How I first found Rooster Teeth

This past week RosterTeeth, the well known creator of web content, celebrated its tenth anniversary. During their weekly podcast they celebrated the momentous date, but something the founder Burnie Burns said during the extravaganza struck a chord with me. During the show he stated he enjoyed hearing how people first heard of RoosterTeeth and Red vs Blue. Gavin Free, who was on the panel, shared his story from back when he was 14 and started watching what is now a ten season machinima back around episode five. I fell in love with Rooster Teeth during it's first season of Red vs Blue as well and that's where my story begins.


The story is nothing to glorious but still a nice trip down memory lane. I'm 25 years old now, so back then I must have been only 15, a year older than young Gavin. I was in high school and played a lot of Halo like any good teenager was in those days. I remember my friends and I were at a local playground after dark (because there was nothing else to do). As the night drew on a few of my friends off to the side started laughing and quoting something I was unfamiliar with. They quickly filled me in on what was so funny, telling me there are these guys online who play Halo and talk over it. It was a pretty rough description. They wanted to show me, so we headed to one of their houses to watch the episodes he had downloaded. If I remember correctly a new episode was airing that night or the next day which spurred the original conversation. As I tried to imagine what I was about to watch all I could picture was two guys my age or younger playing Halo in a dark room videotaping themselves off screen and bickering while it happened. Anyone who has seen Red vs Blue will know that I was totally wrong. Well I guess not totally but the production values were much higher than I was expecting.


I ended up in love with the show and following it for three seasons before falling off. I still remember those days fondly. I had all three of those season on DVD, I owned a bunch of t-shirts, and I even put Caboose -1 on my soccer jersey. After heading out to college I left my Red vs Blue days behind me, but a couple years back I started following Rooster Teeth again. Mostly through YouTube I keep track of the videos they do, and as stated I enjoy their comedy podcast weekly. I don't watch Red vs Blue anymore, but I'm glad to see they have become much more than just that.

So that's it. That's how I brought RoosterTeeth into my life. Ten years later and they are still doing something they love. I wish them all the best for years to come. I implore you to quickly leave your own story below in the comments. I'd love to hear other stories from the rest of you.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 2 - Favorite Character

Image
Now you'd think that I'd put some thought into this before I start typing, but I just woke up and saw today's writing prompt. And when I say writing prompt I mean my writing prompt. If you want to join in and do this 30 day challenge you don't need to do such a big spectical as I am doing. The other guys I know that have done it just did a picture and a sentence or two. So it's pretty free form, don't feel boxed in. But on to my favorite character. For the longest time I played RPG's pretty exclusively, which lends its self to some great stories and in turn some great characters. Final Fantasy VI was one of my first RPG's and I loved  one of the main characters, Locke. He was a pretty bad ass guy. Mario games have always been fun, but there isn't much to his character. Having played all the Halo games pretty religiously I never connected with Master Chief either. I feel like most of the games I play now are more about the game mechanics than the ch
Read more

30 Day Videogame Challenge

Image
Hey all! Here is the surprise you have all been waiting for. Actually quick quiz, how many people reading this actually were looking forward to this surprise? Leave a one word comment below if you could. You can comment anonymously so you all have no excuse. Back to what I was saying, the big surprise is that I'm going to do the 30 Day Videogame Challenge. It's not as challenging as the title sounds, but fun none the less. A few friends of mine did this what must have been a year ago, and I told them all I would do it too. So here I am, fulfilling that promise. The 30 Day Videogame Challenge is a list of videogame moments that I'm going to tailor to my own life. The first one is "What was your first videogame?" They are not terribly hard, but it's nice to look back on all the games I have played in my life and tell that story. So to kick things off "What was your first videogame?" Obviously thinking back this far is a bit tough. I mean I was
Read more

PrE3 - What we know and predictions

This article was featured in the latest issue of Wingman Magazine. Check out this preview and for the full piece support this local publication and grab a digital copy.  http://www.wingmanmagazine.com E3 is the biggest games show of the year, each year bringing the biggest announcements and painting the gaming landscape for the next twelve or more. In this internet age, it's hard to keep things under wraps, so a lot of companies will divulge, or unfortunately get leaked their plans, but we are always a fan of a good surprise. So here is everything we know about E3, and then some pretty good guesses that we hope will come true. I’m going to break this down by publisher because they each have a big presentation where most of their announcements will happen. Microsoft Microsoft made waves this year by moving their big showing up from their typical Monday time slot to Sunday 5PM Eastern time and beat out the other big competitors. Being a console maker, this show is guarant
Read more