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(John) Shedletsky, previously known as "Telamon" (see name swap), was the Creative Director at ROBLOX from 2006 until 2014. He resigned from his full-time position in May of 2014 in order to pursue establishing a new business venture; he continues to work on an as-needed basis with the ROBLOX Corporation.^[1] While employed at ROBLOX, he created games such as Nuke the Whales and Sword Fight on the Heights, and he was the owner of the LOL group. Shedletsky can be contacted outside of ROBLOX through his YouTube and Twitter accounts.

Outside of ROBLOX, John Shedletsky is married to fellow coworker BrightEyes^{⁠[citation needed]}.

April Fool's Jokes

On April Fool's Day of 2007, Shedletsky made an announcement on the ROBLOX blog announcing that Google purchased ROBLOX and was renaming the game to GoobloxCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many. Later in the day, David Bascuziki released another blog article that explained the April Fool's joke and that the Gooblox domain was purchased by ROBLOXCite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many. Users who enter the URL for Gooblox will be redirected to the ROBLOX client.

In 2010, Shedletsky's administrator badge was removed as part of a second April Fool's joke.

Notable Games

Sword Fights on the Heights IV

This is the most notable sword fighting game that was made by Shedletsky. The game has over ten million visits.

Sword Fights on the Heights Original

This is the first installment of the Sword Fights of the Heights series.

A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far is a map created on September 21st, 2007. The objective of the game is to blow up the game's bridge. The game has over 100,000 place visits.

Mission to the Moon

Mission to the Moon is a place created on August 6, 2007. Users are encouraged to purchase a helmet while playing the game. If the player doesn't wear the astronaut helmet in the "Mission to the Moon" place, the player's head would briefly expand and eventually explode and the player would die from the explosion of the head, due to the supposed lack of oxygen.

Username Swap

Prior to the change username feature being released, Shedletsky changed his name by switching his user the user IDs between his Shedletsky and Telamon accounts. By doing this, Shedetsky was able to keep all of Telamon's earned assets and also took his user ID. When asked about the name change, Shedletsky tweeted that he did so, because he outgrew his previous name ^[2].

Former Appearances

Shedletsky (on his Telamon account) was known for his shirt saying "I ♥ fried chicken". The gear he was holding was a turkey leg (which looked similar to a chicken leg) to go with his shirt.

Controversy

References to Minecraft

One of Shedletsky's places, Explosions Every 30 seconds or Your Money Back, has a TNT block that closely resembled the TNT bricks used in Minecraft. Around this time, players who made any connections to Minecraft, such as discussing it through a forum post or making a model that resembled one of Minecraft's assets, were swiftly banned from the ROBLOX client. Many players took notice of this hypocrisy and voiced their complaints through the forums.

SFOTH Becoming Builder's Club Only

For a brief period, Shedletsky's Sword Fights on the Heights IV was converted into a Builder's Club only place. After numerous complaints on the forums, Shedletsky responded with the following post:

1.I can ban Exploiters and get their main account....2.I was curious how many tickets it would make (answer: a ton)...3.I was interested in whether there would be fewer noobs in-game (maybe)...4.It's my game and I'll do what I want....5.Trololollollll.
Shedletsky

After that post, XiaoXiaoMan, a ROBLOXian Youtuber famous for his Raging ROBLOX Reviewer series, made two commentary videos discussing Shedletsky's forum post Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many.

Trivia

JohnNormalNightOut — John out on a regular night.

Blame John is a popular ROBLOX saying. This phrase originated during the 2010 Egg Hunt when the first egg drop failed to meet players' expectations. Since then, the phrase has been used in various gears such as the Magic 8-Ball and the Blame John protest sign.
One of Shedletsky's most popular looks is his "I ♥ Fried Chicken" shirt. Since then, it was been a joke to accommodate Shedletsky with fried chicken. It may also have been the inspiration for the Telamon's Chicken Suit from Telamon's Mystery Box.
Shedletsky helped design a game in 2006 called Euclidean Crisis.^[3]
Shedletsky was interviewed on the Roblox news blog.
Shedletsky owns a forum called IronNoob. Many older ROBLOX members have joined, but now is in a state of inactivity.

