Hi everyone. It’s been a long and frankly exhausting year for me, and probably for the rest of you as well. Quite a few things have changed in my personal life, and I’ve become a better person for it – even if I had to push through a variety of anxieties to get there. Some of those anxieties were certainly existential, what with the constant fear of climate disaster and even nuclear war looming over humanity’s collective shoulder. Others were smaller and more personal – but to be honest, the fact I made it intact to the end of this year, and as a better person, is remarkable to me. The wheels didn’t come off!

In terms of online content, this was a year of experimentation. My foray into streaming has thus far been very rewarding (and I hope interesting / entertaining), but one that needs to be followed through on. I released a few video essays (though far too few), and painfully few (to my mind, anyway) blog posts. For next year, I want to try have a bigger push to make my online presence known – and even better, to generate at least a small revenue stream from it. I have several long-term goals I want to achieve, and making money from online analysis and gameplay would be an ideal way to help me reach those.

For next year, I want to achieve, at the bare minimum:

  • Six video essays (so one every two months)
  • Twenty-Six blog posts (at least one every two weeks)
  • Thirty+ streams, including:
    • SILENT HILL 3 HARD / NORMAL Playthrough
    • Pathologic Classic HD (Bachelor’s Route)
    • Pathologic 2
    • SILENT HILL 4: The Room Ten Star Run(s)
    • Amnesia: Rebirth
    • Glass Staircase
    • Stay out of the House

I plan to round off the year with hopefully one more stream and one more video essay, though these will be dependent on my personal schedule regarding the end of the year (which does tend to be more hectic).

While I hope I’ve given myself something that’s not too ambitious, I do realize that I have the potential to go under or to miss something out, as I am wont to do. This website, while important, is something I consider a tertiary focus in my life at this stage. I want everything I upload and post to be good, of course – I just can’t dedicate as much time to it as I would like. It might sound contradictory, but despite the lower focus, I still consider what I do very important.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the legacy I will leave behind. I’m not old or anything – still have (hopefully) a lot of life left to live – but I will still be leaving an archived legacy for those who come alongside or after me, whether they are friends or relatives. Maybe they’ll find my ramblings about Silent Hill interesting. Maybe they’ll be able to sit down and suffer through the Pyramid Heads on Hard / Hard with me in the future. Maybe they’ll utilize my Pathologic strategies. I don’t know. But I do know that I want everything I do to make a kind of statement, to cohere towards a website, a channel, and, ultimately, a person, I want to build.

So to all of you who have been following along, whether occasionally or all the time, it’s been wonderful to have you here. Hope you have a marvelous end to 2022, and a lovely beginning to 2023. Take some time for yourself, relax if you can, find the good in your life – but don’t touch that dial now. I’m just getting started.