Spontaneous Contest #96.3 – We Have A Winner! – g4z33b0!
I commend everyone’s bravery tonight. Getting your parents to take a picture for some random internet site is not easy. Personally, I think all of you who participated deserves some sort of special little prize.
Ok.. Where were we.. Ahh! Yes.. The winner. DarkRoa, your father took a compelling picture and I do appreciate the fact he shaved his mustache for the occasion. We will consider him second place tonight. Especially since you already have a T-Shirt! 
Samurai swords and Bucket for constipation also came in a close second. Hell.. EVERYONE came in a close second. Even mad scary looking dad with no shirt! Special shout out to the mom who covered her eyes because she was scared of the internets!
I cannot believe I am putting this on the front page of FFR.. Wow.. nearly NSFW. g4z33b0‘s mom blew away the competition. Literally.. I think most of us were so shocked that we didn’t even know what to say. Well Ms. g4z33b0, you have earned a rightful spot on the front page of FFR. Enjoy the publicity and your son is going to laugh it up while wearing his new shirt.
Behold! The power of FFR!
Thanks again to everyone for participating. I will be PM’ing all the people who participated tonight and giving them a special little e-gift sometime very shortly (few minutes). Others will want what you have, it will be your decision to let them have it or keep it to yourself.
Enjoy the night
Cheers,
Spontaneous Contest #96.3 Starts…. NOW! Win a T-Shirt with a Special Secret Message
Yup Yup, Welcome back to Spontaneous contest night!
I have come up with a photo contest inspired by all the ideas sent to me and I am looking forward to the originality that you guys always bring. You can consider tonight’s contest a part 2 of a contest that we held last year. Someone (who shall remain anonymous) was nice enough to send this idea to me via PM when I was asking for ideas. What do you have to do? Read on.
Tonight will not be about you, no sir! Tonight will be about your parents. You must simply take a picture of your parents or parent holding a piece of paper with this phrase written on it “FFR gives me constipation”.
Bonus points will be awarded for interesting expressions and creative poses!
Photoshopped images will not be accepted, so power up those little space age digital cameras and get snappin! You have 1 hour (8pm Central Time) to get the photos in!
What will you win? What else besides a fantasticalagistic FFR T-Shirt with a special mystery message written on it from your truly! (hint: the message will unlock something).
–> Click Here to post your images.. <--- If you don’t have an external account, you can always upload your photos into your profile and then embed them into the contest thread.
DOOOO IT!! GO!!
GO!!!
Cheers,
Synthlight
*Edit Synthlight 7:22PM* – YES! The photos are starting to roll in! Remember, you have to sell this idea to your parents! You have to make them understand that you are competing for new clothes. This means they will save money!
*Edit Synthlight 7:55pm* 5 minute warning bell!
*Edit Synthlight 8:00PM* Contest is closed! Thank you everyone for your entries! The winner will be announced in just a few minutes!
Spontaneous Contest #96.3
Please charge your cameras. Because tonight, IT’S GOING DOWN!
7pm Central Time.. (8pm Eastern and 5pm Pacific).
The prize, a t-shirt with a special message.
Cheers,
Synthlight
*Edit Synthlight 6:00pm CST* – Only about an hour away until we begin.
New FFR Feature – Song Auto-Fail (we are serious) FFR Revision Update V.701
Many of you might be wondering why you would ever want to auto-fail anything on FFR right? Well, there is definitely a reason and I will explain that to you.
Lets say you have been trying to get a perfect score on a certain song for weeks now only to find out after playing the entire song, you had 500 perfects and 1 good at the end. Somehow in the middle of the song a good sneaks in there and ruins all the dreams and accomplishments. You then spend another 1-2 minutes playing out the song only to be made aware of that 1 good at the post game screen.
The horror!
So this is where auto-fail comes in. It will help you raise your ranking and stats quicker than before and will help you not waste your time on the parts you don’t need to improve on. It basically works like this..
Load the game
Click the settings button
Choose the trigger amount for each type of arrow judge down beneath “Auto-Fail”
Play a level!
Easy? Of course. I really hopes this helps many of you improve your game. Thanks to all of those who requested it and the subscribers on the beta team who helped test it. They provided a lot of great feedback.
The Feature is available now.
Cheers,
Synthlight
FFR Connection Speed Upgrade + New Feature Releases This Week
Well, not many of you thought we could get faster than dual gigabit up/down stream lines right? And while we didn’t actually upgrade our line speed, we had one serious datacenter core router upgrade that can more efficiently handle the flow of network traffic. This trickles down as higher speed and more responsiveness for the people that use FFR and will be noticed in page refreshes, multiplayer, file downloads and even FFR the game itself.
Yes, as many of you already know within a quarter second of visiting FFR tonight, the core router at the data center was finally replaced and we are off and running again. If everyone could do me a personal favor and spread the word (email, phone, word of mouth, person in class next to you) and let them know that FFR is finally back up to speed after 2 agonizing days of reduced bandwidth. Not only are we back, we are back and faster than hell. I was downloading files here from the site tonight and I kept maxing my cable connection out at around 550-600kbs. Has anyone had faster?
Last but not least we have a few new things to release to everyone this week in celebration of our upgrades. Check the news here throughout the day. I am sure that I will have more than a couple of things to post about. Muahaha.
Cheers,
Synthlight
YAY! HAPPY FUN TIMES!
Yes, that can only mean one thing. It means that the core router will be fixed tonight in approximately 50 minutes so that our transfer speeds go back to normal. Between now and 10pm central time, FFR will be going down for approximately 20 minutes. When it goes down, it will be rewired to the new core router and we will come back online being faster than ever.
See you on the side.
Cheers,
Synthlight
DataCenter Update
Yay! Only one more day to go until that core router gets updated at the datacenter in the Chicago Board of Trade building. While we still maintain connectivity, access speeds are slow until that core router is replaced and we get back onto our full Dual Gigabit Up/Down stream connections. Make sure when playing the game that you let the game and the lower multiplayer module fully load to avoid any issues.
This has given me some time to cook up a couple extra new features for the current release of FFR that will be released this week.
Cheers,
Synthlight + Need for Speed
*Edit March 20th Synthlight* – Only about 6 hours to go until we are back to full speed! I can’t wait.
Songs of the Week, 3rd week of March
SotW #1 of this week is Video Out A.
Song is by Vospi and Steps are by hi19hi19, both artists are the same with That is Fair.
It’s a semi-speedy song (178 BPM) and the rhythms are quite unique.
A fairly hard song, difficulty rating is 4.5/6 (Challenging).
You can find this song in Misc section.
SotW #2 is Sepia. Song is by Shiki, one of the most trendy FFR song artists.
Steps are by BzT, a new FFR stepfile artist.
This song is basically moderate, but has some tricky 24ths sections.
Difficulty rating is high 4/6 (Very Difficult).
This song is currently in Funk section.
Have fun with SotW.
Datacenter Maintenance
One of the core routers at the Datacenter we use inside the Chicago Board of Trade building went up in smoke today. While they work over the weekend to replace it and get everything back up to speed, you may notice slowdowns or interruptions in downloads. They have assured us that this situation will be taken care of as soon as possible.
Until then, lets pass the time with brainstorming Spontaneous contest ideas. Respond with your ideas and early this week, we will pick one of the ideas to actually use in a contest.
Cheers,
Synthlight
