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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:This reminds me of something i can share now. Lowtax told me he got a buyout offer from a media company for $13 million in 2006. He was still having fun with the site and turned it down. He expressed lament at this to me during our own negotiations. God he was the dumbest motherfucker alive lmao. They broke the mold for real. Maybe for the best, but his death really does finally mark the passing of the era of a more naive and earnest Internet. SA is the last great web ancient. Enjoy it while it lasts, everyone. It gets a lot more soulless and stupid from here.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I'd never read that thread and figured goons had genuinely completely overdone it, as was very often the case in those days, and just utterly dogpiled him. I'd be nice to lowtax too if my account was on the line, which would mean having to give lowtax ten more dollars to post again.
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If tainted womb was from zombaby there is also the minor fact that the corpse child in question was from the union of a very holier than thou “street” pastor and one of his cult members.
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Jose Oquendo posted:SO DONT loving BUY IT, DONT loving DRINK IT, DONT loving CLICK MY LINKS.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:I have watched several people I love turn into the worst versions of themselves thru aging, pain, addiction, and internet poisoning over the last decade. I have a lot of sympathy for Lowtax's exes and kids. I even have sympathy for Lowtax. He didn't give himself the chance to pull out of this spiral. He was a complete rear end in a top hat but its still genuinely sad cause theres always hope for a turnaround, if you're still alive. Chronic pain and addiction really ruin you mentally even without the internet brain added in.
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Nov 12, 2021 19:12
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D1E posted:Jeffrey of YOSPOS is kind of boring compared to Lowtax.
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What ever happened to that guy who would draw things good and had a hot mom also what ever happened to that website dedicated to hating SA
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Nov 12, 2021 19:14
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:This reminds me of something i can share now. Lowtax told me he got a buyout offer from a media company for $13 million in 2006. He was still having fun with the site and turned it down. He expressed lament at this to me during our own negotiations. Why would Condé want anything to do with SA? Doesn't seem "on-brand" for them. Reddit, I could see for the Digg-like alternative general and drill-down subreddit focus. But SA?  Also wasn't that the year that Whiskey Media was broken u--No, that was 2012. I could've seen Whiskey maybe wanting SA, but that was created in 2007.
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Nov 12, 2021 19:15
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AnonymouseNo5 posted:Why would Condé want anything to do with SA? Doesn't seem "on-brand" for them. Reddit, I could see for the Digg-like alternative general and drill-down subreddit focus. But SA? People were speculating yahoo earlier because they were buying all kinds of crap at that time.
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Nov 12, 2021 19:16
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nvidiagouge posted:People were speculating yahoo earlier because they were buying all kinds of crap at that time. Welcome to Microsoft's Zune Forums, now available on Kinect!
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drunken officeparty posted:What ever happened to that guy who would draw things good and had a hot mom Which one? Their were a few.
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davecrazy posted:Which one? Their were a few. Let's start with Something Positive
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Oh woah, he's dead. Nice job on the eulogy fragmaster, you were always the mature one. [LA post] Oh my god, I'm so sorry, that's terrible. Super lovely for his mom to blame you. She has 1000s of internet assholes she could blame. Chip off the old block I guess Watching that life unfold was a trip. Weird to be virtually connected to it. Glad we have Jeff to lead us bravely into the next generation of internet.
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AnonymouseNo5 posted:Why would Condé want anything to do with SA? Doesn't seem "on-brand" for them. Reddit, I could see for the Digg-like alternative general and drill-down subreddit focus. But SA? They were two of the biggest communities not already owned by some conglomerate and even more than now all the big companies were convinced that impressions were going to become worth a million dollars an eyeball any day now. It's not like the notorious pedophile forum was more reputable than the pig balls website and frankly Lowtax must've looked insanely easy to hustle into selling out cheap
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Nov 12, 2021 19:28
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Let's start with Something Positive Or Something Sensitive!
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Nov 12, 2021 19:28
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joke's on you; i actually love being body slammed by one dozen perfect goons. and my mouth isn't filled with bulletsm, it's victory metal
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Let's start with Something Positive  I've been reading S*P since year one and I don't recall Randy ever so much as mentioning the forums or Lowtax or whatever.
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Do we have statements from Moot, Drew Curtis, Tucker Max, and the Boing Boing people yet? Their contemporary Web 1.0 titan has passed!
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OMGVBFLOL posted:i'm ignoring this and choosing to believe lowtax's last words were "i have to poop brb"
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:It's not like the notorious pedophile forum was more reputable than the pig balls website and frankly Lowtax must've looked insanely easy to hustle into selling out cheap I forget too often that at one point, one of reddit's biggest subreddits was jailbait and, as with any large enough sub, it came with ever more risque spinoff subs. Jeeesus christ.
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drunken officeparty posted:What ever happened to that guy who would draw things good and had a hot mom Microwave apparently hasn't posted since 2011. Maybe they decided having thousands of internet strangers creeping on your mom is only funny for so long
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davecrazy posted:Which one? Their were a few. He probably means SASS the something awful sycophant squad. Though it seems there have been multiple generations of these sites since then.
