Driving

it's weird when you play a game for a long time. massively multi-player online games are always changing and phasing from one world to the next, but you always take for granted that you can always go back and do the old stuff for nostalgia's sake. now, six years after the original launch of world of warcraft, the entire 'old world' is changing completely. a lot of that old stuff is now gone. it's cool in one hand and sad on the other. i'll probably be staying up way too late tonight to get a few things done that i never did in the old world, just because i can't ever do it again.

i'm sure i'll keep on remembering those things as the years go by, talking to new players who have never seen it [which i can't even conceive of] about the 'good old days' like i'm an old man talking about the 1950's or something. in the end, it's just a game, and it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, but in my mind it's a new day. we've been playing this game for a long time and we've invested a lot of time and energy in something that has a great community which we still are constantly interacting with. a community of real people with the same experiences. it's wonderful. i'm glad to be a part of it still, even if the cataclysm today changes everything else physically. it's a new world, but the memories live on.

note: i certainly did stay up too late... so late that i forgot to actually post this! i thought i might add more musing, or recount the day's events [which were negligible] but i got sidetracked.