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"

[Maude Snew]

but we barely get a chance to know the mind of LowTax.

His walls, ceiling, and carpet did.

 

[Ghostse]

His walls, ceiling, and carpet did.

I am the shover bullet. I push the people's brains out of their skulls. Pak Chooie Unf.

 

[BALLZ-BROKEN]

Lowtax is really unique in just how much of an irredeemable cunt he was and I still can't find anything good about him or even pity him. And I'm a goody-two-shoes optimist often. It's quite impressive.

lol, imagine being dead in current year. What a gooftroop!

Even as late as 2019 he lived a pretty charmed life, all things considered. He was making 6 figures a year, granted it was only a fraction of what he was making in his heyday but what other job could a middle aged college drop out with no work experience make that, at least legally? And he could've turned it around, but it would have been a lot of hard work, and we all know how LowT felt about hard work!

 

[Uncle Phil]

We never found out which of his guns he used, did we? I followed this thread pretty closely for a while and all I remember was folks speculating about it based on which guns he was known to have owned and showed on streams.

 

[AmpleApricots]

We never found out which of his guns he used, did we? I followed this thread pretty closely for a while and all I remember was folks speculating about it based on which guns he was known to have owned and showed on streams.

Didn't he once proclaim that one of his guns got stolen, in the most implausible way possible? I think probably that one. Wouldn't surprise me if he was told by momtax anticipating something like this going down to get rid of this guns and he hid that he kept that one that way.

If Lowtax abusive behavior is to believed (and I see no reason anymore why it wouldn't be) he also strikes me as one of the " I don't want to live anymore and if I don't keep on living, they don't need to either" guys who'd take kids and (ex-)wives with him. Disarming him would have probably been a good idea from that angle too. This is all pure speculation though.

 

[Maude Snew]

As far as I am aware at the time of his death he had an FN 5.7 and the civilian version of the P90 so I am rather assuming he used the handgun. We never did get absolute confirmation though so I may be wrong here.

 

[northstar747]

Didn't he once proclaim that one of his guns got stolen, in the most implausible way possible? I think probably that one. Wouldn't surprise me if he was told by momtax anticipating something like this going down to get rid of this guns and he hid that he kept that one that way.

If Lowtax abusive behavior is to believed (and I see no reason anymore why it wouldn't be) he also strikes me as one of the " I don't want to live anymore and if I don't keep on living, they don't need to either" guys who'd take kids and (ex-)wives with him. Disarming him would have probably been a good idea from that angle too. This is all pure speculation though.

I remember the post about it.

Basically he hired movers and had the gun in one of those stupid cheap metal cases and the movers just broke the latch.

 

[Uncle Phil]

I remember a lot of people deciding that he used the 5.7mm but I got the impression they were mostly just enjoying the idea that he used one of the most impractical suicide bullets available and thereby gave himself a really unpleasant death.

 

[Dan Abrams]

So this is Richard’s final resting place, a board 3/4 the way down the home page with other dead gay losers.

 

[Spunt]

I remember a lot of people deciding that he used the 5.7mm but I got the impression they were mostly just enjoying the idea that he used one of the most impractical suicide bullets available and thereby gave himself a really unpleasant death.

AFAIK the two guns we ever saw Lowtax with were both 5.7 - a pistol and a civilian P90. The pistol is the one that supposedly got stolen, but he was seen with it afterwards so either he found it or bought a replacement. I'm not familiar with him being photographed with anything else, though Mandy said he would leave guns just lying around the SA office unsecured, which implies he may have had more.

 

[Uncle Phil]

For sure, he was known to own an FN FiveseveN pistol (which most people figure he did it with) and an FN PS90.

IIRC he was also seen on stream with a Glock, presumably 9mm or .40 S&W unless it was in 10mm Auto or some other exotic Glock chambering. They make some in .45 too. I just can't shake the idea that a guy with a gun collection would know better than to punch a 5.7 hole in their head and die horribly.

 

[Ghostse]

For sure, he was known to own an FN FiveseveN pistol (which most people figure he did it with) and an FN PS90.

IIRC he was also seen on stream with a Glock, presumably 9mm or .40 S&W unless it was in 10mm Auto or some other exotic Glock chambering. They make some in .45 too. I just can't shake the idea that a guy with a gun collection would know better than to punch a 5.7 hole in their head and die horribly.

Name one time Lowtax actually put in the effort to do something correctly.

 

[Mola Ram]

Name one time Lowtax actually put in the effort to do something correctly.

Putting a bullet in his head was pretty successful.

 

[Ghostse]

Putting a bullet in his head was pretty successful.

I mean results were there, sure, but I doubt he did it right. But he used 5.7 moon rounds so it probably wasn't very quick and painless.

 

[BlueSpark]

Putting a bullet in his head was pretty successful.

We don't know that. He might have fucked up the angle, lobotomized himself and spent 20 minutes drooling and shitting himself until he bled out.

 

[Maude Snew]

We don't know that. He might have fucked up the angle, lobotomized himself and spent 20 minutes drooling and shitting himself until he bled out.

A fate worse than death. Being turned into Russel Greer for a while before you die.

 

[AnOminous]

I'm not familiar with him being photographed with anything else, though Mandy said he would leave guns just lying around the SA office unsecured, which implies he may have had more.

Mandy is literally a schizo. Still, it sounds like something that fat idiot would do.

 

[ellroy]

Didn't he once proclaim that one of his guns got stolen, in the most implausible way possible? I think probably that one. Wouldn't surprise me if he was told by momtax anticipating something like this going down to get rid of this guns and he hid that he kept that one that way.

If Lowtax abusive behavior is to believed (and I see no reason anymore why it wouldn't be) he also strikes me as one of the " I don't want to live anymore and if I don't keep on living, they don't need to either" guys who'd take kids and (ex-)wives with him. Disarming him would have probably been a good idea from that angle too. This is all pure speculation though.

Yes he claimed that the movers busted open his very cheap metal case that had no business holding anything valuable (or dangerous if you have kids). It was the Five Seven he claimed was stolen. I have never seen a picture of him in recent years with another pistol but I think he had a Glock in the past.

I remember the post about it.

Basically he hired movers and had the gun in one of those stupid cheap metal cases and the movers just broke the latch.

This.

I recall he later backtracked and said he recovered it maybe because of how stupid it is for people that work for a moving company to steal on the job or it was complete bullshit to begin with and may have been a ploy to keep his prized pistol in a divorce case where the spouse is claiming abuse.

 

[BALLZ-BROKEN]

I know years ago he had an AR-15, I remember seeing a picture him holding it. He also claimed he owned a H&K 9mm pistol, and a .45.

Edit: I found the pic from this old front page article from 2003 https://www.somethingawful.com/news/taxation-with-insultation/

And I attached the pic for those of you who don't feel like clicking on links.

 

[northstar747]

I recall he later backtracked and said he recovered it maybe because of how stupid it is for people that work for a moving company to steal on the job or it was complete bullshit to begin with and may have been a ploy to keep his prized pistol in a divorce case where the spouse is claiming abuse.

might have been though, he could have easily left the fire arms with his parent or sister. also given how lazy he is, I doubt he would go through the effort of breaking that stupid metal case.