User:Results May Vary

I've retired from editing here. I had FFpedia for a while, but I personally decided to decommission it as I've lost the desire to host communities. You want to have someone host a community? Tacopill is your guy. Will FFpedia ever relaunch? I don't know. If it does, I will update here.

However, what I will say is that I'm neither doing any more wikis for GWN nor am I rejoining Discord. My life has significantly improved without Discord. Want to be like me? The first step is to get off the platform. Yeah, you'll automatically lose relevance, but I've never cared for that. Gaming is my one true love, not status or reputation.

In retrospect

Here are the wikis I've been involved with, and why I feel the concepts and my involvement with them have not aged well. As a westerner, I wish I had utilized my western perspective more than listen to the status quo, due to being a fellow community member. Seeing my perspective on these is an important step to becoming like me:

• Triforce Wiki, a The Legend of Zelda wiki. If people said I found it, they're lying. It was Doc & I regretted getting in the way. I literally argued with people about this before on the Triforce Wiki server. If I had founded a Zelda wiki, it would have full Super Mario series coverage due to shared relationship and concepts between the games in development with Super Mario games (e.g. Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time). The Legend of Zelda animated series is LITERALLY part of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show! syndication package. I'd cover only the Zelda part on a Zelda wiki, as here it's not done the parallel TV show approach to Mario, but full coverage on the Zelda TV series on a Mario wiki.

• Super Mario Wiki, while not GWN, unfortunately doesn't let Yoshi, Wario, or Donkey Kong have their own wikis. Honestly, just limit the Donkey Kong coverage there, because Rareware's DK belongs to Rareware, and Mario is the bad guy in Donkey Kong Jr. before he became the TITULAR STAR of Mario Bros. for G&W for the first time. Rareware created Donkey Kong, you know, the one in Donkey Kong Country. They also created Cranky Kong, the one in Donkey Kong Country, or rather the elderly form of DK from the arcade game. Nintendo is literally holding my man DK hostage and keeping him separate from Banjo and Conker. It is still the outrage of the century for gamers like myself. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Or what about which came first, Mario or Donkey Kong? DONKEY KONG was the first game of Cranky (as Donkey) and Mario, but because Mario stars in several more games than DK (which Rare had tried to balance out in 1994-2001, as well as a few other devs in the rest of the 00s), we often forget than Donkey Kong is the real parent of Mario and the grandfather franchise of Yoshi and Wario, both of which spun off from Mario. For those who want the limited Mario franchise coverage solution, do this on a Donkey Kong wiki, whilst a Mario wiki would reflect Mario's mascot status both as part of Nintendo and Super Smash Bros..

• Jiggywikki, never liked the name nor background. I'm not against Banjo and Kazooie having their own wiki, but I'd prefer it on a Donkey Kong wiki because giving Banjo his own encourages the slippery slope belief that Banjo and Kazooie are separate from DK when it was executive meddling that separated them. I could never find a source that Banjo or Conker's inclusion in Diddy Kong Racing was to familiarize the characters.

• Conker Wiki, while the name, logo, and design are proper, giving Conker his own place has also resulted in propaganda that he's meant to be separate from Donkey Kong. Sorry for creating the wiki, as I did not intend for this to start a slippery slope of division.

• Rare Wiki, it glamorizes post-DK Rare too much. Yes, Rare has always been the consistent name for them, but Rareware is still a memorable name in the hearts of gamers. If using a name like "Rareware," that better defines their past with DK, Jetpac, and more to the present with Everwild and Sea of Thieves. Otherwise just the "Rare" part can involuntarily alienate their golden era, as has been proven by yet another slippery slope that has occurred.

• Final Fantasy Wiki, sorry guys but when I saw the Bravely Default Wiki template that's actually part of why I had to give a userpage update. Final Fantasy has a much more broad definition here in the west. I bought too much into the status quo when people said Mana isn't Final Fantasy. Except it actually is. Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 had the Mario branding in the title but Wario got his own adventure since, right? Only difference and problem is that Mana and Final Fantasy don't always have consistently defined protagonists, and Sword of Mana tried to erase all Final Fantasy branding. Okay, so for the first Bravely Default: it uses tons of enemies and concepts from Final Fantasy and it started development as a sequel to FF: The 4 Heroes of Light. Even though that changed, many things during development in that regard remain intact. The eastern perspective of SaGa is that it never was Final Fantasy, but the first three games here had the Final Fantasy Legend branding.

• Wiki of Mana / SaGa Wiki: see my explanation on FF Wiki. I won't reiterate here.

• Crash Bandicoot and Spyro Wiki: My brain's been separating in two over this one. Do I put them together or do I separate? Crash and Spyro technically share universes, but they didn't begin that way. They're parallel in a similar regard as Mario and Zelda are to one another, but it's a lot more evident with Crash and Spyro (for Mario and Zelda, it's most evident with enemy families shared between their respective mainline series games). I invented the phrase "parallel franchise," which is one step above "related franchise," for this exact reason. Crash and Spyro share Happy Meal toys part of the same series, just as Mario and Zelda with a few series, such as Nintendo Adventure Books.

Not forcing my opinions, just telling you all how I see things. After all, don't I have the right to share my odd and unique perspectives that could theoretically redefine the wiki space?