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Posting this as its the earliest independent confirmation that byuu killed himself. Read Sobodash's comments. Honestly he sounds based.
This was a key clue all along. The stuff sobodash says about Patrick, Dave's ex-husband matches 100% with the recount of events given by the FOIA, especifically back and forth about the costs of cremation and disposition of the ashes (Patrick's emails being the ones in blue Comic Sans).
Now, when I look up "sobodash" and "byuu" on Google, I find
this bio written by byuu.
Originally published by byuu on 2020-03-03 said:
Shortly thereafter, I would finally make my debut on the internet under the name of Shadow. It did not take long to locate the fan translation group RPGe that was working to translate the game into English, which was led by a person (Derrick Sobodash) who was using the exact same name … awkward!
Things like this were rightly discounted, because words from anonymous accounts on blogs are not confirmation.
Given that byuu directly mentions him by name, it's clear that this isn't just some any random anonymous account and it actually held some water. Besides, sobodash had nothing to gain from lying about it, he wasn't making it an us-vs-them issue like everybody else, and even considered the possiblity of it all being an elaborate hoax, although contrived in his eyes.
sobodash said:
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).
That is so evil. I cannot imagine that being the actions of someone I have known and trusted for so long. If Dave does turn up alive, I am going to be very upset because after 20 years I didn’t know him.
I'm starting to see why he related hard to a literal child sociopath "Near".
There's also the rumor that byuu moved in the first place due to tax evasion or something about an upcoming tax audit, something along those lines. This was mentioned by someone else on 4chan but I can't find it.
sobodash said:
Null said the same thing when I attempted to contact him the week after Dave’s death when I had been in contact with the family. I offered him photos of Dave and his husband at my wedding as evidence that I’m probably the only person online who actually knows them both. I had assumed he would dump them on KF and shame me somehow, but he disregarded it. I was contacted by a number of KF users after Dave’s death though. They mistook me for him for a bit but eventually realized I’m just an old fart ROM hacker who knew him.
[...] I hope you find whatever you need to find to put your theories about Dave to rest. The day after he died and the denial stories began, my brother and sister-in-law were being hassled at work by KF users trying to track down any connections to Dave. My brother said Dave just became the Tupac of the Internet: I feel kind of sad that’s proven true.
Now
that's interesting.
@Null you still got the pictures he's talking about, or at least can you confirm sobodash's account of events? Also I had no idea some Kiwis contacted him, or I must've missed it.
He was willing to dox himself and from what I've gathered from these comments he hates Marcan more than Null or KF.
After now knowing this fat retard sat on his fat ass for
SIX hours (11:11 call started, with one hour of listening to the music on loop, then 17:00 until he contacted the police), and considering he lives the closest to byuu's apartment, who fucking wouldn't?
