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Oh Captain, My Captain

Posted by Derrick Sanskrit

This past Monday, my fellow American slackers and myself all took the day off from work to celebrate Christopher Columbus, the man who started this whole westernization trip that we're still struggling with today. As children, we young whippersnappers heard the stories and the songs about Columbus' three boats and his explorations, but I want to talk about a different sort of American hero, a man without whom this very blog would almost assuredly not exist. I refer, of course, to former Nerve Editor-In-Chief Will Doig.

Will's term as EiC was brief but sure to be fondly remembered. An avid gamer in his youth, Will admitted to having not played any video games in well over a decade before we launched 61 Frames Per Second this past spring. Always supportive of our voice, Will engaged us in our petty ramblings about Bionic Commando and Sonic The Hedgehog (the XBox 360/Playstation 3 version...yech). During his last few weeks with us, Will became delightfully addicted to Super Mario Galaxy and asked us for other Wii titles he and his friends would enjoy (Boom Blox and de Blob!!!).

Monsieur Doig has since moved on to what we all hope are bigger and better things. In memory of our beloved EiC, I leave you with these photos of Will engaged in one final game of LOL, a title he enjoyed so much he wanted everyone in the Nerve office to have a DS just so we could all play together.




You can't tell, but he's totally drawing a shark vomitting into a paper cup and then John McCain drinking it. Seriously, I couldn't make that up.

Fare thee well, Will Doig. Don't be a stranger.

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