2012 Moments of EoFF

[Shorty]

I thought it might be nice to have a thread where we collectively reminisce over 2012 with fellow EoFF members.

This year's been a pretty big one for myself on the forums. I've more than doubled my post count in a single year, which isn't much to say considering the amount of time I've been a member here. I've reconnected with many old friends and made many new ones.

EoFF itself has flourished brilliantly. We've acquired a swell handful of outstanding newbies and we've had a crazy wave of oldbies return. We've put on some of the most important events in the history of EoFF, the frontsite was made the best it's ever been and it's only getting better from here. It seems to me like this place has overall improved significantly and that we have a good crew of members frequenting all corners of the forums.

With all that said, let's recap some great moments from 2012!

These are some of mine.
-Participating in the pioneer (lol) trek of EoFF Oregon Trail and furiously hitting F5 for hours.
-Arguing over the Space/Ocean thread and my side losing with dignity and honor.
-Participating in the CK Competition and teaming up with Vivi as your newbie justice duo. When I signed up, I didn't think I had a shot at it.
-Meeting up with both new and old friends: Jiro, NCG, Yar, denmark, Happy Noodle boy and of course, Rantz Pantz
-Consistently arguing about pizza topping (pineapple can gtfo).
-Consistently arguing about the worst foods.
-Consistently arguing about the best foods.
-Consistently arguing about food in general.
-Yelling at Vivi about how steak for every meal is unhealthy.
-Serenading denmark in #eoff with alkaline trio and brand new and lord knows what else.
-Watching Pike become mortified at every adorable photo of moths.
-Arguing over the swear filter (trout 4eva).
-Nikki's drawing of me as a whale.
-Dragging some members back to EoFF by the napes of their necks (you know who you are)
-Joining EC and being able to be part of the working cogs behind some of the events here.
-The Archer quotes thread that nobody but a handful of us appreciate.
-Watching the Post your EoFF History thread come alive with so many members' stories.
-Reading Thecloudyday89's stories. If you haven't yet... you are missing out.
-The Nostalgia Thread.
-Watching the Unpopular Opinions threads get battled over.

[Formalhaut]

Great idea Shorty! I've have had so many, and I've only been back since September... here's a probably incomplete list!

- A very warm welcome back from old members, like Goldenboko, Jiro, Citizen Bleys, etc etc.
- Being part of the illustrious Events Committee only a month or two in! Thanks Goldenboko!
- Beginning and maintaining my blog series, updated every week! Thanks for patronage commenters!
- Doing so well in the EoFF Olympics was quite a highlight!
- Somehow winning a limited edition poster!
- Again, getting up to the penultimate day and being an asset to the team in the Anniversary Mafia game!
- Most recently, the EoFF Secret Santa was a resounding success, thanks to Santas and Santees!
- Making valued, true friendships here.
- Ribbing Lockharted time and time again


Missed some..

- Taking part in the frontsite, in particular Theatrhythm, great teamwork with Faris
- Talking about Faris, playing swapnote/Letter Box pictionary with her on the 3DS!
- Being a proud member of the "returners", members who have come back after god knows how long...
- Fairly certain Lockharted coined my new nickname, Formy! Love it. Thanks Locky!

I've missed this place.

[Freya]

Space vs ocean thread!
Getting promoted to an Editor!
Hosting the CK event that brought you guys your lovely OP of this thread!
Working with the community for our events and our content! I love that! I've met some amazing people because of it.

[Night Fury]

Winning a Poster in the poster thread!
Winning Best Newbie and Cutest Female at the Ciddies!
Creating the infamous poo thread!
Getting articles promoted to the frontsite!
Meeting you guys

[Jinx]

Being the very last person to win a poster, and having #eoff go crazy that I better get it!
Winning Cutest Female
Ocean vs. Space thread. /bows (You're welcome, EoFF)
Making new friends cos I joined in March
Harassing people in EoEO
Being a champ in the WILTY thread
Reading all of Jiro's FFVII threads
Reading the Oregon Trail thread
Taking part in the FF Olympics (well....trash talking other teams, at least ;D)
Interesting #eoff discussions prompted by Sylvie

[Night Fury]

- Fairly certain Lockharted coined my new nickname, Formy! Love it. Thanks Locky!

I've missed this place.

It was me, Formy.
It was a toss up between Formish or Formy, I went for the latter (obviously)

[Shorty]

I love it. Less syllables.

[Night Fury]

OMG
How could I forget singing Sephex's Gotye parody with Bubba!

[Faris]

I love it. Less syllables.

And so much easier to verify that it is spelled correctly

Oh boy, so many things:

- Warm welcome back
- FF Olympics, specifically winning the FFI speed run (based on time, Jiro takes the crown for actually finishing it)
- Being asked/recommended to join the event committee. Never thought that would happen.
- Writing speeches for Ciddies
- Winning my first Ciddie and being nominated for Best Female (never saw that coming. Clearly I've become a lot more outgoing since I was a teenager)
- Being asked to write speeches for the Final Fantasy Ciddies
- The insanity that ensued during the FF Ciddies
- Secret SatanSanta!
- New friendships and rekindling old ones
- Helping with Theatrythm content
- 3DSing and XBoxliving with certain members
- Some Event planning with Bleys and Laddy (guys, we should get back on that sometime)
- Skype chats
- Mafia
- Triple Triad tournament
I know there's more but I can't think of it right now.

[Jowy]

Going in #eoff and being threatened with bodily harm if I didn't regularly grace the place with my presence. (empty threat)
Birthday thread.
Hiding out in our tree fort with the coolest people here.
Dark Souls thread.
Magic age defying melons.
Lost in Translation.
Archer thread.
Bad ideas thread.

Not a bad six months!

[Chris]

My Online Dating Thread. Never felt so vulnerable and exposed.

[Formalhaut]

My Online Dating Thread. Never felt so vulnerable and exposed.

Don't worry Chris! It was a resounding success based on the number of posts made on it!

[Agent Proto]

So this is EoFF specific?

- Participating in the CK event, and eventually becoming responsible for the FF Fan Art Showcases and becoming founder of the dA group. Seriously, we have some great stuff in there, and the members flocking from dA to the forums is partially my fault, even though BoB was responsible for bringing them over to help with the FF Ciddies.
- New friends, old friends, friends in general.
- Becoming more of a presence on the forums, I guess?

I guess that's it. I don't want to bother listing threads others will name.

[Aulayna]

I joined a forum and posted some things. Occasionally some people replied or repped me for those things. 'dat trout is whack yo!

[Shauna]

2012 has been a short EoFF year for me, but coming back has been great.

-Poster thingy was cool
-Anniversary Mafia was awesome fun.
-Catching up with old friends, making new ones, all that good stuff

I honestly cannot remember what else even happened in the past few months. My memory is bad today. xD But, hopefully 2013 will be a great year for us!