About

Random Hoo Haas kind of slightly technically began in 21 April 2005, when good fellow Aodhán handed me two gigabytes of space to muck about with, which I used to share videos and doodles with people on the Sonic Vegemite IRC room. Metal Slug: Missing in Action had technically existed since 2003/2004, and began as an independently hosted (vaguely) and redesigned site on 3 September 2005. It's just been there, y'know. It hasn't gone to many places. It branched out with the World of Illusion beta in October 2005, then the unoriginally titled Other Games in March 2006, which subsequently became Oh! My God!! Why'd They Change That? because Other Games, man. It's a terrible name.

On 28 October 2005 I threw open Microsoft Frontpage and began mucking about with making a page to put all this stuff on, beginning with such classics as "ABUSE OF CAPITALISATION WHILE DISCUSSING BIASED VIEWPOINTS BASED ON PRERELEASE FOOTAGE OF SUPER MARIO 64 DS" and "ABUSE OF CAPITALISATION AND THE WORD 'AWESOME' WHILE DISCUSSING BIASED VIEWPOINTS ON CARTOONS OF VARYING QUALITY" [which I removed because I'm one of those people who's never happy with anything]. Plus offensive ramblings while trolling Habbo Hotel, offensive ramblings while trolling Halo, and offensive ramblings in general. And biased opinions. And capitalisation. And paranoia.

Good thing there were sprites to keep people interested, eh?

I like to say the site really began going places when Galvatron emailed me in June 2005. It began with simple discussion of Metal Slug: Missing in Action and his own Super Shinobi II Beta Central project, which I attempted to contribute a fair bit to but I'm struggling to remember if I actually did much more than find the moon jump. Still, we co-operated, and when he moved from Angelfire to TekCities, which promptly got hacked and went bust on him, I took up the task of hosting it for him. I didn't do a good job and it wasn't until like early 2008 that he actually go to manage the uploading and design himself again, but hey, it was progress!

Then in June 2006 he cooked up some Street Fighter cartoon coverage and Random Action Hour began, which doesn't actually require any personal creativity or discovery skills to get easy updates for. That was a plus!

But despite that, I think it really got moving in a good direction in 2007. Updates were frequent and kind of consistently not terrible, we got an award, and everything was more or less hunky dory. I mean, I grew a beard in that year, so surely that was indicative of how swimmingly things were. We covered almost all of the Transformers cartoons in that year! That's no small feat. 2008 wasn't so bad, either, even if TenchiOnline began crapping up thanks to Yahoo and my impatience ended up getting us space on FlyingOmelette.com, which could be considered another plus. If I don't become a depressing, angsty ass-face anytime soon we may actually see our fifth year online, perhaps!

We'll see.

As for me, I'm just this guy, y'know? I like video games, cartoons, action figures, books that aren't terrible, creative artistic activities such as drawing and writing, and appreciate any opportunity to act like a large ham. I'm also pretty terrible at describing myself without sounding like a horrible, horrible person. Which is kinda accurate, mind you, but not the best way to make myself presentable, y'know.

I also like email of any variety that doesn't involve bank scams or the growth of ding-dongs!