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Songs of the Week (April 20-27, 2013)
You find yourself encapsulated by thick and seemingly impenetrable darkness from all angles. Above you is a thin elongated rectangle that runs parallel to the ceiling and is filled with a mysterious green ooze. Below you is what appears to be the number zero suspended in the formless abyss. There are no obvious exits. What do you do?
>Call Me Maybe (Grabbitz Remix)
Your name is legally changed to Maybe. Everything that you do is now highly uncertain, so much so that your friends and family no longer interact with you. In addition, picking up a pizza that had been ordered under your name becomes such a headache that you refrain from eating anything other than instant ramen and cat food for the rest of your miserable life.
You are dead. Try again?
A heavily tattooed biker materializes within the void and holds you down so that his buddy “Grub” can put a giant hole in your chest. Although your life ceases to exist, your corpse’s ability to accessorize is vastly increased.
You are dead. Try again?
You do not see a garden to empty. Furthermore, gardens are not something that require emptying. For your insolence you are sentenced to death by a short stocky man that works in the Home and Garden section of your local hardware store.
You are dead. Try again?
Millions of Final Fantasy VII fans emerge from the darkness and beat you up for reminding them about the heartache that they had experienced at the end of disc one. This beating continues on for many, many months.
You are dead. Try again?
A feeling akin to your heart desperately trying to burst out of your chest as if you were performing a particularly macabre parlor trick suddenly overwhelms you and forces you to fall to your knees. Your vision turns to a dark red as the deafening roar of a cannon being fired from somewhere deep inside of you separates your physical body into billions of tiny, irreparable pieces. On the plus side the shot manages to dent the car of a person that was a rude to you at a grocery store a few years ago.
You are dead. Try again?
You decide to make a fire and then leave it alone for a few minutes before coming back to it. Upon your return you notice the infamous hi19hi19 summoning the nearly infinite number of stepfiles that he has created over the years and putting them into the form of a humanoid piece of corn on the cob. “He needs to feed now,” hi19 somberly informs you as the corn’s heartwarming smile slowly but surely transforms into an expression that is devoid of all and any empathy.
You are dead. Try again?
A blink of your eyes is all that it takes for you to find yourself situated within a quaint office setting. An official “Jumpstreams in Ireland” calender sits on the desk directly in front of you while three of your coworkers huddle around you with threatening expressions plastered across their faces. “You seriously think that we’re going to waste our precious day off by coming to your BBQ? Get a grip! You’re free to fritter away your tomorrow, but not ours!” As they turn to leave you can feel your heart quite literally split into two asymmetrical pieces.
You are dead. Try again?
Razor the Prescriptive Grammarian mercilessly whacks the side of your head with a grammar textbook over and over again. “That’s not how you spell Celsius you idiot!” he cries out while raining blow after blow upon you. Razor does not cease his endeavors until long after your head has been reduced to little more than a bloody stump.
You are dead. Try again?
Two buff businessmen shoot you repeatedly with a handgun. There does not appear to be any logical reason for this occurrence. Sometimes these things happen.
You are dead. Try again?
>What Lies Beyond The Mountains
Stepfile newcomer VisD teams up with chiptune artist Breakbeat Heartbeat to tickle you with feather dusters until you vomit up your intestines. This gives them sustenance for the day ahead.
You are dead. Try again?
A sudden and inexplicable feeling of happiness makes your lips curl upwards into a big Wal-Mart Greeter-esque smile. However, rather than stopping where they normally would, your lips instead opt to continue stretching themselves out further and further until eventually they separate themselves from the rest of your face. As you lay there in the darkness bleeding to death, you realize that perhaps happiness really is subjective.
You are dead. Try again?
A mysterious man with rotten teeth and a powdered wig writes a brilliant symphony that makes fun of you and your apparently foul body odor. His masterpiece becomes an international smash hit and your immense embarrassment eventually gets the better of you.
You are dead. It appears that there is no way to escape from this dungeon without succumbing to an untimely demise. Would you like to give up?
>Yes please.
That would probably be for the best.
May-hem: DAY THREE
Challenges are located here: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showpost.php?p=3900807&postcount=102
Post in the May-hem thread located here: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=130052
May-hem: DAY TWO
…will be slightly delayed due to me just getting home and being absolutely exhausted. I’m trying to think of a slightly better way to execute this and a forum thread will likely be the solution.
