Many wouldn’t, but Near was strong enough to overcome that level of emotional abuse.
From the comfort of anonymity, of sitting in front of their computer thousands of kilometers away, they take glee in slowly destroying the psyche of others, bit by bit. Members of that website make a sport of preying on the less fortunate, on those in positions liable to being emotionally abused. After an abusive childhood, and followed by community toxicity, Near was eventually targeted by Kiwi Farms. We’ve had long text conversations, and shared many stories. One of the most modest people I’ve ever known, they were unlikely to suggest hanging out in person, but never rejected an offer. I’d known them for several years, but after they moved to Tokyo a few years back we started talking more often. Near was also an incredibly kind, funny, and welcoming person. They also recently released their ultimate labor of love, a fan translation of Bahamut Lagoon that might well be the most exacting and meticulously crafted language adaptation of a video game of the era. Working out the most elusive hardware glitches and corner cases, they advanced the world of SNES emulation by leaps and bounds. Developer of the bsnes, higan, and ares emulators, Near was a relentless force for accuracy in the formerly haphazard world of emulation. Despite this, they continued to pour their life into the one thing they loved: emulation and retro gaming. Near was a brilliant mind in a corner of the web all too often rife with toxicity and harassment. This is not a weakness of the mind, it is a fundamental part of what it means to be human. A single, powerful traumatic event can change a person forever. Implying nobody is to blame but the victim and perpetrator, one and the same.īut that’s not how human brains work. Suicide is a voluntary action, a problem with oneself. That’s how a news article would phrase it. I saw a photo of the noose.ģ0 minutes into the call, Les Voyages De L'âme by Alcest started playing at the other end.
They’d just taken a large overdose of codeine and guanfancine. Parts of the emulator created to keep Stephen Hawking's voice synthesizer working in the final years of the famous physicist's life were even borrowed from higan's open source code.At 11:45 on Sunday, I was on a phone call with Near. If you've played any of the indie games influenced by EarthBound, aka Mother 2, then odds are good that game's designer had a copy of EarthBound open in higan for reference.
#CREATOR BSNES EMULATORS HAS DIED PC#
Near's bsnes was the first Super Nintendo emulator with 100% compatibility, and higan is a multi-system emulator supporting 26 different devices including the NES, SNES, Game Boy and Game Boy Advance, Sega Master System and Genesis/Mega Drive, and PC Engine. The linked document also focuses on the Kiwi Farms forum and the doxing and harassing of Near and their friends. Subsequently, Hector Martin, an IT consultant and Linux hacker, posted a message about Near from a mutual friend (CW: contains explicit details of Near's method of suicide) and said that they had confirmed Near's death with police in a follow-up tweet. Near posted a thread on Twitter explaining how they were affected by a campaign of harassment organized against them on the Kiwi Farms forum. Hmmmmmm shares a report from PC Gamer: Near, also known by their username Byuu, the creator of several groundbreaking videogame emulators and a recent celebrated translation of JRPG Bahamut Lagoon, has died by suicide.
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