recap:

you MUST post a reply to this thread if you want to participate. YOU SHOULD ALSO INCLUDE WHAT KINDS OF ITEMS YOU'D LIKE TO RECIEVE AS A GIFT!! (a "wish list")
this is just for my recordkeeping, if someone tells me in discord that they want to join, that message will be lost within the hour and i may forget. so you HAVE TO REPLY TO THE THREAD!!

Everyone should participate, even new players or people who cant think of something to give!
there are certainly items you can give which would be good gifts, and if everyone does, a lot less people will complain about the gifts they recieve

sometime in early december, when there are "enough" participants, I'll randomly roll a name for each person.
You are their "Secret Santa" and will trade me the item you wish to gift to them, after I have DMed you their name on discord.

it is very very highly encouraged that the items you gift aren't "worthless" and you'd be happy receiving it in turn.
It should be obvious what gifts are "good" and "bad" based on what you can afford to give, and there is hopefully even a wishlist for you to refer to.

these gifts will be handed out to the recipients when most have been received and hopefully on or around SATURDAY DECEMBER 20TH (NOW CHANGED DUE TO REQUEST FOR MORE TIME FOR THOUGHTFUL GIFTS)

Additionally, courtesy of myself and any other generous gifters who would like to contribute (DM ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE),
there will again be a "BONUS GIFT" pool to ensure that no one receives a "bad" gift

I will be continuing the Mentor program.
In essence, this is if you want to give an generous gift but only to new or newer players. DM me or CoachGrump on discord if you are interested in this and we'll explain the details.

New this year :

There will be a BRAND-NEW GIFT BRACKET SYSTEM.

=There is the Standard bracket, which is anything-goes within-reason. It does not mean you will get a bad gift by any means, it just means you don't have to give a ton out too. Post normally within this thread to enter this pool.

=There is also now going to be a HIGHROLLER gift bracket. However, there are a few stipulations :

1. All gifts submitted to this bracket will be reviewed by a secret, impartial group of staff, who will determine if it fits the spirit of this bracket.

2. These gifts, as a guideline, should be at a MINIMUM near-value of 100M coins.
Putting in effort or fulfilling your recipient's wishlist can make your gifts more 'valuable' - remember that your gift just has to pass reasonable approval by the Santa Council.

3. If your gift is rejected by the council twice, you will be banished to the GRINCH POOL OF GIFTERS FOR TRYING TO SKIRT THE GUIDELINE!!!! The best thing to do is OVERSHOOT

4. These staff will also heavily weight if the items are relative 'thoughtless filler' or not - if you are just submitting gold bars to meet the minimum and your recipient didn't ask for them, it is likely to be rejected!

5. If you want to join the Highroller pool, please include the phrase '67 67 67' at the end of your message to indicate that you read all of this.

6. DON'T BE A GRINCH!

7. please include a wishlist if you participate in this bracket.

Finally, Originalmind is going to give out, in order,

$80 IN STEAM CREDIT FOR THE BEST GIFT GIVEN,*
$60 IN STEAM CREDIT FOR THE 2ND BEST GIFT GIVEN,*
AND $40 IN STEAM CREDIT FOR THE 3RD BEST GIFT GIVEN!!!*

(also - I will be giving away $20 in steam credit to a random participant overall, and I am sure Brassx will add something to the pot.)

*if you are in the EU we may need to discuss an alternative

Feel free to DM me on discord at @pickle if you have any questions
Happy Gifting and remember to tell your friends to sign up!!

Steam Name (Current): Google

Steam Name (During incident): Google

Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:425333369

discord: google748

Steam Profile Link: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198810932467/

Name of staff you were banned by: Not quite sure who if im being honest

Length of the ban: perma ban from discord

Would you like your ban shortened or repealed?: partially repealed

Reason for ban: Said some weird shit for attention

Did you commit the actions stated in the ban reason?: Yes

What really happened?: Said some weird stuff on the disc for attention when i was younger, and honestly was probably really annoying/edgy as well.

