He was shilling for some mangosteen supplement on the forums and when people bitched about seeing sponsored products on a forum they were paying for his face fucking melted, which actually happened a lot. Dude was unhinged.
Hell, I forgot all about SA. I stopped going to the forums about 14 years back, when the mods' response to my reporting a user for publicly harassing and attempting to doxx me was, and I quote, "LOL removed". Such fond memories.
I frequented Something Awful Forums and Television Without Pity between 2000-08 and it's interesting to see the contrast on the type of users that posted there.
While SA was into a lot of racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic humor (that admittedly I found funny), TWoP's "woke" (I mean that in a good way) outlook confused me at the time. Nowadays, TWoP is how the internet (well, mostly) conduct themselves and SA adopted that too over the years. I too find my SA antics (that I carried over to other forums and social media) shameful.
That said, it's no surprise that when the more recent Lowtax fiascos happened, he never received any sympathy from the forums and they quickly moved to oust him. Compared to when the first instances of his bad behavior bubbled up the surface (how his engagement with Emily ended) from 2002 wherein he got plenty of support. He even wrote a lengthy piece about it despite proclaiming his hatred for what he calls E/N.
I watched his several of his last livestreams. I'd loved Something Awful back in the day. When I heard about his suicide, I felt hollow in a way I never expected for a person I'd never personally met.
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quixotic120@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
stinky@redlemmy.com · 15 pts · 1y
There was an edit battle if you look at the history. Someone is keeping his page small.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
I don't recall the mangosteen bit, but even without that there's hardly anything in this article.
BreadOven@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
What is that? I can't seem to find anything about mangosteens?
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
He was shilling for some mangosteen supplement on the forums and when people bitched about seeing sponsored products on a forum they were paying for his face fucking melted, which actually happened a lot. Dude was unhinged.
quixotic120@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
Hell, I forgot all about SA. I stopped going to the forums about 14 years back, when the mods' response to my reporting a user for publicly harassing and attempting to doxx me was, and I quote, "LOL removed". Such fond memories.
decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I frequented Something Awful Forums and Television Without Pity between 2000-08 and it's interesting to see the contrast on the type of users that posted there.
While SA was into a lot of racist, sexist, misogynistic, homophobic humor (that admittedly I found funny), TWoP's "woke" (I mean that in a good way) outlook confused me at the time. Nowadays, TWoP is how the internet (well, mostly) conduct themselves and SA adopted that too over the years. I too find my SA antics (that I carried over to other forums and social media) shameful.
That said, it's no surprise that when the more recent Lowtax fiascos happened, he never received any sympathy from the forums and they quickly moved to oust him. Compared to when the first instances of his bad behavior bubbled up the surface (how his engagement with Emily ended) from 2002 wherein he got plenty of support. He even wrote a lengthy piece about it despite proclaiming his hatred for what he calls E/N.
quixotic120@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
magnetosphere@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y
I used to visit Something Awful sometimes. I remember “mangosteen” being mentioned, but I never knew what it was.
Supervisor194@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Or the thousand dollar chair.
jaybone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I seem to remember a bunch of drama posted about this guy around either digg or early reddit. But I forget the details.
glimse@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
I had no idea he killed himself
Throskie@midwest.social · 6 pts · 1y
I remember him from his days writing for PlanetQuake. You could tell even then he was fenced in and trying to eat hay from the other side.
I never followed him to Something Awful, i grew up, i guess? But it irrevocably influenced the Internet as a whole.
Sucks that he turned out to be a shitbag
Stamau123@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
What does that mean, eat hay from the other side?
glimse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
He wanted to write about more than just one video game
Throskie@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y
He was "penned in" on PQ and couldn't really let the creative juices flourish, but kept pushing the boundries regardless
Sorry this took so long to respond back!
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
I used to like his SA articles when I was a kid. Probably not good for a forming mind but whatever. RIP and thanks for the laughs.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 1y
I watched his several of his last livestreams. I'd loved Something Awful back in the day. When I heard about his suicide, I felt hollow in a way I never expected for a person I'd never personally met.
HawlSera@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
I thought he was still alive. I know he and Retsupurae had a falling out, but I didn't think it was over something like that.
Ehh... Something Awful was a big reason people used to hate furries, so I never really had a fondness for the guy.