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Jadius posted:It's weirdly circular that he took the name "Lowtax" because of Budd "Low Tax" Dwyer, a man that is only famous because he shot himself on live TV because he disagreed with a judge's decision. Even Ricardo Lopez had the decency to set up the old 8mm camcorder when he blew his brains out after painting his entire body and mailing bombs to Bjork. Thats what disappoints me the most in Lowtax's death, a lack of showmanship.
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X JAKK posted:I was a drow elf doing a mating dance. For real I saved it because you're a mad lad and your antics made teenage me laugh. I apologize if those pics get you in trouble, I thought you would be dead by now, which I mean in the best possible way.
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drat, do I feel sorry for his kids. Suicide is the worst death because by its nature it never leaves answers, only questions. Suicide sucks. As to Lowtax, de mortuis nihil nisi bonum, so I can at least be glad he set up this wonderful place where I can mostly lurk, and over the years get my :tenbux: of value returned manyfold
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Schir posted:i don't have the time or patience to sit through anime. could i get some manga recommendations instead BLAME, it has almost no dialogue, the story and art are loving rad, and it has a half-decent OVA as well
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pillsburysoldier posted:What animes should i be watching? Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
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on a good note, the gofundme is $5k away from being fully funded. not that the goal should be considered a stopping point. 
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happyhippy posted:Posted earlier in the thread, but thought it was a fake joke story as didn't see any news articles on it elsewhere. I hear he is rebranding his company as 'Meta' or some poo poo. As for newspaper articles? I have no idea why TheSun.uk is reporting on this. It's the sort of British tabloid that features Momo and Black Eyed Kids as front page stories (maybe it was The Star?). https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/celebrities/16707416/richard-lowtax-kyankas-ex-wife-megan-austin/ Why they are taking an interest just now is beyond me and now they are bringing one of his ex's into it. I read the article and it seems like someone clueless who just found out about SA and is trying to condense the entire history of the forums into several paragraphs. "The company was bought by YOSPOS for an undisclosed amount." Who is this mysterious YOSPOS organisation?
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I do like the thought that Jeffrey of YOSPOS is a legal entity.
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Kunabomber posted:The real OGs remember thinking that lowtax dodged a bullet with integral but it turns out that it was integral that dodged a bullet I feel pretty dumb for taking what he wrote at face value. In my defense I guess I was like 15 years old, and now that I'm approaching 100 I am a little wiser.
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Jadius posted:It's weirdly circular that he took the name "Lowtax" because of Budd "Low Tax" Dwyer, a man that is only famous because he shot himself on live TV because he disagreed with a judge's decision. Close. He took the name from Byron "Low Tax" Looper, a insane county tax official who shot a Tennessee state senator who he was running against.
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Coxswain Balls posted:For real I saved it because you're a mad lad and your antics made teenage me laugh. I apologize if those pics get you in trouble, I thought you would be dead by now, which I mean in the best possible way. sall good 
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Having read a bunch about his downward spiral in the last day, I rescind the sentiment of the video of the 1989-06-21 Brokedown Palace previously posted in Taxman's remembrance
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Close. He took the name from Byron "Low Tax" Looper, a insane county tax official who shot a Tennessee state senator who he was running against. I stand corrected.
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Rest in peace Lowtax. Donating some money to the fund for his kids, I wish them and their mum's all the best. 
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Valko posted:"The company was bought by YOSPOS for an undisclosed amount." Lmao this is good
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The Despotic Serene Republic of YOSPOS issued an official statement today on the passing of former strongman leader and cookie addict Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka through a Foreign Ministry spokesgoon, which follows:YOSPOS posted:im gay
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Valko posted:Who is this mysterious YOSPOS organisation? You know how SPECTRE has always had it out for James Bond? Well YOSPOS finally got their man
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Orenthal posted:on a good note, the gofundme is $5k away from being fully funded. Great news. This is still a great community. 
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Rest in piss to Lowtax, but man do I feel bad for his kids having to live through this kind of chaos.
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This stuff is just fuckin sad all around rip & condolences
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I am unhappy about this.
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Vakal posted:All this Lowtax nostalgia made me think of Planet Quake and it turns out the site is still up. Is ask Mynx still around, I remember reading her mailbag questions as a pasty fat virgin
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Schir posted:i don't have the time or patience to sit through anime. could i get some manga recommendations instead getter robo, pretty much anything by junji ito
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Twenty years ago I found these forums after reading the front page. My first thought was, “oh man, so many users are already here, I’m the last one in.” Today I’m scrolling through Rich’s Facebook, and there’s this old photo of his daughter falling asleep on him, and my heart just breaks.
