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

[Feline Darkmage]

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.

I just checked the main 4 forums and save for BYOB not having much activity the past two days according to the last post column, the other threes most recently bumped threads were all active in the last 24 hours.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

tbh, i dont get your stance.
How can lowtax be a tin-pot dictator when he is never there to even dictate.

I said he has the ego of one, you moron, and at the end of the day, Lowtax still has the final say to do whatever he wants.

are you mad because lowtax made the mods ban the hillary exceptional individuals after you toxxed yourselves

I can tell you're a goon because you write like a faggot.

I just checked the main 4 forums and save for BYOB not having much activity the past two days according to the last post column, the other threes most recently bumped threads were all active in the last 24 hours.

Relative to.. say, the farms, in terms of activity, though--where are they? SA as I remember it was absolutely buzzing. Does SA even get any "new" people or is it still the same retards getting banned and re-regging?

 

[Aquinas]

oh shit, i guess i've been found out.
time for staff to label this thread infected it seems.

 

[AmpleApricots]

goon fight, goon fight!

What happened to the shmorkster anyways, he must be around or at least closing in on his 40s now too. Man the web 1.0 is starting to get wrinkles. Did he suicide like a good tranny already?

 

[Aquinas]

Hopefully he suffocated himself with a used diaper taped over his face

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

There are like 4 or 5 funny people over at SA I hope they post here.

That beef(or beer?) gentleman is one
Bootcha seemed like a likable fellow
Derek Smart is funny in a laugh at him sort of way
Some of the posters in the "Lol at dems" thread seemed OK, I assume they're all banned from there by now, as that thread was an obvious honeypot.

 

[Spunt]

Derek Smart Derek Smart DEREK SMART is a borderline lolcow himself, check the Star Citizen thread for his A-logging, doxing, chimping out, making video games that are almost as dysfunctional as Star Citizen, and general comedy output.

No wonder he fitted in so well at SA. They made him the mod of his own subforum for a while until he started doxing posters he disagreed with.

 

[T-800]

Derek Smart Derek Smart DEREK SMART is a borderline lolcow himself, check the Star Citizen thread for his A-logging, doxing, chimping out, making video games that are almost as dysfunctional as Star Citizen, and general comedy output.

No wonder he fitted in so well at SA. They made him the mod of his own subforum for a while until he started doxing posters he disagreed with.

His doxxing consisted of outing a scammer that was pretending to be a girl online to get people to buy him spaceships or something. It wasn't really a dox at all.

 

[AmpleApricots]

There's nothing borderline about Derek Smart being a lolcow. He used to be a pathological liar in the days of usenet. (shut up, I'm old) Dude made insane claims that were easily to disprove, like having a mars rock (yes, a rock from mars) and his ancestors being some super amazing and secret african tribe. He doesn't even really have a phd. It's funny how the internet has forgotten all about that. Also he claimed BC3000 had some sort of super advanced neural net AI and made an association which only action was to grant a prize to his game.

To be fair though, dude mellowed out a lot with age. He used to be like Rusty Greer and threaten everyone with lawsuits.

 

[Ghostse]

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.

I completely, 100% agree with you on all most all points here; also you forgot the "using Mom's cancer to solicit Goonbux to keep his lifestyle forum running".
But as this thread & Lowtax's personal thread show, Dear Richard seems to have - for the most part - learned the valuable of valuable lesson of "not slopping his personal issues all over the internet for everyone to see". Sure we get occasional leaks when they bubble to the surface like the tax bill, but the only people who have some idea about the internet who have any insight into Richard won't talk; Garbage Day (who won't talk because they're still friends; if they weren't, he is doing adult stuff that doesn't involve shitposting so probably wouldn't care) and Shmorky (who won't talk because Lowtax has dirt 10x worse on that yarn-wigged muppet).

But even if Garbage Day was actually a long-form master troll who'd spent 30 years befriending Lowtax, working for him, all so that on January 1, 2019 he could do a big reveal and throw the doors wide open on the inside story of Lowtax's faggotry, what would be the result? We'd get a few months as a 20 years backlog of Lowtax goonery is unloaded, and then....back to Lowtax just being a big-mouthed loser who's sort of banally ruining his own life, mundanely making the same sort of mistakes they've been making for years in the same boring ways.

Now granted in my own opinion "big-mouthed loser who's sort of banally ruining his own life, mundanely making the same sort of mistakes they've been making for years in the same boring ways." covers 98% of all the lolcows on KF, but they generate their own content. Lowtax has all of the signs of wonderful goony drama, but minus the mentally-ill camgirl (who was far from a reliable source) we've never really gotten any payout. Even when there is some sort of follow up to Lowtax drama, its years later and its disappointing.

