Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
by jtwaleson on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:00AM
(#26034700)
To be honest I did see some conspiracy stuff on his website, but I decided to ignore it and just focus on the beautiful Flash animations. Not sure how I feel about it.
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I think it’s ok to separate the art from the artist, so to speak. The original site is indeed interesting and a nice example of Flash web design from the era, the Twitter acct doesn’t change this
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
by fortran77 on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:53AM
(#26036898)
I'm sorry. I looked at this website, and he explicitly blames me and my people for controlling and destroying the country (and the World Trade Center) and wants me destroyed. I can't look away from that. It's sad that that's OK on Y Combinator's Hacker News, but at least I know what I'm dealing with here.
If you interpreted this thread as an endorsement of anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists then I think you ought to re-read it. To restate in case it is unclear: the original author of the page turned out to have hateful views, but it needn’t reflect at all on the homage that jtwaleson made and they shouldn’t feel bad about it.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
by superdisk on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:58AM
(#26037669)
He's clearly an insane person. There's no use getting worked up about what some digital hobo is screaming.
Re:A Flash Player emulator written in Rust
by patates on Friday February 05, 2021 @05:39AM
(#26034910)
I don't think you should feel bad for admiring his work. I'd hesitantly say that he may have some mental troubles and we should rather feel bad for him, which I personally do, sincerely. It's like how many admired TempleOS.