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ALL CLEAR!!!!

Doc said he was going to be doing rounds all day tomorrow and wouldn't have time to sit and talk with me because he knows I'm a talker and am always full of good questions.

First and foremost, thank you to each and every one of you for your support though this entire thing. I WOULD NOT have made it without this community, and I'm not just talking about monetary donations. Simply existing is more than enough to get me through most days. I owe my life to id software, Quake, the Quakecon volunteer staff, Steve Gibson, and the Chatty. But if I were Dorothy, and it was the end of the movie; Asif, I would miss you most of all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for keeping the lights on here.

I completed the 2nd bone marrow stem cell transplant back in September. By mid December I was feeling mostly my old self again, plus feeling much better about life and my place in the world. Started couch to 5K, and progress is being made there. I rolled my ankle while celebrating my birthday this weekend, but by tomorrow I should be able to get back out on the pavement. That I felt good enough to run ~3 miles in 40 degree weather was really all I needed to know about how things were going.

I'm ready to start looking for work again. I've been given a de facto, genuine, 2nd shot at life so I'm gonna try not to fuck up this time. While it would be easy to get back into what I was doing before, even a cursory search of my post history has shown that I've never really been happy with my career choices. Looking to make a radical turn into something completely new and adventurous, and it even involves you guys in the near future, so that is super exciting.

And it wouldn't be a fleabug cancer post without the closing paragraph where I have to remind everybody to stay happy and hopeful and humble no matter what. I recognize that I am extremely lucky to have an eternally sunny disposition. I've always had more happiness than I needed, so I've always tried to share it at every turn.

Ask questions or not or whatever, y'all know the drill. <3 <3 <3

Nothing more to say right now, I'll let Craig Sager take me out.
https://youtu.be/01BMPwDUO74?t=9m26s

Dear shack dudes,

please stop hitting the UNF-Button when there's no sex involved.
It's very frustrating to search for UNF posts and only find results that include motherboards or bacon-affine food.

thanks.txt

RageQuit

5 years sober today.

Feels good, man.

Hi. In recovery. Everything went well. Thanks everyone. Going back to resting

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Today marks four years since I became CEO of Shacknews. Each year I like to look back at how we are doing and highlight areas where we clearly differentiated our company from the increasingly competitive games media landscape.

Millions of people have visited Shacknews.com this year. Year-to-date, our monthly unique visitors are up 55% compared to the same time period last year. We set all-time monthly unique visitor records all summer, and are poised for our best Holiday season ever.

YTD pageviews are up 59% year-over-year, while Chatty pageviews declined 17.66% in the same time period. Chatty is still the most viewed page on Shacknews.com at the time of this thread, but we have many guides with a ridiculous amount of views this year.

Our most viewed article of 2018 so far is:

Cooking Ingredients and Recipes in Pokemon Quest
https://www.shacknews.com/article/105180/cooking-ingredients-and-recipes-in-pokemon-quest

We introduced Shacknews Electronic Sports to the world at E3 2018 with our first ever Shacknews World Championship. We conducted developer interviews on live stream stages at PAX East and E3. We also held our first annual The Great Quakeholio Tournament at QuakeCon 2018. Our presence at live events will be expanded next year.

From a content standpoint, we have reviewed more games this year than in 2017 and we are producing some of the most spectacular content I have seen since I bought the site. Beneath a Starless Sky is David's latest masterpiece and Greg deserves high praise for his work bringing 24 'Til Launch to life. We have also been streaming with regularity on our Twitch channel. Shacknews has been on the front page of Twitch several times this year and shout out to Chris and Charles for their contributions to our channel.

I have previously described myself as the Inexplicable CEO of Shacknews, but I think after four years in my role here makes more sense. I am keeping Shacknews alive financially every month because that is what I want to do. When I bought this place, it was not built to be self-sustaining anymore. A huge challenge for all websites today is the shift away from display ads to other forms of revenue generation. As our site has hit major unique visitor milestones for our company, my focus shifts to growing our revenues in the next year. I am still acting as editor-in-chief, but I feel that the team I have assembled understands what I expect to the point that I can wear my CEO hat more often than not.

The redesign we pushed in August provided huge functional updates to the front page, and we are currently working on our next development phase. My top priority at this moment is to launch Mercury with a better value proposition for our readers. I have truly pressed the reset button with respects to revenue in the last few quarters, and I look forward to growing our company through a new and easy to use subscription-based model.

Once Mercury has launched, I will turn to the last phase of this current redesign that has been labeled Teal Shack. I will provide Shackers a way to express themselves like never before. I have been deeply involved on all design aspects of the redesign, and this last phase will be one of the biggest things to ever happen to Shacknews. We are still working on some of the bugs we created, and I can't wait to share more with you folks.

Shacknews celebrates its twenty-second year this year. We have set traffic records, but more importantly we have found our voice in the games media. We are going to do cool shit. Period. I have a vision for where we are going, and I am determined to get us there. I want to thank everyone of my Shacknews staffers for being an amazing team. Thanks to everyone here on the Chatty (even you filthy lurkers) for your support. This place needed a Briefcase Man, and I am happy to do it for Shacknews.

https://twitter.com/technosucks/status/1014601365623099397?s=21

Happy to announce that Shacknews has booked a young pancake enthusiast, Marc Rebillet, for an upcoming event at E3 2019.

Holy shit, I'm so excited to share this with everyone! Here is a commercial I am in!! I'm the dude!

https://youtu.be/D0so5KAjH3A

Omg, I've been so nervous about this, but it turned out pretty awesome! It was so much being a part of this, but man, did I feel bad throwing that pitcher of water on that nice girl!

Well this is fucking crazy. The building the shop is in is currently owned by the local hospital. Our property manager who's really awesome and a customer of ours called us this morning saying the hospital is unloading a bunch of the properties it owns and offered to sell us the building and property. At first we were like "uhhh" thinking it was gonna be some outrageous amount, but instead she started off at 45k then quickly went down to 40k then said they just want to unload it so make an offer as long as it's not 15k.

We offered 30k and she accepted it.

That's fucking insane. So if all goes well we'll not only own the business, but the actual building as well.

We've been saving for a house so we've got the funds on hand, so we can buy it outright.

Best part is we could totally sell this place a few years down the line and get way, way more for it than what we're paying. Investment baby!

The [lol] tag is 10 years old today!

On Jan 26, 2007 I was sitting at my desk during my last week working for the industrial automation company that I spent the last 15 years at, and had given notice to a week earlier. I was doing documentation and running out the clock when boring gegtik posted an idea (that he had apparently stolen from voodooraze ... lol).

http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=13730954#item_13730954

I had created a Greasemonkey script called Shacknews Soul Sucker Filter which did the same thing as the [ugh] tag did -- let people downvote posts and automatically collapse them if a set number of people agreed that the story was soul-sucking -- and realized I could take that script and whip up what boring gegtik voodooraze suggested in an hour or so, so between other things and lunch, I threw together the first working version of the script.

Since then, we've apparently smashed that button over 2.4 million times.

Year      LOL      All Tags   Tag Growth

----    -------   ----------  ----------

2007     87,272       87,272      87,272

2008    173,173      182,104      94,832

2009    153,539      178,536      -3,568

2010    162,412      216,850      38,314

2011    158,869      235,565      18,715

2012    236,047      365,840     130,275

2013    332,429      523,610     157,770

2014    347,735      557,375      33,765

2015    386,044      617,217      59,842

2016    372,068      641,151      23,934

      =========    =========

      2,409,588    3,605,520

Crazy. 10 years. :D