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

[A Hot Potato]

Please learn the difference between 'immoral' and 'amoral'. Making a sandwich is amoral. Stealing a sandwich is immoral.

EDIT: you actualy are right, edgepost insult changed.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Please learn the difference between 'immoral' and 'amoral'. Making a sandwich is amoral. Stealing a sandwich is immoral.

Amoral fits, doesn't it? Those journos are certainly lacking a moral sense

This is the usage I meant, their primary concern is power and (online) social status not morality. I'm willing to be convinced otherwise, and enough journalists seem determined to prove this is the case, however.

 

[Stupidface]

An actual journalist (well, Jesse Singal) claims to be looking into Byuu's not-death. (link)
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Ah, the man who had on "Naia Okami" recently to discuss the farms. Can't even research people he's hosting to find out they're pieces of shit who do things like date pedos, beat women, and threaten children who oppose them. I'm sure he'll do a competent job!

 

[annex]

Currently watching the Destiny stream where he mentions that there's a 50/50 chance that Near had a twitch account and that if people can find information that they should either email him (Destiny) or message him on Twitter. The key thing he wanted was to keep it private, so what do people do? They post it on Reddit [Archive], even though it's deleted, Reddit is probably one of the most archived sites with literal sites dedicated to retrieving deleted posts so it's not that hard to find the post pre-deletion. Here's the post before it was deleted [Archive], here's the Imgur link that was posted along with the link directly to the Tumblr [Archive]. The Tumblr post was made on the September 25, 2019.

Spoiler: Since Imgur is cucked

Now someone just needs to find out if he sent a message on the account after his "suicide" through logs.

 

[Least Concern]

Currently watching the Destiny stream where he mentions that there's a 50/50 chance that Near had a twitch account and that if people can find information that they should either email him (Destiny) or message him on Twitter.

Wasn't this alias already known? I feel like I've seen the byuu_san name being used in relation to Twitch before. I thought Destiny was referring to some alt account or something.

At any rate, I also don't get what method Destiny says he has to verify if a user using a certain username has messaged someone. Is it some sort of exploit of Twitch or something? And can it be done in a way where Martin or the urn guy whose name I'm forgetting can't just say "oh, yeah, I had his Twitch credentials and I logged in and sent that for him?"

I guess we'll see.

 

[annex]

Wasn't this alias already known? I feel like I've seen the byuu_san name being used in relation to Twitch before. I thought Destiny was referring to some alt account or something.

At any rate, I also don't get what method Destiny says he has to verify if a user using a certain username has messaged someone. Is it some sort of exploit of Twitch or something? And can it be done in a way where Martin or the urn guy whose name I'm forgetting can't just say "oh, yeah, I had his Twitch credentials and I logged in and sent that for him?"

I guess we'll see.

The alias is known, however, no mention of Near/Byuu's Twitch was made in this thread, it's perfectly plausible you just got it mixed up with another platform (possibly Twitter since he owns the handle on there).

If you've been around the Twitch sphere within the last 4 - 6 years you would have probably came across a service which allows people to search the messages of certain users on channels, these are all services offered by third parties, the most famous website which offered this server was OverRustle but they shut down on the 1st of May 2020 due to "a request from Twitch Legal". In no way is this an exploit, they probably just use the API to find messages and print it to a file or something. But without these services we can't tell if the account has been active or not in chats, that's probably why Destiny is saying that there's a 50/50.

I highly doubt Wayne or Martin would have access to Near's account let alone the password, ask yourself this, do you honestly think someone who is friends with these high up people in the tech scene, who also created a highly sophisticated emulator, not practice, in at least some level, good data security? Furthermore, why would someone with great opsec reuse the same password across several accounts? It makes no sense for them to have his accounts, more specifically his Twitch account.

Anyway, Martin is too busy becoming a "female" vtuber and Wayne is probably too busy pestering the guys at fail0verflow or some random kid on twitter to start dumping the PS5 so he can start selling SaveWizard for $50.

