A couple of years ago, I decided to study German so I tried something different.Since I love Dragon Quest III, being it one of my favorite franchised, is time I decided to use it to study German. It sounded a little strange. Using a video game to learn a language. But it worked. The towns, the quests, even the small conversations with characters became mini-lessons. Some sentences were hard to understand. Others were funny because they were so literal. I would pause, read again, and slowly understand. Today, I wanted to start playing Dragon Quest III again, so I went to Google, searched for the ROM, and no success, because the original download link was down.After insisting for a while, I started to think it might really be lost. Then I remembered my old Japanese PSP. I checked the memory card. And there it was. The ROM was still there. Seeing it again felt like finding an old memory. A…

Today I came across a meme in a Facebook group where the original poster said he loved the Playstation’s Final Fantasy games, except for Final Fantasy VIII. This was the meme: What was unexpected to me is that a lot of people in the comments came in defense of Final Fantasy VIII, unexpected because most people tend to care about what’s socially accepted, and what’s socially accepted about Final Fantasy is that Final Fantasy VII is the best title ever released in the franchise and that Final Fantasy VIII is bad. This is a converstation between 3 individuals, including me, so let’s give them nicknames: Gigachad: FFVIII is better than FFVII and IX, though.Chad: I agree even though its the minority.Gigachad: That’s irrelevant The mass of people tend to like what the popular opinion tells them to. And that’s where I came in: “Same here. That’s what I’ve always said. It’s better to like the…