Not A Falsie Report

Just wanted to give you guys a quick heads up that Falsie the Pseudo-Science girl was made public earlier today.  It is an 80s akiba pop song by our favorite j-pop artist, MOSAIC.WAV.  Stepfile is by world renowned simfiler, behanjc.  It’s a little over 2 minutes long and is a 9 in difficulty.  It’s yours for 4500 credits from the shop.

-Tass

Kanon x2

So everyone loved Canon in WHEE, which was part of our New User Purchased Song mini-event about 2 months ago.  Everyone loved it so much, that we got a whole bunch of Canon in WHEE v2 submissions, as well as some other Canon in D remixes.  Kanon-Kanon is another one of those remixes, at a whopping 230bpm, by t+pazolite.  It is a solid 10 in difficulty.  You can find it in Purchased, and it’s yours for 5000 credits.  Props to bmah for the file.

In other, related news, a new subscriber song was released earlier today… {Big Boss} by cornandbeans, stepped by Vote4Nixon.  An amazing song with awesome steps, you’re definitely going to want to subscribe just to listen to this song and play this file.  AND… it’s not a purchased song!  It’s back in funk for the next 3 weeks.

-Tass

Note on Yahoo! Email Accounts

We’ve been having issues with Yahoo email accounts recently…  nothing we send (email verifications, password resets, etc) has been going through to Yahoo; not even into Spam.  We’re working on fixing this, but I figured I’d let everyone know that if you’re having a problem and have Yahoo, this is why.

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!

For those that know me, or have ever seen a picture of me, you’ll know that I sport a retro Philadelphia Phillies hat every day…  and have for the past 8 or so years.  The last championship for any major team in the city of Philadelphia was 1983, a year before I was born.  It is so sweet to finally have a championship back in my City of Brotherly Love, and even moreso that it is my beloved Phillies.

I’m sure the majority of you guys don’t care about sports or baseball, but I do… and this is a moment in my life that I won’t ever forget.  I flew across country, back to Philly, just to attend Game 3 of the World Series, and it was one hell of a game.  I really am beyond words.

Congrats Phillies, and I can’t wait for the 2009 season!!!!!

-Tass

PS – A small spontaneous contest… 10,000 credits for the 1st correct answer.  How many more HBP does Chase Utley need to be the modern career record holder?

Happy Mo-Fo’in Birthday dore and blu!

So, I just had to do something for the birthdays of 2 of my favorite stepfilers, dore and bluguerrilla.  Dore’s 18th birthday was yesterday, but unfortunately I had hours and hours of delays with my flight getting out of Philly and back to LA…  so I wasn’t able to do anything until today.  Blu’s 26th birthday is today…  reaffirming him as our resident elder.  I look forward to the day I can finally call him Dr. blu.

Anyway, in honor of their birthdays, I have released a new purchased song from each of them…  and given both to each of them free, as a gift.  Document 13b is a mid-FMO DnB song by our own DJ Nubbin.  It’s got a ton of tricky jacks and a few 32nd bursts that will make PAing difficult.  6000 credits in the Shop, and it’s yours.  Empornium is our second ever Parental Advisory song, so be warned.  The lyrics are VERY dirty and VERY funny…  you may have trouble AAAing because you’ll be laughing too hard.  Difficulty is a 6, with slow bpm 16ths throughout and 32nd triplets scattered in the chorus.  Song is by nerdcorers extrodinaire, Futuristic Sex Robotz.  This song will set you back 3069 credits… enjoy.

So, make sure to drop dore and blu a comment on their walls or in their respective Chit-Chat birthday threads!

-Tass

Forum Upgrades

I’m sure many of you guys noticed that the forum is down, and possibly one or two other small misalignments around the site.  Fear not, we’re hard at work doing some maitanence and upgrades around the forum and the site.  Hopefully will all be finished and back to normal by the time everyone is up for school tomorrow.

