Lots of 10 year anniversaries are starting to come up in the community...

[RFS]

I guess in a sense it's kind of bittersweet, a lot of things that have happened in the RA2 community are now entering double digits in terms of age. Some of them, like the release of the game itself, are a bit more jovial than some of the other more somber events such as remembering the passing of a very important member of the community.

I'd like to toss my hat into the ring as well now.

Ten years ago to this very day I had the bright idea to start a project named RFSHQ. Originally, I had opened my website on February 12th, 2004 however the very first comedy article (if you can even call it that) went online on May 9th, 2004. I have a lot of mixed feelings about the website, its original focus, and the direction I tried taking it. I think for a period of time I took it too seriously and that ended up being its downfall. I like telling jokes and I like writing things, but trying to make something out of it served to be a bad idea. A lot of derogatory things were said about the website, its community, and its webmaster and I will pretty much agree with all of them.

The content wasn't that bad, however. I am now a part of an independent group called Twilight Foundry, a collaborative effort I participated with prior to RFSHQ, and one that I am pleased to work with again now that the dust has settled. Last month my pet project was carrying over all of RFSHQ's archival content (the stuff I had, at least) to Twilight Foundry's new WIP website. Since today is the 10th anniversary of the start of RFSHQ I feel it's appropriate to share the link to this new archive with you all in the event that you'd like to either A) celebrate mediocrity or B) read old terrible articles for nostalgia's sake.

RFSHQ "lives on" here: http://twilightfoundry.com/archives/rfshq/


Below are some suggested reading if you're overwhelmed by the amount of stuff listed.

The original 05/09/2004 article: http://twilightfoundry.com/2004/05/bayou-billy/
"In Case of Emergency": http://twilightfoundry.com/2005/04/in-case-of-emergency/
"I Beta Test Games in the Year Ruhy": http://twilightfoundry.com/2005/11/i-beta-test-games-in-the-year-ruhy/
"The White Overnite Challenge": http://twilightfoundry.com/2006/04/white-overnite-challenge/
"Energizing Energy Drinks, Pt. 1": http://twilightfoundry.com/2007/05/energizing-energy-drinks-part-1/
"REVIEW: Austin Powers: Oh, Behave!": http://twilightfoundry.com/2007/09/austin-powers-oh-behave-review/

NOTE: I am seemingly "over-represented" in the archives here for two main reasons. First, I understandably would have backups of my own work. Second, RFSHQ's backups were lost due to a website defacement years ago and one of my personal hard drives dying on me so a lot of work by other writers has been inadvertently lost. I am still in the process of locating and uploading work by other staff members. As of this post there are 101 articles attributed to RFSHQ on the website. I anticipate maybe 110-120 if I can get the rest.

[frezal]

Wait... what year is this?

[RFS]

1993.

I'm going to keep telling myself that until it's true.

[playzooki]

bring back rfshq

[RFS]

bring back rfshq

RFSHQ.com now appropriately redirects to the archives at Twilight Foundry. I feel you from a nostalgic standpoint, but the original cast and crew of the site has long since disbanded and gone on to bigger and better things, myself included. It just wouldn't feel right or be the same thing anymore.

[frezal]

You see now Lewis, someTIMEs dead is bettuh!

[playzooki]

bring back rfshq

RFSHQ.com now appropriately redirects to the archives at Twilight Foundry. I feel you from a nostalgic standpoint, but the original cast and crew of the site has long since disbanded and gone on to bigger and better things, myself included. It just wouldn't feel right or be the same thing anymore.

then call it rfshq 2: electric boogaloo 

[RFS]

I've been working on piecing together the fragmented backups of RFSHQ's content that I have floating around and one particular archive is something cool that I think this community would appreciate, "Stickbotics" by TWX.

http://twilightfoundry.com/2005/11/stickbotics/

It's an animated series made about 9 years ago using Pivot.

[playzooki]

i used to do this 5 years ago, but all my files went to the same place as the laptop - HELL


 

[Badnik96]

That's really cool.

[RFS]

i used to do this 5 years ago, but all my files went to the same place as the laptop - HELL


 

All of TWX's work actually went that way on my end. I've been combing through the entire RFSHQ FTP logs (or at least what's still available) and I found a downloads folder that had almost all of TWX's work in it. :)

Over the past couple months I've salvaged about 200 articles' worth of stuff, over half of that belonging to RFSHQ.

[playzooki]

i used to do this 5 years ago, but all my files went to the same place as the laptop - HELL


 

All of TWX's work actually went that way on my end. I've been combing through the entire RFSHQ FTP logs (or at least what's still available) and I found a downloads folder that had almost all of TWX's work in it. :)

Over the past couple months I've salvaged about 200 articles' worth of stuff, over half of that belonging to RFSHQ.

yeah, cool. idk what happened to my laptop, it just died. kinda sad, had a lot of old stuff, basically the first time i actually did stuff on a computer other than play bad games.

[RFS]

Laptop HDD's are notoriously unreliable, I'm sorry that had to happen to you. My original laptop was a HP Pavilion and it went through two HDD's in the course of the 3 or 4 years I used it, really aggravating. Lost a lot of good stuff in both of those crashes. My current laptop is a Toshiba Satellite and while it's not dead, the HDD occasionally makes audible sounds and it's slow as hell to read data so it's near death. I've already backed up all the content.

I was issued a laptop from my job that has a nice SSD drive in it, though. Less/no mechanical parts -- way more resilient. SSD is kind of pricey still, but if you can afford one it's definitely the way to go.

[playzooki]

Laptop HDD's are notoriously unreliable, I'm sorry that had to happen to you. My original laptop was a HP Pavilion and it went through two HDD's in the course of the 3 or 4 years I used it, really aggravating. Lost a lot of good stuff in both of those crashes. My current laptop is a Toshiba Satellite and while it's not dead, the HDD occasionally makes audible sounds and it's slow as hell to read data so it's near death. I've already backed up all the content.

I was issued a laptop from my job that has a nice SSD drive in it, though. Less/no mechanical parts -- way more resilient. SSD is kind of pricey still, but if you can afford one it's definitely the way to go.

i dont think it was the hdd, probably was the new battery i bought off of ebay lol.

[RFS]

More old crap I found, here's a drawing I made over a decade or so ago. I don't remember the context. I think it was a tile made for a mural at my high school?



I don't recognize some of the robots, however not all of them were based upon actual ones anyways. It looks like Blood Moon is just above the "RO" letters, Phrizbee is in the upper right. I think the robot above the "T" and disc (the one smoking) is Hammerhead. Kill Switch 2 (one of my robots) is above the "AT" letters. Super Turbo Baby Puncher (mine) is underneath the "AT" and Detonator (also mine) is in the bottom left. Duraliner is a bot I made in RA2 and I recognize the yellow and green thing it's hitting but I don't remember who it is. SOB is down in the bottom right, and Junkyard Dog is just to the left and up. I think the bot with the hammer is supposed to be Crush from RA2.

[Serge]

Holy shit. This brings back memories.