cenotaph posted:

It took 21 years but the pusher bot finally got him.

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

conde nast was a lot better off buying reddit. trying to wrangle 2006 SA into something reddit sized now would never have worked.

Riot Bimbo posted:

I cried over lowtax when i found out about this

Farm Frenzy posted:

shocking that shadmans in jail for assault and not hte much more obvious thing

Whitenoise Poster posted:

It's like when they got Al Capone on tax evasion.



I said this in the gbs thread but I'm still amazed at how many people outside this website I discovered to be secret or ex goons after lowtax died.

WrasslorMonkey posted:

Lowtax thread closed again

https://i.imgur.com/VcEYrjA.mp4

Xaris posted:

idk why that would be surprising. pretty much everyone over the age of 30, that also had an internet connection at the time, grew up with it sort of being The Thing in the dot-com/early 2000s era huddled over a lovely school library computer reading poo poo. there wasn't a whole lot of options. for many most just drifted or didn't keep up after the invasion of iraq or katrina and was more like "oh that's still around??" but a good portion of anyone online had interacted with it to varying degrees

the other options included like penny arcade forums. and while the dudes were vastly more successful than lowtax leveraging it into expos and game developer poo poo, it also saw massive massive falloff after 2009 is about as dead gay as these forums

Hedenius posted:

News Corp bought MySpace for $580 million in 2005. I have no trouble believing that Lowtax would be deluded enough to think he’d get a better offer.

Filthy Hans posted:

getfiscal is a much better twitterer than he ever was as a goon

etalian posted:

If we had bought the Mangosteens this wouldn't have happenend.

Ardennes posted:

Wait, you guys haven't been eating only Mangosteen all these years? What the hell?

Stairmaster posted:

did we figure out how he died yet

Filthy Hans posted:

Riot Bimbo posted:

Whataburger is seriously the only thing i miss about texas and id like to think their breakfast menu couldve saved lowtax

Nix Panicus posted:

This is not a joke. Richard Kyanka shot himself to death because his divorce was finalized with a finding of domestic abuse (by him) and maliciously spending down savings to avoid child support. He left no note or final words for his children.

Riot Bimbo posted:

Whataburger is seriously the only thing i miss about texas and id like to think their breakfast menu couldve saved lowtax

Cup Runneth Over posted:

my favorite part of the memorial thread was the people complaining about how college libs with dyed hair had taken over the forums. its extremely funny to imagine being the kind of person who thinks these people have paper-thin skin and require safe spaces to function, but also utterly conquered one of the edgiest places on the internet and sent you into exile

Flesh Forge posted:

really one of the saddest things I've ever heard of

Nix Panicus posted:

This is not a joke. Richard Kyanka shot himself to death because his divorce was finalized with a finding of domestic abuse (by him) and maliciously spending down savings to avoid child support. He left no note or final words for his children.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

there was a post in the memorial thread that I agree with which basically said Lowtax died a long, long time ago and what was left was a golem powered by spite and self-hatred, and now it has finally ceased to animate. this is perhaps unfairly dehumanizing to the man but he really did seem like a shadow of his former self

Bicyclops posted:

embarrassing amount of but:

Lowtax dying kept me awake a little after seeing the news, which surprised me. I paged through the FYAD thread and (the last page of) the GBS thread and tried to place what the feeling was, and I think it's like this: someone you went to high school with died. From the obit, you can't tell if it was an OD or a suicide, and you haven't been in contact because he turned out to be enough of a shithead that you, and your mutual friends, all wrote him off, over time. And it's not a surprise, you always knew it would end this way. But still. You were just close enough that you feel like you have to put in an appearance. You see a ton of people you haven't seen in over a decade who are either in the same boat or just moved out of town before he started shedding friends. You realize, from seeing all these vaguely remembered people, that he was kind of a social hub for awhile. You wonder how he could have gone so wrong that all of them gave up on trying to help him (there were so many people trying to help him!), that the ones who were closer to him actually have sourer memories. Eventually it becomes uncomfortable to talk about him except when reliving a few happy memories (and even then, with a long awkward silence after the laughs), so people just catch up on their friends' lives. Maybe a few people reconnect and realize they shouldn't have drifted apart. But... probably they just say that they should do that.

I hope his children have all that they need and that the way he lived causes as little trauma as possible for them. I hope that all of his exes think of him very little. I hope that his parents got most of their grieving out of the way already. It's hard for most people to miss him, because we wrote him off a long time ago, but you feel bad for the people who were bound to him by circumstance. I can't wish for him to rest in peace, because he sure as hell isn't peaceful, I just hope that the living can ignore his tremors.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

there was a post in the memorial thread that I agree with which basically said Lowtax died a long, long time ago and what was left was a golem powered by spite and self-hatred, and now it has finally ceased to animate. this is perhaps unfairly dehumanizing to the man but he really did seem like a shadow of his former self

Cup Runneth Over posted:

my favorite part of the memorial thread was the people complaining about how college libs with dyed hair had taken over the forums. its extremely funny to imagine being the kind of person who thinks these people have paper-thin skin and require safe spaces to function, but also utterly conquered one of the edgiest places on the internet and sent you into exile

Snake Dance posted:

The funniest part to me was how a bunch of the returning old-timers still post in the worst old-style way possible. Like, what have they been doing as the internet changed? If you decided to come back and poo poo on the forums for becoming SJWs then obviously you didn't mature and log off in the past 15 years. Did they just all move to some obscure subreddit where time stood still?