burnie
Austin, TX
Joined Sep 2004
Member #5
Posts
Welcome to the Open Beta!
Hello and welcome back to the RoosterTeeth.com Open Beta! Please have a look around the site and let us know what you think. Latest changes are listed below.
If you are a new visitor, please check out this post for a video of all the work that has gone into the beta site. Returning members of the community site will be shocked to see just how much of the old site we were able to recover.
Changes:
store.roosterteeth.com is now back online
RvB Season 1 moved to Public
RvB Season 2 moved to Public
RvB Season 3 moved to Public
RvB Season 4 moved to Public
RvB Season 5 moved to Public
Beta Tester shirts availability extended through Monday, 2025.08.04 AOE (August 4 Anywhere on Earth)
Please help test the recently public RvB epsiodes, leave a comment, and say hi. New Seasons will be added regularly as we test.
The Q&A answers will be posted tomorrow.
BETA 2025.06.18
Welcome to the Tier One Patrons. The Early Risers can show you around a little, but look back in the news archive to see a video that Ben and I prepared for you to give you a quick site orientation.
Today, if everyone could make a post in the forum and search for topics from a specific year, then let us know what you think in the comments of this post!
2025.06.17 Beta Update
Hello everyone. It looks like we have worked through the majority of the email support for providing access to the site. If you are reading this, obviously that applies to you. If you see anyone in other social channels having trouble accessing, then direct them to the Patreon post. It will serve as info and verification at the same time.
The plan for today is to test the video player and comment sections. So, everyone please go watch the ALL NEW RTAA that has been created based on an episode of Morning Somewhere. Then if you feel so inclined, please leave a comment and let us know how that's working!
Thanks everyone. The Tier 1 Patrons should join us in a few days, so we will have some people to help use the site for the first time.
Please continue to use the Beta forum to post any issues and feed back.
Beta Test 2025
Hello Patrons and WELCOME BACK to the Rooster Teeth Website for our Beta Test 2025! We have prepared a brief video below for you to watch. It lays out the current plans for the beta test and some guidlelines for usage. Thanks for participating in the test!
Stop by the Beta Test forum to say hello, ask any questions, and provide any feedback.
Forum posts online
Ben has put the old forum posts back online and is working on a way to get them sorted so that people can peruse by year. That way you can find the greatest hits from 2012. Spoiler: User xxSkrillaKillaxx thinks those Marvel movies are going to be a flash in the pan. He's really looking forward to the John Caretr adaptation.
Hello there!
If you are reading this message, it means that you are one of the first people to see the new Rooster Teeth home page, in all its developing glory. Please have a look around, click on some links, watch some videos, and drop some comments. After that, let us know what you like and what we need to change.
We are very excited about the future and the team has been working diligently for the last few months to herd all these shows into their new home. Thanks for visiting and for helping us get ready!
Burnie Burns
Rooster Teeth
Hiya
Almost one year ago, we were all saddened to learn that Rooster Teeth would be shutting its doors. Today, I am very happy to say that I have completed an acquisition of the Rooster Teeth brand and many of its remaining properties.
The details of all this would be too much to communicate in a letter on a website, so please tune in to the February 5 episode of the Morning Somewhere podcast below if you want to find out more. Or you can check out the press release.
There is a lot of work to do around here before our re-launch. In the meantime, I hope that you will join me in welcoming back a brand that has been so important to so many people for so many years.
Stay tuned. More to come.
In the summer of 1990, I packed everything I owned into a beat up old Nissan and set out for Austin to study Biology/PreMed at the University of Texas. Over the next thirty years, I changed majors twice, made some incredible friends, sold the car for two hundred dollars, had a wild dotcom career in telecom, raised three sons and started a small media company in a spare bedroom of my house that blossomed into something beyond my wildest dreams. It is a bit surreal that three decades later, almost to the day, I will be moving out of this city that I may always call “home” to begin a grand new adventure in a life overseas.