 

[Least Concern]

I highly doubt Wayne or Martin would have access to Near's account let alone the password, ask yourself this, do you honestly think someone who is friends with these high up people in the tech scene, who also created a highly sophisticated emulator, not practice, in at least some level, good data security? Furthermore, why would someone with great opsec reuse the same password across several accounts? It makes no sense for them to have his accounts, more specifically his Twitch account.

It doesn't matter if either of them actually have access to his account; what matters is if they can claim they had access to it if it turns out this account was doing some post-mortem activity.

Remember that these two are either lying entirely about this situation, or they've uncritically bought into byuu's lie so much that they believe the broad strokes of it and are making up tiny lies to fill in the gaps. Either way, they are liars.

 

[AnOminous]

Remember that these two are either lying entirely about this situation, or they've uncritically bought into byuu's lie so much that they believe the broad strokes of it and are making up tiny lies to fill in the gaps. Either way, they are liars.

Hector's ever-shifting lies really point at conscious deception. He really couldn't believe such an elaborate hoax. Either the series of events actually happened, in which case his recollection would remain at least substantively consistent, or it's pure fiction, which is why it constantly changes to fit whatever is needed at the moment.

 

[MoonState]

Wasn't this alias already known? I feel like I've seen the byuu_san name being used in relation to Twitch before. I thought Destiny was referring to some alt account or something.

At any rate, I also don't get what method Destiny says he has to verify if a user using a certain username has messaged someone. Is it some sort of exploit of Twitch or something? And can it be done in a way where Martin or the urn guy whose name I'm forgetting can't just say "oh, yeah, I had his Twitch credentials and I logged in and sent that for him?"

I guess we'll see.

Another Twitch account named byuusan (without the underscore) was mentioned pretty early on in the twitter meltdown thread. Perhaps that was it?

 

[乙乙乙]

i don't think there will be any activity on his old accounts. I'm sure he's smart enough to have stopped using all his old accounts and make new ones.

 

[McSneaks]

So as of 10/03/22 there's still been no evidence found or proof presented that Near is dead, or that Keffals is a man? Damn govmint...

or they've uncritically bought into byuu's lie so much that they believe the broad strokes of it and are making up tiny lies to fill in the gaps. Either way, they are liars.

Impossible, he's claimed actual contact with DUH JAPKNEES. So unless those people are just random people Near had lie and say they're police he's dead (which, who knows who or how the contact was made I guess if you want to give the maximum benefit of the doubt) it's impossible to claim he just "fell for lies".

One strange thing I heard in the big "We won" live stream was Keffals saying 'Wherever you are Near, we won'

Or from his POV he meant rotting in the ground/burning in hell..

 

[Jason "Qriist" Close]

I've been digging on byuu since this Keffals nonsense reared its predatory head. I wasn't aware of the byuu drama when it first kicked off back in 2021 or I would have done this research at the time. Sorry.


Summary of the points below:

• byuusan@gmail.com email is sus
• byuu's company filings were publicly available (or people were at least pointed in the right direction)
• business card logos don't match
• byuu@byuu.org may have been weilded by someone other than byuu.
• fursona in the call picture is way out of date
• indeterminate impetus

The business card in @Null's email chain was the first major red flag for me. Totally anonymous devs massively obsessed with privacy don't pass out business cards linking them to their internet personas. Such a thing doesn't happen, but let's say for a moment that it did: where are the people on Twitter memorializing the little pice of byuu that they have?

The cropping on these pictures are weird, too; they aren't remotely the same. Although it looks like 3 of the pictures were probably shot with the same camera, why bother editing the pictures at all? Why change to a wholly different resolution for one picture? Very weird all around.

	1280x743 (1280:743)
	1280x525 (256:105)
	1528x1944 (191:243)
	1280x960 (3:4)

Moreover, I think the "byuusan@gmail.com" email address is likely fake. Gmail says it doesn't exist. Not particularly revealing since byuu often deleted his accounts. Twitter and the Zsnes boards also don't have anyone with that email.


