Richard C. Kyanka v. Ashley K. Martin (2020) - Lowtax's second divorce

[break these cuffs]

After a quick trip to wikipedia, it looks like "gacha games" are basically casino gambling but without the booze, camaraderie, sex, and fun, where you "win" nonexistent digital crap instead of money. Lowtax is pouring more than grand a month into that? Can't Dana Outlaw nail him for wasting that much money at the same time he's pleading poverty over GAL services?

A grand a month for this bullshit, while he lets his youngest child live in a shelter and he tries to duck out of his financial responsibilities for the other two. That's puerile selfishness on a scale that's hard to imagine. Lowtax is a garbage human being.

At only a grand a month he might just be buying the currency stuff on a game like Candy Crush to remove the timers they use to gate content. A+ class cow JohnFlynt/Brianna Wu has spent thousands on that. Spending $30-50 a day to win the game seems perfectly inline with Rich's laziness. The courts will look for what they call reckless spending or willful dissipation of assets. The would play into how assets are divided in the settlement and I assume should impact a judge's decision regarding whether or not to force an indigent wife who is living in a DV shelter with her small child to pay for court proceedings, but I am not a lawyer. Judges are also lazy fuck ups sometimes.

It's sad to see that Ashley is still in a shelter. I'd hoped that she would have been placed in an apartment through some sort of domestic violence NGO at this point. I also hoped she'd at least have her green card as a VAWA self-petitioner as well, but I'm not familiar will immigration timelines. Ashley has also shown the need for someone else to handhold her through processes up to this point. It's understandable to a degree given her status and unfamiliarity with the US, but the internet exists and she needs to be advocating for herself and her child. She should be a pain in someone's ass to get this process moving. It could easily be the system failing, though.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

At only a grand a month he might just be buying the currency stuff on a game like Candy Crush to remove the timers they use to gate content. A+ class cow JohnFlynt/Brianna Wu has spent thousands on that. Spending $30-50 a day to win the game seems perfectly inline with Rich's laziness. The courts will look for what they call reckless spending or willful dissipation of assets. The would play into how assets are divided in the settlement and I assume should impact a judge's decision regarding whether or not to force an indigent wife who is living in a DV shelter with her small child to pay for court proceedings, but I am not a lawyer. Judges are also lazy fuck ups sometimes.

It's sad to see that Ashley is still in a shelter. I'd hoped that she would have been placed in an apartment through some sort of domestic violence NGO at this point. I also hoped she'd at least have her green card as a VAWA self-petitioner as well, but I'm not familiar will immigration timelines. Ashley has also shown the need for someone else to handhold her through processes up to this point. It's understandable to a degree given her status and unfamiliarity with the US, but the internet exists and she needs to be advocating for herself and her child. She should be a pain in someone's ass to get this process moving. It could easily be the system failing, though.

DSP bankrupted himself playing gatcha wrestling games on his phone.

Sucks she’s still in a shelter. Might be due to the immigration issue and a shelter ensuring she has no worries about ICE. Lowtax and mommy could be pushing hard to have her deported and revoked any bail/support.

Once you overstay a visa you are seriously fucked and it takes a whole lot of BS to get unfucked. NCIS was a 1984-Orwellian nightmare to deal with before Covid so I can’t even imagine what it’s like right now. I hope she still has an immigration attorney.

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

15k on mobile games? What the hell? How?

Back on one of Richard's twitters before it got nuked, he was bitching about how Hearthstone booster packs take a bunch of taps to open (since you have to tap each card to turn it over and reveal what it is) and that's inefficient for how many booster packs he was buying. I wouldn't be surprised if he's spending fucktons on another gacha game now, probably one involving hogs and/or grandmas.

 

[AnOminous]

Back on one of Richard's twitters before it got nuked, he was bitching about how Hearthstone booster packs take a bunch of taps to open (since you have to tap each card to turn it over and reveal what it is) and that's inefficient for how many booster packs he was buying. I wouldn't be surprised if he's spending fucktons on another gacha game now, probably one involving hogs and/or grandmas.

I thought only the pigroach was pathetic enough of a lolcow to go broke this way.

 

[X Prime]

Back on one of Richard's twitters before it got nuked, he was bitching about how Hearthstone booster packs take a bunch of taps to open (since you have to tap each card to turn it over and reveal what it is) and that's inefficient for how many booster packs he was buying. I wouldn't be surprised if he's spending fucktons on another gacha game now, probably one involving hogs and/or grandmas.

If I recall, his Hearthstone purchases were estimated from his Twitter at about $200.

Not as funny as the Goldbelly spending though, honestly.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Does he have any known Steam/gaming aliases besides "Lowtax"?
I'm hoping against hope that WWE Champions has claimed another scalp.

 

[northstar747]

is "amoung us" a gotcha game?

also come on 1300 a month on phone games is pretty reasonable I bet they are even a gaming garbage exspense

 

[TinyKitty]

is "amoung us" a gotcha game?

also come on 1300 a month on phone games is pretty reasonable I bet they are even a gaming garbage exspense

Even after having it explained to me, I still can't wrap my brain around this. That's a mortgage payment for most people.

 

[break these cuffs]

Even after having it explained to me, I still can't wrap my brain around this. That's a mortgage payment for most people.

