I notice Rich “Lowtax” Kyanka has started talking about his failed boxing match with astonishingly bad movie director Uwe Boll (video HERE for the three PWoT fans who haven’t seen it). I’ve been shown this video, oh, probably six thousand times since the event last Saturday.

So yes, I’ve seen it, and no, I’m not going to call Lowtax an unfunny fag and unskilled boxer. Even though PWoT’s traffic would be an SA rounding error and even though Lowtax wouldn’t know me even if I got in the ring and slapped him unconscious using only my penis, I’ve always perceived an odd brotherhood between this site and that one.

Most people don’t realize that PWoT and SA were created just 35 days apart (his domain was registered on November 16, 1999, mine on December 21, 1999) and that we both appeared on a now-defunct network of comedy sites under the Portal of Evil banner, funded by UnderGroundOnline ads until UGO decided to stop paying everyone.

Afterward, in those horrible days of the early 2000’s, each of us separately skipped from ad network to ad network trying to find a way to offset the costs of hosting and bandwidth and time, watching one fly-by-night dot-com after another fold up and leave the sites completely unpaid. After a few years it eventually worked out for him because his site became enormously popular and he could charge people to join his forums, and for me because my site remains small enough that my hosting provider often just forgets to send me a bill.

Anyway, the point is I will always root for Something Awful and Maddox and Penny Arcade and all these other sites I remember being small and poor back in the day. And I’m happy for every book deal and video game expo and boxing publicity stunt they land. Not that Ebaum fucker, though.

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