I've been coming to FFR almost every day for the last 17 years - over half of my life - and even when I couldn't, I found refuges; off-shoots; other places to chat and reminisce with the incredible people I've met over here during the Great Server Crash of 2009™️.
Even after it came back, and friendships come and gone, I'm just really realizing just.. how much of a mark I've been so fortunate and lucky enough to leave.

It's been a privilege to chat with you all, to moderate, to participate, and to just.. touch your worlds just a little bit; just like you've all touched mine.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you all. This means the world to me.

Stepmania gags aside, tis true. I have handed in my moderatorship.

I feel like I didn't have enough time in my life to be able to dedicate to the role, or what the role required - especially heading up the department, for lack of better words.

I've been promoted about 3 or 4 times in the last year or so at my real life job, and that challenge has been very good for me, but it comes with the obvious sacrifice of free time. Mix in other hobbies, and a relationship, and slowly things start falling away. The last thing I wanted to do, or be, is someone who just has the title for the heck of it, or overstays their welcome, because we know that's happened too often on FFR.

Thank you to everyone in the Discord for their kind words; thank you to you, the user, for making this a solid community where I - admittedly - didn't have to do much - and when I did, being quick to alert and let me do my thing; and thank you especially to all the people who dedicate their time and effort to being staff on this site. There are so many incredible people doing good stuff behind the scenes, and I'm so grateful to be able to have met so many of them, and become friends with them.
Give them all the love in the world, because they honestly deserve it for all the good work they do.

This isn't goodbye, but a hello from a new perspective. A civilian life I haven't experienced since September of 2013.

[86] Pretty Girls With Mental Disorders - 09/26/22

Reached top 100 for AAAs: 08/03/21
Reached top 50 for AAAs: 01/15/22
Fully AAA'd through: 63
Current AAA rank: 47th
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1971: [43] Into the Blue
1972: [50] Bloodlip
1973: [50] Jack of Spades
1974: [55] You're My Hero
1975: [56] Balloon Fight [Standard]
----- 1975 AAAs ----- [Achieved 04/01/23]
1976: [56] Polar 240
1977: [59] PADORU / PADORU






















----- 2000 AAAs -----



* all complete save for missing skill tokens