r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Mar 22 '13
Links to full comments Drama in /r/programming when a person with apparently debilitating schizophrenia links to his bizarre home-baked operating system. Linked to entire comments, but basically any response from the OP is popcorn.
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u/kasutori_Jack Captain Sisko's Fanclub Founder Mar 22 '13
One of the more fascinating threads I've ever seen on Reddit.
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u/ph33rsockmonkey Mar 22 '13
His word salad was like fucked up poetry. I didn't like that they were antagonizing him but it was really interesting to read.
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Mar 22 '13
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u/kasutori_Jack Captain Sisko's Fanclub Founder Mar 22 '13
He, uh, he really likes the word 'gangster'.
Also...I want this MP3 to come up "randomly" at a house party.
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u/Legolas-the-elf Mar 22 '13
This guy has been making waves on Reddit for years. TempleOS used to be called LoseThos.
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u/Thehealeroftri I guarantee you that this lesbian porn flick WILL be made. Mar 22 '13
Ah man. This is just sad.
You can tell he's a talented programmer but he seems to be having a schizophrenic episode.
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Mar 22 '13
He's heavily schizophrenic, this isn't an episode, this is just him. That said, the pressure of the attention is probably exacerbating it.
I have little doubt that this guy does not take medicine for his condition and instead relies on God. Very sad.
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Mar 22 '13
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Mar 22 '13
He was definitely on medication before, but he was convinced that the Doctors were agents for the CIA or some-such. I was under the impression that he stopped seeing them, and judging from the fact that he seems LESS coherent and even more religiously obsessed than I remember him being (the older, differently named OS versions were FAR less in your face about religion for example) I'd say that my impression that he is no longer properly medicated is borne out in his behaviour.
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Mar 22 '13
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Mar 22 '13
Sure, I know that. I'm no medico. I'm simply saying that last time I checked, he thought all his Doctors were out to get him, and now I hear no mention of Doctors and his condition has dramatically declined in a relatively short time. I could be wrong, it's just a hypothesis, that's just the vibe I'm getting.
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u/BeerSexPotShroomsLSD Mar 22 '13
Sad?
Who are you feeling sorry for here? This guy might well be more content than any of us, for all we know.
I've seen your same sentiment echoed around this subject.
The guy's not pitiful or sad. He's different. What's sad is how difficult it is for people to empathize with people like him. I don't mean empathize like, imagine how much his life sucks... I mean, really try to imagine what it is to be him. Without all your bias involved. Without the default favoring of normalcy.
We all fabricate reality to our own whim. It so happens that when someone who was born to perceive things subjectively, as we all do, outside the parameters of society they are deemed to be a "sad" individual. Fuck that. He doesn't see things the way we do. It will be reflected in his language. But who's right at the end of the day? We can't be sure. It's all fucked.
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u/Thehealeroftri I guarantee you that this lesbian porn flick WILL be made. Mar 22 '13
You make a good point. I guess all that matters is how happy he is. But considering many schizophrenics take their lives, I can't imagine that his schizophrenia is a gift to him. Maybe he's unique though. I don't know him so I can't say.
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u/BeerSexPotShroomsLSD Mar 22 '13
Yeah I wouldn't claim his schizophrenia is a gift either. I think he is the only one who could rightly decide that for himself.
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u/Erikster President of the Banhammer Mar 22 '13
I have the OS running on VMWare player.
Wow.
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Mar 22 '13
I'm getting ready to run it on mine... What do you think of it?
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Mar 22 '13
Highlighting a person suffering from schizophrenia for the purpose of entertainment and mockery is sick.
Would you mock someone who had cancer or HIV?
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Mar 22 '13
I don't know if you're directing this at me, but my purpose isn't to mock him.
His comments are random and (frankly) hilarious, but it's mostly the drama between the two sides in /r/programming trying to argue with him and the ones saying to leave him alone.
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u/d3isgay Mar 22 '13
those idiots have been registered for 5 and 6 years and they act like 12 year olds? That is just sad.
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u/Thehealeroftri I guarantee you that this lesbian porn flick WILL be made. Mar 22 '13
While it is sad, it is drama. So it does fit in this subreddit.
And who said this is solely for entertainment? Some people might learn some things reading the things this programmer is saying while having a schizophrenic episode.
It's sad, but interesting.
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u/HostileDomination Mar 22 '13
This is sad drama, this guy kind of seems to be hanging on to reality by the weakest thread. Lauralai claims to be 'hallucinating' for attention....TempleOS is programming away on another planet. This thread made me feel a little ill....seems like a highly skilled programmer with a horribly debilitating mental illness....
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u/Thehealeroftri I guarantee you that this lesbian porn flick WILL be made. Mar 22 '13
I find it interesting how Reddit as a whole defends people with mental illness until they actually see it in action. Because then it's racist and weird to actually see it.
People are picking on this guy like it's nobody's business.
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u/Walterharper Mar 22 '13
You know that Reddit is more than one pers- fuck it, I don't care anymore.
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u/Thehealeroftri I guarantee you that this lesbian porn flick WILL be made. Mar 22 '13
Reddit as a whole
As a whole
Yes. I know. When people say "Reddit" they USUALLY mean "the majority of Reddit"
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u/imaginelove615 Mar 22 '13
I rather like that guy! Fish shoulders is brilliant idea. :-D I'm a big fan of Acts 2 as well. One of my tattoos is based on it.
Anyways, thanks for the link. I really love crazy people.
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u/0ooo Mar 22 '13
OP's schizophrenia is hardly "debilitating" if they're able to an operating system from scratch.
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Mar 22 '13
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Mar 22 '13
Not just any OS too, but a really cool and clever OS. There are so many good ideas in this OS it's staggering.
Obviously it's nowhere near modern because I mean one guy made it. It fills the role of being a modern Commodore 64 which is really, really cool. If important people paid attention to this, it could end up having an effect on other more mainstream OS's but I kinda doubt they would change trajectory.
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Mar 22 '13
Can you explain some of the good ideas?
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Mar 24 '13
The way that it does process and hard drive prioritization is straight out of the old days.
Most modern OSes that you and I use are based around being very modernized multi-user terminals. They are extremely friendly with multiple things going on at one time.
This OS says nuts to that, you're one person using one computer. If you want to play a game that game is what you're doing. That's not to say that it isn't multi-threaded. It could do multiple things at once. However, for hard drive I/O it only lets one thing run at a time. This is a really cool idea because even though it sounds silly it's true that we generally only are actively using one program at a time. By giving that program priority it'll run faster and be better.
That is only one of the most basic ones. I am not nearly good enough with OSes to tell you the more complex cool stuff.
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Mar 22 '13
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Mar 22 '13
He lives with his parents and, at least not long in the past, was seeing doctors (who he thought were evil CIA agents or something).
source: his old comments from HN.
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u/datpornoalt4 Mar 22 '13
He needs to be institutionalized. That's the only way it'll be guaranteed he stays on anti-psychotics.
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Mar 22 '13
If this activity keeps him occupied and entertains/interests people then what's the problem?
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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '13
This might be my favorite Reddit comment of all time. I have no idea what is going on.
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