NEVER MIND:
GO HERE FOR CHALLENGES AND POST IN THE THREAD FROM HERE ON OUT: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/vbz/showthread.php?t=130052
May-hem: DAY ONE
Apologies to everyone who was so highly anticipating everything, but when I said that this was going to be easy, I was talking about you potentially being able to do this asleep. Unfortunately for you all, the high paying challenges will be a bit later in the month! For now, just do the challenges and take the free credits that come with them — it’ll get harder and more worth while. At the least, you’re making a huge return on a few of these challenges, since the songs reward anywhere from 1-5 credits a piece.
Challenges:
- Get over 86 perfects on Pita.
Reward: 10 credits
Completed: SC_coolguy44, HikamiTheSoulReaper, Xx{Fallen}xX, awein999, One Winged Angel, Riotpolice, Kotarouchan, armoursheild, iDanceAllOverYou, thesunfan, DayMan951, Guest15937, jgano, U.N. Owen, Sweet Angel, Mourningfall, Nick Skyline, return of rogue, Master Aqua, _Fluttershy_, aaaonAAA, noname219, Elite Ninja, foxfire667, SlayerApocalypse666, catzeye21138, Jake Ferguson
- Obtain a FC (Full Combo) on Power with less than 5 boos.
Reward: 20 credits
Completed: SC_coolguy44, awein999, Xx{Fallen}xX, One Winged Angel, Riotpolice, Kotarouchan, HikamiTheSoulReaper, iDanceAllOverYou, DayMan951, thesunfan, Guest15937, armoursheild, jgano, Sweet Angel, Mourningfall, U.N. Owen, Nick Skyline, return of rogue, _Fluttershy_, aaaonAAA, noname219, Elite Ninja, foxfire667, Jake Ferguson
- Obtain a AAA (100% perfect judgments) on Free Space.
Reward: 30 credits
Completed: awein999, Xx{Fallen}xX, One Winged Angel, SC_coolguy44, Kotarouchan, iDanceAllOverYou, thesunfan, Guest15937, jgano, Sweet Angel, Mourningfall, U.N. Owen, Nick Skyline, return of rogue, armoursheild, _Fluttershy_, aaaonAAA, noname219, Elite Ninja, foxfire667, HikamitheSoulReaper, SlayerApocalypse666, Jake Ferguson
- Obtain a FC (Full Combo) on Finding a Way with less than 20 boos.
Reward: 45 credits
Completed: awein999, Xx{Fallen}xX, DayMan951, One Winged Angel, Kotarouchan, iDanceAllOverYou, thesunfan, SC_coolguy44, Guest15937, jgano, Sweet Angel, Mourningfall, U.N. Owen, armoursheild, _Fluttershy_, Master Aqua, aaaonAAA, noname219, Elite Ninja, HikamitheSoulReaper, foxfire667, SlayerApocalypse666, PaperclipGames, Jake Ferguson
Post all screenshots as links for this day of challenges IN THE COMMENTS below. You can get to the comments by clicking on the “x comments” or “Leave a Coment” area on the top right of the post. When the day two challenge has been posted, day one posts will not be accepted!
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Here are some examples:
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Updated to comment #96.
May-hem + new simfile batch
Not sure if good or bad…
Anyway, two important things are happening tomorrow.
The May-hem event starts tomorrow (May 1st) at 4 PM server time. A few notes about this event that I’ll explain quickly:
- 1.) All screenshots and replays will be posted on the front page comments. This is a bit different from your normal event that takes place in a thread.
- 2.) There will be four challenges every day. These challenges will progress in difficulty throughout the month — the first day will be an absolute snoozefest for just about everyone; the last day will be near impossible. Read the requirements carefully, as some of them will require you to save a replay, rather than a screenshot.
- 3.) Challenges will only be up for one day (hence “daily”): if you cannot accomplish a day’s challenge before the next set of challenges are up, you can’t earn the…
- 4.) …reward. There are rewards tacked onto each challenge based on the difficulty of them. They start off very low/minor and will grow quickly.
- 5.) A boss challenge will exist every day, and will make up part of the four daily challenges. These are a bit harder than the other three and will always be worth the most in terms of credits. These will always be in a red font color.
On another note, the FFR Simfile Batch is supposed to open on May 1st, so while you’re waiting for the snoozefest challenges to pass on by, make a simfile and submit it to FFR.
FFR Batch reopens on May 1st!
