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posted by CoolHand on Monday April 27 2015, @05:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the in-memoriam dept.

Rachel Bryk, an active developer for the Dolphin Emulator[*] project, passed away on the 23rd of April at the age of 23.

While this is hardly the kind of news that would shake the tech world and be featured on major news site, I think the SoylentNews community can fully appreciate her work and commemorate that tragic loss with the team and the retro gaming and TAS community at large.

Most of her work was focused on making the Dolphin more suited to make tool assisted speedruns.

A full announcement and commemorative post can be found on the official Dolphin project blog.

Dolphin emulator:

Dolphin is an emulator for two recent Nintendo video game consoles: the GameCube and the Wii. It allows PC gamers to enjoy games for these two consoles in full HD (1080p) with several enhancements: compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplayer, and even more!

 
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  • (Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday April 27 2015, @10:26AM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Monday April 27 2015, @10:26AM (#175638) Journal

    I'm not sure it is a matter of being able to deal with suicide. I think it's the lacking ability to keep our nose out of other peoples business (I'm including myself in this kind of sensationalism, although I like to think of me being concerned about general shortcomings in our society). A suicide usually has a lot of complex aspects, backgrounds etc. To understand, what's behind a single suicide is probably several days full-time effort if you want to have at least a rudimentary understanding, and probably involves invading the privacy of a lot of living people who treasure their own privacy. Therefore I'd like to avoid speculating if discrimination was part of the motivation for this particular suicide. If statistics show a higher suicide rate for [transgender],[female sw developers],[sw developers] or any other group Rachel belonged to, this might be a valid data point to investigate.

    For transgender in general , I think people should live their life however they want to. If an operation is planned, I advocate thorough counselling since the op is afaik irreversible, and I consider it plausible that some people might falsely consider themselves transgender because they feel estranged from their own body for some other reason. It would be a tragedy to go to operation to later find out the gender was not the problem in the first place.

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