Lego

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.

We gained access to NI forums and left some not so nice things on their. We had them almost closed and pking with 15-20 people and yeah, it wasn't the nicest thing. My 2 favorite athletes are Derek Jeter and Kobe Bryant. Jeter because of his professionalism, the fact that all he did was be great, win titles and you never once heard about him in the press for being out at clubs, drinking, doing bad shit. Kobe well, just the mamba mentality of just working harder than everyone else and winning the mind games as well as the physical games. The closest thing I do to leading now is at work. It seems no matter where I go, I end up a supervisor of something as leading is just in my blood I guess. I have considered coaching soccer again, but it would take the right situation. I started out coaching my sisters and eventually my son, so maybe one of my niece's or nephews once they hit the right age (I'm not really at the point I want to coach littler kids that can barely stand up on their own lol). I think it's doubtful, I think the clan world we played in was the golden age of clans and I will always refer to it as that. It doesn't mean that people playing now don't feel differently and don't work as hard or fight as hard, etc. I just think the personna's back then of not only clan leaders and officials, but the RSC/media type atmosphere that added to it, I just don't see it getting to that type of level again. I'm sure there were promotions that didn't work out as well as we'd have liked, but off the top of my head I can't think of any that were that disastrous that I'd point them out. This is tough really. Lil2 was a beast and my favorite type of leading when I was around was transitioning from one pile to the next and calling the clear/easy piles. There were plenty of warlords who just saw the battlefield differently and called piles that I didn't naturally see right away. Then there were a few that seemed to always call the person I could easily see and it just matched well. It didn't mean it was like that for everyone, it's just what I saw. During my time in DF we had so many good warlords and even ST's back when we had them that outside of that I'd just have a really long list of callers that I thought were pretty good, but I think Lil2 might have been my favorite because he also had a calm demeanor and commanded respect. The first mini war where DF beat DI in a matched ops fight, by just a few people when we were just a top 10, breaking the top 5 clan stands out. Then of course the epic battles for #1 after DS closed will always stand out. I also didn't mean any disrespect, I just felt that organization of DI wasn't the greatest. It was good yes, but not great. It could be that DI was so much higher in levels for so long, they didn't have to be the most organized because they were just bigger and better period. For other clans all they worked on was organization and they had to do it to makeup for having less people and lower levels. The clan world would have not been the same if DI didn't exist, or if Brian didn't exist, so I have full respect for DI and their place in history, but I'm just being honest about what I felt about their organization. There's a dozen other things DI was fantastic at, that just wasn't the topic.

I don't remember that well, but I believe at the time we were more looking for clans we were friendly with and not so much "allies", but I apologize for coming off the way I did. As far as being "older", we had a few members of DF that were older, Beevis was probably my age or over, and we had quite a few members in their mid 20's. It gave me a unique ability to be the adult figure though, and there was already a respect that someone younger would have had to earn, so I feel there were advantages. Of course, kids in other clans being immature, used that as a way to flame and make things up, but it is what it is.

Well, I've already agreed to do this with Bunty being we're both on the west coast, but there are others I'd love to grab a beer with for sure.

None at all, he had to have been trolling. Tyler! ❤️ It's easy to get caught up in the game and in the drama/rivalries. I've received a lot of messages after I retired of people apologizing for things they had said or thought about me. I'm sure I came across as something else when I was standing up/defending my clan and people I cared about and I'm okay with that. I know some of those clans made up some nice stories about me that circulated and people just believed. It is what it is, I could never control that. I enjoyed talking and getting to know you after, I'm pretty sure anyone who actually took the time to get to know me knows I'm a decent person with too big a heart (which also is part of what got me in trouble many times). My issue is that I'm overly passionate sometimes and it comes across in ways I don't really intend it to. Just goes to show how accurate the saying "believe only half of what you see, and none of what you hear" is. Stooping to VR's level and getting into a crash war with them. Granted I'm not positive what else we could have done, but it was wrong. That and allowing us to fight for too many hours and burning everyone out. I know all clans were doing it but I hate my part in it. Papusas (an El Salvadoran food). Look it up and if you ever get a chance to try some, I highly recommend.

I don't remember a ton about RDC other than maybe a short run in or 2 in GMT pking times. I remember TRWF well and I had a lot of respect for them. I enjoyed fighting them and they were one of my favorite GMT based clans. My favorite memories of the game were probably more outside of the game. DF had one of if not the most active Teamspeak and we'd all just hang out in there talking and it was good times. If I really had to pick in game it would have been at the ends of each of our official wars because the hype and build up for those is second to none. Just today I spoke with one of them, Seek Destro0 was a good friend of mine going up through the ranks. I've been catching up with many DF but there are certainly others I'd love to hear from again. Carolina4eva, STOD, Schol, Pickleman, Ves, Lil2, Ballinboy, the list goes on really. I would hope people remember me for just doing the best I could to lead one of the top clans in the golden era of clans and help push us to reach our potential. People I actually served in DF with I hope just remember me for being a caring and good person. I'm sure some people will still focus on some of the more controversial things and that's okay too, I could care less about people who still dwell on nonsense and are still too immature to realize how much of it was untrue. I actually did like skilling, I was a bit of a nerd in that. There was a time I was in like the top 50 or 100 in fletching xp and that was my claim to fame for awhile lol. I also liked other content like KQ, barrows, etc. Yes, the first smaller clan I was in, he was also in. It was the entire reason I started playing RS, so it was perfect. He would be at my house half the time then when he was at his mom's it gave us something to do together, so there was no awkwardness. Yes. I grew up on console games mostly, then played some other PC games. I've spent time playing Halo, CS, WoW and a few others. I still actively play LoL and Rust.

