The Shmups Forum Dead Pool

A place where you can chat about anything that isn't to do with games!
User avatar
vol.2
Posts: 2435
Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:13 pm
Location: bmore

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by vol.2 »

Realistically, you have to wonder how much of the work the assistant was already doing at this point. Especially if he was in poor health.
xxx1993

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by xxx1993 »

Buddy Van Horn, a friend of Clint Eastwood and the director of the final installment of the Dirty Harry franchise, The Dead Pool, as well as the sequel to Every Which Way But Loose, Any Which Way You Can, and Pink Cadillac, just passed away at 91.
User avatar
vol.2
Posts: 2435
Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:13 pm
Location: bmore

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by vol.2 »

Eric Carle, the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Image
User avatar
GaijinPunch
Posts: 15646
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:22 pm
Location: San Fransicso

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by GaijinPunch »

Oh man, that sucks! Dope book. The one w/ the bear was too damn long though. My kid would try to read it out loud to me and would take him like 20 excruciating minutes.
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
User avatar
lilmanjs
Posts: 1572
Joined: Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:36 am
Location: Lawrence, Kansas

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by lilmanjs »

Benoît Sokal has passed away as of yesterday. The news was just released 15 or so minutes ago. This is very sad. He was the creator of my favorite adventure game series Syberia.
User avatar
BulletMagnet
Posts: 13888
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:05 am
Location: Wherever.
Contact:

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by BulletMagnet »

GaijinPunch wrote:The one w/ the bear was too damn long though.
Gaijin, Gaijin, what do you see?
"This freaking book, for an eternity!"
Pushky
Posts: 14
Joined: Sat Dec 31, 2016 8:52 am

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by Pushky »

Gavin Macleod…. The love Boat


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
User avatar
BIL
Posts: 18989
Joined: Thu May 10, 2007 12:39 pm
Location: COLONY

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by BIL »

Formidably prolific actor of stage and screen Ned Beatty, 83.

Image

I only really know him from Deliverance, but that's the kinda performance you don't forget, piggeh. >_> Thank you for your service ;-;7

Image
User avatar
Mischief Maker
Posts: 4802
Joined: Thu May 08, 2008 3:44 am

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by Mischief Maker »

BIL wrote:Formidably prolific actor of stage and screen Ned Beatty, 83.

Image

I only really know him from Deliverance, but that's the kinda performance you don't forget, piggeh. >_> Thank you for your service ;-;7

Image
Sure, sure, but with all the discussion on this forum lately about our reptilian overlords, you can't forget this immortal monologue of his!

It's amazing how that brain can generate enough power to keep those legs moving.
Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
User avatar
GaijinPunch
Posts: 15646
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:22 pm
Location: San Fransicso

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by GaijinPunch »

RIP piggie.
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
User avatar
vol.2
Posts: 2435
Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:13 pm
Location: bmore

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by vol.2 »

John McAfee

Found dead in his Spanish prison cell of apparent suicide.

Such a bizarre guy. It always cracked me up when he talked about fleeing Belize on murder charges. He went to Belize to dodge US tax law and then complained when the "two bit banana republic" set him up to take the fall for his neighbors murder. Assuming he didn't do it, what exactly did he expect when he moved there?
User avatar
Sumez
Posts: 8019
Joined: Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:11 am
Location: Denmarku
Contact:

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by Sumez »

What the fuck.
I don't know if I should feel sad for the loss. He was obviously a terrible person, but I couldn't help feeling enamored with him.
User avatar
KennyMan666
Posts: 834
Joined: Mon Aug 14, 2006 2:36 pm
Location: Forever, wherever
Contact:

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by KennyMan666 »

Near aka byuu, developer of BSNES and higan, commited suicide today. Even sadder, it very much appears to have been the result of harassment and bullying by KiwiFarms users, who most certainly targeted Near for being non-binary.
My 1CCs so I can find the list easier myself
<Despatche> you've been a thorn in the shmups community since the beginning, you're largely responsible for the horrible face of modern speedrunning
User avatar
Mortificator
Posts: 2808
Joined: Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:13 am
Location: A star occupied by the Bydo Empire

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by Mortificator »

