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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by lollowtax on Thursday November 11, 2021 @03:48AM (#29185870)
Goons screwing around with Poser was probably peak gold or close to it. The large-scale projects like Goon City and Goon Tower stick with me as inspirational with respect to what spontaneous groups of idiots can accomplish pushing in the same direction.
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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by dkdbejwi383 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @08:27AM (#29187591)
Failed goon projects, too, like the "amazing innovative RPG that does away with all the cliches", which was inevitably completed cliched and gave us johnny.jpg

Also the Goon Island idea that came up all the time: if every goon contributed $10, we could buy an island and it would be a paradise.

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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by Apfel on Friday November 12, 2021 @03:32AM (#29197345)
https://shii.bibanon.org/shii.org/knows/Zybourne_Clock.html

I assume this is the RPG you're referring to?

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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by revolvingocelot on Sunday November 14, 2021 @09:41PM (#29223024)
Surprisingly, Johnny Fiveaces shows up as a playable character in the excellent isometric "top-down" mech shooter, Brigador. [0] Unsurprisingly, he's terrible.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/274500/Brigador_UpArmored...

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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by tomnipotent on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:50AM (#29186268)
Goonswarm is still dominating in EVE Online.
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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by kalleboo on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:50AM (#29187332)
> The large-scale projects

You just reminded me of the Blue Ball Machine https://ytmnd-fads.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Ball_Machine

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Re:Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka, creator of Somethingawful, has died by rexreed on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:05PM (#29190286)
Quite a piece of work! https://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
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