Dracophile
30 October 2007, 04:29 AM
After reading this thread (http://penguinforum.miniclip.com/showthread.php?t=30531) I became inspired to write up this blog entry.
I don't know what the deal is really with why it seems like I am so mysterious. Perhaps the name "RFS" is so short and abrupt that people think that even off-staff I am some sort of CIA-agent wannabe or something, I don't really know. Truth be told, I am a lot less menacing than I look, both in person and online as well. Here is a look into how non-menacing I really am, the days BEFORE I started working for a small game website (http://www.miniclip.com) (Hi Ben still stealing your jokes!).
Before I ruled the Internet with a mix of a scaly and iron fist, I actually had quite a humble start on the Internet. When I was in 6th grade my friends at school convinced me that I should get an email address and Messenger so that we could chat and stuff. So I registered a Hotmail email address that I actually still have ownership of: the_evil_pikachu@hotmail.com. :cool: No surprize, my first Internet screenname was the incredibly intimidating "The Evil Pikachu". Forum user Zelrio actually has in his signature one of my first avatars:
http://www.rfshq.com/upURS/image/4049.jpeg (http://www.rfshq.com/upURS/view/4049)
(That's how old that GIF is. Almost 10 years old.)
My first line of business online was to create my silly Pokemon fansite, which was originally named "Justin's Pokemon Site" (great name I know). Recently, the website has been in the process of making a comeback (http://rfshq.com/missingno/index.php) but ultimately I have other things on my plate, and recreating my old Pokemon site isn't one of them.
Once the gimmick of a Pokemon website died out, I was more interested in BattleBots. Me and four of my friends organized "The Twilight Foundry", which was kind of like "Radio F" in the sense that we did and made a lot of really silly stuff. Twilight Foundry was a curious organization that really deserves some explanation, so here's the whole story:
http://www.rfshq.com/upURS/image/4050.jpeg (http://www.rfshq.com/upURS/view/4050)
The original Twilight Foundry logo, circa 2001.
"Twilight Foundry" (loosely meaning "Nighttime Metal Production Factory") got its name from a level in the Nintendo 64 video game Blast Corps. We picked the name mostly because we were all seemingly unknown, and we made things. Seemed suitable for a name. At the creation of the Twilight Foundry, there were four people in it:
PokeFreak (me) - One of the more well known people in the group. I ran the website.
Lewis - Usually was interested in Flash and random tidbits. Weird guy. Only guy without a username too.
Sumdude - I can't recall him ever doing anything.
The Master - I can't recall him ever doing anything either.
So I mentioned that Twilight Foundry had a website, which as of now has unfortunately been removed by Geocities for inactivity. We used to make a variety of silly content for our website aptly titled "The Twilight Zone". Luckily for you, I still have a lot of old Twilight Foundry propaganda, so here's a Vault article on RFSHQ that has some old Twilight Foundry stuff (http://rfshq.com/-/The_Vault/dream-matches). We also used to make stuff for the Sonic HQ website apparently, but this was mostly Lewis' doings. (http://archive.sonic-hq.net/newsite/fanfair/pics/gallery.php/artist.93/) Since we also did remote controlled robotics stuff, sometimes we used to name "Twilight Foundry Robotics".
Speaking of Sonic the Hedgehog stuff, we had a forum account on either that site or some other Sonic site that was named "The Twilight Foundry". We were incredibly intelligent and decided that rather than have four accounts, we all just posted under the name "The Twilight Foundry" and signed our posts. Somewhere along the line Lewis started acting up and being an idiot and got the account banned. We instead finally decided that we should each have an account of our own, so [TF]PokeFreak, [TF]Lewis, [TF]Sumdude, and [TF]TheMaster were all created, and wouldn't you know, Lewis got himself banned pretty fast. I don't recall Sumdude or TheMaster staying around, but I did for a while until I got bored and left.
During this stint of Sonic the Hedgehog related business I switched my screenname to the incredibly creative "Miles Prower" and started working on a couple of websites that didn't belong to me, and of course there is no way I will be able to use Google to find them, because my screenname sucked out loud.
Twilight Foundry died out around 2002 or 2003, we all just lost interest and we really weren't very funny anymore, we were just more or less a novelty, so we all went our separate ways. If you notice, my Hotmail email address is still twilight_foundry@hotmail.com, I've kept the email this whole time (that was shared too, lol).
After Twilight Foundry closed, I adopted the screenname "Radio F Software" which has since been shortened to "RFS", and in 2004 I joined Miniclip just because I thought Robot Rage was cool, because it reminded me of the days of Twilight Foundry. Here I am today, still rocking people's faces off I suppose. Yeah, I miss those days of Twilight Foundry, not only because it was a really cool name but also just because things were all so much simpler back then, both on and offline. The Internet wasn't as mean as it is today I suppose.
