Every so often, I like to remind myself how much I've managed to achieve over the course of the last six-and-a-bit years since my unceremonious departure from the professional games press. The easiest way to do this is with numbers.
For example, I can look at MoeGamer and see that I've posted 1,851 things on the site. Not all of these are full articles — 593 are video showcases — but I'm pleased with that number, particularly bearing in mind that I started taking the site more seriously in 2016. Those 1,200-ish posts cover over 500 different games in varying degrees of detail. I'm definitely pleased with that.
The numbers that occasionally cause me to step back and feel quite satisfied with myself are on YouTube, though. While I still have a small number of subscribers and a small view count per video, there are now over 900 videos on my channel. Not all of those have been published — there's some stuff I started and never got around to making into something properly — but if you'd told me a couple of years back when I was idly thinking "I should do something with my YouTube channel" that by the end of 2020 I'd have made nearly a thousand videos, I probably wouldn't have believed you.
I love what I do, and it's valuable to me. Doing creative things every day nourishes my soul and helps prevent me from falling into the bleak feelings that this accursed year is doing its best to inflict on everyone. And I'm enormously grateful that so many of you are along for the ride. Thank you!
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