Gaming companies have specifically engineered lootboxes/gacha/whatever to get people to spend more money than they would just buy an in game item for. A lot of money is spent determining how they're promoted, how they're presented, how much they cost, how they're integrated into a game. You don't want to drive away too many free to play customers by making the game too focused on lootboxes, but you want to suck as much money as you can out of the whales. I don't get it personally because I'm not a big gambler anyway and the shit you get is intangible. Most people who play these games do it f2p or a couple small purchases a year, but for some people it's more than enough to get the dopamine flowing and it can turn into a straight up gambling addiction.

Sometimes there is a secondary market like with DOTA 2 and CS: GO skins where rarity can drive the market for skins into more than $1k. The sons of Chinese millionaires are well known to drop ridiculous money on skins so they can flex online. There was a huge scandal with CS: GO because youtubers and streamers were getting either free spins without disclosing it or ever worse, they were setting up their own gambling sites and rigging it on the backend. There were entire channels devoted to opening lootboxes and they'd get millions of views on their videos. Valve allowed Steam accounts to be connected even after it was becoming evident that you had literal kids who weren't of legal age gambling on lootboxes because there was so much money involved Valve only relented when it came out that some of these sites were outright scams wheneverything blew up. It blew up and caused legislators to take notice.

I think he was being sarcastic about the $1k a month because your right about it being a mortgage. If he wasn't, I think we know who the gambing addict in this thread is.

 

[TinyKitty]

Northstar was being sarcastic, but if Waffle is accurate, Rich really submitted it as an expense to the court. Ashliiii left him in what, November of 2019? So not even a year ago. That works out to $1300 a month on just this specific trivial bullshit, not even counting all of the other trivial bullshit he wastes his money on, all while trying to poor-mouth the judge when it comes to the welfare and maintenance of his minor children who had no choice about their father being a worthless irresponsible pill-addicted drunken fuckup manchild. The more I hear about stuff like this, the less I feel like laughing at Lowtax and more I feel like punching him in the face.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

I have zero doubt Lowtax would blow $1300 on gatcha BS but he does have to try and hide an expensive pill habit from the courts too.

I know he’s taken the soccer mom route to addiction getting his drugs from people white lab coats with graduate degrees, but every addict ends up having to find other sources to get by between their refills.

 

[Pumpkin Girl IRL]

At this point admitting he's a druggie would be less damaging than confessing to a Gacha addiction.

 

[AnOminous]

At this point admitting he's a druggie would be less damaging than confessing to a Gacha addiction.

I don't think so because being a druggie is just fuck you, you lose. There are no set in stone rules for gacha bullshit, it isn't actually drugs, it's only sort of gambling, the court doesn't know how to deal with it.

 

[Null]

Missouri is not at all unique in this. Yes, lawyers are literally sometimes just forcibly appointed to represent some guy by the judge, out of the blue. At least Missouri apparently has some lottery system for this kind of thing. And yes, it has been upheld as constitutional against challenges under the Thirteenth Amendment (literal slavery) and similar state constitutional provisions. Guess what? The same judges who do this shit are the judges who get to decide whether it's constitutional.

Your thirteenth amendment rights end where my Miranda rights begin, bigot.

Edit: I'll feature this bit about the mobile games tomorrow

 

[Ilmseil]

Jesus Christ, and I sometimes felt guilty about my spending a hundred or so a month on nice cigars, fuckin lmao

 

[TinyKitty]

Jesus Christ, and I sometimes felt guilty about my spending a hundred or so a month on nice cigars, fuckin lmao

And you aren't even blowing that hundred bucks while your toddler daughter is living with her penniless indigent mother in a shelter.

 

[sperginity]

Dana Outlaw has been particularly active in this case and even aggressive. I really think she has it in for Richard personally. He has a way of bringing that out in people. I wouldn't be surprised if she's made it a mission to see that this goes as well as it can. And if what @waffle says can be credited, the judge is the sort who will go along with her. She seems like an alpha bitch of a lawyer, intended in the most complimentary sense.

I don't think it has much to do with him personally so much as his record of being accused of domestic violence and his obvious substance abuse. He also owns a lot of guns. Guys with the same risk factors as rich snapping and opting for murder/suicide happens with a horrible regularity.

 

[Leonard Helplessness]

Looks like the court ordered Rich to pay two-thirds of the GAL fees and Ashli to pay the rest. Also, all the protective orders went through or something.

I mentioned this in passing in the lolcow thread, but does Missouri law provide for assets to be frozen if one spouse is trying to squander all their property to spite the other one?

 

[proteus4994]

I mentioned this in passing in the lolcow thread, but does Missouri law provide for assets to be frozen if one spouse is trying to squander all their property to spite the other one?

I don’t think it matters, you’d have to prove in a court of law that Lowtax is squandering this money to spite Ashli and not because he’s a gigantic manchild retard, which is impossible because Lowtax is very clearly a gigantic manchild retard. He can draw on like 20 years of evidence for that.

 

[tantric_depressive]

Northstar was being sarcastic, but if Waffle is accurate, Rich really submitted it as an expense to the court. Ashliiii left him in what, November of 2019? So not even a year ago. That works out to $1300 a month on just this specific trivial bullshit, not even counting all of the other trivial bullshit he wastes his money on, all while trying to poor-mouth the judge when it comes to the welfare and maintenance of his minor children who had no choice about their father being a worthless irresponsible pill-addicted drunken fuckup manchild. The more I hear about stuff like this, the less I feel like laughing at Lowtax and more I feel like punching him in the face.

It's Rich himself who gets to list his expenses, and would've included that shameful pay-to-win video game spending on his list? Please tell me the court will thoroughly check all his banking/credit card records, and he'll get majorly reemed if he was using video games as his excuse, but no record of it can be found (cuz it was going to the dopeman)