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We all take our home for granted. We look at things around the world, and think about how beautiful it is, and how much we would like to live there, and how boring it is here. But there is always things here that we take for granted because we're used to it. For example, here in the states we have things like the Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone park, Death Valley, Bear Tower, and the great lakes (shared with Canada obviously) just to name a few. If you wanted to go more local, you can find even more. For example here in Missouri, we have dozens of public caves. Meramec Caverns is one of the more popular. It was revered by the local tribes as the home of the Gods. There are also the lakes, many of which are man made, some that are natural though. Look around the world. Greece has its isles. Scotland has the Cairngorns. Australia has the outback and Uluru. Congo has jungles. Brazil has the Amazon. India shares the Himalayas with Nepal and China. Antarctica is in it's own category. That is just one thing from a quick selection of countries around the world. There are also things man made that are something to admire as well. The pyramids at Giza, Stonehenge, the great wall, Nazca lines, Moai of Easter Island, the Colosseum, Teotihuacan, Mount Rushmore, and the Taj Mahal just to name some. Then there are our nonhuman companions of this world. The vast majority of which we could never encounter firsthand without the benefit of a zoo. The zoo that has repeatedly been listed as the best zoo in the world is the San Diego zoo. I've been to many zoos in my life, in several countries, including San Diego. Including one that I was able to play with tapirs and a jaguar in. As well as things like dolphin encounters. Not meaning Sea World, although I did go there once before it was thankfully shut down. And I can say without any doubt that the SD zoo is the best of them all. We have the mysteries of the unexplained and paranormal that have yet to be understood or solved. The moving coffins of Barbados. The Flying Dutchman. Annie Palmer in Rose Hall. The ghosts of the Tower of London. La Lloronoa. Nessie. Kraken. Spedlins Tower. Location of the Ark of the Covenant. Alien abduction. The Roswell incident. Ntavelis's Cave. The hungry ghosts of China. Monte Cristo. Duppies of Jamaica. Big grey man of Ben MacDhui. Bigfoot. And so many more. Then there is the last thing that we know next to nothing about. Our oceans. We can map them using sonar, and catalog different species that we have encountered. But that doesn't mean we know the "hows" and the "whys" of the ocean. If it wasn't for sonar we never would have found the wreckage of the Titanic. Nor would we know about the Mariana Trench. We still don't know how animal life is able to survive at such depths, especially the trench, under such tremendous pressure. So don't just take everything around you for granted. There's always something there that is worth more than you realize.

Too damn confusing with his tech talk.

OK @m76 and @The Blackangel, this spat has derailed this topic quite enough. @m76 Your first post questioning whether @The Blackangel had played other modern games was worded with tone and didn't serve the topic at hand, and you know perfectly well it didn't because you then made another completely separate post to actually address the topic. In fact, your fist post served no purpose other than to antagonise @The Blackangel. Between having a thought and typing out a post, there's a realm of good taste and common sense begging to make your acquaintance. If what you wanted to know was more about her history with more modern games, something along the lines of this would have been enough; "I've seen you referenhce RDR2 a lot on threads and it's left me curious. What other modern games have you played?" If you had done that, I'm sure @The Blackangel would have provided a perfectly curious and satisfactory response. In the response to her reply (and we'll get to that, @The Blackangel) you only antagonise her even more. From whare I stand, it looks like you were trying to get a rise out of her, and that's not fair. Whilst I'm sure that wasn't the intention, what you should have done was think a little harder about what you were going to say, and that's what I expect you to do from now on. Consider yourself warned. @The Blackangel I meant what I said about him just there, I see this as his doing, but in future it might be an idea to follow your own advice and Ignore him. Your brazen, confrontational responses did not help matters, so try and be mindfull of that. It may.it have been his intention to upset you, like I said he probably just bypassed his centre of good taste and common sence, but even if he was trying to antagonise you on purpose the worst thing you can do if give his the response he wanted. If it gets to a point we're someone, beit him or anyone else, is crossing a line, report it. Same goes to you @m76 as well as everyone else. I want you two to stop, but if you two insist on continuing this ruckus, do it through PM's. In the meantime, I'll remove the offending posts so this thread can hopefully get back on track.

Probably an unpopular opinion, but mine has to be VIII. It was the first one I ever played, and I still love replaying it to this day! I’m currently in a replay of the remastered version and it feels only better than it had before! I’ve played all of the other titles and have enjoyed every one of them! I get a sense of nostalgia from all of them every time I replay them. However, VIII still gives me a nostalgic feeling that’s slightly different from the rest. I’m sure because it’s my first entry into something that I now love, but the opening sequence, style and music still really resonate with me now 20 years later!

This. Also the introduction of the junction system was a huge step up. The twists and turns in the story were some of the best I’ve seen in a game. And the graphics of the cutscenes were and are some of the best graphics any game has ever featured. Considering the game was released on PS1 that’s really saying something.

My favorite Final Fantasy game is FF8 because it has an amazing story, the GF system was pretty great and I think the overall game has so much to offer. It's a shame it gets so much hate from majority of the Final Fantasy community.

To me, grinding can only be fun if the gameplay itself is rewarding. Take dark souls for example, farming souls and titanite chunks from those giants in Anor Londo presents an interesting challenge each time you do it, which keeps it interesting. Mindlessly clicking things over and over with 0 risk of dying is the absolute worst thing a game can do.

I love documentaries but I was making a reference to the Bible.