Merry Christmas, Everyone! – WGB

Hey everybody,

I wished to take a second to want you all a really merry Christmas! And in the event you don’t rejoice Christmas, then I want you an superior twenty fifth of December. Nowadays it appears fewer folks have the Christmas cheer. I hope you’re holding onto the enjoyable, the easy pleasure of the day, whether or not it’s an extravagant day stuffed with presents and household or one thing quiet and chill.

As I write this I’ve acquired a brand new favorite Christmas film on within the background: Violent Evening. It’s a good time involving David Harbour taking part in Santa Claus as he’s trapped in a scenario the place mysterious attackers have taken a wealthy household hostage. Stranded as a consequence of his reindeer working away, Santa has to battle the attackers in more and more violent, bloody fights. it’s a very enjoyable mix of comedy and motion, and a dab of healthful leisure as Santa has to work with a younger child. Okay, perhaps healthful isn’t the fitting phrase as a result of I’ve simply watched Santa fill a sock with snooker balls and use it to beat the shit out of a man. After which he stabbed him the attention with a Christmas star ornament earlier than turning it on and electrocuting the poor bastard. Test it out in the event you can. It’s on Netflix. You’ll have a good time, so long as you aren’t on the lookout for a healthful Christmas household flick.

I can’t even start to inform you how loopy the final 12 months has been. It’s an extended story however suffice to say it has concerned connecting with a brother I had all the time assumed I’d by no means get to know. And now he’s right here and we’ve had that likelihood, it’s unimaginable how rapidly he’s turn into a part of my life. We’ve picked up Warhammer as a interest which seems is a really harmful factor to do in your checking account. Together with his arrival additionally comes a stunning truth: being sociable and going exterior is exhausting. I’m not a naturally extroverted creature, preferring largely to hang around the place the video games and meals are, however my brother has been dragging me out to eat, go to locations and hang around. I don’t understand how extroverts do that, man. I’m drained!

I’ll use this as a little bit of a New 12 months wrap-up as effectively, shall I? Primarily based purely on the views this has been the very best 12 months ever, drawing in about 290,000 visits. I do know that’s not rather a lot in comparison with the large websites and Youtube channels, however it’s form of a mind-boggling quantity to me. I’ve one way or the other written 454 posts this 12 months, totalling 267,000 phrases. So mainly I discuss too god-damn a lot.

As for the web site itself, it continues to trundle alongside. I admit that I nonetheless love writing about video games there’s a little present of frustration flowing throgh my veins at how I appear unable to develop the positioning correctly. The quantity of views and people who go to day by day, week and month has gone. It’s good that it isn’t taking place clearly and I’m immensely grateful for that, however on the identical time it doesn’t develop. Besides randomly when the magical math that powers the search engine’s bestow upon me some minor blessing, boosting up site visitors for weeks or perhaps a few months earlier than it slowly goes again to regular. Why? Who is aware of! I don’t. It’s a thriller to me. You understand how I stated this was technicaly probably the most profitable 12 months? Properly that’s largely due to two random months the place Google determined to ship heaps of site visitors my method. With out these, it will have been a static 12 months. However as dar as I can inform, there was nothing completely different in these few months.

Regardless of the cause, I’m left to ponder why I can’t develop the positioning; is it simply because writing about video games is a dying/lifeless artform, solely actually sustainable by the large pe-existing websites? Or the extra probably one, which is simply that I’m not superb at it.

Sufficient of these darkish musings although. I may be a tad aggravated, however I’m stll immensely grateful for everybody that retains coming again and studying what I do. I nonetheless have nice enjoyable speaking about video games, and because of all of this *gestures broadly* I get to play loads of video games I wouldn’t usually be capable to afford. That’s a really superior scenario to be in, and I’m extraordinarily grateful for it. It’s all because of you great folks. Sure, even you, whoever you might be studying this whom I’ve by no means met. You won’t realise that your single go to, even in the event you by no means come once more, does have an effect on my life. It makes it somewhat bit higher. It lets me do cool shit. I dunno, I simply discover the concept of having the ability to impact somebody by doing one thing so seemingly inconsequential form of cool, ya know?

And in the long run, like I’ve stated earlier than, I’ll carry on writing even when there’s only one solitary soul studying, as a result of it’s enjoyable and retains me sane. That doesn’t imply I don’t need to do higher and make the positioning greater although.

So get pleasure from your day, my pals. Take pleasure in good firm, eat tasty meals, play some cool video games, watch horrible Christmas motion pictures and love life. For these of you on the market who perhaps can’t do all these issues,

Baden