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A list of international suicide hotlines can be found here. Something Awful produced a wild amount of humor and culture for decades and had a massively outsized influence for a long time. It was a place where I learned a lot about writing, about politics and some other things.

Everything good about Something Awful was in spite of Lowtax, and not because of him. Lowtax embodied all the worst elements of that era of the internet, and remained a petty, spite-filled abusive person to the very end - he deserves no credit for his association with anything positive that may have come out of that website.

The A. By Brian Ashcraft. I don't know what I'm trying to say here really other than that grief is really fucking complicated and I wish he had tried harder to heal if not for himself then for his kids. I hated him in recent times, but I also at one time loved him deeply. My daughter is five, she will fare better than his other children who are in their teens and risk seeing people celebrating their fathers death.

Numerous marriages, friendships, children can be traced back to Something Awful goon meets, private messages…. But many lives were also warped and destroyed. One of the most popular forum threads on the site was Groverhaus , the story about a sprawling and bizarre home construction project.

Goons were so hungry for more information about the strange house that they doxxed the owner and harassed him and his family for the lolz. The targeted harassment campaigns of Kiwi Farms and 4chan were born and perfected on Something Awful before moving off site.

He hated the internet, the internet hated him back, and it's not clear anyone has learned anything from what he helped unleash. The "meal ticket" you're talking about is Lowtax providing for his own children.

No, the law doesn't have to be changed, unless you believe battered women should be forced to stay with the fathers of their children, or should bring them up on the tax payer's dime. Yeah the writing was on the wall a long time ago. Its nearly a decade since someone found him on the floor in his office passed out from pills, and by all accounts he never improved. The recent dramas where people finally got wise on his endless claims that the ex wife of the moment he was up to something like his fourth marriage was craaaazy while he was the sane person and it lead to him having to sell off the company due to nobody wanting to tolerate his nonsense anymore didnt help.

The guy killed himself because he's a shitty person and the court ruled against his shitty behavior. No, only you defending some lunatic who killed himself after his actions were found to be illegal by a court is monstrous. There's nothing wrong with. And indeed let us mourn a man who, when hit with a judgment for the support of his kid and reimbursement of what had been spent, decides he'd rather off himself. The hell is wrong with you? Besides having zero clue what it takes financially to raise children.

Child support, his child's meal ticket. Amazing the lengths people will go to justify people not being responsible for their own children. And bear in mind right now not only did Lowtax not pay it, he killed himself to avoid taking responsibility, without even talking to the kids involved. A whole bunch of kids there believe, rightly, that their father didn't give a shit about them. But sure, changing the law to practically force mothers to stay with physically abusive. Hardly a meal ticket, has to pay for clothes, food, transport, extra-curricular activities, carer's additional time If a married couple has a shared account, and upon knowing that a divorce is incoming, the husband starts spending the money like a madman in order to have less to distribute on day x, then what do you think should a judge be doing?

And even today, with all the gender equality progress we've made in the last decades, it's still not unusual if it's the man who continues his career after marriage, and the woman is the one who puts hers on hold in order to take care of the kids. After divorce, she's the one tha. This is just wrong since the majority of firearm deaths are suicides. Even if every other firearm death were a domestic partner your claim still wouldn't be true.

I'm not sure that comprehensive information exists about ownership circumstances, and it's maybe not quite as clear-cut, though you're probably right in general.

The majority of firearm deaths are suicides, but that doesn't mean the person owned the gun. People often take their lives with someone else's gun, whether a family member's or a friend's. Yes because an asshole wife beater shot himself not to pay for his kids, we absolutely need to change the law. That one died in prison. Before 4chan there was the goon squad forums. SomethingAwful was something of a pioneer in those days, and along with Slashdot was my daily reader.

I took a break from tech, worked at a Karaoke bar. This was all before the days of youtube, twitch, or even Justin. Chris would later be known for getting Javascript past facebooks input validation and everyone that saw his post suddenly became his friend IIRC. I'm guessing someone in their 20's.

RIP Lotax, you brought us a lot of good laughs. No Funny comments in this discussion, though "It was supposed to be Funny" was apparently frequently used on the SA website as an excuse for nasty behavior? And no, I can't recall ever hearing about the SA website. I'm glad of that because it sounds mentally damaging. Especially weird that people apparently paid to be damaged. Cheaper to juggle bricks? I'm filing that business model under self-harm. Which must be related to some of the otherwise mysterious comments abou.

There was a small meetup of people. The conversation amongst the group was far more interesting than the brief interaction we had with him, as he was tired and his hot girlfriend was going to drive him home. He stood by the stairs, and the shover robot protected him from the Terrible Secret of Space. Violent, cruel man, who made money being nasty, to others and refused to shoulder the responsibilities he voluntarily incurred shoots self dead - apparently to avoid those responsibilities permanently, But, hey, he "was complicated", and his nastiness made some people laugh.

