- Joined
- Jun 9, 2014
To be honest, I think that policy was stupid as fuck. Sorry you had to deal with that. Instead of targeting specific people, maybe Lowtax shouldn't have let the forums get too PC and the good old days of shouting fuck you and die and all that were put to rest. Alienating your userbase which paid $10 to post there isn't a good business model.
Oh, I agree. I won't lie, I was pretty fucking pissed off and salty when it happened since I didn't cause any trouble myself, but in the long run I've slowly realized how little I missed out on by no longer being a Goon. I'm probably a better person because of it. There was a period where I did hold some level of contempt and general dismissal toward Lowtax but as the years have piled on I've seen him grow weary of his own community and desperately try to get back into the original kind of video game comedy that he was known for, the type of stuff I used to like back in the day.
I set aside my grudges and was able to enjoy Gaming Garbage when it came out, and while Lowtax is still hit or miss with his policies, seeing him throw out Shmorky -- the furry fandom's equivalent of a "race traitor" -- earned back a lot of my respect. He's alright in my book now, it's just kinda sad to see his community end up, as @Gangster Talk put it, a candidate for the site's very own Weekend Web column.