FFRMas 2022 Token Giveaway!

[UnityBoi]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
I think I discovered FFR when I saw a livestream (it was AnMaO i believe) playing it and i wanted to try it out. I stuck around because the files were good and i got involved in the community, mostly the discord.

What is the story behind your username?
I was already called Unity Learner on Discord because i was, well, learning how to use Unity and when searching for a new username I thought that it would make a cool one.

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why?
There are a lot of people that i enjoy talking to and that motivate me in the community but for this question I'm going to say xxOpkillerxx because he is currently #1 in Quebec and so you could say he is my rival, in a friendly way of course .

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR?
I know it's already been mentioned by NotSpiralingEnough, but a rate leaderboard would be pretty cool. It wouldn't have to quite equiv, just a fun way to keep track for rate scores. FFR already has lots of features so I couldn't come up with anything new lol.

[Trema]

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Q:Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
FFR and Stepmania was a introduction to rhythm games for me and I invested alot of time practicing spread. Over the years, I had alot of fun with the game itself and made quite a few friends on the website. Not to mention how much experience I gained just by playing throughout the years.

Q:What is the story behind your username?
Tream came from a superboss in the game Final Fantasy X-2. Trema was a one my favorite superbosses to fight because it encourages the garment grid and sphere changes to gain an advantage in the fight. Besides for an old man, he casts Meteor and Ultima.

Q:Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why?
Players like Laggeh, Dossar, Halogen are amazing players and often I watch their videos and FFR and Stepmania in the past. They inspire me to practice over the years.

Q:What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR?
Maybe put on Steam? Would be cool

[tosh]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
I'm pretty sure I have shared this in various chats, but never on the forum. Sometime in early 2006 (around April/May) we were visiting my brother and his then-girlfriend. His girlfriend had one of the DDR games for the PS2 and a plastic mat. I originally tried playing normally, but after awhile got frustrated and instead started playing with my hands instead of my feet. My brother's girlfriend showed me FFR instead. I played for a few months and showed the game to a couple of friends, but didn't make an account. It wasn't until one of those friends created an account that I finally got around to doing the same.

What is the story behind your username?
Back in the MSN/WLM Messenger days one of the popular things to do was something like "Your name in Japanese". Obviously not accurate, but for fun I used the result of that as my screen name. x After Dawn x shortened my result to "Toshy" and started calling me that, so I adopted that username in most places until I eventually shortened it further to Tosh.

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why?
The easy answer to this would be YoshL, but I'm going to briefly mention the 2nd person: Doug31. Doug himself likely doesn't know this, but even after I created my first account I still didn't use the forums at all. As a result, I really wasn't aware of various playstyles, etc. After hitting a road block playing one handed I decided to look on the forums to see if other people had ideas on how to get better and Doug31 had a post mentioning the spread playstyle. Without coming across that post I probably would've quit the game a long time ago.

[Link251]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
I originally joined ffr because i was getting tired of osu mania but the amount of fun I have with this game and wonderful community of people is what keeps me around.
What is the story behind your username?
LOZ:OoT made a large impact on me when I was younger, it felt like the first game to ever really speak to me as a player. Since playing LOZ:OoT back on the N64 I've been enthralled by the series so i make my username Link to show my appreciation. The 251 afterword's is just something i stole from my sisters usernames lol.
Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why? A user named spongebobismysenpai has made a very large impact on my involvement in the game. They make me want to improve and get better, they also give me that one little extra push i need to get out of my comfort zone, weather that be entering a tourny or trying charts past my limit or what i'm normally used to. There pretty much the reason why i push my self so hard to improve.
What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR? A feature that I would want most in ffr would be the ability to have more then 2 people playing at the same time in one room.

[MysticChromium]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
I literally googled "ddr but for hand" back in 2017/2018 and found myself here (didn't get really active/create account until 2020 though); I stick around because the community is really nice and I enjoy playing the files.

What is the story behind your username?
Not really a story, but back in 2017 I just kinda sat down for about half an hour until two words that I thought made for a pretty solid Minecraft username popped into my head. Then, I smashed 'em together and have been using it pretty much everywhere ever since.

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why?
I can't really decide on one person here; you're all cool

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR?

