Hector Martin / Héctor Martín Cantero / @marcan42 / マルカン / @marcan42x / @marcan@treehouse.systems / Asahi Lina / Asahi Linux - Developer of Asahi Linux with a VTuber persona. Made Byuu's death unbelievable. Constantly accuses others of harassment and abuse. Hates Hacker News and Kiwi Farms.

[Doppelmonger]

Thank you for the thread about this gilipollas.

All of Héctor's behavior down to the use of his anime avatar reminds me of another spaniard named Adrián that used to have the internet persona luulubuu: the lesbian japanese uwu smoll bean girl that "worked" at video game companies like CAPCOM; he got simps from the internet and even from NeoGaf and Resetera as the pink haired girl he claimed to be... until he was ousted to be a scammer manipulative and abusive scumbag man that ruined someone's else life before he DFE from the internet.



It really makes you think that there is a pattern with these people…

 

[Coolio55]

Byuu was a dear friend of mine! ...except Marcan can only recall hanging out with him IRL twice, even though they lived in the same city? They were obviously friendly acquaintances at best. Really raises the question of why Marcan (of all people) ended up being the person at the front-and-center of this drama.

Speaking of, does anyone know who owns SNESCentral? They have an extremely similar claim:

https://snescentral.com/article.php?id=1244

I had the opportunity to meet Near in person twice in Tokyo. The first time was when they were effectively being courted by a company to help develop commercial emulators. I flew up to meet them, along with Marcan and Joseph Redon from the Game Preservation Society. We had a great time exploring the gaming shops in the real Otaku areas of Tokyo. Unfortunately, I had a severe anxiety attack. Near had noted how much I raved about the Japanese dish called shabu-shabu, and they treated me to that as a way to make me feel better.

They mention Marcan in the text but I'm going to lol so hard if it's just another alt. The site's on hiatus now due to Asahi Linux- I mean Japanese and running.

E: I vaguely remember this article having more info at some point but this may just me having been distracted by all the "I know byuu IRL" claims. I'll check some archives later...

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

Assuming that this police interview happened, the fact the police didn't contact Null afterwards showed they thought the Kiwi Farms angle was completely without merit.

 

[Temperance]

Speaking of, does anyone know who owns SNESCentral?

A guy named Evan Gowan. Not an alt.
https://snescentral.com/contributor.php?id=0
https://venturebeat.com/games/consoles-that-wont-die-snes/2/
https://raisedbeaches.net/about/

It's good that this part was confirmed though:

The first time was when they were effectively being courted by a company to help develop commercial emulators. I flew up to meet them, along with Marcan and Joseph Redon from the Game Preservation Society. We had a great time exploring the gaming shops in the real Otaku areas of Tokyo.

This lines up with the Akihabara outing Marcan mentioned:

Even though we both lived in the same city, I can't help but regret only having met them a few times. That time at Comiket, the day we went digging through shops in Akihabara... They showed up at an event I was helping run early last year, but I was too busy to notice...

It means that out of the TWO times Marcan hung out with Byuu IRL, one of those times was actually for some kind of business meeting with a couple other people as well, and they all strolled around Akihabara afterward. Not exactly an example of dear friends having fun together just for the hell of it. I would bet that the Comiket meeting wasn't all that personal either; Marcan and Byuu probably just happened to bump into each other while they were both attending the con.

tl;dr I really think Marcan and Byuu were friendly acquaintances at most. Certainly not best friends or anything. It calls into question why Marcan (and the very sketchy Wayne Beckett guy) became the public face of the Byuucide.
It's just too strange that we've never heard anything from any of Byuu's other friends/associates/coworkers in Tokyo - especially if there was a funeral, as Marcan claims! And of course, we've never heard anything from Byuu's husband & family members either...

 

[Ducks Sorted in a Row]

He can go on record as the first human in recorded history to have an IQ simultaneously above 140 and below 80. Fucking baffling.

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

I suspect the police "interview" wasn't an actual interview, but more Hector and a friend trying to persuade a detective that it wasn't a suicide, Byuu was literally murdered by the evil Joshua Connor Moon. To which presumably the response was "of course honourable gaijin-san, we will look into it". Obviously the police aren't going to interview two people at once, without a very good reason.

