The dev was a toxic person who had mental health issues. Not the first time they freaked out and claimed they were being targeted for harassment and throwing a hissy fit and leaving while being a toxic turd to so many people along the way

Told people to kill themselves for asking questions and actually got caught making up "evidence of targeted harassment" it was a pretty big issue in the community at the time. He made up death threats. For attention.

At first people were sympathetic until we learned this isn't the first time this dev has done this

You can also find links to screen caps of how he was an asshole all of the time in his discord, banning people left and right for asinine reasons

[–] doctorzeromd@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Who are you referring to?

Are you talking about the second dev? I was pretty aware of the community at the time and didn't hear anything like this about the original dev.

[–] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There was only one dev for the original project, but he went by two names. (If someone else had taken up the work I don't know, I got a steam deck and do all my emulation on that)

Stenzek was his original username, he changed it to Tahlreth to get away from his reputation. He had previously abandoned another project due to harassment that turned out to be over blown. He claimed people were stealing his code and could never prove it and claimed harassment and abandoned his project. Was also a dick to people and was banned from forums for his tone.

Pretty much as soon as I joined this discord he was a dick and claiming harassment, and at the time I didn't even know it was the same person. I found out later, not too long before he quit this one.

And after he quit Aether he sabotaged the last build he uploaded by making it run worse and putting ads in it.

"If everywhere you go smells like shit, check your shoe", honestly. Rude, crying all the time, claiming harassment, claiming theft of code, making up and then deleting death threats, etc. Several years of history of just horrible behavior