About Rodney
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Who or what is RCaston.com?
RCaston.com is the blog site of Rodney Caston, aka: Rodney Linden or that guy who created Megatokyo.
Profile
Name: Rodney 'Largo' Caston
Class: Systems Engineer for Linden Lab - makers of Second Life, Author, Freelance Writer, part-time internet troll.
Background
Rodney grew up in southern Louisiana and attended Louisiana State University to study Computer Science. Afterwards, he relocated to Dallas to pursue a career in Systems Engineering. While there he began work on what would later become Megatokyo.
More info and other crap can be found in in this wikipedia entry.
Fun Fandom Facts
Rodney was the co-creator and writer of the comic book series, Megatokyo. He has since parted ways with his partner, Fred Gallagher and relinquished control of Megatokyo. He is credited only for the first two published volumes of Megatokyo.
Rodney's connections at Bioware landed his alter ego 'Largo' cameos in two of their games. In Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn There is a NPC tarven keeper who sells items named Largo; and in Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic there is an NPC named Largo that you can either help, not help, or kill for fun on the first planet.
Authored Books / ISBN
- Megatokyo Volume 1: (1st ed.) ISBN 1-929090-30-7
- Megatokyo Volume 1: (2nd ed.) ISBN 1-59307-163-9 (published 2004/3/21)
- Megatokyo Volume 2: (1st ed.) ISBN 1-59307-118-3 (published 2004/1/22)
Megatokyo comics are currently published by D.C. Comics, and have been published by Dark Horse Comics, and Studio Ironcat.
Questions Submited by Users
Q: Is Rodney still involved with Megatokyo?
The simple Answer: No.
You will not see Rodney (Largo) posting on the forums or the rants of Megatokyo. Nor would you see it mentioned much on the site. However, fans are welcome to make comments and ask questions about my work.
Megatokyo will always be a part of my life, though it is no longer an active one. You will occasionally see me at conventions, sometimes as a guest, sometimes promoting other things.
Q: I heard you were some sort of Network Operations Guru, will you come run my Datacenter?
Depends, how deep are your pockets?
Q: Could you possibly place a section in your site that would teach us L33t Sp34k?
Rather than dedicating a section to a topic that has been covered already, here is a link to the BBC giving their take on the subject.
And honestly, once the the BBC tackles the subject, there's really nothing else you can add.
Q: How do you make a computer L33T?
The l33tness of the computer is based on how many after market parts you can cram into it. It's like comparing a stock Honda Accurd taken right off the lot to a riced out Accura with all the bells and whistles (spoiler, intake, blowout valve, v-tech engine sticker, attack light, underlight, new dash, etc), or you can just attach a flux capacitor to it fueled by Mr. Coffee. That's D4 l33t.
Note: this is answer is for nomenclature purposes only and should not be taken as a value judgement.
Q: Dude, why the hell are you not involved with writing Megatokyo anymore? Why did you and Fred split up?
Creative differences. I was creative, he was different.
