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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Yea right it will turn out like everything else sorry folks cant do the text on banner thing it breaks the code of the forums dang you radium (shakes fist impotently)
 
DanteAlighieri said:
You would think banning users is counterproductive to making money from the dead gay forum, but they all just give him $10 again.
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It milks a baseline level of autists but there's a reason why SA's community died a horrible death. Had our "successful American businessman" Lowtax not have had mental problems and could handle his ego, and didn't hire his friends, they'd still be a well-known community. But Richard Kyanka is too fucked up in the head. Guy is bonkers.
 
Harbinger of Kali Yuga said:
It milks a baseline level of autists but there's a reason why SA's community died a horrible death. Had our "successful American businessman" Lowtax not have had mental problems and could handle his ego, and didn't hire his friends, they'd still be a well-known community. But Richard Kyanka is too fucked up in the head. Guy is bonkers.
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Not long after I joined SA, back in about '03 I saw him end an argument with the words 'at least I can bang a goonette anytime I want, good luck in getting laid', I thought to myself, this guy is a complete cunt.
 
Steve Morris Lincoln said:
Not long after I joined SA, back in about '03 I saw him end an argument with the words 'at least I can bang a goonette anytime I want, good luck in getting laid', I thought to myself, this guy is a complete cunt.
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He's a true lolcow. Really, he should be on here, probably with his own forum, darksydephil-style, but he's under the radar these days and he mostly just stuck to his hugbox where he could control the flow of information. Lowtax is truly special.
 
Steve Morris Lincoln said:
Not long after I joined SA, back in about '03 I saw him end an argument with the words 'at least I can bang a goonette anytime I want, good luck in getting laid', I thought to myself, this guy is a complete cunt.
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That would make for a good banner ads

And to his credit he just stole some goons girl friend at a goon CON and current wife isn't a goon.

He had too much success too early and it's stunted him.
 
It doesn't feel like it's been over a year since the PCOS Bill account got banned, but it's been nearly 13 months now. That was a good run.
 
Harbinger of Kali Yuga said:
He's a true lolcow. Really, he should be on here, probably with his own forum, darksydephil-style, but he's under the radar these days and he mostly just stuck to his hugbox where he could control the flow of information. Lowtax is truly special.
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Nah he ain't wild enough on his own to be a DSP style subforum. His website on the other hand has been a hotbed of weird bullshit for like 2 decades by now and thus would make a great animal control style subforum.
 
howso? This thread is barely moving because people don't post goon antics. How would you fill a subforum. Also Lowtax is way too passive and really not all that interesting. He's a weiner, true, but he doesn't puke his embarassing life all over the internet which sadly is required for a lolcow. SA and Lowtax used to actively find out communities to interact with to troll and bully, he knows how being too open online can turn out.
 
Feline Darkmage said:
Nah he ain't wild enough on his own to be a DSP style subforum. His website on the other hand has been a hotbed of weird bullshit for like 2 decades by now and thus would make a great animal control style subforum.
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Well, had Lowtax been more active and this was 10 years ago or so. His relevancy now wouldn't merit it, I agree. Yeah, focusing on the goons as whole is probably a better idea, SA was such a shit show multiple forums have popped up over time to laugh at the goons. SA is a good case study in what happens when a community gets lucky and grows despite all the people running it being incredibly mentally ill. SA is

There's seriously something wrong with SA goons. I still interact with some of them a little bit in some capacity elsewhere, and they all have the same absolutely awful humor and shitty #wokeness. Talking about shit about how Jordan Peterson causes violence against trannies and such.

AmpleApricots said:
howso? This thread is barely moving because people don't post goon antics. How would you fill a subforum. Also Lowtax is way too passive and really not all that interesting. He's a weiner, true, but he doesn't puke his embarassing life all over the internet which sadly is required for a lolcow. SA and Lowtax used to actively find out communities to interact with to troll and bully, he knows how being too open online can turn out.
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I meant it more as under the surface there's a lot of shit there, more than people think ,but Lowtax has a low profile these days, probably passed out on ambien, so there's nothing to talk about. But back in the day there would have been.

Almost everything Lowtax had put on the internet is lolcow-worthy. His endless whining on GBS, his constant approval-seeking to his community, his rage fits, his foot fetish, his failed marriage, his business spiralling into failure and pretending nothing is wrong, his inability to hire competent staff and instead turn to friends who rub his nuts and feed his ego. His laughably bad, Adam Sandler-tier awful "humor" (Doooom hooousee!) The fact that Lowtax bullied other people means nothing since he has an incredibly thin skin, he can dish it out but he sure as shit can't take it.

