I registered at EoFF when I was 12. I'm turning 33 this month. Just typing that out is pretty mind-boggling.

I've met a lot of friends here, including one who remains my best friend. Most of my online communication is on Facebook now (where I have a fair number of EoFFers as friends, but not all that I've spoken to here), though I do miss the style of forums. It's nice to chat in an environment where you can be responded to by a stranger or someone you've known for 20 years. For here right now, it might be someone I haven't seen or chatted to in 10+ years. It was a pretty big part of my life through some very formative years.

I have a couple "real life" friends I can talk RPGs with, but none that I can nerd out with quite so much as here. Despite my insistence, none of them have played Suikoden or Lunar SSSC or the recent FFs, so I like being able to do that here.

It's also a place I've invested a lot of time and effort into, and not just chatting. If you add up my time writing articles or being an Editor (or even my brief stint as a CK) or hosting the Ciddies or helping out with events, I've probably spent more time working here than on playing most video games. And despite it being relatively closer to the end of my regular tenure here, hosting the Ciddies was definitely a highlight of my time at EoFF.

That was a bit stream-of-consciousness, but it's tough to put into words about all the ways EoFF has meant something to me over the years.