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by jprival 869 days ago
Recalls Dick Van Dyke (still alive, by the way) being a VFX and 3D modeling hobbyist in the Video Toaster/LightWave Amiga days.
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Dick's only on number two on this year's list https://deathlist.net/
This site is morbid and weird, would judge anyone contributing or viewing this pretty harshly
The list was created before the web by a bunch of English students. Who else? https://deathlist.net/lists/1987
I didn't realize how old Roberta Flack and Sonny Rollins are and that they might be close to dying. They both made important contributions to our culture. I wonder how easy it is to contact them and share my appreciation for everything they've done musically...?

Is that weird or morbid?

I wouldn’t mention the death list.
One would assume you viewed it
One would assume that one would understand one's context of one's link and that one meant taking one's link seriously instead of one looking at one's link to see what one's link was.
Wow...that list can be pretty harsh. They included Yoko Ono last year and her description was "Mrs Lennon".
That's the title of her first single from her second album. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Lennon
And?
Well, considering it's a title of one of her songs, it's like saying "Shake It Off" for Taylor Swift, or "Single Ladies" for Beyoncé.