Those sons of bitches. I haven't posted on romhacking.net in a long time but I knew Near from there.
Last edited by Mortificator on Sun Jun 27, 2021 10:28 pm, edited 1 time in total.
RegalSin wrote:You can't even drive across the country Naked anymore
User avatar
WelshMegalodon
Posts: 1225
Joined: Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:09 am

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by WelshMegalodon »

If I recall correctly, Near preferred that others refrain from referring to them by their previous handle, but it's a tragic loss all the same. It's impossible to overstate how much they did for the emulation scene. A small part of me is still hoping that their suicide attempt was unsuccessful and they're just recovering in a hospital somewhere.
Indie hipsters: "Arcades are so dead"
Finite Continues? Ain't that some shit.
RBelmont wrote:A little math shows that if you overclock a Pi3 to about 3.4 GHz you'll start to be competitive with PCs from 2002. And you'll also set your house on fire
User avatar
BryanM
Posts: 6116
Joined: Thu Feb 07, 2008 3:46 am

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by BryanM »

Mike Gravel, famous for being one of the few voices of morality in the history of congress. Put The Pentagon Papers into the congressional record. Had enough guts to go on TV to be bullied and mocked by Clinton, Biden and Obama while raging about what a monstrous thing the Iraq invasion was. And how committing literal suicide with fossil fuels is kind of dumb.
I remember that ad all MSNBC showed was him throwing the rock & his name. They tried to play Gravel off as a joke.
Would have made the 2020 democratic debates worth watching if he wasn't blocked from attending.

The obits are treating his life like it was a joke, of course.
KennyMan666 wrote:Near aka byuu, developer of BSNES and higan, commited suicide today.
Fuck.
User avatar
vol.2
Posts: 2435
Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:13 pm
Location: bmore

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by vol.2 »

Lauren Berlant

Author and cultural theorist who is (I think) best known for her book Cruel Optimism passed away at 64 today. No details on how.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Berlant
User avatar
Stormwatch
Posts: 2327
Joined: Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:04 am
Location: Brazil
Contact:

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by Stormwatch »

KennyMan666 wrote:Near aka byuu, developer of BSNES and higan, commited suicide today. Even sadder, it very much appears to have been the result of harassment and bullying by KiwiFarms users, who most certainly targeted Near for being non-binary.
You might want to grab a grain of salt now. The response from Kiwi Farms points that there is no proof that byuu is dead, or that he was ever doxed, and he had a history of making false bullying and harassment accusations.
Hello!
Someone is currently paying money to DoS attack the forum. While the Kiwi Farms and everything on it is legal, DoS attacks are a federal crime.
You may be looking for information on Byuu / Near. Since I can define this error page, I will use it to relay some information.
If you're a regular, I promise the site will be back up this week, probably sooner rather than later.

A Twitter user published a Google Doc explicitly blaming the Kiwi Farms for harassing Byuu. No evidence of this harassment exists.
Byuu had a 13 page thread on the forum. Byuu participated in this thread. You can read the thread in archives here. 13 pages on the Kiwi Farms is an extremely small amount of discussion, especially for a thread as old as Byuu's.

Last year, Byuu said in this thread directly that he was not affected by the thread in any way. You can read the archive here and here.
The document claims that Byuu took his own life. No evidence of this exists. The person claiming to know he has died refuses to elaborate or provide evidence.
The last call with Byuu described in the accusation does not make sense. Consider that this person is supposedly an real life friend of Byuu (when Byuu also claims he had no real life friends), and consider that he did nothing for half an hour, but could remember the call well enough to describe an obscure French metal song playing in the background.
This is a ridiculous story. It does not pass any level of scrutiny and is not told in a way that makes sense.

Byuu has a history of accusing people of stalking and harassing him.
He made a post on his forum (which has since been deleted) accusing a rival emulator developer named Squarepusher from Retroarch of doing the same. A copy of this post is here.

There is a claim that Byuu was 'doxed', then harassed in real life. This is also false.
Nobody knows who Byuu is. Even after years, nobody knows his last name. Nobody knows where he lives. Nobody knows where he works. He is completely anonymous and even now it is not possible to do a wellness check on him.

