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David Joseph Edgerton Pridie 1971-2001
This site is dedicated to the memory of David Pridie, by all of those who knew and loved him.
Together let us make this a place where he can live with us forever.
Dave passed away very suddenly on the
morning of Friday, January 12, 2001. He died in his home, listening to
music and playing a computer game. An attack of bronchial asthma was
established as the cause, something which he had complained of the past
week or so before.
He was 29.
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Dave was born July 7, 1971 in Calgary to his mother
Joy and father Jon.
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"grunt..."
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Dave was known by a few different names around the
internet, and they changed as the years went by, although not as many
times as his hair...
MArtist or martial artist
edge
codespice
MArtyCodeSpice (ICQ#10173318)
...he named his computers
mozza
cheese
...and in games like EverQuest he was
marty
apshai
...and privately, because of his begrudging perseverance
in the final stages of pulling together a project:
the cleaner
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Some of Dave's favorite things...
Skulls, Cheese (ALL cheese, but he loved Stilton),
Cooking, Stoned Wheat Thins, Driving in his Supra, Caesars (on Sunday),
Bass, Newcastle, Traditional, Grappa (well not really a love, more an
obligation), Lighters (he collected them)
Belts (he collected them too), Making candles, EverQuest, Counterstrike,
Music, Making music on his keyboard,
Some of Dave's not so favorite things...
Being woken up
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the history of Dave's hair
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"!@#$ !?&#! &*!!"
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Most know of Dave's involvement in the video game
industry programming games, but not as many know about a secret message he
slipped into the final code on one of those games he worked on... the TetrisRant.
At the time he got himself and H2O in quite a bit of hot water with Nintendo. He
figured it was his small piece of immortality and that no one would find it for
years, if at all.
It took the hardcore gamers about 3 days to find it and post it on the internet.
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Dave had a little problem with addiction for a while. It
was called EverQuest. He had obsessed about different games before; Ultima,
Counterstrike, and others, but this one REALLY had sucked him in. So much so he
finally decided he had to do something about it. Goodbye Norrath
is a final posting he made an EverQuest message board regarding his thoughts
on the matter, and is a pretty heartfelt statement of where his life was at.
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"ta-daaay will ya! i gotta a life ta
lead!"
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Dave has a rich network of friends both in Canada and
the US, and so it only seemed fitting to have remembrances of him in
both countries so that as many could attend as possible. In San
Francisco, on Tuesday, January 16 and again the following Monday,
January 22 in Calgary. Each of the informal events were followed by a
wake, which surely put a smile on Dave's face to see so many of his
friends in one place, all raising a pint for him. Please also read the words
written by Patricia Meilleur, which were read at the Calgary service.
This poster was passed around at both of Dave's wakes and signed
with goodbye's by all of his friends and family. Thanks go out to Darci
Powers for putting the poster together and gathering the images of Dave
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"hey pumpkin..."
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Here are some of the things Dave's friends have
had to say about him. The first comes to us by way of Sasha.
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Dave was cremated in San Francisco
and brought home to Calgary. He currently rests with his sister in the
home they grew up at in Dalhousie and, as always, is in front of the
computer.
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If you have any old pictures
of Dave, video, or music or even audio clips, please send
any material to bretz@bretz.ca
and we will incorporate them into the site.
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