when 'Mango' came in to tidy up the server, we started to chat more. He was already planning on making his own crit server, and I wanted to help. We grew close and would chat often, be it over tf2, map design, or just living with depression. ITIJCM meant to world to me, and I'm sure the same for him. We would discuss often about it growth and if we even wanted it to get much bigger, I mean we found a niche group of gamers. 2016-2018 I started to be less focused on my online presence, and I grew away from tf2 slowly. Around this time, we stopped talking but would still have our chats. Covid hit and I just got distracted with life, we were talking once every other month at this point. Until we just didn't have the time that is. That's life I suppose, you grow away from the people you care for sometimes. I remember he made the post about him being sick and we started to chat again until it went back to once every other month. The last message I sent to him was on a late night in December 2021.

Sorry that turned more into a rant of jumbled thoughts, but it is hard to know he is actually gone. May he know he was loved by us, and may we not forget him.

Mike, DPW, Fatman, the Original pass in January of 2023