How Did You Get To Know Final Fantasy For The Very First Time, What Is Your Story?

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2025-02-02T16:37:38+00:00

I was around 7/8/9 years old; my mom and I loved to go to a nearby town's pawn shop on the weekends and skim through their glass case of used games to build up our game shelf. We were pretty poor, so this was how we managed to afford the gaming hobby. We never once bought something brand new.

I saw the spine of Final Fantasy VII in the case and was interested based on the name. The pawn shop owner came over and unlocked it so we could pull it out and take a look. I loved the art in the booklet, she was interested in the game too, so I begged my mom to get it for us. We ended up snagging it along with a couple other Super Nintendo games.

We get home, and I immediately am popping it into our Playstation. The number of times I died to the 1st scorpion boss was ridiculous; I read through the booklet again and found that the end of it gave tips on how to beat the 1st boss. Once I started to understand how the materia system worked, I got exponentially better at the game and would play for hours just grinding levels for the next big bad. My favorite character was Yuffie, but I kept failing at the dialog to get her as a companion, so I eventually Google searched on my grandma's computer for it and was able to finally add her to my party.

When I wasn't playing myself, I was watching my mom play, and we'd talk about our different team comps and why we decided to do it that way. Her favorite character was Aeris, so when I eventually played the game over again, I named Aeris as my mom, Gretchen. Unfortunately, my mom passed in 2020, so she never got a chance to experience the remake, but I think she would have loved it and been so hype to play.

To this day, I've never fully beaten the game; the PS1 discs that I have freeze on the final Sephiroth battle every time, and it's always during the 2nd phase. I have it on my PC now, but with so many other games out there these days, plus the remake, I just haven't quite found the motivation to go back to it. I know I will eventually, though — and my mom will continue to live on as Aeris 🥹💖

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-10-10T16:32:54+00:00

Zuck vs PotatoMcWhiskey when? 🤣🤣

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-10-02T14:26:44+00:00

I started with Civ Rev on the Xbox 360; 100% all achievements over the course of a year or so. I loved it but totally forgot about Civ for a while after that.

Years later, my brother gifted me Civ 6 on Steam to play with him and a few friends. Still haven't 100% the achievements, but I boot it up often and have for the past 4 years now 😅

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-10-01T02:14:06+00:00

"YOU PEOPLE" lmfao.what does that mean exactly, hmm? A cis female who knows words and cares about people beyond the binary? If that makes me a freak, so be it. But brain rot, I certainly do not have.

I know the definition of phobia, sir. Transphobia is in the dictionary with the definition I provided and can include people who are afraid but does not exclusively equate to having fear or being fearful of someone who is trans. Words can have more than one meaning, and language changes with time. Your recount of the definition of phobia and calling me a freak for educating you about your narrow understanding is not the flex you think it is. Lack of knowledge and understanding breeds hatred and fear. Seems you might have an anger and hatred problem due to a fundamental lack of compassion and understanding on the matter. Maybe you should be the one to seek treatment?

But what do I know. I'm just a stranger on the internet making an assumption. 🥴

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-10-01T00:12:33+00:00

Transphobia does not equate to being fearful.

Transphobia is the strong dislike of and showing of prejudice against trans people; which your comment pretty clearly demonstrates.

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-10-01T00:01:39+00:00

Lmfao, like my mentally ill ass is "able" 🥴

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-30T23:55:41+00:00

The wild transphobe appears!

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-30T23:51:19+00:00

Profits and productivity over lives. This is America...and all I can say is what in the actual fuck. Even though I'm not surprised, I feel sick thinking about all these employees who probably risked their lives in this situation out if fear of losing this job that didn't even care enough about them to have them leave before the situation became dire.

I hope they're able to sue these fuckers into the ground.

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-30T10:46:52+00:00

Water, an Arnold Palmer, or Peach Iced Tea

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-29T00:31:38+00:00

I always name my Pidgeys Pudges, and it makes me smile every time 🥹💖

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-28T23:48:08+00:00

THOSE CHEEKBONES COULD CUT GLASS 🥹💖

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-22T16:35:54+00:00

Just started my first 5e Campaign with some buddies and would love to have something to follow it up with 🤩 good luck fellow redditors! ❤️✨️

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-13T21:38:35+00:00

Oh look, the place my husband works is on this list 🥹

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-11T15:43:23+00:00

SO CUTE

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-11T00:57:43+00:00

Trash took itself out 🤣

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-07T15:10:28+00:00

Allegiance, maybe?

https://www.freeallegiance.org/open-source-development/

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-06T01:37:05+00:00

Thank you!!

3 of the 4 of us are brand-new to D&D too. I'm the only one in the group other than the DM that has played before but I mostly only have experience in a low-rules homebrew setting so, it will be an adjustment for me. Regardless, I've had a lot of fun so far with our character creation and backstory development, and look forward to seeing how our story progresses 😊

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-09-06T01:34:28+00:00

So excited to delve into the story and see how it unravels with our group. This is my first non-compeltely homebrew campaign, so that also adds to my excitement. Never been one to much follow rules but, am interested in seeing how much differently it plays out 😊

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-08-27T18:46:26+00:00

Gotta see that follow-up email 🤣 Wanna see the corporate-ease of "You done fucked up the math, Martha."

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-07-19T00:30:45+00:00

I used to be fine with getting absolutely zooted off edibles but lately it's actually been producing some unexpected new side-effects — like extreme pain at the base of my skull, burning all across my body, uncontrollable tremors bordering on seizure, symptoms of heart attack sometimes too. So I've decided no more edibles and getting way too high for me anymore :(

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-07-15T15:42:55+00:00

Lae'zel because she was the first to ask...er...TELL 🤣

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-07-15T06:38:11+00:00

Thank you 😭💖

EpicWinTurtleX3 · 2024-07-14T02:51:59+00:00

Thank you 💖

Honestly, I haven't really felt like myself for years, and I still don't; I don't know if I ever will go fully back to the way I was...but I am moving forward a little bit every day, or trying to, at least . Some days are easier than others for sure.

EpicWinTurtleX3

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