Kef Chat Change of Command

[Fickle81]

Good evening...proboard personel,BD members keeping tabs on me,random guests,and nobody at all...welcome to tonight's change of command ceremony for Kef Chat. The purpose of this ceremony is to say goodbye to a (cult) legend and to begin a new era that will more than likely achieve the same prestigious status (and/or infamy).

Ok,enough of the retarded online attempt at dumb military customs. You know,if somebody had a crystal ball 5 years ago and told me that I would eventually pull a Sean Combs and lay my original screen name (that I've grown so attached to and used to achieve so much) to rest,I would have unquestionably rejected the idea...but then again I also would have rejected the idea of getting rid of my long hair,joining in on the social network craze by getting a Facebook (although I've stuck to my guns in refusing to get a My Space),and I DAMN SURE would reject enlisting into the army...but as we all know,life is full of all sorts of twists and surprises.

Now as for the board itself,it isn't going anywhere. All the "change of command" is about is changing my screenname. I'm still running the show. The only real changes that will be happening is my change of name and a slight change to my posting style (I'm FINALLY caving on my comma use and will put spaces after them,eventhough I STILL see no point in them...this is done more so to establish uniformity with how I post on Facebook). Pretty much everything else will remain the same. I have been trying to look into ways of changing the site name and URL to reflect the change,but so far I have found nothing. So until I do find a way to change both of them,they will remain as they are.

Reguardless,this IS my final thread as Kefka. I still remember my first forray into the online/messageboard world. I was looking up something for a video game I was playing that I've long forgotten,when I stumbled on a site called "GameTalk",a messageboard designed for gaming discussion and to have a gaming community. As a hardcore gamer at the time,I picked the name "Kefka's baby",which I was jokingly seeing myself as the offspring of Kefka,the iconic villian from Final Fantasy VI (one of my all time favorite games).

After spending some time in the board for Metal Gear Solid 2,I decided to venture into some of the other boards to see what else the site had to offer. I decided to look at the forum for WWF Smackdown:Just Bring It,hoping to engage in discussions about pro wrestling (which I was also a hardcore fan of at the time),and it's there my eyes were open to the world of E-Fed,a form of online roleplaying that was aimed towards being a part of a online wrestling promotion. It was at that moment,a spark lit up in me and activated a part of my brain that I had long since neglected...it was a spark of inspirational creativity. It was almost like the birth of a new lifeform. I came in and made an impact near immediatly,staging a mock invasion similar to the nWo angle in WCW. I played the game brilliantly and innovated it to the point where one of its best and original members considered me an instant legend for "coming in,grabbing everybody by the throat,and dragging them with a new style and direction that they should have been going to begin with". Eventually the 2 seperate boards for the 2 biggest wrestling games at the time (the other being Smackdown:Shut Your Mouth) merged into an actual E-Fed board. It was at that time that a tornament was held at the E-Fed's first "Pay Per View" entitled "Respect The Game" to determine who would be crowned the first ever GameTalk Undisputed (GTU) Champion. I was the winner of that tournament,taking that first firm step into greatness.

To Be Continued

[Fickle81]

The next step in the evolution of my legacy came in the form of clicking on a thread that contained a link to the Creature Wrestling Federation (cWF),now known as Creature Wrestling Entertainment (CWE),another E-Fed seperate from the GameTalk site...however,THIS E-Fed was in a league all by itself. Rather than having match writters decide the outcomes of matches/feuds (which can lead to biast favoritism),the PLAYERS THEMSELVES decided how said matches and feuds turn out and what direction story angles would go. The site ALSO allowed for additional creative options reguarding the artistic expression of the posts beyond just PLAIN text (such as embedding music/audio files,images,flash movies,and later even video...they even allowed for text alteration,something GameTalk did NOT have). Seeing what kind of freedom of expression caused the already burning flame to expel another bigger spark that spread the fire and made it even bigger.

This place would contribute far greater to me personally than just online championships (although I DID become the site's very first Universal Combat Champion and had an outstanding World title reign). This new creative world inspired me to teach myself applications needed to create content to use in this form of expression,such as Photoshop and Flash to name a couple,which gave me a sense in direction and an interest in career. So while in my prime in the CWE,I went to college to study Interactive Multimedia Production,which is basically is just graphic and web design. It is also during this time that I decided to change my name from Kefka's baby to just plain Kefka,showing an evolution into adulthood.

