{"id":3860,"date":"2021-06-30T20:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T04:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2021-06-30T20:47:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T04:47:30","slug":"this-is-a-content-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2021\/06\/30\/this-is-a-content-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"This is a content warning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2020\/04\/15\/notes-from-the-new-normish\/\" title=\"Sort of glad I never got around to writing much more about Bon Appetit.\">Last year<\/a> I wrote about an Ars Technica article that appealed to technical experts for help perfecting every last possible system involved in emulating the Super Nintendo. I think it\u2019s clear from that post that I felt a certain envy of the sense of purpose conveyed by its author, byuu, who also went by Near and by Dave. But I remember thinking, too, that their saying \u201cI\u2019m getting older, and I won\u2019t be around forever\u201d was a little surprising to read from someone deeply invested in a video game system from the 1990s. I\u2019m getting older too, but not quite to the point of hurrying to put a capstone on my legacy yet.<\/p>\n<p>Near was indeed not much older than me, but they meant what they said. This week, after years of organized and escalating cruelty directed at them and at their loved ones, <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/the-brilliant-snes-emulator-creator-known-as-near-has-d-1847182851\" title=\"I should play Bahamut Lagoon.\">they took their own life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of a system is what it does. The purpose of the internet is in part to publish and distribute a unique and valuable life\u2019s work. The purpose of the internet is also, in part, to torture people until they die. Sometimes it works.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everybody I talked to in the course of reporting this story said some variation on \u201cI hope Isabel is okay.\u201d And she is. Sort of. In the months I\u2019ve spent emailing Isabel Fall, she\u2019s revealed herself to be witty and thoughtful and sardonic and wounded and angry and maybe a little paranoid. But who wouldn\u2019t be all of those things? Yet I\u2019m emailing with a ghost who exists only in this one email chain. The person who might have been Isabel has given up on actually building a life and career as Isabel Fall. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/the-highlight\/22543858\/isabel-fall-attack-helicopter\" title=\"'Like all weapons, it will do the most damage when aimed at the least defended, the isolated, those with no one to stand up for them.'\">And that is a kind of death.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Emily VanDerWerff, whose writing I have long enjoyed, has a piece of extraordinary nuance, precision and grace there. I&#8217;m grateful that Kat nudged me to read it. If you haven\u2019t read it already, I would take it as a personal favor if you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote about an Ars Technica article that appealed to technical experts for help perfecting every last possible system involved in emulating the Super Nintendo. I think it\u2019s clear from that post that I felt a certain envy of the sense of purpose conveyed by its author, byuu, who also went by Near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-injustice","category-kat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3860"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3860\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}