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Hasturtium
May 19, 2020

And that year, for his birthday, he got six pink ping pong balls in a little pink backpack.

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

we know he's a criminal mastermind



Must really suck to be so incapable of comprehending an adult lifetime of abusing friends and partners coming home to roost, and instead projecting A Vast Wife Wing Conspiracy onto it instead.

Hasturtium fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Oct 14, 2020

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Fuckface the Hedgehog
Jun 12, 2007

Blow posted:

Please stop saying Blowtax.

It shits me.

Asante sana na mungu akubariki.

:350:

Thought you would have liked it. I mean, he is your mate.

Saw you two down at the shops.

Queen-Of-Hearts
Mar 17, 2009

"I want to break your heart💔 and give you mine🫀"




Hasturtium posted:

A Vast Wife Wing Conspiracy

This would be an absolutely stellar username/thread title/av text

Inexplicable Humblebrag
Sep 20, 2003

the wifes did this...

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

What bad luck, to be endlessly betrayed by everyone you ever met while never being at fault yourself.

Why did we never see what a piece of poo poo he was despite all the clues? He’s such a textbook case.

Aeble
Oct 21, 2010


Here's to another couple of decades of SA. :toot:

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

What bad luck, to be endlessly betrayed by everyone you ever met while never being at fault yourself.

Why did we never see what a piece of poo poo he was despite all the clues? He’s such a textbook case.

The website grew up and he stayed the same? I don't know, I guess the 'ironic' terrible things only carried so far.

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

we know he's a criminal mastermind



I will let Olivia Soprano respond for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMaSh20qBbg

bradzilla
Oct 15, 2004

LOL yes those :females: colluded to accuse you of being abusive and isn't indicative of you being a piece of human garbage

Cartridgeblowers
Jan 3, 2006

Super Mario Bros 3



This thread is good as hell

weekly font
Dec 1, 2004


Everytime I try to fly I fall
Without my wings
I feel so small
Guess I need you baby...



Lowtax is extremely pathetic but at the same time it’s awesome to know he’s impotently still lurking the forums getting mad.

Hi Rich you sack of poo poo. We’re all better off without you.

tetsuo
May 12, 2001

I am a shaman, magician
:ohdear: collusion :ohdear:

Sombrerotron
Aug 1, 2004

Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

What bad luck, to be endlessly betrayed by everyone you ever met while never being at fault yourself.

Why did we never see what a piece of poo poo he was despite all the clues? He’s such a textbook case.
Maybe it was because aside from depicting all his exes as being insane and complaining about the modern internet a lot, he did tend to be very self-deprecating. That invites sympathy and suggests a degree of self-reflection that you might think isn't really compatible with being unable/unwilling to see or admit that you're the problem in your own failed relationships. And of course he pretty effectively portrayed himself as "the good guy" in general by claiming that SA was hardly making any money anymore and that he was continuously struggling financially (which we couldn't really verify, but seemed possible at least), yet also refusing to either switching to a subscription model or sell the whole thing outright or whatever, ostensibly because he was principally against doing so and wished to preserve this community. We just wanted to believe all that was true, I think. Just goes to show how naïve and short-sighted we were. And also incredibly forgiving, because let's face it - Lowtax hardly needed to spend all his time on keeping SA running (and certainly didn't), so he had years and years to secure another source of income, or at the very least properly invest in SA to ensure that it would survive and become (remain?) adequately profitable. That kind of userbase goodwill and "business model" couldn't have lasted, neither for him nor for us. Even without the abuse and his astonishingly poor response to it becoming public, he had long since been digging both his own and SA's grave.

Still, I think we've now got happier times allround to look forward to. :unsmith: I mean, apart from Lowtax obviously, but that's entirely his problem.

dromal phrenia
Feb 22, 2004

A group of crows is called a murder, a group of wives is called a conspiracy :hai:

I love that you two went barefoot for the photo, guaranteeing that this piece of poo poo abuser gets a little turned on while he fumes impotently.

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

tetsuo posted:

:ohdear: collusion :ohdear:

NO C OR O

obamagate caused this

logan from corporate
May 18, 1994


as per my last email, we'll touch base, circle back and synergize
lmao he big mad

barbecue at the folks
Jul 20, 2007


Thread just keeps on giving, lmao

Pope Corky the IX
Dec 18, 2006

What are you looking at?
Give it another few hours before he points to the bottle in the picture as proof that they were all alcoholics.

Hasturtium
May 19, 2020

And that year, for his birthday, he got six pink ping pong balls in a little pink backpack.

Just seething and alone with a big curdled wad of old grievances everybody else has moved away from. It warms the cockles.

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood

Who What Now posted:

He had the easiest possible grift imaginable and hosed it up. There's no way he could put up effort to start a new one.

he's still got gaming garbage, so good luck to richard on his new job of "being the angry video game nerd."

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.
Anybody want to photoshop a box of Latuda next to that bottle of wine to save Mr. Lowtax the trouble?

pro starcraft loser
Jan 23, 2006

Stand back, this could get messy.

Wait, SA was actually making money?

logan from corporate
May 18, 1994


as per my last email, we'll touch base, circle back and synergize

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Give it another few hours before he points to the bottle in the picture as proof that they were all alcoholics.

you know it. t-minus a few hours before he hops on livestream for attention

Stex T posted:

Anybody want to photoshop a box of Latuda next to that bottle of wine to save Mr. Lowtax the trouble?

LMFAO

Sombrerotron
Aug 1, 2004

Release my children! My hat is truly great and mighty.

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

he's still got gaming garbage, so good luck to richard on his new job of "being the angry video game nerd."
Is anyone at all still watching his videos or streams? The number of views per video was already pretty anaemic last year, I think, when he still curried a lot of favour with goons.

