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As this comes to a close I'd just like to thank everyone for the questions and their time in reading this. I hope everyone remains well and should anyone want to reach out/keep in touch, my email is rickbost73@gmail.com. Thanks to True for allowing me a platform. To all of those I have fought with and against, much respect and take care. Lego out.

I'm a lifetime Silver 1/2 player. Maybe if I can get good at top lane (new role for me) maybe I can improve on that this season. Kobster1 - Kevin. He was in the first clan I was in and we remained friends and lived about 90 minutes from each other. We were both huge San Jose Sharks fans and went to many games. There was a time he had an extra ticket and we went to a game together. He was a great friend but has moved to the east coast and now we aren't really in contact sadly.

There is one that Bunty reminded me of recently. It was something about me turning down Leader at first because I was mad at him about something. I'm not sure what I was mad about or what happened but maybe if that continued I'd have never been leader of DF. I feel like they should do whatever they need to do to keep activity up and have fun. If P2P is where they are excelling, I'm happy for them and proud of them. I'm sure if they wanted to take things to F2P they would be fantastic there too, but it's really their choice. I thought Murray was a great member of DF and I believe he is really passionate about DF and wanting to keep the tradition going and I am proud of what he's been able to accomplish.

Thank you Adam, I really appreciate it. I think my all time favorite memory was finally getting the undisputed #1 spot. I say this because it takes a lot of effort, work and just a lot. For it to pay off was amazing. After that keeping it and re-taking it after losing it were great, but nothing is like that first time of getting to that spot the first time. It would pop in and out of my mind on occasion, mostly seeing old DF/RS friends on other games or on FB mostly. Going in there though brought back a lot more memories.

I used to main ADC, but then I realized my rank was suffering because you have no synergy with your support, so I've been doing top lane now. Old school purple cape. It's rough losing to a rival, but show me someone comfortable with losing and I'll show you someone who loses a lot. It's good to be upset when you lose, it makes you improve. While I have some respect for people playing the game they way they want, I have very little for them. Crashing other people's fun should not be a source of enjoyment in my opinion. The fact they may have had some role in some top fight results is ridiculous and one of the best things I remember doing in DF was getting a spy in NI and hunting them to the point they couldn't go out with more that 15-20 people for awhile. I don't recall speaking with Saddam so I've no real choice but to feel that he was simply the leader of a bunch of level 90's running around trying to crash fights and get rune.

Corr were always my favorite fights as well because of the intensity. There were also so many power swaps between us and then so much time we were pretty close to even. Corr and DF had more things in common than we ever had differences. The atmosphere you talk about was pretty similar, although as active as our TS was we never got too down after a loss, but certainly losses to Corr hurt the most. I agree about the rules thing also, both Corr and DF leaders/officials always tried their best to keep members to the rules and neither of us wanted a cheap win. Respect.

I think it has more to do with the fact that there are just a lot of games to play now and with Esports being so big, most of those games are more popular than RS. Besides the part where Jagex removed the wildy during our time and then had to fix it, most games change and you learn to adapt so I can't blame Jagex. I'm sure the people around doing the clan thing now are also probably just as dedicated so I can't blame that. I mean, even WoW saw a pretty big decline in play after certain expansions. People find new games or new things to do.

It was a wild ride, an amazing time with amazing people. I will always appreciate you stepping up and taking the reigns when DF needed you to. You as well bro.

I was better at RS lol. I'm a career Silver 1/2 player mostly. I'm pretty certain I can hit gold if I put more time into it but I just haven't had the time.

Yeah I really haven't kept up. I respected all clans more than they know, from the small clans that were up and coming to the big clans who stepped on everyone. I've talked about the only clan I didn't/don't have respect for and why, but everyone else I enjoyed fighting, having rivalries with and everything in between. I appreciate that Adam, it has been rough and I'm sorry to hear about your dealings with cancer also, it really does suck. Thank you for the well wishes and same goes to you and yours.

I appreciate all of this Alex. As I continue to compare this to coaching, I have heard similar things from ex-players I've coached over the years and I'm honored to have had some kind of lasting effect on people. That's why you do those things, to help make better people if you can. I've never really cared about writing things since high school honestly, so those posts were just me putting feelings into posts and I'm glad they had that lasting effect on you and hopefully others. In the end everyone will remember me for something different, but I'm happy that those who were around and really knew me, know what kind of person I am and that's what matters. I know there are questions some people who still haven't grown up would love to litter this topic with and that's fine too, because they didn't really know me. I'm sure you already read what I said about you but just know your journey sticks with me as well. I wasn't sure if I'd ever talk to so many again. I have always had a few people on FB and it's been nice watching some of them grow up and have kids and be successful in life, but I can't say I expected to get back in touch. You guys did an amazing job tracking down and stalking to get the family back together and I appreciate all of you for it.

