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Excels posted:yesterday's swear is today's slur, a lesson for us all They were slurs yesterday too, we were just more stupid at the time.
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adamantium|wang posted:who's gonna go tell Worth1000 the news I heard about it. And I'm really sad. I read about some of the negative stuff, but none of it takes away from the fact that he passed away and that's just super sad. I didn't know him the person and some of the negative associated things - just him the screenname and fellow webmaster of an early 2000's site influential in internet culture. And I'm sad to learn about the passing of the screenname and fellow webmaster. jaxomlotus fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Nov 12, 2021 |
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Parahexavoctal posted:When someone who you interacted with commits suicide, it's not unusual to ponder if you could have somehow changed that outcome. if he really wanted to work he could have found something anyway. it might have been a job where you have to eat poo poo just so you have something going while you look for something better, but a poo poo job is better than no job, even if he did have money to live off of. eh i dunno, that's just me.
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13 loving million dollars! 13 MILLION DOLLARS! FOR SA! AND HE SIAD NO! AHAHAHAHHAA i;m glad he didn't, but still
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Excels posted:yesterday's swear is today's slur, a lesson for us all lol you should stay gone then
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For a brief moment Lowtax appears to consider his life's choices. None of them good. Lotax not taking buyout money and bolting is like that time Blockbuster passed on buying Netflix. Glad he didn't, still a piece of poo poo though.
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All that's missing is some Ozma post. I identified the site more with her than with Lowtax when I joined, is she still posting somewhere or completely offline?
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IGgy IGsen posted:They were slurs yesterday too, we were just more stupid at the time. They were slurs but the people they were slurs against were conspicuously quieter about it, like something was suppressing their voice, weird.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Lowtax actually told me that helldump ruined the site in his eyes and that an admin opened it without asking him and he didn't find out for months. He seemed sincerely pissed about it even a decade later. So could make sense from there he never quite clicks with the forum in the same way, but also lacked any other vision of something else and was jonesing for it, so you get half-assed attempts to rock the boat that just kind of fade out and leave a bizarre trail. Meanwhile, personal demons take over (to the detriment of a lot of people). At the end of the day the internet made him stupid. That being said I'll toss in that 2005 talk he gave on internet communities is pretty insightful for 2005
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Excels posted:yesterday's swear is today's slur, a lesson for us all it was always a slur OP, even if you were too dumb, straight, and white to realize it. its ok to just say "everyone did it and I didn't know any better," you dont have to mourn for your lost homophobia and hard Rs
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busalover posted:All that's missing is some Ozma post. I identified the site more with her than with Lowtax when I joined, is she still posting somewhere or completely offline? Considering the abuse she routinely got, I was shocked she stayed as long as she did
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Cup Runneth Over posted:it was always a slur OP, even if you were too dumb, straight, and white to realize it. its ok to just say "everyone did it and I didn't know any better," you dont have to mourn for your lost homophobia and hard Rs This is the posting I crave
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bird with big dick posted:I’m John Malkovich. im quentin tarentino
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Mulaney Power Move posted:if he really wanted to work he could have found something anyway. it might have been a job where you have to eat poo poo just so you have something going while you look for something better, but a poo poo job is better than no job, even if he did have money to live off of. eh i dunno, that's just me. I don't think Lowtax was really willing to do a regular job, even though he probably could have done a simple sysadmin type position.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:if he really wanted to work he could have found something anyway. it might have been a job where you have to eat poo poo just so you have something going while you look for something better, but a poo poo job is better than no job, even if he did have money to live off of. eh i dunno, that's just me. i was a moderator on this site for less than a year and was able to use that to convince a major corporation to hire me to manage their own web forums and even pay me an actual salary while doing so. to say rich had options is putting it lightly. of course he made money from the forums and later from his patreon scam, but there were many many points at which he could have easily gotten himself some kind of "vp of innovation" position at some startup or even at an established marketing agency, and made even more. up until his domestic abuse was revealed i doubt there was much time in which he would have needed to actually work an actual lovely job to maintain his lifestyle
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Earwicker posted:i was a moderator on this site for less than a year and was able to use that to convince a major corporation to hire me to manage their own web forums and even pay me an actual salary while doing so. This post is almost certainly correct.
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Posting in the deer richard thread. Thanks for making Something Awful. Goonspeed
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Isometric Bacon posted:RIP Lowtax. There's a lot to process about this if you've been here a while. He was apparently a very sick person, and he hurt a lot of people, but we're all here because he made this place, and this place has grown to be important to a lot of us, or was at one point. And he wasn't all bad for his whole life. It seems like he was a fun, goofy dork a decade or two ago. What the hell happened? Suicide often provides survivors more questions than answers I guess.
