The Arfenhouse Series and its Impact on the Internet
CW: Spoilers for the Arfenhouse Series Sometimes you watch stuff when you’re a lot younger and you enjoy it for being irreverent and random and so forth, that it feels like a mystery when you get older and wonder how you’d react to it now? Does it wind up losing its impact or does it still somehow managed to hold up? What kind of surprised me in particular about the Arfenhouse series was that it still felt really fresh and funny in a way that I really didn’t expect it to, having a strangely incisive edge to it that felt like it was digging at a lot of insanely online stuff. Arfenhouse, for people who aren’t aware, was a series consisting of three RPG games released from 1999 to 2000, then followed by a flash animated series from 2002 onto 2006 – both of which were stylised in a way that involved intentionally crude graphics and characters who talked in some sort of bizarre amalgamation of leet speak. I remember this series being really random and having a sense of humour where...