I thought Evizu was a good guy, right up until he fell into the VR bullshit and dropped his standards. I've had plenty of conversations when our clans got along and always thought he had a good head on his shoulders up until those things happened. Trying to have more of a life outside of DF lol. Nothing else was "hard" so to speak. There were tough decisions and tough times but that's no different than life so I wouldn't call it hard, just normal. 1. Don't. But if you do, just be the best example you can be and put everything into it if you're going to do it. No half ass. 2. Blue being my favorite color I'd go with that. Idk about all the current capes so I'd have to look that up to answer that. I'm not good with names/mascots (which explain why my RS name was Legolas86880) so I'd probably get some advice on a name/mascot tbh. That's something I'm terrible at. Skilling and doing fun clan events in our first clan. Honestly just like anything else it's not about what you're doing but who you're with, so all the time spent together means everything to me. As an individual to maybe skill, there's a tiny bit of interest there, but right now I play too many hours of League and Rust to ever pick up another game.

1. As clans or? 2. I don't think I'd have done or changed anything. I have no real regrets overall, yes I wish we didn't get into some of the longer fights, but it wasn't like it was just us or just my call. I feel like those who know me well enough, I left with some sort of decent reputation and some small mark on the clan world while I was there. I wouldn't have thrown that way to go do something different. 3. I'm honored that he looked up to me and proud that he's still doing things that started there. I'm also proud of Murray and the guys who keep DF what it is today. I can't say I expected it because expectations like that are bad. I won't say impressed because that would indicate I didn't think he was capable. I'm proud and happy to have been even the slightest of influences on him. 4. I think during that era we policed ourselves pretty well, and came up with a set of standards for what fights were all about. I think that probably started with DI and then later on we all kind of set standards for gear, rules, what was this or that and I think that worked well up until VR. 5. I don't think I ever modelled myself after anyone. I've always just tried to be true to me. Even if I tried to do something outside of that, it would have felt weird or forced or even wrong. I think most people are very similar in game and out of game. People will say "it's just a game" but I would bet money that the people who do NH shit in game, also don't care much for rules outside of the game. People who are respectful in game, are usually the same outside. It's not terribly different from sports to the point that competition is not character building, it's character exposing. There are more caveats to that but I'm not ready to write a book yet. 6. Since I've opened up a bit personally here I'll answer this truthfully. I'm 2.5 years out from my marriage and still kind of finding my footing again. There are days I'm still not myself and not okay and sitting around most of the time hasn't helped that. I hope to just continue to get better and get over things that happened and forgive people who will never apologize for what they did. The hardest apology to accept is the one you never get. As I feel better and get back to normal as a person I feel the rest will happen as it should. I also have a close family member dealing with stage 4 cancer and that's an immediate thing that I deal with daily. So right now, no far off future plans, just get better every day and take each day as it comes. Thank you for this question.

I think Pickleman might have been a decent leader, he was intelligent and fair minded. He was working his way up the ranks but he served during times where it was Death and then people that were more natural leaders. 1. If I remember right it was 1 pizza a couple of times (2 to 3 times tops). 2. Try to maintain a balance of IRL>RS, but take the relationships you have with people seriously. Here I am all these years later and the game was just a game, but I've met some amazing human beings along the way. 3. Good to see you as well mate. 1. I haven't really seen enough of the game today to answer this sorry. I really logged back into discord to catch up with old friends. 2. I've heard that F2P isn't the greatest and something about box fighting or something but I haven't really seen it myself. 3. I'm not sure I'd be able to rank clans from when I played up until now as that wouldn't be fair to the clans doing their thing the last 10 years I have been away from the scene. I'd think of it more along the lines of clans that will go down as shaping everything the clan world was for years. For that I would throw many clans in there, DI/DS/DF/Corr/RSD/TT/EH/RoT. 4. I looked at some of the bigger clans (like DI) but when I joined DF I wasn't at the combat level to join most of those clans who had higher reqs. I was probably between 105-110 combat level when I joined DF, so that limited my options at the time.