Tonight is the first time I happened to visit the site in a long while and I saw this very sad news. Mullah, I am so very sorry to hear WizKid has passed away. I never realized you and him were personal friends outside of TKC.
I remember WizKid back in the pro board days, he was the passionate lifeblood of our community. The back and forth me and him sometimes had on the RI board always gave me a laugh, I think there was an unwritten agreement to try an outdo one another with the number of icons being used (
). I also seem to recall him participating in the old movie thread a bit too (although Z always seemed to whoop all our butts in the end). Those jokers over at the old GoD forums were seeing red back in the day when we first starting messing around with proxies to bypass their IP bans, and between Wiz, Vicious and myself I think we gave their mods an aneurism or two.
I regret not keeping in touch and getting to know him as a grown man, but given my memories of him and your description I'm sure I would have been proud to call him a friend, both here and IRL. Since I'm not there in person, I'm going to go have a drink to his memory. If you or anyone else would like to talk and reminiscence about Wizkid and the old days please let me know, my old e-mail is still active.
Wizkid, you were awesome and will be missed... here's to you good buddy!
- Heckler