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Nov 12, 2021 20:02
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N. Senada posted:Can’t wait for the vox or vice article https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjd8dv/something-awfuls-notorious-gently caress-you-and-die-forum-shuts-down-because-of-nazis
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Nov 12, 2021 20:03
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Cup Runneth Over posted:SA is the last great web ancient. usenet still exists
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Nov 12, 2021 20:05
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Kinda creepy that you can be irreverent for 15 years and the vultures will still come to peck at your corpse for their listicles or cooking recipe bios or whatever. Never be famous, not for one minute. e: Irrelevant, but also true.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:05
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Aygtets posted: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. Unfortunately lack of empathy, depression, and diarrhea remain. We now piss in toilets, cum in something we settled for, and our computers are in our pockets and the basement is being rented out for 2000 a month.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:05
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Ugh thread getting creepy even for an SA thread
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Nov 12, 2021 20:06
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AHH F/UGH posted:lmao the guy on the last page he banned Rich's response to that post (on the mangosteen thread) was also the post used for his own permaban.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:07
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Vice was one of the first articles up yesterday. Seemed pretty straightforward https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dmqb/richard-lowtax-kyanka-founder-of-something-awful-is-dead-at-45
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Nov 12, 2021 20:07
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Nov 12, 2021 20:07
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Vice was one of the first articles up yesterday. Seemed pretty straightforward Thanks, actually hadn't seen that link before.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:08
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AndyElusive posted:I drunk posted once back in 2007 and Lowtax approved the 1 day probation. Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow, dead man. Lol imagine being mad about a 24 hour probation 14 years later
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Nov 12, 2021 20:08
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Earwicker posted:usenet still exists Seconding this. Some very entertaining crazies, funny discussions, and surprisingly comprehensive and recent collections of nzbs to this day.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:08
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RIP. This place was part of the 2000s for me.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:11
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spouse posted:https://twitter.com/DrewCurtis/status/1458903536486518786 Starts about 6 minutes in.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:11
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Earwicker posted:usenet still exists “I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Alt.gothic on fire after a meow spam attack. I've read the furious howls of trolled therianthropes in Alt.horror.werewolves. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
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Nov 12, 2021 20:13
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Phlegmish posted:Thanks, actually hadn't seen that link before. quote:Kyanka’s legacy is woven into the soul of the internet, for better and for worse. He hated the internet, the internet hated him back, and it's not clear anyone has learned anything from what he helped unleash. lol [single tear rolling down cheek] so beautifully worded
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Nov 12, 2021 20:13
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Vice was one of the first articles up yesterday. Seemed pretty straightforward Can't believe grover got doxxed by a mod!!!!
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Nov 12, 2021 20:14
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Vice was one of the first articles up yesterday. Seemed pretty straightforward Once again pretty much everything in that article is wrong.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:14
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Vice was one of the first articles up yesterday. Seemed pretty straightforward Lol at the groverhaus mention
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Nov 12, 2021 20:14
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Phlegmish posted:lol It's the most perfect footnote.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:15
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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: lmao everytime
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Nov 12, 2021 20:16
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haveblue posted:May 17, 2006. A day that will live in infamy There I am on the first page, surviving with a probe instead of a ban.  Edit: lol his reply to me was "Please don't loving fag up this thread with stupid poo poo." What a dumbass. Full Metal Jackass fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Nov 12, 2021 |
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Nov 12, 2021 20:16
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MEIN RAVEN posted:Vice was one of the first articles up yesterday. Seemed pretty straightforward It's interesting that Vice of all places has consistently seemed to "get" SA as a whole (for better and worse) more than most news outlets whenever it's mentioned or reported on.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:17
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I'm glad Matthew gaunt is still an embarrassment to journalism even by vice media standards. Do you think he'll retract all the articles where he took lowtax's word at face value instead of attempting to do journalism, now that he knows about his abuse? No way in hell. I've never seen Vice as anything other than an entertainment medium, and nothing more. I take about anything they say with a grain of salt. Was pretty turned off by the circle-jerking in the 2017 article, even if I remember all the names. The Groverhaus mention was a trip though.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:17
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juggalo baby coffin posted:SA has improved a lot over the past couple years tbh everyone leaves > overall quality improves law of averages i guess
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Nov 12, 2021 20:17
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Has any one asked Ja Rule what his thoughts are on this yet?
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Nov 12, 2021 20:17
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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. Late but holy gently caress lmao
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Nov 12, 2021 20:18
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Robot Hobo posted:Oh, I'm not blaming Lowtax for this, there's already plenty of things he does deserve blame for. It's just a weird butterfly-effect thing. Banning creepy pedos from a forum is an absolutely good thing, yet it somehow led to the worst outcome. Well, I guess what we learned is not to do it again.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:18
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Now I can finally buy him an avatar!
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Nov 12, 2021 20:20
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Nov 12, 2021 20:20
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HootTheOwl posted:Now I can finally buy him an avatar! unban his account and let a rotating cast of posters post on it. send 5 bux to earn an entry into the lowtax account raffle.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:21
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Konar posted:Late but holy gently caress lmao The money wouldn't have made him happy. His gently caress-ups and squandering just would have been more grandiose. I really feel like he would have been better off working a bog-standard nine to five
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Nov 12, 2021 20:22
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I just found out Grimace is supposed to be a tastebud If we only learn one thing from this thing that happened, I hope it is that
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Nov 12, 2021 20:22
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Handen posted:Holy poo poo, jaxomlotus. You’re a blast from the past. I joined w1k way before I joined SA, back in like, 2001 maybe? I remember being in middle school, joining w1k, and teaching myself photoshop 5. Not CS5. 5.0. And then discovering photoshop phriday. I hope things are well for you. Hey, thanks and likewise. Good to see a familiar name, even under the circumstances!
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Nov 12, 2021 20:22
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veni veni veni posted:It's interesting that Vice of all places has consistently seemed to "get" SA as a whole (for better and worse) more than most news outlets whenever it's mentioned or reported on. Is it? Vice was pretty much the definition of edgelord journalism, and one of its founders came up with the proudboys.
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Nov 12, 2021 20:23
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IrvingWashington posted:I just found out Grimace is supposed to be a tastebud what the gently caress
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Nov 12, 2021 20:23
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Furb posted:Truth. The photoshop contests with us and Worth1000 were amazing. And that time we invaded Sony Online's dating game... <3
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Nov 12, 2021 20:23
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my take on lowtax is that he was a conman and his influence is currently being very overstated in a lot of the eulogizing going on. this website has been part of my life for almost two decades, and i know how influential its been both in terms of internet culture and in terms of many people's personal lives. but i think people are giving rich too much credit. almost everything that made this site what it was and drew people to come here, was the result of the labor of goons and unpaid staff members. like personally i found out about the site because of photoshop phridays, which was run by livestock. most of the other stuff that came from SA and blew up on the internet also had little to do with him, and i often got the impression he resented it the story that jeff just told about how he turned down millions of dollars because he was "having too much fun" with the site doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. in my brief time working for the site i had very few interactions with rich, and he seemed like he just truly did not give a poo poo, that he hated the bulk of the community he had founded but was happy to take their money. im not saying jeff is lying, i'm sure rich really did tell him that, but the man lied a lot and i would take that story with many grains of salt.
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Twigand Berries posted:what the gently caress he also used to have 4 arms and was evil. evil grimace.
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