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Moola posted:no you dont understand, the fish is in a solid block of ice Did you put the entire fish bowl in the freezer
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corgski posted:
Paint around the "Rich Kyanka" and "Hello Lowtax" with blue. Problem solved.
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Spoggerific posted:Is it true that all the mods/admins were walking on eggshells every time he came back, trying to avoid accidentally sending him into a tantrum? I remember something to the effect of Jeffrey found a button in the code that would permanently delete a forum and he silently disabled it not too long before the whole FYAD drama happened, and Lowtax got mad when he tried to press it and nothing happened. I dunno about the button but the first part is true yeah. Lowtax was like a Greek god in a bad mood, when he rolled into town you just kept your head down and avoided being noticed until he got bored and went off to do something else. It wasn't that hard, in the several years I was a mod and he was still around we never interacted at all. lol. It's not like I talk to Jeff every day but I'm pretty sure he knows I exist, I cannot say the same for the taxman.
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Nov 12, 2021 22:12
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Moola posted:no you dont understand, the fish is in a solid block of ice oh wow thank you I haven't laughed like that for a bit
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Shame Boy posted:You may say the n-word one (1) time, out loud to yourself, quietly at home. I'm imagining Jerry Seinfeld saying it like he says "Newman".
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Nov 12, 2021 22:14
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Shame Boy posted:Did you put the entire fish bowl in the freezer no his fish tank was larger than the freezer shelf, instead I popped the dead fish in a medium size tupaware container filled with water (why did I fill it with water when he was dead? who can say?) then I put that in the freezer
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Nov 12, 2021 22:15
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Moola posted:my goldfish died 6 months ago, so I put him in a tupaware and intended to then bury him or something Take him back out again, maybe he'll come back to life. It always worked for me with hard drives.
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Moola posted:no his fish tank was larger than the freezer shelf, instead I popped the dead fish in a medium size tupaware container filled with water (why did I fill it with water when he was dead? who can say?) Ah that's much more reasonable. I think.
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Blooster posted:Take him back out again, maybe he'll come back to life. It always worked for me with hard drives. I have a dead HDD lying around, maybe if I put that in the freezer with him???
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Nov 12, 2021 22:16
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Seafood gets shipped in dry ice all the time is there anywhere they ever wanted to go?
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Nov 12, 2021 22:16
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Can Lowtax be turned into an NFT and have the proceeds from his sale be given to his children?
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Imagining Something Awful getting acquired by an actual company that immediately puts their Brand Development and marketing teams in charge of having to figure what the gently caress they can do with this thing in order to scale and mainstream it.
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Nov 12, 2021 22:17
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Just feed it to those polar bears that get the frozen blocks of ice with apples in them y'know, it'd be like a sky burial but with friendly polar bears instead of vultures.
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I remember when David Thorpe was a guest on some cable show and Lowtax ordered him to make him sound like a psychopath and discourage people from visiting the site. It was a very awkward interview and not very funny. At the end the host was like, well the site is"Somethingawful.com" and Thorpe was like, "it's SomethingISawful.com" and then the host repeated that URL lol I think that's all still pretty funny. Nicely awkward. (Also amusing to see the forum main page looks almost exactly the same as now).
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SHISHKABOB posted:hey guys whats going on in this thread Only two things are certain in life: Death and (Low)taxes.
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uber_stoat posted:we could have a kickstarter to have him taxidermied. He should be posed like a bear rearing on its hind legs, arms up and ready to strike. It could be like the ones they have at the entrances at Cabela's
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TrixRabbi posted:Imagining Something Awful getting acquired by an actual company that immediately puts their Brand Development and marketing teams in charge of having to figure what the gently caress they can do with this thing in order to scale and mainstream it. They would absolutely shut it down within 3 months and redirect it to some other product
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uber_stoat posted:we could have a kickstarter to have him taxidermied. Some say the "googly eyes stretch goal" is in poor taste, but it's how he would have wanted it.
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Nov 12, 2021 22:18
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Is that legal? It can't be legal. I want to be a coat rack.
