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i don't remember exactly when it was for me.
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Lowtax has always seemed like an honest gentleman to me
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Jun 26, 2020 05:56
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i never really kept up with events around him but i did buy some mangosteen for the hell of it 
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I don't know, but a long time ago he would start a thread and people would criticize something about it, so he would ban them and say "if you don't like a thread just vote 1 and move on!!!!" Then when people would vote his threads a 1, he'd give them a really angry custom titles like "poo poo HEAD" in big red text. And it took people a while to figure out why they were getting those red texts because it was so out of left field. That might've been when I first realized he was kind of a dick. And that was like 10+ years ago.
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The 5th Anniversary Vegas GoonCon in 2004. All of us who had bought $50 USD tickets to attend the Saturday night hotel suite party - with special swag bags of gift merchandise for everyone! - arrived to discover that, despite what was posted by Lowtax himself, there was none of it at all. There were no SA-branded exclusive canvas bags made for the event's attendees filled with other exclusive branded merch, like playing cards and poker chips (possibly other trinkets listed I can't remember). So all the money we paid went to actually putting on the party, covering the suite and food, etc. but none of the extra stuff clearly promised. It was like buying a game console and discovering the pack-in game wasn't in the box. A good time WAS had at the party with goons stepping up as usual to bartend and run card games...but most of us were asking each other about it, if anyone had seen the stuff we were promised, etc. Nope, not only did it not exist, but the thread/subforum was gone pretty drat quickly afterward and no one to my knowledge confronted the higher-ups about it for obvious reasons. Who wanted to incur further losses and get kicked out and/or banned from the forums? The most telling post about what must have happened was found elsewhere in the GC subforum, close to when the weekend began, from Lowtax wrote about how the whole official party weekend "was supposed to just be a fun thing to do for the milestone, not an invitation for us to fall into bankruptcy" or something to that effect. So in other words, Lowtax sold us attendees a bill of goods for a set price and took our money BEFORE he'd bothered looking into how much the whole thing WOULD ACTUALLY COST, and instead of announcing a change in plans or being open about it, or anything at all...he just said nothing and let the event play out. With all of us wondering where our swag was. Agent Escalus fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Jun 26, 2020 |
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