We are embedded in communities, international and domestic, that are sustained with efforts like theirs. When President Obama came out and spoke, he only named one of the other victims—the families of two were still being informed—Sean Smith, an information officer, who had two children, a girl named Samantha and a boy named Nathan. Wired’s Danger Room blog noted that Smith, in addition to having served in the Air Force and several foreign embassies, “when gaming with EVE Online guild Goonswarm...was a popular figure known as ‘Vile Rat,’ and alternately as ‘Vilerat’ while volunteering as a moderator at the internet community Something Awful.” This morning, the guild director put a heartbroken post, which included a message from Smith, written Tuesday, with the phrase “assuming we don’t die tonight.” For his part, the director wrote,
If you play this stupid game, you may not realize it, but you play in a galaxy created in large part by Vile Rat’s talent as a diplomat.
