The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Every time I try to play through FF 8 I end up quitting because of how much I hate it, and every time I regret it because I think I need to conquer it, mostly because I actually went out and <i>bought</i> the damn game. Previously, the furthest I had managed to get was a very small ways into Disc 2. This time, though...this time, I think I can make it happen. I'm actually on Disc 4. I spent an insane amount of time leveling up characters in the beginning of the game (an action which I now realize was worthless due to the way the entire junction system works; my guys would be so much more powerful had I concentrated on <i>decreasing</i> the amount of experience they got while <i>increasing</i> the AP my GFs got), so they're quasi-powerful, if nothing else. And you know what I've discovered about this game?

I fucking hate it more than I ever have before.

Everything about this game is crap. It's horrible. I wish it was alive so I could drive a knife into its skull. I hate the characters, I hate the story, I abso-fucking-lutely hate the junction system, but I <i>will</i> conquer it. I am not going to be this game's bitch. It won't make me quit. I will make Final Fantasy 8 <i>my</i> bitch. And I'm not <i>even</i> going to be friendly with it. I will bend FF 8 over and do it dry. Then I'll take a baseball bat to it and beat some pretty onto its ugly face.

God damn it, I'm going to play it again, now. I want to kill something.

--Lee S.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I really like the game, but seriously, why are you playing it? Playing a game - a GAME, for crissakes - that you don't like is absurd.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Kupek, you just don't get it. It's Moby Dick to Lee's Ahab.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Now let's see you put that same level of determination into beating Ghosts and Goblins for the NES. That's the hardest game I've ever played. Beat the SNES one but got my ass handed to me with the NES one</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Probably not the best argument, seeing as how Ahab was dangerously obsessed to the point of ruling his life, and that's certainly not something one wants to emulate.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Damn, I remember that game, I don't think I ever did see far past the first level, did you ever finish it?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>If it's about as much fun as beating all 100 levels of Bubble Bobble only to discover that you have to just START OVER due to a lack of a fucking ENDING...then I'd rather not. I've had my fair share of annoying NES games.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Arial; text-align: left; '>I'm of the opinion that once I've exacted my vengeance on this game, my life will be nothing but fields of chocolate and topless chicks with big knockers.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>God can I relate. I made it disc 3 the first time, disc 2 the 2nd time, and the end of disc 2 the 3rd time. I hate FF8. The slow pace, the stinking garden, the emotionless characters, the battle system, the card battles, the junction system. I hate that fucking game!</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Why don't you just kick yourself in the fucking balls. Not only is it quicker, but it's also a little less painful.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Ah, so you didn't find the secret door on level 99, huh? There is an ending, you just have to get that door on 99 or you start over. Ghosts and Goblins is just HAAAAAAAAARD. I got to the third level before I used a code to beat it</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Read the original post. Why are you so needlessly argumentative?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Further, I responded to something you said directly to me. Is that so surprising?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>"Great kegger, huh?"

"Well, the principle definition of the word 'great' according to Merriam-Webster dictionaries is an object or occasion of exceptionally voluminous size. Seeing as this party is relegated to just one house, I feel the label of 'great' is misleading and insufficient. Now if you'll excuse me, I must now astrally depart to experience 'Boy Sets Fire' in my own personal universe."</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I have fun at parties. See, this is a place where I go to talk about things. So I do that. At a party, I go to have fun. So I do that.

Not that that's relevant to this; why try to turn it into a personal attack? Seriously, do you want people to not to talk to you?

No, I didn't know the intentions of your simile—how could I? There's not much room for interpertation in all of those twelve words.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>Hehe......you missed out on the little flame war he and I had. At the end, he called me gay. Everyone was amused.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS"; text-align: left; '>He hate me. =8^)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Wow, backbiting in a conversation you're not in regarding what should be a long-forgotten incident. I was ribbing Kupek. What's your story?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Seems like you do a lot less assuming when conversing with me than with other people. It seems almost...intentional. What exactly is your deal, man? You seem to be able to have normally rolling coversations with other people. Where does that ability go?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I guess I don't know your quirks? Got me.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>If you had, you're certainly not as bright as you've lead me to believe with exemplary manner in the last five years. Or you're just subconsciously jerking around because of G-Man's malevolent mind control.

Come to think of it, you did ask me "When did I stop being civil?" a while ago - What exactly did you mean by that?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>As for the civil question I made a while ago, it seemed to me that you were consistently acting like a jerk, and I had just recently noticed it. It's been long enough, though, that I can't remember what in particular you said, and I haven't seen you say enough since coming back to know if that's still my perception.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Cody's always goes out of his way to be a jerk, that's his thing. We're just used to it by now.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>He's just like that. Never take his insults seriously, and you'll be good. :)</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "Times New Roman"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I've got to retire the old bit. I'm thinking of going out of my way to kill you all, now!</div>