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The Fattest PI: Mar 4, 2008

cum posted:

what kind of fluid did tubgirl have in her rear end. im thinking orange juice

cum

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:45

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# ? May 26, 2024 03:53

Poco: Jul 17, 2005; ....I am a Tariff Man

Facebook Aunt posted:

Tokai tripped over the pedo third rail.

An adult goon had posted child porn of a 16 year old to an offsite. This became public on SA a few years later and the pedo was banned.

Tokai bumbled in and tried to educate everyone that the pedo didn't meet the diagnosis for clinical pedophilia and would be an ephebophile, apparently unaware of the history and implications of using "ephebophile". He also foolishly referenced some study that said 16 was scientifically the most attractive age. With a new target the drama went nuclear. He kept trying to defend himself and explain what he meant, other people started brining up the pedo thing in every thread he posted in. Eventually he got banned and didn't bother to re reg.

I heard he died a few years ago.

fun fact, he self-banned because of someone in imp zone made the only funny rage comic to ever exist

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:45

Geekslinger: Jan 30, 2005

cum posted:

what kind of fluid did tubgirl have in her rear end. im thinking orange juice

Mangosteen.

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:46

cum: Sep 18, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

The Fattest PI posted:

cum

does cum corrode? did she have rusty cum in her

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:46

Elmnt80: Dec 30, 2012

colbyjackcheese posted:

Can we please rename GBS to Lowtax Appreciation Station? Thanks, I'll take my answer off the air.

No.

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:46

Kaddish: Feb 7, 2002

Poco posted:

fun fact, he self-banned because of someone in imp zone made the only funny rage comic to ever exist

Post it coward

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:46

Joey McChrist: Aug 8, 2005

sourdough posted:

Hey buddy, good to see you back in your native habitat lol

I'm going to play some video games, hope your poo poo's going well

what are you playing tonight sourdough

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:46

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

cum posted:

does cum corrode? did she have rusty cum in her

Yes, yes it does. And it turns that color, sorta.

Please don't ask me how I know this.

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:46

Raxkor: Jan 19, 2013; What the actual or implied fuck?!

gently caress. That just brought me right back down to earth, after all the cumduggery and fish poo poo. He's going to have a funeral, his kids might go, or his kids might not go. Both are profoundly sad situations for the kids.

:/

Raxkor fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Nov 13, 2021

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:47

Poco: Jul 17, 2005; ....I am a Tariff Man

Kaddish posted:

Post it coward

i don't have it but still crack up about it to this day

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:47

FUCK SNEEP: Apr 21, 2007

Cum Mouth eat the egg

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:47

cum: Sep 18, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Shame Boy posted:

Yes, yes it does. And it turns that color, sorta.

Please don't ask me how I know this.

what happens between you and your mom in the bedroom is none of my business :nono:

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:47

hard counter: Jan 2, 2015

This is a real bad situation, pure and simple. I�ve always taken the view that the best way forwards when someone has committed grave misdeeds is to hope that, over the course their life, they will eventually grow up after facing suitable consequences for their actions. It takes introspection, sobering up to the effects their actions had on others, repenting of it, rejecting the old way of living that caused it, and finally the humbling of oneself before the people who�ve suffered to ask for their forgiveness to try and start repaying the debt owed. Richard definitely owed a lot to his family. We all go down this path in one form or another because we all let people down eventually, albeit in lesser ways. It�s an important road to walk because over time it'll lean us towards becoming the best versions of ourselves, while also letting us reject the bad. Some of us, like Richard, have bad versions of ourselves that are so awful the journey to fix things becomes even more critical to the people around us.

Forgiveness is never owed back though, and some things can never get fully fixed, but it�s important that someone admits their guilt to the people they hurt because it will help the healing process. Maybe those that suffered will just spit in the accused�s face when they�re on their knees, who knows, but when things play out this way everyone gets a fair chance to move on and be better than they were before.

It�s extremely sad for everyone involved to see someone�s journey go unfinished like this, when in some kinder, parallel world they could�ve done things differently. Growing as a person is something everyone, everyone full stop, in their right mind inevitably does. It�s also very depressing to see such huge debts go unpaid when they're squelched like this.

