Hey. It's Sato. We probably don't know each other. I can count on one hand the people who know me as Sato these days.

I've been making music as BionicMIme [BIOM] for close to 15 years now. I figure it's time to change my Newgrounds account to reflect that.

We are gathered here to say not "goodbye" to Sato, but perhaps "thank you."

To put the name SatoDraygonFist2 to bed, here's an excerpt from my blog explaining the history of the name. The source may surprise you: mid-2000s weebdom

"Tasogaryn RuneScape Player Bio" oddsoul.blog, March 19 2023

Community Origins

Online forum roleplaying is a beloved pastime enjoyed by writers of all ages, skill levels, and genre expression. It is an exercise of creative masochism best summarized as collaborative storytelling.

In the mid-2000s, most online communities had forums, and many forums had roleplaying sections. Taso was an active forum roleplayer on websites like Neopets, Armor Games, and the RuneScape roleplay forums.

In the RuneScape roleplaying forums, Taso played Satora Tasogaryn (Original Character, Do Not Steal). Satora was a half-elf who wielded twin katanas (one smoked black, the other silver). She had a stupid backstory, but a sick winged skeleton horse with red eyes. She pretty much wore [Raven's cloak from Teen Titans].

Anyway, Satora Tasogaryn owned the Dragonfire Inn, a Medieval fantasy magic tavern setting. Players would create a character and visit the tavern and explore the story world. As Game Master (GM), Taso narrated and moderated the action.

At the time, a RuneScape forum thread had a finite number of posts. Each Dragonfire Inn thread attracted enough roleplayers to max replies. When the posts were full, replies were disabled. Taso would the story before post cap, create the new thread, and move players over.

Across 3-4 full threads, chaos was visited upon guests, villains, criminals, and heroes at the inn. The Inn was destroyed and renamed (Dragonflame, Dragonclaw, etc) with each thread. A few players would look forward to and seek out each new iteration of the story.

Taso does not remember much more about this. The threads long ago went to the 50-page monster*. DJ Slim (just Slim?) is the only player name Taso can recall from this time. Taso moved on to other storytelling websites.

*If your thread dropped past page 50 in the RuneScape roleplaying forum, it would get eaten. Meaning, the forums kept only 50 pages of history, and if your thread sucked and dropped, it would be deleted. The 50-Page Monster was a cold arbiter of content justice.

Looking forward to continue to support more work here, and start sharing some recent noise I been cooking on.

BIOM