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Another soul lost due to their inability to prevent letting anonymous assholes make them feel bad.

I give you my word, they've had a go at me online since 1998. I'm not worried about criticism directed my way. I mostly deserved it anyway.

But they went after my friends. Someone on an imageboard compiled a list of my friends' real names, photographs they had posted, locations where they lived ... really creepy stuff.

I'm stepping down because I don't want my personal friends and the dozens of volunteers who helped develop my emulators caught in the crossfire.

I have no idea who you are, but I'm sorry to hear this. People can be truly awful and I wish the world had fewer obsessed, creepy stalker types in it.

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