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Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Do you understand what schizophrenia entails? If it makes you uncomfortable that's one thing, belittling him as a "racist hick" is another.

See my post below. He is a racist hick, who happens to be ill. If that's "another" thing, then so be it. Don't really care which came first. I will not let racists duck undercover of his illness. I stop short of being genuinely​ upset at him, but hate speech is hate speech. Since he has a large-ish audience, his ideas are becoming part of culture. Agree with him or defend him or apologize for his racism all you wish…

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Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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See my post below. He is a racist hick, who happens to be ill. If that's "another" thing, then so be it. Don't really care which came first. I will not let racists duck undercover of his illness. I stop short of being genuinely​ upset at him, but hate speech is hate speech. Since he has a large-ish audience, his ideas are becoming part of culture. Agree with him or defend him or apologize for his racism all you wish…

What an absolutely absurd opinion. I really don't think you appreciate the manifestation of schizophrenia. Would you feel the same about someone suffering from Tourette's for swearing in front of a child? The guy believes lots of crazy things: men in suits are after him, aliens put things in his body, that he has conversations with god about music, etc. He translates random number generators into ASCII attempting to…

Yeah, the sadness really shows. I wish I could share your clinical detachment. I guess I'm too PC (as someone else implied) or ignorant of mental illness (as you implied). Let's agree to disagree about our opinion of Owens. He's a deranged and schizophrenic genius, I get it. We can agree that he's brilliant and is producing something really cool.

I'm not bothered by his racism -- it's too common for me to be really upset by it. What bothers me is how you and others are so quick to point out how cool TempleOS is, and how smart he is, and how his hate speech is OK because he's ill. You've defended him more than you've defended my disapproval of what he says, which is telling. Enjoy his streams, hell -- make TempleOS your default OS and mail all of your friends/family a copy of it.

Just consider that white males happen to make up the vast majority of his audience. Blacks and whoever else he hates will have a harder time than you do sympathizing with his hateful speech, schizophrenic or not. Again, Hitler was a schizophrenic but that doesn't make his hateful rhetoric OK does it? Oh wait, Mein Kampf was recently a bestseller in Germany and we have a former Breitbart editor in the White House. Touché.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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What an absolutely absurd opinion. I really don't think you appreciate the manifestation of schizophrenia. Would you feel the same about someone suffering from Tourette's for swearing in front of a child? The guy believes lots of crazy things: men in suits are after him, aliens put things in his body, that he has conversations with god about music, etc. He translates random number generators into ASCII attempting to…

Yeah, the sadness really shows. I wish I could share your clinical detachment. I guess I'm too PC (as someone else implied) or ignorant of mental illness (as you implied). Let's agree to disagree about our opinion of Owens. He's a deranged and schizophrenic genius, I get it. We can agree that he's brilliant and is producing something really cool. I'm not bothered by his racism -- it's too common for me to be really u…

Wait, who is Owens? Terry Davis is the creator of TempleOS. Please read some of the writing on http://templeos.org and tell me that's anything comparable to Mean Kampf. He's not writing political rhetoric, it's quite literally the ramblings of a mentally ill person.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Can someone explain the TempleOS author's sprite and graphics interface? From one of his videos it appears that: 1. Once a sprite set has been defined the user can manually (programmatically?) rasterize it 2. User can set affine transforms 3. It seems like the boundary between 2d and 3d API is small, or easily traversable, or non-existent. In one of his 2d examples it appears he changes a parameter to get animation i…

I wrote everything from scratch.

I am the smartest programmer ever lived with divien intellect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EDLCs4fBJc

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Can someone explain the TempleOS author's sprite and graphics interface? From one of his videos it appears that: 1. Once a sprite set has been defined the user can manually (programmatically?) rasterize it 2. User can set affine transforms 3. It seems like the boundary between 2d and 3d API is small, or easily traversable, or non-existent. In one of his 2d examples it appears he changes a parameter to get animation i…

Sometimes it is nice to browse HN with 'showdead' enabled, because you can see Terry commenting on these threads. (his comment is sibling to mine)

Terry, keep up the great work! Its super refreshing to see your commitment over the years on such an ambitious project.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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post #150

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What an absolutely absurd opinion. I really don't think you appreciate the manifestation of schizophrenia. Would you feel the same about someone suffering from Tourette's for swearing in front of a child? The guy believes lots of crazy things: men in suits are after him, aliens put things in his body, that he has conversations with god about music, etc. He translates random number generators into ASCII attempting to…

Yeah, the sadness really shows. I wish I could share your clinical detachment. I guess I'm too PC (as someone else implied) or ignorant of mental illness (as you implied). Let's agree to disagree about our opinion of Owens. He's a deranged and schizophrenic genius, I get it. We can agree that he's brilliant and is producing something really cool. I'm not bothered by his racism -- it's too common for me to be really u…

"You've defended him more than you've defended my disapproval of what he says, which is telling."

It's very telling. When someone does something out of mental illness, there is no reasoning them to change their course. When someone does it out of bigotry, there is.

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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Can someone explain the TempleOS author's sprite and graphics interface? From one of his videos it appears that: 1. Once a sprite set has been defined the user can manually (programmatically?) rasterize it 2. User can set affine transforms 3. It seems like the boundary between 2d and 3d API is small, or easily traversable, or non-existent. In one of his 2d examples it appears he changes a parameter to get animation i…

Sometimes it is nice to browse HN with 'showdead' enabled, because you can see Terry commenting on these threads. (his comment is sibling to mine) Terry, keep up the great work! Its super refreshing to see your commitment over the years on such an ambitious project.

> Sometimes it is nice to browse HN with 'showdead' enabled, because you can see Terry commenting on these threads. (his comment is sibling to mine)

Did he give a relevant technical response to my technical questions? If so, are you or someone else willing/able to repost that here?

I really don't want to dig into HN caves and learn about its subculture. I just want to discuss a technical topic that I find interesting (and apparently others do, too, if those little numbers next to the post mean anything).

Re: Mega Man for TempleOS

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When I've seen his website in the past, the crazy religious stuff has always been there, which I can look past, but now it seems like the crazy racist stuff is way way more prominent, which I just cannot.

Completely agreed. I understand that he's mentally ill, and I wish him all the best in that regard. But I can't help but see him as just another racist hick. Super cool project he has, but I want nothing to do with him or anything he works on.

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