📅 Published on: September 10, 2025
🧐 Subject: Ever since I was little I knew I want to data hoard!
I used to play this unique mmo ft tower defense ft base building game long ago on Facebook which got closed down few years back. Whenever I would come back from school/highschool I would boot up the game, check my village, upgrade some troops or buildings, make a few attacks and move on to homework.
It recently occured to me a group of people were working on a restoration project and my eyes started sparkling. They were also running an asset recovery channel, and there seemed to be quite a lot of missing assets. When I saw this I basically jumped into my closet to look for my old laptop, as I had a very strong feeling that I may have exactly what they need.
Lo and behold, I actually had almost all the files that were missing bar some popups I never bothered downloading! The happiest part, 2 very important assets related to one of the troops, and one other related to a background you would see every time you open a specific map, assets that were thought to be lost forever since no one previously had em in the years the restoration project has been active, were right there, on my old laptop, sitting quietly since 2011.
I’ve been on a minimalism and decluttering journey in the past 2-3 years, but way more intensively in the past couple of months. Got to the point I’m not sure what else to declutter but we somehow still manage. Takes a while to detach from certain objects, and with enough time it can be doable, but I am not sure I can do that with data, especially data from past devices I used. I still have every file from every phone I ever had (except the ones from my Xiaomi 12, which is honestly one of, if not the best phone I ever had, the 5mp macro cam was a blessing for PCBs, and the IR blaster really made using any tv a breeze), and same thing with computers, gaming consoles and laptops.
Thank you for reading 😎👉