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Game Creator Manuel Otto Dies at 30 in Apparent Suicide on Livestream [Immolation]
People ^ | 10 21 2026 | Luke Chinman

Posted on 10/22/2026 6:09:20 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

Manuel Otto, the German creator of the mobile game Stick Run, died at age 30 in an apparent suicide on a livestream, a spokesperson for the game announced on Wednesday

“It is with a heavy heart that we confirm and announce the passing of our creator, developer, and fellow Stick Runner, Marc-Manuel Alexander Otto,” read a statement shared to Facebook on Oct. 21

Otto was only 14 when he developed Stick Run, a mobile game that remained popular over the next decade and a half

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KEYWORDS: immolation; livestream; manuelotto; suicide

1 posted on 10/22/2026 6:09:20 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

File under “things that don’t affect me”.


2 posted on 10/22/2026 6:15:09 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: yesthatjallen

Attention whore to the last.


3 posted on 10/22/2026 6:27:43 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminisheRs the human spirit.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

4 posted on 10/22/2026 6:30:50 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Pontiac

Speaking of attention whores, I just a report that the Cornell 7 starlet is now claiming she blamed the wrong guy? Whoops. What a fun day this is starting out to be.


5 posted on 10/22/2026 6:32:48 AM PDT by Kudsman (Beware Slotkin the Childless. )
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To: Kudsman
she blamed the wrong guy?

Did she find a deeper pocket to go after?

6 posted on 10/22/2026 6:43:33 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Kudsman

‘Wrong guy’ will now sue her into poverty .........................


7 posted on 10/22/2026 6:49:28 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: yesthatjallen

Go big or go home.


8 posted on 10/22/2026 7:01:12 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m reading that he had just been diagnosed with cancer


9 posted on 10/22/2026 7:02:57 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: All

not everyone can code stardew valley and become millionaire


10 posted on 10/22/2026 7:05:13 AM PDT by VAFreedom
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To: yesthatjallen

What a damn shame. I hope he used a reusable lighter so the next moron can use it as well.


11 posted on 10/22/2026 7:32:19 AM PDT by centermass_socrates (Keep it clean, keep it loaded, and keep it handy.)
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To: Kudsman

She was pretty high on a whole bunch of stuff.

It wouldn’t surprise me that she got a few things mixed up.

But she is still responsible for her actions that night.


12 posted on 10/22/2026 8:54:24 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminisheRs the human spirit.)
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