Stumbling across memories
Today I was searching for some funny video I took in Elden Ring, I wanted to find one where I was summoned to fight Malenia in Haligtree and I stumbled into a player named Jesus (the character looked like Him as well).
While I can’t remember the outcome of that fight, I never forgotten my war colleague.
But I stumbled into something I did not know to have. A video recorded of myself and an old friend fighting Malenia, when I’ve got no idea what I was doing and I was only there via an imported saved game from Nexus mods (I was playing Elden Ring to humour that person, at that time, so I thought that by importing an endgame save I would be useful)-false, ofc. We failed miserably and it was embarrassing to watch how badly I/we performed, especially now since I’ve got a better understanding of her boss battle, but it also snapped our conversation.
I dreamed a few times about talking to the person but now I watched it how it was, the real thing, not polished to look better or dramatized to look worse.
This video survived almost 4 years, including moving information from one laptop to one PC and then to a newer PC. Not sure if it was OneDrive or my external HDD which I’ve used to move that particular folder, but I’m glad it did.
I did not record it on purpose, so most likely my inputs somehow triggered either the Nvidia or Xbox app to record, but I’m glad it did.
Is very weird to had found it as at that time I was not recording videos of my gameplay, and I never knowingly did on my laptop, but sometimes, God is good. I wish I could share that with the person so we can laugh at our pathetic attempts to defeat the witch, but we don’t talk anymore. I won’t go into the reasons why, as I don’t want to ruin my memory, but yeah.
It was a gift that I was not expected and did not deserve.
I wish I could turn back time for 5 minutes, so I could solo Malenia and make the person happy, but we can’t turn back time. I should’ve probably allocated resources in Elden Ring then to learn about the game earlier than I did, and that memory would’ve had a happy ending. I did afterwards, wishing to impress and spend quality time in the game with my friend, but we never actually truly did. Things need to be done at the right time-so now I need to understand what to do with this gift now, not later.