@AIDS Kitten  
When I played the game last year, I saved Cid because I knew what I was doing, so I was never really affected by the moment.

And that is why you save him.

Why has no one done a Fluttercry TV meme with Galuf’s death from Final Fantasy V (specifically the part where Krile is begging Galuf not to leave her)?

@AIDS Kitten
 
Ah, the mark of a good game: When the attempt at censorship is so poorly done that it completely fails to hide what is actually happening.
 
Seriously, I don’t understand how people managed to find it so emotional in the SNES version when that censorship was so blatant.

To quote an LP:  
So here’s how the fishing game works. Cid, being a very sick man, starts off at 120 health and loses 1 health every second, including when you’re standing idle. The fish that we give him either deplete or raise his health, depending on how fast the fish goes.
 
Slow Fish: -16 health  
Medium Fish: Either -4 or +16 health  
Fast Fish: +32 health
 
You can pick up several fish at a time to add to or take away from the bonus, and the objective, if you’re so inclined, is to raise his health above 255, at which point he’ll become “cured” and stop losing health.

I played this when it came out (‘93) and didn’t know about feeding him the fast swimming fish. I was stunned when Celes threw herself off the cliff. I had never seen attempted suicide in a video game before (and it already blew my mind with the post-apocalyptic second half).
 
Still my favorite Final Fantasy.

You need to grab the healthy, fast-swimming fish. The slow, sickly fish won’t help him.

Even with freakin’ save states I still couldn’t manage to save that guy. How much fish does he really need?

Cid was a great man, one of the saddest moments on FFVI, also the moment when the jumped from the cliff…