References

[Departure-1] ttp://blog.roblox.com/2014/05/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/

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[3] ttp://blog.roblox.com/2012/09/the-stories-behind-the-jobs-at-roblox/

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+| place visits = 21844231}}(John) '''Shedletsky''', previously known as "Telamon" (see [[#Username Swap|name swap]]), was the Creative Director at [[Roblox (Game)|ROBLOX]] from 2006 until 2014. He resigned from his full-time position in May of 2014 in order to pursue establishing a new business venture; he continues to work on an as-needed basis with the ROBLOX Corporation.<ref name="Departure">http://blog.roblox.com/2014/05/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/</ref> While employed at ROBLOX, he created games such as [[/Nuke the Whales/]] and [[Community:Shedletsky/Sword Fight on the Heights Original|Sword Fight on the Heights]], and he was the owner of the [[LOL ]]group. Shedletsky can be contacted outside of ROBLOX through his [http://www.youtube.com/user/Shedletsky YouTube] and [http://twitter.com/shedletsky Twitter] accounts.
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-(John) '''Shedletsky''', previously known as "Telamon" (see [[#Username Swap|name swap]]), was the Creative Director at [[Roblox (Game)|ROBLOX]] from 2006 until 2014. He resigned from his full-time position in May of 2014 in order to pursue establishing a new business venture; he continues to work on an as-needed basis with the ROBLOX Corporation.<ref name="Departure">http://blog.roblox.com/2014/05/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/</ref> While employed at ROBLOX, he created games such as [[/Nuke the Whales/]] and [[Community:Shedletsky/Sword Fight on the Heights Original|Sword Fight on the Heights]]. Shedletsky can be contacted outside of ROBLOX through his [http://www.youtube.com/user/Shedletsky YouTube] and [http://twitter.com/shedletsky Twitter] accounts.
 Outside of ROBLOX, John Shedletsky is married to fellow coworker [[Community:BrightEyes|BrightEyes]]{{Template:Cite}}.
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 On April Fool's Day of 2007, Shedletsky made an announcement on the ROBLOX blog announcing that Google purchased ROBLOX and was renaming the game to Gooblox<ref name="Google Purchases ROBLOX", ROBLOX Blog>http://blog.roblox.com/2007/04/roblox-bought-by-google/</ref>. Later in the day, David Bascuziki released another blog article that explained the April Fool's joke and that the Gooblox domain was purchased by ROBLOX<ref name="April Fool's Courtesy of Shedletsky", ROBLOX Blog>http://blog.roblox.com/2007/04/april-fools-courtesy-of-telemon/</ref>. Users who enter the URL for Gooblox will be redirected to the ROBLOX client.
+In 2010, Shedletsky's administrator badge was removed as part of a second April Fool's joke.
-Three years later, another April Fool's joke was performed by Shedletsky, in the form of his Administrator Badge being removed or not showing up on his "Character's page." This did not remove his status on the ROBLOX website, however.
-==Physics==
-Ever since [http://blog.roblox.com/?p=86 February of 2007], Shedletsky has killed builderman considering using custom collisions on meshes. (The idea was submitted by [[MrDoomBringer|The super moderator, MrDoomBringer]], supposedly before he was a moderator.) According to Shedletsky, it is simply inefficient to try and process collisions between multiple-ploy-ed objects. This, and even trying to create the meshes in game, has since put the idea at the bottom of the to-be-implemented list. However, at the end of his news post, Shedletsky implies that the idea appears to still be possible. It may take more developers to implement it, [[File:File-Shedletsky,as_of_2/24/15.jpg|thumb]]
-==Places==
+==Notable Games==
-Page 1
-*[[Sword Fight on the Heights IV]]
-*[[Nuke the Whales]]
-*Truss and Slate and Badges Demo
-*[[Roblox World Headquarters]]
-*Home of the Toastmaster 3000
-*Mission to the Moon
-*[[Timmy and
-*[[/Domino Rally/]]
-*Haunted Mansion
-* Pinball Wizards!
-Page 2
-*Nevermoor's
-*[[Sword Fight on the Heights Original]]
-*Rocket Fight Advanced.
-*[[My first ROBLOX level]]
-*The Vanishing Point
-*Fun with Mjolnr.
-*Bombaroomagoo
-*Variable Load Physics Benchmark
-*Liminal Message
-*NPC Dialog Demo
-Page 3
-*Sword Training
-*TWISTER
-*See Desc.
-*New Server Physics Benchmark
-*Filming
-*Telamon's Mad House
-*A Bridge Too Far
-*Icy Luge Deathrace
-*The Great White Crush
-*Crazy Car Wars
-Page 4
-*Trampoline Sword Fight
-*The Great Desert
-*Sparkle &Click detector demo
-*Cart Ride Into My Face!
-*The Sunbaked lands
-*Telamon's big world
-*Lonely Island
-*LOL Members build server
-*LOL Lietenant's private build server
-*Super Zombie Murder Game
 ===Sword Fights on the Heights IV===
 {{main|Community:Shedletsky/Sword Fight on the Heights IV}}