The forums have always had this one-sided view of Richard. In the early 2000s he was seen as a fresh, young pioneer and entrepreneur. He was quite funny to people who were craving edgy and unpolished humour, especially the kind you wouldn�t find on mainstream platforms, and he became highly influential in this community and on other niche parts of the internet for some of the early trails he blazed. Crass, uncaring jokes on this new media made use of novel formats and modern dispersal mechanisms to do things that�d never been done before and Richard was in the right place at the right time to get in on it. Being naturally ironic and socially disengaged helped him with perpetuating the new humour. Nobody ever thought Richard was some kind of Da Vinci, but he was seen as a popular figurehead for some of the weirder parts of the web, and that gave him some status as the internet�s weird uncle who smells funny but tells rowdy jokes.

Somewhere along the way things went bad. Real, real bad. Success brought in opportunities that were squandered one by one. Part of the new money coming in helped fuel personal addictions so severe Richard definitely did not seem like a man in the right mind for huge swathes of time. Over the years the pills, booze and whatever else Richard engaged in became infamous on the forums...first as jokes but later as subjects of anonymous concern. Pics of him crashed out on the company office�s furniture floated around. He also became negligent, belligerent and deceptive. We, as a community, tolerated this spiral for a time. His natural social disengagement was absolutely authentic and one thing he also never lied about was wanting to live carefree so all this was completely on-brand for him, if still disappointing. It was hard to tell him he was wrong. He eventually got into a kind of paralysis where he felt like he couldn�t do anything for the website anymore because there were always some kind of criticisms no matter what he did. The man hated criticism and avoided it with even more absenteeism. Things got worse when he started developing the kind of health problems he had in middle-age where self-medication into numb oblivion became even more tantalizing. But self-sedation like this only clouds your mind even more. For a while he probably lived in the quiet darkness of his old reputation�s shadow, content to let it coast him along in life. His interactions with staff and the forums became one-sided, and he expected others to do all the work for him with next to nothing in return. He was hurting people, but it wasn�t serious... until it was.

Eventually he hurt his own family, in utterly reprehensible ways, and the forums found out. That was enough for everyone. That�s the disgraced Richard the forums know today. As outsiders we�d seen the transformation of Rich into the absolute worst version of himself and that�s what�s been put under the spotlight. Even the kind of jokes he used to tell seem like uncomfortable anachronisms now. I don�t know what kind of substances Richard was on when he ended his life, or if a lifetime of substance abuse already took its toll by then, but these are not, and have never been, the actions of a man in a clear state of mind.

Going by the OP�s eulogy, LA�s posts and the other anecdotes posted ITT the real Richard was neither of these one-dimensional descriptions and I pray the family he leaves behind learns the wisdom needed to navigate the complicated legacy he leaves behind. His young children especially. The real truth behind the man belongs to them now. I wish he could�ve grown into being more of the best version of himself that his loved ones, and the internet, saw glimpses long ago of but that�s not a world you�ll often see when someone is dealing with a tag-team of their own personal demons, severe addiction and health turmoil all ganging up on them at once. Especially when they self-isolate.

Any goon who actually bothered to read this should make a point of making mental health a top priority, full stop. There are all sorts of professionals who�ll help you with whatever�s troubling you, whether it�s needing the aid of marriage counsellors, anger management classes, rehabilitation clinics, therapists/psychologists or even churches if that�s your thing. There are people out there who are willing to help you if you look in the right places. Suicide is never the answer. For heaven�s sake call the suicide hotline if that�s something you�re dealing with right now. If Richard had taken his mental health more seriously earlier on, every single bit of this awful situation could have been avoided.

Richard left behind an immense personal debt to his family and I am incredibly proud of the forums for shouldering part of the financial element of the debt with the Go Fund Me. Everyone needs to have a look at the work that�s being done there. Richard may have developed the forums, but it�s the users that have made it so great.

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:47

Baggot: Sep 9, 2009; Hail to the King, baby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1zN5s8kXK4

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:48

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

cum posted:

what happens between you and your mom in the bedroom is none of my business

Thank you for respecting our privacy

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:48

Kaddish: Feb 7, 2002

Poco posted:

i don't have it but still crack up about it to this day

loving bullshit!

