The Cause of and Solution To

Long before i turned 21.
Long before i was born.
Long before my fathers or their fathers or even their fathers were born:

There existed Beer.

Even before America was great, or even concieved:

There existed Beer.

Before King Henry or Charlemange or even Caesar:

There existed Beer.

It has been established that beer is the reason our ancestors settled down from the hunter/gatherer lifestyle to the sedentary farming lifestyle. It turned disease-bringing water into a life-giving elixir.
And I honor my ancestors by enjoying it throughout.

                                                 one of my ancestral homelands

So tonight I honor and imbibe Stella Artois.
Not my favorite, but by far the easiest to obtain and drink, without being considered a session beer.
Now I understand that by starting the first beer of my Final Fantasy and Beer blog with a beer that is pretty well known and probably looked down upon as a sorority girl beer, let me defend that preemptively with this argument:

"hey fuck you man, Stella is a good beer!"

                                        at least the Man in Black thought so [citation needed]

QED.

So that having been established, let me explain further why I enjoy (and consequently drink) Stella.
For starters, the taste is pretty non-offensive. Even for a green-bottle beer, I have rarely, if ever found a skunky taste in it. But I have had even more success when I have it on tap, if I am lucky enough to find one.
In short, Stella is a good a lager as any, and I have yet to find someone that really does not like it. Yeah, it's a people pleaser, but that in and of itself does not a bad beer make.

Bottoms up!

some back story:

So Final Fantasy was not my first role playing video game. It, of course, was not my first video game (Castlevania holds that honor), but surprisingly it was not my first role playing game.

"Big deal" you might as very well be saying. "We all played Dungeons and Dragons before that came out!"

Well that may be the case for you, but i sincerely hope you did not share my childhood. Without getting too personal too soon on this blog, my childhood was AWFUL and a NIGHTMARE and it SCARRED ME FOR LIFE!!!!!


not really. but i did spend a lot of time playing my first rpg, Dragonraid.
It was pretty awesome. totally not evil like D&D.

Religious fanaticism aside, i didn't really pay too much attention to RPGs until shortly after my initial subscription to Nintendo Power.

From what i understand, every subscriber to Nintendo Power in the early 90's received a copy of a weird game from a weird Japanese company called Enix. The game was called Dragon Warrior.

                                          yeah, if you we're 10, you'd shit yourself too

It was  about some unnamed hero who had to complete some quest started by his long-lost ancestor Erdrik to slay a dragon master to ensure the continuance of the human race, or probably something like that. I remember that was the first game I ever played on the NES that was impossible, fucking IMPOSSIBLE, to beat in one sitting. Well, at least the first one I was aware of that was designed to be impossible to beat in one sitting...

I played that game for hours and hours. And for the most part I had no idea what i was doing. But I leveled up and I got the flute and I got Erdriks armor and I got the sunstone and I found the bridge to the Dragonlords lair and beat him and all that....
I still remember the dungeon music and the enemy music and even how to get through Swamp Cave without a torch...

Dragon Warrior changed my entire perspective of video games, which until then consisted of sidescrollers and point-and-clicks...

Fine. I could go on, but this blog isn't about all the RPGs I've ever played, it's about the best RPGs I've ever played.

Final Fantasy.

also, in all fairness this blog is also about beer.
i guess we'll see which one gets more attention...