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Holy poo poo I am just hearing about this today for reason. I've been on here since.... god probably 1999? That was on an account I've long forgotten, a year or two before the forums went pay. It was really sad to see Richard spiral out over the years. The forums were kind of my "Home Base" online for a long time, and it was tough watching him become more and more bitter and misanthropic as time went on. I know a lot of like our humor dark and bleak, but for most of us it comes from a place of good-natured realism that seeks to make sense of the poo poo life can kick up rather than a malevolent outlook that wishes to project harm outwards. When the allegations of Richard's abusive behavior turned into rather irrefutable proof I actually felt ashamed for ever enjoying the humor he created, like his anger and meanness should have been visible enough to me and that I'm somehow less for not seeing it. I know that's rather ridiculous, but SA has shaped a lot of our views and experiences online over the years, provided us with a community to interact with in a multitude of ways, and more, so it sucks to have to separate the lovely parts of him from the good parts of this place. Even now I still feel a twinge of sadness thinking about the downward path he took, and while his actions were indefensible, I still wish he could have turned himself around and gotten help, both for the sake of the family he had, and for the sake of the cultural influence his creations have made. It's too bad he'll be remembered in this way.
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