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:48

hard counter: Jan 2, 2015

ps im gay

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:48

Poco: Jul 17, 2005; ....I am a Tariff Man

Kaddish posted:

loving bullshit!

my sincere apologies

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:48

cum: Sep 18, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

hard counter posted:

This is a real bad situation, pure and simple. I�ve always taken the view that the best way forwards when someone has committed grave misdeeds is to hope that, over the course their life, they will eventually grow up after facing suitable consequences for their actions. It takes introspection, sobering up to the effects their actions had on others, repenting of it, rejecting the old way of living that caused it, and finally the humbling of oneself before the people who�ve suffered to ask for their forgiveness to try and start repaying the debt owed. Richard definitely owed a lot to his family. We all go down this path in one form or another because we all let people down eventually, albeit in lesser ways. It�s an important road to walk because over time it'll lean us towards becoming the best versions of ourselves, while also letting us reject the bad. Some of us, like Richard, have bad versions of ourselves that are so awful the journey to fix things becomes even more critical to the people around us.

Forgiveness is never owed back though, and some things can never get fully fixed, but it�s important that someone admits their guilt to the people they hurt because it will help the healing process. Maybe those that suffered will just spit in the accused�s face when they�re on their knees, who knows, but when things play out this way everyone gets a fair chance to move on and be better than they were before.

It�s extremely sad for everyone involved to see someone�s journey go unfinished like this, when in some kinder, parallel world they could�ve done things differently. Growing as a person is something everyone, everyone full stop, in their right mind inevitably does. It�s also very depressing to see such huge debts go unpaid when they're squelched like this.

The forums have always had this one-sided view of Richard. In the early 2000s he was seen as a fresh, young pioneer and entrepreneur. He was quite funny to people who were craving edgy and unpolished humour, especially the kind you wouldn�t find on mainstream platforms, and he became highly influential in this community and on other niche parts of the internet for some of the early trails he blazed. Crass, uncaring jokes on this new media made use of novel formats and modern dispersal mechanisms to do things that�d never been done before and Richard was in the right place at the right time to get in on it. Being naturally ironic and socially disengaged helped him with perpetuating the new humour. Nobody ever thought Richard was some kind of Da Vinci, but he was seen as a popular figurehead for some of the weirder parts of the web, and that gave him some status as the internet�s weird uncle who smells funny but tells rowdy jokes.

Somewhere along the way things went bad. Real, real bad. Success brought in opportunities that were squandered one by one. Part of the new money coming in helped fuel personal addictions so severe Richard definitely did not seem like a man in the right mind for huge swathes of time. Over the years the pills, booze and whatever else Richard engaged in became infamous on the forums...first as jokes but later as subjects of anonymous concern. Pics of him crashed out on the company office�s furniture floated around. He also became negligent, belligerent and deceptive. We, as a community, tolerated this spiral for a time. His natural social disengagement was absolutely authentic and one thing he also never lied about was wanting to live carefree so all this was completely on-brand for him, if still disappointing. It was hard to tell him he was wrong. He eventually got into a kind of paralysis where he felt like he couldn�t do anything for the website anymore because there were always some kind of criticisms no matter what he did. The man hated criticism and avoided it with even more absenteeism. Things got worse when he started developing the kind of health problems he had in middle-age where self-medication into numb oblivion became even more tantalizing. But self-sedation like this only clouds your mind even more. For a while he probably lived in the quiet darkness of his old reputation�s shadow, content to let it coast him along in life. His interactions with staff and the forums became one-sided, and he expected others to do all the work for him with next to nothing in return. He was hurting people, but it wasn�t serious... until it was.

Eventually he hurt his own family, in utterly reprehensible ways, and the forums found out. That was enough for everyone. That�s the disgraced Richard the forums know today. As outsiders we�d seen the transformation of Rich into the absolute worst version of himself and that�s what�s been put under the spotlight. Even the kind of jokes he used to tell seem like uncomfortable anachronisms now. I don�t know what kind of substances Richard was on when he ended his life, or if a lifetime of substance abuse already took its toll by then, but these are not, and have never been, the actions of a man in a clear state of mind.

