What Have Your Older Posts Taught You About Yourself?

[Chris]

Looking back, I was an immature prat. Did everything I possibly could to be known.

[ReloadPsi]

That I'm not the overly credulous FF fanboy I once was. During the period I had pretty much forgotten about these forums entirely (oops!) I experienced the hype around XIII despite not being interested, played it to shut up the people who wanted me to give it a chance, and finally decided I was done with Square-Enix and the FF franchise.

Some posts indicate that I used to be able to play these games to death, like some posts I made in the FF1 subforum where I did a solo Fighter challenge, or tried to max out my Monk's damage output (turns out you can go over 9999 in DoS). Now I just play through and then leave it be; no grinding or stat boosting or item farming.

[Shauna]

That I used to be more entertained by message boards than I am now.

I tried looking back through my posts, got to about mid 2008 and gave up. Still got a more active 3 years prior to that, don't really wanna wade through all that.

The usual nonsense though, I joined when I was 14 - I would definitely have been more naive, I serious business'd when things should have been simple and easy. Probably most importantly though, I've learned that I'm a much happier person now than I was back then.

[Pike]

That I'm not the overly credulous FF fanboy I once was. During the period I had pretty much forgotten about these forums entirely (oops!) I experienced the hype around XIII despite not being interested, played it to shut up the people who wanted me to give it a chance, and finally decided I was done with Square-Enix and the FF franchise.

Interestingly I didn't join this forum for the Final Fantasy aspect, even though I've long been a fan of the series. I joined for the community aspect. 2005 was kind of in the middle of EoFF's heyday and I knew a lot of people on various forums that I frequented (I used to be on a lot of other forums) who were also members here or who would namedrop it or whatnot and I finally got curious and joined. It was by far the most active forum I'd seen up to that point and I thought it was neat that it had such a large community.

Anyways I also went through a period where I forgot the forum existed. OOPS.

[Madame Adequate]

This is the caliber of staff we have nowadays.

[Jiro]

There's been a vast improvement recently though.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Yeah, but you're not on staff anymore, Dak.

[Shorty]

I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one who was twitch-twitching at the title of this thread.

[Jinx]

I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one who was twitch-twitching at the title of this thread.

[Clo]

My older posts have taught me that I am a poor judge of character.

[Quindiana Jones]

It's not your fault, Clo. You're a cat.