What's more interesting is that there are zero non-Farm hits on that address. Nobody has mentioned it, ever.

https://archive.ph/dMAuR

https://archive.ph/Y7rQ6

Virtually everything mentioned in the email chain is public knowlodge about byuu. Upto and including byuu's tinnitus reaction to Zoloft.

https://archive.ph/3e6Gi

https://archive.ph/kwpuA

It's worth noting that byuu taking Zoloft is a change from a much older opinion he had on the matter.
https://archive.ph/gMvOE (2012 source confirming that as byuu's account: 4th link here: https://archive.ph/8JWNs)


So how does one find out about the company on the card or get the filings? Byuu himself. He linked to it on his website along with a lot of the material he included in his "resume". The linked site detects/messes with both wayback and archive.today so there's no way to confirm what info was originally there before byuu's alledged death.
https://archive.ph/v9v5F#selection-1063.0-1063.18

https://www.bizapedia.com/nm/byuu-llc.html

It's also worth noting that the business cards don't have his company logo - they have the higan logo. Byuu did briefly use variations of the higan logo for his twitter pfp back in early-mid 2020 and on youtube starting in at least December 2019.
https://archive.ph/https://twitter.com/byuu_san

Spoiler: minor aside about companies bearing byuu's name

This might be a red herring but I figured I'd mention it anyways: there are *three* companies with the byuu name and all were created in a 3 month time span in 2019. The two in the USA are both by the same "Registered Agents Inc" found in the filings PDF you were emailed. The WY one was desolved for (I think) tax deliquency before byuu's nonsense blew up.

I can't read Japanese so I can't really tell what the one in Japan is about; doesn't appear to be game related.

https://archive.ph/MeUan

https://archive.ph/Szsti

https://archive.ph/oPnz2

https://archive.ph/ruog2

Now here's one of the most important parts: there is a slim chance Null wasn't talking to byuu in that final email exchange. Alternatively, there's the better possibility that byuu wasn't operating alone in these acts.

While I obviously can't factually say byuu's alive absent documentation, there are a number of indicators which support both of the above scenarios. Farmers probably know some of it, but there's likely some new tidbits to be gleaned here.

1: In July 2020 he expressed an intent to hand off the site.
https://archive.ph/PY2qS

We can probably trust that noted security cert behavior because byuu echoes it later with byuu.io:
https://archive.ph/NAWGY

2: Then he did hand of the site, along with many other accounts.
https://archive.ph/wzEi6

https://archive.ph/Tc6ck

https://archive.ph/BsBvk
https://archive.ph/tggox

Notably, Screwtape took the domains and Kawa took his discord server. I don't think MerryMage would have the near_koukai account info unless MM was LARPing under the byuu_san handle for many months. Screwtape having domain control could mean him using byuu@byuu.org in an "authenticated" manner. Byuu wasn't using that domain anymore though. He had moved to near.sh (https://archive.ph/BGZex). While I'm unable to find a "near@near.sh" address, I also can't find any evidence he was using the old byuu@byuu.org address, especially important in light of completely abandoning the domain almost exactly a year prior. Someone scraped most of his sites into a torrent within just a couple hours of near_koukai's thread. A cursory search does not appear to contain any email address. I've attached this torrent.


3: Screwtape and Kawa have been in byuu's orbit for at least a decade. As far as I can find, they have said very little about byuu's apparent suicide even in dedicated threads on Kawa's own forum. When byuu is discussed by either of these two they seem to be very neutral, nearly emotionless. These exchanges begin at IDs 858832760738152468 & 858864911509225492 in the bcord #general channel.

Spoiler: some of their accounts

Screwtape / Screwtapello / Thristian / Thristian99
Discord: Screwtape#8372
github: https://github.com/Screwtapello
zsnes: https://archive.ph/p6mwg
reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/thristian99/

Kawa / Kawa-oneechan
Discord: Kawa-oneechan#9325
Twitter: twitter.com/Kawa_oneechan

At least one other KF user has commented on Screwtape's behavior following byuu going MIA:

Looking at the github, the most active contributor to Higan, Ares, and BSNES is Screwtapello, who also has a dead twitter account. He's continued working as if nothing's happened. He created the ares history kit yesterday, which might be the reason the mysterious update is showing up under Ares (as Screwtapello is also a contributor for Ares).