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

Unironically it’s people like this that I feel nothing about Nintendo cracking down on emulators and mods. Like I know I shouldn’t support major companies and I don’t but these people have serious problems.

 

[Markass the Worst]

He was frustrated when Kiwis called him out on how it makes no sense that the Japanese detectives would confirm Byuu's death to him (a non-family member), especially over the phone.

To be fair, I can't actually find any record of him claiming that it was specifically confirmed over the phone. I think his story from the start was "I had a face-to-face interview with a police detective who told me Byuu is dead." It's just that he worded it vaguely.

Also LOL he just handwaves over why Byuu's company would handle his death proceedings instead of his family. I think the worst part is that he claims the funeral just happened? Without him even attending? So Byuu's family wasn't there either? None of this seems respectful in the slightest to the deceased's family and I doubt that that is how Japan would actually handle it if the deceased had no family in the country.

 

[Ralph Barnhardt]

To be fair, I can't actually find any record of him claiming that it was specifically confirmed over the phone. I think his story from the start was "I had a face-to-face interview with a police detective who told me Byuu is dead." It's just that he worded it vaguely.

Also LOL he just handwaves over why Byuu's company would handle his death proceedings instead of his family. I think the worst part is that he claims the funeral just happened? Without him even attending? So Byuu's family wasn't there either? None of this seems respectful in the slightest to the deceased's family and I doubt that that is how Japan would actually handle it if the deceased had no family in the country.

I thought it was that guy, Wayne something I think, who joined the forum and posted the urn as proof of Byuu's death who called the Japanese police to confirm it?

 

[Markass the Worst]

I thought it was that guy, Wayne something I think, who joined the forum and posted the urn as proof of Byuu's death who called the Japanese police to confirm it?

I don't recall Wayne Beckett ever claiming specifically that, but he did claim that after seeing Byuu's tweets, his company checked in on him, and then the police broke in. This probably means they are claiming they contacted the police (though the medium of communication wasn't specified).

I said it before in this thread, I will say it one more last time. Byuu worked for us. Someone forwarded the posts online to us. People in the Tokyo office went to check on him, after the police broke in, they found him dead, Had hung himself. If it is a lie, he is a fucking good actor! Pretending to be dead for over a week now. I have had the dubious pleasure of speaking to his loved ones!! This is my real name, no aliases. He specifically stated Kiwifarms in his suicide note. Much of the blame, if not all of it, lies squarely here!

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Hector Martin speaking of a funeral reminded me of Derrick Sobodash's posts (archived in this post)

Apologies if this information about Derrick Sobodash's claims was posted before.

Namely (all emphasis mine):

When he died, I was the one who had to spend more than an hour on the phone with his husband, listening to him cry as I tried to piece together the last three years since Dave moved to Japan. None of the retards he had surrounded himself with online the last few years even knew he had a husband or how to reach him, so that was a fun experience. None of them even knew his name: I had to dox him in the middle of the night so police could claim the body before he started to rot.

I had to help his husband weigh the options the embassy gave him for dealing with Dave’s remains while having no money after being out of work 16 months, his meager savings wiped out by COVID, no life insurance policies because young people think they are invincible, and no chance at using Dave’s accounts in Japan until after going through probate, which would take months.

If Dave is alive, that means one of two things:

Both Dave and his husband lied to me, and his husband isn’t that clever by half.

Alternatively, Dave lied to both of us, paid someone in the embassy to call his husband, and then fleeced him out of his funerary costs while knowing what financial hardship he was in (supporting three nephews who he loves like his own children).

1. Derrick claims to have been the one who got police to his apartment, not Hector or Wayne. I could imagine a situation where they all could have done it and each of them played a part in it, but this hasn't ever been explained by anyone.
2. Derrick claims that Byuu's husband (Patrick Tresner, presumably) had to handle his remains, which goes directly against the claim that Wayne's company did it. (Or is it a standard practice in Japan to handle somebody's remains twice?)
3. Continuing with the handling-remains-twice line, Derrick claims that Byuu's husband had to pay funerary costs. Presumably this means he had his own funeral held. So I guess there were just two, unrelated funerals held for Byuu, one by Wayne and one by Patrick, and both of them had his remains (presumably in an urn)?

