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!
