So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot (but made it through surgery)

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So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot (but made it through surgery)

Post by Quanta (?) » Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:42 pm

Lowtax wrote:sorry I cant do the livestream tonight, left side of my body is too fucked up and wont move when I want it to move. my surgery is tomorrow morning at 10:00 AM. They're removing 4 discs. dont cry for me, as I'm already dead

if youd still like to donate to my fucked up spine fund, please, please do:

https://secure.somethingawful.com/products/donate.php

I both need and appreciate all the help I can get. I'll be out of commission for six weeks. thank you
Given the fucked up state of American healthcare, and that many of us here have called SA an internet home at some point, I don't think it's too much to ask that you toss :5bux: or whatever his way, if you can.
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:46 pm

oh gosh they're having to remove four discs?? that's some pretty major surgery. Hope it turns out okay.
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by stuff (?) » Thu Mar 29, 2018 2:15 am

sounds like his state of health is something awful

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by Quanta (?) » Thu Mar 29, 2018 2:17 am

stuff wrote:
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sounds like his state of health is something awful
You've earned this :golfclop:
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Thu Mar 29, 2018 3:53 am

I lurk on SA enough that I figure I should give a little something

plus, "thanks" to SA we're all here so yay I suppose
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by BackgroundPony (?) » Thu Mar 29, 2018 9:29 am

sa spawned us, but it also spawned 4chan so in the end it's kind of a wash

not even sure i have any forum upgrades left to buy. maybe no ads? have to go check

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

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BackgroundPony wrote:
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sa spawned us, but it also spawned 4chan so in the end it's kind of a wash
I wouldn't hold 4chan, at least in its modern incarnation, agains SA. Moot started it when he was a teenager because he was a weeb and thought it'd be cool if he and some other ADTRW regulars had an English version of a popular Japanese imageboard. I'm pretty sure he was not trying to plant the seed of modern right-wing reactionary politics.
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:26 am

Anyway if anyone wants an SA account upgrade or new avatar or so on, post about it and maybe I'll buy a few gift certificates.
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:27 am

I blame Uwe Boll for causing his injury
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by Headless Horse (?) » Thu Mar 29, 2018 3:50 pm

SA is pretty legit these days, no foolin

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by West Filly (?) » Thu Mar 29, 2018 4:31 pm

I blame the creepy doll in his house.
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by Madeline (?) » Fri Mar 30, 2018 3:57 am

Fizzbuzz wrote:
Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:26 am
Anyway if anyone wants an SA account upgrade or new avatar or so on, post about it and maybe I'll buy a few gift certificates.
I suppose I could use an av, I’ve never had one and I kinda feel bad for Lowtax atm

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by Madeline (?) » Fri Mar 30, 2018 3:58 am

also I guess stairs didn’t protect him

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:45 am

Lowtax made it through the surgery:



and an old, uh, friend actually chimes in:

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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:47 am

from the SA thread

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot (but made it through surgery)

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Fri Mar 30, 2018 4:50 am

Lowtax posting about how the surgery went and his recovery :sweetielarm: WARNING: Contains closeup of the neck scar!
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot (but made it through surgery)

Post by Jill (?) » Fri Mar 30, 2018 5:15 am

who's lowtax

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot (but made it through surgery)

Post by W.T. Fits (?) » Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:08 am

Jill wrote:
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who's lowtax
Guy who created the website Something Awful about 17 years ago to mock the stupidity of the internet.

Most of the original membership of this forum consists of Something Awful members who wanted a safe place to talk about ponies and friendship after the subject was declared a bannable offense due to the original MLP:FiM thread in the TV discussion subforum getting locked because of a bunch of immature shitheads causing trouble because they couldn't fit the idea of grown men liking a show that was targeted at young girls and their families into their worldviews.

Holy crap that was a long sentence.

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot (but made it through surgery)

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:47 am

Lowtax wrote: Thank you, and thank you to everybody else for the well wishes! Now I only have one remaining surgery left, to fix the bone spur which is currently growing into the artery on the left side of my neck.

