I joined, I had sex with Rye, now I have sex with Pike. I also became a CK.
I joined, I had sex with Rye, now I have sex with Pike. I also became a CK.
Summer of 2000 I discovered EoFF. Things happened between then and now. 2006-2007 was my away period, I spent more time away from EoFF and doing other things online. 2008, I return to EoFF. I ran events, and tried my hardest to make EoFF a fun place, maybe for better or worse. Still try, but now I'm also in charge of running fan art showcase and the DA group.
Meh, I hate writing about my own history.
I joined, posted about 20 times, left.
I joined again, posted about 20 times, left.
I joined *again*, posted about 20 times, left.
I joined once more and now I'm here!
Very exciting I know.
I was a fan of Final Fantasy (duh), and after spending time at a site named GameTalk, I ended up here, I'm not sure how (There's a chance I may have been linked here by a site called Final Fantasy VII Citidel, but I'm not sure. Either way, I ended up here - it was one of the first sites I really liked.
I remember a couple of threads, my earliest is a thread about how the FFVI cast managed to (SPOILER)survive a fall from the sky and I can remember someone coming up with reasons how each character could. I'm not even sure I was a member then, but you know... I was pretty all over the place online, but that's how it goes.
I registered on this site over a decade ago, and it feels like another lifetime. Seeing some of the names mentioned in this thread is nice - many of the names are faces I recognise from when I first joined. I would consider myself more a part of EoFF's past than present (though hopefully its future too!) but I can't deny the influences, directly and indirectly, it has had on me. Joining these forums feels like a lifetime ago, and I think that's because, in a sense, it was.
In one sense, the way I'm making this post is an example of that. I'm posting from my smartphone, in bed. When I first joined, I was on a 56k connection with BT that disconnected every twenty minutes or so, and a mutual hatred of an ISP helped me strike up one of my first friendships online - with Lindy/RyuKishi. Me in 2002 used to hate having limited time on EoFF and particularly in #eoff, and would have love to do what I am doing now.
I think the board has had (in)direct influences on my life in other ways too. One example would be my love of Rachmaninov's piano concertos - music I'm only aware of because of a classical music thread from several years ago on these forums. Which I believe either MILF or Denmark recommended. I still partly associate that music with this board.
I'll try to make a rather more lucid post later, though it's been.nice to read about the experiences of others so far.
Having said all that - one thing that hasn't changed since I joined is my sense of humour; it's as bad as ever.
Last edited by Heath; 10-27-2012 at 12:28 AM. Reason: Edited to include credit for music suggestion. I have now added 'MILF' to my phone's dictionary...
aw hell let's just put it all in one easily accessed eventually archived forum where anyone will have access:
i typed /list on FFChat.net and saw that there were more active channels than #tripletriadx where I spent about two years, so I just inadvertently bumped into #eoff and #fflegend. #ffonline was really snobby and elitist! thank you guys for being nice! I remember when crono_logical wasn't just cl_out all the damn time and when people actually got banned for being idiots. Rather quiet and reserved as a teenager and kept to myself on the forums a lot of the time. Never shut up on IRC though, wow! Still remain in contact with as many of my friends from that era to this date!
Around 2004, I hopped around from households a lot so I wouldn't have to worry about walking long distances during inclement weather conditions to school and work. Lacked a lot of structure and screwed around for most of that year just doing my own thing without any real plans for the future. I got my lawsuit money and spent it irresponsibly the second I turned eighteen because of how I'd gone most of my life without ever being able to have "nice" things. I wound up starting a long-distance relationship and moved to Milwaukee! And then that didn't work out too well because I was young and irresponsible. I moved back home and worked a mind-numbing full time job while I just went through the motions every day.
That cycle went on for a good two years. I wound up eventually getting involved with someone here. Started as casual cute flirting, ramped up to lots of bad situations and we grew to resent each other a lot and there were lots of disagreements. Good times and bad, but these things are life experiences. After a rough split, we've both found happiness elsewhere in our lives. Never fun to go through! I shied away from the internet for a while after that.
Until I needed to look something up for FFIX one day. Started posting on the forums again with warm reception by old acquaintances and then I popped in IRC and was given strict instructions to stick around for a while. So I accepted that gracious offer and eventually saw numerous old friends come out of the woodwork one by one shortly after! I'm growing a lot closer with old friends of mine from the past and that is definitely a much needed change in my life.
Now I come here when I get bored at work and spam the music forum most of the day!
Last edited by Jowy; 10-27-2012 at 04:57 AM. Reason: tee-hee post #69
"strict instructions"
more like "threats on your life"
I joined in 2002. I rather quickly became a popular but divisive member because on one hand I posted a troutload of long and presumably interesting posts but on the other hand I had my head too far up my own ass to take a joke. I won a troutload of Ciddies and was apparently proposed for Knighthood but rejected (accounts have varied on by how much).
About seven months after joining I founded my own message board. Some of you have probably heard of it.
Since that point I've been in and out and my opinion of this place has fluctuated depending on the staff and my mood, but I've never been able to leave completely because I have too many memories attached to this place and there are too many interesting posters whose posts I wouldn't get to read if I weren't here. Right now this is definitely one of the better message boards I post at.
I could probably write a long essay about all the experiences I've had here, but why bother. Most of the people at the board these days probably wouldn't remember most of the people I'd be talking about anyway.
I started listing people who have made my experience memorable but quickly found out that my memory wasn't reliable enough to make a complete list, so I won't bother because it would probably offend someone if I left them out. You hopefully know who you are anyway.
I wish more people would post in Shorty format, definitely takes me down wisteria lane.
I really want to reply to this, but it will take hours. =|
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
Joined to find out wat mag_elem_null does in ff9...or something
spent time in chat
chatted excessively with Chemical
met then moved in with Chemical
had great relationship
relationship died
left site for a while
came back now.
At one time I got baned from eoeo.
When I was twelve, I was looking for guides and random crap for FF9, and came across the main site. Then I joined the forum to ask questions about gameplay and whatnot, and boom.... My life was ruined forever. (:
It's actually because of this website that I am a forever changing nerd, constantly being ridiculed for my love of gaming by family and the like. But I guess it's worth it, since you're all my only friends now.... Oh, god I'm so lonely.