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Nov 12, 2021 19:33
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Eason the Fifth posted:joke's on you; i actually love being body slammed by one dozen fatass goons. and my mouth isn't filled with bulletsm, it's victory metal
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William Bear posted:Do we have statements from Moot, Drew Curtis, Tucker Max, and the Boing Boing people yet? Their contemporary Web 1.0 titan has passed! Unless one of those men created hamsterdance I don't give a poo poo.
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William Bear posted:Do we have statements from Moot, Drew Curtis, Tucker Max, and the Boing Boing people yet? Their contemporary Web 1.0 titan has passed! https://twitter.com/DrewCurtis/status/1458903536486518786 Drew did a twitch stream but I haven't looked for/through the VOD. Moot has been notoriously quiet since he left 4chan, and actually left google earlier this year. 4chan itself put up a banner calling him "our dad who disowned us", which is... uh... yeah, okay.
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Hey this was from already like 25 pages ago but a dude with a Green Arrow avatar said this was their first post in 16 years, they had just been lurking since 2003 or something I bring that up because someone with that same exact avatar used to post on a forum called Superhero Hype! and I used to too and now I’m wondering if you’re the same person! Please respond if you see this!!!
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Tokit posted:I haven't been here in awhile but I'm genuinely baffled at how this poo poo posting idiot named CLAM DOWN I put on block years ago is now a moderator. why are you bringing up years old forum drama you insane weirdo
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Nov 12, 2021 19:44
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i hope the something awful hate websites dont try to steal credit for bullyciding lowtax that honor goes to himself
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Nov 12, 2021 19:45
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haveblue posted:Microwave apparently hasn't posted since 2011. Maybe they decided having thousands of internet strangers creeping on your mom is only funny for so long I am pretty sure it is something at least the mom embraces. I was curious as to if that was a meme that escaped SA orbit a week or two and searched it, and it indeed has, and there was a fairly recent instagram recreation of the original.
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Rick posted:I am pretty sure it is something at least the mom embraces so youre telling me ive got a chance
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When someone who you interacted with commits suicide, it's not unusual to ponder if you could have somehow changed that outcome. In mid-May of this year, I was contacted by an old client who wanted to know if I would be willing to write a resumé for a friend who was not on the forums. I said sure. As you can guess, he then told me that the friend was Lowtax. my old client posted:Rich is trying to get his resumé in order (...) I was a little dubious, but I don't really have the luxury of being able to reject a client, so I said okay. Lowtax contacted me on Saturday the 29th. I told him that I didn't have any availability until June 4th, although I could maybe squeeze him in on the 2nd. "Oh. I wanted to do it this weekend so I'll just give it a shot myself," he said. I told him "I'm sorry, I'm 'attending' Balticon this weekend." And he said: "It's cool, nbd. Hope you have a good time!" That was it. I didn't get to see what he had in terms of an "extensive" resumé, or find out how he would have described what he'd done with his life over the past 20 years. And over the following six months, his Patreon sunk more, and he did worse poo poo on Youtube, and even if I had written a resumé for him, I can never promise to get someone hired - only to improve their odds. When the news came out - especially when word started circulating that it had been suicide - I felt a little... potential indirect guilt. If I had cancelled my plans, I wondered... cleaned up his resumé... could I have maybe helped him get into a better financial situation, possibly prevented this? It's a weird sort of relief to learn that, no, it wasn't because I didn't help him get a job, it was because he was angry at his ex-wife and the judge.
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spouse posted:https://twitter.com/DrewCurtis/status/1458903536486518786 Yeah I checked yesterday if /b/ had some threads up, but all I found was the usual nazi/porn/etc.
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Nov 12, 2021 19:49
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Good to hear that Drew Curtis paid his respects. Now we just need some words from this guy:
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William Bear posted:Good to hear that Drew Curtis paid his respects. Now we just need some words from this guy: 100% unarguably the canonical image of lowtax. what i see in my minds eye when i hear the name.
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D1E posted:Lazy. I kind of wonder if the dude had an undiagnosed disorder like ADD or something. I have ADD and if I let it go completely untreated I could absolutely see myself lying on the couch for several years on end, only occasionally getting up to launch some half-assed project before immediately abandoning it. I guess it doesn't matter now, he never got (or sought) the help he needed.
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AKA Pseudonym posted:I'd never read that thread and figured goons had genuinely completely overdone it, as was very often the case in those days, and just utterly dogpiled him. lmao the guy on the last page he banned 
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Posting on this thread for the history I guess. Been gone so long I didn't even know Lowtax was wife abuser lovely, just regular Lowtax lovely. Like, gone so long I heard he died from a Google News feed. But this still feels weird. He was the physical representation of and final tie to Old Internet. Piss jugs and cum boxes. No empathy, and deep depression. Basement PC's, floor mattresses, and wet diarrhea. Goondolences to his family.
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Rick posted:I am pretty sure it is something at least the mom embraces. I was curious as to if that was a meme that escaped SA orbit a week or two and searched it, and it indeed has, and there was a fairly recent instagram recreation of the original. https://i.imgur.com/jX021go.mp4
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