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Unormal posted:arguably lowtax destroyed western civilization so I mean that's something; rest in peace This is an (arguable) truth I can never stop turning over in my mind. How did we go from taco teh wodner dough to millions of idiots marching under the banner of a whisp-moustached weirdo son of a weirdo webmaster living in the Philippines?
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Valko posted:I hear he is rebranding his company as 'Meta' or some poo poo. YOSPOS controls all economic affairs across the cosmos, though it is still at the mercy of the Spacing Guild's monopoly on interstellar travel.
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Just thinking about how this situation compares to a few former friends who also created much-loved, interesting communities (smaller and IRL, though) and it's odd... these folks all have/had the capability to germinate these communities/spaces/etc. and then, to a man, they lose control as the communities grow organically and become resentful, bitter assholes who engage in varying degrees of self-harm rather than appreciating what they've managed to do. I guess it's hard to accept that it ain't all about you anymore, but it's brutal to watch.
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Just weird, not sure how to parse this really. I only met the guy a few times (most famously in Vancouver for the Uwe Boll fight), and not in person for at least 15 years. Mentally I had kind of cut the cord after the abuse allegations came out the first time. And even then, at what level of abstraction are you at when you post on a forum a guy made over 20 years ago, and is no longer involved with? But really, at the end of the day, I didn't know the guy, despite interacting with something he was partially responsible for at least once a week for decades. I was glad the forum changed hands, that it was worth saving but that he wasn't the one who could save it. I'm not celebrating that he's dead, but there was little worth celebrating about the later stages of his life. Apropos of nothing, and to further prove how old I am, the news crossed slashdot and a former coworker of his posted the below. Note this person is not me, and I'll emphasize by focusing on how "funny" he was this might be trying to seem rehabilitating, but that's not my intent. Some guy on slashdot posted:
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Lester Shy posted:Back before he got banned for the thousandth time, didn't Lowtax go off on twitter about how selfish Bourdain was for leaving his kids without a father? One thing I realized about Lowtax was that he projected a lot. And now in hindsight, the dude talked about committing suicide multiple times if he stopped having SA.
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stab posted:So how long before some creepy goon goes to his gravestone and posts about it Just think of the items that will be left graveside. Euronymous stopping each 11/11 eve to leave a single black rose and pretty hoof marks.
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Everything with Lowtax just felt weird and disconnected. I could never tell if he was actually an rear end in a top hat, was pretending to be an rear end in a top hat because it was funny, or if he was randomly switching between those two. Was he really lying about his spine? It’s like the shock when I heard about the original domestic violence after seeing him with his wife and daughters on the middle Gaming Garbage streams. Scary to think what was going on under the surface.
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PT6A posted:Just thinking about how this situation compares to a few former friends who also created much-loved, interesting communities (smaller and IRL, though) and it's odd... these folks all have/had the capability to germinate these communities/spaces/etc. and then, to a man, they lose control as the communities grow organically and become resentful, bitter assholes who engage in varying degrees of self-harm rather than appreciating what they've managed to do. Same reason that board game and comic book stores always go under. The people that start them want a place to hang out on their own terms, and they can’t/don’t treat them like a job.
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sure okay posted:so shockingly in poor taste that you just have to lmao This should have been SA's tagline
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hyphz posted:I could never tell if he was actually an rear end in a top hat, was pretending to be an rear end in a top hat because it was funny, or if he was randomly switching between those two. At some point there ceases to be a difference
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I have been on these Forums for half my life. While I never closely followed anything related to Lowtax, I was aware things took a dark and sad turn, but this... My condolences to the kids. I did my part and donated.
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No one who takes their own life acts with a clear accounting of things. I'm sad that he had flaws that outmatched his talents, and I'm sorry that he's gone and couldn't turn things around. A permanent solution to a temporary problem, as I myself was told in an earlier time. I knew him a little, and I'll miss him. Never really grew up. Goodbye, Richard. My condolences to his family and his friends, and sorry for the mess he's left. Xenopus fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Nov 13, 2021 |
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When the ex-wife tax is too drat high
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I don't know why but this news brought me back here back from my old teen days here. It's a mess all around.
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RIP Lowtax. Colossal dick move choosing to go out like that. His livestreams were truly awful but the intros using old movies were neat I guess. RIP
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Lester Shy posted:Back before he got banned for the thousandth time, didn't Lowtax go off on twitter about how selfish Bourdain was for leaving his kids without a father?  Lol!
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