Just a friendly reminder for everyone that the FFR simfile batch will open on May 1st. There have been some changes to the submission guidelines:
jimerax:
Submission Cap definition was changed due to submission system change.
[Submission Cap by Simfile Artist Point]
Maximum number of files you can submit in a period (2 months):
Negative SAP points – 1 file
0 – 9 points – 2 files
10 – 16 points – 3 files
17 – 39 points – 4 files
40 points or more – 5 files
(Period 1) Jan-Feb, (Period 2)Mar-Apr, (Period 3) May-Jun, (Period 4) Jul-Aug, (Period 5) Sep-Oct, (Period 6) Nov-Dec
For example, if you have 12 SAP then you can submit maximum 3 files in May-June period. After Jul, you can submit 3 more files. Also, when the judgement is done and your SAP/Submission Cap is increased, you can submit more files in the next period.
Any updates involving the FFR batch will be posted in the Queue/Batch Discussion Thread by one of our batch managers (bmah or jimerax). As usual, feel free to ask any questions you might have in the thread or in the comments below.
- TC_Halogen, jimerax, bmah + FFR Judgment Staff
May Events on the Horizon
May is only a week away, and there are two scheduled events for this month that demand some community attention.
The first of the two events is a rehash of the Multiplayer Tournament conceived by former administrator psychoangel691; some of you might remember playing in it and recall that it was a pretty awesome experience, despite the few complaints about performance issues and lag, which a lot of people tie MP with altogether. Thanks to the efforts of resident developer Velocity and FFR’s 8th Official Tournament D2 champion (who is quite the skillful coder himself!?) arcnmx, those of you using the R^3 engine will now be able to partake in the event while being able to communicate/play with others on older engines!
As usual, the issue that arises: which older engine should be used? As of now, the intentions are to still use the Legacy engine, as it is the oldest engine and the engine that a good majority of the community has at the very least touched. You are free to comment on which engine works better for you in the comments below.
The second event is intended to attract all forms of players. Titled “May-hem” (name subject to change?), daily challenges will be posted from the first of the month all the way to the last day of the month, with each challenge having a small prize. These prizes will build up quickly if you’re able to do all of them! The earliest days will have challenges that our most unseasoned of players can do, and the difficulty will increase throughout the month. There will be a good mix of actual PA/FC/AAA challenges thrown in with some unorthodox anti-PA and strange requirements. There should be a good deal of fun for everyone!
Until next time, keep keysmashing (or don’t, go ahead and do other boring things if that’s your prerogative).
Easter Event results + Crossword Event Introduction
Many people found their mind knotted around YoshL’s finger with his incredibly difficult to solve puzzles. Despite the mind-numbing nature of these puzzles, six of you managed to solve all of the puzzles!
Congratulations to our five contest winners!
GRAND PRIZE: Silvuh (3 Support Tokens, 2 Event Tokens, 125,000 credits, x2 credits + vRofl for first full solve!)
SECOND PRIZE: kjwkjw (3 Support Tokens, 1 Event Token, 125,000 credits)
THIRD PRIZE: Xenorosth (2 Support Tokens, 1 Event Token, 125,000 credits)
FOURTH PRIZE: U.N. Owen (1 Support Token, 1 Event Token, 125,000 credits)
FIFTH PRIZE: qqwref (1 Support Token, 118,000 credits; congratulations on making the top 5 without solving all of the puzzles — those first solves on brutal and ridiculous really helped you!)
Notable People:
jgano: 100% solved — 125,000 credits.
Jake Ferguson: 100% solved — 125,000 credits.
Silvuh: First Challenging, Expert, and Guru, and ??? difficulty solves.
qqwref: First Brutal and Ridiculous solves.
reuben_tate: First Master solve.
Raining Nails: First Expert solve.
Overall, nearly 1.5 million credits were distributed on this event, and were spread out over 19 different people; some of you guys really reaped the benefits!
And now, for the real purpose of this front page post.
The next event that the FFR staff has for the site still requires some thinking, but it’s a bit more conventional and straight forward. As indicated by the image to the left, the next event that the FFR Events Team has for you is a crossword, and of course, is FFR-related. Thanks to the help of Velocity, bmah, and the collaborative effort of the other members of the Event staff, we have a real enjoyable multi-category Flash-based puzzle for you guys to try.
Oh, almost forgot to mention… this isn’t like your typical crossword where you can take your time. This is another competitive event with prizes involved, and the fastest solves will get better prizes. Different categories have different prizes based off of difficulty, so speed is of the essence!