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Nov 12, 2021 22:19
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Earwicker posted:the story that jeff just told about how he turned down millions of dollars because he was "having too much fun" with the site doesn't really make a lot of sense to me. in my brief time working for the site i had very few interactions with rich, and he seemed like he just truly did not give a poo poo, that he hated the bulk of the community he had founded but was happy to take their money. im not saying jeff is lying, i'm sure rich really did tell him that, but the man lied a lot and i would take that story with many grains of salt. imo, he liked the control it gave him. he liked the position, he liked the power and apparently he liked talking to extremely online women who knew about his internet fame, and wooing them with the promise of an admin star on Something Awful Dot Com and maybe even a paid job there dude was a fuckin creep, using his power in a well-known internet community as a tool to get dates. can't buy that for $13 million
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Nov 12, 2021 22:19
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Man the more I think about this poo poo, the more depressing it really loving is at its core. We basically watched a man spiral down to death for the past couple years and now are pissing on his grave. You know, the dude hosed up but I'm really not getting joy in seeing how vitriolic some people have been here...
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I played some games with him once and it was fun. I read sa for a long time before joining and enjoyed the front page for years in the 2000s. It made me very sad when the truth about him came out, as he was an internet person I had previously held in high regard. gently caress sake Richard.
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Twigand Berries posted:Seafood gets shipped in dry ice all the time is there anywhere they ever wanted to go? he never expressed an interest in travel, but I did think about hurling the block of ice into the ocean
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Nov 12, 2021 22:22
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AnonymouseNo5 posted:Paint around the "Rich Kyanka" and "Hello Lowtax" with blue. Problem solved. "paint" it blue you say. 
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Nov 12, 2021 22:22
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If my ex from 2007 or so is still on here, just know that I'm having a lot of really complicated feelings from Lowtax death and I probably shouldn't be alone right now.
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Nov 12, 2021 22:23
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I put the HDD next to him  RIP to both but not to Lowtax, gently caress Lowtax
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Nov 12, 2021 22:23
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Shame Boy posted:They would absolutely shut it down within 3 months and redirect it to some other product Some fuckin' dude on LinkedIn who's now the CMO of a drone startup with military contracts just has "Brand Manager, Something Awful June 2007 - December 2007" permanently listed on his resume
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Nov 12, 2021 22:24
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Moola posted:he never expressed an interest in travel, but I did think about hurling the block of ice into the ocean Well, I once threw a gerbil into a dumpster still in his cage, but Nibbles loving sucked. e: DEAD. An already naturally dead gerbil.
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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. This matches with when he seemed like he started to give up on life.
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ClothHat posted:If my ex from 2007 or so is still on here, just know that I'm having a lot of really complicated feelings from Lowtax death and I probably shouldn't be alone right now. I can't tell if you're trying to say you want to commit suicide or you want your ex back but you prolly shouldn't do either one friend
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I somehow missed this back then https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3925297 and found it as I decided to google Taco now as I was reminded in one of these threads. Everything just sucks.  I won't look up what became of airdisc.
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Moola posted:I put the HDD next to him How did you freeze a goldfish in mid-scream?
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ClothHat posted:If my ex from 2007 or so is still on here, just know that I'm having a lot of really complicated feelings from Lowtax death and I probably shouldn't be alone right now. if my ex is still on here, I really hope you're not still playing world of warcraft
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CgiBinLaden posted:How did you freeze a goldfish in mid-scream? oh Screamy's face was always like that
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CgiBinLaden posted:How did you freeze a goldfish in mid-scream? Goldfish are perpetually screaming, for they are the only ones who know The Truth
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Flarpy posted:I somehow missed this back then https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3925297 and found it as I decided to google Taco now as I was reminded in one of these threads. Everything just sucks. Wow I completely missed this too. I dunno if anything it shows the true depth and complexity of these forums. Even being a part of it for almost 20 years, you catch some poo poo, you miss some poo poo ClothHat posted:If my ex from 2007 or so is still on here, just know that I'm having a lot of really complicated feelings from Lowtax death and I probably shouldn't be alone right now. It seems like we're all kicking it in here now  . You ain't alone, pal 
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Moola posted:(why did I fill it with water when he was dead? who can say?) For some reason, this made me chuckle. Thanks.
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Moola posted:I put the HDD next to him Welp. I'm getting some classic SA vibes here
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