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So I went downstairs the other day to replay the ending of Kingdom Hearts. Started up the game, went to the open screen, and strangely enough, ALL the files saved had less than six hours on them. So I quit out, went to the PS2 menus, looked at what was on the memory card, and lo and behold in addition to my Kingdom Hearts saves, every single Final Fantasy X game was also gone. All that was left on the card was the boys' racing games, a couple dungeon-crawler game saves, and three 1303 KB Sims games.

For those who aren't obsessive compulsive about file sizes, a Kingdom Hearts or FFX save is about 130 KB. A PS2 memory card holds 8MB of data, or about 8000 KB. These Sims games were taking up very nearly half of the memory card's space.

So I was ticked, and suspicious since two out of three of the Sims saves were new. I've been conducting the Spanish Inquisition around the house, and finally ran into the culprit. It wasn't the Sims player, like I'd suspected, but it was indeed someone who'd wanted more space for their files. Of course there were excuses given -- "but you never play anymore!" "but the files were so old!" "but you had like ten files!" And none of them are valid. Obviously I do still play if I went down yesterday and saw the files were gone. The files near endgame were ones that I'd pick up from to watch the ending again, and then NOT SAVE afterwards because the game was over, so I really couldn't -- so if I'd accessed them more recently, the date shown by the PS2 wouldn't reflect that. And yeah, I did have like ten files. 1300 KB. And that's just about as many as I had the right to. There are seven kids here. That means to divide it evenly, each of us would get about 1400 KB of space. I was *under* any sane limit... not to mention that some of the saves belonged to other people who were playing my game. The space hog was the Sims games, ONE of which would take up as much space as ALL my files -- and since the three of them belonged to one or possibly two people, they were over quota. Not me. So he should have taken it up with them. -- Not to mention that the Sims player(s) in the house have spent fifty hours, tops, between those three saves. I had over a hundred clocked on both KH and FFX, because I'm an obsessive-compulsive stat maxer. 200+ hours he felt he had the right to go and delete without saying a word to me.

There will be blood.

Oh yeah, and I took a quiz today.

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