The EoFF Handbook

[Shorty]

What advice would you offer to new (or returning, or otherwise!) EoFFers?

Visit our chatroom to make friends and don't ask about Joel Holmes. Or MecaKane, for that matter.

[escobert]

I will talk about Joel all I want!

[Shorty]

Not to the newbies you won't. :colbert:

[escobert]

I have before and I will continue. Kane on the other hand is just no fun anymore.

But it should be noted my talking of Joel is out of love. I think I'm one of a very few EoFFers who he continued to have contact with years after he was gone.

[Shorty]

Start posting Handbook stuff, goshdangit. :colbert:

[escobert]

My advice for a successful eoff life is:


Don't be like Bert.

and you get back to enertaining me with you choose your own adventure thread :mad2: it's the best thing I've seen on eoff in like 8 years!

[Aulayna]

Don't ask Wes for photos. Seriously. Don't.

[Shauna]

Don't be afraid to get involved with events. They're fun! Promise.

[Formalhaut]

DO develop your own unique personality that people will remember you for.
DO create a signature and avatar set, to further identify you in the populace
DO get involved with major events. This is perhaps the best way to really present yourself to the general active populace
DO get involved with chat. While I was initially wary of chat at first, keeping at least a cursory presence in chat is highly recommended. It's an awesome way to get to know your fellow EoFFers.
DO buddy up with an EoFFer or two as your main 'gatekeepers' while you get comfortable in the environment. These friends can really get you involved, offering tips, advice and sometimes a gentle nagging to get involved with events!
DO follow the rules. Common sense really, but you don't want to get *snipped* or worse!
DO be supportive of the staff and site leaders. Tell them their doing a good job, and try and read any articles and comment on them. Keeping staff in your good books is always a good idea. Still, feel free to gently rib them: jokes about drunk BoB always go down well.
DO enter EoEo, but be aware not to offend anyone, if at all possible. Some of our newbies really found fame in EoEo, including Yerushalmi whose nominations for the objectively objective Ciddie was based partly on his precise nature of debating in EoEo. Do try to enjoy EoEo, although I am aware it may not be for everyone.
DON'T be disheartened if you aren't nominated for anything/hardly anything during your first Ciddies. There's always so many good new members and to simply be recognised and nominated for an award is always a welcome sight. Don't be disheartened if you don't win Best Newbie either: keep up the good work guys and your time will come to win a Ciddie!
DON'T break the signature rules. There has been a spate of *snipped* signatures lately. Don't make yours the next!
DON'T get banned. But of course


I can probably think of more, but yeah, that's what I'd say.

[noxious.sunshine]

- DO mostly always ignore me.

Seriously.

While I am The Wise One, that only happens IRL. Not online. Most everything I say online makes no kinda sense whatsoever.

[Jinx]

DON'T post a link to a picture of a penis.

[escobert]

What about a guy humping a car? :bigsmile:

[Agent Proto]

or a picture of a snow-penis.

[Chris]

Post almost nudies to annoy the Knights

[Shorty]

Oh, is that why you do it?

[Chris]

I do it because I have a rockin' body

[Shorty]

You do it because you're a slutbucket.

[Chris]

True! It is possible to have more reasons than one!!! I will post one entirely nude before the year is over. Just so u know.

[Denmark]

mlt get banned was apt then

[Shorty]

True! It is possible to have more reasons than one!!! I will post one entirely nude before the year is over. Just so u know.

I look forward to banning you and celebrating in staff like this:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/1c4e44507511d20a53a9380c449c24fd/tumblr_mpwm66HiOA1qhlmsbo1_500.gif

You think I'm joking. I can assure you I am not.

[Formalhaut]

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True! It is possible to have more reasons than one!!! I will post one entirely nude before the year is over. Just so u know.

I think your best attempt at getting away with that is to post it in the art forum and say that it's 'inspiration' for people to draw nudes.

Seriously Reno, have you considered being a nude model for art or something? I imagine that'd be right up your alley.

