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]

Spoken like someone who has never seen a cluster B go scorched earth before.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

I would kind of like to see China invade just to see them put all the goons in camps / execute them.

I mean that requires China's military to be able to field more than a rickety fishing boat to transport their completely untested army around the world to American soil and somehow have the logistics in place to maintain a presence in the most armed country on the planet, but yeah, I can dream about goon imprisonment. Maybe it will be like "Stalin's gulags".

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I'm sorry but seriously?

I'd love to show this to my grandfather-in-law who spent 16 years partially in a gulag and partially in prison (his wife thought he was dead for several years) or my other grandfather-in-law who spent 2 years in the gulag and was severely beaten during his time there.

 

[Twinkie]

Potential leak by byob/gbs poster in discord or some shit showing Lowtax giving daps for goons covering his ass. As if anybody needed more evidence that fyad's closure was a smokescreen
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It’s obvious we CANNOT have the forums devolving into Kiwi Farms

Reminder we donated to the GoFundMe for his homeless wife and child while goons cheered Richard on in getting the campaign struck down and then gloated about it.

 

[proteus4994]

Of all fucking things to lead off with, you go with Slenderman? Really?

No kidding, alphabetically she clearly should have led off with Aatrek

 

[White Devil]

I'm sorry but seriously?

I'd love to show this to my grandfather-in-law who spent 16 years partially in a gulag and partially in prison (his wife thought he was dead for several years) or my other grandfather-in-law who spent 2 years in the gulag and was severely beaten during his time there.

Like someone else said, they actually believe that nonsense.

Sorry about your in-laws.

 

[Papa Adolfo's Take'n'Bake]

Any lolcow with a thread here could have made more out of that situation than Low-T did.

I mean, Yaniv exists.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

Wait, I saw it earlier and thought that gulags twitter post was a joke somehow unrelated to sa, was that for real a goony person doing one of those srs lots of text lots of lies lefty memes at a tankie level?

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

I want to flourish. One day I would like to be a showrunner. That's a long way off. But goodness gracious, the hatred from these forums is so palpable. Thank fuck I have a support network. You guys should seek help.

I have some dislike of you for being a homewrecker. Getting cheated on hurts.

You will continue your self destructive behaviors unless you acknowledge that you have a personality disorder and commit to regular therapy, which you probably wont.

 

[JustSomeDong]

I'm sorry but seriously?

I'd love to show this to my grandfather-in-law who spent 16 years partially in a gulag and partially in prison (his wife thought he was dead for several years) or my other grandfather-in-law who spent 2 years in the gulag and was severely beaten during his time there.

Obviously they were nazi chuds who were on the wrong side of history...

I've actually seen this said of stories like your.

 

[White Devil]

Wait, I saw it earlier and thought that gulags twitter post was a joke somehow unrelated to sa, was that for real a goony person doing one of those srs lots of text lots of lies lefty memes at a tankie level?

Not sure if the original poster is a goon but p sure they meant it for real. Tankies are another level of delusional and most of SA these days are tankies. It's the sweetest irony that were Stalin alive, he'd have them all disappeared.

 

[assdick42069]

Not sure if the original poster is a goon but p sure they meant it for real. Tankies are another level of delusional and most of SA these days are tankies. It's the sweetest irony that were Stalin alive, he'd have them all disappeared.

You have to hand it to Stalin, he was really good at getting rid of Tankies
If Yezhov were alive today, he'd be a goon and a mod on B&R

 

[Brundlefly]

Sam Hyde lobbied HARD to have Million Dollar Extreme be part of SA's brand back in 2008 or 2009 or so, which was right around the time SA needed to revamp immediately or resign themselves to irrelevancy.

I've never heard this before in all my years making fun of SA, is this true? I know Yahtzee was turned down in 2008. I don't think MDE even existed that long ago.