Actually, looking at it now, the Github account called "near-san" didn't start making any commits to any projects until March of last year, when he had reemerged after he shed the name "Byuu." Up until that point, almost all the commits were by Screwtapello. Screwtapello stopped making commits to Ares as soon as Byuu took his initial leave of absence and then didn't come back when Byuu was committing as near-san. The timing seems very odd, and I'm wondering if they might be one in the same. I don't know if deleting a github account would remove your name from all contributor lists and hide all of your contributions, so maybe there are contributions from byuu that are no longer visible.
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Welfare inquisition thread started 1 month before the Great Twitter Meltdown of 2021 kicked off - Kawa corrects the name to Near but never returns even after the thread starts talking about byuu's death: https://archive.ph/c609S


Kawa (Kawa's board) never mentioning byuu's death: https://archive.ph/rKPdw

Screwtape (Kawa's board) never mentioning byuu's death - even when writing about a new ares release on 21-08-07 or about things that depressed him one month later on 21-09-02: https://archive.ph/59E3jI


I did find at least one instance of Screwtape commiting code on byuu's behalf, which shows their working relationship extends beyond just scooping up the domain: (http://web.archive.org/web/20220908...mmit/922a0e420ca85ffe710f28274c71fd6c44f05fb5 - archive.today doesn't like this page)



4: Byuu apparently deleted all of his discord *and email* presence at the same time everything was going on.




It's likely the emails the above people had were not on byuu.org because he had previously abandoned the domain when moving to near.sh. Regardless of if he had access to the byuu.org email it also seems even more unlikely that he would email Null for hours and then delete a server he ostensibly no longer had control over, instead of those 4 that he did. Plus, again, Screwtape owns byuu.org - which byuu reiterates on 2020-11-26.
https://archive.ph/FKegN#selection-6081.0-6105.1

The other sites he ran still functioned until the security cert expired, just like he mentioned in the "Farewell" post back in 2020. Of note, ares.dev was up until at least a week after the WHOIS info was modified in April of this year.
https://archive.ph/https://ares.dev/
https://archive.ph/Bb2Fl
https://archive.ph/3Vylv




Next is another oddity: the alleged telegram call.

There are three things to explore with this.

1: it's probably obvious to everyone but there aren't any dates on or around the call blurb. Why edit that out? The call could have taken place on any day.


2: that icon is massively out of date. Byuu was obessive about branding, often changing multiple site avatars/logos at once. He's had a dozen or more furry icons across his many years in that culture yet the icon on the telegram is from a very brief period spanning late May 2019 to early September 2019.

Artist providing the headshot:
https://archive.ph/TpPKM#selection-6643.0-6643.23

It was so rarely seen that I was only able to find two obscure captures with it.

A) mobile capture of his twitter account
https://archive.ph/wwJyd

that was already replaced by September 14th 2019
https://archive.ph/VCbeK

B) The other is a random tineye crawl
of a random wayback asset crawl
of a random byuu-uploaded youtube video
that didn't get a proper homepage capture until December 2019 (https://bit.ly/3TQhD5D)
by which point he'd already started using the higan symbol
https://archive.ph/oWN37

AFAIK that pic was never on his explicitly fursona account:
https://archive.ph/Dc0SU
https://archive.ph/https://twitter.com/byuu_san

The telegram pfp was neither his first nor his last furry avatar, and as we can see above byuu would change those pictures in approximate lockstep across platforms. It's very weird that he did not update the telegram picture for almost 2 full years. Plus, we know he does like updating his phone pics
https://archive.ph/YVvEL


3: this next point isn't really about byuu specifically, but more about Hector/Marcan42. A few days ago Marcan posted these chats claiming to be from byuu. I discussed them with another KF user in the telegram

The chats posted are bizarre. They have:
- no dates to speak of (again)
- heavy artifacting
- are apparently from an old telegram version
- and were apparently pulled from the android app but published on the desktop.

https://archive.ph/g17Ei

Now lets revist the question of what could have been the impetus for... whatever this was.

