121 SIGNS YOU ARE OBSESSED WITH SQUARE

You have to admit, that if it wasn't for Squaresoft gaming would feel a whole lot emptier. Having risen to the level God of all RPG's, Squaresoft has produced a progeny of these gaming epic classics, from the flagship series Final Fantasy, to Secret of Mana, Parasite Eve, Xenogears, to Chrono Trigger. Yes, squaresoft has been good to gamers, and perhaps some gamers have become a little too obsessed, maybe... This page is a list of 121 reasons where you might be obsessed, and includes my additions regarding your obsession with RPGs.




121. All you do is play video games.
120. You call chickens "chocobos."
119. You compare creatures from one game to another and wonder if they are the same creature.
118. You breathed a sigh of relief when the world didn't end on January 23rd via Lavos.
117. When you play a game over again you refer to it as deja vu.
116. You always make sure your Square games are at the top of your CD rack.
115. You try to design a new airship for your party.
114. You're afraid that Barret or Vincent will run out of ammo.
113. You like archery and prefer to "Charge +20" before letting it go.
112. You sing the Victory Fanfare after winning in sports.
111. You spend more than 3 hours a day in RPG MSG Boards.
110. You mimic Cloud's moves using a meter stick as a sword.
109. You have a Squaresoft shrine set up in your basement.
108. You consistently score over 20,000 points in G Bike at the Gold Saucer.
107. You name your car the "Highwind" or "Yggdrasil".
106. To quell a fever, you listen to Antipyretic.
105. Your e-mail address contains the name of a Square character.
104. When you are sick, you try to cast "Heal" on yourself.
103. You can beat FF Legend with 4 monsters.
102. You can beat FF1 with a party of all mages.
101. You can solve the Final Fantasy number game in under a minute (in FFI, hold down A and press B 55 times while on the ship).
100. You regret a character's past actions and have nightmares of living it over again.
99. You like Carmina Burana simply because it is the source for the lyrics of One Winged Angel.
98. You invent your own battle systems in your spare time.
97. You send hate mail to Squaresoft for not porting some of their games to America.
96. You spend more time playing the piano in Tifa's house than a real piano.
95. You go to the shoe store and ask for "Dragoon Boots".
94. You ask your boss to give you a raise because you earned enough job points.
93. Your grades in school have dropped significantly due to an increase in gaming.
92. You spend much time playing Spit simply because you can play it in Xenogears.
91. You have calculated EXACTLY how fast the airship would have to be traveling to circle the world in 9 seconds.
90. You buy a Kendo sword to practice your Bushido Blade moves.
89. You consider it unholy to change a character's name.
88. You listen to a Square sleeping song every night before bed.
87. You name sports equipment(tennis racquets, hockey sticks, etc.) after swords from Final Fantasy games.
86. Your first reaction to seeing any dragon is to call it Bahamut.
85. Your cat plays with a stuffed toy Mog.
84. You believe you are Crono, and when people talk to you, you don't say anything and expect them to respond.
83. You're jealous of Cloud's strength, Crono's hairdo, or Lucca's intelligence.
82. You play tennis, hit one-handed backhands, and refer to them as "Einhanders".
81. You go to Las Vegas and hope not to get too many lagomorphs.
80. You try to hunt down a FDS just to play games like Appletown Monogatari and Cleopatra no Mahou.
79. You refer to your money as "gil".
78. You make it an annual event to play Parasite Eve on the exact days that the story takes place.
77. You have ever used Square music during a classroom presentation.
76. You wonder if summoned monsters earn profit for their services.
75. You try to convince everyone you know to play Square games.
74. You name your children Erau, Qssi, Dlro, and Weht.
73. Your last request before you die is to have "ERAU QSSI DLRO WEHT" written on your tombstone.
72. You wish to have Aeris' theme played at your funeral.
71. You despise a game (like King's Knight) then somehow force yourself to like it after you find out it's by Square.
70. You dye your cat red.
69. You dress up for Halloween as a Square character.
68. You make up last names for Chrono Trigger characters.
67. You curse Tower Records and other popular music stores for not carrying game music.
66. You like to snowboard and worry about crashing into Mogs.
