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"

[MirnaMinkoff]

Lol. Right after typing that I went to the SA front page to check something and got this banner ad. Going to give props to Logan for really helping an advertiser find their target demo at SA,

 

[DuckSucker]

Because it shows him dishing out a sick burn on his dumb daughter.

Unlikely? Yes, but it's fucking Lowtax

haha Honestly this is where it starts and ends. This is Lauren, right, his first kid? Ive heard he "disowned" her, but is there proof of that? I can believe it by how openly they resent each other and are always fighting, Its still funny to me that hes seemingly always in an argument with his teenage daughter and not because she's acting out, sneaking out, doing drugs or bringing boys over, but because he, the 40 year old man, is acting like a teenager. Then he gets mad when she "moms" him about it.

 

[Pepper Jack]

Rich is already doing something similar via needless back procedures. Notice he had a flair up of back pain right as the shit was hitting the fan with Logan. (Seemed to follow a similar timeline when he was having fights with Ashli too.)

He obviously hit up his doctor for more pills because the “back pain” was so bad, i.e. ran to try and get more drugs to cope with the latest meltdown in his personal life. Lowtax goes to the doctor and pleads sheer agony, needs more/stronger pills, but the doctor insists on trying other things before green lighting more or stronger drugs. So Lowtax gets an epidural, which surprising totally does nothing! Doctor then says well if it's that bad we need to do more surgery. Doctor might have whipped out the old Rx pad at that point to "get him through till surgery" or whatnot. Then he will get some extra goodies to recovery from surgery too. If Lowtax doesn't agree to surgery then it looks the pain isn't really that bad if he's not willing to go through the hoops the doctor says will help treat the cause of the pain. It's a very common scenario. The amount of unneeded medical procedures done just so addicts can keep the spice flowing is unreal.

Pill mill croakers will just keep writing the scripts but most half-way legit doctors won't keep enabling obvious opiate addiction without trying other treatment interventions, it also makes it economic sense to their practice. Lowtax will go along with whatever to keep the scripts going and to make it appear like a very serious physical problem and certainly not addiction to pills, which he is certainly allergic to anyway.

Because of the Pill Mills, the FDA has put more restrictive controls over pharmacies. Rx refills for non-scheduled drugs follow the 70% rule. You can request a refill once 70% of the medication has been taken. For a 30 day supply, this equates to 21 days. So if you have an Rx for an SSRI (as an example), your insurance will approve the refill on the 21st day.

Opioids used to fall under the 70% rule. and this is how a lot of people got hooked. You could request a refill for your Percocet on the 21st day, which means you received 9 days of extra pills with each refill, which is bad news for addictive drugs like opiods.

Today, you can only get a refill for a Schedule 2 drug on the 28th day, eliminating the extra pills. Pharmacies also have the power to deny the filling of opioid prescriptions if they see overprescribing. There are still ways to game the system, but it is much harder.

That is why I believe he is buying opioids off the street/online, because a lot of people did once the refill loophole was closed and they wanted to continue their addiction.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

He shilled mangosteen shit for the same reason that he shilled Goldbelly -- as a lazy cash grab and nothing more.

A recurring pattern I've noticed with Richard is that he is extremely averse to exerting any effort on literally anything. He likes multi-level marketing schemes like Amazon Affiliates and Goldbelly commissions because he can just make a post on an internet forum and the cash comes tumbling in. He tried to become a Let's Play superstar because he heard that you could make big money by simply playing video games on a stream, but when he didn't like some of the comments in chat he melted down and decided to just watch old videos on his stream and talk over them instead of, y'know, going to the effort of pressing buttons on a video game controller. When relaunching the front page he did almost nothing whatsoever except yell at people who asked for better pay; from what I've heard all of the actual legwork of getting new writers and editors was handled by Logan. The forums themselves are staffed entirely by volunteers who work themselves into the ground for absolutely nothing while Richard does fuckall except rake in the cash.

The plan that Logan Day pitched was a wet dream to someone like Richard, because it revolved around making a return on the Something Awful brand through absolutely no effort on Richard's part whatsoever. The plan was to fill the front page with articles that were written by third parties who were paid almost nothing (because getting to work for the brand was compensation enough) and edited by third parties who were also paid as little as possible (because, once again, getting to work for the brand was compensation enough). Earning a return on the increased front page traffic was going to be automatic through a third-party ad system that required no maintenance or oversight, and as a bonus it would revitalize the forums, which function as basically a vending machine that provides intangible services in exchange for electronic payments and is administered by volunteers who are willing to dedicate all their time to the forum because they're working for the brand rather than for any compensation.

Whether this scheme would have worked had it been successfully implemented, we do not know. What we do know is that the implementation required a lot of hard work on Richard's part, so he didn't bother; he simply delegated every task to Logan except the centrally important 24/7 duty of laying around the house emitting flatus. He was so dedicated to holding down the sofa that he ignored Logan's declining mental state until she had a full-on meltdown, at which point he threw her out of the house and went back to sleep. His entire life is now burning to ash around him, and he barely seems to have noticed.

