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Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by Paul-Craft »

OfSanguineFire wrote: post #5

As someone who first knew Terry Davis from Slashdot where his clearly mentally ill posts seemed to get downvoted a lot of the time, it is remarkable to see that the products of his madness have become regarded as real art with staying power. He is like the Adolf Wölfli of the hacker crowd.

TempleOS is actually pretty cool, when viewed as the product of one man's dream. How many people can say they've written a 64-bit, multi-core, protected mode OS that comes with its own programming language? Then, throw in a flight simulator game, just for giggles.

Honestly, if it weren't the product of religious delusions common with schizophrenia, I'd say TempleOS and HolyC would be more than enough of a resume to get hired into many programming jobs.

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by pengaru »

s5300 wrote: post #8

Sigh. Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end. Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.

> Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end.

Yikes. That's some serious deflection from the 4chan crowd, where the trolls came from who made it their mission to completely destroy this vulnerable person's life via the internet.

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by kstrauser »

s5300 wrote: post #8

Sigh. Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end. Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.

That's sad and I feel for anyone whose mental illness drives wedges between them and society. I can't imagine many things more horrifying than to be a sentient mind trapped in a brain determined to play tricks on it.

That said, you can't just let someone with those issues spew awfulness even if it's caused by a medical condition. That's a rough situation for the person being banned but I'm not sure what the less bad alternative would be.

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by [deleted] »

pengaru wrote: post #12
s5300 wrote: post #8

Sigh. Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end. Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.

> Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end. Yikes. That's some serious deflection from the 4chan crowd, where the trolls came from who made it their mission to completely destroy this vulnerable person's life via the internet.

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Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by slj »

pengaru wrote: post #9
meindnoch wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He's also the origin of the word "glowie": https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie

Kind of? he never actually used the word glowie AFAIK. 4chan is the origin.

He coined the phrase which the word is descended from, infamously, on a video livestream

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by OfSanguineFire »

pengaru wrote: post #12
s5300 wrote: post #8

Sigh. Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end. Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.

> Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end. Yikes. That's some serious deflection from the 4chan crowd, where the trolls came from who made it their mission to completely destroy this vulnerable person's life via the internet.

But did Terry fell that 4chan were his own people? He probably felt that the HN crowd was, and therefore being ostracized from them could have hit just as hard as the 4chan trolling.

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by DANmode »

meindnoch wrote: post #7
OfSanguineFire wrote: post #5

As someone who first knew Terry Davis from Slashdot where his clearly mentally ill posts seemed to get downvoted a lot of the time, it is remarkable to see that the products of his madness have become regarded as real art with staying power. He is like the Adolf Wölfli of the hacker crowd.

He's also the origin of the word "glowie": https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie

Perhaps the modern/mainstream popularization.

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by [deleted] »

pengaru wrote: post #10
29athrowaway wrote: post #6

A perfect theme to drive into the glow as directed by the space alien talking through your car radio or the NIST random number generator. But I am disappointed at the blasphemous resolution. We can only do 640x480, 16 colors (4-bit depth). NOTE: corrected

> We can only do 640x480, 16-bit color depth. Heresy! 16-color (4-bit)

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