-Tass, Synth, and the MegaMechaMaitanenceMachine

edit: everything should be back up now.

A Puzzle To Keep You Occupied

With Synth working hard up optimizing and updating our SmartFox (which is why ProChat and MP are currently down), I thought it’d be nice to give all you guys a little distraction.

Be the 1st person to solve this FFR releated puzzle and win 50,000 credits and a 6 month subscription.  Post your answers in the comments of this story.

NOTE: do NOT post the answers to the 8 individual questions…  you will only be helping other people!

1. Number of songs with 1 AAA.
2. The userID of the 1st person besides Synth to step a song for FFR minus that user’s age minus the levelID of the 2nd song he stepped.
3. The average levelID of the 3rd widget.
4. Find all the letters of the alphabet that are not represented as the 1st letter of an FFR artist (including widgets).  In HEX, the sum of these lowercase letters.
5. This song has the highest percentage of AAAs per users who have played it (minimum of 500+ AAAs).  Take the number of AAAs (rounded to the nearest hundred) divided by the percentage of users who have AAAd (rounded to the nearest 10 percent).
6. The number of notes in the second song by Excluded added to FFR.
7. The average rank (rounded to the nearest whole number) of the user who has the 2nd best average rank out of users who are 8th in their region.
8. Assuming all clicks were accepted, the number of t-shirts we’ve given away from linking to FFR.

Sum the answers to the above 8 questions and your answer will be the number of notes in a song (or songs).  what song(s)?

-Tass

Creating a New World Through KARMA

Hello FFR’ers! (try saying that 10 times fast heh heh)

Today we have a very special treat for all of you.  A rare and wonderful treat.

Stephen Kay, president of Karma-Lab and the developer of the music technology known as KARMA, has given his permission for us to use one of his songs as this week’s featured stepfile.  This isn’t any ordinary permission.  Stephen has been featured in many magazines and websites such as Electronic Musician, Keyboard Magazine, Sound on Sound, and IT-Review.net for his incredible line of electronic keyboards and software incorporating KARMA, as well as his career as a musician and composer.  His works have appeared as themes for world-wide NBC sports programs such as Wimbledon and the French Open, and he’s played in just about every kind of music group you can name: rock bands, jazz fusion bands, show bands, etc.  His music is truly wacky and colorful, a bright twist to most music you may have listened to.  Here is a link to the media player on his site, loaded with some of product demo works.

For more information about Stephen Kay, check out his biography.

Now to the featured file:
Today’s featured file is called ==Planet KARMA==.  Some of you might know it from ODIpack2.  It’s one of Stephen Kay’s multi-part epics, featuring 5 movements, each with a completely different style and mood.  Most of the file is similar to the one in ODIpack2, but there are some striking differences, especially in the 2nd movement.  The difficulty varies throughout the song, anywhere from a 4 to a 12. The entire song is just under 6 and a half minutes long, so it’s sure to test your endurance throughout! Stepped by yours truly.  You can find it in Secret; it’ll only take 100,000 credits to access.  Enjoy this epic release!

-stargroup and Tass

2 In A Row! New Subbie Feature: Added Speedmods!

Hopefully this does show all of you that we DO listen to suggestions, even if it takes us some time until we can implement them. We had to remove 3.0x mod on the Beta, because the bar is now full. We figured you guys would rather have 2 new usable mods instead of 3.0x which is rarely used outside of as a joke.

2.25x and 2.5x are now usable! Yay! I know a lot of people were looking for a 1.875x mod as well, but there just isn’t room without completely re-doing that area of the settings menu.

I expect to see a metric butt-ton of new insane scores now… no excuses. Between masking and more mods, you guys are out of reasons to suck. And I say that with all the love in the world. <3.

-Tass, Synth, and the Green Lantern!

update: Another small feature… we added a song timer bar between the game interface and the MP interface. It appears as a black bar that gets blue as the song progresses. It’s not in the most amazing location… but it’s merely there to get the functionality in place and to beta test.