I think my first hardcore experience with the roiling black sea of message board insanity was when I was scanning the SegaSages forums and came across a post asking whether or not chocobos, the emu-like flightless birds used as mounts and draft animals in the equine-poor Final Fantasy games, could be used as a foodstuff. The resulting discussion was as long as it was ferociously contentious.
Anime freaks bitched about how chocobos were cheap ripoffs of the horseclaws from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Final Fantasy purists bitched about intolerant anime freaks, and were outraged that anyone would even consider discussing the edibility of their sacred totem ratites. Trolls and would be wits flocked from all corners of the world wide web to weigh in on the subject, provoke others, and generally prolong the agony.
As I scrolled through the hundred-plus posts, my head shook in disbelief. I wanted to look away, but I couldn’t. It was too morbidly fascinating, like watching rival ant swarms devour each other over a bread crumb that turned out to be a pebble.
Besides, everyone knows that the bigger the bird, the gamier the meat.
Nobuo Uematsu – Christmas De Chocobo (from a 1997 single) – This is a holiday remix of the chocobo theme music, familiar to anyone who has ever burned away dozens of hours playing one of the installments of the venerable console RPG series.
Anime freaks bitched about how chocobos were cheap ripoffs of the horseclaws from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. Final Fantasy purists bitched about intolerant anime freaks, and were outraged that anyone would even consider discussing the edibility of their sacred totem ratites. Trolls and would be wits flocked from all corners of the world wide web to weigh in on the subject, provoke others, and generally prolong the agony.
As I scrolled through the hundred-plus posts, my head shook in disbelief. I wanted to look away, but I couldn’t. It was too morbidly fascinating, like watching rival ant swarms devour each other over a bread crumb that turned out to be a pebble.
Besides, everyone knows that the bigger the bird, the gamier the meat.
Nobuo Uematsu – Christmas De Chocobo (from a 1997 single) – This is a holiday remix of the chocobo theme music, familiar to anyone who has ever burned away dozens of hours playing one of the installments of the venerable console RPG series.
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