For those of you who have not yet heard tragedy hit the SatAM community when news of writer Ben Hurst's death spread throughout the Sonic community. You can find the first topic on this posted by Nique, a friend of Mr. Hurst's here: http://sonicsatam.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2423

After talking it over with John last night, we decided to do a memorial on FUS for Mr. Hurst. Ben was a great source of information for everything we know about SatAM and the "what would be" third season. He has taken part of interviews, live chats, and was always willing to help with anything he could.

I only had the chance to talk to him a few times, he was a good guy to talk to and willing to do a lot for the fans.

So, we would like to take this chance to allow the community to say a few words, post a story on your favourite episode, post some fan art for Ben. Ive already seen a few good drawings out there in memorial of him. Perhaps when Nique is ready she can share a story or two of what Ben has told her, as they were close to each other.


So post a poem, a drawing, a story.. Or even just a few words of whatever you would like to say. Everything posted in here will eventually be put up into a memorial section on the main site. Ben write some great episodes for SatAM as well as giving us plenty of information on the show. Lets show him our thanks eh?
If you aren't a member of the board just email me with whatever it is you would like to contribute. chief_fus@hotmail.com


I think I can speak for the whole FUS team when I say thank you for your respect, and we look foreword to seeing what you submit.


Paul

This isn't easy to say right now because we were so close, but today I got a phone call from Pat Allee. Ben passed away a couple weeks ago. They think it was his diabetes, which I didn't even know he had. I guess it came kind of suddenly. He even had a doctor appointment on Wednesday but he died Tuesday before he could go. What they believe happened is that he fainted and then went into a diabetic coma. Then he just died peacefully in his sleep, which is how he wanted to go. He didn't feel any pain or anything so that's comforting.

I feel very weird by this whole thing. He was such a lively man. He lived such a full life and he told me numerous times that if he died tomorrow, he'd be fine with that. I'm truly grateful for having known such a great man. I'm sure he's happy wherever he is now. I'm upset but knowing these things I think I'll be able to carry on.


Thanks Ben. It was wonderful getting to know you and hearing all your amazing stories. I'll never forget them and I'll never forget you either. I hope your next life is as fulfilling as your last. And know that all your friends here miss you and love you very much. So again, thanks for everything

So after a bit of planning with the staff we started to do a few changes to the forum. Right off the bat you will notice a new section called "FUS Reviews", and a Sonic Game review forum right bellow that. This is the start of our plan to be doing full reviews of each Sonic Game. Quite the task but not impossible.
In this forum only admin and mods can currently start topics, however anyone can post in them. Going on this, we also created a sub forum for all of your reviews. So if you have a few good reviews of Sonic games, go ahead and post it in there. There is also a catch to this. If we decide that you did a awesome review, you can find your own review highlighted in the main review forum, as well as on the main site. Thats right! You can find your review in a section on the main FUS page.


The other changes tonight is you will notice the Media Forum is now broken into a group of sub forums. This was made to just better organize that forum. Grouping specifics together such as games, movies, and so on. Give it a look over to find which sub forum a certain topic is in.


Episode Of The Month: This forum is now in archive mode and has been moved to the public archive forum. Most of the episodes have been discussed in there, and none of the staff has and current wishes to keep it running. As well as with The Man now gone, no new monthly discussions have been brought up.

There will be more changes in the future, merging certain forums together and so on. But for now this is all.

Thanks for everything,

Paul