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“Site Goals” set down; TLS now recruiting!

TheLifestream.net has long struggled with its identity. With no FFVII news, what is there to do? Well, quite a lot actually. I have always seen TLS as being in a good position to become a great hub for FFVII content

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A Fan’s Eye View: Final Fantasy Unlimited

I told you we were going to do it. I told you we were going to do commentary for Final Fantasy Unlimited. And so we are. But what is Final Fantasy Unlimited?

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Happy 15th Anniversary, Final Fantasy VII

On January 31st 1997, the seventh (roman numeral) installment of the Final Fantasy series was released in Japan. This old PlayStation title remains one of the biggest video game obsessions of all time, as proven by the still active fanbase.

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Cait Sith Character Profile p. 60-63

Forum member Quexinos has very kindly provided TheLifestream.net — and you, our fellow fans of Final Fantasy VII and its related compositions — with the missing link in our coverage of translations from the FFVII 10th Anniversary Ultimania: Cait Sith’s

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Dropping the Plate: On SOPA, PIPA and the Blackout

The sector seven plate was dropped as a desperate act to crush a dissenting voice ShinRa could not control. While it was an act of retribution, it was also an act of censorship and of control by intimidation- it was

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Summary of the new FFVII novel

Site translator hitoshura has been kind enough to provide us with a chapter-by-chapter summary of the newest official FFVII novel. Released on December 15th, the book was written by Kazushige Nojima, writer of the original FFVII, as well as Crisis

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TLS moving to a new host… again!

UPDATE: All done, we’re now on a 1 GHz virtual PC with a fat internet pipe. Will do some more tweaks and optimizations to increase speed and decrease server load even more; keep an eye out on this thread. We

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