General Updates and Whatnot

Hi everyone! Hope you're doing well. I'd like to kick off with a "thank you" to everyone who has been good enough to pledge to MoeGamer here on Patreon — your donations are very much appreciated, and always put to good use.

Last month, I used your donations to upgrade MoeGamer to the "Premium" package on WordPress, which means no more ads (unless I specifically choose to put in some ads that benefit me rather than WordPress, which I'd prefer to avoid doing) as well as much more storage space for images and suchlike. The latter aspect was particularly important as I was getting very close to the limit, hence why I went for the upgrade before I reached the $100 a month "target" I'd arbitrarily set for myself.

On that note, I'd like to thank those new Patrons who have pushed the site's monthly income up over the $80 a month mark — I'd been hovering around $75-78 or so for the longest time, so it's really nice to see some actual growth, and even nicer to know that people feel the work I do is worth me getting a bit of pocket money for.

I'd like to remind you all that MoeGamer has a Discord server that is currently open only to Patrons and friends I've specifically invited, so do please stop by and say hi! We have bots dishing out the latest gaming news (with a focus on Japanese stuff), custom emoji, the obligatory NSFW channel and a small but thoroughly pleasant community of people to hang out with. It'd be great to see some more of you there.

If you haven't already, be sure to connect your Patreon account to Discord to get automatically invited to the Discord server. Full instructions on how to do that can be found here.

I'm also going to be around on the Discord a bit more than I have been because I'm taking another Twitter hiatus for a bit. Recent happenings have just been utterly draining; none of them involve me directly (apart from Bob Mackey's unprovoked attack on me a few weeks back) but it's just exhausting to be around all that noise, so I'm taking a break for a week or so (possibly more) for the sake of my mental health.

The MoeGamer Twitter will still be posting stuff, but I won't be monitoring notifications or mentions. I do still get DM notifications, though, so if that's your preferred way of getting in touch, I can still see those messages. More reliable means of getting in touch are the contact form on my site, comments on the site, comments here and Discord messages, though.

Do please continue to share links to the site and to the YouTube channel… I'm trying to find time whenever possible to make video versions of articles, though in the case of more complex things that require more footage it takes a bit longer! I have several Hyrule Warriors vids to complement the Cover Game articles in the pipeline, I just need to get around to making them.

Thanks again for your continued support, and I look forward to chatting with you on the Discord.