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Whhhaaaaat the hell? Is this real?
by cschep 12y ago
Whhhaaaaat the hell? Is this real?
- yincrash 12y agoTempleOS has been around for a bit! Definitely awesome.
- bithush 12y agoYup. Terry Davis and his TempleOS are quite well known. I believe he suffers from schizophrenia although I do not know if this has been confirmed by anyone? He is certainly a gifted programmer.
- comrh 12y agoHis entire twitter is devoted to exposing the CIA's "conspiracies". https://twitter.com/TempleOS https://twitter.com/TempleOS
- k__ 12y agoIs he this for sure? Sounds like a fundamentalist and racist to me :\
- mjn 12y agoI believe it is. His old one had more technical content: https://twitter.com/losethos https://twitter.com/losethos
- DanBC 12y agoIf you have "showdead" set to "on" you can read his comments and they show some of the same racism and religiosity.
- icelancer 12y agoI mean the guy is mentally ill. Is he really a "racist" if he's not in complete control of his faculties?
- Touche 12y agoI would say yes. The question is are the rest of us also racist but are just able to conceal it.
- tedks 12y agoYou don't seem to have a lot of empathy, or understanding of delusional disorders. A delusion is a non-real thought that you perceive as true. Things like "I am Napoleon" or "The people on the roof across the street are talking about me" or "The CIA is watching me" are examples of delusions. Schizophrenia is a profound delusional disorder where your entire mind is completely disorganized. Telling reality from the delusions are impossible because they are coming from the same brain hardware. I very much doubt that someone intelligent enough to write a complete OS from scratch would be terribly abnormal as a person. Unfortunately Terry is sick, and unless he gets better, whole chunks of his mind are going to be simply wrong. Maybe you're just projecting.
- Cthulhu_ 12y ago> or "The CIA is watching me" are examples of delusions. Yes it is, it's the NSA actually ;).
- Cthulhu_ 12y ago> or "The CIA is watching me" are examples of delusions. Yes it is, it's the NSA actually ;).
- Touche 12y agoHow do you separate his own real thoughts from the delusions? How do you know which are which?
- tedks 12y agoThere's no way to tell; that said, someone with a strong delusional disorder will probably have very few thoughts unaffected by the disorder, and if you're adequately empathetic, you can be charitable and give your fellow humans the benefit of the doubt.
- notok22 12y agoIf you read through his "rants" section of his website, you will see he's not a racist, he doesn't call black people "niggers", just people he doesn't like.
- AudioGeek 12y agoYes, he does use that term for blacks.. https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/337551685285195777 https://twitter.com/TempleOS/status/337551685285195777
- Mikeb85 12y agoHere's a gem >@ID_AA_Carmack Lots of people think 640x480 16 color is real mode. TempleOS is long mode. God said 640x480 was a covenant like circumcision. I do wonder though, some of the stuff he says not only has high comedic value, but is incredibly stereotypical of both angry disenfranchised nerds and right wing nuts, and has me wondering if it's just an epic troll job...
- dkulchenko 12y agoHere's some more background: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1buh8c/the_creator_of_templeos_appears_in_an/ http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1buh8c/the_c... And more still: http://terry.davis.usesthis.com/ http://terry.davis.usesthis.com/
- lobster_johnson 12y agoHe has some kind of autocomplete window here: http://i.imgur.com/DqeJKNN.png http://i.imgur.com/DqeJKNN.png. The contents has some partial tokenizations that seem pretty characteristic: 'Sblood 'Sdeath 'Snails 'Swounds
- duskwuff 12y ago'Sblood and 'Swounds sounds more like Shakespeare. They are archaic curses (corruptions of "God's blood" and "God's wounds" respectively); they certainly wouldn't appear in the Bible.
- arenaninja 12y agoI can attest to swounds being Shakespeare. It's used by Hamlet in one of his soliloquies
- duskwuff 12y agoLinguistic bonus: the exclamation "Zounds!" is a corruption of "'swounds".
- Crito 12y agoSee also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minced_oath
- thearn4 12y agoI've been following his posts on reddit for awhile now. They're always.. interesting.
- k_roy 12y agoI have too. If you've never installed and peeked at TempleOS, it's worth it. In my opinion, it's an amazing balance of a whole lot of genius speckled with madness.
- Igglyboo 12y agoYes he used to post on HN quite a bit, most of his posts get down voted into oblivion however because few knew who he was and his mental illness makes for some abrasive comments.
- vidarh 12y agoHe still posts now and again, but whenever he makes new accounts they tend to get hellbanned fairly quickly so his audience here is mostly those of us with showdead on.
- gohrt 12y agoI think his accounts got hellbanned, because he posted a large number of non-sensical comments. Objectively speaking, the comments were low-quality as published. To reach a larger audience, they would need some volunteers to separate and clean up the good ideas, and discard the nonsense.
- kalleboo 12y ago> I think his accounts got hellbanned, because he posted a large number of non-sensical comments. A lot of his comments are "words direct from god" as determined by the random number generator in his OS.
- thaumaturgy 12y ago> ...they would need some volunteers to separate and clean up the good ideas, and discard the nonsense. I wish this was a feature on HN actually. It'd be nice if some accounts had the ability to "un-dead" a comment, in the same way that some accounts can flag or unflag posts and comments now. I browse with showdead on and occasionally run across a comment from a submitter where the submitter was hellbanned for a specific incident but the comment itself is worthwhile.