This event will begin on the 19th at 7 PM server time, but signups close on the 19th at 5 PM server time.
The official thread for the Crossword event has been up for a little while now. If you haven’t noticed it lingering in the FFR events area, you can click this link to get to the first post of the thread for more details.
Have fun, everyone!
– TC_Halogen and the FFR Events Team
Songs of the Week (April 6-13, 2013)
Despite its very existence hinging on a necessity for widespread community participation and involvement, FFR still somehow manages to maintain the status of being a somewhat lonely game. A plain black background that contains absolutely zero semblance of conscious life, arrows that nonchalantly collide with their respective receptors over and over again for no real purpose other than because it’s what they were born to do, and the question of what happens to a player after their life bar hits zero all work together in tandem with one another to instill many with a sensation of unease as they play. Files are lovingly raised by their parents, the song and step artists, only to get placed into the big scary engine and never interact with their loved ones ever again. It is in the hopes of combating the crippling loneliness that is experienced by songs and players alike that I have created something of a romantic matchmaking system for files. After running quite a few tests and consulting my thirteen year old next door neighbor who already has a significant other and makes fun of me for not having one every goddamn chance he gets, I have determined the perfect partner for each and every release that came out either this week or last week. Each pairing is scientifically accurate, legally binding and ultimately inescapable. Let’s view the results, shall we?
asdfmovie song by Lil Deuce Deuce (Niala) – Expert [64] / 2:23 / Purchased / Techno
dr1 by S.S.H. (hi19hi19) – Master [73] / 1:05 / Secret / Drum Solo
Lorem Ipsum by Virt feat. Hatune Miku (bmah & TC_Halogen) – Expert [65] / 3:02 / Rock / Rock Fusion
Öngyilkos Vasárnap by Venetian Snares (mi40) – Challenging [55] / 2:10 / Misc / Drum’n Bass
W by DJ Sharpnel (DossarLX ODI) – Moderate [23] / 3:37 / Dance / Trancecore
Your One by Dougal & Gammer (_.Spitfire._ ) – Expert [64] / 2:12 / Dance 2 / UK Hardcore
Arsonist by Fighter X (Kommisar) – Expert [68] / 3:19 / Arcade / 8-Bit Trance
In The Clouds by JT Bruce (Tidus810) – Standard [29] / 1:00 / Misc / Ambient New Age
Introduction by OSTER Project (LongGone) – Difficult [44] / 1:02 / Misc / Jazzy Fanfare
Myriagon by Kita Khyber (Reshiram) – Very Challenging [62] / 1:58 / Dance 2 / Hard Techno
Resistance 4 by Pyongyang Hardcore Resistance (mi40) – Guru [77] / 3:53 / Misc / Asian Gabba
Snow [Ca5] by Ca5 (DossarLX ODI ) – Very Challenging [62] / 2:00 / Misc / Techno
Pairing One: asdfmovie song and dr1
Now, before you folks at home start to think that the matchmaking system is lazy just because it paired up the first and second releases together, it would be a wise decision to learn the reasoning behind the system’s decision beforehand. There exists an incredibly strong bond between these two releases, one that is perhaps greater than all others. A desire for wealth, or in this case credits, is what drives these two releases along in life and dictates all that they do. asdfmovie song requires you to pay it the sum of 1234 credits to play, and dr1 forces you to prove to it that you have at least 36,000 credits saved up in your bank account before it’ll even show up for you on the song list. Even though their selfish pursuit of material gains has led both of these once-noble releases irrevocably astray, that doesn’t mean that they have abandoned love just yet. Once asdfmovie song and dr1 are joined together hand in hand they will undoubtedly conjure up an endless amount of new and innovative ways to steal your hard earned credits away from you. It’s a match made in heaven…maybe.
Pairing Two: Öngyilkos Vasárnap and Myriagon
Sometimes bonds can be formed as a direct result of one party requiring something that the other one possesses and vice versa. It may appear to be a selfish move on the surface, but it is nevertheless essential if we wish to live our lives to their fullest potential. Öngyilkos Vasárnap, a more somber selection from eccentric breakcore mastermind Venetian Snares, heavily samples Gloomy Sunday, a song with an associated urban legend stating that many of those that listen to the piece are driven to commit suicide. Myriagon, which is named after a polygon that possesses ten thousand sides, is energetic and playful while at the same time vaguely dark and grim. On the one side we have a release that’s too heavily drawn towards the negative with only a tiny penchant for the positive, and on the other a release that harbors negativity but is unable to grapple with its emotions due to stiflingly false positivity. By taking what the other possesses in excess and using it to balance themselves out, Öngyilkos Vasárnap and Myriagon will be able to richer, more fulfilling lives.