I guess its a case of "You're right, there is all sorts of delicious goony irony in Lowtax's existence, but getting at it would require levels of effort that go far beyond 'point and laugh', especially since people have been trying to dig up dirt on him for two decades now and not really come up with anything worse than 'he's just as goony as the people he laughs at and sucks at business'." Its also about 5 years or so too late. SA doesn't even have enough of a user base left to produce good drama anymore, or in the off chance there is someone with real potential, SA doesn't matter enough for them to spend another $10 after they're banned.

Anyway, tl;dr here is you are right, Lowtax is a shit person. No matter how much he deserves his own board, he's good at keeping his drama on the D/L. This is what separates Lowtax from the lolcows, the ability to keep his mouth shut.
In conclusion, consider this: Lowtax has to wake up tomorrow and still be Lowtax; what can you do to him that is worse than that?

 

[Spunt]

There's nothing borderline about Derek Smart being a lolcow. He used to be a pathological liar in the days of usenet. (shut up, I'm old) Dude made insane claims that were easily to disprove, like having a mars rock (yes, a rock from mars) and his ancestors being some super amazing and secret african tribe. He doesn't even really have a phd. It's funny how the internet has forgotten all about that. Also he claimed BC3000 had some sort of super advanced neural net AI and made an association which only action was to grant a prize to his game.

To be fair though, dude mellowed out a lot with age. He used to be like Rusty Greer and threaten everyone with lawsuits.

Don't forget that time he claimed that a CIG "insider" had given him a load of super top secret info including claims of sexual harassment and dodgy accounting, and presented the "insider's" employee ID passcard as proof his source was legit - only for it to turn out CIG staff don't use ID passcards. D'oh.

Don't get me wrong, SC is a world-class trainwreck, but only Derek Smart and his army of SA Goons could make themselves look almost as exceptional as the SC fanboys. The Star Citizen thread was getting thousands of posts a day at the height of the A-logging, it was its own little community, all formed around the idea of hating a videogame.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I completely, 100% agree with you on all most all points here; also you forgot the "using Mom's cancer to solicit Goonbux to keep his lifestyle forum running".

Yeah, I mean, I'd spend all day listing this shit. Radium's ineptitude, Lowtax banning anyone who called Shmorky a pedophile and having his kid hang around him just to spite his detractors, etc.. I figured you specifically would agree with me, from your posts in this thread you seem like you've been an old school goon that knows exactly what I'm talking about, probably a SASS veteran, so you know exactly how big of a dirtbag Lowtax is to other people. The people here defending Lowtax in the typical goon way (extremely transparent by the way, goons are not as subtle as they think they are) are probably "newer" goons that didn't witness a lot of this shit and just swallowed the propaganda about us haters.

But as this thread & Lowtax's personal thread show, Dear Richard seems to have - for the most part - learned the valuable of valuable lesson of "not slopping his personal issues all over the internet for everyone to see". Sure we get occasional leaks when they bubble to the surface like the tax bill, but the only people who have some idea about the internet who have any insight into Richard won't talk; Garbage Day (who won't talk because they're still friends; if they weren't, he is doing adult stuff that doesn't involve shitposting so probably wouldn't care) and Shmorky (who won't talk because Lowtax has dirt 10x worse on that yarn-wigged muppet).

I think the main reason for this is actually that he's completely unable to handle criticism so he's stopped doing anything that could be criticized.

But even if Garbage Day was actually a long-form master troll who'd spent 30 years befriending Lowtax, working for him, all so that on January 1, 2019 he could do a big reveal and throw the doors wide open on the inside story of Lowtax's faggotry, what would be the result? We'd get a few months as a 20 years backlog of Lowtax goonery is unloaded, and then....back to Lowtax just being a big-mouthed loser who's sort of banally ruining his own life, mundanely making the same sort of mistakes they've been making for years in the same boring ways.

Now granted in my own opinion "big-mouthed loser who's sort of banally ruining his own life, mundanely making the same sort of mistakes they've been making for years in the same boring ways." covers 98% of all the lolcows on KF, but they generate their own content. Lowtax has all of the signs of wonderful goony drama, but minus the mentally-ill camgirl (who was far from a reliable source) we've never really gotten any payout. Even when there is some sort of follow up to Lowtax drama, its years later and its disappointing.

I guess its a case of "You're right, there is all sorts of delicious goony irony in Lowtax's existence, but getting at it would require levels of effort that go far beyond 'point and laugh', especially since people have been trying to dig up dirt on him for two decades now and not really come up with anything worse than 'he's just as goony as the people he laughs at and sucks at business'." Its also about 5 years or so too late. SA doesn't even have enough of a user base left to produce good drama anymore, or in the off chance there is someone with real potential, SA doesn't matter enough for them to spend another $10 after they're banned.

