Heh, SA was a huge part of my formative years, spent a ton of time (years / many many hours) lurking there. Sad to see the spiral that happened with Lowtax. Feeling very melancholic...
Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
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Re: Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
#62RIP to a real one.
Re: Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Best put. I'm not sure if younger people these days can imagine just how anonymous the internet was then. It had its advantages and disadvantages. Although I'd still rather live in the future of that world than our current identity-everywhere one.
> can imagine just how anonymous the internet was then. It wasn't that anonymous on SA though. Once you paid your :tenbux: then the site admins (incl. Lowtax) had your PII, assuming you used your own credit-card, ofc. I don't recall Lowtax et al. ever doxxed any of their own forum patrons, at least not any in good-standing, but I assume fear from the possibility of being doxxed for being an asshat on the forums kept…
Lowtax wasn't anonymous either... My friend looked up his number and address with whois and we called him, then went to his apartment parking lot and bought t-shirts out of the back of his car. Sometime circa 1999.
Re: Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
#64Lowtax was by all accounts a real piece of garbage by the end, but he undoubtedly created a place that changed the internet permanently. I find it kind of funny the amount of ire he drew long before the abuse allegations surfaced though. For example, he was basically auto banned from Twitter by… somebody with the ability to make those decisions at their discretion. I’ve always wondered who that was. In my head, it’s…
> Lowtax was by all accounts a real piece of garbage by the end Yeah, I heard his ex-wives had to carry the body outside in multiple garbage bags. Fitting.
> multiple garbage bags
Sounds like a remarkable suicide
Re: Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Lowtax was by all accounts a real piece of garbage by the end Yeah, I heard his ex-wives had to carry the body outside in multiple garbage bags. Fitting.
> multiple garbage bags Sounds like a remarkable suicide
Re: Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
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??? The analogous response would be "no he wasn't, what are you talking about". You're going after the wrong person here.
What exactly are you trying to have a discussion with me about? Edit: it’s wrong of me for uh, responding?
You're harassing someone for basically saying "your mention of 'unfettered free speech' is off topic".
While acting like the person that said that is the one that brought up 'unfettered free speech'.
You are wrong to do that.
Re: Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
#67Re: Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh okay. Here, I’m going to say “Lowtax was a huge fan of K-Pop”. Since now that’s been posted, you can accept it as fact and argue that you went through his post history and give me your thoughts.
??? The analogous response would be "no he wasn't, what are you talking about". You're going after the wrong person here.
Sorry for the repost but:
What exactly are you trying to have a discussion with me about?
Re: Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
??? The analogous response would be "no he wasn't, what are you talking about". You're going after the wrong person here.
What exactly are you trying to have a discussion with me about? Edit: it’s wrong of me for uh, responding?
What conversation do you think you're trying to have here?
You started out by getting very heated about a point that no one was actually discussing, and then proceeded to get very angry that people were responding to a comment chain in context with the first comment.
Re: Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, founder of Something Awful, has died
#70The Reddit thread has a lot more details https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/qro1ir/somethin...
I want to hear the Moms' side of the story. An abusive man can wield power through domestic violence but an abusive women is far more insidious. An abusive woman does not have the strength to employ violence so she uses other means inflict damage. Manipulation, legal tactics, lies and other techniques are used. The key here is that most of these techniques are subtle. I don't know what happened here, but I can almost…
It's actually all very sad. Lowtax wrote funny columns about Uwe Boll's movies, and Uwe charged him to a boxing match. Lowtax got his manhood taken from him and never was the same. The domestic violence can be seen as him moving down in weight class. After a few he actually got pretty good at it for his weight advantage. And then this happens.