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"

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This is really weird and makes no sense. Psychiatrists don’t take blood pressure to know if it’s high or not.
They absolutely do take blood pressure readings at a psychiatrists office. A number of psychiatric medications impact your blood pressure and cannot be prescribed if you are outside a healthy range. I have never heard of a patient not being seen because of blood pressure though, just denied prescriptions.

Reading this suicide letter filled me with rage. This is the last message his family will ever have from him, and it's all self-serving nonsense. Just petty "woe is me" bullshit.
 
well, that was grim. at least his death serves as a reminder to always fight letting despair and cynicism take root. he was going through a lot of demoralizing shit, even if a lot of it was the consequences of his own mistakes, but in the end he was working against himself, being negative and hateful, lashing out, self-destructing. it kept him from being able to mount an effective resistance against his life problems. take notice, kiwifriends, as this type of shit can happen to anybody, and many of us here - autists drawn to mocking people and commiserating about the world - are already progressing through the stages of it. always look for reasons to stay positive and fight the impulse to see yourself as a victim and isolate.
 
It's a shame the dog went to animal control and wasn't left with a family member prior to the suicide. Also I was under the impression he shot himself in the courthouse parking lot and not at home?

It's a total nigger move to blame the women in your life and then cry about how "trusting" you are. You withheld a passport and abused women which is why they tried to rape you in court. He couldn't manage his website community properly, so it's no surprise he couldn't manage his personal relationships either. What clumsy, oafish waste of meat.

I still can't believe Zoe Quinn tried to write with him almost right before his suicide.
 
It cannot be overstated just how stupid of an idea this was. There are conversion tools for importing different forums to other softwares, but SA's is SO OLD that importing it to something modern, even the current version of vBulletin, would require a developer to make a tool purpose built just for SA. And, of course, none of the unique mods on the forum would carry over anyways. Literally the best course of action would be to export the user account data, import that into a new board, and then archive the old boards and keep them visible
Yeah that’s what I was trying to say. But again just think how there was a silly blow up because Null removed post reactions from the alert tab. Most of that was overdramatic because it’s funny to make Null annoyed over something superfluous - see users getting mad over “Hollywood Hulk Hogan” handing negative ratings. But no doubt some people were mad.

Now imagine the SA community the youngest users have to be 43. They would get mad over any change no matter how obviously beneficial it would be to the user experience. Old forum posters see their post count at 500,000+ and see it like a badge of honor. Imagine telling them they’re going to be reset to 0.

Anyone who is still on Something Awful wants a shit format. They are the nerds who still play EverQuest and Eve Online. They are grognards.
 
Who is he requesting avenge his death and seek retribution in the last part?

At the time of his suicide basically everyone hated him, I don't think he had a single friend or ally left.
Oops, if only this note had gone public a week sooner that deranged Boulder, CO goon that immolated people for Palestine could've acted on his Forum God's final wishes
 
My sympathies to his parents. What an awful final message from your child to read. I don’t even know much about lowtax, or care, but to see someone say “I know it is fucked up I am putting you through this pain, but sorry, love you. PS fuck dana and judge and scott, I hope I am not only transferring my sadness to you but also my hate. Oh and sorry again, love you” is so awful
I think it would be less of an infliction of pain on his family if he'd gone and disappeared himself in a national park instead of emailing his parents before shooting himself in a courthouse parking lot. There would still be the loss but there would be less "Friendly reminder that I, your piece of shit son, am such a noxious individual that I'm negating the life you gave me. I hope this message finds you well"
 
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