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title: B1.21 The FoFiX Days
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date: 2011-06-24
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image: https://deathau.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/20110624-065632.jpg
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location: /B1.21
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tags: Pro Tanto, games, music, self-reflection
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# The FoFiX Days
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I started this blog in response to the frustration I feel in things I start never getting finished. Things I’ve had ideas about or started, but never got around to completing. Nowhere is this laid bare more than my involvement with FoFiX.
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For those who are unaware, Frets on Fire X (FoFiX) is the evolution of the open-source guitar hero-like rhythm game Frets on Fire. I used to be involved with it’s development. I’ve written code, built graphical themes, and was a prominent member of the fretsonfire.net forums, where I am still a forum moderator. I helped people with any issues, documented a large portions of theming capabilities, maintained a list of FoFiX themes and attempted to keep the peace. I was also prominent in a lot of development discussions, and presented ideas that helped shape some of the features of FoFiX itself. As those closest to me can attest, I practically lived on those forums.
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But the real world started to catch up with me. I found I had less and less time for FoFiX, and one day I simply stopped visiting the forums. I just disappeared without a word, with the intention to come back when time permitted. I feel guilty about it. I’ve visited the forums a couple of times (generally I hide my online status out of guilt), and my theme list has gone completely stagnant. My themes need updating. Development on FoFiX appears to be slow, but exciting.
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I want to go back. I feel like I have friends there. But there’s a guilt and fear holding me back. I feel guilty for leaving things unfinished, and I fear that a lack of adequate free time will have me not particularly active. And I may stop again. People come and go from the FoFiX forum all the time. I’m certainly not the first to fade out when Real Life catches up, and I probably won’t be the last. But I don’t want to be the guy who comes back every few months, makes promises, and then leaves again with a bunch of loose ends.
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I need to find some extra time in my life somewhere to work on all my current loose ends. Figure out if/where/how I can still be useful in the community in a diminished (and easily abandoned, if necessary) capacity. If I am able to adequately tie up all those loose ends, perhaps I could go out with a bang and get some closure. Or maybe I always want to be involved in some way or another.
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Either way, at the moment I miss FoFiX and I want a way back in… |