Pairing Three: Snow and In The Clouds
Never in a million years would you have expected to see these two crazy characters thrown together, am I right? Snow, found In The Clouds? Wow, what a crazy connection that absolutely nobody could’ve ever seen coming! However, don’t be fooled: the similarities between these two run much deeper than their names alone. Both are found within the Misc genre, and Snow is not only exactly double the length of In The Clouds but is just shy of double the difficulty too. It’s as if one is mild and the other is spicy, one is cold while the other is warm, or one prefers salad as an appetizer while the other more often than not opts for soup at the onset of their meal. The differing approach to similar foundations makes these two releases great for each other.
Pairing Four: Lorem Ipsum and Introduction
A lone microphone stands in the center of an otherwise barren and darkened stage. A single spotlight falls upon the slender microphone stand as a man dressed in anachronistically Gothic clothing steps out from behind the velvet curtain backdrop and approaches the light. “Think about the world that you deem as constituting your reality,” he begins to say, his voice gruff and noticeably devoid of emotion. “The vocals in Lorem Ipsum and the vocals in Introduction are both done by Vocaloids. There aren’t any quote-unquote real people singing in either of these songs. It’s all computer software– nothing more, nothing less. You think you know reality? Think again.” As soon as he finishes speaking, the man turns away and leaves the stage just as quickly as he had appeared. Only a few seconds of uncomfortable silence are allowed to pass by before the audience begins to horrifically scream in unison.
Pairing Five: Your One and Arsonist
Being picked last when it came to sporting events always hurt Arsonist a fair bit and was probably one of the major contributors that lead it towards turning to a life of crime. The wayward song would often spend its schoolnights staying out late in unsavory areas, painting the town green with its 64th notes and giving authorities a headache with its constant swing steps intermingled with jumpstreams. It wasn’t until meeting Your One, the self-described hardcore tourist from the UK that just so happened to come across Arsonist while it was in the midst of living up to its name, that Arsonist began to change. It only took a few months after that fateful evening for the song to learn about empathy, obtain happiness, and become instilled with purpose. No longer did its creativity get channeled into harmful outlets. At the same time, Your One learned to be less uptight, to sympathize with others and admit when it was wrong. However, out of all the things that these two gained from being around one another, perhaps the most valuable and precious was their everlasting love and unmatched karaoke prowess.
Pairing Six: W and Resistance 4
They say that opposites attract, and there is perhaps no better example of this old adage than in the pairing of W and Resistance 4. W, which is the easiest of this set of releases, would never have come across Resistance 4, which is conversely the most difficult of the releases, had it not been for a chance encounter in FFR Federally Mandated Park #34. Resistance 4 was jumping around like a maniac, kicking up dust with its numerous hands and quads, while W was across the way picking wildflowers all by itself. A sudden and overpoweringly strong gust of wind had blown W’s handful of daisies directly in Resistance 4′s face, something that engendered the file to howl like a frenzied wolf at the top of its lungs. The ever-shy W fervently apologized with a face that was as glowing red as the sun itself, but its words fell on deaf ears. Resistance 4 was helplessly entranced with W’s beauty, so much so that it didn’t even realize until quite some time afterwards that it had uttered its first ever set of somewhat coherent words: “Would you like to go and get, like, a coffee or somethin’ with me sometime or, like, whatever?”
And there you have it: twelve releases and six happy couples. As mentioned before, these marriages are legally binding. Any song that attempts to back out of the future that the matchmaking system has decided for it shall be reprimanded by being thrown into the Punishment genre where they’ll be forced to make awkward conversation with all of the off-sync, half-completed and otherwise incoherent pieces that have laid dormant in the My Creations folder of those who don’t even remember installing Stepmania in the first place. As always, feel free to share your thoughts and opinions on any of the new releases either in the comments section of this post or over in the respective topics on the forums. If you wish to throw yourself into the fray and undergo the matchmaking process as well, then you’re unfortunately out of luck because the government has shut down the program due to the so-called “unethical treatment of human specimens.” Everybody behind the program is probably going to go to jail, myself included. Please tell my wife that she was okay in small doses.
- plopadop
