TYFP

One of the things I really love to hunt down and read is trivia. I go to TVtropes a lot for casual reading. Another of my favorite things of all time is nostalgia. So if you can mix nostalgia and trivia I’m a happy camper.

I don’t play World of Warcraft anymore but I’d be lying if i didn’t instantly click links to articles or videos with buzzfeed titles like “10 things you didn’t know about WoW Vanilla.” I haven’t played WoW in years but I still frequently watch and re-watch videos from Madseasonshow on youtube.

Me and Kierawolf are working on a couple new videos right now, where we go over facts and trivia from Final Fantasy XIV. One is a bit more modern, basically reading tidbits of curiosity from Shadowbringers, which I hope nets some good views and performs. The other is purely self indulgent since it applies to my love of things remembered and focuses on the odds and ends people may have missed in the early days of FFXIV, during 1.0 and A Realm Reborn eras. 

During the Christmas season I did a video where I read an ancient article about Final Fantasy XI by a crackling fire while cracking open cold ones. The video got hardly any views but it was a fun idea and I hope to perfect it one day.

I really dig nostalgia. I spend a decent amount of my downtime at work just crawling around on the Wayback Machine. I don’t know if you have ever spent some time revisiting your old favorite sites but I definitely recommend it. 

I frequently find myself on old gaming news sites, old blogs, old forums, or old fan/guild sites; especially for World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XI. MMOs are my favorite games, and I spent a good chunk of my late teens/early 20’s in Azeroth and Vana’Diel, respectively.

Long gone are guild sites, with janky forums where people told their stories or planned raids. Everything has been replaced with ‘official’ resources now. Functionally, things are better, smoother, faster, more organized. But like a bunch of other things, the internet for MMOs has lost a lot of character.

I’m getting pretty boomer-back-in-my-day, so I’ll move on. But definitely visit some old sites on the Wayback Machine.