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

[Markass the Worst]

If he was staying more than three months, he'd have had to have registered in his town with an address.

He was there since 2018 but then that brings us to the problem of getting past the Japanese language barrier.

 

[AnOminous]

One of the things that stuck with me through this whole retarded ordeal was how many times Hector claimed that hard evidence wouldn't matter to us, and no amount of the "proof" he claimed to have would influence us.

And now we know the real reason he wouldn't produce evidence, other than quite possibly he didn't have it, was that he knew it would make him look like an absolute monster and the last person with any clear chance to intervene, yet he chose to wait until it was absolutely certain the guy was dead to call anyone. Why? What was his motivation in doing that?

 

[Hall of Cost Payer]

For this task you most often have the homebrew game wikis and reverse engineered code of some more common games. That is a good starting point, but almost always (especially when making an emulator for a completely new system) you have to continue that work to make sure you have every single detail. Writing a game that can run on the console means that you need to know as much as your game will use. Writing an emulator means that you aim to recreate the machine in so much detail that it can run any game ever conceived for it.

This is not really true. An emulator means just being able to execute the game on your PC.

Say, for example the N64. It has a graphics processor that works different from the graphics processors in modern PCs. But Nintendo gave developers back there software that ran on that processor and the people making the game used that. So some emudevs just recreated the rough functionality of this Nintendo program.

This is calles High Level Emulation or HLE. But of course this means that games made by autist gamedevs who wrote their own programs for the GPU can't be played that way. Recreating the hardware features of a console is called Low Level Emulation or LLE. And this second one is what Byuu did.

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The reason that emulator devs are lolcows so often is in my opinion: Writing an emulator means spending your time and effort on a product by a company, often a multi-billion dollar corporation. Of the many programmers out there, not that many pursue open source projects in their free time. Less are writing big projects in their free time and emulators are big projects.

Also these projects mean less creativity. If you write your own game engine, contribute to a new niche operating system or a Linux window manager, you can make decisions, change the functionality if that makes more sense. For an emulator that isn't the case, you basically have a huge specification you have to fulfill.

This mainly leaves the technology loving speds and autists. Those aren't really known for their social skills.

 

[Devout Muslim]

so what was his steam handle?

 

[FredTheGreat]

I don't think we can dispute the validity of the documents (although any journalist reporting on them without official confirmation would be negligent) and there's stuff in here - specifically asking about a suicide note - that is corroborated by those documents. This and other details paints a picture of a sweet, simple man whose husband basically exploited his lack of intelligence to manipulate him into running him around for transition surgery while lying about his plan to troon out, then either they got audited or they sold the house so the husband could raise his three orphaned nephews, and Byuu then ran off to Japan and effectively ignored his husband while circling further into the depths of being terminally online, letting his husband struggle to raise three children while providing little to no support. Oh and then to cap it off, the guy ends up out of work due to covid and probably did some sort of simple job that meant he couldn't easily find another (since so many unskilled workers were left fighting over the scraps).

The man is devastated that Byuu didn't even say goodbye, and his parting note was to some random online weirdo who didn't even know Byuu was married, who listened to him announce he was suicidal and taking an overdose - and didn't alert the authorities until HOURS and HOURS after he died (and didn't know Byuu well enough to know his address).
Have you ever deal with intestacy? When someone dies without a will? It is a nightmare. Not only are you bereaved and having to go through probate, everything is more complicated because there's no will. Now try doing that in a foreign country in a different timezone with completely different bureaucracy that speaks an utterly incomprehensible language when you have no money.

He wanted Byuu cremated in Japan and scattered somewhere beautiful that Byuu liked. That's not because he didn't give a fuck. It's because he was heartbroken that the love of his life was a selfish venial man who didn't give a shit about him. It reads to me that he wanted to selflessly try to honour Byuu's last wishes - Byuu obviously had no desire to return to Ohio, no links back to the home country with his estranged family all dead, and the only seemingly meaningful connections - his husband and this sobodash person - viewed as irrelevant. So let him stay in a scenic grove overlooking the sparkling waters of Tokyo Bay, maybe somewhere Byuu went to get away from all the hustle and bustle because he obviously didn't do well around crowds. Except the correspondent basically says in those documents that Byuu never travelled and so didn't have anywhere "he liked to go", he just sat in his room talking to internet strangers who knew nothing about him while eating illegal estrogen tablets.

Reading this makes it so obvious that Sobodash and Near's estranged husband were the only two people in his life that really cared about him as David Ginder, and not as Near.

Also I find it interesting that Sobodash blamed the trans community for Near's death far more than Kiwifarms.

It’s hard to say how much you can ever really know someone. Dave appears to have lied to his husband about his intentions with trying to transition. He was advised by the people online who were mailing him hormones of how he could find a doctor and pay him cash after hours to have his testicles removed. No psychological screening necessary. No record. His husband took him for that surgery and told me how scared he was, but he trusted Dave and believed him that it wasn’t about gender reassignment. And after he left for Japan he was getting all these hormones and mood-altering drugs handed to him by random people online and medicating himself with no supervision.