Unfortunatly,my life schedual of going to school while working didn't really offer me the time to involve myself in such an in depth role playing game like that...so I slowly but surely faded away from the CWE and E-Fedding altogether. While I may have gracefully bowed out from the E-Fed scene,my legacy was undenyable. While it was still up and running,the GameTalk E-Fed,at this point known as the GameTalk Wrestling Federation (GTWF),had a Hall of Fame...and guess who was the first inductee? Yep,dispite a falling out between me and some of the higher ups at GTWF over E-Fed ethics and other childish things (they accused me of stealing talent to "defect" to the CWE,like there was some kind of competition that was in reality nonexistant),they had no choice but to put me into their Hall of Fame as my contributions were just too important and undenyable. Then there was the CWE Hall of Fame in which my induction was a no brainer,which by the way is still up (click the "high honors" tab and scroll down just a hair). I do occationally get that creative urge and maybe one day I'll return to my creative roots...but until then I've got bigger things on the horizon,as there were bigger things on the horizon when I retired.

To Be Continued

[Fickle81]

With all the creative sparks going on in my life at this time,I started to take a REALLY big interest in the aspects of film and film making,a medium that relies just as much on its narrative as it does its visuals,and with practically having to write out stories when E-Fedding and getting to experience the creative thrills of using visual and audio techniques to enhance said stories,this new growing interest was the logical conclusion...it should also be stated that I continued my college education in this field as well. So due to this,my interest shifted from role playing to film discussion and critique,and since I had been writting about dark occult type stuff,the horror genre was the best starting place (also because I have grown up with my all time 2 favorite movies,Night of the Living Dead and Halloween,which are both horror movies)...so I decided to find some message board(s) that specialised in this area. My first stop was the House of Horrors messageboard. While I did have some good times there,something was missing...it just felt bare bones to me. So I left for greener pastures,and I found it...with Bloody-Disgusting...and I had found what I had been missing:

#1:While the horror genre is and will always be my favorite genre of film,what I actually needed was to discuss film overall.

#2:I found out and learned more about upcoming movies and such from that board than any other (and still do).

And argubly the most important aspect...

#3:By the time I had arrived on BD,I was no stranger to massive conflict reguarding personality,beliefs,and opinions. Like I alluded to earlier,I engaged in a massive pissing match with some of the higher ups at GTWF...I knew they were acting retarded,and I called them on it. I was also involved in more personal conflicts,the most noteable being a fellow by the name of Dr. Knockboot that actually spilled onto MULTIPLE websites (he took the #1 spot on my 50 Biggest Idiots on The Internet List quite easily partially due to this). I had grown to enjoy getting into debates/arguments/fights with idiots/morons...and boy did BD offer me PLENTY of that. Not only did it offer me idiots,it also offered some faily intelligent (at least at the time) people to mingle with.

So everything was going great for the most part,until one particular individual came along...his name was Ite,and boy howdy was he a special (ed) one. He was,at that point,probably the biggest imbecile that I had encountered on a messageboard since Dr. Knockboot...myself and the majority of the BD community treated him with the contempt that he deserved and brought upon himself with his faggotry and douchebaggery. He was even banned at one point,but let back in due to the banning being done in a rash reactionary way (sound familiar? I'll get to that in a sec),eventhough everybody knew it was just a matter of time before he would get the banhammer for good,so he really just should have stayed banned.

So they let him back in and he continues to act the fool as usual,which surprised absolutly nobody. Then on one fateful day,I come into a thread he was actively posting in (he may have even been involved in a fight with somebody else in it...he was involved in a lot of fights...idiocy caused that in his case) and gave my opinion on the topic in which the thread was about,COMPLETELY IGNORING him and anything else he was saying in the thread...didn't even remotely acknowledge him,but he decides to attack me with some of his typical non thought out and clockwork predictable bullshit,and thus another fight between us began. This was nothing new at that point as it happened quite regularly,but on that day a couple of dipshit mods decided to interject themselves into a conflict that before that point they didn't seem to think was out of line (as I said,this was a regular occurance),but now all the sudden it had gone too far (if it was really that much of a problem,why didn't they try to stop it earlier? Or better yet,leave the stupid fuck banned?). Long story short I called both mods out on their bullshit and hypocricy,they got butthurt,and I was banned. Granted they FINALLY banned Ite as well (you're welcome BD),but that's besides the point.

