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I humbly request someone with glowie connections to look this guy up so we can have peace
Inactive Byuu / byuu_nyan / setsunakun0 / Near / David Ginder - "Non-binary" furry programmer who wrote a Super Nintendo emulator, tried to blackmail Null into removing his thread, and is probably actually dead lol
- Thread starter CIA Nigger
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- Oct 2, 2016
Any update on this?
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it's a death record, even if work allows me to look for personal reasons (why I asked, "he's an online friend and we are concerned") it'll still take a while to know. and that's if it's in US records by now.
a while=6 weeks to 3 months
El Goblina
kiwifarms.net
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Oh, Byuu. I want to believe Josh is right, for your sake. 100 pages later...
I legit hope you found some nice cozy real life offline away from all the degenerate kink nonsense that defined so much of your online one at the end. That gender nonsense rotted your exceptional brain.
You have so much more ability. You're squandering it on mind parasites. Sad!
I legit hope you found some nice cozy real life offline away from all the degenerate kink nonsense that defined so much of your online one at the end. That gender nonsense rotted your exceptional brain.
You have so much more ability. You're squandering it on mind parasites. Sad!
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The waiting game is the worst kind to play. Nothing we can do then.
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Happy 100 pages of "Where's Byuu?"!
How much threads will be dedicated to this weeb diaper tranner fetishist? How long will Shitter rave about LE KIWI NAZIRINOS ARE KILLING THE HECKIN FURRY TRANNERINOS? Will Byuu ever be found? Is he dead or alive? Does he spin us right round, like a record? And if he is alive, will Kiwis get mad enough to really kill a troon next time?
Find out in the Byuu thread!
How much threads will be dedicated to this weeb diaper tranner fetishist? How long will Shitter rave about LE KIWI NAZIRINOS ARE KILLING THE HECKIN FURRY TRANNERINOS? Will Byuu ever be found? Is he dead or alive? Does he spin us right round, like a record? And if he is alive, will Kiwis get mad enough to really kill a troon next time?
Find out in the Byuu thread!
heyidof932
kiwifarms.net
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I have learned today about byuu's alleged death and since I knew him a bit I wanted to share my thoughts.
First I have looked for confirmation of his death and found no third party source. The only source is a document that is ALLEGEDLY written by a byuu friend. It is really a shame that kotaku, usatoday and a few others reported his death with no third party source. It just proves that everything we can read online is just pure unverified garbage.
I am glad that you guys are doing the job of looking for legitimate sources.
Now my personal experiences with byuu. I was involved in the MAME/MESS project about a decade ago and met byuu at that time. We have exchanged a lot of emails which I am not going to share (I don't think I still have them anyway). What I can tell is I was very impressed by the extreme dedication of this guy and his noble goal of creating the first cycle accurate snes emulator. At the same time I could see he had a gigantic ego, but he had accomplished that much that you couldn't really blame him. It got worse later when he started his multi-system emulator, and I was wondering how a lonely guy could accomplish more than hundreds of MAME devs, it seemed foolish and vainglorious to me.
I eventually lost interest with emulators and was unaware of his whereabouts from that point.
Until June this year, my GFX card was broken and while waiting for a replacement, I downloaded a few emulators to pass time. I couldn't launch pSXfin so I looked for alternative psx emus that don't require direct3d. That's when I heard of Ares emulator which is made by byuu but I didn't know back then since he changed his nick to "Near". I visited the Ares discord just to ask if the emu was compatible with directdraw, and byuu went crazy over it, suspected me of being a "troll". I was basically asked to explain every single detail about my life just to make sure I wasn't a troll. :[ I lost interest in that nonsense and just left the discord.
I didn't even realize that Near guy was the byuu I knew and respected a decade ago. Clearly the guy went completely paranoid and nuts.
I'm looking forward to hear the end of this story but there is one important point I wanted to make. In his last tweets byuu claims that he has done nothing wrong other than "being weird online". The truth is he was just as wicked, just as involved with online drama and harassment as the guys who were harassed him. This is the true curse of mankind : we can never see our own evil, no matter how blatant it is.
First I have looked for confirmation of his death and found no third party source. The only source is a document that is ALLEGEDLY written by a byuu friend. It is really a shame that kotaku, usatoday and a few others reported his death with no third party source. It just proves that everything we can read online is just pure unverified garbage.
I am glad that you guys are doing the job of looking for legitimate sources.
Now my personal experiences with byuu. I was involved in the MAME/MESS project about a decade ago and met byuu at that time. We have exchanged a lot of emails which I am not going to share (I don't think I still have them anyway). What I can tell is I was very impressed by the extreme dedication of this guy and his noble goal of creating the first cycle accurate snes emulator. At the same time I could see he had a gigantic ego, but he had accomplished that much that you couldn't really blame him. It got worse later when he started his multi-system emulator, and I was wondering how a lonely guy could accomplish more than hundreds of MAME devs, it seemed foolish and vainglorious to me.
I eventually lost interest with emulators and was unaware of his whereabouts from that point.
Until June this year, my GFX card was broken and while waiting for a replacement, I downloaded a few emulators to pass time. I couldn't launch pSXfin so I looked for alternative psx emus that don't require direct3d. That's when I heard of Ares emulator which is made by byuu but I didn't know back then since he changed his nick to "Near". I visited the Ares discord just to ask if the emu was compatible with directdraw, and byuu went crazy over it, suspected me of being a "troll". I was basically asked to explain every single detail about my life just to make sure I wasn't a troll. :[ I lost interest in that nonsense and just left the discord.
I didn't even realize that Near guy was the byuu I knew and respected a decade ago. Clearly the guy went completely paranoid and nuts.
