Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24187738-20151214152123/@comment-27456228-20151223104835

 As with most new things in life, there's going to be changes. With Love Live being introduced into my life, there's definitely been a change, for better or worse. For one, Love Live triggered my descend into Idol He- Paradise. I went from having little interest in this genre to near fanatic-levels of interest. After a neatly placed ad for School Idol Festival gave me the great idea to download the app when it first came out, I went from not knowing much about (Idol?) Music to looping the 1st 10 songs in SIF everyday for about two weeks on the way to school. Even now, I still get a little excited when Wonderful Rush comes up on my playlist.

                   Not only did Love Live trigger my musical renaissance, it also changed my daily schedule at one point. My daily schedule used to revolve around meals and bedtime, but the introduction into the SIF craze made my   schedule revolve around the LP bar. When that LP bar hit any multiple of 15 and before the LP limit, you can be sure I was probably tapping away on a Hard song. One of my favorite memories(experiences?) was that during the first event, I started setting alarms to wake myself up in the middle of the night to grind that extra 16 tokens. I woke up to an alarm to burn off the LP at 4 in the morning, but never got past the main menu because I went back to sleep while the game was flashing the developer logos.

                 One of the biggest things that I am grateful for Love Live changing are the friends that I've made through it. After being a year removed from graduating secondary school and starting university, I was struggling to find friends with the same interests as I did. But, by some pure luck, a couple of my secondary school acquaintances asked me if I've ever heard of something called "Love Live". Love Live quickly became the catalyst for our now-closely knit group. We went from being a group of acquaintances that barely knew each other to sitting in the theatre waiting for the School Idol Movie to start while furiously trading around to get our favorite member's board for everyone. The group chat is constantly being spammed with "best girl" talk and "best girl" images, something that I would have never dreamed of a year ago when Love Live first came into my life. For that, I am glad that Love Live came into my life, for better or worse