[Shauna]

This thread has become awful.

Thanks Chris. :colbert:

[Shorty]

Everything about Chris' behavior is the exact wrong thing to do. Do not act like him.

[snacks]

What advice would you offer to new (or returning, or otherwise!) EoFFers?



Don't be skt/snacks and forget about the forums for years and then come back and be like, oh.

[Denmark]

ITT: "Don't be me"

Also learn that ITT doesn't mean what vBSEO thinks it means

[Shlup]

Watch Game of Thrones 'cause all the cool kids are in the Game of Thrones thread all day.

[Faris]

Don't compare Cid's Knights to Shinra.

[Raistlin]

Don't compare Cid's Knights to Shinra.

Yeah, but only if you don't want to be a memorable newbie, whose legacy lives on well after you fade away and/or are banned.

The best newbies have slogans. "The cid's knights are like shinra," "I H8 U SUPER DELETE (http://home.eyesonff.com/general-chat/51329-i-h8-u-super-delete-u-riun-all-my-threads.html)," "copy paste DUH (http://home.eyesonff.com/general-archive/57577-me-new-website.html)," etc. Psychotic will back me up on this.

[Shorty]

It's cute how Raistlin is now on staff and still pretends to further his "oppressed by staff" attitude.

[Raistlin]

None of those members were oppressed by staff (except ff babe, the poor girl was just trying to make some threads). They were just... insightful.

[Denmark]

fight oppression, eat hawaiian pizza

[Shorty]

this is my mom viewing your post over my shoulder

"ohhhhhh canadian bacon pizza I have to haaaave it"

[Denmark]

tell your mom she has excellent taste

[noxious.sunshine]

HHAHAHAH

Copy paste DUH.

That's hilarious.

[Yerushalmi]

The best newbies have slogans. "The cid's knights are like shinra," "I H8 U SUPER DELETE (http://home.eyesonff.com/general-chat/51329-i-h8-u-super-delete-u-riun-all-my-threads.html)," "copy paste DUH (http://home.eyesonff.com/general-archive/57577-me-new-website.html)," etc. Psychotic will back me up on this.

I'm an editor.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Staff accepts sexual favours.

[Shorty]

Nope. No we don't. Don't merge us in with Raistlin's awfulness.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

When I was a newb, I was always told that Staff accepted sexual favours!

You mean all those pics BoB told me to send so I wouldn't get banned were a lie? :(

[Shorty]

What BoB tells you to do in private does not reflect on the decisions or moderating enforcement of the Eyes on Final Fantasy Staff.

In other words, u got scammed bro

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

But...*curls into a ball and rocks back and forth* Think of my happy place...myhappyplace...noplacelikehome...

[Rantz]

Don't eat the water.

[Tigmafuzz]

BoB will most definitely not use your hair to create several clones of you and keep them in giant tubes like in the Venture Bros.

[Dignified Pauper]

Haha... Someone said DON'T get banned. They obviously have not met me.

[Masamunemaster]

What advice would you offer to new (or returning, or otherwise!) EoFFers?



Don't be skt/snacks and forget about the forums for years and then come back and be like, oh.

I was like that for a few years, but mainly do to not having access to internet for a while.

*No matter how long you are gone, there will always be a place here for you.
*Find yourself a creative name, something that will stick out.
*If you use a smartphone to log on, then don't use the mobile background...you miss out on some good signatures.
*Have at least a little bit of common sense.

There are a few words of wisdom from the master.

[Yerushalmi]

Don't eat the water.

I think you mean the soup.

[Tigmafuzz]

Don't confuse the water with the soup.

Don't eat or drink either.

[Shorty]

Don't confuse soup as a drink.

[Tigmafuzz]

Don't listen to anything Shorty says.

[Chris]

Soup is both food and drink. :colbert:

[Yerushalmi]

Oh no no no. I did NOT mean to reopen that discussion here.

[Tigmafuzz]

Not all soup :doublecolbert: