itt a tribute to our late founder, farewell, deer richard

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Miss Broccoli: May 1, 2020; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Tupac Sighting posted:

I was trying to go to sleep a few minutes ago and for some reason the enormity of these events finally hit me and I couldn't stop crying. I have no real life friends who give a poo poo about forums posting, so this is basically the only place I have to express these feelings, but I really feel the need to express them.

I would like this thread to be about our personal feelings about the death of Richard Kyanka, and how it has personally affected us. Just TV-IVing about the details as they come in, or wondering about SomethingAwful's future, and all of that bullshit has no place here. I need to write about my feelings about Lowtax. Obviously these posts will be mocked elsewhere on the forums, but gently caress em. If you feel the need to say anything, say it.

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Lowtax is an abuser. He abused his wife. We will probably never know exactly what he was thinking. Obviously I did not know Lowtax. I never saw him in person and never spoke to him. But he represented something very special to me. In such a cut-throat, dirty, dark, often disgusting, business he was one of the good ones. When people talked poo poo about posting and the bastards involved in it, you could always point out Lowtax as the exception to the rule. He was the one you could point to as a true professional who honored the sport he loved, who was passionate about it, who proved that you could dedicate your life to professional posting without being insane or scum or a monster. He was the ace in the hole. He was the one who wasn't in it for the pussy or because he was a failed poster in another website or definitely not because he wanted to get rich quick or because he wanted to be a movie star or because he saw posting as a means to an end. He was in it for the forums. He was dedicated to being the best website administrator he could be, and it showed in his front page posts.

I wanted to be a cool poster since I was a little kid, and one of the very worst moments of my life was a cold night in San Antonio when I was on the phone to my girlfriend a thousand miles away and finally admitted to myself and to her that buying this account and an avatar had been a mistake. Coming to grips that I was simply not athletically or charismatically talented enough to post in FYAD was one of the worst moments of my life. The business glorifies the boyhood dreams that come true. My boyhood dream wasn't going to come true, and it was an upsetting, soul-crushing revelation that upsets and discourages me to this day.

Since then I lived vicariously through Lowtax in a lot of ways. He wasn't a man who was destined to be a mainstream superstar. He couldn't box. He wasn't charismatic in the usual way. He was quiet. His neck didn't work. The only thing he had going for him was his posting ethic. He wasn't a third generation professional poster. He wasn't physically gifted. But through sheer effort he was able to become one of the most influential website administrators in history. By 40 years-old.

Lowtax was only forty, and he was already a legend on the verge of myth. That's how talented he was, and how respected.

I cannot reconcile in my mind that the man who unnecessarily gave back so much to the forums could die so young. I can't understand how a man could spend weeks and months trying to give back to younger guys like DocEvil, putting forth the care and effort to help them find their voice in the forums. Lowtax owed me nothing. But I still feel the loss. I selfishly lived through many of his accomplishments and now feel lost. I can only speak for myself, but I feel that for a lot of us the SomethingAwful forums are a rock of stability in a storm of stress and uncertainty.

And that will continue. But Lowtax is dead. And he died as a fail abuser. And whether it be insanity, drugs, or just the actions of a clear-eyed monster, what is done is done. And one of the pillars for the guys backstage and one of the pillars for fans is gone. And everything that pillar held up is tainted and dripping with mangosteen juice.

Lowax was an abuser. And I don't know how to accept that.

he was an abuser, a wifebeater... ...one of the good ones

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Horizon Burning: Oct 23, 2019

uber_stoat posted:

https://twitter.com/Goons_TXT/status/1458623106914959361?s=20

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Atrocious Joe: Sep 2, 2011

wow

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fanny packrat: Mar 24, 2018

Who?

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Amp: Sep 10, 2010

jeffrey, put up the paywall think of the profits

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Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

The Glumslinger posted:

I met Lowtax once and realized he wasn't the guy in the pink shirt in this photo

Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

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Seventh Mode: Aug 29, 2012; Mode 7-style rendering was also used for the Special Stages in Sonic CD.
The more you know!

Oh poo poo now that corpse in Morrowind is canon.

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Tim Whatley: Mar 28, 2010

Eating $1000 cookies in his honor

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Doctor Butts: May 21, 2002

abusive hillbilly in rural missouri dies of drug complications who would have guessed

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Colorfinger: Feb 5, 2001

Wow.