Byuu emailed me before posting his tweet chain. You can read it here.
In it, he attempted to exort me. Byuu claimed that if I did not delete all information about him on the forum, he would kill himself and blame me.
He offered me $120,000 cash. I saw this as a legally and morally dubious offer at best, entrapment at worst, so I declined.
He also offered me his services helping write software for the Kiwi Farms.
I told him I would have to consult an attorney regardless. He did not wait even 24 hours after his first email before closing communications and deciding to go through with his plan at 3am my time.
In his emails to me, he promised a trusted friend would deliver a scan of his passport on Twitter within 5 hours of him killing himself as proof. Two days later, we still do not have this passport scan or any evidence he has killed himself besides the testimony of a Twitter user, citing an anoynmous third party.

The Kiwi Farms is an entertainment site. It exists to talk about people.
The site does not exist to punish people. It's not a Jigsaw-esque torture chamber to teach people the value of life. It's Internet nerds gossiping about their favorite e-celebs.
In the 8 years we've been around, Byuu is the first person to name the Kiwi Farms as a cause of suicide, despite claiming not even a year ago he had no issues with his forum thread.
His intentions are clear, but nothing else about this story is. If he was going to have to abandon the 'Byuu' persona and disappear anyways, why not pull this stunt?

I will not be extorted.
Josh <josh@jaw.sh>
Image
User avatar
WelshMegalodon
Posts: 1225
Joined: Fri Dec 11, 2015 5:09 am

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by WelshMegalodon »

Well, Joshua Moon is a pedophile and the Kiwi Farms have a history of aggressively harassing people, so regardless of what actually happened, it's a scumbag's word against Near's. If the fucker didn't want to be extorted, he shouldn't have built up a reputation of being such an awful excuse for a human being.
Indie hipsters: "Arcades are so dead"
Finite Continues? Ain't that some shit.
RBelmont wrote:A little math shows that if you overclock a Pi3 to about 3.4 GHz you'll start to be competitive with PCs from 2002. And you'll also set your house on fire
User avatar
trap15
Posts: 7835
Joined: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:13 am
Location: 東京都杉並区
Contact:

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by trap15 »

It has been confirmed.
@trap0xf | daifukkat.su/blog | scores | FIRE LANCER
<S.Yagawa> I like the challenge of "doing the impossible" with older hardware, and pushing it as far as it can go.
User avatar
BulletMagnet
Posts: 13888
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 4:05 am
Location: Wherever.
Contact:

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by BulletMagnet »

Donald Rumsfeld, age 88.
User avatar
Mischief Maker
Posts: 4802
Joined: Thu May 08, 2008 3:44 am

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by Mischief Maker »

*flush*
Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
User avatar
trap15
Posts: 7835
Joined: Mon Aug 31, 2009 4:13 am
Location: 東京都杉並区
Contact:

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by trap15 »

Now do Kissinger
@trap0xf | daifukkat.su/blog | scores | FIRE LANCER
<S.Yagawa> I like the challenge of "doing the impossible" with older hardware, and pushing it as far as it can go.
User avatar
GaijinPunch
Posts: 15646
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:22 pm
Location: San Fransicso

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by GaijinPunch »

Not gonna be a lot of salutes to him.
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
User avatar
BIL
Posts: 18989
Joined: Thu May 10, 2007 12:39 pm
Location: COLONY

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by BIL »

There he goes, one of too many chickenhawk pantywaists God declined to ram a pigeon up the asshole of while they were flicking their bean at safe altitude.
Mischief Maker wrote:*flush*
User avatar
Sumez
Posts: 8019
Joined: Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:11 am
Location: Denmarku
Contact:

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by Sumez »

Joshua Moon has to be one of the fucking most vile people I have ever heard of. Sure, none of what was said or done on his forum is illegal, but as far as I'm concerned, based on the e-mail correspondance he shared publicly, he's absolutely 100% culpable.

What a despicable scumbag.
xxx1993

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by xxx1993 »

https://deadline.com/2021/07/richard-do ... 234786372/

Guess it looks like Lethal Finale won't be happening anytime soon...
User avatar
GaijinPunch
Posts: 15646
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:22 pm
Location: San Fransicso

Re: The Shmups.com Dead Pool *now accepting tragedies from 2

Post by GaijinPunch »

Were they going to do another Lethal Weapon?
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
Post Reply