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Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

oxsnard posted:

what the gently caress



She. . .

Fell down the stairs?

oh, okay, sure.

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Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Agean90 posted:

I for one have no idea how someone could get access to her Facebook account

after all its not like she fled in a hurry potentially leaving a logged in device behind!!!

it doesn't have to be that. abuse victims frequently oscillate between accusing and protecting their abuser because on the one hand it's a horrible situation to be in and on the other it's their only support.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Quetzadilla posted:

While it's definitely cool and good that general opinion has turned against lowtax for good, he has done this (at least) twice before over years and years and it is a matter of public court record, on top of the many just personally lovely things he has said or done to prior staff or modmins, so I'm not sure why THIS time was finally the last straw for everyone.

Also Discord is 100% directly plugged into PRISM and every other alphabet soup data mining initiative on top of being trawled by kiwi farms so be extremely frosty if you're headed that way with leftish poo poo.

honestly i think it's because lowtax wasn't here to obfuscate. there's always been a cadre of posters eager to shower him with praise when he's here and they help shout his detractors down.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

eonwe posted:

well at least if i dont read about trump every day i can focus on actual productive poo poo

if u or a loved one are having thoughts like this, please, seek help at 1 666 420 6969

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

classic

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Head Bee Guy posted:

So is SA being archived or something?

i'm archiving the Epstein thread at least. embedded tweets and all.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

this is only the frontpage, not the threads btw

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

THS posted:

GBS used to post polls of people’s myers briggs scores and like 90% of people were INTP/INTJ

the only good Meyer's Briggs score is IMGAY

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Yinlock posted:

lol renee had an entire day to think it over and decided that actually defending a rapist is good

lol where?

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Quetzadilla posted:

It's only fitting since twitter is like the only website on the internet worse than SA with even more tolerance for nazis and nazi mods.

reddit definitely tolerates nazi's more than twitter, tbh. steve huffman (reddit ceo) hopes for the apocalypse because he thinks he'll be a warlord.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
reddit IS the site that got big by being a hub of actual child porn though, so i guess it isn't surprising that it's also run by a weird shy white supremacist with delusions of grandeur.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I know this all about hating Lowtax and he sure as poo poo sucks a giant rear end in a top hat but Jeffrey basically went to bat for him endlessly for however long he's been in power, hosed up the PPJ thing, and again - is completely out of his depth as a programmer (it's obvious from the few interactions I had with him the tech thread he barely knows what to do from googling)

Do not trust the thing those hands create. It will not be secure.

this is what all programmers do tho

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
no one is good at coding because coding isn't a skill.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
sorry that wast too broad: the guy that wrote Pinball for Windows XP was good at coding

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

SpiderHyphenMan posted:

no seriously, how much. how big was the blood diamond that paid for this

$420.69

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
until poo poo is signed and legally transferred it's still iffy

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Thesaurus posted:

Y'all take posting in cspam very seriously

This is why cspam is the easiest subforum to troll. Every post here is sincere, every poster honest

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

twoday posted:

Ugh, this is going to lead to an influx of new chud accounts here

what if instead of a chud podcast, he went on Pod Save America and talked about the horrors of cancel culture? then we could have a lot of tedious neolibs join instead.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

shyduck posted:

I probably already know the answer to this, but was there any acknowledgement or proof that Patreon money went to medical bills maybe beyond an interest payment?

lol

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

twoday posted:

legally speaking, all posts, content, smilies, etc. posted in the forums, as well as archives, servers, and the code of the forums itself are property of the Something Awful Limited Liability Corporation, if he wanted to, as the owner of that corporation, he could technically permaban everyone, take everything offline, and sue anyone that reposts anything from the forums elsewhere on the internet for copyright infringement, is how I believe it works

what? no they aren't. SA is a host, not the owner. if they were the owner then the LLC would be liable for everything posted here, including any libelous things. he owns a few things, like the grenade logo, but he most certainly doesn't own the user-generated content.

if this were true he'd own your book.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Petey posted:

i mean doesn't he have (had) his own income stream from gaming garbage or whatever? why bother with actually owning the forums with that kind of independent stream if you can maintain it?

the gaming garbage income stream was only as high as it was because a bunch of goons donated solely because they felt bad for lowtax's spine or because they actually believed him when he said he'd have to shut the forums down due to financial woes.

prior to the pity money it was ~$1500 iirc. still not bad for just playing games.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

what kind of attorney is advising this guy!?!?!?
i don't think one is.

if he had a decent attorney (and the accusation was materially false), the obvious solution would be to clam up and sue her for libel.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
teflon jeff

teffery or jefflon

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

So let me stop you here

It is reasonable to believe that she is capable of contacting the mods and admins now to remove evidence of lowtax's wrongdoing
but she was incapable of doing the same when it was necessary/a means to provide for her well-being through donations?

you know how obvious this lie is

this forum wasn't providing the donations, iirc, KF was as a way to spite lowtax and/or some out of genuine concern. when that was revealed here goons in Lowtax's hugbox thread took it upon themselves to harass her/report her gofundme thing. if i had to guess she didn't trust goons during that time given the general acceptance of lowtax's side of the story.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

T-man posted:

stream ended, "
This video has been removed for violating YouTube's policy on violent or graphic content.
Learn more"

i just got here!

