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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I watched the person stream on this guy and still don't get the vitriol hatred he gets. Seemed to me like he was just an ordinary guy that couldn't handle his initiate success. What's he done that was so outrageous you can dance on his grave without some kind of bad conscience?
He let a bunch of fags and freaks take over the forums and turned it into proto reddit. That's it. People hate him for losing :10bux: to ogres like ozma and fistgrrl. They'll believe anything some gook or BPD whore has to say about him because of that alone. And then when the constant judicial abuse and grind became too much for him, he died. And people are mad at him for that. Or laugh and celebrate. Sad stuff truly.
 
I watched the person stream on this guy and still don't get the vitriol hatred he gets. Seemed to me like he was just an ordinary guy that couldn't handle his initiate success. What's he done that was so outrageous you can dance on his grave without some kind of bad conscience?
He was a drug addict and serial wife beater who abused his children and treated them like absolute dogshit.

If there's one guy you don't want to white knight for it's Lowtax.
 
As much as i want to feel pity for LowTax
I don't know why anyone would want to feel pity for him at this point. It's crystal clear that Lowtax was a scumbag who got lucky to be in the right place, right time. He should have sold the site for millions, but as Null said in the MATI stream about Lowtax, if he did that, he probably wasn't going to enjoy himself in life like Tom Anderson (Myspace founder).

So many decisions in his life come from spite. People tell you to stop taking pills? Keep taking them, they don't know your pain. People want the forum to be updated from its ancient code? Fuck 'em, go somewhere else. The front page is useless now and people openly joke about it? Ban them from pointing it out. When the going finally got tough, and he couldn't just ban the judge or women in his life to make the problem go away, he took the coward's way out. Oh, and don't forget about extorting the immigrant wife. Or pissing his money away in hopes that his wife and daughter didn't get any of it.
 
It's somehow exactly how I imagined his suicide letter to be even way back then. Entitled and blaming everyone else for his shit until the very end.

EDIT: Also I am pretty sure the psychiatrist didn't want to see him because he wanted him to be seen by a different doctor first (and immediately) because of the BP. Taking BP is pretty much the extend of actual treatment knowledge such specialists tend to have.
 
I lol’d at the post script. There’s our boy! RIP Bozo.

Also the police really should have checked where Hillary Clinton was that day.
 
Hahahaha, so this is the faggot that ran Something Awful? Are SA people based these days or are they mostly lefty faggot breadtubers / troons?
Breadtubers/troons are the tree out of which goons are the seed. People talk all the time about the Frankfurt School etc., but goons  are the contemporary under-50 left in the same way that the anon diaspora (especially post-2014) is the contemporary under-50 right.

Every idiosyncracy you associate with a BlueSky/X leftist comes from Something Awful. I don't know what it is about paying 10bux to post on a forum that did it to them, but that's the situation.
 
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The ammunition is stupid crazy but the performance is excellent. Police don't like them because the rounds can, and will, penetrate Level 3A soft plates.
This is the meme that a lot of retarded niggers will fall for. There are two versions of the ammo: the proper steel cored FMJs that will foil plates, and the lead rounds that most civilian sellers carry. Guess which one is cheaper and doesn't punch through armor very well?
 
His suicide note is everything I expected it to be: shitting on everyone else, playing the victim and not even mentioning his kids. I love how he takes shots at his lawyer because he gave him repeated legal advice that Rich didn't want to hear. To his core he was an egomaniac who thought the whole world revolved around. Having someone tell him differently was an act of war.

My favorite thing about the whole thing is how he talks about how this will be "taking responsibility" for everything he did. No Rich, taking responsibility would have been to actually own up to your mistakes and pay your debts. Not kill yourself because you didn't want to work for a living.
 
It's somehow exactly how I imagined his suicide letter to be even way back then. Entitled and blaming everyone else for his shit until the very end.

EDIT: Also I am pretty sure the psychiatrist didn't want to see him because he wanted him to be seen by a different doctor first (and immediately) because of the BP. Taking BP is pretty much the extend of actual treatment knowledge such specialists tend to have.
My guess here is that his BP was so high the psych was worried he'd have a heart attack or stroke, advised dad to take him to the ER, but lowtax refused to go and made dad take him home.
 