I don't know what the deal is really with why it seems like I am so mysterious. Perhaps the name "RFS" is so short and abrupt that people think that even off-staff I am some sort of CIA-agent wannabe or something, I don't really know. Truth be told, I am a lot less menacing than I look, both in person and online as well. Here is a look into how non-menacing I really am, the days BEFORE I started working for a small game website (http://www.miniclip.com) (Hi Ben still stealing your jokes!).
Before I ruled the Internet with a mix of a scaly and iron fist, I actually had quite a humble start on the Internet. When I was in 6th grade my friends at school convinced me that I should get an email address and Messenger so that we could chat and stuff. So I registered a Hotmail email address that I actually still have ownership of: the_evil_pikachu@hotmail.com. :cool: No surprize, my first Internet screenname was the incredibly intimidating "The Evil Pikachu". Forum user Zelrio actually has in his signature one of my first avatars:
http://www.rfshq.com/upURS/image/4049.jpeg (http://www.rfshq.com/upURS/view/4049)
(That's how old that GIF is. Almost 10 years old.)
My first line of business online was to create my silly Pokemon fansite, which was originally named "Justin's Pokemon Site" (great name I know). Recently, the website has been in the process of making a comeback (http://rfshq.com/missingno/index.php) but ultimately I have other things on my plate, and recreating my old Pokemon site isn't one of them.
Once the gimmick of a Pokemon website died out, I was more interested in BattleBots. Me and four of my friends organized "The Twilight Foundry", which was kind of like "Radio F" in the sense that we did and made a lot of really silly stuff. Twilight Foundry was a curious organization that really deserves some explanation, so here's the whole story:
http://www.rfshq.com/upURS/image/4050.jpeg (http://www.rfshq.com/upURS/view/4050)
The original Twilight Foundry logo, circa 2001.
"Twilight Foundry" (loosely meaning "Nighttime Metal Production Factory") got its name from a level in the Nintendo 64 video game Blast Corps. We picked the name mostly because we were all seemingly unknown, and we made things. Seemed suitable for a name. At the creation of the Twilight Foundry, there were four people in it:
PokeFreak (me) - One of the more well known people in the group. I ran the website.
Lewis - Usually was interested in Flash and random tidbits. Weird guy. Only guy without a username too.
Sumdude - I can't recall him ever doing anything.
The Master - I can't recall him ever doing anything either.
So I mentioned that Twilight Foundry had a website, which as of now has unfortunately been removed by Geocities for inactivity. We used to make a variety of silly content for our website aptly titled "The Twilight Zone". Luckily for you, I still have a lot of old Twilight Foundry propaganda, so here's a Vault article on RFSHQ that has some old Twilight Foundry stuff (http://rfshq.com/-/The_Vault/dream-matches). We also used to make stuff for the Sonic HQ website apparently, but this was mostly Lewis' doings. (http://archive.sonic-hq.net/newsite/fanfair/pics/gallery.php/artist.93/) Since we also did remote controlled robotics stuff, sometimes we used to name "Twilight Foundry Robotics".
Speaking of Sonic the Hedgehog stuff, we had a forum account on either that site or some other Sonic site that was named "The Twilight Foundry". We were incredibly intelligent and decided that rather than have four accounts, we all just posted under the name "The Twilight Foundry" and signed our posts. Somewhere along the line Lewis started acting up and being an idiot and got the account banned. We instead finally decided that we should each have an account of our own, so [TF]PokeFreak, [TF]Lewis, [TF]Sumdude, and [TF]TheMaster were all created, and wouldn't you know, Lewis got himself banned pretty fast. I don't recall Sumdude or TheMaster staying around, but I did for a while until I got bored and left.
During this stint of Sonic the Hedgehog related business I switched my screenname to the incredibly creative "Miles Prower" and started working on a couple of websites that didn't belong to me, and of course there is no way I will be able to use Google to find them, because my screenname sucked out loud.
Twilight Foundry died out around 2002 or 2003, we all just lost interest and we really weren't very funny anymore, we were just more or less a novelty, so we all went our separate ways. If you notice, my Hotmail email address is still twilight_foundry@hotmail.com, I've kept the email this whole time (that was shared too, lol).
After Twilight Foundry closed, I adopted the screenname "Radio F Software" which has since been shortened to "RFS", and in 2004 I joined Miniclip just because I thought Robot Rage was cool, because it reminded me of the days of Twilight Foundry. Here I am today, still rocking people's faces off I suppose. Yeah, I miss those days of Twilight Foundry, not only because it was a really cool name but also just because things were all so much simpler back then, both on and offline. The Internet wasn't as mean as it is today I suppose.