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by DoofusOfDeath 2851 days ago
If true this is really sad. Based on the little information I have about Terry, he seems like a basically nice guy victimized by mental illness.
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Yeah, and clearly bright as hell if he could string together something as complicated as TempleOS. Imagine what he could have done if he had been able to direct it towards something more globally useful. RIP dude, hope there's a reward for determination in the afterlife.
TempleOS is going to be hailed as one of the most impressive pieces of outsider art ever
I hope so. I'm a little worried it'll only ever be appreciated in niche communities that really understand the depth of what he did. Maybe I'm not giving enough credit to fringe artists, but I don't know that it'd be easy to express how impressive it is to build a functional OS as a single person that could do as much as his did, with the hardware it was based on.
Is it really outsider art though? Didn't he have a background in programming?
Deeply troubled. Very combative. Extremely racist.