TC_Halogen - AMA

[TC_Halogen]

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Biggest fail of your lifetime?

So far? Getting kicked out of school.

If there was a life-sized piece of chocolate of me, would you eat it?'
Edit: Very detailed life-sized piece of chocolate.

Fun fact: I don't eat chocolate. (Ask Kayla.)

So here you are one of the best players in the world at a rather underground game. How many people around you know that you play FFR, and how many of them know the extent of your abilities?

A lot of people that I talk to actively are rhythm gamers or are really close friends to me, and most of them are very well aware of how good I am at the game. My parents know how good I am at it too, but only my dad seems to acknowledge me being good at a game is alright (my dad used to be a game-head himself even in his late 30s).

Favorite flavor of Jarritos?

wow I hate you for mentioning this, I haven't had one in a while. (p.s. Lime.)

[Hateandhatred]

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What do you think of me? =)

[T-Force]

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If you could pick -one- place to go travel, where is it.

[00Razor00]

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Lime?

Pft, upgrade to mango, n*gga.

[moches]

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What is your best experience with this community?

[SKG_Scintill]

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How has stepping style changed over the years? And what is your opinion on current steppage?

Also, do you have a mommy?

[UserNameGoesHere]

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If you could pick one person to be a moderator who isn't currently a moderator, who would it be and why?

[Reincarnate]

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What is your favorite videogame outside of FFR/Stepmania/etc and why?

[Pseudo Enigma]

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do you even lift?

how many hours do you play FFR/SM a day?

[Hateandhatred]

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do you even lift?

Lmfao

To add to my previous question, would you like to meet up?

[21992]

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do you have a dog? preferably the one in my picture XD. Does it play with Saphira ?

[TC_Halogen]

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What do you think of me? =)

You're really chill. I'd talk to you a lot more if our main medium of communication wasn't Facebook. I don't like hanging on Facebook for multiple reasons.

If you could pick -one- place to go travel, where is it.

For years, I've always wanted to see Venice, Italy. If my life gets really good and I'm able to advance myself and my career, that will be the first place I travel to leisurely. (And hey, on the way there, maybe I can meet Mollocephalus somehow.)

What is your best experience with this community?

It's tough to really give a great answer to this question. Back in 2009, I was really well regarded as an active FFR Multiplayer user. I didn't play much because I was on dial-up or a leeched connection, but I would hang in the lobby anywhere from 8 to 10 hours a day. I'd very frequently get messages like "whoa, you're still on here?" Some people at that time also thought I should have gotten some sort of MP moderator title back at that time too. I was treated nicely and I treated people nicely.

How has stepping style changed over the years? And what is your opinion on current steppage?

Also, do you have a mommy?

I've been stepping since early 05. I didn't release any files of any sort until around September of '05, back when most keyboard charts looked as light as your typical ITG chart (typical being 11+ difficulty). Around January of '07, my stepping style changed a little bit after playing quite a few Zaghurim/Bursurk_Lurk/Exige files, and I tried to mimic their style as best as I could (hell, I even used the Square Unique font that most of their files used to have).

Then, I started getting really active on FFR in the forums. I eventually ran into Carlos (who gave me confidence) and bmah (who tweaked my style a bit into something I really like) and had them give me advice on how to improve a bit. After Tageri got released, I received a ton of praise from the community (even some private messages saying that it was one of the best files on FFR now) and it boosted my confidence quite a bit. I kept charting to try and get a feel for how my charts should be.

When Dragon's Fury came around, I was proactively charting for the private custom tournaments, and I started figuring out how to pump out charts at a relatively fast pace to meet demands (or time constraints for any reason). Things started getting really easy to me and I was finally learning how to be a bit more experimental while still being relevant and having fun (see: Who You Thought Was Evidently Me on Dragons Fury, that was my first real attempt at being different).

Once FFR came back up and a batch was open, I was recommended to be a judge. This was awesome to see people realize that I had improved at a substantial rate.

Throughout the last eight years, my stepping skill and style has evolved. My initial style was very simplistic (just following the music and putting notes on their appropriate rhythms without a care), but I started learning how to layer, I started learning how to do "keysound layering" (direct layering - I call it keysound layering because keysounded games like IIDX/Pop'n usually layer as directly as possible on higher difficulties - p.s. I despise doing this now), and now I use accented layering (rather than trying to figure out how many sounds cohesively play at once, I just take prevalent instruments and accent sounds that don't occur frequently or are heavier than other notable sounds).

