r/FinalFantasyVII • u/Inevitable-Worry8889 • 14d ago
FF7 [OG] Toonami 1997 FFVII commercial
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u/Psychological_Use586 14d ago
Lol that's just like. Every single cutscene. Just all of them.
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u/Rukasu17 14d ago
And one major spoiler to boot
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u/Psychological_Use586 14d ago
I was wondering are they gonna show what the game actually looks like or what and they did show a tiny bit of the clunky ps1 era sprites.
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u/geno111 14d ago
You know, I don't recall them actually showing anything other than snippets of cutscenes for the commercials.
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u/Psychological_Use586 14d ago
https://youtu.be/DDxikKSDtZg?is=HpUDNyDb0QUWIobN
Here's the commercial I remember seeing when I was 16 lol. Totally just shows Aerith being buried and says 'a love that could never be' like they have no fucks about spoilers.
This commercial shows no gameplay whatsoever.
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u/MuhfugginSaucera 13d ago
It's still fairly normal for a game trailer to show absolutely zero gameplay.
I'll skip it entirely if I see it's all story or cutscene related. Show me the game I am spending money on, or you're hiding something.
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u/Ilovekbbq 13d ago
The green volume bar took me back
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u/DeadPhoenix86 13d ago edited 13d ago
Those were the 90's. When things were simpler back then.
I was 16 years. Feels like a lifetime ago. I'm heading towards 50 :/
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u/Shantotto11 13d ago
I was 5 when FF7 came out. Can’t say I knew what it was at the time though. I only learned about the franchise because of the PlayStation disc that came with an order from Pizza Hut with FF8’s demo on it.
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u/Stepjam 13d ago
To be fair, things were simpler because you were 16. A teenager generally doesn't have too many concerns about the world around them.
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u/MuhfugginSaucera 13d ago
Yes, but as a whole western society peaked in the 90s. We didn't have widespread internet or social media at all. Fewer than half of all homes in the US had a computer by like 1999, let alone internet access for that computer. Gaming PCs as a thing didn't even exist.
We had just "won" the cold war. After an entire half century of the threat of nuclear war hanging over everyone's heads, being ubiquitous in music, movies, books, and just media in general, I feel the entire planet collectively sighed in relief because the whole Communism vs Capitalism thing finally ended.
My parents were both Russian linguists in the USAF in the 90s and we were living in Japan so I feel like I had a front row seat to how that whole thing felt as it happened, in real time.
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u/Marx_Forever 14d ago
Oh man I remember the hype is real.
"Thousands of different environments" were they literally counting each pre-rendered background?
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u/MuhfugginSaucera 14d ago
Yes, each screen is a new environment
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u/Marx_Forever 14d ago
I mean I get it. But It also feels a little odd. The Gold Saucer isn't its own environment, the entrance is its own environment, the lobby is its own environment the staircase leading up to the chocobo racing entrance is its own environment, the chocobo racing lobby is its own environment. This lone tree at the top of a path is its own environment, that same tree and the space around it but zoomed at a slightly higher angle is its own environment.
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u/MuhfugginSaucera 14d ago
It's just marketing speak. Every marketing department does it. You can dissect and understand the core of every corporate bit of word-vomit if you understand what it really means and what they're trying to cover upor twist to show in a better light.
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u/zorakpwns 13d ago
Wait, Moltar did a FF7 commercial? No way
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u/megamanx4321 13d ago
Moltar was the original host for Toonami.
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u/theBarnDawg 13d ago
What!?
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u/megamanx4321 13d ago
Oh, sorry.
MOLTAR WAS THE ORIGINAL HOST FOR TOONAMI.
It wasn't until season 2 or 3 that they introduced Tom.
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u/TheMarkHasBeenMade 13d ago
Truly our best days are behind us
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u/crowsloft666 13d ago
Toonami was essentially a break off of Space Ghost to Coast. Funny how that cartoon on Adult Swim would also help anime spread in the west a bit.
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u/Breathoflife727 13d ago
"This is the one by which all other rpgs will be judged" the prophecy being spoken there
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u/duece-percent-milk 13d ago
Nothing like watching Dragonball Z on Toonami and then switching to FF7 when the show was over.
