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Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Re: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Post by JKCalhoun »

prvc wrote: post #149
antihero wrote: post #130

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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&th... "I have been sitting for hours debating whether or not to disclose this, and I feel like it's something I do need to get off of my chest. Frankly, I'm tried of being quiet. I've mostly had to stay quiet for years about things happening behind the scenes. I've held things inside so long and so hard my chest physically hurt the same way it is now. I consid…

>confirmed his treatment of me was Domestic Violence Wording suggests that adopting an expansive definition of the term (which has undergone substantial concept-creep) was necessary in order for it to have applied to her allegations.

"Concept creep" is interesting — is there an old and new concept of domestic violence?

Re: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Post by coldacid »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #135
javajosh wrote: post #87

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Society is really confused about right and wrong. Wendy Williams (a talk show host) asked her audience if one of her guests, who wanted a baby, should trick her boyfriend into fathering a child. The audience laughed and said yes -- Wendy laughed too, and agreed. This is called paternity fraud, because once pregnant the father will have no say in the disposition of the child, AND will be on the hook for child support.…

> if one of her guests, who wanted a baby, should trick her boyfriend into fathering a child > This is called paternity fraud It's called rape . He consented to sexual activity under the impression birth control was being used. If it wasn't, the consent was invalid.

It's both, really.

Re: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Post by jatone »

edmcnulty101 wrote: post #66
ralfd wrote: post #50

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> An hour later I was contacted by my attorney who informed me that Rich had shot himself earlier in the morning. > So. There it is. His other ex and I got to tell our children that their father died without saying goodbye to them, or that he loved them, or to my knowledge, left a note for them. This rubs me the wrong way. Also the countless posts dissing someone who committed suicide.

What rubs me the wrong way is that he shot himself an HOUR after the judge ruled he would lose his daughter and what sounds like huge amount of money. The explanation from the ex-wife sounds very fishy as well. > confirmed his treatment of me was Domestic Violence * this is not for a divorce court to decide. This is a criminal offense not civil. Something feels off.. >He was due to get our daughter for Christmas * th…

divorce court absolutely can make the determination that there was domestic violence in their ruling. it simply doesn't have criminal implications.

there is very frequently different outcome in civil suits vs criminal suits. where you're found guilty of something in a civil court but innocent in criminal.

Re: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Post by [deleted] »

extortionist wrote: post #12

He leaves behind a complicated legacy. It's important to note that credible allegations of domestic abuse lead him to sell SA in the past year, and this can't be set aside. At the same time, SA's influence on the modern internet can't be understated. The 'image macro' of early SA (maybe created by Lowtax himself, from what Fragmaster says in his video in the link) is the direct ancestor of today's common meme image--…

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Re: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Post by Chris2048 »

romwell wrote: post #86
Jensson wrote: post #76

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> Yeah, they're jokes, but when I stopped being a child that stopped being funny Autists often don't pick up on that and continues to make unfunny or cringe jokes year after year. That makes them prime targets for false accusations, since the world is full of people like you who will assume they are guilty just because they are socially unaware.

As an autistic: no. Lack of social awareness isn't an excuse for rape and abuse jokes. You don't need any social awareness to figure out that you shouldn't do that. The concept of "jokes at someone else's expense = bad" isn't hard to grasp for an analytical mind. Autism is not stupidity. You are not doing "autists" any favor by trying to excuse this behavior. (Also, for some reason , autistic women aren't seen joking…

There's (famously) a spectrum for autism, and individual differences in any case. You can't speak for the whole spectrum just for placing somewhere on it.

Re: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Post by corobo »

havkd wrote: post #45

Why does it say “dies” when he killed himself? And please, no trick answers. One of my favourite posts of his, why lingerie is fucking stupid: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=38...

That information came out a few hours after this thread was posted if HN/SA's timestamps are showing the right times

Re: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Post by Chris2048 »

batman-farts wrote: post #111
Jensson wrote: post #89

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> The concept of "jokes at someone else's expense = bad" isn't hard to grasp for an analytical mind. Rape jokes aren't at anyone's expense. A joke at someone's expense would be making fun of someone, a rape joke is just something like "9 out of 10 enjoys gang rape" etc, that isn't what people mean when they say "joke at someone else's expense". So to me your post just shows that you lack the social awareness to under…

Rape jokes normalize sexual violence, and create an intimidating atmosphere for anyone who may potentially be a victim, or may unfortunately have already suffered. To me, they are also a clear marker of someone who never matured enough to express their sexuality in a healthy fashion. SA may have had a lot of that shit back in the day (and may still in some corners, I’ve never spent much time in FYAD), but it shouldn’…

> Rape jokes normalize sexual violence

And it's still claimed that violent video games normalised violence, despite research suggesting otherwise. So is the above claim something that is researched fact, or your opinion?

Re: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Post by happytoexplain »

prvc wrote: post #167
throwaway2048 wrote: post #150

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not quite sure how you are arriving at that conclusion?

It is an interpretation, not a conclusion, based on the premise that one would have known before the ruling whether or not the allegations described an instance of DV, if the term had been interpreted according to its traditional meaning.

>one would have known before the ruling whether or not the allegations described an instance of DV

I'm not defending/attacking any person here, since I haven't read further details, but if one goes to court to have something "obvious" decided upon, and then one writes for strangers about it, many (I think even most) people would absolutely use the same wording she used. "The judge confirmed X." I think you're looking too hard for a case that may support some conception you have, instead of accepting that that sentence doesn't have anything insidious in it. Whatever the situation is in reality is coincidental to that sentence.

Re: Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died

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Post by [deleted] »

javajosh wrote: post #124
davidgerard wrote: post #114

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At this point in the thread, it seems clear you're talking about personal issues and not about anything to do with Richard Kyanka or the detailed allegations, police reports, etc.

The guy killed himself and posters are mentioning "credible DV allegations" to imply "good, glad he's dead, he (probably) deserved it." This is the concrete outcome of a much broader consequence of exempting women from ordinary standards of evidence around DV allegations. It's a big problem, worth pointing out, and I strongly suspect that Kyanka would appreciate the discussion.

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