Hi everyone.
As most of you have known, I've been away from the site since the beginning of February. I'm sure I'm going to see a lot of new faces here - and that's something I like forward to. I've always known this has been the best Bemani-related community on the Internet. But what I didn't know was something I discovered over my break. Check this out.
Wow.
Holy crap.
Wow.
We're the largest Bemani-related site on the Internet.
This absolutely blew my mind away. I didn't really know how to react to it at first - finding out you're an active member of such a huge site is a pretty stunning revelation. But it really humbled me, too - I've never been more honored to hold the position I do, or be a part of the site that I am.
But traffic doesn't really matter. In the end, it's the people. And while I haven't missed the time I've spent on the forums, I have very much missed the people I interact on the forums with. I'd like to throw a special thanks out at this point to LD, Synth, Q, Guido, Stretchy, Tass, Kilga, Blah, and Flypie. They've talked with me over AIM throughout the break, and all of them have helped make me feel like I never really left in the first place. Even though I've been gone from the forums for over 50 days, I don't feel like I've left the community for even one day.
I'm grateful to have been given the opportunity to work on some new and exciting projects with the higher ups at the game portion of the site. Even though we're all full of secrets as usual, I have to say that I'm very excited about the future of FFR, and where the site's going to go in the near future - and so should you.
I don't think the forums are going to be as big of a drain on my time as they once were, but that doesn't mean I'm going to become any less active. One of the things that my break taught me was that it's not just forums that are responsible for sapping my free time away and preventing me from getting to priorities - it's myself. Sometimes you just have to force yourself away from the computer so you can attend to priorities, and that's that. Forums or no forums, procrastination is something I just have to wrestle with.
Either way, I'm happy to be back. Thanks, everyone. You make the internet a better place. : )
Cheers,
Chardish
As most of you have known, I've been away from the site since the beginning of February. I'm sure I'm going to see a lot of new faces here - and that's something I like forward to. I've always known this has been the best Bemani-related community on the Internet. But what I didn't know was something I discovered over my break. Check this out.
Wow.
Holy crap.
Wow.
We're the largest Bemani-related site on the Internet.
This absolutely blew my mind away. I didn't really know how to react to it at first - finding out you're an active member of such a huge site is a pretty stunning revelation. But it really humbled me, too - I've never been more honored to hold the position I do, or be a part of the site that I am.
But traffic doesn't really matter. In the end, it's the people. And while I haven't missed the time I've spent on the forums, I have very much missed the people I interact on the forums with. I'd like to throw a special thanks out at this point to LD, Synth, Q, Guido, Stretchy, Tass, Kilga, Blah, and Flypie. They've talked with me over AIM throughout the break, and all of them have helped make me feel like I never really left in the first place. Even though I've been gone from the forums for over 50 days, I don't feel like I've left the community for even one day.
I'm grateful to have been given the opportunity to work on some new and exciting projects with the higher ups at the game portion of the site. Even though we're all full of secrets as usual, I have to say that I'm very excited about the future of FFR, and where the site's going to go in the near future - and so should you.
I don't think the forums are going to be as big of a drain on my time as they once were, but that doesn't mean I'm going to become any less active. One of the things that my break taught me was that it's not just forums that are responsible for sapping my free time away and preventing me from getting to priorities - it's myself. Sometimes you just have to force yourself away from the computer so you can attend to priorities, and that's that. Forums or no forums, procrastination is something I just have to wrestle with.
Either way, I'm happy to be back. Thanks, everyone. You make the internet a better place. : )
Cheers,
Chardish
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