My current opinion on stepping? People are trying too hard to judge others on technicality ONLY. Not everyone has a gift or talent to be able to properly discern slightly different pitches, so it absolutely frustrates me to see people that had no intentions on using pitch relevancy on songs where it's not blatantly obvious. If you want to chart something, you should be able to do so without having to worry about how amazing it is in technical accuracy, because in four keys, you will never achieve technical perfection. I've made this argument before and no one was ever able to prove me wrong.

Yes, I do have a mommy; I don't like her very much.

If you could pick one person to be a moderator who isn't currently a moderator, who would it be and why?

To me, a moderator should possess good social skills with the rest of the community, should be really level-headed and rational, and needs to be able to handle things properly without stirring up issues within the community and whoever else they work with.

If I had the chance to pick someone that would be a very suitable moderator, I'd have a lot of trouble choosing between two people...

The first person I wouldn't mind as a moderator is iironiic. He is a prolifically active player with overall rank 3, he's a simfile artist and simfile judge, has a great forum presence overall, and has been an active contributor for quite some time. He's also very intelligent and rational, and I feel like he's level-headed enough to make sure that things won't go out of hand.

The second person I wouldn't mind as a moderator is subin. subin has very positive forum experience as well, and he seems to care a lot about making sure that people understand the site's workings (for those of you that don't remember, he made a few things that were worthy of forum stickies in the past). Like iironiic, he's also very intelligent and doesn't seem to have a negative attitude located anywhere on his person.

If either of them got moderator access, it would be a good day to me as long as they handled their power like I thought they would.

If you could be given the power to master any two pieces for piano, what would they be and why?

Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu - Op. 66, and Lizst's El Contrabandista

What is your favorite videogame outside of FFR/Stepmania/etc and why?

Crash Bandicoot. Bold for HUGE emphasis. I've spent so much time trying to perfect all of the earlier (earlier being up to The Wrath of Cortex) games. Some of the challenges I've tried putting myself to where finishing Crash Bandicoot 1 without a single death (SO hard), trying to finish Crash Bandicoot 2 without a single death (retardedly hard), trying to full platinum Crash Bandicoot 3 (I have only one more left ;_;), trying to fully complete Crash Team Racing without any restarts on races/bosses/challenges (I've made it more than halfway through!)... I could keep going for a while if I didn't have more to talk about.

Crash Bandicoot has been a huge part of my gaming life. When I first got hands on a PSX, Crash Bandicoot 2 was my first game ever. I was addicted to it, and it happened very quickly too. The game started getting too easy though, and I had heard from others that the first game was much harder to do. Let me tell you something, just hearing the name Sunset Vista and Slippery Climb makes long time Crash Bandicoot players cringe in place. It's a great game that requires precision like any platformer, but the music is great and the concept is just brilliant to me (I mean, come on -- spinning crates with fruit inside of them... occasionally using them to travel to where you need to go? It's nuts.)

do you even lift?

how many hours do you play FFR/SM a day?

do -you- even lift? I would I could, but I'm usually watching Saphira throughout the day so it doesn't leave me much time for leaving the house.

Believe it or not, since the official tournament concluded, I haven't played all that much FFR. I had two days where I had roughly a two hour session, but it was out of leisure and wasn't anything really hard for me (63 to 80 on the new scale, just randoming files). I'm done with the competitive side of FFR; it was fun while it lasted, but I don't want to do it anymore.

Lmfao

To add to my previous question, would you like to meet up?

I would like to meet up, but that plane trip will probably make me want to kill myself.

do you have a dog? preferably the one in my picture XD. Does it play with Saphira ?

We don't have a dog in our apartment. Kayla's mom has a dog at her house and it is a bit skiddish, but Saphira does well with him.

[dragonmegaXX]

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Do you miss Team Chaos

[Hateandhatred]

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You're really chill. I'd talk to you a lot more if our main medium of communication wasn't Facebook. I don't like hanging on Facebook for multiple reasons.

On what else then? =)

I would like to meet up, but that plane trip will probably make me want to kill myself.

I'm thinking of cruising through the US next summer, so that could be something funny.

[jductape]

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How did you get kicked out of school?