65. You want the next Star Trek series to feature the U.S.S. Highwind and Captain Cloud Strife or the U.S.S. Yggdrasil and Captain Fatima.
64. You shun people who insult Square.
63. You insult people by calling them "spoony".
62. Someone asks you what your favorite type of music is, and you say "Square".
61. Someone attacks you, and you throw coins at him in self-defense.
60. Your name dominates message board discussions.
59. You madly vote 20 times on every online poll.
58. You carry a small slot machine around with you to attack your enemies.
57. You can play almost the entire Final Fantasy Series' soundtrack on the piano (or any other instrument).
56. You think the Colorado Avalanche hockey team belongs in Midgar.
55. You get an incredible surge of joy by lining up the boxes your Square games came in and just looking at them for a while.
54. You consider having your games taken away to be a worse punishment than death.
53. You've ever wondered if you're half-esper, or perhaps half-cetra?.
52. You think Aya Brea should be in the next Bond movie.
51. You ever get into arguments about whether Frog's Masamune is better than Sephiroth's.
50. Your hair is as spiky as Cloud's or Crono's.
49. Square characters frequently appear in your dreams.
48. You think all casinos should be gold towers with domes sticking out of the sides.
47. You have played through Final Fantasy Tactics listing all the mistranslations, forming a book as thick as War and Peace.
46. You fear your mitochondria will rebel against you.
45. The photo section of your wallet contains pictures of Square characters.
44. You wish your watch had an Active Time Gauge.
43. You wish the 3 tenors performed at the Jidoor Opera House.
42. You go to the opera to find out whether someone named Celes will be performing that night.
41. Just talking about mitochondria in your biology class makes you think of Parasite Eve.
40. More than half of your hard drive space is taken up by Square-related files.
39. You give Square names to characters in non-Square games.
38. You try to come up with national anthems for Kislev and Aveh.
37. You look down upon non-Square fans and refer to them as "Lambs".
36. You get a black trenchcoat to wear, just so you will look like Sephiroth.
35. You do not let friends and family touch your Square games because you fear they will get fingerprints on them.
34. You try to convince your school orchestra to play Square music.
33. You think Star Wars is a rip-off of a Final Fantasy game.
32. You would take a bullet to save a Square CD or cartridge.
31. You try to shift your car into Xenogears.
30. You spread rumors about a method to resurrect Aeris.
29. You've figured out the correct pronunciation for "Beoulve".
28. The job of your dreams is a Square employee.
27. The timer in your FF7 game ran out of digits.
26. You check for updates on GIA more than twice a day.
25. You choose your friends based on game preferences.
24. Talk about Square dominates your daily conversations.
23. You try to sew marbles to your clothes and call it materia.
22. You consider instruction manuals to be holy books.
21. Uematsu, Mitsuda, Nomura, Sakaguchi, and Amano have become household names.
20. You consider Square's release dates to be holidays.
19. You set your Final Fantasy 7 action figures on an altar and pray to them.
18. You refer to your games as "religious artifacts".
17. You reserve your games 3 years in advance.
16. You go to church to pray for Holy.
15. Instead of having "Herculean" strength, one has "Cidolfan" strength.
14. You compete with your friends for games and call it the War of the Magi.
13. You sing along with "One Winged Angel," "Somnia Memorias," "Stars of Tears," and "Small Two of Pieces".
12. You measure your wealth in Square games.
11. You own a bar called "7th Heaven".
10. You stand up and place your hand over your heart every time you hear the Final Fantasy theme.
9. You don't think 3 CD's is enough for a game.
8. You learn Japanese just to play import games.
7. You have cats named Red XIII and Cait Sith and a dog named Interceptor.
6. You have fallen in love with a colorful bunch of polygons.
5. You have read this list, proven that you are obsessed, and boasted to your friends about it.
4. You pray that it isn't really the FINAL Fantasy.
3. You grieve Aeris's death more than that of a member of your family.
2. You get into debates with your geography teacher about whether the world is Square.
1. You once maintained a website known as "Square Net".



Reposted from THE Gaming Intelligence Agency and contributed by "L Snake"
YOU KNOW YOU PLAY TOO MANY RPG'S WHEN...

