Anthro

Anthropocentrist is a builder with a long and storied history on ACF and the meta in general, having served in NRR and OHAPIC, and founded FMC.
== Beginnings ==
During the summer of 2014 Anthro had began to discover and play with Garry's Mod, and quickly found wire. His first experiences in Gmod consisted of fighting IRL friends with crudely built wire vehicles and taking them to servers that had wire installed. Sometime in June 2015, Anthro would find an old and long gone server with ACF installed. Upon playing there, he proceeded to get his ass kicked by the locals there. Such an addon was exactly what he was looking for, as he had always wanted to design vehicles that could actually be killed by other players and he quickly adopted ACF so he could finally sate his bloodlust. Under the tutelage of Gun Pun, Anthro figured out ACF rapidly, and was able to defeat all his tutor's tanks in less than a week after picking it up. While on this primeval server, he had heard rumors of a place with bigger fights, bigger battles, and even a game mode; the legendary GGG and Baikonur. Now that he felt he had become strong enough, Anthro hopped onto Baikonur to fight others.... only he did not realize that it wasn't constantly active and that fights had to be organized. He then hopped onto the other GGG servers and soon discovered a massive and flourishing community unlike anything he had ever seen before, meeting a variety of historically relevant figures such as Sestze, Redreaper2020, MuffinMan, Moox, Stonyfever, Rebel Taxi, Luft, Aki, Steve, *old* Kiwi, and Dakota.
== 2015-2016 The Rivalry and the Exodus ==
GGG at its peak was a massive community consisting of hundreds of active users and players and the original birthplace of ACF, consequently there was massive amounts of drama ongoing at any given time. Anthro would wind up getting banned from GGG multiple times during 2015 and 2016, but was always eventually unbanned, and even eventually became an Admin. This was his first experience being given a modicum of power, which he only sparingly used, mostly using his privileges to view PlayX when that was still a thing. These days were marked by rapid progress as battles were bountiful and there was no shortage of tanks and players to kill. Tanks in this era were often poorly armed and armored, though still markedly stronger than almost all clan tanks barring SPEAT designs, which led to them all being relatively easy to fight, however a few players stood out in particular, most notably Steve, Dakota and Rebel for making astonishingly strong designs that frequently gave a wallop.
Rebel Taxi was quite possibly one of the most important people for Anthro during that time as they would soon form an intense and powerful rivalry where all actions performed by the other had to be one upped by the other. This would inevitably result in an arms race that made each player progressively stronger with each new tank. While this led to them hating each other at first, they soon became strong friends who respected each other's ability to kill one another.
While all of this was going on, multiple admins and staff members would wind up getting banned by Sestze, which all led to even more players fleeing. Most of these players would leave to a server known as DildoBuildo which was later renamed to Paradigm Shift. Later on a declaration would be made that banned from clans from "shitting up the servers" following repeated incursions and server crashes by IZK. This did not ban clans outright, but prevented future battles from being organized and hosted on the main servers with the intent of waging a clan battle. During this time, NRR and OHAPIC would be founded, and Anthro, having close friends as the leaders of both organizations would be lured into this early and primitive era of clan combat using a variety of weak and light weapons to dispatch the various clans he fought. Some of these clans had no prior exposure to ACF and were stuck with M9K or FAS weapons, leaving them woefully underequipped to fight back. While the clan fighting was sparse during this time, GGG was still very much active with large battles happening regularly on weekends and skirmishes hourly which occupied the majority of Anthro's freetime. Most of these battles frequently occurred between players of roughly equal skill levels with rather advanced vehicles deployed by everyone. During this time period the first iterations of Kettenkrad would be open, though it differed wildly from all the later versions.
== 2017-2018 FMC's Peak ==
During 2017, Anthro would be struck with the idea to lead a clan, and largely drew inspiration from revolutionary and Napoleonic France for the iconography, and corporate cyberpunk dystopias for the ideology, and would be called the Federal Manufacturing Corporation or FMC for short. Anthro never really bothered with recruiting people from servers for his clans, and instead just invited all his longtime friends from Dildo Buildo and GGG. As a result a small but very experienced core would form his corps. With his brother in arms, Rebel, fiercely locked in a war with a clan that he did not like Anthro declared war on IZK a few days after. What would follow was a bloodbath for IZK and unending training ground for FMC and its many prototype tanks. Later into the war, he lost cohesion of the organization, and consequently he lost interest in pursuing it further as he clearly did not have the skills or time to manage a clan in a serious manner and would soon fight for random factions he saw as friendly such as UMU, ISA, and even NG.
== 2019-2020 DakTank Migrations, ACF3, Kettenkrad ==
Around late 2018, Anthro had realized that the inactivity of the ACF devs, combined with the staggering amount of new bugs being discovered daily meant that ACF in its current state was largely unviable for fair fights like the days of yore. Daktank was still in its early stages of development, and was largely lacking in features, but seemed incredibly promising, which led to him converting and making lots of tanks in this new fangled mod. Around this time too, Steve announced the creation of ACF3, a new version of ACF primarily focused on bugfixing and addressing the many outstanding balance issues that had plagued ACF for years.
== 2021-2022 ==
Most of this time has been occupied by me playing Daktank and chilling.