So this is strange.
I was doing a Google search today for our website and spotted something odd in the AI summary (you know, the summaries we can’t avoid anymore).
Some of the info about us was correct, but a lot was, well, not.
Clicking some of the links, however, made it clear why.
Some other guys decided to basically use the same name, logo, and original concept of this site (podcast and all!)
And for a real blast to the past, Scott and I did run a podcast about retro gaming, movies, and drinking way too much beer back around 2010 in our glory days – aka 15 beer a night days.
Anyways, this is apparently for real, and they’re calling themselves “Cartridge and Quest” (note the inversion)
Oh, and they have a shield/cartridge logo with a sword in the middle.
Now where does that look and sound familiar?
Oh right! It’s us!
Honestly, I don’t know what to think.
In this day and age, it’s basically impossible not to check to see if a name is taken and being used by some other guys.
I mean, it’s what helped us settle on our name (all the better ones were taken).
So for these guys to use basically same name, logo, and concept, is honestly strange.
Like almost Twilight Zone strange.
Or that George R.R. Martin short story where things you created turned out to have been invented by someone else (who travelled back in time to do so).
Or maybe imitation is the best sense of flattery? Who knows.
Anyways, no hard feelings. That’s how the game is played.
If you guys from Cartridge and Quest see this, hit met up on Bluesky or something and we can all have a laugh about it or talk about 90s wrestling or something.