Following similar suit from above I decided to include my own examples of when RPG's have become an obsession. I myself can remember revolving 2 entire weeks of my life just around an RPG. I skipped school and my job at just to play Final Fantasy VII, and later when I got Xenogears, every waking hour was spent thinking about the brilliance of the plot of that game.



You walk into someone's house and start looking though their cabinets for potions.
When your friend fell of his bike and scraped his knee you cast "cure1" on him.
You went to the ostrich farm and asked the farmer if he had any gyshal greens and what the best breed of Chocobo was.
You stole an ostrich, painted it gold, because you thought it would make it walk on water and climb the highest mountains.
Eveyone you see you walk up and stand there expecting them to tell you the location of the secret treasure.
When a thunder storm is coming and you see lightning you think someone is casting Bolt3 somewhere.
You approach people expecting them to tell you the location of the Red Dragon's Lair, and when they don't repspond, you give them "Magic Elixer" too see if they'll say anything different.
You go to the Airport to see if there is a guy named Cid who will rent you his, "airship."
When you go to the store and they ask you cash, check, or charge, you say "Gil"
You steal your grandpa's cane because you think it has magical properties.
You buy a pair of overalls and think that by putting them on it increases your Def by 1 point.
You say "In the name of Althena!" and expect a Lightning Bolt to decend from the sky and the earth to shake.
Before getting in a fight with the school bully you menally asses his HP, Def Lvl, Att Lvl, and MP.
When a guy in a Boxing Match get's KO'ed, you yell, "Use a Phoenix Down! Use a Phoenix Down!"
The Local Delivery Pizza companies know you by name.
The last peice of news you remember from the outside world was that George Bush declared war on Iraq.
You see a girl who dyed her hair purple and think she is Luna, and ask her to sing a song.
You start hanging around more Wiccans because you think you can learn better Earth magic.
You think by upgrading from a silver bracelet to a gold one you increase you Defense against magic spells.
You touch your hand to your forehead because you think it makes you draw "float" from David Copperfield.
After Playing Final Fantasy VIII, You think RPG stands for Really Pretty Girls.
You and 3 of your friends take up arms and start walking across the country fighting everything that gets in your way. When the police arrest you, you are certain that someone will drop the key in front of the Jail cell or let you out when no one is looking.
You think if you die you will just have to press "Continue" and go back to the last date you made an entry in your diary/log.
When you read the Bible, you say, "I already played that one."
You prey to Aeris because you know she hears your prayers.
When you see Citra in the Supermarket you think that it is the drink of the ancients.
You think that by adding duck wings to your boots you will fly.
You get a chinese ceremonial drum and wave it in the air expecting a Flammie to drop down and pick you up.
You name your dog Angelo and expect to fire him off your arm like a cannon if need be.
You wait in front of Babbages before the store opens the day a game releases. (Hee, Hee, I've done that one folks.)
You name your cat Cait Sith.
You think you cat is the Shinra Manager.
You give a slot machine to your cat to see what moves he can do.
You've cronicled the entire species of Moogles and Mogs from color to wing size to ability and published a thesis on this zoological study.
You can actually speak Mog, "Ku, Ku, Kupo!"
You join the army because you think you will get to see Sephiroth.
You ask a Catholic Priest of he has some Holy Materia.
You have a bumper sticker that says, "My Son/Daughter Was an Honor Student at Balamb Garden."
You think when the Principal confiscates your gaming cards he keeps them and secretly plays with them when you are not looking.
You call the Principal of your school "Headmaster Cid"
You think the Radio Telescope at Aracibo, Puerto Rico is where the school glee club should have the next dance.
You join the "Trepes"
You dye your hair green, call yourself Terra, and claim you are an Esper.
You go to the basement of your school expecting there to be a control room to make it fly.
You go to NASA expecting a ride on the Space Shuttle to meet Sorceress Adel.
When you see Aurora Borealis you call it the Lifestream.
You go to a State Mental Institution looking for the Lunatic Pandora.
When you watch Deep Space Nine you think the station is Shevat.
You read the Bible and think the Tower of Babel is the remnants of the U.S.S Eldridge.




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