
In order to hit the level cap, CirclMastr estimates that he spent around 500 hours walking around the same few screens in the reactor grinding through random encounter after random encounter against low-level enemies.


Parts of this voyage were streamed on CirclMastr’s Twitch account, but you can see the final leveling take place at around 53 minutes below: “I got fed up with waiting and, based on my track record of meaningless accomplishments, decided I could do the whole thing before he could bother to finish,” CirclMastr told Kotaku by email. But, at some point, Dick Tree stopped charting his progress, and CirclMastr decided to take up the task himself in 2015 - “to express,” he says, “my hatred, and more importantly my disdain, for Dick Tree.” Back in 2012, Dick Tree had claimed he would be able to hit level 99 in Final Fantasy VII without leaving the Sector 1 Reactor. When Twitch streamer CirclMastr spent two years grinding through Final Fantasy VII to get Cloud and Barrett to level 99 before even facing the first boss, he achieved both.Īs reported by Kotaku, this incredible, mind-numbingly boring feat was carried out in order to spite a single individual: an unknown user on a private forum named Dick Tree. Two things in this world can make life meaningful: having the strength to forge your own destiny, to live by your own rules, and not be swayed by the whims and wishes of others and really sticking it to some stranger on the internet.