Now keep in mind,at this point I was no stranger to being banned on forums/messageboards. I had been banned numorous times on GameTalk,I had been banned from an E-Fed owned by a low life piece of shit named Loki Dewitt,and I had been banned from the Sega messageboards for e-kicking Dr. Knockboots' e-teeth down his e-throat (on HIS OWN "turf" no less,and he got banned more than I did). However,when I was banned from BD in such a rash and hypocritical fashion as I was,I had decided at that point that I would create a new messageboard as a means to have a place of my own to come to whenever I was to recieve the banhammer from any other place (and I would,as I'll delve into a little later)...thus this place...Kef Chat...was born. I DID have another messageboard of my own,but it was a Network54 messageboard and the style/layout wasn't what I was looking for for a board...so I decided to go with proboards,and what you're looking at now is the result...a sanctuary from dipshittery,a voice against hypocricy,an archive of my online "legacy",and a forum of discussion of my interests...Kef Chat is all of these things,and it would serve me well in the events to come.

To Be Continued

[Fickle81]

Soon after my banning from BD AND when this board was created,several BD members came out of the woodwork to denounce my very existence like a bunch of voodoo zombified sheep...from people whom I engaged in arguments with to those I was actually pretty cool with (there were SOME that expressed outrage when I was banned) to those that didn't seem to have an opinion about me either way (in this case,they did and didn't make it public till I was gone...can we say,cowards?). I had already started to move on and was making threads about other subjects on here,but because of all these cowards trying to bash me KNOWING I couldn't reply back and destroy their e-existence AND the fact that I wasn't gonna take the hypocricy behind my banning lying down,the MASSIVE BD Documented Idiots and Hypocrites Thread was made...and in the 11 years I've been regularly online,it has remained THE BIGGEST pissing match I have EVER been involved in (it lasted nearly 5 years,and like with Dr. Knockboot,it has spilled out onto multiple boards/sites) and it's slightly unfortunate that it has actually become this board's legacy as it is THE biggest thread on thie entire board. However,I'm not complaining too much cause as I said before,I LOVE getting into conflicts with idiots online,and that thread and the individuals that contributed to it (whether it be directly or indirectly on BD) has provided me MANY lulz over the years.

During said pissing match,I have repeatedly said that my banning was a turning point regarding the board's policy of banning people (one of the original moderators,Nosferatuscreams,even refered to it as "the most controversial decision ever made on the board")...because now all the sudden there was an invisable and arbitrary line that could be crossed by ANY member,no matter how long they have been there or how respected/admired they were or what they actually contributed to the board. Most of those who were involved in the pissing match against me denounced this,saying that I was the one that snapped/changed and that the future implications of my banning were blown out of proportion on my part and made myself to look like a self absorbed egotistical twat (yes I AM self absorbed AND egotistical...as for being a twat,you are what you eat right?). Well,take a look who has been disposed of after my banning happened...N2NOther,kiddcappone (one of the FIRST ORIGINAL members),JeremyV1,menasyng,and a few others...all very respectable members...BANNED...banned for keeping the board in the abrasive brutally honest fashion that it was and should be...and my banning was the begining of that,there's no denying that. I said it would happen long before it happened,and it did. So my legacy on BD,just like on GameTalk and CWE,is indispute...granted,my legacy on BD is a bit more negative than those 2 (bordering on infamy),but it's a legacy just the same.