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Scallop Eyes: Oct 16, 2021

I wasn't here for a lot of these classic stories, but this forums still gave a lot of fun and hilarious moments, so thanks for that I guess.

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Sockser: Jun 28, 2007; This world only remembers the results!

cum

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CornHolio: May 20, 2001; Toilet Rascal

I'm going to need to see a body before I believe this

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Retrowave Joe: Jul 20, 2001

Welp�.that sucks.

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my kinda ape: Sep 15, 2008; Everything's gonna be A-OK; Oven Wrangler

Thanks for making this cool website where I've made a ton of friends. Sucks that you were most likely an abusive shithead and definitely were a lying dumbass. In conclusion lowtax is a land of contrasts.

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MODS CURE JOKES: Nov 11, 2009; OFFICIAL SAS 90s REMEMBERER

repossess his bones before they send the rest of him to hell

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Lazy_Liberal: Sep 17, 2005; These stones are precious

posted in lowtax abuse thread, now posting in lowtax death thread

goondolences and love to his family and friends impacted by his death

anyways i got bad diarrhea right now and that feels like a fitting tribute

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MLSM: Apr 3, 2021; by Azathoth

It had to be an overdose or something because he wasn�t even 50.

RIP though. gently caress.

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Buck Wildman: Mar 30, 2010; I am Metango, Galactic Governor

Blackula69 posted:

more like estate tax

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SalTheBard: Jan 26, 2005; I forgot to post my food for USPOL Thanksgiving but that's okay too!; Fallen Rib

HOly poo poo.

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Thunder Sheep: Apr 3, 2009

Rip

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Muscle Wizard: Jul 28, 2011; by sebmojo

i am truely sorry for your lots

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Godholio: Aug 28, 2002; Does a bear split in the woods near Zheleznogorsk?

ground floo gently caress

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THAT AINT GROW BACK: Sep 29, 2003

Did he think of Malign during his final moments on this earth?

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That Robot: Sep 16, 2004; ask me anything about robots; Buglord

so what killed old rick

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Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

jeffrey, put up the paywall think of the profits

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kirbysuperstar: Nov 11, 2012; Let the fools who stand before us be destroyed by the power you and I possess.

Endorph posted:

https://twitter.com/viperwave/status/1458626432528093192/photo/1

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it shaun: Jun 6, 2017

well now

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Lolitas Alright!: Sep 15, 2007; This is your friend.
She fights for your freedom.

Endorph posted:

https://twitter.com/viperwave/status/1458626432528093192/photo/1

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neutral milf hotel: Oct 9, 2001; by Fluffdaddy

lowtax died from complications from his rib removal surgery. lowtax insisted on removing 6 ribs (3 on each side) so he could more easily slurp up his little lowtax worm on cam shows.

hosed up, man

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queef anxiety: Mar 4, 2009; yeah

big man

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FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

I won�t believe it until there�s something on the front page.

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Andronian: Feb 17, 2012

posting in epic thread

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Teh z0rceror: Dec 14, 2004

GC posted:

logging in for the first time in years to say rest in piss

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Doltos: Dec 28, 2005; 🤌🤌🤌

Lowtax made this website and years later it exposed me to a Bust Rodd post gently caress you Lowtax I hope you burn

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anime was right: Jun 27, 2008; death is certain
keep yr cool

sixer feet under

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Barudak: May 7, 2007

I would play some Quake 2 in his memory but both of those things kind of suck

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LadyAmbien: Oct 22, 2015

Guys, I just want you to remember while posting, if you are about to write something mean about him that one day my daughter will be old enough to Google this thread and her older sisters already are.

Please try to be kind. This was their father. No matter what my relationship was to him or with him, this was their Daddy and they are hurting.

I recognize that I have said unkind things out of anger about Rich and our relationship on here in the past, so I get the hypocrisy in me saying this.

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Lil Swamp Booger Baby: Aug 1, 1981

He had many skills... and styles... and techniques....

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Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

my kinda ape posted:

Thanks for making this cool website where I've made a ton of friends. Sucks that you were most likely an abusive shithead and definitely were a lying dumbass. In conclusion lowtax is a land of contrasts.

verbal enema posted:

Thanks for the site tho lowtax

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