Hmm......maybe an organized list of previous Events (Official Tourneys, User Tourneys, Other Events) that users have participated in that I can see, sort of like an automated FFR Resume.

[Blondeybear]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
I joined FFR in 2009 when I was discovering my love for rhythm games. Despite me trying numerous other rhythm games I always come back to FFR due to the complexity in it's simplicity. It isn't a flashy game (Despite it being an OG flash game -hahahehe), it doesn't have complicated hold sequences, or crazy game modes but it has always been about simply accuracy in just hitting the notes. That is why I will always continue to play.

What is the story behind your username?
My username is actually a nickname from when I was in high school. My freshman year I had to bright idea of dyingg my hair bleach blonde with black tips. It was terrible. But on the first day an random dude came up to me and said blondeybear was my name and it was that from then on. (The name is no longer a name I respond to as I got older)

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why? (For example this can be someone from FFR you idolize/respect, an FFR rival that pushes you to improve, or a good friend from FFR that you made since joining.)
I would say the people that have made a significant impact on me and FFR would be Rapta and One Winged Angel (they were god mod status when I first started playing and I remember spectating them wishing I was that good), SNOWLEGENED and Dewdew (can't remember the rest of his username. SNOW for helping me push my ability to read high notes per second and at the lower levels offering me a sense of rivalry and Dewdew for bestowing upon me the mentality of the importance of accuracy with the saying 'If you hit more than 30 goods in a chart then that chart is to difficult for your skill level'.

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR? (Can be for the game or the website.)
I would LOVE to see a multiway lobby. Like 10 people playing charts rather than just the 1v1. That would be sick.

[Lights]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
Yyorshire recommended this game to me- I stuck around because I like some of the files and the community is pretty cool

What is the story behind your username?
based on one of the shortest peoms- lighght

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why? (For example this can be someone from FFR you idolize/respect, an FFR rival that pushes you to improve, or a good friend from FFR that you made since joining.)
Peace to- Eppy, Eggy, Zlyice, Frostwind47, Hayden, Jon, Haku, Rapta, Xtrafestive, Skayles, Revo, Tosh, Cup, T-force, Storn, Pizza, Sploder, Matt, Oppiie, Flynn, Jacob, April and a ton of other people that im struggling to list off with 30 seconds of thought. I can't say I have much as far as direct rivals or idols go, but everyone i've competed with in D5 and D6 over the last two OTs have definitely made lots of fun FFR memories for me. Huge Respect to Goldstinger and Velocity for a banger OT15 as well

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR? (Can be for the game or the website.)
Rate-mod leaderboards. for the love of heck please. (i literally wrote you an example of how to sort them owl man ;-; Pat made you a UI mock up for it. come ooooooon)

[ositzxz369]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?

-Old SM youtube vids from StepmaniaFreak (who moved on from SM) made me google DDR Online. Stepmania's UI was really annoying, so widget-era FFR was the better/easier option. Fastforward a bunch of years, I probably learned about Venetian Snares while exploring m1dy-related music. I stuck around when I learned that I can get ppl to listen to VS (and other good peepee music) by stepping it for FFR.

What is the story behind your username?

-"osit" is RL name-related, "zxz" is the Family Farce song, "369" is a lyric from Lil Jon's Get Low song

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why? (For example this can be someone from FFR you idolize/respect, an FFR rival that pushes you to improve, or a good friend from FFR that you made since joining.)

-mi40 stepped aural masterpieces like Herbie and Epidermis v2, which influenced me to step VS as good as that.

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR? (Can be for the game or the website.)

-Songs should get their BPMs/BPM range listed.

[storn42]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
I just randomly stumbled across this game one day on kongregate. needed an account to play mp so i made one. I then proceeded to NOT hang around disappeared for a year before remembering the game exists. Then i remembered the game existed made this account, was confused how i didn't have an account already and shrugged it off. Now the game, community itself makes me stick around. And of course I always want to see my latest and greatest charts get released.

