What is GFL's origin story and how did GFL became what it is today?

[Otter 880 / 10,435]

December 10th, 1999. Computers we're not that advanced and Roy was a wee-lad. He has an interest in computers and coding, even though he didn't really know what that was... He sat on his father's lap and said, "Daddy, I want to make a popular gaming community and I want to learn how to code dank plugins n' shit." His father said, "Shut up, son. You just turned 2 and planning your life, god dammit, slow down." Roy was very upset. He wanted to become the best! As he grew older, computers became more advanced. Suiting his needs. When he turned 13, he was playing the best game ever created, Minecraft, while he was playing he found diamonds and exclaimed, "I'm going to be playing games for the rest of my life!" That's when he knew, he was going to start a gaming community named, "Games For Life". 

 

I'm pretty sure that's how most of it went.

Edited July 28, 2016 by Otter

[Coolest Cat 1,266 / 14,449]

Drama made GFL into what it is today.

 

So much drama.

[Addy 1,648 / 18,732]

we had a server

 

we made more servers

 

we lost a server

 

we lose more servers

 

we here

[Snoopy 1,480 / 15,610]

7 hours ago, Mad_Father said:

so what do "councils" do?

 

To be fair, you should really know the basics of what each rank do seeing as you're an admin but no worries, people are here to help. The ranks are going somewhat under a change hence why you've seen new ranks like Technical Admin and the Moderator rank changed to Community Adviser but an announcement will be made on that soon, hopefully. 

 

The Council are the guys who deal with most of the communication in GFL whether it's from inside or outside of GFL, such as sponsors/partners etc. They're there to lead the community in the right direction, promoting community growth, basic (I think) website maintenance and genuinely leading the community as a whole. Just imagine them as a Board of Directors in a business and what they have to do to keep a business alive, excluding the whole making money part.

 

 Division Leaders, such as myself, are responsible for the oversight of a single game and all of its servers. We have 4 games, or divisions, that the Division Leaders are responsible for. I am responsible for overseeing the TF2 servers that we have. We would aid our Managers in running the servers, appoint/demote/training Managers, bug fix and just supervise the Division and its staff. There are other things we do as well but that's the basic gist. 

 

The rank Community Adviser was originally the old Moderator rank. It still somewhat is but with a twist. They're there to give an unbiased opinion on matters held within GFL, throw some advise around here and there and be the guys that stops the Higher Ups from making bad decisions. 

 

Technical Administrators are the guys that run the show behind the scenes. They deal with GFL-Core and all plugins associated with it, Website programming/bug fixing, patching large issues that need to be solved quickly and the likes of that. They're our trusted developers who usually have a a lot more access then normal developers. 

 

7 hours ago, Bae said:

Oh, if you're admin, there's a thread in the admin section explaining each and every one of the higher ranks and what they're job is and will be.

 

And as @Bae rightly pointed out, it's there and pinned so everyone who is Admin+ can see it. Not everything has been implemented yet but hopefully it will be soon.

 

[Hello. 1,452 / 24,189]

10 hours ago, Otter said:

December 10th, 1999. Computers we're not that advanced and Roy was a wee-lad. He has an interest in computers and coding, even though he didn't really know what that was... He sat on his father's lap and said, "Daddy, I want to make a popular gaming community and I want to learn how to code dank plugins n' shit." His father said, "Shut up, son. You just turned 2 and planning your life, god dammit, slow down." Roy was very upset. He wanted to become the best! As he grew older, computers became more advanced. Suiting his needs. When he turned 13, he was playing the best game ever created, Minecraft, while he was playing he found diamonds and exclaimed, "I'm going to be playing games for the rest of my life!" That's when he knew, he was going to start a gaming community named, "Games For Life". 

 

I'm pretty sure that's how most of it went.

 

Sounds legit.

 

GFL's had a somewhat long and rocky history. The previous website once had a history of GFL, talking about what GFL had gone through up to early 2016.

 

Then, as Bae said, there was betrayal. Issues aside, we're building up from scratch again. 

11 hours ago, Bae said:

Because I used to date a co-owner whose perm banned on here. He would tell me things of how GFL was like back in the day and I've also talk to Floopy and Roy about it.

 

Here it is. Bae mentioned Floopy being an OG, so if said person is not loaded down with work, or the pretending thereof, you could always ask them.

 

I've been here about a year, and it's been a damn interesting ride so far.

 

Edited July 28, 2016 by PB-n-J

[Bae 2,489 / 41,520]

16 hours ago, Panda said:

i know this is off/on topic how many ranks are there if you understand what i'm saying

 

It's at the bottom of the forums, if you scroll down. Open the spoilers for your own benefit, it's a long list.

