I'm a few days late on this but I realized the other day that I have been a member of RFGen for six years now. I signed up 5th of July 2004. I was the 45th member to join the site and to my knowledge one of the first people who was not grandfathered in from VGB.
In the last 6 years I have: Finished Sophmore, Junion, Senior year in Highschool Worked at 8 different jobs all of them overlapping. Gone to college. Met a girl. Left a girl. Met another girl. Dropped out of college. Moved from MA 2k miles south to an island off the coast of southern Texas.... had a son... and then 2k miles back.
When I joined here I had around 100 games. I peaked somewhere in the 1200-1300 range. I have slowly dropped lower and lower ever since.
RFGen in this time has... exploded from ~10,000 titles to nearly 55,000 Added the hardware database. Gained a few thousand members. Had almost 149k posts not made by me(just over 163k including mine.) Had me jump back and forth from staff several times. Had multiple staff members come and go. All for various reasons. All of them beneficial to the site either in obvious or more behind the scenes ways. On a more sober note RFGen and many others lost Michael Collins
Many things have changed in these last six years. But RFGeneration has been my constant. I would like to thank the great members of this community past and present as well as the staff and various administrators who have not only kept the website up and running through all their contributions. Be it financial, database submissions/approvals, posting, blogging, etc.
All of you have made this place my internet home for the last six years and hopefully many more to come.
I would like to note I flipped through some of my older posts. Anyone who has been on the site for a long time should do so. It really makes you realize how much you have changed.