Anyway, tl;dr here is you are right, Lowtax is a shit person. No matter how much he deserves his own board, he's good at keeping his drama on the D/L. This is what separates Lowtax from the lolcows, the ability to keep his mouth shut.
In conclusion, consider this: Lowtax has to wake up tomorrow and still be Lowtax; what can you do to him that is worse than that?

I agree. My thoughts on a separate Lowtax board wasn't a serious suggestion to the forums, just talking about how much is there underneath the surface. It could've been done a decade ago, but not now. We're actually in complete agreement.

I file Lowtax in with people like Maddox. These aren't harmless cows, hell, they're not even as bad as grifters like Mike Cernovich. Those people just put themselves out there and ask for money. Lowtax has been an active, unabashed scammer towards the unwitting for much of his career, and he'd laugh about it. Once you cross into something like stealing or violence, or abusing the legal system, you deserve a lot worse than just some regular asshole that says stupid things. Fortunately, Lowtax's life continues to slowly circle the drain, he's reaped what he has sown and his finances are in ruin, he's deep in debt, etc. It's great when the bad behavior of people bites them in the ass hard, just like what Maddox is starting to reap.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

Don't forget that time he claimed that a CIG "insider" had given him a load of super top secret info including claims of sexual harassment and dodgy accounting, and presented the "insider's" employee ID passcard as proof his source was legit - only for it to turn out CIG staff don't use ID passcards. D'oh.

Don't get me wrong, SC is a world-class trainwreck, but only Derek Smart and his army of SA Goons could make themselves look almost as exceptional as the SC fanboys. The Star Citizen thread was getting thousands of posts a day at the height of the A-logging, it was its own little community, all formed around the idea of hating a videogame.

Oh I followed that trainwreck for a while. It never gets old to me to see an obvious scam, say "Hey that's a scam", hear a bunch of retards tell me how this scam isn't a scam, then watch as they desperately cling to any nonsense to prove it's totally not a scam. Got to see it with That Which Sleeps (Hahahah) and then got to see the ultimate version in Star Citizen.

The funny thing is, you can go to the kickstarter page for that which sleeps, even though the creator hasn't updated it in over a year, there are still morons there insisting he's working on it and it'll come out any day now.

 

[repentance]

howso? This thread is barely moving because people don't post goon antics.

A lot of the more egregious stuff is historical, so it's already been done to death over the years. Most people don't really want to immerse themselves in all of the sub-forums in the hope of finding something new to laugh at, so what little funny stuff gets found tends to be from a handful of subs. Lowtax himself is rarely around and so only provides entertainment intermittently.

 

[Ghostse]

I file Lowtax in with people like Maddox. These aren't harmless cows, hell, they're not even as bad as grifters like Mike Cernovich. Those people just put themselves out there and ask for money. Lowtax has been an active, unabashed scammer towards the unwitting for much of his career, and he'd laugh about it. Once you cross into something like stealing or violence, or abusing the legal system, you deserve a lot worse than just some regular asshole that says stupid things. Fortunately, Lowtax's life continues to slowly circle the drain, he's reaped what he has sown and his finances are in ruin, he's deep in debt, etc. It's great when the bad behavior of people bites them in the ass hard, just like what Maddox is starting to reap.

I think of the largest problems about getting people to care about Lowtax being a shitty human being is the people he is exploiting are goons, and its hard to feel any empathy for people so dumb and broken they still post on SomethingAwful forums in current year + 2.


Also, no offense brah, but from what I was reading, I think a lot of people weren't so much defending lowtax as telling you to take a breath, chill a minute, and tone down the rage; they had a bit of a point. I just wanted to let you know that "tone down a bit" and "Lowtax is a shitbag" are not mutually exclusive viewpoints.

Lowtax shit up something awful (or I guess was passed out on wine & ambien and let it be shit up) and that sucks and you can be mad about that, but even if Lowtax had some sort of ephiphany and started running things competently, SA ain't coming back. And no one is going to let him near the helm of anything else, so ain't much point in getting too worked up about what he's doing now.

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A lot of the more egregious stuff is historical, so it's already been done to death over the years. Most people don't really want to immerse themselves in all of the sub-forums in the hope of finding something new to laugh at, so what little funny stuff gets found tends to be from a handful of subs. Lowtax himself is rarely around and so only provides entertainment intermittently.

And a lot of the currently found stuff is one note "how are they this delusional?" sort of stuff that all sort of runs together after a while; 'D&D has shit opinions' gets stale.

The Trans*mega thread used to produce some incredible moments, but the troons learned to keep the worst of their sociopathy out of publically readable areas of the internet.

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

The Trans*mega thread used to produce some incredible moments, but the troons learned to keep the worst of their sociopathy out of publically readable areas of the internet.

Someone once posted a QCS thread suggesting that the trans megathread be moved to TCC, Somethingawful's drug subforum, because of all the people sharing tips on how to obtain HRT meds illegally.

