Interview without a Vampire

It seems to be an in-thing to do to requisition your opinions, so I’m going to follow up with that with an idle curiosity of mine.

Being just a lowly webmaster of a fansite, I know I have about all of zero chance of getting to interview the likes of, say, Reggie or Miyamoto any time soon. In fact, so long as any of us webbies are part of the community proper, I don’t think we’ll ever get the privilege of getting a truly exclusive interview with anyone important… at least within the vein of famous Zelda people.

As a result, several webmasters have went for the second best strategy when it comes to interviews: interviewing each other.

I’ve always found this practise of interviewing “big names” in the community rather strange. For starters, in the grand scheme of things, us webmasters (at least in my opinion) are virtual nobodies, no closer to Nintendo than the rest of the community, even though we’d love to say such. (We just have a lot more free time to burn–HA!–and a propensity to writing vast quantities of HTML, CSS, and PHP.) I’ve never contributed anything to the official world of Zelda in my life, and, though I’d love to change that some day, the chances of changing that are slim at best.

Beyond that, my personal view is that us webmasters are really no different than the readers of all of our sites. Perhaps it’s just that I don’t think that I have an exciting life or anything. (No, I don’t go where no man has gone before. No, I am not part of any super secret Zelda club. No, I’m not Wisconsin Indiana Jones.) The only reason why people know my name–and really, they only know my Internet moniker at best–is that I happen to try to entertain you with some random thought about Zelda every few days. What’s so special about that?

Yet even then, I’ve never turned down an interview request from another webmaster. I know there are several out there, one being over at The Hylia and another at Zelda Radio and at least another being somewhere else. I don’t know why I do; I figure maybe someone will get a kick out of what I say.

So I’m curious. I’m turning the mike over to you; is this a silly practise that should be stopped immediately, or do you guys have some burning questions that you’ve been dying to know about me?