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

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1976: [56] Polar 240
1977: [59] PADORU / PADORU
1978: [2] Spooktune
1979: [6] Faint Courage (Game Over)
1980: [6] Stangblack
1981: [8] Silly
1982: [8] Before The Story
1983: [9] Fading Memories
1984: [40] Dan Dan Hayaku Naru
1985: [11] Smooth-Dead Tape
1986: [18] Farting Around
1987: [50] Forgotten Solo from some song
1988: [57] Impending Horizon
1989: [20] Reaching Respite
1990: [9] Uwa!! So Holiday
1991: [10] Once Upon A Time
1992: [5] pov YOU (cat) havent been fed for a full 49 seconds
1993: [13] Red Soil Redux (Super Metroid)
1994: [14] Moonlike Smile
1995: [25] Sneaky Snitch
1996: [30] I Baked a Cake
1997: [31] Benny's Book Store
1998: [27] wonderland waltz
1999: [47] Visiting Mom
2000: [52] Traitor's Motif
----- 2000 AAAs ----- [Achieved 08/06/25]

That's it, we're done.
60th ever to 2000.