Something Awful and Friends - The roller-coaster train-wreck embarrassing downfall of a Web 1.0 giant and its tick offspring like from Cloverfield

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chekovia said:
Why do these guys stick around, is it a form of masochism? They obviously aren't wanted, surely there's a middle ground between something sensitive and something awful they could create with Xenforo?
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Most of them probably are used to it. After a decade of thought policing anyone who would be driven off by it are gone and you are left with people who refuse to leave or agree with the #stillwithher moderators.

There are probably a dozen people that pay to come back no matter what unless they get permabanned. I have no explanation for why some of them have paid so much money to keep posting.

T.S. Smelliot who was in BlueSparks capture and one of my screenshots just got another month probation since my last post and has been banned six times so far. With Avatars he's probably over $100.
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"He was crying lying on the floor begging not to be killed. Shut the fuck up about training jfc. User loses posting privileges for 1 month."
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You are only allowed to screech about how much of a pedophile Roy Moore is here
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No diversity jokes
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Don't make fun of Ossof Losing apparently
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I'm generally surprised to see they're not feeling the bern. Considering he was an actual socialist running on actual reform. How do they rationalize sticking everyone's favourite center-right lost cause?
 
Anime is Blood said:
Most of them probably are used to it. After a decade of thought policing anyone who would be driven off by it are gone and you are left with people who refuse to leave or agree with the #stillwithher moderators.

There are probably a dozen people that pay to come back no matter what unless they get permabanned. I have no explanation for why some of them have paid so much money to keep posting.

T.S. Smelliot who was in BlueSparks capture and one of my screenshots just got another month probation since my last post and has been banned six times so far. With Avatars he's probably over $100.
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"He was crying lying on the floor begging not to be killed. Shut the fuck up about training jfc. User loses posting privileges for 1 month."
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You are only allowed to screech about how much of a pedophile Roy Moore is here
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No diversity jokes
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"Yes, far-right anti-Semitism is really of little concern this year, the year 2017. Astute. User loses posting privileges for 1 week."
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Don't make fun of Ossof Losing apparently
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Damn is R. Guyovich on his period again?
 
Lowtax is so petty about Notch and he's too autistic to see his comments come off as massive butthurt and not at all funny. He won't shut up about Notch and brings him up like once a month if not once a week. He's kind of obsessed. I suspect part of the reason is that Notch went anti-political correctness and that pissed some of SA's moderators off and Lowtax wants to impress those people.

Lowtax wants to make jokes about how all Notch did was make a game about "digging holes" when all Lowtax made was a crappy forum where people would pay to stroke his dick. And we all know who the millionaire is... maybe Mr. Hotshot Big American Businessman could learn something from him.

Christ, this thread is reminding me of how much I used to hate Lowtax. The guy really is a grade A piece of shit that hasn't changed at all over the years. He manages to rip people off, lets his buddies rip people off for political reasons because all he cares about is if they are happy with him, and then think doing it makes him a really big man.

And he's absolutely unfunny to boot.

Thank you Uwe Boll, for using Lowtax's "funnyguy" ego against him and giving him the wallop I'd have loved to give him.
 
Chaos Theorist said:
Damn is R. Guyovich on his period again?
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About once a week he goes on a spree of banning / probating like 10-15 people. I'm sure if he had more motivation he would really crack down though. Ever since ExMarx had a melt down and left D&D only gets sporadic thought policing.

The only thing SA really has going for it anymore is that the mods just aren't able to put in the effort to completely ruin everything. So you have genesplicer wander in with his morning coffee this morning probating krusty the clown images and "your mom" jokes but ignoring 99% of the posting that took place yesterday.

This issue was addressed by the SJW crowd screeching until they got two junior moderators installed recently because there were "too many nazis"

Harbinger of Kali Yuga said:
Lowtax is so petty about Notch and he's too autistic to see his comments come off as massive butthurt and not at all funny. He won't shut up about Notch and brings him up like once a month if not once a week. He's kind of obsessed. I suspect part of the reason is that Notch went anti-political correctness and that pissed some of SA's moderators off and Lowtax wants to impress those people.

Lowtax wants to make jokes about how all Notch did was make a game about "digging holes" when all Lowtax made was a crappy forum where people would pay to stroke his dick. And we all know who the millionaire is... maybe Mr. Hotshot Big American Businessman could learn something from him.

Christ, this thread is reminding me of how much I used to hate Lowtax. The guy really is a grade A piece of shit that hasn't changed at all over the years. He manages to rip people off, lets his buddies rip people off for political reasons because all he cares about is if they are happy with him, and then think doing it makes him a really big man.

And he's absolutely unfunny to boot.

Thank you Uwe Boll, for using Lowtax's "funnyguy" ego against him and giving him the wallop I'd have loved to give him.
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He picks people more popular than himself to wail at to try and get exposure but Notch in particular is all about the money. He's hoping a billionaire he is tangentially related to will pay him a million dollars to shut the fuck up or something.

He is an internet homeless person and is shaking his faggoty little cup of tired jokes at the people who look like they will give him the most benefit.
 
