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"

[repentance]

Hasn't he always farmed out all the technical stuff to brain-dead do it for frees in return for nothing but status on his dead gay comedy forum?

I think he was paying technical people at one point, but he definitely has limited tech skills himself - despite having had many years to learn them.

 

[Coolio55]

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It isn't really a wild west tho because most of the sites are run by trannies with twitchy report fingers who constantly stir up drama and the mods will ban you if you post anything funny.

Charging $10 to register to post on a site with microtransactions isn't going to keep it alive when the internet will just go to other websites that don't require $10 to sign up. Oh look you want to view old posts, set an avatar, and whatnot? You gotta pay more for this as well.

SomethingAwful requiring $10 to sign up might have worked when SomethingAwful was the trendiest site on the internet. Now SomethingAwful is a has-been site, it's death accelerated by the catlady troons who run the site. The only other forums I've seen that require paid memberships are third world warez forums.

Eventually the supply of $10 bills dried up and Lowtax went from driving a nice GT-R and living in a big house to having his wife take the kids.

There's also zero fucking point in posting as you risk "losing" that money due to the fact you'll be banned for anything and everything.
Plus the honest truth is that there are no topics on SA you can't find on any other forum. SA blugeoned any uniqueness they had to death and have now just become another generic liberal "irony" zone.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

On the subject of immigration papers - VAWA (The Violence Against Women Act) has provisions for granting permanent residency to women who have US citizen spouses or children and who have been victims of domestic abuse. The abuse angle might just be a way for her to cut ties with Lowtax but remain in the US where her alimony and child support bux will go farther than in Canada (especially in a place like Kansas).

VAWA is usually the refuge of mail order brides that don’t want to be sent back to a country they were so desperate to escape they agreed to marry a fat bitter American forty years their senior that they barely knew.

I cannot see her being so desperate to stay in Kansas that she’d use it. I could see her using the accusation as a way to try and take the kid back to Canada with her, which would be tough to do otherwise.

What’s bizarre is they’ve been married for three years and she doesn’t have it sorted? He claims she doesn’t have passport/DL/etc.. which is really odd.

Usually the greencard is all squared away by the first year of marriage. Idk how she’d even still be in the USA legally if she didn’t have her papers in order. She would need to have permanent residency for at least five years to apply for citizenship. I assumed they got married so she could remain in the USA legally but she’d still be a year or two away from being able to apply for citizenship

 

[Fcret]

Usually the greencard is all squared away by the first year of marriage. Idk how she’d even still be in the USA legally if she didn’t have her papers in order.

Spouses of US nationals are issued conditional green cards that are only valid for two years and a separate form (I-751) must be filed to remove those conditions within 90 days of the conditional green card expiring. In addition, holding a green card for less than 10 years makes it less likely that you'll be able to successfully renew your residency, especially for someone like Ashlii who doesn't have a job or any means to support herself.

Furthermore, their marriage has been on the rocks for years at this point - do you really think Lowtax has bothered to help her file an I-751 when he figures that the marriage isn't going to last anyway? It's entirely possible that Ashlii doesn't currently have lawful status in the US. It's not like she'd really need it anyway since she doesn't work.

 

[Twinkie]

There's also zero fucking point in posting as you risk "losing" that money due to the fact you'll be banned for anything and everything.
Plus the honest truth is that there are no topics on SA you can't find on any other forum. SA blugeoned any uniqueness they had to death and have now just become another generic liberal "irony" zone.

I haven't been on SA in a long time so I'm sorry if this isn't perfectly accurate but
It's very easy to get banned like in GBS or D&D and without a doubt the site isn't funny anymore, but what about the hobby boards? The argument has been made that the gaming communities they form around releases are pretty good, for example. I think that a lot of people who "support lowtax" don't care about HIM they just really don't want to lose whatever community they're a part of within the forum.

Don't they have a pretty big warhammer community too or something? And sports discussion? They have some nerd hobby niche shit that has been around a loooooong time (in that sense they ARE unique, to be fair) and those people don't want to lose their little roosts on the internet. They really do think of their communities as being so much better than reddit, etc. So, imo goons may appear stupidly "loyal" and maybe some are but I think it's more that they are stubborn.

Lowtax might have been able to coast forever thanks to the obstinate nature of goons. yes, the idea of a paywalled forum is ludicrous nowadays so growth is stagnant but goons dig their heels in. There are enough oldfags that would have fully funded (through a combo of micro-transactions and patreon) a comfortably modest lifestyle for lowtax until retirement age! It is only because of lowtax's consistently horrendous decision making over many years that his lifestyle has become so much more expensive. Now here he is looking at divorce #2..

 

[TwinkLover6969]

I suppose it's debatable whether that's better or worse than ResetERA's extreme vetting bullshit. At least Lowtax makes troons pay to shit up his fourms. OTOH, Cerium's business model seems to be more sustainable (or at least that's what Null claims).

I'll give Kyanka credit for one thing: He showed up for his fight. That makes him better than Tonkasaw. Not that that's exactly a glowing endorsement.