Prior to Byuu's meltdown his accounts were dormant since July 9th, with no one tweeting at him in the interim. He's mostly recieving praise and accolades.
https://twitter.com/search?q=(@byuu...id:1408940408592207875&src=typed_query&f=live / https://archive.ph/YkKBL

You have to scroll back to May to begin seeing even slightly anything weird.

This appears to be a medical discussion.
https://i.imgur.com/3tSwFNZ.png

Several days before that was a discussion that in some way revolved around byuu's general attitude

https://i.imgur.com/Y5gDPpZ.png

Even earlier there's chat about caffeine's effect on the mental state. This conversation is long. Seems to last about 3 days.


Various cheers for emulator accomplishments are intersparsed throughout. Nothing on twitter seems to have immediately sparked his meltdown. So lets move further back onto his byuu_san account.

Byuu moves to Japan around early October 2018. (I don't know why the "replying to @byuu_san" text isn't part of the thread text but his name is there if you look at the source)
https://archive.ph/AxVnj
https://archive.ph/lu6NL

As mentioned above, byuu left Twitter around summer 2020.

2020-10-14: byuu returns to Twitter while simultaneously trumpeting, in hindsight, a sort of ominous finality
https://archive.ph/A8Oqr

2020-10-16: discusses panic attacks, intuniv, and directing anger
https://archive.ph/hGbpM

2020-10-16: mentions thinking people targeting his friends
https://archive.ph/tyY9L

2020-10-17: He writes a long thread about 1) hating the people talking about him, 2) concluding things with Bahamut Lagoon and 3) moving on from "byuu".
https://archive.ph/V4PLN

2020-10-22: talking about bullying, and about the individual person he thinks went after him. It's also about this time he puts "Currently fan-translating Bahamut Lagoo." in his bio; that'll be important later.
https://archive.ph/OZXeL

2020-11-12: byuu tears into some rando on twitter but uses it as a springboard to discuss past drama
https://archive.ph/DiRFR

I don't think this is person relevant to any of the past drama. Appears to have just the one tweet at byuu.

https://archive.ph/nop5k

2020-11-12: it's around this time byuu's anger seems to be coalescing around a singular person.

https://archive.ph/Pi8Jx

https://archive.ph/lKiv7


2020-11-26: partly as a result of whatever drama was going on, details his plans to sail off into the sunset post-Bahamut Lagoon. Around this time byuu also amends his bio to add "as my swan song", which is foreboding.
https://archive.ph/FKegN


( lol )


2020-12-05: byuu uses language very similar to that in his final near_koukai thread.
https://archive.ph/4PZ1y
https://archive.ph/lFf4k

2020-12-09: the way byuu describes Concerta (methylphenidate AKA Ritalin) is the way some people jokingly describe meth. Wikipedia lists as side-effects many of the symptoms byuu has expressed before. We know that byuu self-medicates so it's possible he did not have a stable, clean supply.
https://archive.ph/vmoki

2020-12-17: byuu once again echoes a firm finality post-Bahamut Lagoon
https://archive.ph/dvJIg

2020-12-11: long thread detailing how and why he got his visa, and that he is happy with his company. He indicates an apparent expedited visa process which suggests to me that Japan knew him as more than just a random immigrant - governments don't typically deviate from the norm without a compelling reason.
https://archive.ph/R1YYi

2020-12-11: thread detailing a conflict with "Kevtris". I don't know if Kevtris was the person discussed on 2022-11-12. Incidentally notes he was financially comfortable walking away from $400/month.
https://archive.ph/HLBKe

2020-12-16: further statements addressing finality and reinventing
https://archive.ph/DqIOA

2020-12-17: another long thread deriding some sort of emulation scene conflict with "D-D", which then turns into lambasting his followers. I don't know who D-D is.
https://archive.ph/dNope

2020-12-19: byuu describes constant ruminating behavior
https://archive.ph/kwpuA

2020-12-22: "The End is Near "
https://archive.ph/AEUWu


Major takeaways from byuu's timeline:

• he was self-medicating
• burned out from drama
• possibly near the end of his visa
• had numerous battles with people not named Joshua Moon
• anonymous enough that he considered completely walking away to be a valid option

As far as I can tell he has never publicly mentioned Null or Kiwi Farms despite publicly fighting with MANY people.

