[–] GoAskErin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
No Millenial Fair.
I played Chrono Trigger, and it had a spectacular Millenial Fair. I figured, all right, awesome! The year 2000 is coming up, people are going to be super psyched and pull out all the stops, just lose it and go utter ape shit with happiness and candy and rides and undiluted joy at being able to experience this magical time.
Instead, there was hardly anything, and what was going on was rinky-dink and just plain apathetic. I spent the next several months in the pure resentment of all adult humans other than my grandmother, who drove me around looking for celebratory things to do and consoled me after.
[–] HorseSizedDuck 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I just wanted you to know that is my favorite game ever, and I can understand the disappointment.
[–] GoAskErin 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I knew there probably wouldn't be silver points, but I wanted it so badly. I couldn't understand what was wrong with everyone that they weren't going batshit insane over it.
CT was my first RPG I fell in love with. It literally blew my mind and opened up an exciting world of adventure so awesome that I could not handle it. Much of my school day was spent daydreaming; I even wrote fanfiction for it before I knew what fanfiction was. The music is what I still hold closest these days, too; one of my goals in life is to be able to play some of Zohar's piano arrangements for this game.
[–] cool_and_froody 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Probably all those shitty plastic toys and games that looked so amazing on TV, but which were brittle useless half broken pieces of un-fun shit in real life. That crap cost my parents so much money just to disappoint me
I was three and I learned that when adults wrote checks, it didn't magically create money.
[–] MACK_JIGGER ago
Not sure if this really fits the question but thinking that adults all had their shit together and were perfectly well adjusted and then growing up to realize that I am still just a fucked up little kid in a slightly older body.
[–] FromThatOtherSite ago
Finding out Santa didn't exist. It didn't scar me for life or make me cry myself to sleep for the next week. I was just like "Meh."
[–] siglamide 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Finding out that inside those woods are just more woods. Behind that door is another room like all the others I've already seen. The world is not that mysterious.