What is the story behind your username?
So one day i was playing a game, i think it was Knights of the Old Republic, and i needed to create a name. I thought about it, then i pressed the S key. Its a good letter, one i quite like myself, but what could possibly follow it up?! I know, next a T. A good strong start but next we need some sort of vowel. You know what i think O is a pretty good one. Next maybe another consonant? yes, but maybe.lets try R. okay this is almost good, we're getting somewhere but we need to finish it off somehow... maybe a k? no.. a v? thats too wierd. I've got it! lets put an N to finish it off! S-T-O-R-N, Storn, yea that sounds good enough. But wait, sometimes i cant get just Storn and need a number. 42 is a great number. Its the answer to life the universe and everything. Perfect "Storn43" God damn it i made a typo. (but yes it is just random letters i typed that sounded good)


Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why?
Everyone pretty much. Its been different groups at different times, from the TWG community who help me push into FFR as a whole, or my D5 rivals for OT14 pushing me onwards. Of course there is always the Discord gang. In general it hard to say just one person, but the community as a whole is one of the best in all of rhythm gaming.

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR?
Song imports like in the AF engine, Or isolation in the AV engine. Its hard to playtest specific sections of a nearly 18 minute chart with just FFR.

[jh05013]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?

Found FFR from Kongregate forums. Looked cool so joined immediately. At one point I left FFR and visited many other rhythm games, but ultimately came back to FFR after 7 years when I suddenly heard of this game again. Never left since then thanks to its lightweight design and the community.

What is the story behind your username?

It was automatically generated by my elementary school. jh was the initial of the name of my elementary school, and 05013 was sort of a student ID. I wasn't creative enough to think of any other username so I started using it everywhere.

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why?

Pizza and April for their heartwarming support with regards to FFR and stepcharting. Especially, Pizza was one of the people I knew from the beginning because he was also in Kongregate. I was surprised when he immediately recognized me just from the Recently Played list after 7 years.

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR?

Permission thread v9. It really needs to be updated.

[User1176756]

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15+ years of time here to explain some stuff so if this ends up being a wall of text, I do not apologize. It's all too important to TLDR/spoiler this.

Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?

I joined FFR randomly when I had some sort of urge to play DDR with the arrow keys. I didn't know what StepMania even was until I YouTube'd "Finger DDR" way back in 2007. One day I came across FFR via YouTube with all the StepMania videos and got more curious about it, so I Googled it and came across the actual game on the website. At that point, I was hooked, and my online life would change forever.

At first I didn't know there was a community, let alone knew I could interact with others. As someone that didn't have the greatest High School...or even the most interesting life ever, this was awesome considering my whole rest of my junior year and summer break would just end up being nothing but me playing FFR anyways.

The community and the everlasting new content even to this day is why I stuck around all these years. It also gave me goals to achieve when IRL didn't offer anything at the time, or was too long term (i.e. Graduating from college).

What is the story behind your username?

Way back in 2004 my brother showed me pogo.com (lol) and when I made an account I had to come up with a username. I was told I was a bad bad man way back in the day and I'd get in trouble in school at the time for doing Middle School things. I meeeeean I didn't know any better! Maybe i did...

It was originally gonna be "badman777" but that was taken already, so I added the 2 at the end and that's how I got to "badman7772." It looks better to me anyways.

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why?

This honestly might be the longest answer. There are too many people to even name (past and present) that I've interacted with, but I'm going to have a few honorable mentions.

Gonna start off with TheSaxRunner05 for making the FFR Trading Card Game back in 2015. This is where my involvement kinda took off and it ultimately led to me having what would go to on be 2 stints on the Events team up to this point. I can't tell the future, but who knows what will happen later on.

Rivals were definitely a thing too. I had quite a few of them over the years, but the ones that stood out the most were T-Force and MarcusHawkins. For some reason we would most of the time have the same skill level as where I would be at the time, and my competitiveness would always lead me to trying my hardest to get that edge. If they're still confused on why they're mentioned, don't ask. :P It's Only Natural.

I also want to shout out FlynnMac/Klarion for always wanting to win at everything I host and genuinely being a wholesome person for his age. I KNOW IT MAKES ME SOUND OLD. SHUT UP. Also shout out to Skayles as well for being one of those people that would make voice chats very fun and make hours go by. Last shout out here goes to MKIIPro for being literally the funniest man alive in these voice chats. CAN WE NOT FORGET THE FFR DISCOUNT AT WENDYS?! I know there were others, but those I mentioned here stood out the most.

I know I blew up a lot of convos on messengers over the years. Just know if I did, you're amazing. You really are. Same with those people who really took the time out of their day to message me. It's all greatly appreciated.

