Tagging and answering the bonuses.
First Video game moment:
Final Fantasy V, emulating it via a dodgy Superfamicom translation back in middle school, with Galuf dying. Mother 3's general treatment of Duster by Wess is also notable, being played for comedy and yet "what the hell no wonder this is never getting officially overseas." (How old is he supposed to be again?)
Celebrity Death
I wanna joke and say Betty White but I was sort of expecting it. Probably Anthony Bourdain for me, I dabble in following celebrity chefs and I didnt really expect that one.
Trilogy conclusion
Eh... not many know the series, but Exile/Avernum. Wall of text approaching.
The whole premise of it is an empire led by a despot mass banishes people for being an inconvenience of some sort or another (including some folks that were "problematic" for being gay - and this was the mid 90s, when the series began.) They're sent to a cave system deep below the earth, and some magi in the initial wave of banished adapt cave flora and fauna to support life, and they create an entire underground civilization (occasionally at odds with other cave denizens.)
Exile/Avernum 1, your party is one of the most recent formless groups of banished folk and you accomplish your goals of assassinating the despot, thwarting a huge demonic presence that wiped a few whole towns out of nowhere, and find a backdoor exit to the surface when the empire had attempted to close every one they could find.
Exile 2/Avernum 2 the empire, led by the chancellor Archmage manipulating the former emperor, retaliates and full on goes to war with the nation fighting for survival. Extremely potent magic barriers suddenly section off a bunch of portions of the caves, and your party happens across the source - an ancient race that uses a bunch of crystals as arcane foci. They were systematically trying to destroy the humans in their own retaliation for their elders, brain-uploaded in crystalline computers, being stolen away- without realizing Avernum and the Empire were two factions. This game ends with blowing up the Empire's mass teleporter, recovering all the ancient race's crystal-brains, and killing the Archmage (and his command center fortress, with a magical wildfire) that's antagonizing the war effort.
Exile/Avernum 3 has you finding a new path to the surface via teleportation experimentation to less dank and deep caves into the countryside of an isolated continent. The backwoods folk dont know much about the empire at large, but as you make incursions to the surface, the various provinces are being plagued by monsters of all sorts - magical slime, disease ridden giant cockroaches, ancient brutal troglodytes and giants, magic-capable golems, and six-legged beasts that resemble a hellhound. This ends by finding out the new empress isnt an asshole and theres hope for diplomatic relations between Avernum and the continent... and also by finding the cause of the monsters and basically going to war with a former ally (guess which faction.)
...I should really play Avernum 4 through 6 at some point.
Sports "loss"
I was living in a fraternity house in south NJ when the Phillies won the world series in 2008 against Tampa and it was fucking intolerable to be around anyone my age that cared about baseball. Someone went down my road and smashed a bunch of car mirrors in "celebration", my car included. Why the hell are Philly fans so destructive when they win?
Random emotional moment
There is a former drug abuser/mentally ill person that's well known in my town, toddling around at all daylight hours in the same style of dirty clothes, randomly yelling out whatever comes to his mind when he's got some kind of stimuli. He's been around at least 10 years doing this, but lately he sets me off because - and I know this is selfish to think it - I hate that he gets to live in his own little world like that whereas my mom retreated into full dementia after her heart attack and died within six months of not being a person I knew anymore.
So yeah that kind of thought intrudes whenever he wanders into work every so often and I kind of need to step away from earshot to not hear him and get angry/lament.