Man it feels like a minute since I've been here... and even with a few days to think about it, it's impossible to find the right words for it all, but I'll try.
Leinfors was one of the most fantastic people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting and working with. Not just a friend but a mentor, he taught me so much, basically trained me how to QA back in the day imparting all he knew about game design. However, that's just the surface, he touched my life in ways people seldom get to experience. If I may, I'd like to share a few with you all. I'm pretty open now but once upon a time, before I started with Relogic, I was wheelchair bound, mute, and a complete shut in capable of very little.
When I started joining in on stuff with the beta testers he was there, already helping people. He said he saw a lot of potential in me, talked with me in private a lot and eventually I was added to the team. From there we ended up talking every day (and did up until his passing for countless years!) about pretty much every and any subject, but one thing was consistent, when I had a problem he was always there to talk about it with me, no matter how busy he was. He was the one that convinced me to get surgery and cheered me while going through physical therapy, he literally is the reason I can walk. Of course while working with Re-Logic, it's expected to talk on mic with others which SHOULD be an easy thing, but I've grown up with quite a lot of trauma, but Leinfors... he literally stayed up till the wee hours of the morning many nights just talking with me on mic until i started getting comfortable talking, now I'm a streamer and you cant shut me up, something I never thought possible. But, possibly the biggest one of all, he made me comfortable enough with myself to tell others that I'm transgender, something I was deathly afraid of before.
Terraria has over 1 million overwhelmingly positive reviews, something I always like to point out with him, the games fantastic, but it woulden't be as fantastic if not for the QA team making sure everything worked right, and he spearheaded it. He always liked to joke about himself saying that he had no formal training but honestly... that didn't matter, no "professional" could have come anywhere near what the team needed like he did. We didn't just lose a member of relogic, we lost a great person, a literal legend, and the world itself is a darker place without him in it. It hurts my heart to look online and see his icon there, and even more that his last words to me were "it will get better" but I will etch those words into my soul as his last bit of advice. Farewell my friend, and have a good rest.