I feel like it might be prudent to tell a little tale of how I became a gamer. It's not like how it was for many of you, and it's colored how I think about video games considerably.
( Holy shit this shit is long and mostly about Sephiroth )

I'm feeling crotchety because it's late and my throat feels like a jellyfish crawled into it and died, thus precluding sleep. Combined with the factors I'm here to discuss, it's putting me in a dismal frame of mind ( Read more... )

On some level, this seemed like a good idea.

I have since lost track of where the hell that level was.

( Cut for highly concentrated levels of Tetsuya Nomura and other FF artists )