🪦 Deceased Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka - Deadbeat (emphasis on "Dead") founder of Something Awful, forced out of his own community, on his second divorce, stuck his dick in crazy, "Birth Giver"

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Big round of applause on the new OP/shitpost. Lays out the shitstory of Lowtax in a very clear manner; I learned a few things I'd never known (or had all wrong) until reading it and I'm an oldbeard who was there when SA was brand-spanking new.

What a complete waste. I scrape by on 50 grand a year in inceldom after being robbed to fund a Jewish ethnostate, nigger gibbs and a military I wouldn't join at gunpoint. Meanwhile he squandered a yearly income of low-to-mid 6 digits, cheated on and then abandoned his family after making a complete cow of himself for years. Fuck am I MATI right now.
 
Lowtax's greatest lesson is that you don't have to be smart, funny, charming, or have any positive qualities to be successful - you can quite literally be a lazy shitpile of a human being and just luck into it.
 
John Ligma said:
I feel obligated to offer some of my words
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This is probably the most parasocial thing I've ever read. Did he ever engage you personally? I was there around 2003 until I gave up on the forum. He was never there - he'd occasionally drive by and ban a handful of people with some purple monkey cheese content, and then fuck off for another few years.
 
John Ligma said:
I was on the forums between 2006-2013 and I joined because I thought Lowtax and Shmorky were funny.
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They were funny. I actually really liked the Cliff Yablonski shit. And Shmorky was practically a meme factory in his time.
 
AnOminous said:
They were funny. I actually really liked the Cliff Yablonski shit. And Shmorky was practically a meme factory in his time.
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Yeah I agree. I think it's easy to go back and shit on it all now because that kind of comedy is so played out and cringe compared to what we have now, but it was really funny for the time. Especially considering the biggest competition was like, Maddox.

I deleted my other posts because I don't want to shit up the thread.
 
Paul Revere Pantry Raider said:
This is probably the most parasocial thing I've ever read. Did he ever engage you personally? I was there around 2003 until I gave up on the forum. He was never there - he'd occasionally drive by and ban a handful of people with some purple monkey cheese content, and then fuck off for another few years.
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The really funny thing about his periodic faceroll ban episodes, is that they always mapped on to things he'd need to retain a lawyer for. DV incident, filing for divorce and so forth.
 
Dick Pooman said:
I feel like I'm Baghdad Bob whenever I try to tell people how great Mangosteens are. They're so hard to find in decent shape in America, and I directly blame LowTax for this. May he rest in piss.
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Do you perhaps have any links I could click on mangosteen sellers?
 
Lowtax and Something Awful get quite some mention in this video by Warlockracy. He focuses on Russian games and makes them palatable to non-Russians so they can understand better (there's no word to word translation and a lot of Russian literature, internet culture and video games are simply not possible to translate)

I don't know if he mentions Lowtax's fate but he does mention early on during Something Awful's existence that Lowtax was struggling to pay for the servers before he implemented paid memberships - the Russian game dev (who is a political figure in Russia) allegedly invited Lowtax to visit the US and offered hosting for much cheaper.

It's worth watching anyway as you can probably tell from the title its quite funny and its definitely interesting if you've never heard of this area of the internet and early Russian video game culture before bigtech made sure it was all homogenized and Russian-native game releases that had racism, rape and other things got supplanted by something much better: Call of Duty
 
Can’t believe it’s been four years. I remember the day like yesterday. I check the farms and it says Lowtax has killed himself. I drop my phone on the tile floor and start shrieking. Suddenly, I’m sobbing.
 
I just read the excellent OP rewrite on Lowtax’s life. I highly recommend reading it if you haven’t already. Apparently it happened a couple years ago.
 
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