There are also logs in the #teakettle channel of emudev (which is somehow related and involved with byuu, not 100% sure how) that imply KF wasn't the problem, it was other people at RHDN (romhacking.net). These exchanges begin at IDs 860570186796367944 & 860623186747064320, respectively.


I've attached a zip of bcord and emudev discord logs. I haven't fully examined everything yet and there's probably a massive amount of context I don't know.


In conclusion, there I see 4 possible spins to all this. Each has varying degrees of supporting evidence. While I'm not fully sold on any one narrative, I'll present them in what I consider to be most likely to least likely.

1. byuu is alive; he put long-term plans in motion to completely reinvent himself with the help and knowledge of a few close friends, attacking Null on the way out. This is especially plausible due to being near the end of his original 3 year visa.
2. byuu is dead; he actively planned to commit suicide for a long time and then did. The extortion attempt was intended to clean up his legacy since he deleted almost every other trace of himself.
3. byuu is dead; he spontaneously killed himself during a mental health crisis and blamed Null specifically while it happened.
4. byuu is alive; when he abandoned his various platforms other actors independently used the opportunity to attack Null. There is enough public knowledge about byuu that close friends could have plausibly fabricated the byuu@byuu.org emails; remember, that domain was no longer owned by him. I rank this least likely due to there being no evidence anyone else had access to near_koukai - that doesn't mean no one did, however.

It's important to note that I'm not specifically accusing Screwtape or Kawa of anything nefarious. I don't know. Their ownership of certain accounts, particularly the one used to email Null, raises a lot of questions that are worth probing.


"Sometimes I want to go live in a forest away from all civilization and other people. People scare me."
-byuu

 

[D.Va]

I think you're analysing a business card a little too much lmao. business cards are cheap to make and people will make vanity ones without their real name on them. I have some.

 

[Jason "Qriist" Close]

I think you're analysing a business card a little too much lmao. business cards are cheap to make and people will make vanity ones without their real name on them. I have some.

That's entirely fair. I might be. My point is, it doesn't fit his pattern of being absolutely paranoid.

 

[Markass the Worst]

It's worth noting that July 2020 was when the gay Discord deal with CIA Nigger took place to delete this very thread (which worked until Dear Feeder noticed and undeleted it). That's also around the same time he handed off his website, plus all of the ominous "end is near" subtle messages he wrote happened after that (and the talk about drugs, mental health and depression, though he's claimed various mental issues since the beginning of his career). Then September 2020 was when he tried to get it taken down again and emailed Null but got denied because of the gay stunt he pulled in July.

It seems to me in July 2020 he decided to take steps to wipe all traces of him from the Internet, for what reason I do not know. Though in the final email exchange between him and Null, he cites 3 things to justify his suicide threat (2 of which happened before or during July 2020):

• A pastebin dox someone posted on /emugen/ in February 2020. I have been unable to find this in 4chan archives, the closest I could find was a pastebin of eccentric emudev names to discuss but didn't contain any dox. Byuu claims that a person named Talarubi cut ties with him over this. Interestingly enough the Talarubi account doesn't seem to have been active since May 2020, which hints at them possibly changing accounts.
  
  There's really not much to go off of from this account, but this tweet in February 2020 might be related?
  
  source (a)
• In July 2020, @Basil II and @RetroCrab making a thread on Arisotura, a trans emudev figure "while she was suicidal".
• The thread on CIA Nigger that was created in January 2021 (which contains his dox).

This all raises more questions than answers.

