Current Events > lowtax died

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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3984488

Apparently he died for real, for once

Very mixed feelings about this

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Future_Trunks posted...

who

who?

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Damn

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Future_Trunks posted...

who

The founder of SomethingAwful, a message board from the early/mid 2000s.

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Is this is anything like the horse from never ending story I am going to be upset.

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CRON posted...

The founder of SomethingAwful, a message board from the early/mid 2000s.

Well that is sad. Rest In Peace.

Future_Trunks posted...

who

the guy who punched ebaum in the face and banged his mom

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JHBPhD posted...

They should just unplug SomethingAwful for good. Seeing whats come of that place is genuinely deresssing.

Didn't it go from gore to porn to near-porn to porn again to clickbait to memes?
Or was that something else?

Looks like it hasn't updated for over a year.

On second thought, if the rumors are true, we shouldn't be eulogizing him.

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CRON posted...

On second thought, if the rumors are true, we shouldn't be eulogizing him.

These are the mixed feelings

By most accounts he was a total trashbag, but also it's hard to have a conversation about the internet culture of my formative years without him

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PyroBlade1985 posted...

What rumors?

He committed suicide after a court hearing regarding child support payments.

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welp

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Yeah, he was human garbage. Not going to weep for him lol. The forums are in better hands now anyway.
That forum got me into Paradox games and is my go-to place for discussing Football.
Just, uhh...stay out of GBS. And FYAD. And Debate&Discussion. And probably C-SPAM too.

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PyroBlade1985 posted...

So in other words SA is a crap forum? Even more crap than GFAQs?

imo it's better than gamefaqs, but I'd just rather be here

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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Have you seen anywhere that has healthy political discussion? Because that doesn't exist.
Overall though, it's a much better place for specific discussion of games, sports, movies, books, etc. etc.
I've found the automotive and tech forums really helpful resources too. And the Ask/Tell forum can be great for all sorts of things.
$10 well spent, my friend. Very well spent.

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She/her

I never spent any time on SomethingAwful, so most of my exposure to LowTax was from MATI streams. Like the stream about Shmorky.

CRON posted...

On second thought, if the rumors are true, we shouldn't be eulogizing him.

You don't have to eulogize him, but he was very important in shaping Internet culture in the early 00s.

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I have conflicted feelings like every other millenial. He went off the rails into full on psycho bullshit, but the internet was better from the cultural seeds he planted.

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Lowtax fell ass backwards into the Internet hall of fame and spent the totality of his reign being an abusive asshole both on and off the keyboard before finally losing what little relevance he had because he couldn't stop beating women.

And his ex just posted this:

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 considered not sharing this out of respect for Rich's parents and sister, but after thinking on the incredibly vitriolic wall of text Rich's Mother sent to me this morning, saying upon many other things, that his blood is on my hands, I need to share it to regain some sense of control over what's taken place in the past 48 hours.

Yesterday I recieved a divorce ruling that would help me and my daughter stay in our home in Canada and allow me to provide a good life for her as well as pay back numerous debts that had accrued during the past two years when I was receiving $350 a month in child support.

In the divorce ruling the judge found that Rich had willfully spent down the martial fund, confirmed his treatment of me was Domestic Violence and put together a plan to pay for the attorney fees etc. He would still retain custody settled on previously in mediation. He was due to get our daughter for Christmas.

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.

If you've made it this far thank you for giving me space to let this go so I know longer have to hold onto it.

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IronChef_Kirby posted...

the guy who punched ebaum in the face and banged his mom

And now that guy is dead while ebaum's world is still going.

A w k w a r d

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Thots and Players.

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Imagine paying real money to use an internet forum.
How desperate can you be for human interaction?

CRON posted...

He committed suicide

damn. it reminds me of another user on here who lost it and took his own life because of a GF or wife because she pushed him over the edge.
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never heard of him, but RIP

I remember SomethingAwful had a FF6 romhack based on various users there. It was pretty funny. During the scene where Figaro castle is burning, the Edgar-based character tries to play it off like he's just cleaning the castle. Another character is like "with fire?" and the Edgar character is like "Sure! It's nature's water!" I enjoyed that line. I don't recall if lowtax was in it or what role he had if so.

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sad

https://twitter.com/shaun_vids/status/1458641131345002496

And more than once a week I'm reminded that $10 is cheap as hell just for all the entertainment goons generate. The site is a perpetual drama machine that jediknight would have fit right at home in.

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Yeah, SA was really the source for the culture of the internet as it was and it is today, for better or worse. Even more recent trends like "weird twitter" came from goons treating twitter like they were shitposting on FYAD, and it's funny now seeing zoomers now trying to post like they're late-2000's era goons. The fact that lowtax was such a genuinely shit person goes a long way to explain why he could never parley that influence into true success even though people who cut their teeth posting SA did.

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At least I can show off SBAllen to my mom. This guy sounded like a bad guy

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YellowSUV posted...

You don't have to eulogize him, but he was very important in shaping Internet culture in the early 00s.

Cool story bro.

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Background_Guy posted...

Imagine paying real money to use an internet forum.
How desperate can you be for human interaction?

Wow that's stupid lol.

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Background_Guy posted...

Imagine paying real money to use an internet forum.
How desperate can you be for human interaction?

SA was the original ResetEra

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FL81 posted...

SA was the original ResetEra

Wasn't "tenbux" right after the 1999/2000 ad-pocalypse?

Well, dude sounded like a legit scumbag.

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https://twitter.com/synoisia/status/1458632558753853447

Context is that banning hentai led to goons forming 4chan which eventually led to 8chan and a lot of other dumb shit that's on track to end in a successful coup of the United States.

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i remember he did a few vid series with slowbeef years ago. had no idea he was this much of a piece of shit

imagine pissing away all that money just so you don't have to give it to your family you abused

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kingdrake2 posted...

damn. it reminds me of another user on here who lost it and took his own life because of a GF or wife because she pushed him over the edge.

Wait, that guy? The one with the extremely abusive girlfriend?

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Godnorgosh posted...

All I know about SA (aside from this guy, now) is that their forums are extremely strict and also that they're home to those two guys who like to bully LPers lol.

Retsupurae was hilarious back in the day.

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Rapid99 posted...

https://twitter.com/synoisia/status/1458632558753853447

Context is that banning hentai led to goons forming 4chan which eventually led to 8chan and a lot of other dumb shit that's on track to end in a successful coup of the United States.

The sad part is I understood exactly what he meant to say.

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Not even the users on his own forum are sad for him. Dude was a total piece of shit.

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