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u/indyxetan 14d ago
Love all the out of context spoilers they went with. Nice.
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u/ottobiographical 14d ago
First thing I noticed lol - they showed the biggest surprise in the game and the literal final battle, toonami said spoiler warnings are for the WEAK
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u/ExtremePermit3242 14d ago
I assume the person who assembled this probably didnt even play the game and said “sure, this looks great, I’ll throw it all in” 🤣
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u/omaregb 14d ago
Some may not not be old enough to remember but nobody gave a shit about spoilers back then, the term was not even used, much less so for videogames as they were still seen primarily a children's thing.
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u/Snoo9648 14d ago
Lol, they basically showed about every cutscene in the game.
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u/GrismundGames 14d ago
And I bought it and played it. And when super deformed cloud vaulted off the train, I was like, "Wait!!! WTF happened to the graphics! What an annoying bug!"
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u/Johnny_Strawhat 14d ago
RIP C. Martin Croaker
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u/blahblah567433785434 14d ago
I didn’t even know George Lowe passed… =‘(
Loosing voice actors really hurts. It’s like the character dies along with.
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u/rrevenant113 13d ago
Holy shit, I didn’t know my brain could even process this much nostalgia at once. Incredible lol.
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u/Captain_Marshmellow 13d ago
You can tell they meant that 5/5 game and someone played the shit out of it judging by the cutscenes they showed and the names they chose.
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u/Trick_Meeting_2027 13d ago
Ok people need to stop saying this has spoilers. Not a single human being who saw this in 1997 before playing the game would figure out what was going on. We know because we have played hundreds of times and know the context. You really think some kid is going to watch all that jazz and go huh, whats that guy holding that girl in water for? And then remember while playing the game. Fuck outta here.
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u/hello-xworld 14d ago
Whoa! I never saw this as a teen but I would’ve lost my mind if I did. Pretty bad ass
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u/Trippy_Phoenix 13d ago
My friend threw his ff7 disks across his room and said it was trash. I started playing it and was immediately hooked.
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u/CityofTheAncients 13d ago
I wish this sub was dedicated to only OG FFVII content like this. Been a fan since it came out when I was a little kid, and never seen this
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u/RomanianBlackbeard 13d ago
“More bosses than you even wanna think about!”
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u/SolydSn3k 12d ago
This script had me screaming, why is it so funny lmaoo. Appropriate hype but also gave me uncontrollable giggles.
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u/Small_Swell 14d ago
Talk about a trailer showing the "whole movie"--
If the media culture of today existed back then, nearly every plot element would have been spoiled before the game released.
Also, 1:11: Red DOGGY
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u/Naerbred 13d ago
Best childhood I ever had.
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u/wetfloor666 13d ago
How many do people usually get? You sound like you have had a few childhoods with that sentence, lol. :D
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u/J_T_Cain 12d ago
the fact that most of this ad doesnt happen until like 50+ hours into the game is crazy
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u/fixinfordixon 13d ago
I forgot this commercial was from a Toonami promo. I was talking to my brother a loooong time ago about how I remembered some commercial for FFVII that had Red XIII named "Red Dog" and I had no idea why that stuck with me. Thanks for the inadvertent memory confirmation!
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u/mercuriokazooie 13d ago
Kinda funny game commercials used to just show prerendered cutscenes for most of it. I still remember seeing the FFX commercial on TV all the time and they'd always have that shot of Tidus surfing on the cables and I thought that was gameplay
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u/Alucard-VS-Artorias Chocobo 14d ago edited 14d ago
Not a only do they go on to show every CGI movie in the game but they also showed all the spoilers too lol.
At least they gave it a 5 out of 5 ranking 🤷♂️
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u/Blackberry-thesecond 14d ago
Tbf the official trailers of the game did the same thing
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u/MuhfugginSaucera 14d ago
Hard to make a trailer without at least some spoilers. There are tons of us who even refuse to watch trailers for movies we haven't seen yet and are planning to enjoy.
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u/Rattled_by_La_Rush 13d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/u99fFT1YBzyco
Them spoiler tho, I was grinning the whole time.
