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shyduck
Oct 3, 2003


Who?

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KajiTheMelonMan
Sep 2, 2004

I killed a Tuskarr
itt: death, lowtax, goatse

MissAnthropic
Jul 28, 2002
the most effort

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sethsez
Jul 14, 2006

He's soooo dreamy...

well

that's that then

hughesta
Jun 12, 2012

i know its super duper kooper
cool like up the bitches snitches
my condolences to his family

NarutoMom2k8
Jun 6, 2006

o7 goon buddy

ThePopeOfFun
Feb 15, 2010

RIP old dude. Hope you got time to figure poo poo out now.

The Muffinlord
Mar 3, 2007

newbid stupie?
kicked out of the material plane for ban evasion

420 Gank Mid
Dec 26, 2008

WARNING: This poster is a huge bitch!


lmao

Sexual Lorax
Mar 17, 2004

HERE'S TO FUCKING


Fun Shoe
dead comedy forum has an equally dead founder

oh dope
Nov 2, 2006

No guilt, it feeds in plain sight
All we are

Is dust farts in the rear end rear end

Clayren
Jun 4, 2008

grandma plz don't folow me on twiter its embarassing, if u want to know what animes im watching jsut read the family newsletter like normal
RIP, hard to believe. Just the other day he said he was feeling spine.

Thursday Next
Jan 11, 2004

FUCK THE ISLE OF APPLES. FUCK THEM IN THEIR STUPID ASSES.
I am really, really sorry to hear that.

I didn't know it would hit me this hard - I've been here for almost 22 years, my original account can legally drink in the USA. I'm crying, and I'm damned sorry.

Whatever else he was or did, he made this place. I sincerely believe in a heaven and that he is there.

H.P. Shivcraft
Mar 17, 2008

STAY UNRULY, YOU HEARTLESS MONSTERS!
wow just wow

Chunderstorm
May 9, 2010


legs crossed like a buddhist
smokin' buddha
angry tuna
rip barnacle jim

Bust Rodd
Oct 21, 2008

by VideoGames
Ever wonder what he spent your $10 on? I bet he spent mine on diapers for his baby.

Virginia Slams
Nov 17, 2012
Oh well, thanks for SA I guess :shrug:

neutral milf hotel
Oct 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
drat

https://twitter.com/QanonAnonymous/status/1458628313254187013

lol

olives black
Nov 24, 2017


LENIN.
STILL.
WON'T.
FUCK.
ME.

Barudak posted:

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

hey, let's not say things we can't take back

Quake 2 is a classic

CoolCab
Apr 17, 2005

glem
if you are reading this at some point in the future richard's children please don't. completely compartmentalize the complex and in many times unfortunate persona that was known here as lowtax from the good you knew, remember it if you can and throw this away. there's nothing for you here.

VarXX
Oct 31, 2009
drat

nikosoft
Dec 17, 2011

ghost in the shell, but somehow much worse
College Slice
He made a beautiful thing at least.

You all are beautiful.

Telltolin
Apr 4, 2004

geez that's some news i wasn't expecting

Jet Jaguar
Feb 12, 2006

Don't touch my bags if you please, Mr Customs Man.



mangosteen

CornHolio
May 20, 2001

Toilet Rascal
bEt ThEy SaY iT wAs CoViD

GrimGypsy
Mar 27, 2007

rip

GrimGypsy fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Nov 11, 2021

oh dope
Nov 2, 2006

No guilt, it feeds in plain sight

Clayren posted:

RIP, hard to believe. Just the other day he said he was feeling spine.

You take that back

Moment
Dec 12, 2003
BUs
crazy he died

Tuxide
Mar 7, 2010
Lipstick Apathy

LadyAmbien posted:

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.

This.

I'm mixed in what I want to say here myself, other than he was a con man, and not some sort of internet hero.

bloodysabbath
May 1, 2004

OH NO!
Complex, difficult people make really good things sometimes. The entire modern history of popular media tells us this, and no matter how much the “everything is politics now” crusader types wish it weren’t so, frequently the type of ego it takes to create notable things on a national/worldwide scale is also the type of ego that does not lend itself to passing a Good Person Purity Test.

Regardless, his was a far too common story in America, e.g. a legitimate need for pain relief devolving into addiction. How much of that had an influence on the behavior which got him exiled, IDK, it’s more than plausible to think that the habit just amplified the worst traits that were already present. His privilege and his mom’s bankroll let him maintain for a long time, but addiction is no respecter of persons.

He was a miserable, reprehensible bastard in his personal life, but put out immeasurable good in public. I’m not saying Lowtax was MLK, but yeah okay I am saying Lowtax was basically MLK and I don’t know how to accept that.

cuntman.net
Mar 1, 2013

rest in peace dean stockwell, founder of the something awful forums, dead at 85

Steeltalon
Feb 14, 2012

Perps were uncooperative.


Goondolences

whydirt
Apr 18, 2001


Gaz Posting Brigade :c00lbert:
RIP to a real one


Abuser, that is

bleeding kansas
Nov 15, 2019

Mokelumne Trekka posted:

he did the right thing, selling this site so it can live on.

Timid
Dec 13, 2012

wow

taco_fox
Dec 14, 2005

whoa

MiniSune
Sep 16, 2003

Smart like Dodo!
He hosed with Debt

Chimp_On_Stilts
Aug 31, 2004
Holy Hell.
It's weird when forums users creators die.

I still think of ZerglingMinor occasionally.

Dr. Kyle Farnsworth
Apr 23, 2004

he died as he lived

surrounded by expensive cookies and pain pills

21 grim goons in fedoras solemnly blow yakity sax on kazoos

the lid of the mangosteen closes, sealing him in

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quiggy
Aug 7, 2010

[in Russian] Oof.


Thursday Next posted:

I am really, really sorry to hear that.

I didn't know it would hit me this hard - I've been here for almost 22 years, my original account can legally drink in the USA. I'm crying, and I'm damned sorry.

Whatever else he was or did, he made this place. I sincerely believe in a heaven and that he is there.

:quig:

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