Going by the OP�s eulogy, LA�s posts and the other anecdotes posted ITT the real Richard was neither of these one-dimensional descriptions and I pray the family he leaves behind learns the wisdom needed to navigate the complicated legacy he leaves behind. His young children especially. The real truth behind the man belongs to them now. I wish he could�ve grown into being more of the best version of himself that his loved ones, and the internet, saw glimpses long ago of but that�s not a world you�ll often see when someone is dealing with a tag-team of their own personal demons, severe addiction and health turmoil all ganging up on them at once. Especially when they self-isolate.

Any goon who actually bothered to read this should make a point of making mental health a top priority, full stop. There are all sorts of professionals who�ll help you with whatever�s troubling you, whether it�s needing the aid of marriage counsellors, anger management classes, rehabilitation clinics, therapists/psychologists or even churches if that�s your thing. There are people out there who are willing to help you if you look in the right places. Suicide is never the answer. For heaven�s sake call the suicide hotline if that�s something you�re dealing with right now. If Richard had taken his mental health more seriously earlier on, every single bit of this awful situation could have been avoided.

Richard left behind an immense personal debt to his family and I am incredibly proud of the forums for shouldering part of the financial element of the debt with the Go Fund Me. Everyone needs to have a look at the work that�s being done there. Richard may have developed the forums, but it�s the users that have made it so great.

didn't read

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:48

bagmonkey: May 13, 2003; Grimey Drawer

Raxkor posted:

gently caress. That just brought me right down to earth, after all the cumduggery and fish poo poo. He's going to have a funeral, his kids might go, or his kids might not go. Both are profoundly sad situations for the kids.

:/

Yeah, that sucks, but how about that cum pic lol

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:49

Crazy Ted: Jul 29, 2003

Waffle! posted:

The hardest part about needing help is telling someone that you need help. Talk to your friends, not the flies circling the turd on a pig's balls.

Serious post: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the single best thing I've done for myself as an adult.

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:49

Twigand Berries: Sep 7, 2008

cum posted:

what happens between you and your mom in the bedroom is none of my business

if i had your username i think i would just search for the word cum and start posting in the top thread result is that what happened here today

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:49

sootikins: May 24, 2008; Did I ever. Remember it as if it were yesterday. Soon as I woke, I went to empty my bowels - my favorite part of the day. Defecatin' to the sunrise - downright glorious.

somewhat ironically, i navigated to the forums through the front page to see what might have been posted

i read the whole thread :magical:

in legacy SA fashion, i knew some drama had to be happening when i was almost to the end of the thread at page 198 and then it started gaining multiple pages as i was reading.

i'll probably start lurking again, the changes i see are nice!

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:49

CLAM DOWN: Feb 13, 2007

hard counter posted:

This is a real bad situation, pure and simple. I�ve always taken the view that the best way forwards when someone has committed grave misdeeds is to hope that, over the course their life, they will eventually grow up after facing suitable consequences for their actions. It takes introspection, sobering up to the effects their actions had on others, repenting of it, rejecting the old way of living that caused it, and finally the humbling of oneself before the people who�ve suffered to ask for their forgiveness to try and start repaying the debt owed. Richard definitely owed a lot to his family. We all go down this path in one form or another because we all let people down eventually, albeit in lesser ways. It�s an important road to walk because over time it'll lean us towards becoming the best versions of ourselves, while also letting us reject the bad. Some of us, like Richard, have bad versions of ourselves that are so awful the journey to fix things becomes even more critical to the people around us.

Forgiveness is never owed back though, and some things can never get fully fixed, but it�s important that someone admits their guilt to the people they hurt because it will help the healing process. Maybe those that suffered will just spit in the accused�s face when they�re on their knees, who knows, but when things play out this way everyone gets a fair chance to move on and be better than they were before.

It�s extremely sad for everyone involved to see someone�s journey go unfinished like this, when in some kinder, parallel world they could�ve done things differently. Growing as a person is something everyone, everyone full stop, in their right mind inevitably does. It�s also very depressing to see such huge debts go unpaid when they're squelched like this.

The forums have always had this one-sided view of Richard. In the early 2000s he was seen as a fresh, young pioneer and entrepreneur. He was quite funny to people who were craving edgy and unpolished humour, especially the kind you wouldn�t find on mainstream platforms, and he became highly influential in this community and on other niche parts of the internet for some of the early trails he blazed. Crass, uncaring jokes on this new media made use of novel formats and modern dispersal mechanisms to do things that�d never been done before and Richard was in the right place at the right time to get in on it. Being naturally ironic and socially disengaged helped him with perpetuating the new humour. Nobody ever thought Richard was some kind of Da Vinci, but he was seen as a popular figurehead for some of the weirder parts of the web, and that gave him some status as the internet�s weird uncle who smells funny but tells rowdy jokes.