Like I said though, there have been a lot more people than I can ever remember that made me who I am now, which is the greatest thing that can ever happen. Thank you guys from the bottom of my heart. This will forever be my home no matter how many times I leave.

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR? (Can be for the game or the website.)

I'm honestly not sure. Do we have custom background's yet? Not just the sides but the entire background. If we do someone show me. LOL!

[jacobvl39]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
I joined on a whim and have stuck around because of how well the game is run compared to other rhythm games. We have people who know what they're doing judging the simfiles and difficulty ratings, so I don't have to worry about finding packs and not knowing if they're any good, if the difficulties are accurate, or which files and rates will trick the automated rating system into giving the most inflated ranks.


What is the story behind your username?
It's just my name, the only story is a lack of creativity on my part.

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why? (For example this can be someone from FFR you idolize/respect, an FFR rival that pushes you to improve, or a good friend from FFR that you made since joining.)
Ankerserm and Jackal0949 for lots of fun MP sessions when I was getting started
revolutionomega for being one of the first people I talked to in Discord and inspiring me to push for higher levels
M0nkeyz, tru, pizza69 for the advice and encouragement learning to chart
Plus all the people who hang out on the brag board, too many to list but you know who you are


What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR? (Can be for the game or the website.)
I would like to have a smoother and bug-free multiplayer experience

[Elite Ninja]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
When I joined FFR I was playing DDR at my local YMCA and some person thought I was pretty good and then introduced me to FFR by playing flight of the bumblebee on a computer there. I remembered the website in my head for when I got home so that I could check it out and play at home. I wanted to get as good at FFR as I was at DDR naturally since I was a competitive kid back then so I would play often at home when I couldn't be at the YMCA playing DDR. Eventually the DDR pads at the YMCA were broken by some children mis-treating them and so I no longer had access to easy DDR pads and stuck to playing FFR only since. Eventually FFR became the first place I ever got involved online with other people through any sort of chatting and being on forums etc. There's many things that kept me hooked to the game whether it be the community I got involved with and friends I made, the many stats I could keep track of and goals I could set for myself, the feeling of progressively getting better at the game and tournaments, lots of music that I enjoyed discovering and jamming to, the identity/relate-ability that FFR brings to all the songs/charts within the game, etc.

What is the story behind your username?
There's not really much of a story behind my username. I've had multiple usernames mainly because I would make one and then eventually think it's bad/cringe and then fast forward later to this one where I was trying to come up with some cool combination of words again and landed on "Elite Ninja". I honestly don't even remember how I came up with this name, was probably just brainstorming a bunch of words together relating to things I liked at the time which ninja could have been from ninja turtles, ninja movies in general, or naruto I don't really remember. Put the word Elite in front of it and thought it sounded cool and so I stuck with it. So much is tied to this username now so I am kind of stuck with it, otherwise I would have probably been going by a totally different username right now as I've made more usernames after this one but never stuck to those because again... too much investment already on my Elite Ninja account that can't be transferred to a new one.

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why? (For example this can be someone from FFR you idolize/respect, an FFR rival that pushes you to improve, or a good friend from FFR that you made since joining.)
Oh man my answer for this question is hard as there's been many people who've been an impact for me over my lifetime on FFR for many different reasons. Shoutouts to "The Skype Room", a group of people that's evolved over time and who I've been involved with for so long over the years and is the sole reason I am still involved in the FFR community and who I am super grateful to call my friends. Special shoutout to kjwkjw who I've known the longest in the group and has been with me since the beginning of my adventures through FFR and was the one to reach out to me to pull me back in to this wonderful group of people when I had been away for so long <3. Shoutouts to bmah for being a huge help in getting me started with stepping for FFR as I wouldn't have ever made any charts without him and idolized him as well as shoutouts to some of my other stepping idols MarioNintendo, WirryWoo, and M0nkeyz. Shoutouts to Hakulyte, Jerry DB,, awein999, XJ-9, WirryWoo, T-Force, kjwkjw, SK8R43, tosh, Discord bragboard and many many many other friendly rivals I've had over the past many years that have pushed me to improve at the game and made it fun and enjoyable :3. Also huge shoutouts to the people who host events and tournaments throughout the years to make FFR more fun and interesting and the staff members that have kept the site and game alive for so long!

