Game Over

This morning Nerdcore was gone. Just a line on the homepage—”Game over. Nerdcore 2005 - 2018”—and then nothing.

René had been redesigning the place for months. New Patreon. Automated scripts for music videos and trailers. He was digging back into what made the blog worth reading in the first place. Everything seemed to be pointing forward. So seeing it erased, replaced with those four letters and a death date, hit different.

The Twitter’s dead too, which means this wasn’t an accident. Someone made a choice. With René, that’s usually complicated. He’s spent two decades building things and smashing them apart, rebuilding them into something new. It’s happened before. The blog has died and come back. But I don’t know if this is one of those times.

The terrible part isn’t the shutdown itself—it’s the silence. All these people checking in, finding nothing, waiting for a sign that isn’t coming. A cryptic post. Anything. Instead, just the memorial and the unanswered question: was that actually the end, or just the pause before he builds something else?