 

[Kees H]

May be a bit of a power level but I've ran into this guy a couple of times while working on open source stuff, and he's a super annoying faggot who thinks he's the best h4ckz0r evar and everything needs to be changed the way he likes it or he spergs out. You see it in his communication to the Linux project as well, he doesn't like the email patches so everyone needs to stop working like they are for years, and adjust to the way he likes it.

I knew he was involved with DropKiwifarms so I just assumed he was a big sperg, but ofcourse this fucking guy is a weeb, and has a teenage girl v-tuber channel. Why does it never surprise me when I find out people like this are huge fucking faggot autists.

 

[Temperance]

More #DropKiwifarms stuff:

Here's Marcan openly scheming alongside Liz Fong-Jones about going after KF's upstream providers. Also pushing the whole "muh Russia!" thing when Kiwifarms switched to using a Russian DDoS-protection company.
https://archive.li/yuzhU



#CloudflareProtectsTerrorists! Null personally reposted the Christchurch massacre manifesto and live video!

Spoiler: RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

https://archive.li/bj44M

https://archive.li/Hofnf
https://archive.li/cNBHJ

https://archive.li/7awnv

Spoiler: @Fiberhub 😡 @Cloudflare 😡

https://archive.li/aamfu

https://archive.li/vGBSl

Put pressure on Cloudflare's clients and shareholders!
https://archive.li/45Vl7

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Unrelated, but I need a second opinion on this...
Is Marcan actually implying that Byuu's ashes were never shipped to the US? Byuu's family doesn't have them? The cookie jar urn is interred somewhere in Japan?
https://archive.li/hwKnw

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

You see it in his communication to the Linux project as well, he doesn't like the email patches so everyone needs to stop working like they are for years, and adjust to the way he likes it.

To be fair, mailing lists are fucking retarded. They don't play nicely with Thunderbird, it's never clear whether feedback is from a maintainer or some random sperg you can ignore, and it's all too easy for stuff to get forgotten about.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Unrelated, but I need a second opinion on this...
Is Marcan actually implying that Byuu's ashes were never shipped to the US? Byuu's family doesn't have them? The cookie jar urn is interred somewhere in Japan?
https://archive.li/hwKnw
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This is more damning than I realized. Derrick claims that Patrick paid the costs for a funerary, but Hector doesn't even acknowledge Patrick's claim, and only refers to a Japanese funerary. Derrick doesn't elaborate on Patrick's funerary but I would be surprised if he's talking about another Japanese funerary rather than a funerary in the US where Patrick currently lives. Hector is heavily implying that his cookie jar stayed in Japan because to ship it overseas would "be a stupidly wasteful and meaningless thing to do."

These seem to be two contradictory narratives. Who is right here?

 

[Temperance]

Uh oh...

https://archive.li/ngWW6

Unlike many others when discussing this subject, I do not subscribe to black and white views. Reality is complicated. It's not *impossible* for a 20 year old to be in a healthy relationship with a 14 year old.

https://archive.li/FtFoV

It sounds like your friend should've gone to therapy for their paraphilia (which I do support)

Kinda sus, not gonna lie. It's never a good sign when a weeb starts talking about age of consent laws.
The bit about "therapy for their paraphilia (which I do support)" doesn't reassure me either.

To be fair to Marcan, the context for this is that he apparently started drama years ago with a rival Wii hacking group. One of their devs was apparently 20-years-old and in a relationship with a 14-year-old? The way Marcan phrases his call-outs on pedophilia is so weird though. Like he's kind of tiptoeing around it while still attacking the rival dev.

Spoiler: My guess

I think Marcan is a lolicon, but he has convinced himself it's fine because "at least I would never touch a real child!"
In the above case, Marcan heard that one of his rivals might be a pedo, and so Marcan was giddy to have the chance to stir up drama and take down an enemy. However, he knew he had to be very careful about it since he (and probably a bunch of his troon friends tbh) have pedophilic inclinations as well. Hence the weird phrasing.

