Inactive 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"

100%black said:
I believe the early films were probably a form of tax fraud. Uwe Boll was perfectly capable of making passable (Postal, Assault on Wallstreet, etc), even good (Rampage) B movies, but he willingly chose not to so he could exploit German art subsidies and tax breaks, so his films never made the estimated return. I don't think it's a coincidence that all of his "good" films are made after and only after the tax loophole was closed.
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Tunnel Rats was decent despite its low budget
 
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Dom Cruise said:
But that's also what made him interesting, he was essentially the last man who ever made genre B movies that thought he was making something awesome in that Ed Wood sense.
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I hate people who compare Uwe Boll to Ed Wood because there is a big difference between the two. Ed Wood for all his faults and problems ultimately had a love for film and making movies. Boll was merely a con-artist who used the film industry as the vehicle for his schemes. The idea that he thought he was making something awesome or that he even likes his films in the first place is laughable.

I would describe Boll more as a low-grade Adam Sandler. Sandler may have spent years purposely putting out crappy films in order to make money. But Sandler at least displayed some talent and put in some work in order to get to that position to do what he did. And even then there are probably a few films that aren't complete crap the way a lot of his later stuff is.
joebobmurphy said:
I wonder if someone with more insight might enlighten me. Why did he kill himself? He got reamed in court, but so what? I figured his mommy would pay for whatever comes his way like she always does. I find it dubious he would kill himself out of shame, either. I mean, this dude actually got his mom(or grandma) to call the police to bash his ex to them after one of his domestics. So why? His life wasn't changing in any real way. Help me understand.
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He simply reached what he felt was his lowest point. Maybe from our perspective it wasn't, but for him it was. People joked for years that he would kill himself once he no longer had his money to gatekeep his problems away from him. He knew it was getting to the point that his problems were finally going to make him suffer. He didn't want to so he took the easy way out.
 
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LordofCringe7206 said:
I would describe Boll more as a low-grade Adam Sandler. Sandler may have spent years purposely putting out crappy films in order to make money. But Sandler at least displayed some talent and put in some work in order to get to that position to do what he did. And even then there are probably a few films that aren't complete crap the way a lot of his later stuff is.
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Boll is different than Sandler. Adam Sandler makes movies for his hollywood friends... but not in the way you think. Not in the art-house farting way. He makes sets that are low-stress enjoyable environments.

tl;dr is that Adam Sandler is one of the few nice people in hollywood. If he's your hero, you can meet him and not be disillusioned. His sets and scripts are meant to be fun to work on for the talent, and because he's a nice guy, he'll get lots of big-names people to show up for a cameo or bitpart and to show up for bargain basement prices. He doesn't even bother trying to give a coherrent film to the editors, because he knows that the talent list alone will make the film profitable overseas if not domestic.
Basically, Sandler movies are to "real" movies what a bunch of NBA players having a sunday pickup game in the park is to the Playoffs.

Some of his 'serious' films, like Uncut Gems, break this mold - he was trying to make a real movie there. But note the lack of other 'recognizable name' talent in that one.

Boll, for a while, was purposely making movies that would tank because of German Tax Law. As others pointed out, once that loophole closed, he put out decent - not great, decent - content.
 
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LordofCringe7206 said:
He simply reached what he felt was his lowest point. Maybe from our perspective it wasn't, but for him it was. People joked for years that he would kill himself once he no longer had his money to gatekeep his problems away from him. He knew it was getting to the point that his problems were finally going to make him suffer. He didn't want to so he took the easy way out.
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he just didn't want to pay support for the kids/ex. it's that simple
 
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Lowtax only briefly cared about sorting out SA because he was riding on the new relationship high of having CanuckWife around at the time (who also wanted to be part of things) and generally was only here on KiwiFarms to dunk on Shmorky and because the forums here reminded him of the "good ol days". His efforts amounted to going back and trying to read the current mods the riot act and immediately giving in when they all told him to sod off.

That said even before then - there was saved posts where Ashley mentioned things on the forum like them going to a Chinese restaurant and Lowtax suddenly going on a drunken sperg rant in the middle of dinner that alarmed her. But she still liked to believe the pills and booze stories was all jokes. Ho hum.

Also someone claimed Lowtax didn't treat the older kids like shit but Chinkwifes youngest reportedly wouldn't visit Lowtax due to major anxiety responses and he ranted in text to the oldest because she caught daddy cheating and told him to quit it. While I think his shittyness was mostly towards women he dated, I don't think he was really top dad.

Poor kid, from that post earlier I wonder if she's running that discussion in her head now and wondering if it's her fault in the end (when it's all on Lowtax really)
 
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Let’s remember the good times in these dark moments.
 

