A Stream of Consciousness

Howdy y’all! The time has come again to apologize for a several months-long lack of updates / new articles here on the Bad Game Hall of Fame website, as seems to happen on an annual basis. So, I’m not gonna sugarcoat the state of things this time around: I’ve been having a hard time with writing as of late, and getting our articles currently in progress to a point where I’m happy with how they’re turning out. Believe it or not, I take the quality of our content very seriously, and feel like our run of most recent articles have established a fairly high standard — a standard I am struggling to maintain. And I’m not about to start half-assing them just to get posts out: I wanna rise to the occasion and meet that standard, and not settle for anything less. Seeing as we have something of a dedicated audience at this point, I don’t wanna disappoint y’all by turning in anything less than my best. Believe me when I say that there are still several articles in the works right now, and that I believe they’re gonna make for great reading when they’re ready. So please continue to bear with me, as I commit to bringing you the most overly-long essays on video games no one cares about.

That’s not the only thing I wanna address right now, though: There’s also the matter of Twitter becoming completely untenable as a service — our most popular platform, and our primary means of communicating with our audience. Needless to say, it’s been somewhat discouraging to see! Who’d’ve thunk that one of the developers of Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine would’ve been the one to wind up killing the website where we do most of our networking? In any event, I’m aware that the masses are deciding between a handful of different successor services to take their business and blogging to; between Bluesky, Cohost, Mastodon, Spill, Threads, and Tumblr. And so, I am here to announce that the Bad Game Hall of Fame will not be moving to any of them — not yet, anyway. I’m gonna wait to see where the chips wind up falling on this one, and take the risk of not “getting in early” rather than trying to divide my time between a half-dozen different websites. For now, we’ll be sticking with Twitter until the doofus in charge finally runs it entirely into the ground: The truth is that I’ve never had much love for the service in the first place, and that I’m not particularly eager to throw myself into another website like it until it becomes absolutely necessary. But hey: If you’re looking to get direct updates on the BGHOF and have a direct line of communication with me (for whatever strange reason), there’s always our Discord community that you can join! Now there’s a platform with a bright future, whose operators would never do anything to jeopardize their goodwill with the community, nosireebob.

As a final note for this post: We’ve been streaming on Twitch again with some regularity, and filling out our replay archive on YouTube. They’ve been a fun way for me to get Content™ out that doesn’t require weeks of meticulous prepping and work, and a great excuse to hang out with friends while playing goofy games. We’re gonna remain committed to it for the foreseeable future, and hopefully start to build something of an audience there, so please to check it out if you get the chance. I know that three-to-four hour live shows are a tough sell, and that the competition is pretty fierce; but if you already like reading 40,000+ word articles, and are committed enough to read update posts on this webzone, you might just be the sort of sicko who’d enjoy watching me play video games live. Hell, you might even consider subscribing to such an endeavor, if you’re truly twisted!