Additional details: I just want a partial unban from the discord so i can see updates and what not, im fine with being perma muted/not being able to type on it. Not really a excuse but I was not in a good place a while back, and wanted attention when I was neglected. I think that i've shown that I'm no longer a edgy teen who will spew gross stuff anymore, and have really mellowed out now that left where I was stuck. Of course a full unban would be great, but anyone can just say that they've changed, so im just asking to be able to browse. Its been a few years I want to say since I have gotten banned but after a certain point everything kinda just got blended together so I have no idea.

Steam Name (Current): cheny

Steam Name (During incident): probably cheny

Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:67853406

Steam Profile Link: https://steamcommunity.com/id/chenybedeney/

Name of staff you were banned by: uhh i am unsure as it is a warning level mute and discord ban

Length of the ban: permanent

Would you like your ban shortened or repealed?: repealed

Reason for ban: self harm threats/ many warnings.

Did you commit the actions stated in the ban reason?: yes

What really happened?: uhhh so for the ingame 100% warning level it was due to me asking for a gilded reward chest during the rework and i was drinking that night and i said something along the lines of "no reward chest back to drinking myself to death" which was definitely very wrong to say it was not meant to be a self harm threat i was just trying to be funny and it was in very poor taste i understand that people are concerned about my health due to previous health complications and notoriously bad drug habits so i do apologize for anyone that may have concerned it was just a bad joke i am in fairly good health as of now. The discord ban was a little more mysterious as i was just timed out forever and then one day after being gone from the discord for a few months i rejoined and sent a gif and it seemed as if everything was okay and then the next day i said something else fairly mundane i think i asked brass how he was as it was during wildfires around the province and then i just got permanently banned from the discord being timed out sucks and all but being able to atleast read announcements, change logs, and system would be nice.

Additional details: I am expecting this ban to upheld as it does not appear many people want me to return to frg but i nonetheless would enjoy to be able to interact with other players in some way or being able to read or type in discord, i hope i can be given another chance and i appreciate anyone who read through this and took the thing to comment, thank you.

Hey Brass!

Im not here to appeal the ban. I'm actually typing this to give you a thank you to you and the FRG community.

Ive been wanting to get away from FRG as a game for a long time. I found the exploit and similar exploits but never really abused them till about a week ago. (If you want details on how I did them lmk) (Swapping to 64bit seemed to fix one of them)

I want to say thank you for the fun times with FRG and even though I was absolutely addicted to the gameplay loop you managed to set up I want to say thank you for establishing an amazing community.

Lots of fun times, but recently and even long before, I've been trying to find a way out and there would always be a point or some reason that brought me back and personally it got in the way of my life. I'm a very intelligent person (I've been told) but I cripple myself into doing nothing with the stupid shit I get myself addicted to or waste my time with. (Games, media, not drugs or alcohol I don't even drink).

Doing the same thing everyday in a video game was never how I wanted to live my life and it felt like FRG was one of those things inhibiting me.

Edit 2: For the past many years I've been intensely depressed with the state of my life. When I get hooked on something I enjoy I indulge myself till I lose interest. I've always struggled with self control and getting out of my comfort zone and for a long time I was able to stop most of those addictions. FRG was one of those things that I could not control on my own and I would always eventually come back.

Now that I'm finally out, I am one step towards achieving many of my goals.  It won't be easy by I'm happy I got one of those steps further.

When I did the exploiting I was hoping and waiting for the ban. I honestly got worried that you wouldn't find it despite all the errors and console messages my game was spouting.
Edit: I came to find the exploit for the reasons stated above and because I was getting frustrated the time sink needed in order to make something fun and ttt viable, only for it to get gutted and now the time sink begins again making me spend more time in the game, that I don't have.

With that I want to say thank you for the fun times all these years and I hope you and the rest of the FRG family continue to enjoy your lives!

Thank you!
Major Mon
(aka Marky Mark)

(PS. Make that gmod ban permanent please and if you would be ok with it, an unban from the discord so I can still talk with y'all would be cool. If not on the discord I understand)

Steam Name (Current): TheLogImusPrime

Steam Name (During incident):

Steam ID: STEAM_0:1:104945788

Steam Profile Link: i dont actually know how to link this. unfortunate!

