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

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Mnoba: Jun 24, 2010

ShallNoiseUpon posted:

jeffrey, put up the paywall think of the profits

nft all of his content here, it's worth 2x now

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Lil Swamp Booger Baby: Aug 1, 1981

Doltos posted:

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

Lol

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Vim Fuego: Jun 1, 2000; Ultra Carp

Huh. Ain't that some poo poo.

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chernobyl kinsman: Mar 18, 2007; a friend of the friendly atom; Soiled Meat

is this real

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Doctor Butts: May 21, 2002

Muscle Wizard posted:

i am truely sorry for your lots

Thanks, they closed most of the Big Lots in this area. I really miss the expired hamgurger helper.

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Parlett316: Dec 6, 2002; Jon Snow is viciously stabbed by his friends in the night's watch for wanting to rescue Mance Rayder from Ramsay Bolton

Can�t believe Stile outlived him

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rox: Sep 7, 2016

condolences to his family and friends :l

this place has given me a lot of joy over the years and i wouldnt be where i am today without it

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GoGoGadgetChris: Mar 18, 2010; i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

I filled my veins with formaldehyde, Mortician! I'm Pickled Riiiiiiiiiiiiick

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littleorv: Jan 29, 2011

First time I ever saw Lowtax, didn�t even know what SA was, it was him getting demolished by Uwe Boll.

Thanks for that.

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Batterypowered7: Aug 8, 2009; The mist that chills you keeps me warm.

Endorph posted:

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

Oh gently caress, lol

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McNugget Buddy: Aug 14, 2021; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Novax

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BULBASAUR: Apr 6, 2009; Soiled Meat

sad that lowtax didn't get to see his capital ships in star citizen

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Oscar Wild: Apr 11, 2006; It's good to be a G

Wild, we outlived him. At least some of us did.

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Insurrectum: Nov 1, 2005

pouring out some mangosteen juice for my homie

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30 Second Artbomb: Apr 16, 2006; ^{call the police}

Huh.

Well, that's certainly not news I was expecting, let alone something I would've expected to prompt me to log in after years away.

He sure did start a website, didn't he.

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Lumpy the Cook: Feb 4, 2011; Drippy-goo-yay, mother-gunker!

Endorph posted:

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

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Squizzle: Apr 24, 2008

hes promising spaceship jpegs to the angels now......

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Crusader: Apr 11, 2002

Seventh Mode posted:

Oh poo poo now that corpse in Morrowind is canon.

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Cosmik Slop: Oct 9, 2007; What's a hole doing in my TARDIS?

See you, spine cowboy...

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Kith: Sep 17, 2009; You never learn anything
by doing it right.

lowtax made the best place on the internet entirely by accident and i'm glad he did that

i'm also glad that he cannot hurt anyone anymore

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Bust Rodd: Oct 21, 2008; by VideoGames

You only truly die the last time someone thinks about you. Lowtax�s legacy will outlive him by many,many, many years, which is more than many of us will be able to say.

Not a great man. Not even a good man. A basically totally lovely and incompetent man.

But they aren�t gone until they are forgotten.

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Zil: Jun 4, 2011; Satanically Summoned Citrus

For those that donated to the spine fund that one time, do we get a piece of the spine now to keep as a relic?

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Peter Daou Zen: Apr 6, 2021; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

im gonna do some pills in his honor or something idk

Lol rip

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Metallia: Sep 17, 2014

so no more photoshop friday or what

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drilldo squirt: Aug 18, 2006; a beautiful, soft meat sack; Clapping Larry

to the guy who made this site.

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Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

Miss Broccoli posted:

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

I think thats a chris benoit post edit

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Propaganda Hour: Aug 25, 2008; after editing wikipedia as a joke for 16 years, i ve convinced myself that homer simpson's japanese name translates to the "The beer goblin"

Like moths to the mangosteen colored flame

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Mista Fly: Jan 3, 2006; too fly

Doom House 2021

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TotalHell: Feb 22, 2005; _{Roman Reigns fights CM Punk in fantasy warld. Lotsa violins, so littl kids cant red it.}

are there stairs in your mausoleum

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da keebsta knicca: Sep 12, 2000; Oh Ruutu, you are such a card.

RIP

admin edit: removed goatse

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Barudak: May 7, 2007

How the gently caress am I getting my goddamn spaceship drawings

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Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

Lowtax was a bad person and I don't know how to feel now that he's dead.

That's my post thanks for reading

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Good soup!: Nov 2, 2010

Unfortunately, the poison wombs of the earth have made heaven too loving crowded so hell awaits richard

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mila kunis: Jun 10, 2011

this news is truly something awful

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fartknocker: Oct 28, 2012; Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.; Wedge Regret

^^^^ Hello, old friend

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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SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

Endorph posted:

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

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FormaldehydeSon: Oct 1, 2011

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.

Same

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Orange Fluffy Sheep: Jul 26, 2008; Bad EXP received

Endorph posted:

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

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quiggy: Aug 7, 2010; [in Russian] Oof.

Bust Rodd posted:

You only truly die the last time someone thinks about you. Lowtax’s legacy will outlive him by many,many, many years, which is more than many of us will be able to say.

Not a great man. Not even a good man. A basically totally lovely and incompetent man.

But they aren’t gone until they are forgotten.

::hits a HUGE blunt::

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hauntedchasm: Nov 11, 2021

I re-reged to say lol.

lol.

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