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood

Sombrerotron posted:

Is anyone at all still watching his videos or streams? The number of views per video was already pretty anaemic last year, I think, when he still curried a lot of favour with goons.

i think he's had 2-3 streams since the sale alone. he knows he has to hustle now. and, it might surprise you, but there's a few hundreds of dollars a month worth of gamer assholes who hate women, so.

he's not gone, y'all. he's off the forums but he's still going to be an active, noxious influence on the internet. he's still going to use his facebook account to harass the women he's legally entangled with.

edit- sorry for making GBS threads up the Happy Thread y'all, but. just because we're free doesn't mean it's over. we gotta scour the shire.

Tarkus V2.0
May 30, 2008
I didn't find LT funny or interesting when I was 20 and I still don't today at 40. The way he railed on Integral when all that poo poo went down always smelled funny to me and as the years went on he kept 'having bad luck' which is very tell-tale. LT was always a bully on the forums but just smart enough to keep some clever people on-side. We can sit around and blame the sycophants and whoever but ultimately it doesn't matter.

I guess the only justice in this is that he gets to watch SA go on and perhaps thrive without him while he will be dogged by his own failure and the knowledge of how he squandered 10+ years of solid time where he could've been improving himself and his situation. From what I know, his kids hate him too and his parents seem to be the final lifeline for him. I'm genuinely curious how much LT received for the site after all this, I can't see paying much more than 50k.

Panty Saluter
Jan 17, 2004

Making learning fun!

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

we know he's a criminal mastermind



boy that Richard Kyanka sure is something awful!!!! :pram:

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

dromal phrenia posted:

I love that you two went barefoot for the photo, guaranteeing that this piece of poo poo abuser gets a little turned on while he fumes impotently.

Oh god that's what that's about? :gonk:

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva

pro starcraft loser posted:

Wait, SA was actually making money?

like rays from the sun, lies pour out of tax's mouth

There Bias Two
Jan 13, 2009
I'm not a good person

Rarity posted:

Oh god that's what that's about? :gonk:

There was a...post that is forever seared into my brain that proves this. I believe it has been scrubbed now.

SIDS Vicious
Jan 1, 1970


pro starcraft loser posted:

Wait, SA was actually making money?

Well, Lowtax was making a ton of money, like half of my yearly income a months from his Patreon that was supposed to support the forums and gaming garbage and as you can see we have been running xenforo 2.0 for quite some time

13Pandora13
Nov 5, 2008

I've got tiiits that swingle dangle dingle




Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

we know he's a criminal mastermind



This would be funny if it wasn't so deranged. He actually believes it's more plausible that three women (who very much didn't like each other at varying points in time) have been in a multi-year conspiracy against him for...reasons? and didn't just bond over shared trauma. It's obviously a paranoid delusion of grandeur to an outsider looking in, but can you imagine someone genuinely believing such a thing and constantly accusing you of being a conspirator publicly?

(edit)

Or as Phiz notes below, an obvious lie - either way poo poo is hosed.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Give it another few hours before he points to the bottle in the picture as proof that they were all alcoholics.

You're probably right, but again, it is absolutely 100% sparkling juice.

13Pandora13 fucked around with this message at 16:43 on Oct 14, 2020

PHIZ KALIFA
Dec 21, 2011

#mood

13Pandora13 posted:

This would be funny if it wasn't so deranged. He actually believes it's more plausible that three women (who very much didn't like each other at varying points in time) have been in a multi-year conspiracy against him for...reasons? and didn't just bond over shared trauma. It's obviously a paranoid delusion of grandeur to an outsider looking in, but can you imagine someone genuinely believing such a thing and constantly accusing you of being a conspirator publicly?

no, he's lying to his supporters so they keep giving him money. though frankly at this point if he copped to slapping them all in the mouth i imagine it would boost his earnings, so...

Stex T
Mar 7, 2005

Shut the fuck up and get out. Have fun being a slave of the rich and powerful.

Lowtax posted:

when I started SA back in 98/99, I thought "The Internet Makes You Stupid" would be a great slogan for parodying how self sanctimonious and ignorant it encouraged people to become. Now, in perhaps a form of self fulfilling prophecy, I have become a victim of my own creation's sheer ignorance and self sanctimoniousness. Strange how it also applies to my other slogan for the site, "if you read it on the internet, it MUST be true."

MY OWN CREATION

logan from corporate
May 18, 1994


as per my last email, we'll touch base, circle back and synergize

Lowtax posted:

I have become a victim

:qq:

SniperWoreConverse
Mar 20, 2010



Gun Saliva
Dr Kyankenstein's Monster has betrayed its master

CmdrRiker
Apr 8, 2016

You dismally untalented little creep!

Lowtax, please :therapy:.

HugeGrossBurrito
Mar 20, 2018

His words are like parody at this point

I AM GRANDO
Aug 20, 2006

As if seeking out and ridiculing furries and people who love Robotix-themed bondage porn wasn't being incredibly sanctimonious. Somebody should see how many awful links of the day were about foot fetishists or wife beaters.

tetsuo
May 12, 2001

I am a shaman, magician
He became the thing he hated most.

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pixaal
Jan 8, 2004

All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.


Antifa Turkeesian posted:

As if seeking out and ridiculing furries and people who love Robotix-themed bondage porn wasn't being incredibly sanctimonious. Somebody should see how many awful links of the day were about foot fetishists or wife beaters.

I understand the second sentence but that first one. Did I miss lowtax coming out as a furry? Early SA he seemed pretty hell bent on harassing them.

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