User blog:Le Rottweiler/I remember so much

My rate of contributions may be relaxed for a while. I can’t precisely estimate how long, but probably no longer than a month. Right now, I’m viewing the Quake videos that we have here. Who knows, maybe I’ll receive some inspiration from those.

I was just looking back at my modifications to HIPDM1 and Introduction (Quake). I’m proud to have added those bits of trivia, but it made me think: it’s extremely improbable that some of the trivia here would have existed without me. Now I know that it sounds like I have a highly exaggerated opinion of myself, but considering how small this community still is, and how little‐known this information was or is, I find it difficult to credit that this obscure information would have arrived soon enough. When I was anonymous and after being such, I included trivia from www.quakeexpo.com; they did an interview with Romero nearly a decade ago, but later the content was torn down and QuakeExpo is practically dead now. But I still (somewhat) remembered the interview, and I was able to find an archived version and upload that information to the wiki.

Come to think of it… I can’t remember how I rediscovered that website. No matter how arduously I think, I just can’t remember! I conjecture that perhaps I luckily remembered a selection of keywords and then I looked them up on‐line, but which keywords (if any) I have no idea. But in the end, what matters most is that we have the interview now!

John Carmack’s statement was more facile to find. I just had to look at an ancient version of his Wikipedia entry (somebody subtracted a grand deal of links), and then find the link in that version. Gray’s journal entry was also facile to retrieve; I just had to return to his Mobygame’s page, look up ‘Scourge’ on his website using an external search engine, and pasted the information that I rediscovered.

It’s just amazing what I can remember years and years post visum. My short‐term memory is usually bad, though. It’s bizarre.