Hmm, maybe you just made something for me or something else then lol. I thought it was rune but it could have been something else for sure. Your take on Ves is much the same as we all had, he was just a fun kid that everyone loved about 90% of the time. Some people have reached out to him he just hasn't been interested in being around. I have him on FB but he isn't all that active there either. It feels nice to make amends with Rob as well. Many years have past and there are really no grudges. I knew I always had some respect for him but I wasn't really aware he felt the same until I read his AMA. It's funny how things turn out, but I'm glad. I really think we were both just doing what we had to do for our own clans and we butted heads as rivals, it really wasn't personal and now we both know that for sure. As for the EH/DF relationship, I enjoyed it and it was definitely nice to have a clan we could fight and not have drama with after. I think by that time in the clan world there weren't really alliances anymore, just clans who were either friendly, neutral or rivals. If there were alliances still, I think we would have at least been open to it for sure. I also think it's almost like relationships nowadays, you can be together without being married and have the same type of forever relationship. I think we were basically allied, just not in an alliance if that makes sense. If either clan was ever in trouble we'd have massed for each other and we had our share of fun events, so to me it was as close as the clan world had to an alliance in those days. My opinion is people stopped having official alliances because the outside clan world would take that as a sign of weakness or make fun, or whatever we used to all do to each other.

It takes a bigger man to admit their mistakes. I stand by the fact that despite that issue, I always had respect for you. It's good to see we've all grown up (okay I was already grown but you get it) and realize that we all did some shit we'd take back, Our clans rivalry was one of the very best in RS history and our names will always be linked, and I'm honored to have been a part of it all.

I've never pure clanned or even really thought about making a pure. I had the 1 character and worked to skill everything up. I had some friends make pures and they make for some nice ko's and pk vids. I think those who invest time in it and have fun with it is great.

1. When I first joined DF I knew nothing about RSC and had only really heard about DI so not at first. 2. A few people knew I played, not really all of the details because explaining all of that would be impossible. When Kim and I got married most people knew how we met. At that point in time tons of relationships were starting online so it was no big deal. 3. Not really, and to be honest with the IRL things that I experienced, I probably would have discouraged it. Instead he kept his head in school and is about to finish his Master's this year. 4. I think it was the other way around. I brought my coaching skills to DF. I'd like to say I learned to disregard the hate and the personal shit but it took me awhile after to get there. 1. I honestly don't know enough about today's DF, but I admire the fact that it is still around, and have love for the people keeping it together. It's more than I could've done for this long. 2. I wasn't surprised but mostly because I've talked with Murray (we're FB friends) and knew DF was still a clan. I had planned to come back and visit them in discord months ago, but in all honesty I wasn't ready. The personal life stuff for the last couple of years has been rough and I needed to work up to being around anyone that reminded me of certain things. 3. This might get me into some trouble but I'd honestly say DI. With all due respect, they are one of the most important clans if not the most important clan to have existed, but for all of their luster and experience, I would've taken most clans on even ops against DI. They had the levels on everyone and built up a rep, but once clans caught up to levels, they were an excellent clan, but not to the hype I heard about. That being said, it's hard to live up to that hype and rep no matter how good you are. 4. Every clan had good officials to deal with and more difficult to deal with. There were times I respected then hated Rob, same with most others. I got along with most VR officials in the beginning, then I didn't. All these years later and I respect all of them with maybe the exception of a few of the VR officials. Who knows, maybe talking to them now I'd feel differently. 5. I decided to retire because I didn't have the fire anymore to keep doing it and it wouldn't have been fair to stick around. Kim had moved to Cali and we had life to live outside of the internet. Honestly it was just time and I was burnt out. The clan world wasn't what it used to be, fights were too long and the crashing was just stupid. 6. I would have to see the culture and community more before I could say that. It would be cool if there were some parts still present but I also hope they have their own identity and make their own marks, which I'm sure they are doing.

My full RS name was Legolas86880, the Legolas after LOTR. Meh I'm just a regular guy who happened to be in the clan world at the right time with the right people, but I appreciate the love.

I don't really remember there being anything major. Bunty reminded me that when he first tried to promote me to leader I refused because I was pissed about something. I vaguely remember that but not what I was pissed about. It was probably something with Ves but I honestly don't remember. When Death left there was internal struggle because we didn't know our path. There was more internal struggle when DS closed because while we wanted the quality members, we didn't want to take in too many, too fast. Most of the things were really small now in hindsight.