A Love Letter to The Legend of Zelda, Famous TTRPG.
Right after the Wii was released, a friend in high school gifted me his GameCube, and with it a copy of Wind Waker. I guess that’s not really where “it” started, but it was certainly the first noteworthy milestone of the journey that brought me to where I am now in terms of my love of fantasy nerd garbage. I had a pretty rough go of it as a kid. I bounced around between foster care, “behavioral clinics”, family members homes, and on the rare occasion I stayed with my mom. Needless to say, I didn't get a chance to play a lot of videogames, or really do anything that kids typically get to do. Whenever I did stay at my cousin’s house I would crush Legend of Zelda on the NES, and in later years he would absolutely destroy me in Golden Eye instead of letting me play Ocarina of Time. My mom was doing her best, but I went in and out of state custody for a few more years until going to live with my grandparents when I was 10 or 1...