 

[Jason "Qriist" Close]

Byuu claims that a person named Talarubi cut ties with him over this. Interestingly enough the Talarubi account doesn't seem to have been active since May 2020, which hints at them possibly changing accounts.

That Talarubi account hasn't posted anything in literal years, but has been occasionally liking furry things, even as recently as July 2022. So, the account hasn't been fully abandoned.
https://archive.ph/dAbMq

 

[Octopi]

I'm very intrigued by the mention of Concerta. IIRC Ritalin is straight up banned in Japan, even to bring in on a prescription, and for Concerta, doctors need a specific licence to prescribe it. I think they can only prescribe a month's supply at a time, too.

In a country like Japan I don't see how he'd be getting a hold of it under the table, but unless he had raging ADHD it seems unlikely he'd really be prescribed it over there, from experience. Odd.

 

[Big Bang]

I'm very intrigued by the mention of Concerta. IIRC Ritalin is straight up banned in Japan, even to bring in on a prescription, and for Concerta, doctors need a specific licence to prescribe it. I think they can only prescribe a month's supply at a time, too.

In a country like Japan I don't see how he'd be getting a hold of it under the table, but unless he had raging ADHD it seems unlikely he'd really be prescribed it over there, from experience. Odd.

Dexamphetamine is illegal to import; methylphenidate (Ritalin, Concerta, etc) is not. However, he would have to find a doctor in Japan to prescribe it to, as doctors will not allow more than a one month's supply of methylphenidate to be filled at a time due to its category. Concerta is not a 'hell of a drug' when used properly, implying that Byuu may have been taking it improperly. It doesn't keep you up longer than 12 hours at a time with extended release (assuming you have the OROS version and not the generics). If you're taking it consistently, you can get a solid work day out of it, but not anything crazy.

 

[blargenheimer]

I think you're analysing a business card a little too much lmao. business cards are cheap to make and people will make vanity ones without their real name on them. I have some.

Business cards are also common in Japanese business culture, though without his real name, any Japanese, and maybe also the higan branding I'm doubting that influence. For personal use, however, it is exposing little more than his online profiles, and the remainder can be tossed in a fire later. The +1 phone number is a minor indication of international accessibility. Maybe he carried different versions of it. It would give him cred to network if he did want to work with game studios officially.

I can't say that he was suicidal while living an admitted grand life. He was either going full resident weeb or returning to the US, and possibly crippling under mental illness. He wanted to tie up embarrassing loose ends, specifically this thread knowing full well this would explode if it remained, but the tradeoff would be he would have the perfect cover story to disappear under. On one hand such social engineering would exceed that of autism, but on the other hand only a sociopath could realistically succeed at it.

 

[mrpatapon]

@Qriist Thanks for updating this thread with a very in depth analysis on what I would like to dub as "The Byuu Conspiracy".

Personally, I'm more interested in the mystery of who Byuu/Near even is because unlike a lot of other lolcows on this forum Byuu/Near has done a good job keeping himself annonymous and not oversharing too many personal details that could be used to dox him.

I think the saddest thing about this is that no one actually cares about who the real Byuu/Near is. The worst thing about Twitter and social media is how much it forces everyone to be a type, to fall into a categorized label or group identity. That's why most people reading about this conflict don't go further beyond "poor transgender developer bullied to death by Nazi Alt-right forum" to see the BS and strangeness surrounding the whole situation.

My theory is that not only is Byuu still alive, it was his so-called "friends" who were the ones responsible for spreading the lies about his death to exploit him for internet clout and to attack the farms. He never really intended to go through with the suicide after trying to threaten and bribe Null, he was just going through a dark moment in his life and needed to shut himself off from the internet.

Anyway keep up the good work, hopefully we'll see a satisfying conclusion to the Byuu Conspiracy story arc. It would be a shame if no one were to find the truth behind Byuu's mysterious disappearance. I'm actually hoping/wishing that Byuu not only reveals himself to be alive this whole time, he will also chastise everyone involved in the drama for exploiting his name while not actually caring for his actual well-being, and that they were never his friend to begin with.