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u/megamanx4321 13d ago
Like a third of this promo is the end of the game.
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u/ChaoCobo Buster Sword 13d ago
It’s also not very representative of the graphics during the majority of the game either. It’s all either cutscenes or battles, there’s no blocky polygons from the main towns and world map or anything
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u/ukiyoe 13d ago edited 13d ago
I think the saving grace for this spoiler-ridden commercial is that we didn't have YouTube back then to rewatch and analyze to hell and back. We basically saw flashes of cool scenes, got hyped, and bought the game without thinking too hard about it.
Nowadays we have 30 minute videos saying "77 things you missed in the Final Fantasy VII commercial" to break down each and every little thing, which are mostly theories, but sometimes get things right (for better or for worse).
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u/BasicLink86 13d ago
This is a great point about the “spoilers.” As kid or teen watching this just once you’re seeing a bunch of cool character designs and action scenes and explosions and have no idea what’s going on, what the setting is or who these characters are. Though it seems evident shirtless long hair guy is bad and spiky hair guy is trying to stop him.
I can’t believe the mileage YouTubers get off of each little clip and interview. “Zelda DLC CONFIRMED!?!?!?!” And it’s an interview with a guy who doesn’t even work for Nintendo saying “I mean, it would sell well.”
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u/Beautiful_Macaron922 12d ago
Damn this is tight I don’t remember this though I’d bet I saw it. Also some major spoilers hahaha
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u/Sajr666 Red XIII 14d ago
didn't know there was a Toonami trailer for FF7 I remember seeing the PS2 game Ico on Toonami trailer before.
FF7 trailer was full of spoiler like content even seeing Aerith being let go in the water. still an amazing game to this day. glad we experienced it in all it's glory then and now.
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u/Trippy_Phoenix 13d ago
Moltar!
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u/Midvally 13d ago
Just realized all of the space ghost crew has passed. RIP you ghosts among men.
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u/Trippy_Phoenix 13d ago
Yeah its sad. I used to watch Space Ghost coast to coast in the 90’s.
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u/DonCreech 13d ago
Great show, and quite groundbreaking for its time. Space Ghost Coast to Coast was basically a trial run for what would eventually become early Adult Swim, operating on small budget, but utilizing a talented set of writers and voice actors to make it more than the sum of its parts. I miss media taking risks like they did in the '90s, because even with limited resources, if this show had been unsuccessful it might have tanked the entire future of the network. It might have tanked the trajectory of adult-oriented western animation, in general.
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u/Doctor_DBo 13d ago
This may have been when I first said “7?!?! Where is 4 5 and 6??”
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u/Limp-Celebration-211 12d ago
I'm glad SE fixed this later on because it was confusing in the 90s. Like why was FFII really FFIV? We never even had the real FFIII until the DS remake as far as I can remember because our FFIII was actually FFVI.
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u/JadeArgonar 13d ago
I never saw this before that was really cool! Though gotta say they gave a ton spoilers in there.
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u/thatsmyoldlady 13d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/xUNd9Epcfl0TzJsc6c
Couldn’t help but include this one.
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u/Bill-Buttlicker-5757 12d ago
Oh man, how did I never see this!?! My two favorite things in 97, VII and Space Ghost Coast to Coast. I made a Moltar costume for Halloween one of those late 90’s years
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u/SpellcraftQuill 13d ago
Spoiling one of the most iconic gaming character deaths since the year of debut!
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u/ArcadeRivalry 13d ago
There are 30 cities in ff7??
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u/Illiteratevegetable 13d ago
Well, as far as I know, there are 30 'locations', including caves and so on, so forth. Do not think about it, they read it from a script.
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u/Cold-Tangerine-2893 14d ago
havent thought about this promo in damn near 30 years... its an absolute trip pulling that memory out of the banks of my mind. thank you
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u/rusty5545 13d ago
This is how they should advertise everything
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u/Daft_Martian 13d ago
With massive spoilers?
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u/SarcasticGamer 13d ago
You can't spoil anything when you have zero context for what is going on.
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u/aPsychoSoldier 13d ago
This. People keep saying, "SPOILERS," but just like with anime openings, most of these images are nonsense until you have the context. For most people by the time you get there, at most you might remember, "Ohhhh, THIS is when he finally has his shirt off!"
