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

[Tetragrammaton]

Why would stormfags of all people care about byuu? It's all about Volkisch ethics in vidya emulator development?

is it possible he was planning to use stormfront as an excuse to off himself if kiwi route failed?

 

[The Real Slim Shady]

I don't think so "Internet nazis are out to get me" line is plausible for a suicide reason but making up a cover story that explains why he started to interact with them in the first place would be hard if not impossible.

 

[MadStan]

Furries and trannies are never suicidal. Why they are some of the most content humans ever to grace the Earth!

 

[David Kirk Ginder]

byuu, if he was still alive, would be happy to learn that null, the admin of this website, prefers to use bsnes when playing Kirby games.

Source: Mad at the Internet (July 5th or 9th, 2024 I forgot)

 

[Unifier of Hispania]

Why would stormfags of all people care about byuu? It's all about Volkisch ethics in vidya emulator development?

They almost certainly don't. The impostor is probably just a random troll that thought it would be funny to impersonate Byuu on Stormfront because one can't get more stereotipically degenerate to internet nazis than autistic gay trans furry Computer Science geek immigrant who can't integrate to the country they live in due to being a loner outcast and not speaking the language of said country. It would only be worse if he were black and Jewish, then he would go from weirdo degenerate loser to the most evil person to ever exist.

 

[The Feline Solution]

"Pro-Fic"

That's a new euphemism for "pro-fucking kids" to me, wether drawn or real. Same for that "feral" shit, furries always seem to be capable of lowering the bar.

 

[Nameless One]

 

[Markass the Worst]

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You can't save a man who goes off to a foreign country and intentionally socially isolates himself, even cutting off his own husband.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

I miss when threads were closed when a lolcow went inactive. It was a nice sense of closure and kept out the pages and pages of white noise posting that followed.

 

[Nameless One]

I miss when threads were closed when a lolcow went inactive. It was a nice sense of closure and kept out the pages and pages of white noise posting that followed.

Why don't they do that anyways? They already gave his account the deceased status. I agree with you.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

Why don't they do that anyways? They already gave his account the deceased status. I agree with you.

No idea it just doesn't happen anymore. Lowtax's thread has the same issue and so does Shmorky's. Lowtax is dead and the thread is just the same 10 people endlessly talking about how they hated the moderation and how the website went to shit something that was gone over dozens of times in the thread. Shmorky left the internet several years ago and never came back. The thread gets necroed a few times a year by the most retarded shit. There's no reason for them to be open really nothing new is being said.

 

[Nameless One]

No idea it just doesn't happen anymore. Lowtax's thread has the same issue and so does Shmorky's. Lowtax is dead and the thread is just the same 10 people endlessly talking about how they hated the moderation and how the website went to shit something that was gone over dozens of times in the thread. Shmorky left the internet several years ago and never came back. The thread gets necroed a few times a year by the most retarded shit.

They probably just forget or don't think it's much of a problem.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

They probably just forget or don't think it's much of a problem.

this is just nulls subtle hint that byuu is actually alive and well. this whole time he actually faked his death to help null with the site from the shadows. he currently lives in one of the data centers protecting it from enemy attacks.

 

[David Kirk Ginder]

this is just nulls subtle hint that byuu is actually alive and well. this whole time he actually faked his death to help null with the site from the shadows. he currently lives in one of the data centers protecting it from enemy attacks.

For me it's more like byuu was so terminally online and involved with so much drama and had a long history on the Internet, I think he might get Jackie Singh'd in the future. Like how all her posts and messages on Gay Niggers Association of America were leaked, I am anticipating a similar moment for byuu and maybe we get some juicy post-death mask-off stuff.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

I am reposting this because Near was mentioned.

It’s been a good near 20 year run, but for various reasons it’s time to wind things down. The site achieved almost everything it set out to do, and far exceeded it. We joined hacking and translation communities together for the first time ever. We outlasted and eclipsed ROM hacking sites that came before us. We brought ROM hacking from niche and fragmented to global and centralized. We assembled the largest force of ROM hackers on the planet. We brought learning resources and accessibility to a much wider range of people. We made major progress legitimizing and pulling ROM hacking from underground dark web type material to something much more accepted by the mainstream. We paved a much easier path for all of those that will come after us. No doubt, this site changed ROM hacking forever. It will leave behind the legacy of those accomplishments to remember.

