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Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Post by wolfgke »

ralfd wrote: post #89
0xdada wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Terry A. Davis, creator of Temple OS. Here's his channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdX4uJUwSFwiY3XBvu-F_-Q/vid...

Clicked a recent video and he rants about random numbers, the lottery and the "whitest of the white scientists of the National Institute of Standards" with a few colorful "monkey niggers" thrown in. ..... uh Okay? Is that guy crazy? In the comments people say he has a 90 day youtube ban.

> Is that guy crazy?

Yes, he is schizophrenic (which does not change the fact that he is a great lowlevel programmer).

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#94

Post by Cthulhu_ »

lobotryas wrote: post #41
dylz wrote: post #38

What the hell is that top comment on the YouTube? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DepFpVt-mIo )

It's a meme. Google "defend kebab" for more info. As for why it's there? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

"herp derp for youtube" is a good browser plugin that fixes youtube comments like that.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#95

Post by executesorder66 »

openasocket wrote: post #62
knodi123 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person I don't judge mania, or schizophrenia. But at what point do you stop trying to separate "the person" from the things they believe and say? He's a schizophrenic, and I can't hold that against him. But a racist, homophobic, antisemitic schizophrenic is just an asshole with a reg…

What you quoted is a textbook example of "word salad," a symptom of schizophrenia. Look at it, it's not even close to coherent. Racist delusions are not exactly unheard of in paranoid schizophrenia. Unless we have information about what Terry was like before he developed schizophrenia, it's impossible to tell if this apparent racism is him or the disease. Honestly, I'm inclined to think it's the disease. I've seen hi…

From Wikipedia:

> Word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but are semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them.

It isn't word salad. Yes it is not perfect English, but I can quite easily understand what he is saying.

Edit: since the parent comment was flagged here was the quote (taken from the templeOS.org homepage):

> Reputation is worth more than gold. Niggers have a reputation -- no fathers. Irish have a reputation. Germans have a reputation. Attacker has the advantage. Jews have a reputation. God said the French once stood for character. (Code of Chivalry) Ironic. I guess Jews did, too. Woah! God is boss. Too bad the Jews were cowards and didn't assassinate NAZI's.

Can you really say that you cannot extract any meaning from that?

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#96

Post by david-given »

tsheikhs wrote: post #16

Cool! This project started out as a way to learn Gr library routines in HolyC, and kind of Frankensteined its way into a game engine. In the coming weeks I'll be doing lots of refactoring to bring the code in line with proper TOS guidelines naming conventions. (Author here: I cross-posted this comment from a reddit thread, hope it isn't against the rules..)

Can you comment on what the system's like to write for? i.e. development workflow, good/bad points about the language, things you thought were cool, things you thought weren't cool, that sort of thing?

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#97

Post by adrianratnapala »

dvt wrote: post #47
peterkelly wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the thing: Sometimes there are people who are exceptionally talented in a given field, yet suffer from a serious illness or disability. The symptoms can be apparent in their physique (such as Stephen Hawking), or in their mind (such as Terry Davis). I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person, but I would encourage…

I've always felt sad that Terry A. Davis doesn't seem to have a very strong support system (family, friends, children, etc.). There are other brilliant people that have been diagnosed with similar illnesses (Daniel Johnston[0] comes to mind) that were able to retain their public dignity while still doing fantastic work. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Johnston

Are you saying that Terry's dignity has been diminished because there is no one around him that censors him?

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#98

Post by Mithaldu »

pkd wrote: post #78
runeks wrote: post #71

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You've got me curious. Who's Terry? And where can I see one of his videos?

One should probably add a trigger warning. He is schizophrenic and not quite himself at times, especially in the comments. Not to take away from his technical feats.

At first i thought that was a bit of an exaggeration, but after listening to him talk in his "What God Wants in Music" video, that is actually a reasonable request to make. He very casually and without warning declares things that might easily make traumatized people relive things.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#99

Post by adrianratnapala »

executesorder66 wrote: post #95
openasocket wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What you quoted is a textbook example of "word salad," a symptom of schizophrenia. Look at it, it's not even close to coherent. Racist delusions are not exactly unheard of in paranoid schizophrenia. Unless we have information about what Terry was like before he developed schizophrenia, it's impossible to tell if this apparent racism is him or the disease. Honestly, I'm inclined to think it's the disease. I've seen hi…

From Wikipedia: > Word salad is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but are semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them. It isn't word salad. Yes it is not perfect English, but I can quite easily unders…

Meaning is hard.

What know I cannot do is construct an coherent or even intelligible argument from the quoted paragraph. I can extract meanings from some of the sentences; but I also can see you have not even bothered to explain your objections to them.

More importantly, it seems you don't even care about coherency. It looks like that to you, if something "feels bad" then it is bad.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

#100

Post by [deleted] »

openasocket wrote: post #62
knodi123 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I can understand why people who do not have direct experience with mental illness might have trouble separating the symptoms from the person I don't judge mania, or schizophrenia. But at what point do you stop trying to separate "the person" from the things they believe and say? He's a schizophrenic, and I can't hold that against him. But a racist, homophobic, antisemitic schizophrenic is just an asshole with a reg…

What you quoted is a textbook example of "word salad," a symptom of schizophrenia. Look at it, it's not even close to coherent. Racist delusions are not exactly unheard of in paranoid schizophrenia. Unless we have information about what Terry was like before he developed schizophrenia, it's impossible to tell if this apparent racism is him or the disease. Honestly, I'm inclined to think it's the disease. I've seen hi…

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