hey everybody. well, the topic of rolstoppable came up recently on the forums and it got me thinking after reading some of the comments, that there should be a thread where we can share all the greatest and funniest and best rol moments.
Rol was the backbone of the website for many, many years. That isn't to discount the rest of the cast around him throughout the many eras of vgchartz, but there were a few things that were different about Rol:
1) Rol was always right. well, almost always. there was maybe 1 time that he was ever wrong, and he was forced to wear that in his signature so that every time he posted, people could see that he was, in fact, wrong about something. for those who don't know, he did not correctly predict that GTA IV would outsell super smash bros brawl. He was wrong.
2) Rol had a wit unlike any other. you guys know what im talking about. he would routinely eviscerate the other side of the debate and he would do it with such wit. he would not only prove the other side wrong, but he would end up making them look downright silly. i learned early on never to take this guy head on. any time it felt like i might get into a fight with Rol, I just rolled over, played dead, and let him beat up on my poor lifeless body. i can speak from experience that is the most painless way to proceed if you find yourself in a Rol debate.
3) as others came and went, Rol was a constant, the longest constant there has been here on vgchartz. he is basically like the site's mascot. in fact, i think we should have some kind of formal annointing of rol as the head of the vgchartz hall of fame. i think itd be cool to have a hall of fame, go back through the history and nominate and vote on whoever had a big presence during some era of vgchartz. a hall of fame would be cool. hey, maybe we can also add a new badge. there could be a "rol badge" like whoever posts the most in a given calendar year wins the rol badge or something like that, im just spit balling ideas here.
vgchartz suffered a massive tragedy when it got hacked in, i think it was 2023 or something, but all of Rol's posts disappeared. we have been absolutely robbed and took for granted that all his great posts were here and assumed they wouldnt go anywhere. if i knew the site was going to get hacked, id have spent the tremendous labor to log every one of his ten thousand posts or whatever he was up to. i think this is all the more reason we need an appreciation thread because we can recall stuff and log it here while the memories are still somewhat fresh.
anyway, i dont want to ramble on too much. I have my own stories to share, but I will do it as they occur to me down below. I would encourage anybody who has any funny memory or anything to share about something he did or said to come by this thread and we can keep it going to keep his memory alive.
Total Championships: Nintendo - 4, Sony - 2, Atari - 1, Microsoft - 0, Sega - 0