Somewhere along the way things went bad. Real, real bad. Success brought in opportunities that were squandered one by one. Part of the new money coming in helped fuel personal addictions so severe Richard definitely did not seem like a man in the right mind for huge swathes of time. Over the years the pills, booze and whatever else Richard engaged in became infamous on the forums...first as jokes but later as subjects of anonymous concern. Pics of him crashed out on the company office�s furniture floated around. He also became negligent, belligerent and deceptive. We, as a community, tolerated this spiral for a time. His natural social disengagement was absolutely authentic and one thing he also never lied about was wanting to live carefree so all this was completely on-brand for him, if still disappointing. It was hard to tell him he was wrong. He eventually got into a kind of paralysis where he felt like he couldn�t do anything for the website anymore because there were always some kind of criticisms no matter what he did. The man hated criticism and avoided it with even more absenteeism. Things got worse when he started developing the kind of health problems he had in middle-age where self-medication into numb oblivion became even more tantalizing. But self-sedation like this only clouds your mind even more. For a while he probably lived in the quiet darkness of his old reputation�s shadow, content to let it coast him along in life. His interactions with staff and the forums became one-sided, and he expected others to do all the work for him with next to nothing in return. He was hurting people, but it wasn�t serious... until it was.

Eventually he hurt his own family, in utterly reprehensible ways, and the forums found out. That was enough for everyone. That�s the disgraced Richard the forums know today. As outsiders we�d seen the transformation of Rich into the absolute worst version of himself and that�s what�s been put under the spotlight. Even the kind of jokes he used to tell seem like uncomfortable anachronisms now. I don�t know what kind of substances Richard was on when he ended his life, or if a lifetime of substance abuse already took its toll by then, but these are not, and have never been, the actions of a man in a clear state of mind.

Going by the OP�s eulogy, LA�s posts and the other anecdotes posted ITT the real Richard was neither of these one-dimensional descriptions and I pray the family he leaves behind learns the wisdom needed to navigate the complicated legacy he leaves behind. His young children especially. The real truth behind the man belongs to them now. I wish he could�ve grown into being more of the best version of himself that his loved ones, and the internet, saw glimpses long ago of but that�s not a world you�ll often see when someone is dealing with a tag-team of their own personal demons, severe addiction and health turmoil all ganging up on them at once. Especially when they self-isolate.

Any goon who actually bothered to read this should make a point of making mental health a top priority, full stop. There are all sorts of professionals who�ll help you with whatever�s troubling you, whether it�s needing the aid of marriage counsellors, anger management classes, rehabilitation clinics, therapists/psychologists or even churches if that�s your thing. There are people out there who are willing to help you if you look in the right places. Suicide is never the answer. For heaven�s sake call the suicide hotline if that�s something you�re dealing with right now. If Richard had taken his mental health more seriously earlier on, every single bit of this awful situation could have been avoided.

Richard left behind an immense personal debt to his family and I am incredibly proud of the forums for shouldering part of the financial element of the debt with the Go Fund Me. Everyone needs to have a look at the work that�s being done there. Richard may have developed the forums, but it�s the users that have made it so great.

tane

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:49

really queer Christmas: Apr 22, 2014

AshliLies posted:

rich literally killed himself because his kids were being turned against him

i'd donate all the money from my NFT to them if I knew Ashli and Megan couldn't touch it.

I know everyone who's posted realize how crazy this is. But I heard the phrase "brainwashed by mother into hating me" a lot as a kid. Specifically from my father. Most of his abuse happened when he was drunk, but even while sober would constantly tell me that he was a victim and that my mom was the true villian and why things weren't great between us. It Couldn't have been the abuse levied against me, nah it was that lying skank of a mom. She was brainwashing me, you see! You fell for something even a dumbass kid could see through, you dumbfuck.