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
this is america i demand meltdowns

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
he said his lawyer could talk about poo poo in his hugbox thread too, lol

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
lowtax: can i talk about this crazy poo poo on stream?

lawyer: well i can't stop u

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
over as soon as it started

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
it's me i'm lowtax's lawyer

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

MockingQuantum posted:

I have a subpoena here, it says you need to go to court to confirm/deny whether lowtax poops and/or pees in his diapeys, it is critical to the well-being of society that they know the truth

thank u for ur words of encouragement i'm handling the case with professionalism and care next question

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Homeless Friend posted:

its from a probe 20 days ago unfortunately, it would own if real

i have been tricked.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Crusty Nutsack posted:

while lots of mods are claiming ignorance, rightfully or not, I think it's important to remember that the whole deal with emotional abusers is that they manipulate people by controlling and manipulating the truth. since we were only privy to lowtax's side of the story at first, he controlled the narrative and essentially gaslit the entire forum with the Lady Ambien stuff. he made it sound like a messy custody battle, which is lovely and should raise brows, but isn't necessarily cause for alarm, which is how he framed it.

I don't remember the timeline or how things happened exactly, but by the time we heard about her gofundme, a lot of goons probably had already stopped paying much attention because "nothing to see here" from lowtax. (not to mention lowtax threads and drama are exhausting and terrible.) and then I think he framed the gofundme as bad and terrible, of course, and see, they removed it, it must be bad!

anyway all I'm trying to say is that lowtax also gaslit the forums, and since people generally want to believe that people they know are good, it was easy to do. I know I gave him the benefit of the doubt at first, and when I heard about a women's shelter, I realized it was probably something else entirely. but I don't think I spoke up, which was lovely of me and I regret now.

eh, mostly it seemed like it was because the only source of info was KF, rather than Facebook. the screenshots posted in the divorce thread were from KF iirc, but this forum regards KF as completely unreliable and somehow making up everything despite the fact that it mostly sounds like Something Awful circa 2007 (lovely and offensive and wrong about a lot of stuff, but not really prone to making poo poo up out of whole cloth). hell that's why Lowtax was like "We should be making the things that KF does" back in, what, 2018? whenever the schmorky thing happened.

anyway, point is: lowtax didn't gaslight this forum, this forum didn't want to wrestle with the fact that lowtax loving sucks to the degree that he does. his excuses have always been trash and a lot of people were banned for pointing it out over the years, including in his divorce thread.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Crusty Nutsack posted:

I'm not sure I agree that he wasn't gaslighting the forums, but it doesn't really matter, probably just semantics. I didn't get into the KF drama, at least not knowingly. that was definitely the first time I had even heard of them lol

everything else I agree with. I wasn't trying to exonerate anyone or any mods or whatever. I've been gaslit before, so maybe I'm too apt to see it when it's not there, or make sure people who do it are pointed out.

in conclusion gently caress lowtax
i take that back: he was gaslighting the forums. it worked was because people didn't want to deal with the fact he hasn't changed since 2005. gaslighting works when people don't trust themselves over what they see, and that seems like it was the motivation to ignore what was already seen.

Crusty Nutsack posted:

in conclusion gently caress lowtax
:same:

Wasabi the J posted:

And then Shmorky was labeled a pedophile based on shaky KF postings after a very publicly humiliating falling out with Rich on SA pushed them to attempt suicide.

No one wants to get caught defending a POSSIBLE pedo. Especially not a "crazy" fur diaper fetishist pedo, so down the memory hole they went, even when some of the poo poo was admitted to being untrue.

Something Awful, especially in it's early days had a bad habit of targeting people with mental health issues and gang stalking and gaslighting them (Chris-chan comes to mind readily). it's not a reach to say it's possible an innocent person may have been driven to attempt suicide because they were a "lulcow pedo" to KF users on trumped up logs and blackmail commissions, and Goons bought it.

I keep mentioning Shmorky because that is a terrible loving fate and they fit a similar profile to Lowtax's victims.

i don't really know anything about schmorky, only that it seemed like lowtax knew them for years and years and somehow didn't feel compelled to target schmorky until he felt slighted. only then did lowtax try to gently caress schmorky's life up in a similar way to how helldump worked.

e: fixed pronouns

Admiral Ray fucked around with this message at 16:11 on Jun 27, 2020

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

Chris James 2 posted:

patreon's down to $1583 :lmao:

looking at the graphtreon is kinda wild

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

eh, i would say this is an extra bit of self-flagellation. u giving up your mod star is your decision, not Svejk's. while i understand the sentiment u got going on i don't know that it's appropriate to ask them to make the decision for you.

like, personally, i think ur a fine mod and a generally good poster so i'd prefer u not to self-ban. from what i could tell Svejk just wanted people to look at their past posts and the situation and give an honest answer, even if it wasn't conciliatory. it seems like you did that after u had some time to cool off and think about it.

Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy

BrutalistMcDonalds posted:

Uhh... does anyone want to be a mod?

i want to be a mod so i can read the mod forum. i don't even care what's in there, i just want to read more posts. give me the posts, all the posts (no long posts allowed). no, i will not moderate and no i will not respond to pm's.

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Admiral Ray
May 17, 2014

Proud Musk and Dogecoin fanboy
being a volunteer mod is worse than being a volunteer, say, firefighter because even though the volunteer firefighters don't get paid they get to hang out in a building with hot dudes and make chili.

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