A special anniversary.
November 28th. What’s so special about this day? Yeah, all of us Americans have already had their turkey. No, it’s not your birthday, and even if it was, why would you be special enough to make it on a front page post? You’re so incredibly narcissistic.
November 28th marks a very important one year anniversary to FFR: the one year anniversary to FFR’s second recent administrator, Velocity. His story to the top is quite interesting, and for those of you who don’t know, here’s a snippet of it.
For those of you who were paying attention to the fiasco known as the 5th Official FFR Tournament, you were all aware that things were incredibly hectic. Division 1 was full of sandbaggers who were out to win for themselves, not for the sake of competition, Division 3 had some horrible misplacement’s, and Division 5 had, well…MrRubix. However, someone went unnoticed in the Division 5 roster lineup after barreling out of the gates with nothing but AAAs. Dragon Shot, played through the first four rounds of the tournament, stirring controversy along the way. He stopped at the 5th round, Hardkore Atomic, after succumbing to all of the drama (or so we all thought).
Shortly after, FFR’s downtime scattered bits of the community. FFReborn came and went, Dragons Fury hid away in their little fortress, many of the elite Stepmania players went off to KeyBeatOnline, and another small group, Arrow Smashers Anonymous (ASA) sat quietly, harboring their community. Others moved onto different hobbies. In April of 2010, Dragons Fury brought a version of the legacy engine up on a small server, hosting custom files for members to play. Eventually, this sparked attention amongst those who still had it in them to play the game, even after the huge downtime. After the engine gained popularity, ASA came around and brought an improved engine to the public, known as ‘Ravemeister’ engine. A short war emerged between Dragons Fury and ASA, with a few key members being brought right into the middle. Dragon Shot would then emerge as the coder responsible for the impressive modifications made to the Ravemeister engine. Later, he revealed himself as (NSS) Velocity, for reasons still somewhat unknown (at least to me). A few more months passed, and later, he brought the engine over to the Dragons Fury Forums, promoting and proposing change to the original engine that we all remembered. Over time, Velocity’s respect as a hacker would become overshadowed by his ability to code.
FFR’s abrupt return excited many people, including those who were aware of the skill that Velocity had. A good majority of the players who noticed the engine pestered Velocity, pleading with him to show the creation to staff on FFR. I remember the day that I mentioned it to him; he seemed quite reluctant, and with good reason (he completely modified code without any sort of permission). Lo and behold, he was formally announced as administrator, his name became red in the forums, and he was given the duty of working on the newer engine that a good majority of the community currently know and love. Even though he was assigned the job of working on the engine code, he has proven to many people that he is an indispensable asset to FFR. His versatility is something that has helped keep this site afloat without a doubt. The passion for coding this kid has is nothing short of astonishing. We all should be on our knees, thanking him for all that he has done in the past year.
I know that I will.
- TC_Halogen
54 Responses to “A special anniversary.”
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Posted at 11:18am on November 28th, 2011
I’m more surprised that you remembered all of this. <3
Posted at 11:19am on November 28th, 2011
<3
Posted at 11:24am on November 28th, 2011
Great post
Posted at 11:26am on November 28th, 2011
epic <3
Posted at 11:28am on November 28th, 2011
PS: There is no way I’m kneeling for him but I will say that he did a great job at maintaining his engine. Also, lets not forget that he also updated profiles and fixed other things around the site like profile chat for example! (:
Posted at 11:28am on November 28th, 2011
<3
Posted at 11:29am on November 28th, 2011
The kneeling part I was iffy about when I read it.
Posted at 11:34am on November 28th, 2011
\o/
Posted at 11:34am on November 28th, 2011
Thanks, Velocity! You will be remembered.
Posted at 11:42am on November 28th, 2011
who?
Posted at 11:43am on November 28th, 2011
POLL: Does Velo deserve legend status?
Posted at 11:48am on November 28th, 2011
My favorite part of the entire post by far was “and divison 5 had, well…MrRubix” hahaha
Posted at 11:52am on November 28th, 2011
i miss dragons fury =[
Posted at 11:58am on November 28th, 2011
Thank Man!(or woman idc)
Posted at 12:00pm on November 28th, 2011
Haha, oh man, the way you words things AJ. xD
Anyhow, a big congrats to Velo for all of his hard work, and picking up FFR when no one else would have done it.
Posted at 12:00pm on November 28th, 2011
rubix def wasn’t in d5 what?