-The most famous sword fighting game made by Shedletsky that was played more than 9.6 million times.
+This is the most notable sword fighting game that was made by Shedletsky. The game has over ten million visits.
 ===Sword Fights on the Heights Original===
 {{main|Community:Shedletsky/Sword Fight on the Heights Original}}
+This is the first installment of the Sword Fights of the Heights series.
-The first sword fighting game in ROBLOX and the first iteration of the Sword Fight on The Heights game. Another older sword fighting game by Shedletsky that is also popular and played commonly.
-It is usually exploited.
 ===A Bridge Too Far===
-A Bridge Too Far is a map created on September 21st, 2007. You will spawn with some weapons and the object of the game is to blow the bridge up. It's currently classified as a "Town and City" genre. The game has over 100,000 place visits, and over 3,000 favorites.
+A Bridge Too Far is a map created on September 21st, 2007. The objective of the game is to blow up  the game's bridge. The game has over 100,000 place visits.
 ===Mission to the Moon===
-Mission to the Moon is a place created on August 6, 2007. The description is "Don't forget your [[Catalog:Astronaut Helmet|helmet]]." The place is basically a steep rocky land somewhere in the moon. Low gravity is present in the area, therefore jumping would propel the player higher and falls would be slowed down. Without wearing an Astronaut Helmet, the player's head would expand until it explodes with blood blocks.
+Mission to the Moon is a place created on August 6, 2007. Users are encouraged to purchase a [[Catalog:Astronaut Helmet|helmet]] while playing the game. If the player doesn't wear the astronaut helmet in the "Mission to the Moon" place, the player's head would briefly expand and eventually explode and the player would die from the explosion of the head, due to the supposed lack of oxygen.
-===Trivia===
-*If the player doesn't wear the astronaut helmet in the "Mission to the Moon" place, the player's head would briefly expand and eventually explode and the player would die from the explosion of the head, due to the supposed lack of oxygen.
-*Large blue bricks would usually appear in the "Mission to the Moon" place.
-*His Original SFOTH is the common target for ROBLOX exploiting.
-==Groups==
-These are the following groups that Shedletsky joined, or owned:
-*Chicken Express
-*Americans
-*Apocalypse Rising Community
-*Klout Junkies
-*[[LOL (Group)]]
-*Official OBC Club
-*PWN
-*Reddit
-*Retexture artists official channel
-*RoblEX Currency Traders
-*Roblox National Rebbelion
-*ROBLOX  Talk
-*Skybound Fan club
-*Team forteess 2 fan club
-*The IronNoob Forums
-*Turntable.fm Rockers
-*Uber Builders Club
 ==Username Swap==
+Prior to the change username feature being released, Shedletsky changed his name by switching his user the user IDs between his Shedletsky and Telamon accounts. By doing this, Shedetsky was able to keep all of Telamon's earned assets and also took his user ID. When asked about the name change, Shedletsky tweeted that he did so, because he outgrew his previous name <ref name"Shedletsky name change">[https://twitter.com/Shedletsky/status/180177636650266624]</ref>.
-In March 2012, Telamon switched the name of both his accounts. He replied on twitter that he "outgrew" the name. You can find that tweet [https://twitter.com/Shedletsky/status/180177636650266624 here]. His account Shedletsky kept all of Telamon's assets, and took the User ID 261. He switched the username to Shedletsky somewhere between June 2012 and July 2012.
 ==Former Appearances==
 Shedletsky (on his Telamon account) was known for his shirt saying "I ♥ fried chicken". The gear he was holding was a turkey leg (which looked similar to a chicken leg) to go with his shirt.
 ==Controversy==
+===References to Minecraft===
-One of Shedletsky's places called "Explosions Every 30 Seconds Or Your Money Back" has a TNT Block from Minecraft, a popular PC game created by Markus Persson, and a big competitor of ROBLOX. Players are complaining that they will get banned for saying Minecraft and making the Models, while Administrators can add the Minecraft blocks to their game.  John has actually admitted on camera that his favorite game is Minecraft.  Watch the video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IakA-y25G_c here.]
+One of Shedletsky's places, ''Explosions Every 30 seconds or Your Money Back'', has a TNT block that closely resembled the TNT bricks used in Minecraft. Around this time, players who made any connections to Minecraft, such as discussing it through a forum post or making a model that resembled one of Minecraft's assets, were swiftly banned from the ROBLOX client. Many players took notice of this hypocrisy and voiced their complaints through the forums.
-For a period of time, the very popular place, "Sword Fight on the Heights IV" had been converted into a Builder's Club Only place. Players complained about the change as Shedletsky had responded with an immature forum post:
