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With the passing of Uemura, and Near (aka Byuu) earlier this year, the SNES has truly become an artifact of history.
by andruc 5y ago
With the passing of Uemura, and Near (aka Byuu) earlier this year, the SNES has truly become an artifact of history.
- coldacid 5y agoByuu died too? I didn't hear about this!
- echelon 5y agoByuu was bullied into committing suicide by a bunch of horrible trolls that wouldn't leave them alone. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657610 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27657610
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- Minor49er 5y agoIt's not as simple and one-sided as this. Here is the response from the owner of Kiwi Farms regarding the matter: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/my-response-regarding-byuu-near.93719/ https://kiwifarms.net/threads/my-response-regarding-byuu-nea...
- pygy_ 5y agoByuu/Near committed suicide following a coordinated harrasment campaign targeted against them, their family and friends, for being openly queer.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoYes it was sad, I heard he committed suicide, he sounded like a very depressed person who had a kiwi farms thread he had previously joked around in, but then threatened to kill himself if they didn’t give into his demands (they didn’t, who expects them to?) as only a pretext. Reminds me of Mishima. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima >His biographer, translator John Nathan, suggests that the coup attempt was only a pretext for the ritual suicide of which Mishima had long dreamed.
- kbelder 5y agoIt's disputed. No real evidence either way, just one post.
- sparky_z 5y agohttps://news.yahoo.com/respected-developer-died-suicide-experts-165758039.html https://news.yahoo.com/respected-developer-died-suicide-expe...
- Minor49er 5y agoYet the death certificate, obituary, etc, have not been shown. No statement from any family members, no headstone. Just a picture from a friend of this alleged urn https://ibb.co/jw4xC0q https://ibb.co/jw4xC0q
- user-the-name 5y agoStop. Just stop. Stop this now. Get away from kiwifarms. It is a homicidal cult. Stop. Stop now.
- Minor49er 5y agoI can't say that I'm convinced by this post.
- user-the-name 5y agoIt is very, very hard to see a cult for what it is from the inside.
- Minor49er 5y agoIt's a big claim, but there hasn't been any proof that he actually died. Thankfully, he's probably just taking a break from the Internet
- Minor49er 5y agoFrom what I remember, he was in Japan when he claimed to have committed suicide. Japan publishes data on US citizens who have lost their lives in that country, and that year, they reported that nobody died. The only "proof" that there was that Byuu took his own life is a picture of this strange-looking urn https://ibb.co/jw4xC0q https://ibb.co/jw4xC0q No records, no funeral, nothing
- umvi 5y agoAre you claiming he faked his own death to escape his harassers? It is true it's hard to find concrete evidence of his death - the sole source of information is a twitter thread from "Hector"[0]. [0] https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137 https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1409176583433179137
- GhettoComputers 5y agoThere is no evidence aside from a Twitter image, and heresay with no records.
- sparky_z 5y agoWhat records would you expect there to be that aren't there?
- Minor49er 5y agoDeath records, often called obituaries.
- modulusshift 5y agoYou seem to have no idea how obituaries work, you usually have to pay a newspaper to carry them, they aren't automatic, and if the news is published widely enough in the relevant communities why would you bother to pay for it? As for government records, vital records are often limited to people with an interest, such as family members, they aren't usually offered to the public. And why would such a person publish that record online? You might as well be claiming David Bowie didn't really die, I've never seen his death certificate.
- djmips 5y agoIt's sad Byuu is gone but they don't represent the SNES becoming an artifact of history nor does a big thread about them belong in a memorial thread about Masayuki Uemura. There are many more SNES emu programmers who will take their place. That being said. RIP David Kirk Ginder.