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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

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Post by RickJWagner »

notRobot wrote: post #3

> Kiwi Farms was spun off from CWCiki, a wiki focused on Chris-Chan. They're a forum focused on cyberbullying other people. They especially tend to focus on people who are in vulnerable groups. For example, Byuu as far as I know, identified as non-binary, which is why they started harassing him. It seems like they're a major catalyst for this situation. Wow. A forum of people that bullies vulnerable people until they…

It has to start with very public campaigns showing that cyber-bullying just isn't acceptable.

So maybe start with Christy Tiegen. Or Chris Evans. Jim Carrey. Some big names. They've all bullied people, including school children.

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

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Post by sodality2 »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #49
sodality2 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was not the eulogy quoted. Regardless, that was absolutely not my intention. I meant to highlight the pronoun misuse because I've seen a handful of comments here misgendering them, and it's really sad to see that happening to someone who just passed. My apologies if it came across as rude or tone-deaf. I attempted to edit after but I am on a mobile client that doesn't support it, nor even deleting comments.

I’ve always been curious, is this intentional correcting of seemingly innocent mistakes actually something that non-cis people care about? There’s asshole intentional misgendering and there are legitimate accidents, which can be a slip of the tongue (I regularly misgender people accidentally, despite wanting to be respectful, I put it down to many decades of cis programming which I now need to undo). As a gay man I’m…

>is this intentional correcting of seemingly innocent mistakes actually something that non-cis people care about?

By care about, do you mean "do they want it to be done" or "do they mind if it's done"?

I have trans friends who have asked me in the past to correct people on their behalf privately because they don't want to make a big deal out of it. I do believe it was an innocent mistake.

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

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Post by smoldesu »

hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #52
iameli wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They well might be, realistically. Other similarly-atrocious sites that were eventually shut down by Cloudflare had a lot of trouble finding new hosts.

In addition, the dark web would result in them losing a large portion of their user base, both at the initial switch over, but also over time as existing members leave.

Decentralized =/= dark web. Who's going to stop them from setting up a Mastodon instance, or making an invite-only Matrix server?

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

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Post by wildflying »

arp242 wrote: post #56
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Near attributes the owner of the site as a key cause of their suicide. It sounds like they made efforts to contact the website to remove the offending threads. Did you even read the article?

Yes, of course I read it. And I found the email exchange with Null and them as well, the letter their friend wrote, some other things on Twitter, this HN thread, the other HN thread, skimmed a bit on that KiwiFarms thread. There was a fairly short thread with a bunch of people not being very nice, but that's about it, then nothing for a year, and then Near came back with "I will give you my life savings if you remove…

> that doesn't mean you did anything wrong, and even if you did, doesn't mean that you singularly caused my suicide.

I means, if you kept saying what he did was wrong, that what he did pushed multiple people to suicide in the past, and that you went as far as offering your life saving in hope to make it stop.... and he kept going... I kind of think he did something wrong and he is responsible.

Once you are aware of how you hurt someone, and you keep doing it knowing that... well yeah you are responsible for that damage, even if in other cases it doesn't hurt.

All of this is way beyond that too. Theses kinds of forums dehumanize people, and that's where it goes too far. Sure Near could have avoided KiwiFarms, but once someone has been dehumanized, once he is no longer someone, but just a joke, it's easy to keep going once you are outside of there. Maybe a huge majority of the members keep it on the forum only (doubt it, but possible), but for sure a some use that as fuel to keep going.

What about all the doxing too? I have an hard time seeing how you could justify that.

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

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Post by mxmilkiib »

sodality2 wrote: post #63
hsbauauvhabzb wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve always been curious, is this intentional correcting of seemingly innocent mistakes actually something that non-cis people care about? There’s asshole intentional misgendering and there are legitimate accidents, which can be a slip of the tongue (I regularly misgender people accidentally, despite wanting to be respectful, I put it down to many decades of cis programming which I now need to undo). As a gay man I’m…

>is this intentional correcting of seemingly innocent mistakes actually something that non-cis people care about? By care about, do you mean "do they want it to be done" or "do they mind if it's done"? I have trans friends who have asked me in the past to correct people on their behalf privately because they don't want to make a big deal out of it. I do believe it was an innocent mistake.

As enby and trans, I've voted your first (edited) and second comments back up.

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

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Post by blooalien »

me_me_me wrote: post #57
blooalien wrote: post #51

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> "How many more people need to die before anything changes?" I've come to realize that the sad answer to that question is: All the people everywhere… Humanity is a toxic planetary parasite. :(

No its not. There are many people that give more then they take, who are always there for others. And there are also sad, damaged people who somehow convinced themselves that to make sense of their suffering they need to hurt others. Internet made them create a 'community' and they feed each-others' hate to create this toxic sewer. But this is outlier. If I walk down my street and ask a stranger to help me move somet…

Sadly, my own personal experience (especially in recent years) is that politics and money appear to be more important to most modern humans than literally anything else; Even human life is worthless if you're on the wrong side of a political line, or your pockets don't contain enough money. At least that seems the case in so-called "developed" nations like the USA.
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