To Be Continued

[Fickle81]

But BD isn't the only board I've been wrongfully/stupidly banned from and provided me with lulz from stupidity. A few years back I joined what I would come to describe as the "slum neighbor of BD",Dreamin Demon. Things were going decent at first,as I was dropping knowledge bombs like I always do. However,I kept having repeated run ins with a moderator by the name of swivel,a backwoods pseudo intellectual roofer who thinks purposeful trolling is a good tactic to use for debates/arguments/fights. In every single battle we had,I owned him more than a southern gentlemen in the mid 1800s owned their african american plantation worker (it's just a joke,calm the fuck down),to the point where he got so worked up that he registered an account on BD FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE of rallying others to his cause to take me down....however,his good buddy and site owner,Morbid,didn't take too kindly to his little buddy getting e-rammed up his e-anus for his stupidity,so he conjured up some pathetic strategy of intolerence of my posting lengh,use of quoting and use of commas in an effort to be a good little boy and cater to him. Since that's not how I roll,I respectfully told him to go suck a dick and I could then add another board I've been banned from.

And the hits just kept on coming. Eventually I arrived at a board called I See Dead,which was started up as a small time alternative safe haven by those who were once members of BD,but didn't take too kindly to BD's abrasive nature (they were sheltered basically). At first,again,things were running smoothly with me engulfing the board in intellectual Vietnam...but like so many other places before it,I had it out with dumbasses. One of which was a user by the name of Vegas,who would turn out to be the spiritual successor of swivel. The shit this man said was so fucking stupid that he HAD to have been doing it on purpose JUST to disagree with me cause I was a big bad meaniehead and poopieface. While that's going on,I'm also having it out with e-punching bag Jayy who had basically become the spiritual successor to Ite (he was rightfully mocked and ridiculed on BD as well). It was the culmination of these 2 conflicts that I could now add another notch on the list of boards I've been banned from because the higher ups at I See Dead wanted an unrealistic utopia where everybody rides on unicorns while eating delicious candy made from the happy dust from rainbows. Well,you know what I see now on I See Dead? Nothing,because the board has been long gone. The dream is dead and you got...NOTHING! You LOST! GOOD DAY higherups of the now late I See Dead board.

To Be Continued

[Fickle81]

It was at this point that I decided to go on hiatus from all messageboards aside from my own. It was also during this time that major changes started happening in my life. I wasn't getting where I wanted to be in the career field I went to college for,so I ended up joining the military (where I met a wonderful woman that I am still with to this day dispite the majority of our relationship being long distance),and soon after I decided to cave and get myself a Facebook account...and just like that,everything changed. I started to reconnect with people from my past LONG before I got involved with the internet/messageboard scene. Before I knew it,I was devoting more and more time to my Facebook profile and less time to this board. While I WAS myself while under the username Kefka,I had begun to feel that I had outgrown that moniker,it had long outlived its usefulness and that it was time to start embracing myself in my truest and purest form. So little by little,I started phasing the name "Kefka" out from my identity...I didn't refer to myself in any way by it on Facebook,I stopped using it for user names on things like porn sites,I chose my last name as a username for PSN,and just recently I got back into the messageboard scene again and registered on Infini Tropolis with my PSN screenname,the name that I will be changing on here after this very post. This is pretty much the only place left where I use that moniker.

The time has finally come for me to turn the lights out on the last remnant of that username. This is not me showing any kind of shame in it or the legacy/infamy behind it...I'm actually quite proud of that as I've made pretty clear in this long speech/tribute to that name and the things done with it. I just feel that it's simply time to move on...to begin a new legacy. This is NOT me changing who I am as a person. I'm still brutally honest...I tell my own girlfriend that she has shit taste in music and movies on a regular basis...if I can tell that to the woman I love,I have no problem WHATSOEVER telling that to a family member,friend,acquaintance,or stranger in person OR online...and if I encounter idiots,I'm still gonna treat them as such. All that's changing is the name and a slight change to my posting style (again,commas)...don't worry,I'll STILL use quotes the exact same way if the situation dictates. Maybe one day if I decide to take up E-Fedding again,the moniker will return for that part of my online interactions,but until then the name "Kefka" is no longer relevent.

I guess that's all that's left to say...this is Kefka...E-Fed Hall of Famer,scourge of the messageboard world,cult icon,and last survivour of the Nostromo...signing off...

[Fickle81]

The change has been executed. All board and most personal/interaction policies remain in affect. The Kefka era is no more...let the new era, the Fickle81 era, begin!

This concludes the change of command ceremony. The thread will be left open for a couple of days in the event that anybody wants to reply to it, after which it will be closed. Kef Chat is now Fickle Chat. Enjoy!