Imagine having to live with your failures and shortcomings. Can you? He couldn't.
Imagine having to wake up every morning in the same bed as the person who destroyed your life and would ensure it wouldn't ever get any better.
That was Lowtax's fate. So its no wonder he killed himself.

As far as I know he has no real assets except his house?, he intentionally squandered everything else to fuck over his ex-wife after a lifetime of squandering his money before that. [...] He was incapable of being happy with what he had until he had nothing left, and then he chose the coward's way out.
He had nothing left, correct. And what little he had left after selling his website for a song out of a mixture of spite and tax issues he deliberately burned through wastefully to keep his ex-wife from getting. When this was discovered by the Judge, because clearly Lowtax is the only spiteful man in a divorce to have come up with this plan, the judge was most displeased and allowed Lowtax to get reamed sans lube.

It's very on brand for him to have a suicide note that hints at self-awareness, but ignores all the glaring retardation that put him in this hole.

Only thing missing is an ancient meme reference like "i told u i was hardcore".
Please bring my will to my laywer Leonard J. Crabs esq.

What was he hoping for that he lost all hope in? Hoping to go back to the times everyone looked at him as an ironic internet god who could do no wrong and any faults were funny?
His hope he'd never have to work, and just for being Lowtax the guy who registered somethingawful.com he would be heaped with praise and late-20s goonette feet.


Fuck those spiteful women for making me spend all my money to make sure they don't see a dime for them or my kids
Fuck those lawyers for pointing out I did that
Fuck that judge for deciding I did that intentionally and punishing me for it

This whole system is corrupt!

Did you watch his last streams. My memory might be distorted but I remember it basically being him talking incomprehensibly while shoving Goldbelly food down his gullet.
I mean it was pretty obvious he was on drugs but we now have positive confirmation.


It’s a testament to his immaturity that he doesn’t even mention his children in this note; children who might, one day, hope to see that the father who couldn’t/wouldn’t remain on earth for them, might’ve had a loving word or two to leave behind for them to find as adults.
He knows all his daughters are going be strippers with daddy issues and didn't need to sit around, watch it happen, and deal with the uncomfortable boner he was going to get from watching them work the pole.

200,000 USD is a fair amount of money, but its not insurmountable and it would probably be in installments, right?
Seems a totally manageable mountain to scale in order to still get to be in the same world as your kids and he had really nice kids as well. Or well, I've only interacted with Lauren, i don't know any of the others.
Oh well. I've never been a druggie and i cant conceive of what that's like.
200k USD is a totally normal amount and is not unsurmountable in any regard, but for Lowtax - a man who would rather die then work an actual job, he may as well have gotten charged to pay $1,300,000,000.
[...]

He could pay the money possibly, but he was never going to have the life he wanted ever again - which is to say the easiest life imaginable. Unshockingly he once again took the easy route in his life by killing himself the second it was looking to get hard.
He would owe the money. He might get a settlement for a lower ammount, take the case to appeal to a judge that didn't hate him, or get the court to approve a payment plan. It would take a while but its very likely he'd be able to pay it off... provided he could get and hold down a job.
Which having spent over half his life being a retarded manchild able to banhammer or ignore anyone who make him uncomfortable, lol.
Or to put it another way:

Not when you had that money mentally earmarked for drugs and booze. Also he had no income at all, no assets and had blown all his cash. He would have had to get a normal job, and he would rather ventilate his skull than give up his druggie lifestyle or become an adult.
This right here. His life of wasteful excess and leisure was done. He was going to be paying child support until he was damn near sixty.
VINDICATION

Lowtax was a retard, but this was egregious even to have happened to him. What the fuck? This only makes sense if A) his BP was like 220/140 or something AND B - He was a problem whom the doctor had already told he probably couldn't do anything more for.
I do find one thing weird though. Dad tax took Rich to see a psychiatrist that day and the doc turned him away for having blood pressure that was very high. Why wasn’t the next step to take Rich to the emergency room? If his blood pressure was that dangerously high?

I’m hoping that’s the advice the psych doc gave and they just didn’t take it, opting to just go home instead. But heading to the ER would have prevented Lowtax from killing himself, at least in this specific crisis.
the guy was trying to get help from a "medical professional" while suicidal and they refused to help due to his blood pressure being high.
Lowtax's dad had the wife he was divorcing wrong. I think the shock of seeing his dead, gay son didn't help Lowtax Sr.'s memory, but I dont think we can take him at his word.