LESSON FOR EVERYBODY HERE: get a shitload of scans every bunch of years. I had no clue my gay body was straddling the precipice of death until I had various X-rays and MRIs and CAT scans and whatever the fuck they all are done. They found a bone spur that had apparently been growing into my artery for god knows how long, and the doctor casually told me "if you get a chiropractor adjustment, you could die." He told me this a few days after the weekly adjustment I had been getting for months.

My body basically was created to self destruct, like an Inspector Gadget note.
Lowtax, on being asked what the exact diagnosis was wrote:Honestly? I have no fucking clue. I had been running through freezing rain with my nerve damage fucking me up so much that I couldn't think clearly, and ended up going to the wrong office, ran back, drove another 40 minutes, ran through freezing rain again, got to my appointment an hour late, and couldn't remember half the things the doctor said. You ever have one of those days that you remember as being nothing but an esoteric nightmare? That was one of them.
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot (but made it through surgery)

Post by Headless Horse (?) » Fri Mar 30, 2018 11:17 am

Cool, cool

*goes back to practicing handstand rollouts*

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat Mar 31, 2018 3:27 am

West Filly wrote:
Thu Mar 29, 2018 4:31 pm
I blame the creepy doll in his house.
a doom house?

Glad to hear lowtax is so far okay. Hope things turn out good with the last surgery, but it sounds like the most difficult part is over.
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Sat Mar 31, 2018 3:36 am

This picture of Lowtax is now making it to the frontpage of Reddit:

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot (but made it through surgery)

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat Mar 31, 2018 4:32 am

Lowtax wrote: I have a long and glorious track record of never going to Reddit. I plan on upholding this record for the foreseeable future, so I will simply assume you are telling the truth, and their entire thread consists of "wow, he's still alive?", "wow, I thought he ODed on mangosteen after Uwe Boll beat him up?", and "wow, Something Awful sure is dead and gay!!!"
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Post by West Filly (?) » Sat Mar 31, 2018 4:41 am

I feel like I fit in with the subreddits I'm a part of more than I did with SA for the brief time I was a part of it. I joined Reddit when it was new and cool, before it got trashed by shitheads. I saw SA maybe three years ago, where it felt like it had been around for so long that I have no place being there. SA seemed like a complicated pool of in jokes that I just couldn't understand. Reddit is no different but I've been there the whole time to watch the in jokes as they develop.

I haven't used SA for so long that my account has probably been killed off. I might join again to see if there's a cool motorbike megathread or something.
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Post by PhoolCat (?) » Sat Mar 31, 2018 5:04 am

SA has nothing for me now, but I wish it and Lowtax no harm or ill will.

Recover well, internet person.
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Post by drunkill (?) » Sat Mar 31, 2018 11:00 am

SA is good and cool.

WIth terrible parts you never venute into but whatever.
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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot (but made it through surgery)

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:00 pm

Lowtax quoted my post in his get better thread, that's one thing off my to-do list for life
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Sat Mar 31, 2018 4:56 pm

Gloomy Rube wrote:
Sat Mar 31, 2018 2:00 pm
Lowtax quoted my post in his get better thread, that's one thing off my to-do list for life
He also quoted mine and asked people to slap me. Yay :v:
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Sat Mar 31, 2018 5:10 pm

from goodies from Lowtax' thread

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Re: So, uh, Lowtax isn't doing so hot (but made it through surgery)

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Perrydotto wrote:
Sat Mar 31, 2018 4:56 pm
He also quoted mine and asked people to slap me. Yay :v:
And here I thought you were PYF moderator LITERALLY A BIRD :-I
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Gloomy Rube wrote:
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And here I thought you were PYF moderator LITERALLY A BIRD :-I
not even I am hardcore enough to mod SA
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Post by Perrydotto (?) » Sun Apr 01, 2018 11:26 am

People have now made a full photoshop thread for Lowtax pointing at things, which you can find here

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