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I was around since the forums inception but only really posted in Hellthread that triggered a fuckload of people and then went down to a 9999 month probation by Lowtax because I had the audacity (in Hellthread, which was supposed to be unmodded) to say there were only two genders. But by that point, the forum was already garbage and all we were doing was triggering people who hated us. So to me it was no big loss. I think that's when I first started looking for a new forum and went to SASS but that was holy shit waaayyyy too extreme. And then just came by the farms.

I've got sort of mixed feelings about this.

I think what really did Lowtax in was not being able to monetize any success of the forums or any trends it started. I mean, it was where Let's Play originated from. A lot of missed opportunities and things pissed away. And really, really dumb shit. I think that really haunted him and turned him incredibly bitter. He saw like Fark and Ebaums be millionaires and he had this 'groundbreaking' comedy site and he wasn't making money with it. And that bitterness over not being able to monetize just did him in with drugs and alcohol. He'd come on every so often to 'moderate' and then disappear in a stupor. It went on for a long fucking time and he never, ever got over it. At the end there, not even his own community respected him and thought him more of a nuisance that they wanted to be rid of than a founder. It was really pathetic.

In retrospect, my best memories of SA were of the people there, not of Lowtax at all, who I thought was an asshole and a fucktard. I thought he'd completely become whipped by the forum culture and didn't really care to sort it out until basically every single thing that made SA unique was destroyed because of it and it became neogaf lite. But again, not being able to monetize or go on those popular trends got to him. And at the end of the day, he was a drug addict and alcoholic just coasting on the income of the forums and then he just sold it for what must have been a pittance when he couldn't deal anymore.

Its a sad story of a guy who just never got over what happened, fell into a pit of addiction and just never crawled back out. I still don't like him and there wasn't much hope left when he fell into addiction. But he just didn't seem to care anymore. At some point he just gave up. I know that feeling. I just overall think its really sad and it could have gone so many different ways but it just didn't.

Ah well. Now at least he can drink all the mangosteen he wants in heaven.
 
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Secret Asshole said:
I think what really did Lowtax in was not being able to monetize any success of the forums or any trends it started. I mean, it was where Let's Play originated from. A lot of missed opportunities and things pissed away. And really, really dumb shit. I think that really haunted him and turned him incredibly bitter. He saw like Fark and Ebaums be millionaires and he had this 'groundbreaking' comedy site and he wasn't making money with it. And that bitterness over not being able to monetize just did him in with drugs and alcohol. He'd come on every so often to 'moderate' and then disappear in a stupor. It went on for a long fucking time and he never, ever got over it. At the end there, not even his own community respected him and thought him more of a nuisance that they wanted to be rid of than a founder. It was really pathetic.
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Lowtax made an absolutely ridiculous amount of money off of something awful even despite his failings. If he hadn't pissed away every cent he ever made on thousand dollar chairs, goldbelly pies, office space in a retail center, ambien, box wine, and multiple divorces, he would easily have been a multi-millionaire. The forum revenue definitely fell off in recent years, but hell, Lowtax was making 15k a month from his patreon alone in 2019, and the only thing that stopped that gravy train was when it became public knowledge that he was banging his side piece in his own home while his wife and kids hid in a battered woman's shelter.
 
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JoyfulDarter said:
Well, you can see a situation and offer some insight because it happened to you, or something similar happened to you, right? It's just real easy to start oversharing and trying to make KF into your own personal therapist. It's a fine line to walk. Still, some people are spergs and TMI the second you mention anything that happens in real life and not on the internet.
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Yeah, sure, we're all humans and it's weird to act like 99.9% of life doesn't happen off the Farms. That's why I mention the doxing thing- if what you're saying is personal enough that it'd confirm a dox, you should reconsider. I'm not saying anyone will dox you, because it's probably not worth the effort, but the line where it's oversharing hovers around there somewhere.

It's also a consideration about whether to post at all, since very few people can post thousands of times in a year and never slip up.
 
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PTNR 2.0 said:
Anyway, here's my gay ass eulogy since I guess people are doing that. Ahem. Lowtax was funny in 2001. Now it's 2021 and he's not funny, but he's also dead which is actually kind of funny. One thing that many people may not know about Lowtax is that he was something of an artist; in fact, one of the last things he did was paint his living room walls with his grey matter. He died doing what he loved: putting things into his mouth that he shouldn't (Goldbelly pies, Ambien, tranny cock; a bullet, in this case). He is survived by his wives he beat, his kids that he blew his brains out rather than pay child support towards, his cancerous forums filled to the brim with angry, mentally ill autogynephiliacs and a bunch of shitposting Kiwis who will ironically post GOOFTROOP for weeks to come. I rate his suicide 5 Golden Man-in-a-dressBabies. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, unban Keep It Real. Amen.
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this is probably the best eulogy he could hope for, very SA.
 
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