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Bedlam posted:RIP Lowtax. If you had thought to marry alcoholism you might have finally beaten it. What a loving epitaph, goddamn.
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I remember how excited I was to finally be able to join the forums, feeling like such a poser for not joining sooner. I was a 16 year old girl and this was but one of many terrible internet mistakes. I used to read Helldump the same way some women read true crime, trying to reverse-engineer the perfect way to be a girl on the internet without suffering horrible consequences. It probably had a lasting negative impact! But it also stopped me from posting a lot of really dumb poo poo in a lot of places online, not just here. It seems like every internet creator twenty years ago had their own forum, in that time before comment sections, and every one of those forums ultimately turned on their creator. Even when I joined it seemed like the consensus was that Lowtax barely acknowledged or even liked the forums, and that it was better that way. I barely ever left a few niche megathreads, so it was really heartwarming a few years ago to think that the community was willing to take drastic steps to get rid of Nazis and come together to support a man suffering under the American healthcare system. It was a real disappointment to find out how much of that was horseshit. I think we should bring back the Digg button but making clicking on it an automatic probe.
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haveblue posted:May 17, 2006. A day that will live in infamy Rereading now, it's really striking how relatively mild the criticism was.
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DidSomebodySayFIB posted:You can google me, it's got nothing to do with the current context. okay 
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haveblue posted:It feels poetic that the rip lowtax thread led to the purchase of an in-joke smiley no one will ever use again My hope is that someone will buy a second smiley allowing us to extend the aaaaa indefinitely (but preferably this one would have a white border around the text making it readable on dark mode). This would encourage an ecosystem of screaming animals until one of them takes the crown as the favored screaming animal and the rest go ignored. Years later, when someone asks where the iconic screaming pigeon smiley came from, someone has to explain that we had a funeral for a fish in the Lowtax memorial thread.
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Mx. posted:a tribute to lost friends 
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Moai Ou posted:I'm mainly a lurker, but when I heard about the death, I thought I should post after finally catching up with the thread. 
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Reaganomicon posted:that was me by the way. I registered a million dumb gimmick accounts like Magic 8 Ball and Triangle Guy as well as distinguished myself in the "want to bbe a moderator" thread as TastyArmageddon. i was maybe 16 and 50% dumber than I am now when i posted the dramatic suicide thread... Yeah, he specifically cited you as the original reason for the paywall. I had no idea you were still around! I'm glad you're doing better.
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