SA had great humor articles for awhile there. JeffK was hilarious. He was the perfect parody of stupid Internet gamer kids. Not sure how I felt about the forums. Their Photoshop Friday collabs were amazing, but everything else was just. Like those people didn't know how to relax. They constantly weaponi. I was at a science research center there writing software.

They created a second position to offload my pc maintenance chores, such as replacing broken hard drives and upgrading PCs, so that I could devote more time to writing software. Rich applied for that job. I interviewed him, called his references, then he had an interview with the entire hiring committee. Afterward, before anyone had made a decision, one of the faculty on the hiring committee strolls into my office.

RB: "So, what did you think, should we hire him? Let's hire him. RB: Great! Rich would do things like arrive to work a couple of hours late then wonder why the motherboard he had installed without enough plastic standoffs, so it shorted out against the metal case, was not working. Rich was a smart guy, but creating Jeff K. I just said oh, I can fix that, and did and always just patiently helped him out. Putting in extra effort to get him through and keep him around was worth the constant supply of his comedy.

What a fantastic bargain! One time I was talking to the center secretary in her office and Rich rushes in handing me a camera, saying "here, here, take my picture while I go like this, " as he holds his arms up and looks concerned. I take the photo, he rushes out with the camera, saying, "I am going to paste myself in front of photo of a burning building".

I still do not understand how or why that was funny, but then and there, in that context, it was absolutely hilarious. We were not great friends but I knew he was a comic genius. When you stumble into talent like that, you want to protect it for its own sake. He took some flack around there for not doing his job well and I always diplomatically soothed things over. The guy who I had replaced was still around in some other capacity and he pitched in also. Rich was like an IQ test around there, the smart people were instant fans, the dumb ones thought he was weird and annoying.

Eventually Rich quit to go work for a gaming magazine in California, which he would later leave to found Something Awful. The day he left Nashville, he was behind on packing the U-Haul, so I went over to help him carry moving boxes and furniture for a few hours. He took breaks to guzzle gatorade straight from the bottle and had a pet ferret he would smuggle into California with him. It happened that the guy we eventually hired to replace Rich already knew about him and was a Something Awful fan.

Rich and I never kept in touch, but then had become Facebook friends within this last month. It was clear he was suffering. I wanted to reach out, I knew others who had endured absurdly unjust court decisions. But I figured it was personal and none of my business. To everyone reading this, know that if you want to help, always risk being ignored or told "it's none of your business. On or before July 22, , you'll also be able to dial and get connected, similar to how is essentially ubiquitous in the US.

I, for one, did not find the post very angry at all. It seems someone is trying to stir up trouble where none exists. Many people who understand the vaccines better than he apparently does, have said that he is indeed wrong. Even if the deaths aren't being attributed to the vaccine, there should be a massive spike in mortality figures that corresponds with the rate of vaccination-- and that simply doesn't exist. His argument that the vaccine is causing the virus to mutate is in fact, a gross misrepresentation of what's actually happening-- yes, the vaccine places evolutionary pressure on the virus, but the virus typically.

I wont say it, as plenty of experts in his field have already said that. Also, if you check his wikipedia entry, you'll see this isn't the first quack idea he has supported. Proof from a reputable source? I'm not seeing that in the data. The chart of excess deaths shows spikes in death that correspond with each covid wave, but they drop down each time the wave dies off, and there has been no general increase that corresponds to approval of covids vaccines for adult, nor any that corresponds to approval for t.

In case anyone thinks the above poster was just joking. He indeed did shoot himself. But yes, this bullshit jumping to conclusions that it must've been the vax is par for the course for these morons. I just saw another anti-vax moron this morning making similar connections.

Some guy who appeared to be in his 50s had a seizure and died in a car crash. This moron posts a list of the causes that could lead to that seizure, among which is "viral infection", and comes to the conclusion that he probably got vaxxed and died from it. Note, the guy's wife's facebook page also has some anti-vax posts. When these morons can come to "conclusions" like this based on such absolute lack of evidence, it's no wonder they can come up with figures like , vax deaths as posted by the AC in this thread.

Its the microchips twisting his mind with their 5G signals that causes it you know. Actually yes, there is always a fare amount of people who die every year who are in their mid 40's. Then you get people with the stress of being a business owner, if he is a big gamer he may not have been getting exercise, being that his death wasn't stated, he could had been unvaccinated and died from COVID, he could have Cancer, an other condition that had been effecting him as well. The tech field is no longer the playground of the 20 something, People are now retiring after a full career in the Tech ind.

I can't say I've ever visited SA but they certainly left their mark on the internet. They spawned a top tier trivia team Trivial Fursuit that has consistently managed to get 3rd place for several years at the largest trivia competition in the world. They established some skills building up search techniques that have helped out a few of their members career wise. There is a certain level of cruelty that came out of the website. That's par for the course for forums.

Anyway it seems like Kyanka was a piece of shit in real life who smacked women around and gaslighted them.

His death appears to be as a result of an impending court order to pay child support to which he decided to shoot himself.