Knowing what that kind of medication does to people’s stability and ability to think rationally, I believe that was the cause of his incredibly irrational behavior in contacting Joshua Moon on the night of his death. His total lack of fear about me doxxing him is another red flag to me that he was sick and not thinking.

That said, I do believe Near thought Kiwifarms was the cause of many of his problems, but any 3rd party observer that isn't deep in the trans cult can see a more obvious source. This guy had destroyed his own body and ruined what little real-life connections he had, so all he had left to live for was his online life. If he had never fallen into a weird furry/trans rabbit hole and destroyed his life, he would still be alive today. His problem was being too online.

I think this tweet from his final twitter thread is the most telling.

The internet is not a game. It's real life. I'm a real person. This stuff really hurts. I poured my entire life into this. I have no real-life friends, I have no other reason for being. Only this. And now I have nothing.

I honestly think Near's story would make a great documentary/movie. You would start the movie with his death and trace back his online/real life footprint. You could first focus on his real life, and how he was bullied growing up and left his parents at 16. Then, you would cover his happier moments, and go through some highlights like him getting married and gaining a bit of fame online for his emulator. After that you could show his slow implosion and the way his furry/trans friends convinced him to cut off his dick and take hormones, This, plus his tax problems, contributes to him leaving his husband and moving to Japan, where he dies alone in a small apartment, talking to one of his online "friends" in a call shortly before he hangs himself. In the end, years after he died, the only people online that really cared enough to put his whole life story together were the posters on the dox site that he claimed to hate.

I'm telling you this could win an Oscar in the right hands. It's a real cautionary tale.

 

[ayamaru]

I finally had a chance to read quickly the docs obtained by Dear Leader.
One of the most important pieces of information was the name of byuu's employer, Cyber Gadget, www.cybergadget.co.jp.
Cyber Gadget has a product named retro freak, https://archive.ph/TlfeS ...
byuu's original 'dox' by CIA Nigger has information about issues with the license of various emulators. So I did a quick Google search and found this long article 'The retro gaming industry could be killing video game preservation', https://archive.ph/Jc0Er. The author interviewed byuu.
Did byuu want his 'dox' to be nuked because he didn't want Kiwi Farmers to dig more about licensing issues of emulators?
Just my 2 cents.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Why? What was his motivation in doing that?

He looks like the sort of sociopath who would encourage someone to end it all for his own freakish pleasure.

 

[AltisticRight]

on updated FOIA information for a year

171 is a 1/10 of the tranny cocks you gobbled down last week, and not even half a year.
You petulant fucking faggot.

 

[David Kirk Ginder]

I'm convinced that one of the factors that led to Byuucide was his finishing of the BSNES. This was a huge project that took an enormous amount of work and once he finished it, his life was filled with a vacuum. Such a shock could be lethal or psychosis-inducing alone.

From reading his words, I get the impression he worked on BSNES not out of enjoyment but out of some misplaced duty to the scene. I think Byuu has hinted that he considered what he did wasted, and his life wasted.

Another factor was his "social" circle where he had no real world friends and was filled with the same kind of autists, so there was nobody to slap him in the back and say "good work". There was absolutely no need for a cycle accurate SNES emulator, for the 99.9% of people it brings nothing new in terms of games.

Yep, by the time he completed the BSNES project, he already had a toxic relationship with the emulation community so any praise or acknowledgements of his achievements would be minimal. And most people (95%?) used Zsnes or Snes9x so they didn't even know or care anyway. Imagine spending half your life on completing something and receiving next to no feedback.

The third factor was that he was a degenerate furry gaijin in a country of traditional values. He was sticking out like a sore thumb and his negative social skills made this even worse. I'm quite sure there could be weeks where he has not talked to other people outside work. His online friends were a cult who coerced him to start taking hormones that catastrophically alter everything about your body.

Japan is heaven for introverts. As a gaijin, theoretically you can do your own thing and nobody will bother you, as long as you obey the law and show some attempt at understanding local Japanese culture. Byuu, as a homestuck loner programmer NEET-type, should thrive, but I don't think he was an introvert as he still wanted social interaction. Problem is his bad social skills, his online Troon friends who were a negative influence, and the language and cultural barriers between Byuu and the Japanese.

He concluded he has no purpose anymore, and started a chain of bad decisions which ended around 1 pm on June 27, 2021 as he woke up for the last time and hanged himself on an extension cord. In the circumstances and mental state he was, it would be hard to not kill oneself.

It's hard to find a single catalyst that made Byuu decide to kill himself because there were so many factors. Maybe it was all of them at the same time. I would agree with the conclusion that he had no purpose for living anymore. I think the BSNES project and maybe the Bahamut Lagoon translation project (the 21 year project that completed the same year he died) were his coping mechanisms, to distract him from the negatives plaguing his life.

It's not all bad in Byuu's life though. He had a contribution to Stephen Hawking's voice module or something that he received mainstream media attention for so surely that must be some life-fuel.

 

[Peru oso donas]

Many people in this thread are implying that Byuu was a MtF trans person, saying he went for the chop, took hormones, and identified as female. However, i explicitly remember that Byuu was actually one of those "non binary/any pronouns" troons by what some people said when the news of his attempt at extorting Null and suicide were still new, as well as people like Keffals and Hector never referring to him with she/her, and now i wonder, was Byuu actually a MtF? Or are people just assuming that based on the company he kept?

