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NO DOUBT GET LOUD
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: California
Age: 30
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There is so much for me to say about this site.
To summarize it up, If there was no FFR. I don't know where I would be in life. |
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Okay, okay, serious time.
FFR made me spend 225 dollars on IIDX. Bleh. Scam artists.
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We've already talked about this, haha.
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Let's see. FFR greatly improved my overall grammar, raised my IQ 12 points, and changed my overall thought process. It changed my views on gov't, religion, and other various topics. It helped me greatly mature. It has a very tight community, which is full of a diverse group of awesome people. TWG made me the best 7-up player in the school. The game itself improved my reaction time, awareness, and other subtle things. It made my mind much more sharp. I'm very grateful for the awesome community and support FFR gets, and I am willing to contribute in any way to maintain this site, money etc. I greatly appeciate all FFR has done for so myself and so many others.
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FFR made me good at FFR.
On a more serious note, I've discovered that my writing abilities have greatly improved since I joined.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 659
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I've changed a lot from way back in november when I first joined(FFR), it's just I can't get any attention by acting like you all. Kind of sad, but I guess I'm a attention-whore.
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shock me shock me
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I like how everyone on FFR knows eachother and there aren't any of those 60 year old pedophile people like in AOL chats. That's why I've stayed here and that's why i'm comfortable with talking to the people on the phone and stuff. I know that Synth and baybay will protect us <3
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It's kind of funny how many of the forum regulars never play the actual game.
I started playing FFR a long while back, before I played DDR or SM. I came for the game, and it was good. I also never posted, and used the word lol constantly in AIM. These days, if I play FFR, it's because I have a free couple of minutes in CIS class, and feel like showing off. But mostly when on the computer it's browsing these forums and interacting with these people. Because most everybody here rocks. FFR has made me more intelligent in general, improved my grammer, and allowed me to meet some quite excellent people. That's more then any other site has done for me lately. |
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Out of sheer curiousity, how did FFR save people's lives? Looking for some inspiration, so let's hear it.
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For a lot of us it's a personal matter. LD and I found out we have a lot in common.
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FFR Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Northeasterly
Age: 31
Posts: 401
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I find that, while I have gotten to know some general personality of a few of the people on FFR, I don't do nearly enough posting to really get in touch with people on any sort of deeper level. I also feel that, while I have perhaps slightly developed my ability to think before speaking (which I already had, it's just gotten better), these here forums hain't helped me with my one biggest social problem, which is taking too long to think of what to say. I tend to be fairly quiet, and occasionally interject with something witty, funny, or insightful. I postulate that my general ability to spout wit and humor derives from longtime involvement with a group, because when I say something funny, it is more reliably funny if it is an inside joke related to group experiences, these remarks bring me closer to the group by making them remember the times I was there. I feel, as a side note, that during the time I was on depressant medications for ADHD, I was not able to mentally respond quickly enough to anything to get in such a comment, so it was more difficult to get close to a group.
Now that I've gone over my socialization framework in a nutshell, I can explain that, strictly due to the nature of foum posting, it does not help my social life. That is, I have all the time I need to think of a response to a previous post, and then I can even go back and revise my words before I post. So, FFR has essentially reinforced my tendency to take a long time before I speak, thereby making it more difficult to socialize in my typical fashion. In addition, because only maybe two people I know play FFR, and the rest think that it is frankly retarded, it stands very little chance of helping me by allowing me to associate more closely with anyone at my school, and in fact stands more of a chance of alienating them because I play FFR. So now, you must wonder why I play FFR in the first place. For me, I was introduced to the game by some friends on the ultimate frisbee team at my school, which I used to play on. Then I found that it could help me to get my homework done in my favorite way, meaning I could do all my long-term projects in one night before they are due. I had been looking for some sort of online game that I didn't need to download and install, which would also be able to be played in short bursts instead of drawing me in for a half hour or more at once. FFR fit the bill perfectly, and at first I had wanted to get good to challenge some of the frisbee players. So, I worked on my FFR skill to get better while it kept me from falling asleep during the monotony of an all-nighter. It developed into making forum posts late at night as I found that bits of social thought with you fine people could keep me awake too. Once I had some skill and some sort of forum relationship with some of the FFR community, I didn't feel like stopping just because I had quit the ultimate frisbee team. That's why I'm still here today, posting away with too much detail. So, in summary, what FFR has done for me is it has helped me to procrastinate. Aside from procrastination, it has essentially not affected me except in sucking up time I could use for other things, like homework. And maybe I've gotten a little faster at typing :b My Post, Part 2 Well muskrat, I'd say that the only way FFR has possibly saved lives is that when people post about how they feel like killing themselves, or they feel emotionally or socially lost, there are loads of people willing to reach out their hand. I have myself been one of these people on occasion, although I have also made at least one post about how suicidals are pansies and should kill themselves to get out of the gene pool. So in the suicidal-people-calming department at least, I think that FFR has gone some distance for some people to save their lives. But, I can't see how improving social ability, as Alain describes, can really go far enough to push life-or-death to the life side. If somebody is so depressed that they want to kill themselves, they aren't going to become undepressed because of the social skills that they learned after coming to FFR. But if you're thinking of social improvement as a sort of pre-emptive suicide prevention tool, and thereby a life-saving effect that FFR can have, I guess I can see where you're coming from muskrat. That is how I think FFR can save lives.
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FFR Player
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: TX
Posts: 3,639
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I gained street smarts and a better sense of humor.
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Wrong. Don't speak if you don't know this first hand.
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I was so addicted to the game, I forgot about killing myself ![]() No, in all seriousness, it was just that I was really bored with how my life was going. Not to EXTEREM'S, but I was just really looking for something to lift my spirits, and the FFR community did just that!
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xqsite OG
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Canada
Age: 33
Posts: 2,836
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FFR itself is fun. The forums have only proved my point about not being able to do anything or go anywhere without bumping into a complete moron around every other corner.
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FFR Player
Join Date: Oct 2005
Age: 30
Posts: 19
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FFR hasn't done anything for me yet but I was already the things you described when I came. I learnt this from a family-oriented guild on WoW called One World Tribe. Everyone there is mature, and extremely intellectual..
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CHOCK FULL O' NUTRIENTS
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+ Encouraged me to write more.
- Was responsible for a nervous breakdown, once. +The forums on here got me addicted to the internet, where fun can be had regularly. - Internet addiction ![]() + A good group to relate to now that I'm away from my close friends. - Some of the people on here are royal shits some of the time. +Learned several new words. - Not all new words were permissible in front of parents/administration + Gave me something to do during computer math Mal
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