Things sure have changed since the beginning days. I miss the times when I was able to interact with a smaller group of supportive people to collaborate with rather than the entire world. Having gone from an unknown fledgling site to an infinitely growing and globally known one made sustainability very challenging. The site became so busy with 24/7 use, endless queues, and an endless inbox. It’s a very different world than it was in 2005. Copyright pressures increased dramatically with takedowns and legal burden. The site shifted from serving mostly contributing humans to bots and overzealous people abusing resources. They drowned everybody else out. The need for the site has lessened over time. There are now many options for community discussions, open source projects, and file storage across the Internet. For a while, I was looking to find a successor within the circles of site supporters. I asked several potential people, but the stars did not align.

I was finally looking to wind things down at the end of last year. I wanted to provide the site database and file archive to the general public. At that time, an internal group suddenly emerged with an offer to help continue the site. I questioned their intentions, but I thought it could prove to be a more community friendly path forward. However, it turned out to be the opposite. We had a rocky phase 1, moving the downloads into their possession. When I went to startup phase 2, I discovered a most dishonest and hate filled group. I learned that I had been dehumanized for a very long time. My personal details had been given out. Secret deceitful plots had been made to cut me out, and drop a bomb like I am a target to destroy. My family has seen this and after discussion, we are immediately ceasing all related site operations. We are cutting ties to Discord and Twitter social media outlets, and will have no further contact with these individuals. Lines were crossed. I had hoped this community especially would have learned from what happened to Near. This behavior is not OK for handling disagreements, miscommunication, anger, or anything else.

We have released the site database (sans account and/or profile information) as well as all of the files and images to the Internet Archive. In summary:

• Internet Archive of Database and Download Files
• All Submissions other than News are permanently closed.
• All sections of the site will remain up as read only.
• Downloads and images will be available for as long as DarkSol, FCAndChill Calico will allow.
• Forum will remain up
• Twitter and Discord affiliations have ended. Anything further from these outlets do NOT represent myself or ROMhacking.net.

I look forward to seeing what projects will emerge with the site data for the next generation. From what I have seen, it may be a good time to start an open source initiative for a new site. I’d love to hear about what projects you are working on!

I thank all of the many staff and community members whom kept the wheels turning and the lights on over the years. I am proud of our many accomplishments here together. I will carry forward remembering the good times, laughing about the bad times, and knowing she was right for the time, but time has a way of moving on.

This is ROMhacking.net as we knew her signing off…

https://archive.ph/lpV4G

 

[Markass the Worst]

I am reposting this because Near was mentioned.

When I went to startup phase 2, I discovered a most dishonest and hate filled group. I learned that I had been dehumanized for a very long time. My personal details had been given out. Secret deceitful plots had been made to cut me out, and drop a bomb like I am a target to destroy.

Suspicious use of passive voice. Who exactly did all this?

I had hoped this community especially would have learned from what happened to Near.

Oh so it was the vague "community" that was responsible. Got it.

 

[The Fatriarchy]

That's a fake bullshit excuse if I ever saw one. I hope the evil "hate filled group" that wanted to take over the project calls out this shit and destroys the manlet that posted this message.

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

this is such a horrible thing to see happen. really hurts to see such a dependable repository of hacks going all the way back to the late 90s take such a fall. i hope all of you who have any concern for a romhack you love will download the full thing from the archive posted onto archive.org so that these romhacks and translations aren't lost to the annuls of time and disk rot, or left to the extremely fickle whims of the spineless cucks who run Internet Archive.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

One guy blamed the Kiwi Farms for getting Romhacking.net shut down lmao.


But overall the replies seems to be that it’s apparently sad people are getting doxxor’d.

this is such a horrible thing to see happen. really hurts to see such a dependable repository of hacks going all the way back to the late 90s take such a fall. i hope all of you who have any concern for a romhack you love will download the full thing from the archive posted onto archive.org so that these romhacks and translations aren't lost to the annuls of time and disk rot, or left to the extremely fickle whims of the spineless cucks who run Internet Archive.

It’s a sad day. But as long as it’s downloaded somewhere, people will always find a way to play it.

 

[Markass the Worst]

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Blatant lies. We didn't dox Byuu, at all. We didn't have his address, we didn't even have his real name before he sent those emails to Null. Byuu was the least doxed lolcow on Kiwi Farms, in fact, Byuu was so un-doxed his close friends couldn't dox his address to police in time to prevent him from hanging himself on a doorknob. And we only got his address 3 years after he died, it was disclosed in the FOIA.

There was a similar situation where we indirectly prevented somebody from dying because we had doxed their address and concerned citizens were able to call the police in using that information, but I don't remember who it was.