Lowtax is so low-T that insofar as he believes anything (Lowtax is pretty much a blank slate of human ignorance), he has leanings that would have gotten himself banned from his own forums years ago for wrongthink. He's so invested in needing approval and being the big man in charge that he just lets social justice run amok on his forums. And he lost his cash cow due to his needing to be liked and letting his friends, or friends of friends, start calling the shots. SA used to be THE internet community to go to back in the day. Turns out the Internet actually got smarter, and SA made goons stupid.

If you haven't been able to tell, I just really fucking hate Lowtax, and not because he's a dipshit, but because he's a malignant narcissist that enjoyed abusing his loyal customers and essentially scammed people on multiple fronts, like taking money for the archives and then literally banning people for complaining about them not actually working at all. Yeah, that was a thing Lowtax did. The archives wouldn't work, and Lowtax would instantly ban any person that complained about it. And not even to prevent word getting out about it being a scam, Lowtax never had even that much business sense, he just literally has the ego of some shitty tin-pot dictator.
 
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AmpleApricots said:
This thread is barely moving because people don't post goon antics.
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When it was much more active and there was that entire gay internet war we had with them and goons were chimping en masse the idea was floated around and I liked it, but it wasn't acted on. Things have gone back to status quo but it'll definitely pick back up at some point in the future.

Also I miss our goonfriends. I should probably go to Skullmund and say hi again.
 
Harbinger of Kali Yuga said:
Well, had Lowtax been more active and this was 10 years ago or so. His relevancy now wouldn't merit it, I agree. Yeah, focusing on the goons as whole is probably a better idea, SA was such a shit show multiple forums have popped up over time to laugh at the goons. SA is a good case study in what happens when a community gets lucky and grows despite all the people running it being incredibly mentally ill. SA is

There's seriously something wrong with SA goons. I still interact with some of them a little bit in some capacity elsewhere, and they all have the same absolutely awful humor and shitty #wokeness. Talking about shit about how Jordan Peterson causes violence against trannies and such.



I meant it more as under the surface there's a lot of shit there, more than people think ,but Lowtax has a low profile these days, probably passed out on ambien, so there's nothing to talk about. But back in the day there would have been.

Almost everything Lowtax had put on the internet is lolcow-worthy. His endless whining on GBS, his constant approval-seeking to his community, his rage fits, his foot fetish, his failed marriage, his business spiralling into failure and pretending nothing is wrong, his inability to hire competent staff and instead turn to friends who rub his nuts and feed his ego. His laughably bad, Adam Sandler-tier awful "humor" (Doooom hooousee!) The fact that Lowtax bullied other people means nothing since he has an incredibly thin skin, he can dish it out but he sure as shit can't take it.

Lowtax is so low-T that insofar as he believes anything (Lowtax is pretty much a blank slate of human ignorance), he has leanings that would have gotten himself banned from his own forums years ago for wrongthink. He's so invested in needing approval and being the big man in charge that he just lets social justice run amok on his forums. And he lost his cash cow due to his needing to be liked and letting his friends, or friends of friends, start calling the shots. SA used to be THE internet community to go to back in the day. Turns out the Internet actually got smarter, and SA made goons stupid.

If you haven't been able to tell, I just really fucking hate Lowtax, and not because he's a dipshit, but because he's a malignant narcissist that enjoyed abusing his loyal customers and essentially scammed people on multiple fronts, like taking money for the archives and then literally banning people for complaining about them not actually working at all. Yeah, that was a thing Lowtax did. The archives wouldn't work, and Lowtax would instantly ban any person that complained about it. And not even to prevent word getting out about it being a scam, Lowtax never had even that much business sense, he just literally has the ego of some shitty tin-pot dictator.
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please calm down, bucko
 
Feline Darkmage said:
When it was much more active and there was that entire gay internet war we had with them and goons were chimping en masse the idea was floated around and I liked it, but it wasn't acted on. Things have gone back to status quo but it'll definitely pick back up at some point in the future.

Also I miss our goonfriends. I should probably go to Skullmund and say hi again.
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Aren't the SA forums practically a ghost town? Like Sisterwood, just with somehow even more troons lurking about? I haven't pulled up the SA forums in ages -- not sure if anything is still public. I can't even think of how they'd get new blood.

Aquinas said:
please calm down, bucko
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Sure thing, Richard.
 
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