@AriaGrace@tech.lgbt"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them."
#Endwalker early access started 3 years ago today. I took a week off work and went all-in, logging in at 6am to avoid the queues and not logging out until ~midnight. It was a crazy wild time, a frenetic almost festival atmosphere, as people finished up the MSQ, looked around at each other through the tears and realized that (minor quibbles aside) SE actually stuck the fucking landing and avoided shitting the bed like so many other big media properties had done over the last few years.
Outside of that, I was finally getting used to the idea of who I was. Things at work were "good" in that while I was tired of my job I didn't actively hate it or my boss, and I had hopes for a shift to a role less focused on IT support.
I'm pretty sure I knew how good things were in that brief stretch of time. It's definitely clear how good things were, considering the shitshows looming on the horizon (IRL and in game).