Lowtax probably lied to Richard Sr. - his Dad drove him to the psych, Lowtax walks into the office building, obviously upset about the 200k judgment, and then walks back out, reporting to his Dad that the doc advised he “couldn’t be seen with such a high BP” or some such nonsense. The reality is that Lowtax had decided to off himself and needed an excuse to get dropped off at home.
Thats a definite possibilty

He sold it for 450k to a forums goon called "Jeffrey of YOSPOS", he then went and pissed the money away on stupid shit. You have to understand that Lowtax could not hold onto money to save his life. Literally. Supposedly he was offered 15 million for the forums in 2006 and turned it down. That seems like a bad decision, but if you understand addict mindset he was better off getting drip fed a smaller amount of money across 15 years then he would have been getting a huge payday all at once.
He did sell it, for $450,000, about 18 months before he an-heroed, to one of the site's mods who was a crypto bro. He deliberately spent $200,000 of it on tranny hookers and gatcha games so that he wouldn't have to pay it to his ex-wife; the rest was frozen by order of the court to stop him spending any more (and to make him pay Dana Outlaw, the Guardian ad Litem who he also owed over $50,000) . That's the $200,000 he's kvetching about, because he big-brained thought that if he spent it all the judge wouldn't ask him to come up with it. There's plenty of precedent for deadbeat ex-husbands having to come up with money they tried to spend away (something that came up in this thread at the time), and his lawyer would have told him that, telling him to stop spending, but Lowtax knew better of course. That's probably why he's complaining about his lawyer yelling at him, he was probably trying to explain to Lowtax how stupid he was being.
Lowtax got $450,000 out of the deal but also got his tax problems solved. He owed a lot of money to the Missouri tax collector because of a change to Missouri law that taxed subscriptions and digital goods which forum registrations were. He could have saved money by incorporating his business in anther state, but that would have taken more effort than zero.


Richard Kyanka is 4 things:
  1. Richard Kyanka is a retard;
  2. Richard Kyanka is a faggot;
  3. Richard Kyanka is a liar; and
  4. Richard Kyanka is a piece of shit
You forgot "In hell".
YOUR MEME GUN IS MAKING HELL TOO CROWDED.

At least he made sure the dog was okay.
No, he made sure the dog wouldn't come disturb his corpse (or get shot by the police sent to find his corpse) he left it outside in an unfenced backyard with some water.

My sympathies to his parents. What an awful final message from your child to read.
My sympathy for his parents is tempered by the fact they raised this selfish manchild.

What happend I think was during the obama election people on both sides bet that they account would get banned if the other sides guy one. You can pay $10 to get it unbanned. When obama won a large amount of righters were banned and people just did not care to pay to get the account back. This then lead the site being super left wing, Hbomber is from there.
The site was going to shit long before that, but the Obama Toxx is what made things decline even faster. What put the site into an unrecoverable tailspin in Trannies and Fags was they hosted a guy playing a Japanese Visual Novel called Danganronpa. this was paywalled to require registration to view, and there was huge influx of butthurt tumblrite weebs.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, Lowtaxing ventilating himself with a Five-SeveN is old news I think. I'm fairly sure I read about it soon after the suicide.
It was speculated but never confirmed he used the meme gun to an hero iirc. It was just "a hand gun" and we all laughed that it was the Five-Seven.
And that was right.

The ammunition is stupid crazy but the performance is excellent. Police don't like them because the rounds can, and will, penetrate Level 3A soft plates.
The round never left his head. 5.7 Belgian Moon ammo is overrated.
 
I watched the person stream on this guy and still don't get the vitriol hatred he gets. Seemed to me like he was just an ordinary guy that couldn't handle his initial success. What's he done that was so outrageous you can dance on his grave without some kind of bad conscience?

He was a drug addict and serial wife beater who abused his children and treated them like absolute dogshit.

If there's one guy you don't want to white knight for it's Lowtax.
Not to mention a serial adulterer, thief, scammer, liar, drunk, deadbeat, tranny-chasing narcissist who tried to exploit everyone in his life for personal gain, tried to get his own wife deported when she fled his violence and let a pedo babysit his kids.
 