Richard is a remarkably lazy man; I remember him "ironically" complaining on his twitter that he'd bought a hundred or so Hearthstone card packs and it was a lot of effort to click on every card in every pack. Richard lucked into a bunch of money, squandered all of it, made a lot of friends, turned all of them into enemies, had some kids, had all of them taken away from him, became famous, and pissed away every bit of goodwill anybody ever felt toward him. Almost every failure that has occurred in Richard's life was a consequence of his laziness. There exist slime molds that exert more effort to improve their lives than Richard did.

Not a single word of this is wrong. He makes DSP look like a real go-getter. Hell, Mr. Kyanka hasn't really been making any new friends for years, has he, other than the dumb women that flocked to him for the illusion of his e-celebrity.

Lowtax has been in a manchild stasis for 15 years or so. It's going to be VERY interesting to see how he deals with the real world now. He has nothing to show for himself. I'm not sure he's psychologically able to take a job. All he does is complain about people that don't jerk him off. He's so fucking pathetic.

Chances are mommy will find a friend that needs someone to do some dumb job, Lowtax will get hired, and then he will just whine and whine and whine and end up quitting with some excuse about being treated unfairly.

 

[Null]

Florida was pill capital of the world for a long time because of all the doctors who gave out scripts to anyone complaining of muh fibruh, combined with the lack of a centralized computer system tracking refills between different pharmacies. People out of state would go on pill trips to refill their script at every pharmacy they saw in Florida.

 

[AnOminous]

Florida was pill capital of the world for a long time because of all the doctors who gave out scripts to anyone complaining of muh fibruh, combined with the lack of a centralized computer system tracking refills between different pharmacies. People out of state would go on pill trips to refill their script at every pharmacy they saw in Florida.

Dr. Feelgood has always lived in Florida.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Dr. Feelgood has always lived in Florida.

It's the only way to deal with living in Florida.

 

[northstar747]

Florida was pill capital of the world for a long time because of all the doctors who gave out scripts to anyone complaining of muh fibruh, combined with the lack of a centralized computer system tracking refills between different pharmacies. People out of state would go on pill trips to refill their script at every pharmacy they saw in Florida.

As a Florida man. What stopped the pill party the state or the feds?

 

[Brad Gray]

they can make a lot more money on the "dark" web

if you want to know the real cause of the opioid / heroin problem look no further than our friends over at TOR

 

[AnOminous]

As a Florida man. What stopped the pill party the state or the feds?

>implying it stopped

 

[Beavis]

As a Florida man. What stopped the pill party the state or the feds?

Feds. I saw an episode of American greed where some college guys from Florida we’re making weekend trips to Tennessee and West Virginia to sell tens to hundreds of thousands worth of oxy and making huge cash.

 

[Brad Gray]

that sounds like its right out of the TOR playbook

 

[AnOminous]

Lowtax will go along with whatever to keep the scripts going and to make it appear like a very serious physical problem and certainly not addiction to pills, which he is certainly allergic to anyway.

His "very serious physical problem" which never seems to be in the way when he needs to leap up during a livestream to yell at some cookies, or smack some bitch down who is pissing him off. Somehow, suddenly his serious physical problem is just gone at those times. He must just have "good days and bad days." Or maybe "good minutes and bad minutes." But when he needs to smack some bitch up, it's always a good day, isn't it?

 

[Chan the Wizard]

I can’t believe this slander. Richard has a broken spine. It’s practically jello. He’s a bedridden invalid.

The only thing he’ll get up for is some gold belly cookies or to smack a bitch around.

 

[northstar747]

that sounds like its right out of the TOR playbook

what about lsd is that in the TOR playbook?

 

[nohull]

As a Florida man. What stopped the pill party the state or the feds?

AFAIK it never did.

if you want to know the real cause of the opioid / heroin problem look no further than our friends over at TOR

Ok glownigger, clearly Big Pharma has no responsibility here.

 

[Ilmseil]

As a Florida man. What stopped the pill party the state or the feds?

The state attorney general launched massive lawsuits against the manufacturers and directed law enforcement to begin cracking down HARD on pill mill doctors. The feds were already going after them anyways as a bunch of other state governments were doing the same thing as well, so kind of both.

I worked in a field where I saw a LOT of the direct effects opiate/opioid addiction, and it terrifies me to this day what that shit does to people who were once sane and healthy and functional. I'm well aware that all addiction can do that, but for some reason opiates just seem to take that shit to the next level.

I'll never forget a case I had where a junkie mom finally seemed to be getting it together to try and get her kids back. She enters treatment, seems to be much more alert/aware, and physically changed almost as if real time from a sickly, frail looking person with a horrible complexion and thinning hair into this vibrant looking, quite pretty woman, gained some weight, her complexion cleared, she just looked healthy again. She held it together for a few more months, almost on the verge of getting her kids back, then one day I drop by her house to do an unannounced home visit and she's fuckin dead lol. Fell off the wagon, went on a bender and that was it. Poor kids.

 

[northstar747]

now I wanna see ethan ralph, logan, Corinne and lowtax locked in a room together with just some cocain and goldbelly pies.

 

[Brad Gray]

i dont think i want to see any of those people. ever. under any circumstances.

 

[AnOminous]

She held it together for a few more months, almost on the verge of getting her kids back, then one day I drop by her house to do an unannounced home visit and she's fuckin dead lol.

Drugs are awesome. Better living through chemistry, right? Thanks to the pharma companies for mainlining the worst kinds of drugs right into every family in America. If it has a prescription label on it it can't possibly lead you to worse things, right?