Finally in!

[Yerushalmi]

So I've been hanging around for the last week or so, getting the feel of the community. And I like what I see. So I decided to register and post my hello. Hello!

My name is Daniel, and I live in Jerusalem, Israel. I'm married to a wonderful woman who's doing her doctorate in endocrinology, and I have two wonderful children under the age of three whom I teach about the joys of Cthulhu. I will be starting work as a technical writer at Intel next week.

I almost never played Final Fantasy as a child; I had a saved game of FFVII at a friend's house (the last thing I remember playing through was Cloud's crossdressing plot) and I borrowed FFVIII from my brother's friend for a few weeks before my parents decided I was enjoying it too much and returned it (the last thing I saw was a cutscene in which my character needed to scramble across a bridge before an explosion, and I discovered too late that I was actually controlling my character in said cutscene and needed to do it manually - so I died and was intending to try again with my newfound knowledge the following day when the discs mysteriously disappeared).

Once I reached college I downloaded and played through FFI, then several years later I did the same with FFII, both with walkthroughs. Eventually I decided I might as well make it official, and I proceeded to start playing through the original versions of all the games (no longer using walkthroughs) in release order - FFIII, FFA, FFIV, FFMQ, and now FFV (the middle three of which I actually purchased to play, as I plan to do for all future games that were released in English). My wife joined me beginning with FFIV after a lot of convincing, having previously been of the opinion that Final Fantasy is a game for "girls" (she prefers Half-Life and Baldur's Gate).

I've rambled enough. Nice to meet you all!

[Parker]

welcome to the eyes on final fantasy forums!

[Night Fury]

I'm so glad you joined up!

If anyone wants to know, this guy is 100% Locky approved, he is super cool!

[Pumpkin]

Welcome ! I hope you stick around.

[Unbreakable Will]

Welcome, welcome friend! Hope you enjoy your stay and pitch your two cents in whenever you like!

[Shorty]

Hurray and welcome to the forums!

[Shauna]

Took you long enough to sign up.

Welcome aboard!

[Formalhaut]

this guy is 100% Locky approved, he is super cool!

Wow, that means he must be good! Welcome to our forums Daniel! I saw your Shabbat thread in Quina's Kitchen: I thought it was so good and different (in terms of the usual junk we discuss in the kitchen) that I even mentioned it in my community update. You seem to have a good head on your shoulders and can write a pretty engaging opening post, so that immediately piques my interest! I wonder what your avatar and signature set will be?

If you're ever stuck as to what to do here at EoFF, make sure to check the weekly community update to know where the hot threads and interesting stuff is! Use that as a starting point anyway, and branch off from there!

I am not just shamelessly plugging the community update.

[NeoCracker]

There is currently plans for Yeru to adopt me, even though I doubt he will admit to it.

I think it will be a happy family!

[Pheesh]

I'm still reading the blog you put me onto, it lights up my life!

Glad to have you around the actual forum as well.

[Pike]

Welcome to EoFF!

(she prefers Half-Life and Baldur's Gate).

Oooh, have her join and talk to Laddy and I

[the_best_noob]

Don't forget me! About the Half-Life bit, never played Baldurs Gate

[Pike]

Baldur's Gate is one of those games that everyone should play.

[the_best_noob]

I'm out of money. In the summer I can get a job though, so I'll probably buy it. I swear, there are too many games that everyone should play

[Pike]

I swear, there are too many games that everyone should play

I AGREE, this is why my backlog is so big