Fandom Snowflake 2021 #12: Nostalgia Trip

Challenge Number 12 asks us to remember a time before and bring back some of its games.

Which, as the Great Old One of the Internet that I am increasingly becoming, I feel is a little bit like the recognition that the songs that I used to listen to when I was in high school are now the songs that are playing in the grocery stores. I have become the demographic that gets marketed to, in a lot of ways. That said, I'd say I'm still not the generation that's being catered to, because if that were the case, "ok, boomer" wouldn't be nearly as much of both a diss and a meme as it has become.

In your own space, resurrect an old meme. Have fun with it! Which is the goofiest meme you can think of? Put on your party hat and be silly!!

( Long preamble to actual games, contains thinking )

I decided, because why not play to stereotype, to select the Dewey Decimal Classification game, which came back with the designation that I'm in General Knowledge, classification 009. Here's what it has to say:

Main Class: 000 Computer Science, Information & General Works

009 Contains: Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.

What 009 it says about you: You are very informative and up to date. You're working on living in the here and now, not the past. You go through a lot of changes. When you make a decision you can be very sure of yourself, maybe even stubborn, but your friends appreciate your honesty and resolve.

So there we are! As with many scrying opportunities, what comes back is careful not to be too specific about you, and it talks about positive qualities that someone is much more inclined to believe about themselves. Being the library person I am, though, I also know that the information provided here is very generalized to the 000-099 block. A cursory search says that the 009 block is not in use, which seems like a bad result to give to someone. Admittedly, all of the results here are generalized to the hundred blocks for this quiz, which makes sense - it only means you have to program 10 results for potentially a thousand elements, and maybe do a quick specific lookup of certain numbers if they match an actual DDC heading. (We note The Other Wiki has a published list of the thousand sections, the hundred divisions, and the ten main classes, even though, since DDC is a proprietary system, specific call numbers will require getting access to the system, so you don't get any of the cutter numbers that provide more specific placement. Not that you need it for something like that, but it would be kind of neat if there were some specific cutter stuff involved, so that people would get a more specific placement. And some more personalized messages, and by that point, you've put a lot more work into the situation than you really want to for a fun game, and you would do better turning it into an oracle or some other thing.)

And, as usual, I've gone and gotten all analytical on something that's supposed to be a bit of harmless fun. Which might be why I haven't done a whole lot of them, because I'm still possessed by the idea that when I post, it has to be something useful, meaningful, or at least funny, because if I'm going to shitpost, I at least want to get a laugh or two out of it. And that, probably, says a lot more about me than most journal games.

(One last thing, I realized, as I'm looking at the results in other journals - I'm reminded a lot about how I used to (ha-ha, still do) look at the results codes blocks and go "Why? What's all this stuff here for?" when a lot of it was tables and stuff to make sure that everything got formatted correctly so it would look right. Those were the days when tables were easier and better supported than CSS was, so everything was rendered in HTML with very specific tables to make it all line up. I'm still super-glad for CSS being a lot better now, but I'm sure for some people, there's some retro-nostalgia for that incongruity between page / journal layouts and these table-filled quiz results from elsewhere on the Internet.)