hello everyone,
I wanted to take a moment to wish you all a Merry Christmas! And if you don’t celebrate Christmas, I hope you have a wonderful December 25th. It seems that fewer people celebrate Christmas these days. Whether it’s an extravagant day filled with gifts and family, or a quiet, calm day, I hope you’re holding on to the fun and simple joys of the day.
As I write this, my favorite Christmas movie, Violent Night, is playing in the background. It’s a great time involving David Harbour, who plays Santa Claus, who is trapped in a situation where mysterious attackers have taken a wealthy family hostage. Stranded when his reindeer run away, Santa must fight off his attackers in increasingly violent and bloody fights. It’s a really fun mix of comedy and action, and some wholesome entertainment as Santa has to work with a young child. Okay, maybe wholesome isn’t the right word. Because I just saw Santa stuff his stocking with a snooker ball and use it to hit a guy. He then stabbed him in the eye with a Christmas star decoration, then turned it on and electrocuted the poor guy to death. Check it out if you can. It’s on Netflix. As long as you’re not looking for a wholesome Christmas family movie, you’ll have a good time.
I can’t even put into words how crazy the past year has been. It’s a long story, but suffice to say it’s about my relationship with a brother I always thought I would never know. And now he’s here and we have that opportunity. It’s amazing how quickly he became a part of my life. We took up Warhammer as a hobby. This turns out to be very dangerous for your bank account. Upon his arrival, he also learned something shocking. Being social and going out is exhausting. I’m not a naturally extroverted creature, so I mostly prefer hanging out in places with games and food, but my brother would drag me out to eat, visit places, and hang out. I don’t know how extroverts do this. I’m tired!
Shall we use it as a way to end the new year? In my humble opinion, this was our best year ever, with about 290,000 visits. I know it’s not that much compared to large sites or YouTube channels, but to me, it’s truly an amazing number. This year I wrote 454 posts totaling 267,000 words. So basically, I talk too much.
The website itself continues to evolve. I admit that I still love writing about games. I have a bit of frustration coursing through my veins because I can’t seem to get my site to grow properly. The number of views and people visiting daily, weekly and monthly has disappeared. I’m glad and very thankful that it hasn’t decreased noticeably, but at the same time, it’s not growing either. Except randomly the magic math that powers search engines gives me a bit of a blessing, resulting in increased traffic for weeks or even months before traffic slowly returns to normal. why? Who knows! I’m not. It’s a mystery to me. You know how I said this was our most successful year technologically? Well, that’s mostly because of two random months when Google decided to send tons of traffic my way. Without it, this would have been a stagnant year. But as far as I know, not much has changed in those months.
Whatever the reason, I’m having to think about why I can’t grow my site. Is it because writing about games is a dying art form and is only sustainable through large, existing sites? Or maybe I’m just not good at it.
Still, enough of those dark thoughts. It may be a little annoying, but I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who keeps coming back and reading what I do. I still really enjoy talking about games, and all of these *generous gestures* have allowed me to play a lot of games I wouldn’t normally be able to afford. It’s a really cool situation, and I’m so grateful. It’s all thanks to great people. Yes, the same goes for you reading this, whom I have never met. You may not realize the impact your one visit has on my life, even if it never comes again. It makes it a little bit better. It allows me to do cool things. Well, I think it’s cool to think that you can influence someone by doing something that on the surface doesn’t seem that important.
And in the end, as I said before, I will keep writing even if there is only one person reading it alone. Because it’s fun and sobering. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to do better and make the site bigger.
Well, have a nice day, friends. Have fun with great people, eat great food, play great games, watch terrible Christmas movies, and love life. For those who can’t do it all,
baden