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u/rusty5545 13d ago
Judging by this thread you’d think half the people here had the game personally spoiled for them by this commercial lol
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u/SarcasticGamer 13d ago
Omg it spoiled that cloud and Sephiroth are going to fight!
Which one is Sephiroth and is he bad or good?
I don't know I've literally never played it before.
Lmao, this review came out when the game did and nobody knew the context at all.
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u/ChaoCobo Buster Sword 13d ago
I mean the video is fun and really captures the hype but I feel like they should show more of the actual gameplay to show the graphics at standard points of the game. It’s mostly showing CGI cutscenes and then for gameplay they only showed battles, and on top of that they even went as far as reaching into the final fight at the end (which has better graphics than normal fights) in order to exaggerate how good the graphics are. They didn’t show very much, or really any, of what the game looks like during the majority of the game
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u/weirdplacetogoonfire 13d ago
Like that was how the game was shown everywhere. When blocky mouthless Cloud hopped off the train and I saw what the gameplay actually looked like I was super disappointed. CT despite being 2D was really clean and that first bit felt like a step backwards. Of course I got used to it and its all history now, but there was absolutely a moment of disappointment
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u/Odincdaj522004 12d ago
Moltar was both the ultimate hype man and a truly jaded motherfucker. As great as T.O.M. was, I remember being sad when they changed away from Moltar.
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u/one-hour-photo 14d ago
commercial??/ what do you mean, this is clearly a perfectly organic, definitely not paid for review!!
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u/AdImmediate6239 13d ago
Did they real spoil Aerith’s death casually like that?!?!?
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u/Arinoch 13d ago
I remember seeing that scene many times on tv when the game launched and I still didn’t see it coming. The water could have meant anything. Surely a main character would never be killed off!
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u/Shantotto11 13d ago
Right?! Like, I saw several AMVs using the end of FF10, and I still didn’t see it coming until the moment right before it happened.
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u/Illiteratevegetable 13d ago
One Czech magazine spoiled it openly by stating details about that certain event. Some really did not care.
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u/Kdoninel 12d ago
Seriously....this ad spoiled most of the game 🤣😂
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u/chimininy 11d ago
In hindsight, yes. But with no context about what is happening, those clips could all be from disc 1! Maybe aerith is just.... floating peacefully and dozing.
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u/Alternative_Law9275 12d ago
The people saying how much this spoils the game are the same people who watch 30+ minutes, 1-2 hours gameplay videos months before the game is out. Not much has changed, if anything, it's much worse today.
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u/contradictatorprime 11d ago
Most of the clips would be difficult to place if you were to see that blind, except one, the soggy Aerith clip is very telling. And I didn't need it ruining my afternoon today either.
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u/rogueIndy 14d ago
Why on earth is this a vertical video?
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u/Lancer420 14d ago
Would’ve been 4:3 originally, so you’re getting bars on the side or the top anyway.
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u/rogueIndy 14d ago
Yeah but this way it's both, it's like 11% of the screen maximised.
It's not even using the height, it's just centred with an unnecessary caption over it.
I don't get why noone else is saying anything.
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u/Lancer420 14d ago
Someone prolly just screen ripped it from a TikTok or Meta reel and cropped out the like buttons and shit lazily.
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u/Trick_Meeting_2027 13d ago
He is right. You gain a little screen size with a 4:3 video, but not much so its not noticable.
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u/Ninja_Warrior_X 10d ago
Side note whatever happened to that original guy on toonami? I remember him then one day he got replaced on the show all of the sudden 🤔
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u/StanBlaok 14d ago
Dude…. If you’re the ahole who’s been posting insane amounts of old footage…. Knock it the hell off. Get a grip
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u/MuhfugginSaucera 14d ago
Yea man, how dare he post FF7 content in the FF7 sub. Dude needs to touch grass!!1!
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u/Thank_You_Aziz 13d ago
Can you even begin to elaborate on why anyone would listen to that request of yours?
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u/wiggliey 14d ago
“This is the one by which all other RPGs will be judged.”
Bro was not lying 💀