And as I set out on this new journey with my family and two cats at my side, that means my time walking the halls here at Rooster Teeth has come to an end. As some of you have predicted over the past year, my steady move away from a public life was in preparation for this change. So I hope this will not come as too much of a surprise. A few months ago, I enjoyed returning to the spotlight for a short podcast run with my old friends, and I would like to be able to continue to explore my creative passions. To that end, Rooster Teeth and I are currently working on a first-look agreement, which will enable me to incubate my own projects and then present them to the company for possible development.
It is difficult to leave my home country during such a tumultuous time. Ashley and I set these plans in motion over two years ago, and we could never have predicted the state of the world at the time we would embark. We believe in the strength and the promise of this nation as much as ever. We look forward to returning to a country that has made many long overdue changes to benefit all of its citizens.
I want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who supported me in my career at RT, with special thanks to Tony Goncalves who so skillfully leads the Otter family and Jordan Levin, who has RT moving in incredible new directions. Starting this company and growing it in the early years were some of the hardest but greatest moments of my life. The constant camaraderie of Gus, Geoff, and Matt always made the impossible seem achievable; I could not have asked for better companions on this journey. My wife Ashley has been the stable bedrock of my life and I am overjoyed to begin this next chapter of our family's story together.
Thank you to every person who has walked through these doors as a collaborator or tuned in to one of our videos as a viewer or made the choice to become a member of our community. Your support has meant the world to me and I hope that I had even a fraction of the positive impact on your life that you have had on mine. There have been a lot of ups and a few downs over the years, and I have learned so much from all of those experiences. I am eternally grateful that I had the opportunity to do what I love every day — an opportunity that I owe entirely to all of you.
Thank you.
Be nice and work hard.
Burnie
In the summer of 1990, I packed everything I owned into a beat up old Nissan and set out for Austin to study Biology/PreMed at the University of Texas. Over the next thirty years, I changed majors twice, made some incredible friends, sold the car for two hundred dollars, had a wild dotcom career in telecom, raised three sons and started a small media company in a spare bedroom of my house that blossomed into something beyond my wildest dreams. It is a bit surreal that three decades later, almost to the day, I will be moving out of this city that I may always call “home” to begin a grand new adventure in a life overseas.
And as I set out on this new journey with my family and two cats at my side, that means my time walking the halls here at Rooster Teeth has come to an end. As some of you have predicted over the past year, my steady move away from a public life was in preparation for this change. So I hope this will not come as too much of a surprise. A few months ago, I enjoyed returning to the spotlight for a short podcast run with my old friends, and I would like to be able to continue to explore my creative passions. To that end, Rooster Teeth and I are currently working on a first-look agreement, which will enable me to incubate my own projects and then present them to the company for possible development.
It is difficult to leave my home country during such a tumultuous time. Ashley and I set these plans in motion over two years ago, and we could never have predicted the state of the world at the time we would embark. We believe in the strength and the promise of this nation as much as ever. We look forward to returning to a country that has made many long overdue changes to benefit all of its citizens.
I want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who supported me in my career at RT, with special thanks to Tony Goncalves who so skillfully leads the Otter family and Jordan Levin, who has RT moving in incredible new directions. Starting this company and growing it in the early years were some of the hardest but greatest moments of my life. The constant camaraderie of Gus, Geoff, and Matt always made the impossible seem achievable; I could not have asked for better companions on this journey. My wife Ashley has been the stable bedrock of my life and I am overjoyed to begin this next chapter of our family's story together.
Thank you to every person who has walked through these doors as a collaborator or tuned in to one of our videos as a viewer or made the choice to become a member of our community. Your support has meant the world to me and I hope that I had even a fraction of the positive impact on your life that you have had on mine. There have been a lot of ups and a few downs over the years, and I have learned so much from all of those experiences. I am eternally grateful that I had the opportunity to do what I love every day — an opportunity that I owe entirely to all of you.
Thank you.
Be nice and work hard.
Burnie