Vault of the Obscure Introduction

Hello hello hello!  Yes, I'm aware I totally missed last Friday's post.  That was all my fault, I made some miscalculations regarding when certain things were happening, and it kind of got missed.  Sorry about that.

But that's okay, because I'll be posting last Friday's article right now, in addition to another post tomorrow evening.  For this first part, I'm very happy to finally be formally introducing the Vault of the Obscure!  I've mentioned this new series before, but just in case you're new around here, allow me to bring you up to speed.

The Vault of the Obscure is a mysterious place, located deep within the recesses of the obsessive part of my mind.  The collection housed within, though initially seeming slapdash and haphazard, is rather a feverishly-cultivated gallery of the hidden, the forgotten, and the obscure.  This could mean a random television show you've never heard of, but it's usually a bit more focused than that.  I am the curator, after all, and so this collection is particular to me and my interests.

See, when I get into something, I get way into it.  Let's say, for example, that I one day become interested in (fictional) video game series Dwarfstone.  Well, I'd start playing the game, of course, but I wouldn't stop there.  I'd watch the Dwarfstone animated series, not to mention the awful live action Dwarfstone movie from the '80s.  I'd even track down a copy of the brilliant but short-lived '90s comic book adaptation, the one that managed to perfectly capture everything great about the video games in one self-contained, twelve-issue epic.

And maybe it wouldn't even stop there.  I mean, we all remember the Dwarfstone toys, right?  Well, I'd read about those and lament the fact that I got rid of the ones I had as a kid, since they're ridiculously expensive now. Oh well.

Wait, what?  There was a Dwarfstone soundtrack?  And a tabletop roleplaying game?  And a cereal???

Now, Dwarfstone may not technically be a real thing, but it offers up a perfect example of what I want to highlight.  Here we have a long-running franchise that started as a series of pretty good video games, that eventually branched its way out into every kind of media you can think of.  And yet, with the passage of time, and maybe a reboot of the series here and there, these things often get left behind, and become little more than faded memories.

The problem is, a lot of times these things don't deserve to be forgotten.  And that's exactly why I created the Vault of the Obscure.  I've taken it upon myself to, in some small way, catalog the flotsam and jetsam of pop culture in the way I know best: by writing about it.  It won't always be a spin-off from a popular franchise, there's no real overarching plan, no road map to follow.  It'll just be me, as the Keeper of the Vault, bringing a new curiosity to your attention every week, more or less.

Vault of the Obscure won't be replacing the things I usually post, such as Confirmed Kills or Worth Your Time.  Instead, it will allow me to have a steadier stream of content, since those two things are highly situational and fairly inconsistent.  But don't worry, I'm still hacking away at finishing games, and I have plans for other things in the future.

For now, though, the Vault will be the focus around here.  Not only will it allow me to more consistently have new things to talk about, but it will hopefully play into my attention-deficit nature by always giving me something new to focus on.

And so, with all that said, I hope you guys are half as excited as I am about all this new stuff.  Like I said, the first entry in the Vault will be up tomorrow evening, plus the regularly scheduled post on Friday.  Look forward to it!

For the record, that Dwarfstone cereal is gross.  Don't eat it.

Until next time!

Current interests:
Listening - Various
Playing - Euro Truck Simulator 2 (2012)
Reading - Judge Dredd Complete Case File 05 (2003)
Watching - Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return (2017)