 

[REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!]

He looks like the sort of sociopath who would encourage someone to end it all for his own freakish pleasure.

I would not be surprised if Marcan has a recording of the suicide call which he jacks off to. The only thing that matters in their world is the coom. They are trying to burn ours for the coom. You cannot convince me that Marcan was anything less than rock hard while pushing Ginder to kill himself. Fuck them both, nothing of value was lost.

 

[Toilet seats vendor]

Many people in this thread are implying that Byuu was a MtF trans person, saying he went for the chop, took hormones, and identified as female. However, i explicitly remember that Byuu was actually one of those "non binary/any pronouns" troons by what some people said when the news of his attempt at extorting Null and suicide were still new, as well as people like Keffals and Hector never referring to him with she/her, and now i wonder, was Byuu actually a MtF? Or are people just assuming that based on the company he kept?

He took DIY estrogen but he later stopped doing that, iirc he wasn't satisfied with the results

 

[analrapist]

Many people in this thread are implying that Byuu was a MtF trans person, saying he went for the chop, took hormones, and identified as female. However, i explicitly remember that Byuu was actually one of those "non binary/any pronouns" troons by what some people said when the news of his attempt at extorting Null and suicide were still new, as well as people like Keffals and Hector never referring to him with she/her, and now i wonder, was Byuu actually a MtF? Or are people just assuming that based on the company he kept?

There was an anecdote posted by someone about bringing Byuu to have his gonads removed. This would explain a lot.

 

[David Kirk Ginder]

Many people in this thread are implying that Byuu was a MtF trans person, saying he went for the chop, took hormones, and identified as female. However, i explicitly remember that Byuu was actually one of those "non binary/any pronouns" troons by what some people said when the news of his attempt at extorting Null and suicide were still new, as well as people like Keffals and Hector never referring to him with she/her, and now i wonder, was Byuu actually a MtF? Or are people just assuming that based on the company he kept?

I don't know much about Byuu's troon status but it is true at one point he considered himself non-binary with they/them pronouns but this was a half-hearted attempt at acceptance. The only reason he became non-binary was because he was

"desperate to fit in somewhere"

and by his own admittance (from his emails to null if I remember correctly), he's no longer non-binary.

 

[Markass the Worst]

and by his own admittance (from his emails to null if I remember correctly), he's no longer non-binary.

He can detransition but he can't un-castrate himself.

 

[Hall of Cost Payer]

Many people in this thread are implying that Byuu was a MtF trans person, saying he went for the chop, took hormones, and identified as female. However, i explicitly remember that Byuu was actually one of those "non binary/any pronouns" troons by what some people said when the news of his attempt at extorting Null and suicide were still new, as well as people like Keffals and Hector never referring to him with she/her, and now i wonder, was Byuu actually a MtF? Or are people just assuming that based on the company he kept?

These two tweets are in the OP:

He took DIY estrogen but he later stopped doing that, iirc he wasn't satisfied with the results

There was an anecdote posted by someone about bringing Byuu to have his gonads removed. This would explain a lot.

So, one of the hormonal components mentally ill men, who say're trans, do is suppressing their testosterone. And from what I understand (especially retweeting memes about spironolactone) is that that's what he did DIY. But ever since he had himself neutered, he didn't have to do this anymore.

Many MtF go for vaginoplasty, aka letting a butcher model a vulva from their genitals, but David didn't do that. The medication mentioned in the documents also doesn't include Estrogen, which is mtf trannies love to take.

And lastly, since he called himself "David" in the final Twitter thread, we can assume he wasn't MtF aka pretending to be a woman. Even if Marcan wrote that thread, Matcan probably would've any female name Byuu might have used to push the trans agenda, but he didn't.

So we can safely assume David was MtE trans or: Male to Eunuch or male to agender.

 

[Zaxamus]

Oppps! Looks like we were wrong about that one. Oh well, can’t win them all. That being said, 9 times out of 10, #KiwiFarmsWasRight.

 

[Devout Muslim]

But ever since he had himself neutered, he didn't have to do this anymore.

Isn’t that just speculation?

 

[AnOminous]

Isn’t that just speculation?

Apparently his ex claimed that. It's not speculation, but maybe the witness is unreliable. As the only person involved in this situation on the Byuu side who has never provably lied, though, I'd take his ex's word over anyone else's.

 

[Markass the Worst]

Apparently his ex claimed that. It's not speculation, but maybe the witness is unreliable. As the only person involved in this situation on the Byuu side who has never provably lied, though, I'd take his ex's word over anyone else's.

Technically Derrick Sobodash claimed it, but it's unclear if he got that information directly or from Patrick.

He was advised by the people online who were mailing him hormones of how he could find a doctor and pay him cash after hours to have his testicles removed. No psychological screening necessary. No record. His husband took him for that surgery and told me how scared he was, but he trusted Dave and believed him that it wasn’t about gender reassignment.

Either way, Derrick's or Patrick's word are much more reliable than anyone else's.