+===SFOTH Becoming Builder's Club Only===
+For a brief period, Shedletsky's ''Sword Fights on the Heights IV'' was converted into a Builder's Club only place. After numerous complaints on the forums, Shedletsky responded with the following post:
+{{Template:Quote|1.I can ban Exploiters and get their main account....2.I was curious how many tickets it would make (answer: a ton)...3.I was interested in whether there would be fewer noobs in-game (maybe)...4.It's my game and I'll do what I want....5.Trololollollll.
-#I can ban Exploiters and get their main account.
+|Shedletsky}}
-#I was curious how many tickets it would make (answer: a ton)
-#I was interested in whether there would be fewer noobs in-game (maybe)
-#It's my game and I'll do what I want.
-#Trololollollll
+After that post, [[Community:XiaoXiaoMan|XiaoXiaoMan]], a ROBLOXian Youtuber famous for his ''Raging ROBLOX Reviewer'' series, made two commentary videos discussing Shedletsky's forum post <ref name=XiaoXiaoMan discusses Shedletsky's comments on the ROBLOX Forums>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YNDHyLtscQ</ref>.
-After that post, XiaoXiaoMan, A highly respected ROBLOXian for Roblox filmmaking and ranting, Stumbled upon this change and made two videos on YouTube about it. The first one, The change, And the follow-up as second. He ranted how Roblox tried to find every single way to "suck our wallets dry" or "fill their already overloaded and overstuffed wallets."
+==Trivia==
+[[File:JohnNormalNightOut.jpg|thumb|137px|John out on a regular night.]]
-He also ranted how immature the forum post made him look. The thread was deleted, But Xiao still obtained a copy of the Post's Picture. Watch XiaoXiaoMan's video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YNDHyLtscQ here]. (There is swearing in the video, click at your own expense.)
+*''[[Blame John]]'' is a popular ROBLOX saying. This phrase originated during the 2010 Egg Hunt when the first egg drop failed to meet players' expectations. Since then, the phrase has been used in various gears such as the ''Magic 8-Ball'' and the ''Blame John'' protest sign.
-Shedletsky being fired is a common topic for ROBLOX machinimas.
+*One of Shedletsky's most popular looks is his "I ♥ Fried Chicken" shirt. Since then, it was been a joke to accommodate Shedletsky with fried chicken. It may also have been the inspiration for the Telamon's Chicken Suit from Telamon's Mystery Box.
-==Trivia==
-[[File:Telamon.jpg|thumb|137px|John Shedletsky in real life.]]
-[[File:JohnNormalNightOut.jpg|thumb|137px|John out on a regular night.]]
-[[File:Logged_Telamon.png|thumb|How Shedletsky's login page looks as of 8/17/2011. Credit to Shedletsky for the picture.]]
-*A well-known Roblox phrase derived from Shedletsky's goofs; "[[Blame John]]". This phrase occurred during the 2010 Egg Hunt when the first egg drop was not efficient. Since then, the phrase has been used in various gears such as the Magic 8-Ball and the Blame John protest sign.
-*One of Shedletsky's most popular looks was when he wore a "I ♥ Fried Chicken" shirt. Since then, it was been a joke to accommodate Shedletsky with fried chicken. It may also have been the inspiration for the Telamon's Chicken Suit from Telamon's Mystery Box.
-*Shedletsky's Mystery Box was once free to take. It is now off-sale and gives out free hats to users who still have it. It is also the first place prize for new video contests.{{fact}}
 *Shedletsky helped design a game in 2006 called Euclidean Crisis.<ref>http://blog.roblox.com/2012/09/the-stories-behind-the-jobs-at-roblox/</ref>
 *Shedletsky was [http://blog.roblox.com/2009/09/interview-with-telamon/ interviewed] on the Roblox news blog.
-*Shedletsky is in a Team Fortress 2 fan club, and once was in a My Little Pony fan group. He currently has left the group. For quite some time, his primary group was "LOL", then it was "Uber Builders Club", and then it was "Turntable.fm Rockers" and it is currently "The IronNoob Forums".
-*He does not like [[Jaredvaldez2|Jaredvaldez4]], which he has shown in several forum posts yet he never bans [[Jaredvaldez4]].{{fact}}
-*[[Community:BCGames|BCGames]] had commonly used advertisements saying "But BCGames is still richer than Telamon."
 *Shedletsky owns a forum called [[IronNoob Forums|IronNoob]]. Many older ROBLOX members have joined, but now is in a state of inactivity.
-*Shedletsky was once hacked on 4/8/2013 but he managed to change back his game [[/Sword Fight on the Heights IV/]] to it's original state.{{fact}}
-*Shedletsky periodically changes his looks, he often never stays the same way.
-*He rarely posts on the forums.
-*He married a fellow ROBLOX admin named Brighteyes.
-*On September 3, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Telamon (Shedletsky) accepted all of his friend requests.
 ==References==