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Best of FFR MFA!
So I’m sure that all of you are aware of the ability to embed an MFA on your profile, right? Just show the Style Editor and select the MFA you want (below the chat). We currently have bands like Dashboard Confessional, Thrice, Jakob Dylan, and more available for you to choose. In addition, we’ve started to create MFAs for popular FFR Artists. Initially, CornandBeans is the only one you can pick, but we’ll be adding more soon.
On that end, we want to have a “Best of FFR” MFA for you guys to have on your profile. We want to take the top 20 or 25 songs (roughly) on FFR and slap them all into 1 MFA for your listening pleasure. Because it will be the Best of FFR, we want FFR to vote on which songs will be included.
To Vote: Just post a comment in this news story. You may list up to THREE songs currently found in FFR. If you list more than 3, I’ll ignore everything beyond the 3rd. I’ll let this run for 24 or 48 hours, then create the MFA.
So have fun figuring out which songs are your favorites! And check out my profile for the CornandBeans MFA.
-Tass
4th Official FFR Tournament – SIGN UP NOW!!!
So, it’s that time again… time again for another official tournament. If you want to sign up, go here and click the sign up button. It’s that simple (note: you must have at least 100 games played to participate). If you have any questions or you want to start the smack talk… do it in the official thread! Now, to tell you a bit about this tournament:
There will be FIVE divisions, instead of 4. We hope this will help to thin the divisions out a bit, allow more users to have a chance to place and be competitive, and most importantly… cut down on the complaining! Just like the previous ones, you do not get to pick which division you will be competing in. Our Official FFR Tournament Co-Ordinator, Sprite, will have first and final say.
Click the MORE tag to read all the rest of the tournament information!
One Point Five MILLION!!!!!!!
I wanted to have some Synthlight-esque post for you guys for us hitting 1.5 million members, but clearly I wouldn’t be able to do it properly. Instead, lets reflect back on some past milestones and look forward to 1.5 million more members as we continue to plow ahead with around 1000-1500 new users each and every day.
Feb 10th, 2005: 500,000 Members (And one amazingly awesome plaque!)
Oct 10th, 2006: 1,000,000 Members
And now, on May 17th, 2008, we want to congratulate xxcheerxbabyxx as our 1.5 millionth member. I want to personally thank each and every one of you guys and gals for making the past 5 years the best years of my life, and I can’t wait to keep making new stories like this one down the road.
Oh yea…  I’ll come up with some kind of contest to run for later this evening. So stay tuned. OMFG CONTEST.
-Tass
Lucky 999 In This Edition Of “Tass Is Bored, EVERYONE Wins!”
So, some people have been bugging me to release some of the old widget-only files onto FFR. But, like with anything, I need a good excuse. I figured, I would add a few of them in conjunction with the 1000th levelID on FFR… but 1000 is so cliche. I was a bit bored this morning, so I figured I would add some levels to FFR. LevelIDs 996-999. And since 999 gets no love, we’re going to celebrate 999 with 4 public releases of widget-only files.
New public releases:
-Power by ZeroFuser. Our 1st song by ZeroFuser since Gradeus, about 3 years ago! Stepfile is by hi19hi19… and it is a doozy! Definitely the new hardest file in FFR. You can find it in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Dance
-What’s What is a cool dance track with some hip-hop undertones by Japanese artist Yu. Stepfile is by bmah and is an 8. You can find it in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Dance2.
-Get Um Up by Army of Freshmen. A fairly typical modern rock song, Get Um Up will be making you get your hands up… which makes playing the file hard. Rated a 6. Found in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Rock. File by bluguerrilla.
-Outside the Skies is our first musical composition by stepfile artist Stargroup100. Stepfile is by behanjc. The song is quite melodic. I rated it a 7 for the 48ths and the long jumpstream, albeit at a low BPM. You can find it in the upper left hand corner of page 1 of Misc.
The Mirrors! And New Songs.
We wanted to let everyone know that profiles and the game should now be working across all mirrors. Synth lost a lot of hair figuring out what the problem was… and he doesn’t have that much to lose!
Also, has everyone gotten Rick Roll’d this weekend? You should have… if not, you haven’t been playing enough FFR. ReRicked was released on Friday, and is a techno remix of Never Gonna Give You Up done by KgZ. Stepfile is by SulferDragon. Released today is Xeno-Flow by beatMARIO. Steps by bmah.
Finally, if you notice some songs being moved around a bit over the next few days… don’t worry. That is just jimerax doing some house-cleaning after the avmiss fix. I’ll make sure to let everyone know when he’s finished so you can thank him for his hard work.
-Tass
A Cure For Our Boredom: User Generated Entertainment!