There used to be a weeb version of SA called OtakuBooty, that also had a dating angle. $20 a year for membership. It's still up, but I don't know how well trafficked it is. The front page stopped updating in 2016.

Yeah but then he cried about getting his ass kicked because Uwe Boll knows how to box and Richard as usual did nothing to prepare.

I haven't been on SA in a long time so I'm sorry if this isn't perfectly accurate but
It's very easy to get banned like in GBS or D&D and without a doubt the site isn't funny anymore, but what about the hobby boards? The argument has been made that the gaming communities they form around releases are pretty good, for example. I think that a lot of people who "support lowtax" don't care about HIM they just really don't want to lose whatever community they're a part of within the forum.

Don't they have a pretty big warhammer community too or something? And sports discussion? They have some nerd hobby niche shit that has been around a loooooong time (in that sense they ARE unique, to be fair) and those people don't want to lose their little roosts on the internet. They really do think of their communities as being so much better than reddit, etc. So, imo goons may appear stupidly "loyal" and maybe some are but I think it's more that they are stubborn.

Lowtax might have been able to coast forever thanks to the obstinate nature of goons. yes, the idea of a paywalled forum is ludicrous nowadays so growth is stagnant but goons dig their heels in. There are enough oldfags that would have fully funded (through a combo of micro-transactions and patreon) a comfortably modest lifestyle for lowtax until retirement age! It is only because of lowtax's consistently horrendous decision making over many years that his lifestyle has become so much more expensive. Now here he is looking at divorce #2..

Once upon a time some of the subforums were ok but they have all developed AIDS.

 

[zap2theextreme]

SA is of a higher quality than 90% of the internet and it is due to $10 making people think twice about posting retarded and the fact it's existed since 1999 and consists mostly of people who have been posting on the internet since then.

 

[Never Scored]

It's very easy to get banned like in GBS or D&D and without a doubt the site isn't funny anymore, but what about the hobby boards?

I used to post in the wrestling forum up until 2012 or 2013 and even back then they used to claim that making black wrestlers bad guys was raciest, banned you if you talked about women wrestlers being hot and it turned out one of the posters was a tranny and half the guys there were buying the tranny stuff in exchange for nudes.

 

[Friendly_AI]

What’s bizarre is they’ve been married for three years and she doesn’t have it sorted? He claims she doesn’t have passport/DL/etc.. which is really odd.

Usually the greencard is all squared away by the first year of marriage. Idk how she’d even still be in the USA legally if she didn’t have her papers in order. She would need to have permanent residency for at least five years to apply for citizenship. I assumed they got married so she could remain in the USA legally but she’d still be a year or two away from being able to apply for citizenship

In addition to @Fcret' s post: there is an insane line to remove conditions right now, due to huge changes in processing times (USCIS tries to review all the asylum cases right away, and others have to wait more). So sometimes, even considering you have to apply before the 2 year period is up, new greencard is not issued until the citizenship interview (and sometimes even after that) - and since you have to apply for citizenship separately, it's a complicated process.

 

[AnOminous]

Furthermore, their marriage has been on the rocks for years at this point - do you really think Lowtax has bothered to help her file an I-751 when he figures that the marriage isn't going to last anyway? It's entirely possible that Ashlii doesn't currently have lawful status in the US. It's not like she'd really need it anyway since she doesn't work.

If she deliberately had an anchor baby, wouldn't she have tried to exploit the situation already? Or is she just completely nuts and nonfunctional to the point she didn't even do that?

 

[Fcret]

If she deliberately had an anchor baby, wouldn't she have tried to exploit the situation already? Or is she just completely nuts and nonfunctional to the point she didn't even do that?

The amount of paperwork and bureaucracy USCIS requires you to go through makes me think she probably hasn't done any of it. In fact, since she's Canadian and Canadians can officially spend as long as six months in the US visiting or studying (and unofficially much longer since USCIS doesn't really care about them as long as they don't get jobs without filing for a TN visa first), she might not even have a green card at all. It's not like green cards are granted automatically upon marriage. You have to file for one separately, and the process can be incredibly time-consuming. It's not exactly the sort of thing I'd expect an alkie or a tweaker to be able to follow through on.

 

[Fagnacious D]

If she deliberately had an anchor baby, wouldn't she have tried to exploit the situation already? Or is she just completely nuts and nonfunctional to the point she didn't even do that?

You'd have to be nuts to marry Lowtax.

 

[Friendly_AI]

If she deliberately had an anchor baby, wouldn't she have tried to exploit the situation already? Or is she just completely nuts and nonfunctional to the point she didn't even do that?

Having an anchor baby does not really help if it's the only hope - a person should wait for the baby to turn 21, and then this US-citizen-former-anchor-baby can apply for a parent to come over, as far as I know.
Having babies and presenting birth certificates for your greencard/citizenship application proves that marriage was bona fide, so it only works if everything else is fine.

 

[AnOminous]

Having an anchor baby does not really help if it's the only hope - a person should wait for the baby to turn 21, and then this US-citizen-former-anchor-baby can apply for a parent to come over, as far as I know.
Having babies and presenting birth certificates for your greencard/citizenship application proves that marriage was bona fide, so it only works if everything else is fine.

