After being pretty much gone from this site for a while, I have some things to say. After seeing games like Smash Bros. Brawl not turn out as well as I had imagined, even with a lot more people working on it than there are people working on FFR, I think the staff here deserves more credit than I gave them in my previous random thoughts. Also, I don't know how, but I think I'm better at FFR now than when I used to play all the time. I scored in the top 10 on vrofl a few days ago. I also got 4 goods on K8107 today, and watched the replay, and it saw that it still would have been the same even with jack syndrome. Here's the link, and I think this is the best score I've gotten on video: http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/profile/Doug31/replay/23564274/

However, I've been very bored lately. I'm considering doing a tourney, and any suggestions of things to do are welcome.

I decided to do a little testing to see if jack syndrome was indeed gone, and yep, it is no more. I got a perfect on the first note of the 2 framer in 100bb, and couldn't seem to notice jack syndrome on a little of Frictional Nevada, either, although it was on a school computer. This actually makes FFR sound like a lot more fun to me again, but I'm still never going to play nearly as much as I used to. Still, I am now interested in seeing what some of the hardest songs are like without jack syndrome.

Edit: Wow, this game is soooooo much easier without jack syndrome. Even at school with a microscopic resolution compared to what I like, I still beat my Nova score, and could easily beat other scores like Piano Etude if I tried. Now the only problem is that there REALLY aren't nearly enough hard songs.:(

Yesterday in my Music 331 class, we listened to Maple Leaf Rag, and it's on the list of songs we're supposed to know for a test. I feel the best way for me to remember a song with its name is...to play it in FFR. Seriously, you could play almost any song that was in FFR back when I played it a lot, and I could name the song. I think I already know it well enough though, but I think I'll play it at least once, anyway. I never imagined this game would be so useful.XD

Yes, I'm doing this since I'm very bored. Just because I'm barely here anymore doesn't mean I'm completely gone guys. The responses to my comments and posts on my wall are still welcome, and thanks to all who've left me any messages lately.

I just feel like I've been so much happier since when I stopped being so active here. I don't feel like I'm being tortured in games so much anymore, and more like I can do whatever I want in them and there's no one that's going to take away levels from me or have levels that are ridiculously hard to unlock that I just can't ever get. I now can play games where I feel I'm making myself better in some way, such as thinking in ways I normally never do or just exercise from playing the Wii.

That's not all. I've made it further with a girl than ever before now, too. I even got better grades than I expected my first quarter at the University of Washington, and I expect pretty high from myself.

Finally, I'd like to amend my idea about the mystery prize. In the event that they ever do give it out, send me a PM at Rithum.com or just email Doug31@flashflashrevolution.com and say that they've (finally) given out the mystery prize. Wow it seems like that tourney was a really long time ago now. I mean, it wasn't like the one I was just in, it was waaaaaaaaay back when I get 3rd place. Oh well, I've waited longer for something from this place before haha.

I can't think of much else to say, but anyone who reads this gets automatic cool points from me. I wish you all a very happy new year, even though I bet people will read this long after that new year has started.:)

Since I haven't bashed how horrible I think a lot of stuff on this site is yet, I've got a few more things to say about stuff I just find ridiculously unreasonable. First of all, that guy who I quoted in my sig about asking if it doesn't save your score if you use a trainer is the guy who won the intermediate division. He didn't get DQ'd or anything. There were other people who'd done stuff much less suspicious that got DQ'd. Even Rubix is A LOT more believable to me than that guy. I've actually reached about 98% confidence that Rubix is legit, based on that people can only fake so much above how good there really are realistically, and so it's obvious he'd still be the best player even if he's done some cheating to get a little better, but I also think he's smart enough to realize what good it does people to cheat at this game--a lot more people doing stuff you won't like in tons of ways, and a lot more crap, with really no real advantages.

And this wasn't even the worst of it. What bothers me most is that tass, and a lot of other staff for that matter, are way too obsessed with feeling above other people. Not just them trying to make us feel below them all the time, but now it's become like that with tons of stuff in FFR, like all that token garbage. And now, Tass was talking about people with vrofl defending it, or trying to prevent other people from getting it by doing good in tourneys again. That is just...painfully deadly. Seriously, I wanted to drop out of advanced if I didn't think I could reach the top 3 before reaching the final 8 to let someone else get it. We need to all act as a team against their evil ways of trying to make us be on different levels of above each other and watch out for each other. And all letting more people get vrofl really does for those of us who don't have it is make it so we're less likely to get asked as much for challenges at it. And the more competition there is at something, the more glory there is in accomplishing it. I.E. The more people that have vrofl that have all failed to pass it or anything like that, barring quadholding, the greater glory there would ever be to someone who actually did it. Anyway, I've decided I'm never participating in another official FFR tourney again, as long as vrofl is offered in it, since I shouldn't take that from other people just for a small chance at a small monetary prize. Not that I was really planning on doing so anymore anyway, but this just makes that even more so.

And I still feel like being good at FFR is a MUCH bigger advantage than being a subscriber. The best players get A LOT more respect than other players do for the most part, by those who believe them, anyway. And I've gotten to where I don't care if there are a million subscriber songs. Being good still gets you a better selection, as you will get subscriber songs eventually, but if you aren't good, you can easily never get Otaku. And I still feel like that token garbage has made FFR a pay to play game, as I doubt anyone, except Rubix, could earn it on the keyboard I've played more FFR on than any other. Therefore, I have to pay to earn the last semihard song, as there are no actually hard songs in FFR. It needs more Gigadelic, Death Reveals, Red Sign, 0x1311, and NVLM's OML type songs. Every song added in a huge length of time has been way too tass-like. He will only accept stuff that I can't stand anymore, which is really to his disadvantage. Like what Rubix tries to tell us, people should work on their weaknesses. As long as tass won't add much with his weaknesses to FFR, he will continue to fall behind tons of other people in skill. I wish FFR was still how it was when I joined. I'd trade all this new stuff like MP, profiles, vids, all that stuff, just to have garbage songs/tokens/skill tokens gone. Why? I'll tell you why. I used to think FFR was so fun, as I felt like I sucked as I sat there mashing CIA for the 10th time in a row. But, you know what? Back then, I felt like skill level didn't matter. No matter how bad you were, you could still play and do the exact same stuff as the best player could and have a great time. I really am starting to miss that. Now I feel like I have to do everything I can to do better and improve my skills all the time, which is just not as fun for me. And I still feel totally cheated with how unfair things were to downscrollers. I dread any and all new features ever added from this day on because they probably won't exist in reverse at first, or won't work in reverse at first, or will be something those evil people came up with as another lame way for people to feel above other people.

All of this is why I really just can't stand to be here anymore. I just feel like it's totally boring and with no rewards or gains worth mentioning anymore. I even feel like I'm treated worse now by the staff than 3 years ago, since they probably consider me a threat to catching up to their postcounts or something, so then they wouldn't feel as much above me, which is really just that...well, they're too big of failures to be happy with whatever is currently going on in their lives.

This will probably be my last random thought, unless they do something with vids where I need to post them as one of these and not just have them as my last 10 vids or w/e. And I'm not playing another game of FFR, EVER.

Edit: ok, so I know it's not nearly all the staff that's acting how I said in this, just some of them. And I had other stuff to say, but can't seem to remember it right now. Well, w/e, I might edit it in sometime. Or maybe I just don't care enough even though I think it was something really good, but it doesn't really do me any good anyway lol.

P.S.: Go to Rithum.com, it's the best video game site ever, with almost all very cool posters there, IMO. I'll still be hanging out there, anyway.