Gamer Spends 500 Hours In The First Reactor Of Final Fantasy 7 For An Insane Reason

Believe it or not, pettiness could make a person do absurd things. That statement can be proven when a Final Fantasy 7 player who goes by the forum name CirclMastr spent 500 hours to get Cloud and Barret to level 99 before reaching the game’s first boss.

Pettiness and absurdity go hand in hand - Image via Kotaku.com

CirclMastr stated that he began doing this back in January 2015. Back then, he actively followed another user on a private forum that goes by the handle Dick Tree. The player claimed that he could hit level 99 in Final Fantasy 7 while staying on first reactor. Unfortunately, the user stopped posting updates without even accomplishing the said feat. Frustrated, CirclMastr picked up the task and named his characters Dick and Tree. “I got fed up with waiting and, based on my track record of meaningless accomplishments, decided I could do the whole thing before he could bother to finish,” he stated in an email

According to CirclMastr, in order to accomplish the amazing but tediously boring achievement, he grinded for experience by fighting of low-level encounters on Midgar’s Sector 1 reactor. What’s more impressive is that he did all these on PlayStation 1. This means that he achieved the tremendously boring feat without frame-skipping or save states.

Due to the criticisms that he received, CirclMastr explained on the private forum:

Life does not have inherent meaning; to say that our lives are pointless and our achievements meaningless is to state the obvious. No matter how grand our achievements or how broad their scope, time turns all to dust and death destroys all memory. But that does not mean we cannot ascribe our own meaning to what we do. It is because nothing has meaning unto itself that we are free to create meaning, to make metaphor, and in doing so reflect on ourselves and our world.

He added:

Leveling to 99 in the first reactor is pointless and meaningless. So why do I do it? I do it to express my hatred, and more importantly my disdain, for Dick Tree. I do it to express the camaraderie I feel for those of us who have followed this topic for years only to be disappointed by [Dick Tree]. I do it to prove to myself that I can persevere. The act is meaningless; I give it meaning.

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