Which is why she should have started while the marriage was still a going concern and not in the process of an acrimonious spit like it is now.

If she actually intended to use this to get at least permanent resident status, she'd have to be really stupid not to have even started that process.

 

[Fcret]

If she actually intended to use this to get at least permanent resident status, she'd have to be really stupid not to have even started that process.

She might not have thought about it at the time. Canadians are notoriously ignorant about US immigration policies and often don't even think about filing correct paperwork until ICE is handing them off to the mounties. It's entirely possible that she's only recently realized that Lowtax intends to hold lawful residency over her head as a bargaining chip or perhaps the lawyer she's spoken to has brought up that her case will proceed much more smoothly if lawful residency can be established before the divorce proceedings commence.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

On the subject of immigration papers - VAWA (The Violence Against Women Act) has provisions for granting permanent residency to women who have US citizen spouses or children and who have been victims of domestic abuse. The abuse angle might just be a way for her to cut ties with Lowtax but remain in the US where her alimony and child support bux will go farther than in Canada (especially in a place like Kansas).

This does somewhat depend on how MapleWife got here, assuming she and Lowtax used legal means to get her to the US - she's generally protected even if they didn't finish applying for the greencard due to this act too. Assuming Richard is right, then she's got a long run ahead of her. Getting a greencard isn't as easy as getting a form and posting it off, you need medical tests done and a doctors exam and none of that is cheap with no insurance - she would also need someone willing to support her application that's above poverty line too. Just as well she took the $3000 - that's about what a greencard application will cost you.

That's assuming they didn't rush over and then Ashlii's just hung around on an expired visa or something, Then that gets more awkward - as in the govt eyes they don't technically owe you support because you didn't submit to the official processes. I dunno if VAWA is still available to women in this case or not. But the real complications will come up if she chose to leave the US - you can overstay a visa but the US can't do much about it till you go to a border or an airport. At that point she'll get a black mark on her record meaning coming to the US again will likely result in a rejection at passport control.

Always check your immigration laws kids, it may take longer and require lots of paperwork. But it'll save you a lot of hassle in the long run.

Also yes - the daughter being born in the US means she's a US Citizen which is a double edged sword, MapleWife could leave for Canada but will have potential legal trouble on her head because daughter is a US Citizen and not Canadian, but I imagine the authorities will not be keen to break up a mother and child as well.

As an aside, where do the Something Sensitive people post these days? It seems the forums got shuttered by an admin who decided to lock it all down because "muh alt-right" which is very lulzy but I miss being able to read ex-goon insights who generally have more experience with Lowtax's loser status.

 

[TwinkLover6969]

This does somewhat depend on how MapleWife got here, assuming she and Lowtax used legal means to get her to the US - she's generally protected even if they didn't finish applying for the greencard due to this act too.

That's assuming they didn't rush over and then Ashlii's just hung around on an expired visa or something, but I believe this act still allows women who have moved over while being ignorant of immigration law a way to escape a bad marriage. In any case you can continue to apply for a greencard and get citizenship even if the marriage that was your main "anchor" for being here turns sour. Though settled immigrants are generally locked out of a bunch of benefits till they gain citizenship.

Also yes - the daughter being born in the US means she's a US Citizen and that will ensure MapelWife can't just be karted back to Canada no matter how unfair Richard may think that is.

As an aside, where do the Something Sensitive people post these days? It seems the forums got shuttered by an admin who decided to lock it all down because "muh alt-right"

It got "revived" at somethingsensitive.org

Most of them post here at KF.

 

[Beavis]

This does somewhat depend on how MapleWife got here, assuming she and Lowtax used legal means to get her to the US - she's generally protected even if they didn't finish applying for the greencard due to this act too.

That's assuming they didn't rush over and then Ashlii's just hung around on an expired visa or something, but I believe this act still allows women who have moved over while being ignorant of immigration law a way to escape a bad marriage. In any case you can continue to apply for a greencard and get citizenship even if the marriage that was your main "anchor" for being here turns sour. Though settled immigrants are generally locked out of a bunch of benefits till they gain citizenship.

Also yes - the daughter being born in the US means she's a US Citizen and that will ensure MapelWife can't just be karted back to Canada no matter how unfair Richard may think that is.

As an aside, where do the Something Sensitive people post these days? It seems the forums got shuttered by an admin who decided to lock it all down because "muh alt-right"

The faggot that ran SS sandbagged the handover and we got tired and moved to discord.

 

[Dreamland]

I suppose it's debatable whether that's better or worse than ResetERA's extreme vetting bullshit. At least Lowtax makes troons pay to shit up his fourms. OTOH, Cerium's business model seems to be more sustainable (or at least that's what Null claims).

Are you taking into account that mods in SA have a financial incentive to ban as may accounts as often as possible to keep signups high? Also that 10$ alone gets you almost nothing, not even the searchbar will work unless you pay 10$ more.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

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Thanks to @northstar747 for alerting us to this unfolding drama in the SA Community Watch thread.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/something-awful-and-friends.9689/post-5636353

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