 

[Sabrina]

You can't even change the password for a Facebook business page, whenever the page asks for it you put in your password. What she may have been able to do is kick all the other collaborators depending on her permission level on the page

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I've never heard this before in all my years making fun of SA, is this true? I know Yahtzee was turned down in 2008. I don't think MDE even existed that long ago.

Here’s something from 2009: http://archive.md/SJRRM

Like a year and a half ago or something I featured a video by Million Dollar Extreme, a YouTube comedy group that is actually funny. One of the members, Sam, emailed me to thank me for the kind words. Fast forward to a couple weeks ago when he emailed me again asking if I'd mind reviewing another video and then sent me a list of candidates. I told him that since I find the stuff Million Dollar Extreme does to be quite funny, I'd do him one better and give them a featurette here on AwfulVision.

Yeah, it appears Sam was really pushing MDE to be a part of Something Awful around 2008-2009.

 

[Brundlefly]

Here’s something from 2009: https://www.somethingawful.com/awfulvision/million-dollar-extreme/1/

Thanks for this. I never looked at the front page even then lol

 

[nohull]

Sam Hyde lobbied HARD to have Million Dollar Extreme be part of SA's brand back in 2008 or 2009 or so, which was right around the time SA needed to revamp immediately or resign themselves to irrelevancy. After being repeatedly blown off by a site that was still at the time buttering its bread with ancient, tired shit like Photoshop Friday and cringey, unfunny Lovecraft pastiches from Zach Parsons like they had for the past decade, Sam just said 'fuck it' and went and got himself more (in)famous than he ever would have on SA, and has done more to shape edgy internet humor in the past 5-10 years than SA has in the past 15+.

The biggest blunder SA did, though, was invent Let's Play culture and then do absolutely nothing to monetize it. There's an alternate timeline where AGDQ and Twitch (or their mirror universe equivalents anyway) are both a part of the Something Awful media empire and Lowtax is a multi-multi-millionaire, swimming through a vault full of Goldbelly cookies and Ambien pills ala Scrooge McDuck. What did this timeline's Lowtax do? "Gaming Garbage", 6 years too late. Womp womp.

How to forget that in the following decade SA created a culture of being annoying fucks in videogames, especially survival ones like Rust and DayZ, that undoubtly boosted their popularity as well, even if it was just because some people didn't want to have their servers ruined and because those kind of "hive mind trolls" tend to be perma-onlines.
And thank God LowT and his site didn't see a penny from the cancer known as Let's Plays and streaming.

Also, sharing edgy shit like this Bob Ross parody

 

[ddlloo]

How to forget that in the following decade SA created a culture of being annoying fucks in videogames, especially survival ones like Rust and DayZ, that undoubtly boosted their popularity as well, even if it was just because some people didn't want to have their servers ruined and because those kind of "hive mind trolls" tend to be perma-onlines.
And thank God LowT and his site didn't see a penny from the cancer known as Let's Plays and streaming.

Also, sharing edgy shit like this Bob Ross parody

That's Nick Kroll isn't it?

 

[nohull]

That's Nick Kroll isn't it?

Yep, the extremely woke co-creator of Big Mouth, #cancelation when?

 

[Orange Rhymer]

How to forget that in the following decade SA created a culture of being annoying fucks in videogames, especially survival ones like Rust and DayZ, that undoubtly boosted their popularity as well, even if it was just because some people didn't want to have their servers ruined and because those kind of "hive mind trolls" tend to be perma-onlines.
And thank God LowT and his site didn't see a penny from the cancer known as Let's Plays and streaming.

Also, sharing edgy shit like this Bob Ross parody

You forgot Eve Online
"We're not here to ruin the game, we're here to ruin YOUR game"
...most of time they did both.

 

[White Devil]

Gaming with goons was really the only fun thing out of that forum past 2010. Sure as fuck can't do it now, they politicize EVERYTHING. Friend of mine got banned from the Warframe goon guild and discord for being "transphobic".