I'm looking forward to hear the end of this story but there is one important point I wanted to make. In his last tweets byuu claims that he has done nothing wrong other than "being weird online". The truth is he was just as wicked, just as involved with online drama and harassment as the guys who were harassed him. This is the true curse of mankind : we can never see our own evil, no matter how blatant it is.
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Do you have any references to Byuu being a bitter asshole to others? I mean, I like the drama but knowing his wereabouts outside emulation sperging can be useful.
Also, you can force OpenGL programs to go software-only using Mesa on both windows and Linux. Performance tanks but in a decent PC you can do PS1 graphics very easily.
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gotta say the byuu section on the kiwi farms wikipedia talk page is fucking hilarious. the kiwi farms wikipedia page is locked, so only people like GorrillaWarfare can edit it, and they'd rather trust USAToday than the goddamn State Department's official documents. The whole talk page is a goldmine.
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"I don't know why he thinks this."
"[...] Kiwi Farms users are speculating."
Yeah, don't think about it too hard GorrillaWarfare! That'll actually take effort.
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Has anybody tried reaching out to the lawyer who Near provided when speaking to Null?
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Attorney/client privilege survives the death of the client, so he couldn't say anything anyway.
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Has anyone considered trying to sue Near for something and contacting his attorney to serve papers on him? If Near is alive and the lawyer is still his lawyer then wouldn't he need to accept the papers? Defamation seems like a decent route imo considering the damage his lies caused.
It doesn't even matter if the lawsuit is frivolous, since all we need is to verify whether or not he is alive.
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Except it would have to be John Q. Smith of such and such an address trying to do the service, not Kiwi Farms user SmegmaSucker1488, correct?
And most of us probably don't want to powerlevel to that degree, I'd imagine.
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Only if the client has authorized him to do so. Also if he's actually in Japan, it would have to be done through the government by the Hague Convention process, which takes months.
In general, though, no, you can't serve someone through counsel unless they're authorized to accept it, or if it's in a lawsuit where that attorney has already filed an appearance. Attorneys are not general agents and are only authorized to do what they've been hired to do.
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What's been so bizarre to watch as this whole event unfolds is just how hellbent people are on declaring 'Yeah he's dead. He's dead. 100% Dead. Totally and utterly' while silencing any and all dissent or questioning to that falsehood. It'll be funny to see him inevitably resurface and see everybody who practically demanded that he actually be dead memoryhole this entire event.
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I wouldn't be surprised if when he resurfaces, one of these screeching whack jobs goes and murders him for fucking up their narrative.
heyidof932
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He isn't dead simply because there is no proof he is dead. That's how science works. There is no need to disprove his death because it was not proven in the first place. The only source is a tweet which can by no mean be considered a proof. By that logic a tweet claiming that the Earth is flat would be a proof as well. There's no death certificate, no statement by authorities, no third party sources.
Anybody believing that tweet blindly is an idiot, especially when the text posted is full of inconsistencies, full of drama and finger-pointing. It's a plain political pamphlet and byuu is insane enough to stage all of this.
There is a way to get a confirmation that this is all drama. That Hector Martin guy claims he got a confirmation from the police. Ask him to provide the phone number of the service he got a confirmation from, then call to get a confirmation. If that Hector Martin guy refuses to provide the phone number, then we can safely conclude that this is all staged.
his tweet : https://archive.vn/Q2LdI
Anybody believing that tweet blindly is an idiot, especially when the text posted is full of inconsistencies, full of drama and finger-pointing. It's a plain political pamphlet and byuu is insane enough to stage all of this.
There is a way to get a confirmation that this is all drama. That Hector Martin guy claims he got a confirmation from the police. Ask him to provide the phone number of the service he got a confirmation from, then call to get a confirmation. If that Hector Martin guy refuses to provide the phone number, then we can safely conclude that this is all staged.
his tweet : https://archive.vn/Q2LdI
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IANAL, but I think it would be an interesting move for Lolcow LLC to sue Byuu for defamation. Byuu or his estate doesn't appear, reap default judgement. If they do appear you'll either get the proof, or he'll have to reveal himself. Lose, lose, or lose on his part.
Downside, is it would require going on the offense and is not without expense and risk. Lawyers are pricey, and that's a lot of infrastructure money to gamble. Also, good luck executing the judgement.
heyidof932
kiwifarms.net
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There is no need to do something as complicated as a lawsuit to debunk this.
As I posted above, there is a simple way to get a confirmation that this is all staged. That Hector Martin guy (the one and only source claiming byu's death) claims he got a confirmation from the police. Ask him to provide the phone number of the service he got a confirmation from, then call to get a confirmation. (you could just say you are an online acquaintance of byuu and need direct confirmation) If that Hector Martin guy doesn't provide the phone number, then we can safely conclude that this is all staged.
his tweet : https://archive.vn/Q2LdI
I am 99% positive he will not provide any phone number because this whole story sounds so fake. No third party source at any point, and all the drama and finger-pointing should have been an obvious red flag.
As I posted above, there is a simple way to get a confirmation that this is all staged. That Hector Martin guy (the one and only source claiming byu's death) claims he got a confirmation from the police. Ask him to provide the phone number of the service he got a confirmation from, then call to get a confirmation. (you could just say you are an online acquaintance of byuu and need direct confirmation) If that Hector Martin guy doesn't provide the phone number, then we can safely conclude that this is all staged.
his tweet : https://archive.vn/Q2LdI
I am 99% positive he will not provide any phone number because this whole story sounds so fake. No third party source at any point, and all the drama and finger-pointing should have been an obvious red flag.