Name of staff you were banned by: 26

Length of the ban: Perma

Would you like your ban shortened or repealed?: Repealed

Reason for ban: "repeated harassment, targeting (rdm), multiple warnings to stop and doesnt listen. brass said perma"

Did you commit the actions stated in the ban reason?: Yes

What really happened?: I harrassed and RDMd multiple people multiple times and continued despite a few warnings(including a week ban, iirc). The ban reason is pretty much correct.

Additional details: Copypasting the majority of this from the first unban request I made over 2 years ago. Its been coming up on 3 years since the original ban and I would like to think I'm less of a wanker now than I was at that time. Not much else for me to say other than "its been a while," and I can only hope that wounds heal with time in this case.

Here is the original unban request in case you don't remember me(if you don't, lucky you tbh), the replies there should fill you in: https://forerunnergaming.org/forums/showthread.php?tid=10475

Yo, just wanted to post a message here while stuff in IRL is really getting rough.

Thank you all for the years of gaming and fun times. I know that you guys usually see me drunk or high, but I love every moment I have spent on this server. Everyone here is an amazing person, and don't let the things happening in the real world get you down. Playing on this server and being part of this community has made me a better gamer and a better person. I can never repay Jake enough for getting me involved here after I quit the TTT server I was a community manager on (we were called Super Admins back then lol) and when I was loosely playing NTG.

Brass, thanks for making such an awesome game. I don't regret a single dollar I have thrown your way. You have made an awesome community and gave me a place to chill when I didn't have one. I hope we get the chance to play this server for another decade.

I'm not leaving anytime soon; I just wanted to spread some good vibes while my industry (the TV and Film industry) burns down around me, and while many of us are in our pre-fall break. Keep being chill people, keep giving people shit, but most importantly...


BUFF AS VAL MWUAHAHAHAHA > .

Age: 23

Steam Name(Current): Dylansonfire

Steam ID: STEAM_1:1:48767881 (STEAMID64 76561198057801491)

Time played on servers?(!time username to check): 15000+ Hours on Gmod, 2500+ Hours on FRG (TTT+Lobby+Other Servers)

Where did you hear about this server? I found it on gmod server browser long ago.

Have you ever been banned and why?: Server no, discord yes.

Why do you want to join? Been playing FRG for a while now, and I've had my mistakes in the past but at the big age of 23 and about to graduate, I look back at the dumbass mistakes I made and I do have regret. It's also been exactly around a year since my last member application so I decided to make another. I don't mind at this point about my rank or anything, without member im still able to interact with the community, but I still wanted to make this post either way as in the future would like to do more for FRG beyond just playing it and member is the way to go to grow in terms of the title department. Im not going to gas myself up here or anything, those who know the negative and the positives will, I hope, give their 2 cents in the comments below.

Referred by:

Additional Details: If you have any questions or follow-up, ask below and I'll reply when I can, cheers.

Steam Name of Offending Player(s): D BOI JENKINS

Steam ID of Offending Player(s):STEAM_0:0:243317740

Map the event happened on: ttt_terrortrain2018_final

Date of event:7/27/2025

What Happened?: purp rdm

Witnesses:me.

Evidence:https://streamable.com/yis96a

purp rdms me and audibly says "oops"




if you need an extended video, feel free to contact me on discord @shiro17k

What I'm proposing is to make the Dyson sphere more in line with other forges, since it was in fact the first kind of forge, and maybe allow godlike & celestial's to be forged with it.

I believe maybe it might be fine now to allow any godlike/celestial to be put in there for an alignment, and Extincts instead will just be a crafting recipe that you craft using our crafting system.

I feel like this will make it a bit less confusing overall by making the extinct items more in line with typical upgrade crafts that we've had, all in the same UI using the same system so its not as confusing, while also adding potentially exciting new use cases to godlikes that don't have extinct versions yet.

This does not mean I want to stop making extinct versions, I will still make the upgrades from time to time as they're fun, this separation of systems has been bothering me for a bit though.

Thoughts?

Does anyone have a list of all monthlies and bimonthlies that there have ever been?

Wanting to see what all ones have been made over the years.