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:49

MEIN RAVEN: Oct 7, 2008; Gutentag Mein Raven

cum posted:

does cum corrode? did she have rusty cum in her

Depends on your mangosteen intake I hear

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:50

Kaddish: Feb 7, 2002

cum posted:

didn't read

I was going to judge you but that's a lot of words!

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:50

cum: Sep 18, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Twigand Berries posted:

if i had your username i think i would just search for the word cum and start posting in the top thread result is that what happened here today

no that's some gbs rear end poo poo. i forgot i even had plat honestly

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:50

Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

Crazy Ted posted:

Serious post: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the single best thing I've done for myself as an adult.

Cognitive Ball Torture

Cock and Ball Therapy

Sorry just had to get those out of my system

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:50

Farm Frenzy: Jan 3, 2007

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.

But it's actually just some very mild criticism scatter amongst the usual rear end kissing.

God the culture of ancient sa is so funny

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:50

Raxkor: Jan 19, 2013; What the actual or implied fuck?!

bagmonkey posted:

Yeah, that sucks, but how about that cum pic lol

That was something else! :gizz:

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:50

pillsburysoldier: Feb 11, 2008; Yo, peep that shit

Kaddish posted:

He's not cumming back guys

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:51

cum: Sep 18, 2016; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Farm Frenzy posted:

God the culture of ancient sa is so funny

pre-irony poisoning era....

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:51

Kaddish: Feb 7, 2002

Lol yeah

# ? Nov 13, 2021 00:51

Cactus Ghost: Dec 20, 2003; you can actually inflate your scrote pretty safely with sterile saline, syringes, needles, and aseptic technique. its a niche kink iirc

the saline just slowly gets absorbed into your blood but in the meantime you got a big round smooth distended nutsack

hard counter posted:

This is a real bad situation, pure and simple. I�ve always taken the view that the best way forwards when someone has committed grave misdeeds is to hope that, over the course their life, they will eventually grow up after facing suitable consequences for their actions. It takes introspection, sobering up to the effects their actions had on others, repenting of it, rejecting the old way of living that caused it, and finally the humbling of oneself before the people who�ve suffered to ask for their forgiveness to try and start repaying the debt owed. Richard definitely owed a lot to his family. We all go down this path in one form or another because we all let people down eventually, albeit in lesser ways. It�s an important road to walk because over time it'll lean us towards becoming the best versions of ourselves, while also letting us reject the bad. Some of us, like Richard, have bad versions of ourselves that are so awful the journey to fix things becomes even more critical to the people around us.

Forgiveness is never owed back though, and some things can never get fully fixed, but it�s important that someone admits their guilt to the people they hurt because it will help the healing process. Maybe those that suffered will just spit in the accused�s face when they�re on their knees, who knows, but when things play out this way everyone gets a fair chance to move on and be better than they were before.

It�s extremely sad for everyone involved to see someone�s journey go unfinished like this, when in some kinder, parallel world they could�ve done things differently. Growing as a person is something everyone, everyone full stop, in their right mind inevitably does. It�s also very depressing to see such huge debts go unpaid when they're squelched like this.

The forums have always had this one-sided view of Richard. In the early 2000s he was seen as a fresh, young pioneer and entrepreneur. He was quite funny to people who were craving edgy and unpolished humour, especially the kind you wouldn�t find on mainstream platforms, and he became highly influential in this community and on other niche parts of the internet for some of the early trails he blazed. Crass, uncaring jokes on this new media made use of novel formats and modern dispersal mechanisms to do things that�d never been done before and Richard was in the right place at the right time to get in on it. Being naturally ironic and socially disengaged helped him with perpetuating the new humour. Nobody ever thought Richard was some kind of Da Vinci, but he was seen as a popular figurehead for some of the weirder parts of the web, and that gave him some status as the internet�s weird uncle who smells funny but tells rowdy jokes.