Posted at 12:03pm on November 28th, 2011
Happy veloversary
Posted at 12:04pm on November 28th, 2011
TeRa, there were only 5 divisions in the 5th official, so he was in D5
Posted at 12:12pm on November 28th, 2011
The way you word things AJ xD
Definitely a huge thanks to Velo. Not sure entirely about the kneeling bit (last I checked he’s not Zod…) but he’s definitely enough work around here to deserve a nice front page post
Posted at 12:32pm on November 28th, 2011
*knees down and prays*
Posted at 12:48pm on November 28th, 2011
woo~ grats jon
Posted at 1:18pm on November 28th, 2011
*makes blitzball prayer in front of Velo’s profile*
Posted at 1:28pm on November 28th, 2011
Already had votes going for Velocity. He’s a fave admin in my eyes. Great work ya do here brah! Respect!
Posted at 1:29pm on November 28th, 2011
<3
Posted at 1:41pm on November 28th, 2011
Good read, thanks again Velocity!
Posted at 1:42pm on November 28th, 2011
<3 it Props to Velocity!!!
Posted at 1:46pm on November 28th, 2011
?x/?t
Posted at 1:47pm on November 28th, 2011
The ? are supposed to be deltas. Now I know comments don’t use Unicode though.
Posted at 1:54pm on November 28th, 2011
Thanks Velocity we appreciate you very much..
Posted at 2:29pm on November 28th, 2011
Yeah thanks, Velocity <3. I love playing on your beta engine xD.
Posted at 2:29pm on November 28th, 2011
thx bro
Posted at 2:30pm on November 28th, 2011
o
Posted at 2:52pm on November 28th, 2011
Lol velocity, who is this guy. What a fag.
Grats jon!
Posted at 3:09pm on November 28th, 2011
somehow I didn’t know any of this part of the story :O
thanks vel
Posted at 3:59pm on November 28th, 2011
Thanks for what you’ve brought onto this site. :’)
Posted at 4:32pm on November 28th, 2011
Whoa, as usual, I had no idea about all of this. Congrats bro!
Posted at 4:52pm on November 28th, 2011
i was pretty sure there were 6 divisions in the last tournament as well
Posted at 5:19pm on November 28th, 2011
I fucking love you mang
Posted at 5:29pm on November 28th, 2011
Velo was Dragon Shot? Mind = blown.
Congrats, btw.
Posted at 6:31pm on November 28th, 2011
Nope only 5 divisions in the last official.
Posted at 7:25pm on November 28th, 2011
Gratz breh. Lol this site.
Posted at 7:37pm on November 28th, 2011
Velocity, u teh best! ^_^
Posted at 9:41pm on November 28th, 2011
I was a pretty key understatement in the “security” aspect of the ASA war with Dragons Fury, siding with Dragons Fury of course….
And Halogen knows exactly what I am talking about
but at least the controversy is solved, and now everyone is getting along and we have yet again, another astonishing admin on our hands. Great Job Velocity.
Posted at 1:13am on November 29th, 2011
yeah dood.. you’re awesome.
Posted at 1:43am on November 29th, 2011
Sometimes it’s hard to rebuild a community the right way. It’s a long road. You have to strip greed and fame out of it and do it because you love it. That’s what it used to be and that is where it is returning. I couldn’t be more excited about the direction that FFR is taking.
Happy Anniversary Velocity!
Cheers,
Synthlight
Posted at 1:51am on November 29th, 2011
See? Even Synth knows you’re hot shit, Velo. :3 Thank you for your hard work this year, and kudos for biting the bullet all this way!
Posted at 2:10am on November 29th, 2011
Oh bollocks, I don’t go to the front page for one day and look what I miss.
Anyway, thanks for the incredible stuff you’ve pulled off here and at DF, so happy anniversary!
Posted at 8:24am on November 29th, 2011
lol ASA
Happy anniversary, Velo! :3
Posted at 8:47am on November 29th, 2011
Happy Anniversary, thx alot for everything !!!!
Posted at 11:58am on November 29th, 2011
happy anniversary vel!
Posted at 12:28pm on November 29th, 2011
cool story, but I knew about DF, but didn’t know he was Velo. Thanks for all you’ve done for the site and the community. Also, I didn’t know you were such an avid coder. Maybe I can ask for some tips or assignments to practice, since I’d like to be better at coding as well.
Posted at 6:25pm on November 29th, 2011
+1
Posted at 8:32pm on November 29th, 2011
<3 <3 <3
Posted at 9:55pm on November 29th, 2011
Wow I didn’t know Dragon Shot was Velocity. Happy anniversary! Kind of explains why he came out of nowhere though. xD