[This is all just my speculation.]

 

[Markass the Worst]

The bit about "therapy for their paraphilia (which I do support)" doesn't reassure me either.

I missed this before, nice find. And definitely a yikes moment. There's a chance he's saying he's supporting the therapy, and not the pedophilia, but then there's no need to add the parenthetical. And I'm pretty sure using "paraphilia" to refer to pedophilia is a dog whistle for pedophile apologia, because no normal person says "paraphilia" to refer to pedophilia.

Sounds like Marcan is one of those who believes in a "non-offending" pedophile. As in, he believes the only problem with the 20-year-old grooming a 14-year-old was that it happened in reality, and doesn't see a problem with the 20-year-old being attracted to a 14-year-old in the first place.

I missed this because I was focusing on the part of this exchange where Marcan goes like "no no, guise, I'm ackshually not harassing you by calling out these contacting MAPs, I don't condone harassment!!"

He's such a weasel, always accusing others of harassment when they criticize people, but when he criticizes people, he just says "I do not support harassment" and suddenly that makes it all okay by his standards.

 

[Neil]

You'll notice that like half of the pictures feature Cirno from the Touhou series.

He's 110% a fucking lolifag.

Touhou fags in general are insufferable, the only good Touhou fag is Toby Fox, the guy behind Undertale. He seems more fascinated by the gameplay and music aspect rather than the vaguely underaged anime girls.

Uh oh...

https://archive.li/ngWW6
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https://archive.li/FtFoV
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Kinda sus, not gonna lie. It's never a good sign when a weeb starts talking about age of consent laws.
The bit about "therapy for their paraphilia (which I do support)" doesn't reassure me either.

To be fair to Marcan, the context for this is that he apparently started drama years ago with a rival Wii hacking group. One of their devs was apparently 20-years-old and in a relationship with a 14-year-old? The way Marcan phrases his call-outs on pedophilia is so weird though. Like he's kind of tiptoeing around it while still attacking the rival dev.

Spoiler: My guess

I think Marcan is a lolicon, but he has convinced himself it's fine because "at least I would never touch a real child!"
In the above case, Marcan heard that one of his rivals might be a pedo, and so Marcan was giddy to have the chance to stir up drama and take down an enemy. However, he knew he had to be very careful about it since he (and probably a bunch of his troon friends tbh) have pedophilic inclinations as well. Hence the weird phrasing.

[This is all just my speculation.]

>explaining why it's totally okay for a 20 year old to date a 14 year old
>moved to Japan
>is a lolifag NEET virgin who's whole life revolves around computers
Yeah, sounds about right.

 

[Null]

Uh oh...

Nice archive.

 

[Big Bang]

He mentions meeting up with Byuu in Akihabara. Coincidentally, the Google doc (the same one with the story about being on call while Byuu was hanging himself and doing nothing about it) also mentions meeting up with Byuu in Akihabara:

I was in Arakawa at the time of Byuu's supposed suicide while working on another case (I've got confirmation emails of the flight if needed). Police confirmed there were no suicides of foreigners upon inquiry. A while later I submitted a formal request at the behest of the DOS and contacted Japanese police over phone (call logs are somewhere in one of the Byuu threads) just in case Byuu was lying and it may have occurred in another district, but again, the police said that there were no suicides of foreigners. Investigations from the DOS themselves have reported, twice in a span of one year, one by phone and one by physical letter, that they've never received a death certificate from the embassy.

 

[Average K-On Fan]

I think Marcan is a lolicon, but he has convinced himself it's fine because "at least I would never touch a real child!"

This is actually a common lolicon's coping mechanism whenever they get called out for their degeneracy. He is definitely a lolicon considering he didn't even shy away from supporting pawoo.net or Japanese mastodon instance (which are filled with lolicon and shotacon materials, not to mention actual fucking CSAM in some cases), his "questionable" obsession with a Touhou character Cirno if you check out his pixiv account and he even tried to weasel from this through "muh age of consent of this country is 14" for god sake.

Btw can someone try to gaslight his community by these evidences? That would be hilarious to witness.