 

[Cut my dick into pieces]

Someone once posted a QCS thread suggesting that the trans megathread be moved to TCC, Somethingawful's drug subforum, because of all the people sharing tips on how to obtain HRT meds illegally.

But the real question is, did they get banned for it??

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Got to see it with That Which Sleeps (Hahahah)

Don't ever fucking bring that up again

The funny thing is, you can go to the kickstarter page for that which sleeps, even though the creator hasn't updated it in over a year, there are still morons there insisting he's working on it and it'll come out any day now.

The creator is literally a commie faggot.

https://www.facebook.com/josh.perry.3152130

Just goes to show, people on the far left are as lazy and scummy as every stereotype.

Spoiler 'cuz long...

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I think of the largest problems about getting people to care about Lowtax being a shitty human being is the people he is exploiting are goons, and its hard to feel any empathy for people so dumb and broken they still post on SomethingAwful forums in current year + 2.

The thing is, he was scamming unwitting people when everyone was ignorant on the internet. Sure, these days goons are irrelevant, and his shit wouldn't and doesn't pass today, but back then SA was the best forum community of its size, or maybe it was when we were all more immature, dunno. But contrasted to garbage like genmay it was a breath of relief.

The biggest solace is that due to his impulsive and low-IQ nature he's wasted it all and he has nothing but debt. Seems to usually be the case with these impulsive people.

Also, no offense brah, but from what I was reading, I think a lot of people weren't so much defending lowtax as telling you to take a breath, chill a minute, and tone down the rage; they had a bit of a point. I just wanted to let you know that "tone down a bit" and "Lowtax is a shitbag" are not mutually exclusive viewpoints.

I just really hate scammers and other con artists, not people like Trump grifters but people that take your money in promise of something and don't deliver. Hell, exactly, exactly like the kickstarter mentioned above, That Which Sleeps, that gets me legit pissed ever time I see it in my backed kickstarter page. It's not a goon thing, it's a scammer thing, people that abuse their own customers. Or people that abuse the legal system, like Maddox. Or people that prey on the elderly. It's the principle of the thing. I hate slimeball commie kids that think their shoplifting is cool the exact same way. If I came off strong it's because I am just trying to emphasize how shitty Lowtax is because he's actually done a good job of controlling/distorting his image, most people that haven't followed the SA clusterfuck don't get why he's a scumbag. I guess I failed in that regard. It's really just that he's not a egotistical goof, but it really needs to be emphasized that he's a scammer to boot, I don't want his reputation to ever escape that since he's never suffered legal repercussions for it that I know of.

There's also, to some extent, the issue of Lowtax putting his daughter in harm's way by banning people that warned him about Shmorky and having the two hang out together just to give his detractors the finger. Shmorky's pedophilia and degeneracy wasn't a secret for a very long time but Lowtax didn't give a shit until it started getting too real for him. That's another thing, he even essentially scammed people that tried to warn him that he was putting his kid into potential harm. Lowtax's part of the whole Shmorky thing is really, really fucked up and it gets overshadowed by Shmorky's own perversions.

Lowtax shit up something awful (or I guess was passed out on wine & ambien and let it be shit up) and that sucks and you can be mad about that, but even if Lowtax had some sort of ephiphany and started running things competently, SA ain't coming back. And no one is going to let him near the helm of anything else, so ain't much point in getting too worked up about what he's doing now.

It's not even really lowtax, it's just scamming narcissists I think have a special place in hell. I'm quite happy a lot of these scamcows are reaping what they've sown, it's quite a delight watching Lowtax and Maddox and Milo, etc, all get their just deserts. I just don't think people realize how big of a con artist Lowtax was back in the day, that's all.

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And a lot of the currently found stuff is one note "how are they this delusional?" sort of stuff that all sort of runs together after a while; 'D&D has shit opinions' gets stale.

The Trans*mega thread used to produce some incredible moments, but the troons learned to keep the worst of their sociopathy out of publically readable areas of the internet.

I guess part of me misses the old days of SASS when we had lots to pick over. One clusterfuck after another, watching all the good blood get drained slowly by bannings and being replaced with the Ozma/Icequeen/Fistgrrl/EPG/McCaine HIV cancer. Goons have a special, unique kind of cringey behavior.

Honestly though, I'm glad that SA and its community is basically over with for the fact that it basically bred sociopathy. Even the Farms has higher standards, here we laugh at people, they actively would plan harassment campaigns that didn't even have any humor value. There's a reason there are so many troons there. It's because a lot of trannies are actually sociopaths or narcissists, no joke.

 

[Zaryiu]

the tremendous wastes of meat that go to therapists

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Nothing like goons being economically illiterate. From a thread about Heroes of the Storm that devolved into pantsshitting over capitalism and how it ruins everything.