No escape...nowhere to run...nowhere to hide...

Apparently, Circuit City no longer sells computers with floppy drives, and a lot of them don't even have places to install them. Truthfully, I don't use floppy disks much anymore anyway. I think the last time I did was when I needed a boot disk in order to reinstall Windows. Still, it strikes me as a useful thing to have, in case you need to transfer files and don't have Internet access. A salesman tried to convince me that floppy disks had "gone the way of the dodo," but I'm not sure I believe him. I think they still tend to be used in schools, for instance, even if they really aren't at businesses and such. The guy told me that their computers have "thumb drives," or something like that, but I really don't know what those are. It just seems like a floppy drive would be something you'd want just in case, but I guess they leave them out nowadays in order to cut costs.

While at Circuit City, I glanced at a guide for Final Fantasy II. I've gotten close to the end of the game, but the guide confirmed my suspicions that I had reached a point where it's impossible to get back to a town. So, essentially, if I can't make it through with my current resources, I'll have to revert back to my last backup file, which was much earlier in the game. I remember when I played Chrono Cross, and I was pretty much stuck at Fort Draconia when I gave up. I kind of think there should always be the option of leaving and trying again, and there is in a lot of games. Maybe I'll be able to make it through Castle Palamecia, though. It just bugs me, because if I had known there was no escape, I would have made a backup file before going there.