Harbinger of Kali Yuga said:
Lowtax is so petty about Notch and he's too autistic to see his comments come off as massive butthurt and not at all funny. He won't shut up about Notch and brings him up like once a month if not once a week. He's kind of obsessed. I suspect part of the reason is that Notch went anti-political correctness and that pissed some of SA's moderators off and Lowtax wants to impress those people.
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I'm sticking to my theory that he only hates greedy CEOs who want an unfair cut of something they didn't contribute to until he is that CEO.

Maybe that does ingratiate him a little with them but only because they all only hate greed when they don't personally profit from it.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
I'm sticking to my theory that he only hates greedy CEOs who want an unfair cut of something they didn't contribute to until he is that CEO.

Maybe that does ingratiate him a little with them but only because they all only hate greed when they don't personally profit from it.
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Naw, Lowtax is much more simple than that. He's purely ego driven seeking to impress his inner circle. It's why SA's moderation is so suffocatingly political when he himself doesn't care about politics, why he lets them flat-out do that stuff. I'm sure he just hates notch and others because he wants to certain other people to see him say it and be impressed. Lowtax has zero depth as a human being.
 
Lowtax is a lot like the Lorax, though instead of speaking for anything important, he speaks for a bunch of retards.
 
The funniest thing about Lowtax is that he has no skills and he's not good at anything. He fails at everything he tries, partly because he half-asses literally everything in his life, but mostly because he's a natural born loser. He is a 40-something year old man who started a Youtube gaming channel. That's something every 14 year old tried 7 years ago and have since given up.

He's shilling some VPN service for referral money while Notch is set for 20 lifetimes. I don't even like Notch, I think he's a fat m'lady faggot, but it's clear who came out on top here.
 
dryb0nes said:
The funniest thing about Lowtax is that he has no skills and he's not good at anything. He fails at everything he tries, partly because he half-asses literally everything in his life, but mostly because he's a natural born loser. He is a 40-something year old man who started a Youtube gaming channel. That's something every 14 year old tried 7 years ago and have since given up.

He's shilling some VPN service for referral money while Notch is set for 20 lifetimes. I don't even like Notch, I think he's a fat m'lady faggot, but it's clear who came out on top here.
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Notch can maybe be a little sensitive but he's an okay guy. Nobody's perfect, and I wouldn't say his flaws make him a faggot... I probably wouldn't be friends with him but I don't hate him. I'm not sure why you don't like him, especially when you compare him to all the other names in the gaming industry in terms of m'ladyitude.

Lowtax, on the other hand, is the opposite of perfect. A failure in nearly every way. Financially. His love life. Socially and personally. He hasn't changed at all in 10 years. I was a bit of a doofus back then, being immature enough to think joining the SA forums was a good idea (among other things), but I grew up over the years and shake my head in sadness when I think back to those times. Lowtax is exactly who he was 10 years ago and when I came across him on twitter some months ago I realized he hasn't budged an inch from where he was before. He's never learned to "chillax." He's shrill, and his awful sarcasm transparently reveals his insecurities, neuroses, and pettiness.
 
Harbinger of Kali Yuga said:
Notch can maybe be a little sensitive but he's an okay guy. Nobody's perfect, and I wouldn't say his flaws make him a faggot... I probably wouldn't be friends with him but I don't hate him. I'm not sure why you don't like him, especially when you compare him to all the other names in the gaming industry in terms of m'ladyitude.

Lowtax, on the other hand, is the opposite of perfect. A failure in nearly every way. Financially. His love life. Socially and personally. He hasn't changed at all in 10 years. I was a bit of a doofus back then, being immature enough to think joining the SA forums was a good idea (among other things), but I grew up over the years and shake my head in sadness when I think back to those times. Lowtax is exactly who he was 10 years ago and when I came across him on twitter some months ago I realized he hasn't budged an inch from where he was before. He's never learned to "chillax." He's shrill, and his awful sarcasm transparently reveals his insecurities, neuroses, and pettiness.
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To me, the worst thing about Lowtax is that he raped and murdered a woman in 1990.
 
Harbinger of Kali Yuga said:
Naw, Lowtax is much more simple than that. He's purely ego driven seeking to impress his inner circle. It's why SA's moderation is so suffocatingly political when he himself doesn't care about politics, why he lets them flat-out do that stuff.
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He pretty much has to suck up to them at this point. He let authoritarian SJW mods and their cronies run everyone else off, and now they're all he has left. Plus, he's totally at the mercy of ZDR, who proved who wears the pants around there when he shut down LowT's Shmorky thread and ran his wife off the forum.

That's what happens when you depend on underpaid or free labor for too long; eventually they'll drag your business down to the point where you can no longer get good help even if you wanted it. And then they own you. The few times when LowT has tried to intervene against the admins or mods, ZDR has made him back down by passive aggressively hinted he'll leave him high and dry.

It's probably too painful for him to acknowledge any of this though, so he impotently lashes out at Notch in a jealous rage. A guy who had the brains to sell out while the getting was good and now doesn't have spend his life pandering to mental defectives. Unlike Richard.
 
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It's not even whether they'd paid or not. It's whether they're moderators because they're a good fit and aren't assholes. With Lowtax only the best fartsniffer will do, and people that would reflect his dumb toughguy "we're the only smart people on the internet but we will make fun of ourselves in ways to insulate us from further criticism."

Anyone else notice Lowtax follows MisterMetokur around? I wonder if Lowtax hopes Jim doesn't do a video him. I think Jim likes him for some reason though so he probably won't.
 
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