Memories from Latvia
1. "I had just came home home after playing in a local Counter-Strike tournament, and literally went into the room when the TV showed the plane crashing on the second tower, and my first thought was,
'Explosions looks so much better in real life, why can't particle shaders be written like this.'"
- Reddit user /u/Zusuris
'Explosions looks so much better in real life, why can't particle shaders be written like this.'"
- Reddit user /u/Zusuris
2. "It was afternoon here when it happened. I used to come home from school and watch Ninja Turtles. On this particular day, it just happened to be an episode in which the main villains in their Technodrome attack the World Trade Center. Afterwards I went to my room, crawled in my bed and turned on radio just in time for the hourly news broadcast. It felt so surreal to hear about some place I only just heard about in a cartoon being attacked. I needed to validate that this was not the universe somehow playing a joke on me, so I got up and went back to TV. Instead of the soap opera they usually had after cartoons, they were showing live broadcast from New York. I then went to my granny, who was napping, and asked if she wanted to watch. She wasn't interested, I watched a few minutes, but as usual with live developments there wasn't much to see and they didn't even have any news commentary running in background, so I turned it off.
Later at school we were asked to draw what our reaction was in the art class and to write a letter to kids in New York. To be honest if felt forced - for us as the USA is one of those countries that is on the news when something is wrong there or is featured on films, in which everything is often wrong. It just didn't feel like an issue for which such reaction would be proportionate. It wasn't until many years later, when I read personal accounts of victim's families and watched some of the documentary footage from the streets, that I both realised the scale of it and started to feel empathy for them."
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