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Kaddish posted:I don't think Lowtax was really willing to do a regular job, even though he probably could have done a simple sysadmin type position. He complained a lot about not being able to get a job like that due to "goons telling the places he was interviewing he was a serial abuser" iirc which like, I feel that was more down to them just googling his name, but whatever
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Nah guys he's alright. https://i.imgur.com/NXi8c4D.mp4
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ambrocious posted:Horrible thing to happen. It really is something awful, huh
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Shame Boy posted:He complained a lot about not being able to get a job like that due to "goons telling the places he was interviewing he was a serial abuser" iirc which like, I feel that was more down to them just googling his name, but whatever even Moot got a real job at some tech company if I recall correctly
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change my name posted:even Moot got a real job at some tech company if I recall correctly That was Google, and it was absolutely not a real job it was something like "social community innovator"
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change my name posted:even Moot got a real job at some tech company if I recall correctly
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Farewell Lowtax, I still enjoy your The Sims article from Feb 4, 2000. https://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/week-life-ithe/1/ I was actually in the Mangosteen thread when it went down and disagreed with the thread consensus that you did anything wrong. Anyway it seemed like after that you were always angry at the forums for misrepresenting what you were saying. And yeah, the people that posted on SA loved twisting stuff out of context or goofing on stuff that didn't happen and pretending it did. As with many things, if you had just dealt with the "make poo poo up and run with it" forums stuff instead of getting angry and leaving to Fyad and then forever, I think SA could have ended up a better place. At the same time, given the way the internet changed overall, I doubt it. I suspect the last few years were painful and frustrating, and I didn't think you were embellishing your problems quite as much as others did. In the end, there was nothing much to look forward to other than pain, mockery, and digging out of a 20 year hole. I hope you are at peace and wish you well.
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gotta give him credit: he could have retired early on as a multimillionaire and lived a calm, gently caress-off existence. but instead, he posted
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Yeah lmao here's what moot did at goog:quote:On March 7, 2016, Poole announced that he had been hired by Google,[27] with The Guardian writer Julia Carrie Wong noting speculation from some that he would assist with the social network Google+.[28] He was reportedly hired to help the social media platform compete with Facebook,[29] though this decision was criticized by some after Google's commitments towards increasing diversity and inclusion in their workforce.[30] In 2018, he started working as a product manager in the Google Maps division.[31] He left Google on April 13, 2021, after five years at the company.[29] Nonspecific assistance with google plus
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Shame Boy posted:He complained a lot about not being able to get a job like that due to "goons telling the places he was interviewing he was a serial abuser" iirc which like, I feel that was more down to them just googling his name, but whatever He could have just like, not posted about interviewing for those jobs. But at some point the momentum of fame, including b-list internet fame, catches up to you I suppose. It would be difficult to get into a decent sysadmin job at 45. Much harder with his baggage and history, for sure.
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Holy poo pooBedlam posted:Nah guys he's alright. Holy poo poo
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busalover posted:All that's missing is some Ozma post. I identified the site more with her than with Lowtax when I joined, is she still posting somewhere or completely offline? I'm still a tiny bit salty about a ban by her like ten or more years ago which is pathetic to save someone the quote. e: lol i loving deserved it too hahaha Twigand Berries fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Nov 12, 2021 |
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The Landstander posted:Moot strong contender for the battle of being central to 2000s internet culture and still making it out normal On the other had he gets to be known as the guy who created the rear end in a top hat of the internet. A site commonly associated with child porn and Nazism. Shame Boy posted:Yeah lmao here's what moot did at goog: I'm sure his advice boiled down to "Don't have any moderation and let people post the most reprehensible things in our society with anonymity!" Truly a pioneer. davecrazy fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Nov 12, 2021 |
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I have never met lowtax, but by most accounts he was terrible. However, I have seen the forums he built, and they are terrific.
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12 Point Buck posted:gotta give him credit: he could have retired early on as a multimillionaire and lived a calm, gently caress-off existence. but instead, he posted My ancestors are smiling at me, Redditor. Can you say the same?
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12 Point Buck posted:gotta give him credit: he could have retired early on as a multimillionaire and lived a calm, gently caress-off existence. but instead, he posted He pulled a real Giuliani
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PS1 Hagrid posted:Holy poo poo
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Howard The Dork posted:I have never met lowtax, but by most accounts he was terrible. However, I have seen the forums he built, and they are terrific. Pretty much. His forums both outgrew and outlived him. Mashallah.
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Cup Runneth Over posted:it was always a slur OP, even if you were too dumb, straight, and white to realize it. its ok to just say "everyone did it and I didn't know any better," you dont have to mourn for your lost homophobia and hard Rs  a good post
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Howard The Dork posted:I have never met lowtax, but by most accounts he was terrible. However, I have seen the forums he built, and they are terrific. I appreciate this Michael Caine/Jaws 4 reference.
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