Sorry if I forgot anyone ;-;

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR? (Can be for the game or the website.)
Hmmm I think it would be cool if FFR saved rate scores somewhere and had a separate leaderboard for them but not count towards any sort of rankings or skill rating etc. Just more of a for fun feature.

(other features that would be nice is the ability to isolate in the AF engine which would really help with playtesting charts I'm making easier, and the ability to have custom themes for the play window of FFR which I've seen gold stinger have something like this on his FFR engine I believe.

[Hakulyte]

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I'll switch the order of the questions so, it's more chronological.

What is the story behind your username?

Long story short is that I have an old Ragnarok Online Guild that was called "The Missing Nins" (as ninjas) with the obvious Naruto thematic. Zabuza was the guild leader and it was someone I spent years with organizing raids etc. I was actually known as "Eternity" in that era. I was part of an elite group that played a ton and raced to get on top of the level leaderboard. He was the 1st assassin to reach level 99 and about 3 days later, I got the #2 spot and made it to level 99 as well. It might seems mundane said like that, but it took 3 years to do so and I was playing in average 10 hours/day consistently at the detriment of my health.

A few days later, I permanently loss my account and eventually quit due to letting an irl friend check the server on my account. While I wasn't paying attention, he managed to pick a fight with the main admin and break several rules over a misunderstanding of how things works. That ruined an irl friendship to some extent. I guess it's my fault for not realizing how different people can be irl and online.

After explaining myself, I was told I could start a new account from zero and keep playing, but I didn't want to grind another 3 years nonstop to get back to where I was before. So, I just quit. It was just impossible to catch up with the server economy at that point. I missed my chance. As a momento of those times, I decided to move from "Eternity" to "Haku", but "Haku" was already taken on FFR, so, I fused the "Elite" part with it to make "Hakulyte".

Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?

The ease of access and replay value made me both stay and stick around on FFR. If I was tied to the community, I think I would have quit at same time as other older generations of players. I just genuinely liked to try to beat my own scores and care little about competition. That being said, I enjoy watching others grow as players and improve at the game over time.

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why? (For example this can be someone from FFR you idolize/respect, an FFR rival that pushes you to improve, or a good friend from FFR that you made since joining.)

If Velocity didn't unban me in 2009 after the site went back online, I wouldn't be here today. That's significant. His dedication on the coding side of the game was also really impressive to me over the years. Honorable mention to PrawnSkunk as well.

If we're talking strictly players, it would most likely be DossarLX ODI with the Death Piano score along with others like RATO, but also brutal engine scores/SM scores. It just felt unreal at the time. If we're including SM, I'd mention ThaoR in terms of impact.

If we're talking actual involvement with the site then it would be Hateandhatred for literally making me leave my home to attend Anime North and meet some FFRers in person.

Anyone who felt like talking to me at any point over anything FFR related over the years. There's a ton of old names I would name, but most of them are no longer on the site. The rest probably already know who they are.

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR? (Can be for the game or the website.)

Oh, they're already trying to rebuild the engine. If this somehow make the game run smoothly here then that would be it. There's still a few "framefix" things left, but a lot of it has been taken care of already.

[Wiosna]

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Why did you join FFR and what makes you stick around?
I joined when FFR came back up because I didn't have a rhythm game community to be around. The community was welcoming back when I first joined and it has been welcoming since, though with its ups and downs. I also stick around because the FFR charting scene is intriguing and is a nice contrast from other communities.

What is the story behind your username?
Current username is the name of the track used in the main menu of Katawa Shoujo.

Who from FFR makes a significant impact on your involvement in the community and why?
AutotelicBrown is the easiest answer, but otherwise VisD and radioamor are the main two people that come to mind when it comes to sticking around in the community. There are many others too (tosh, XtraFestive, Pizza69, BigHayden1, Lights, etc.) of course.

What kind of feature would you want the most in FFR? (Can be for the game or the website.)
A multiple month-long event a la Stamina RPG, where there are many many songs (~100) to unlock and you can track your progress based on quests/challenges for all skill levels that you've completed or a leaderboard system that shows you how well you perform under some metrics (e.g. your Amazing accuracy, number of AAAs, skill rating, length-adjusted skill rating, etc.).