Somewhere along the way things went bad. Real, real bad. Success brought in opportunities that were squandered one by one. Part of the new money coming in helped fuel personal addictions so severe Richard definitely did not seem like a man in the right mind for huge swathes of time. Over the years the pills, booze and whatever else Richard engaged in became infamous on the forums...first as jokes but later as subjects of anonymous concern. Pics of him crashed out on the company office�s furniture floated around. He also became negligent, belligerent and deceptive. We, as a community, tolerated this spiral for a time. His natural social disengagement was absolutely authentic and one thing he also never lied about was wanting to live carefree so all this was completely on-brand for him, if still disappointing. It was hard to tell him he was wrong. He eventually got into a kind of paralysis where he felt like he couldn�t do anything for the website anymore because there were always some kind of criticisms no matter what he did. The man hated criticism and avoided it with even more absenteeism. Things got worse when he started developing the kind of health problems he had in middle-age where self-medication into numb oblivion became even more tantalizing. But self-sedation like this only clouds your mind even more. For a while he probably lived in the quiet darkness of his old reputation�s shadow, content to let it coast him along in life. His interactions with staff and the forums became one-sided, and he expected others to do all the work for him with next to nothing in return. He was hurting people, but it wasn�t serious... until it was.

Eventually he hurt his own family, in utterly reprehensible ways, and the forums found out. That was enough for everyone. That�s the disgraced Richard the forums know today. As outsiders we�d seen the transformation of Rich into the absolute worst version of himself and that�s what�s been put under the spotlight. Even the kind of jokes he used to tell seem like uncomfortable anachronisms now. I don�t know what kind of substances Richard was on when he ended his life, or if a lifetime of substance abuse already took its toll by then, but these are not, and have never been, the actions of a man in a clear state of mind.

Going by the OP�s eulogy, LA�s posts and the other anecdotes posted ITT the real Richard was neither of these one-dimensional descriptions and I pray the family he leaves behind learns the wisdom needed to navigate the complicated legacy he leaves behind. His young children especially. The real truth behind the man belongs to them now. I wish he could�ve grown into being more of the best version of himself that his loved ones, and the internet, saw glimpses long ago of but that�s not a world you�ll often see when someone is dealing with a tag-team of their own personal demons, severe addiction and health turmoil all ganging up on them at once. Especially when they self-isolate.

Any goon who actually bothered to read this should make a point of making mental health a top priority, full stop. There are all sorts of professionals who�ll help you with whatever�s troubling you, whether it�s needing the aid of marriage counsellors, anger management classes, rehabilitation clinics, therapists/psychologists or even churches if that�s your thing. There are people out there who are willing to help you if you look in the right places. Suicide is never the answer. For heaven�s sake call the suicide hotline if that�s something you�re dealing with right now. If Richard had taken his mental health more seriously earlier on, every single bit of this awful situation could have been avoided.

Richard left behind an immense personal debt to his family and I am incredibly proud of the forums for shouldering part of the financial element of the debt with the Go Fund Me. Everyone needs to have a look at the work that�s being done there. Richard may have developed the forums, but it�s the users that have made it so great.

this, but unironically

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Heath: Apr 30, 2008; 🍂🎃🏞️💦

Farm Frenzy posted:

God the culture of ancient sa is so funny

Hello from the gas chamber

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stab: Feb 12, 2003; To you from failing hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high

AshliLies posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Bqi3ZI7.jpg

here's the one rich got that caused him to have an affair with me and get him divorced

before ashli outs herself and posts the logs she used in the divorce case which has this same photo in it

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Poco: Jul 17, 2005; ....I am a Tariff Man

Farm Frenzy posted:

God the culture of ancient sa is so funny

web 1.5 was a weird time to be online

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drunken officeparty: Aug 23, 2006

How do i meet babes, im having a lot of difficulty meeting babes

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Shame Boy: Mar 2, 2010

really queer Christmas posted:

I know everyone who's posted realize how crazy this is. But I heard the phrase "brainwashed by mother into hating me" a lot as a kid. Specifically from my father. Most of his abuse happened when he was drunk, but even while sober would constantly tell me that he was a victim and that my mom was the true villian and why things weren't great between us. It Couldn't have been the abuse levied against me, nah it was that lying skank of a mom. She was brainwashing me, you see! You fell for something even a dumbass kid could see through, you dumbfuck.

Hey that friend of mine I mentioned (the one in therapy now) actually had a real similar adolescence with that kind of "I'm not the problem, you are the problem, you are the manipulative monster in this family, literal child!" and i've seen what it can do to a person and I hope you're okay or working through it or something and idk I just kinda wish I could give you a hug cuz it's one of the most hosed up forms of psychological child abuse I've seen.

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