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I was just having fun when I wrote it. Just saw his twitter feed... wow...

jtwaleson 6y ago
To be honest I did see some conspiracy stuff on his website, but I decided to ignore it and just focus on the beautiful Flash animations. Not sure how I feel about it.
- smcl 6y ago
  I think it’s ok to separate the art from the artist, so to speak. The original site is indeed interesting and a nice example of Flash web design from the era, the Twitter acct doesn’t change this
  - fortran77 6y ago
    I'm sorry. I looked at this website, and he explicitly blames me and my people for controlling and destroying the country (and the World Trade Center) and wants me destroyed. I can't look away from that. It's sad that that's OK on Y Combinator's Hacker News, but at least I know what I'm dealing with here.
    - superdisk 6y ago
      He's clearly an insane person. There's no use getting worked up about what some digital hobo is screaming.
    - smcl 6y ago
      If you interpreted this thread as an endorsement of anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists then I think you ought to re-read it. To restate in case it is unclear: the original author of the page turned out to have hateful views, but it needn’t reflect at all on the homage that jtwaleson made and they shouldn’t feel bad about it.
- patates 6y ago
  I don't think you should feel bad for admiring his work. I'd hesitantly say that he may have some mental troubles and we should rather feel bad for him, which I personally do, sincerely. It's like how many admired TempleOS.
- lfowles 6y ago
  Whew, "some" is putting it lightly.
kylowinter 6y ago
When trying to recreate the site in HTML5, how did you not notice the big "SOL" button on the flash page linking to his blog about how the Jews did 9/11 and other nonsense?
- jtwaleson 6y ago
  See my other comment. I gave it a cursory look and ignored it and I'm not sure what I feel about that. I agree with some others in the thread and try to look at the "art" separately from the "artist".
- fortran77 6y ago
  Hacker News is full of people who support this sort of thing.
  - jtwaleson 6y ago
    I can assure you that I do not support this.

To be honest I did see some conspiracy stuff on his website, but I decided to ignore it and just focus on the beautiful Flash animations. Not sure how I feel about it.

smcl 6y ago
I think it’s ok to separate the art from the artist, so to speak. The original site is indeed interesting and a nice example of Flash web design from the era, the Twitter acct doesn’t change this
- fortran77 6y ago
  I'm sorry. I looked at this website, and he explicitly blames me and my people for controlling and destroying the country (and the World Trade Center) and wants me destroyed. I can't look away from that. It's sad that that's OK on Y Combinator's Hacker News, but at least I know what I'm dealing with here.
  - superdisk 6y ago
    He's clearly an insane person. There's no use getting worked up about what some digital hobo is screaming.
  - smcl 6y ago
    If you interpreted this thread as an endorsement of anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists then I think you ought to re-read it. To restate in case it is unclear: the original author of the page turned out to have hateful views, but it needn’t reflect at all on the homage that jtwaleson made and they shouldn’t feel bad about it.
patates 6y ago
I don't think you should feel bad for admiring his work. I'd hesitantly say that he may have some mental troubles and we should rather feel bad for him, which I personally do, sincerely. It's like how many admired TempleOS.
lfowles 6y ago
Whew, "some" is putting it lightly.

kylowinter 6y ago

When trying to recreate the site in HTML5, how did you not notice the big "SOL" button on the flash page linking to his blog about how the Jews did 9/11 and other nonsense?

jtwaleson 6y ago
See my other comment. I gave it a cursory look and ignored it and I'm not sure what I feel about that. I agree with some others in the thread and try to look at the "art" separately from the "artist".
fortran77 6y ago
Hacker News is full of people who support this sort of thing.
- jtwaleson 6y ago
  I can assure you that I do not support this.