So, MalDON and I are sitting in an airport waiting for our connecting flight. We’re going to be stuck in an undisclosed location once we land for the evening, waiting for the mythical Synthlight to appear. We figure that the best cure for this cabin fever is some lulz created by all of you. So be on the look out for contests and other shinanigans starting in about 6 hours. The FMO/FGO event songs for today will go up this evening as well!
-Tass
Weekend Long Photo Scavenger Hunt! CONTEST!
Everyone enjoys a good scavenger hunt, and we at FFR are no different. Listed below is a list of items that you can take photos of to receive varying amounts of points. The harder something is to get a picture of, the more points it is worth! You will have until 11:59pm PST on Sunday, March 2nd to submit pictures into this thread located here.
The List:
1 point:
Picture of one of your parents/guardians
Picture of a live pet (cat/dog/bird)
Picture of yourself with underwear on your head
Picture of yourself holding and cherishing your keyboard
2 points:
Picture of a pop-tart
Picture of you while in the middle of doing a cartwheel
Picture of you on top of a cherry red car (bright red, not that rust/clotted blood red)
Picture of a jungle gym
Picture of you on a baby smasher (5x multiplier if it has the baby smasher sticker on it)
3 points:
Picutre of you holding a fish (live or dead)
Picture of you with french fries up both of your nostrils
Picture of a “wash your hands before returning to work” sign
Picture of you taking a strangers groceries to their vehicle
Picture of a fire hydrant
Picture of an arcade high-score list with the letters “FFR”
5 points:
Picture of a lawn gnome
Picture of an easily recognized celebrity
Picture of you on a fire engine
Picture of a dead mammal
Picture of a human pyramid with at least 6 people (3 on the bottom, then 2, then 1 on top)
Picture of self-made pancake g-o-a-t-s-e
8 points:
Picture of 2 mannequins touching each other in naughty places
Picture of yourself under a hot pink or bright orange car/truck
Picture of the inside of an elevator missing a 13th floor (that has at least a 14th floor, if not more0
10 points:
Picture of your head inside of a cannon
Picture of you at the Empire States Building, Sears Tower, Space Needle, St Louis Arch, Cowboy Stadium, CN Tower, Big Ben, or on Rodeo Drive
Picture of the Black An_us
15 points:
Picture of you in a box being delivered by a UPS, FedEX or USPS man
Picture of you giving a bum/homeless person a noogie
25 points:
Picture of you with Tass
Combo Multiplier:
2x – Convince someone that has no association with FFR to wear an FFR t-shirt in one of the above photos. (3x if it is THE bum in the bum/noogie picture)
Note: trying to photoshop yourself into images or otherwise cheating will disqualify you. Every photo MUST be new. You can not use your photos from the family trip to London from 4 summers ago. The administration is open to giving bonus points for creative and unique ways of jazzing up the above items.
1st place – 1 year subscription + an FFR T-shirt + $25 cash money + 50,000 credits + funniest photo featured on the front page
2nd place – 1 year subscription + an FFR T-shirt + 40,000 credits
3rd place – 1 year subscription + 30,000 credits
4th place – 6 month subscription + 20,000 credits
5th place – 3 month subscription + 10,000 credits
Places will be determined by a total of all accumulated photos. I would appreciate it if each person limits their submissions to 1 post, with edits into the same post for additional photos. Any questions or rules clarifications can be made in the thread.
-Tass & the AdminCave Crew
In-Game Song Reorganization (About Time!)
So we all know that the genres are getting over crowded. Because of this, I had stopped moving subscriber songs out of Funk, as well as not moving songs out of Hip-Hop from the event we ran a few months ago. BUT… Xelius has been awesome enough to code a page jumping feature and a drop-down song selection bar, which makes navigation much easier. Both of these features are still currently subscriber only, but will be released to the public within the next few weeks.
So with this fix, I’ve started to go back and re-organize the songs from Funk and Hip-Hop (and the 5 songs at the end of Dance2 that have randomly been there for 9 months or so). Everything is out of Funk. The 5 Dance2 songs are now in their proper locations. I’m starting to work on Hip-Hop, and should have it finished within the next 24 hours. If you can no longer find some of your favorite songs from the re-organization, I do apologize. I recommend checking this list for the genre of each song. Within the genre, you’ll just have to do a little bit of searching. Just remember that the genre difficulties tend to go from easiest to hardest.
-Tass
Super Bowl FFR Credit Wagering!
Have too many credits and want to gamble for more? Don’t have enough and want to risk what you have for more? Starting at 2pm EST, we’ll have a page set up for Super Bowl wagering. We’ll be using a 12 points spread (which is explained on the page, if you don’t know what a spread is). Winners will be paid out slightly less than 2x their money.
We will edit this page with a link once it’s finished. A bit last minute, but better later than never! So get your credits ready for your wager on either the Patriots or Giants.
All done! Have fun during the superbowl!