I watched the person stream on this guy and still don't get the vitriol hatred he gets. Seemed to me like he was just an ordinary guy that couldn't handle his initial success. What's he done that was so outrageous you can dance on his grave without some kind of bad conscience?
Because he's a reddit tier faggot
 
Something Awful's forums run on an absolutely archaic version of Jelsoft's vBulletin software, literally frozen in time from over 2 decades ago. The reason for this is because radium did so much custom code to the software to implement all of SA's dumb shit that it wasn't actually possible to update the forum with Jelsoft's official patches. Doing so would undo or break all the custom stuff. They were hard coded into the software, this was a time before plugins. Also, lots of radium's code is spaghetti shit that barely works, anyone working on updating SA would have to spend a lot of time learning the intricacies of someone else's work and take it from me programmers HATE this shit.

So, rather than play whack-a-mole with the credit card processing gate and the wacky forum display code every time they updated the boards... they just opted to continue building SA on (I think) the 2.1.1 version of vB. (VB has been on version 6 for about a decade now.)

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.
Don't forget LOAD BEARING SLURS

For Community Events tourists:
Something awful used a lot of no-no words, like the Fag-slur, the Faggot-slur, the retard-slut, the nigger-word, the rape-word, and a bunch of other things that woud get you banned from twitch in the code and landing pages
They were used for variable definitions and important site functions and early attempts to remove them caused the site to break.

He already killed himself, his only real antagonist.
Imagine killing yourself when you still have enemies.
Nigga lacked the courage to at least take down of the people he hated with him. A shameful nigga.

If SA somehow didn't exist, those forum members would've met and congregate elsewhere. Maybe the rules of another site would've colored their interactions and community a little bit but that history of internet culture doesn't belong to Mr. Goldbelly, it belongs to people like you and me calling each other niggerfaggots and inviting each other to DMs with 500+ other users because it's absurd.
Exactly this. SA succeeded in shaping internet culture IN SPITE of Lowtax, not because of it.
Lowtax didn't do as much damage as the taint-licking sycophants he allowed to take power.


I hope the kids are going to be okay. Their mothers seem pretty sensible and loving (they were wise enough to get out and take the kids with them when Lowtax started being a piece of shit) and the oldest one calling him "birth giver" suggests that they know it's not their fault and that he was the problem, not them. It's a fucked up situation and these kids should never have to take on so much responsibility or even worry about a parent choosing to leave in such a brutal way, but they have a support network and seem like smart and resilient kids. Rekieta's kids are similar, the oldest ones seem to act more like parents to the younger ones than their actual parents do. They're already better adults than their father was, hopefully they will keep being good people and have happy lives even without having had a good example.
No. All three of them will strippers and/or OnlyFans thots. Many such cases. SAD!

Also kindly take the gun I used and give it to Shmorky. He should follow me to hell.
"Please help shmorky kill himself. I miss his muppet troon voice I can't be allowed to be the biggest loser in hell"

:story:.....Well fuck me that was morbid......Everyone beat your girlfriend or wife in solitary of Lowtax tonight.
Way ahead of you, Chief.

He let a bunch of fags and freaks take over the forums and turned it into proto reddit. That's it. People hate him for losing :10bux: to ogres like ozma and fistgrrl. They'll believe anything some gook or BPD whore has to say about him because of that alone. And then when the constant judicial abuse and grind became too much for him, he died. And people are mad at him for that. Or laugh and celebrate. Sad stuff truly.
I watched the person stream on this guy and still don't get the vitriol hatred he gets. Seemed to me like he was just an ordinary guy that couldn't handle his initial success. What's he done that was so outrageous you can dance on his grave without some kind of bad conscience?
This dude left the wife of his new born daughter home, alone, in a foreign country with no family, no friends, no car for the entire month of November so he could go fuck a 23-year old BPD mormon coke whore.
This wasn't an isolated instance, just the most glaring one. He was a self-centered addict and the world is better with him gone from it.

Fair enough. I'm just glad the dog didn't get hurt, man.
Same. Just know Lowtax did nothing to ensure that outcome.
 
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