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The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

#11

Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814 , which inexplicably is on the third page despite 200+ points.

it isn't the number of points that determines position on the homepage, it is the number of upvotes per unit of time.

once the upvote rate decreases, so does the story's position.

very explicable.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

#12

They’re one of the biggest forces to have ever existed in emulation, pushing forward accuracy when other emulators were made just to be good enough to play a game, as well as archiving countless rare games. A true legend and they will be missed.

I thought it's one dev who died? Is the whole team gone as well?

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

#13
What is the average age of a Kiwi Farms user? Is it possible that these are all just kids with a lot of time trolling people?

Of course what happened to Byuu/Near is repugnant and horrible and shouldn't happen to anyone.

I just don't understand the mentality of people to do this and not feel remorse.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

#14

Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814 , which inexplicably is on the third page despite 200+ points.

it isn't the number of points that determines position on the homepage, it is the number of upvotes per unit of time. once the upvote rate decreases, so does the story's position. very explicable.

It briefly got to #2 but was deduped with other posts from earlier that hadn't gotten many comments. I guess that makes the algorithm count comments relative to the original timestamp and it fell to page two.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

#15

Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814 , which inexplicably is on the third page despite 200+ points.

it isn't the number of points that determines position on the homepage, it is the number of upvotes per unit of time. once the upvote rate decreases, so does the story's position. very explicable.

The person you're replying to is right, actually (aside from the merging a sibling comment mentions). Twitter links are default downweight by HN.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

#16

What is the average age of a Kiwi Farms user? Is it possible that these are all just kids with a lot of time trolling people? Of course what happened to Byuu/Near is repugnant and horrible and shouldn't happen to anyone. I just don't understand the mentality of people to do this and not feel remorse.

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Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

#17

>Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him . Previously this comment contained an ill-mannered correction of the mistaken pronoun usage. However, this is completely unnecessary so I will replace it with this message, and a reminder that Near used they/them pronouns. Apologies.

It's possible to be nonbinary and use any variety of pronouns. However, the letter from Near's friend used they/them, so that's probably the right set.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

#18

Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814 , which inexplicably is on the third page despite 200+ points.

it isn't the number of points that determines position on the homepage, it is the number of upvotes per unit of time. once the upvote rate decreases, so does the story's position. very explicable.

What @geofft said. Several stories of Near's passing with many comments were on the front page, but got deduped with the oldest which was not on the front page, and did not get bumped up in ranking accordingly.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

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I will never understand the type of self-destructive attacks that drive this. I don't agree with but can understand the logic of attacking some public figure, but one of your own? An anti-establishment, anti-intellectual property nerd? The driving force behind one of the most impressive emulators on the planet? Even if you hate LGBT people you can't ignore it in the case of someone who's doing free work that directly…

I think you might mistake them for some people who care.

A bunch of bullies does care about who the victim is, all they care about is the jolt of adrenaline and the feeling of power an impunity.

Re: The Dev Behind One of the Best SNES Emulators Has Died

#20
You can’t put any weight into what people on the internet think of you. Especially if you have no real life support to buoy you against the never ending torrent of free abuse available if you go looking for it.

Be weird, do your own thing for your own reasons and let that be enough.

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