• Administrator
  • Roy
    • Founder (No need to explain anymore)
• Council
  • Cypher
    • Focuses on management and helps out with Gmod side
    • Has about 3 jobs (real ones, where you get mula)
    • has a so-called "beautiful" wife
  • floopyhiggle
    • Does anything if you ask nicely
    • is a pleb
  • Kim
    • focuses CSGO side mostly
    • has a lovely girlfriend
    • is known to be thought as a girl but is a guy
  • Shuruia
    • is known to be thought as a girl but is a guy
    • has a lovely girlfriend
    • focuses on tf2 section but as well as others.
• Division Leader
  • Dano
    • CSGO Division
    • Is admin on all servers (except those that are in csgo division, he's super admin)
    • owns Toe Knee
  • Domps
    • GMOD Division
    • is admin on all servers (except those that are in gmod division, he's super admin)
    • belongs to burts lovely club
  • Infantry
    • GMOD Division and CSGO Division
    • Same as the above
  • OtakuSupreme
    • GMOD Division
    • same as above
    • anime is his love
  • Snoopy
    • TF2 Division
    • a cute boy
    • Same as above
  • ThomasDavid097
    • CSS Division
    • CS:GO Surf RPG DM [US/EU] Manager
    • Same as above
    • Single and Virgin
  • Violator
    • GMOD Division
    • Used to come from CSGO Side
    • Same as above
    • Has a girlfriend
    • Faps a lot
• Community Advisor
  • Major_Push
    • Admin on all servers
    • Mostly play CS:GO
    • Sometimes plays GMOD
    • Forum Moderator
• Technical Administrator
  • Denros
    • backend of forum, teamspeak, and servers
    • obviously super admin on all
    • former head developer
    • single
  • Killer-Banana
    • Head Developer
    • Banana 
  • setup.sh
    • Close friends of Roy
    • Security (ddos protection)
    • a guy
• Server Manager
  • 3hunna_vote_for_pedro
    • CSS Deathrun Manager
    • Former GMOD Jailbreak Manager
    • A single guy
    • was one of the youngest manager
  • Ariitsuujj
    • CS:GO CC Manager
    • CS:GO DR Tech
    • CS:GO MG Tech
    • CS:GO TTT Admin 
    • hates sexual/fantasy stories.... he will run away
  • BigTime388
    • Co-Manager of Gmod Murder
    • Former Manager of Gmod Murder
    • Former Manager of Rust
    • Pretty sure he has a girlfriend.
  • DankMoose
    • TF2 Orange Manager
  • Dead_Soul
    • Manager of Gmod Murder
  • Deltacommander
    • CS:GO ZE Manager
  • Hannah
    • Gmod Hide and Seek Manager
  • Mercer
    • TF2 Mario Kart Manager
  • Night_Spirit
    • CS:GO Decoy Dodgeball Manager
    • Former CS:GO 1v1 Manager
    • is going to be demoted/resigned for inactivity.
  • OHfficial
    • GMOD ZS Manager
  • SashaGrey
    • Gmod DarkRP Manager
    • Has a fetish for Sasha Grey
  • SwegBuster
    • CS:GO Zombie Mod Manager
    • his name is zach
    • Single
    • Adores his niece and nephew
  • Zebra
    • Gmod Purge Manager
    • has a twin name Stud
    • His name is Logan, like the fruit
    • He had multiple girlfriends at one
• Trial Manager
  • Benroyjam
    • Surf RPG DM US Admin
    • DeathRun US Admin
    • DarkRP Admin
    • TF2 Combat Surf T-Manager
    • Single
  • Bulldog
    • CSGO Deathrun T-Manager
    • One of Dano's underlings
  • Bunny
    • CSGO Bunny Hop T-Manager
  • HackingPotato
    • CSGO Jailbreak T-Manager
    • Former Gmod Jailbreak Manager
    • Kim's beloved
    • Loves potatoes
  • Happy
    • Gmod CWRP T-Manager
  • Kalz
    • CS:GO Surf Timer [Eu/US] T-Manager
  • MrManSlayerX
    • CS:S Co-Manager of Surf RPG DM
    • CS:GO Surf RPG DM [US/EU] Admin
  • Nunti
    • Gmod CWRP T-Co-Manager
    • CWRP Coder
  • Sleazoid
    • CSGO 1v1 Manager
  • SouRD
    • TF2 Combat Surf T-Co-Manager

I am in no way in hell explaining each and every admins.