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RISCy Business
Jun 17, 2015

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Fun Shoe

pram posted:

but enough about lowtax!!

:newlol:

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A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

pram posted:

but enough about lowtax!!

:iceburn:

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Bruno_me posted:

I saved the pictures [56k yolo]

















bonus screenshot from a couple years later


~ memories ~

akadajet fucked around with this message at 22:11 on May 30, 2017

ass
Sep 22, 2011
Young Orc
Lmao noob can't even use bbcode right.

WilWheaton
Oct 11, 2006

It'd be hard to get bored on this ship!
I'm the new search coming soon

Joe 30330
Dec 20, 2007

"We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.
I remember the Internet comedy conduit post

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



Syncopated posted:

Yeah, this was confirmed a while ago

wait what

pls dont kill my dream

ass
Sep 22, 2011
Young Orc

Lowtax posted:

The update is that I'm still waiting for Xenforo 2.0 to be released here: https://xenforo.com/. But feel free to criticize me for not somehow making it release sooner, or thinking that it would be a swell idea to spend downtime transferring to 1.5.13 and then having to spend more downtime upgrading to 2.0 when it's released, which would cause even more of you to bitch at me and say what I'm an idiot I am.

It's great because when I'm hands-on and moderate here, people bitch at me and tell me I'm doing everything wrong. So I stop moderating and go hands-off, then people bitch at me for being absent. No matter what I do or don't do, it's the wrong thing, so you'll have to excuse me for not posting regular updates saying "Xenforo 2.0 has not yet been released," and you'll have to accept the idea that when it is released and the migration begins, I will let you know. I'm not exactly sure what some of you expect of me regarding reporting when there's nothing to report because I have no information regarding the release date of a third party piece of software that I'm waiting on, but continue to make snarky comments about what an idiot scam artist I am and also wonder why I don't actively post here anymore.

pram
Jun 10, 2001
lol

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

:qq:

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
it begins

ass
Sep 22, 2011
Young Orc
I mean, he has a point.

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
not really, the last two updates were "i'm talking to xenforo about when 2.0 is coming out, might migrate to that if it's soon" and "talking to xenforo about how much a migration would cost, we'll see how it goes". it would have been nice to share with us the new information that apparently the cost and waiting time are acceptable so he's decided on using xenforo 2.0 and now has to wait helplessly for it to be released

ass
Sep 22, 2011
Young Orc
No, the other point, which is the fact you're all whiny bitchy babies.

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

we learned it from him

eric
Apr 27, 2004
Lipstick Apathy
Lowtax says a prayer every day that xenforo 2 will never be released.

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
id buy the forums for like a few k dollars

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
my first move as forums leader: ban all the back-talking nerds itt

FamDav
Mar 29, 2008

poty posted:

id buy the forums for like a few k dollars

I'd throw 10k at the taxman for the rights to the forums he can keep the front page

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

rear end posted:

I mean, he has a point.

otoh he doesn't seem aware of the third way, which is "moderate and be active in the forums but grow the gently caress up and quit blooblooing that your userbase predominantly thinks it's uncool to call people trannies."

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



the thing about lowtax is he's good at dishing out and encouraging the kind of humour that thrives here, but when he's in the crosshairs of it he doesn't take the piss nor does he start making fun of himself with them so they know he doesn't care what they think of him or whatever

there's a phrase for it but I can think of it rn

aardvaard
Mar 4, 2013

you belong in the bog of eternal stench

poty posted:

id buy the forums for like a few k dollars

delicious just got 35k, we've got to be worth at least as much as delicious

ass
Sep 22, 2011
Young Orc

Glorgnole
Oct 23, 2012

Bruno_me posted:


I saved the pictures [56k yolo]

















bonus screenshot from a couple years later


oh hey neat, thank you for digging this up!

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

funny Star Wars parody posted:

the thing about lowtax is he's good at dishing out and encouraging the kind of humour that thrives here, but when he's in the crosshairs of it he doesn't take the piss nor does he start making fun of himself with them so they know he doesn't care what they think of him or whatever

there's a phrase for it but I can think of it rn
adult baby

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

funny Star Wars parody posted:

the thing about lowtax is he's good at dishing out and encouraging the kind of humour that thrives here, but when he's in the crosshairs of it he doesn't take the piss nor does he start making fun of himself with them so they know he doesn't care what they think of him or whatever

there's a phrase for it but I can think of it rn

like when sass was doxing all the mods and they doxed the Finn and were all like "haha look at this sad pathetic computer mans" and instead of flipping out he was like "yeah that's basically me" and went on posting about soccer

not that I condone sass or doxing but that's prob the best way to roll with it

FAT32 SHAMER
Aug 16, 2012



rolling with the punches is the phrase I was looking for

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Sagebrush posted:

otoh he doesn't seem aware of the third way, which is "moderate and be active in the forums but grow the gently caress up and quit blooblooing that your userbase predominantly thinks it's uncool to call people trannies."

no but you see four GBS edgelords think it's funny therefore nothing will ever change. they can never explain how, or point to any examples of when it was funny, but four people stuck in 2001 is exactly who lowtax thinks the forums should be aimed at

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

Sweevo posted:

people stuck in 2001 is exactly who lowtax thinks the forums should be aimed at

it's me

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
no one is going to pay 10 bucks to join a forum to doxx and harass people when they can already do it for free on reddit

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

the forums started nearly two decades ago

societal opinion on controversial topics can shift in far less time than that

turns out it did

The MUMPSorceress
Jan 6, 2012


^SHTPSTS

Gary’s Answer

Suspicious posted:

no one is going to pay 10 bucks to join a forum to doxx and harass people when they can already do it for free on reddit

over 100 users were doxxed less than 6 months ago dude.

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
ok, some of them will. then the doxxed people will just leave and never return. then the doxxers will have no one to harass and they too will leave and these forums will finally be dead. which might be the end goal of lowtax for all we know

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

it'd certainly be less hassle

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

Sweevo posted:

no but you see four GBS edgelords think it's funny therefore nothing will ever change. they can never explain how, or point to any examples of when it was funny, but four people stuck in 2001 is exactly who lowtax thinks the forums should be aimed at

It was funny when mange mite or whoever was searching the forums for "tranny" and reported a bunch of ai posts about transmissions

mike12345
Jul 14, 2008

"Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."





Blue Train posted:

It was funny when mange mite or whoever was searching the forums for "tranny" and reported a bunch of ai posts about transmissions

lol

muckswirler
Oct 22, 2008

funny Star Wars parody posted:

rolling with the punches is the phrase I was looking for

Aaaactually what you probably meant was 'keep loving that chicken'

eric
Apr 27, 2004
Lipstick Apathy

cis autodrag posted:

over 100 users were doxxed less than 6 months ago dude.

Kiwifarms is a fun forum

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

they began as forums regarding stalking and harassing a mentally disabled man in virginia and expanded from there

there are several offshoots from kiwifarms who hate kiwifarms for being full of carebears who don't stalk and harass enough

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Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

i thought it was pretty...karmic? how that doxxing a few months ago stopped when someone (presumably a goon) doxxed the lead doxxer back and emailed horrific stuff to his mom's workplace and got her fired, and the guy immediately took down the website saying it got "too real"

like, there's no winners here (and i feel sick imagining the kind of person who has child pornography, it supposedly was, sitting around to email to people to blackmail them) but it's like watching two douchebags racing each other on the freeway crash into each other and wreck both their cars.

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