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

2018 was a record-setting year for Shacknews.com monthly unique visitor and pageview stats, and that has made 2019 a bit of a grind. Year-to-date, the site is experiencing a slightly down year, having hit our peak monthly visitors for 2019 in January. This is attributable to a few factors like 2018's game release lineup being stacked with RDR2, God of War, Smash, and countless other titles.

Overall pageviews at Shacknews.com are down 1.94% year-over-year from 2018, with Shacknews.com/chatty experiencing 22.7% declines in the same time period. Despite the decline, Chatty remains our most viewed page on Shacknews.com in 2019.

Our most viewed article YTD in 2019 is All Wishes for the Wall of Wishes in the Last Wish raid in Destiny 2: https://www.shacknews.com/article/107433/all-wishes-for-the-wall-of-wishes-in-the-last-wish-raid-in-destiny-2

We continued to expand our brand into the esports space in 2019, with two tournaments this year. Shacknews Champions League kicked off with an over-30 competition at E3 2019, with a special live music performance from Marc Rebillet. We also returned to QuakeCon 2019 with The Great Quakeholio Tournament 2. Shacknews Electronic Sports remain one of the most fun and unique things that we are doing at the company, and it has been a joy to put these special events together.

From a content standpoint, while the Shack may not be having a record traffic year, we are seeing some wins from a brand visibility standpoint. Our reviews have been quoted in accolade trailers for some of the year's biggest games including Super Mario Maker 2, Borderlands 3, Remnant: From the Ashes, and Days Gone. We were also very visible at events this year, with a massive E3 2019 presence on the showfloor and SDCC 2019 partnerships. Shacknews Long Reads Editor David Craddock also recently dropped a massive Everquest long read, in case you missed it. Developers and PR firms are taking notice, as Shacknews has been given access to some of the top studios for interviews, previews, and reviews this year.

From the business side, Shacknews.com reintroduced our Mercury subscription service earlier this year, and the results have been great. Revenues from Shacknews Mercury subs in 2019 amount to four times the total advertising revenue at Shacknews.com in 2019. We didn't run ads in 2018, as we began our transition to a subscription service model during that year.

While the early success of Mercury is encouraging, the company is still not profitable. It is entirely possible that the only way that I will ever make money off of this investment is by exiting it with a sale to someone else. I remained focused on ways to generate more revenue at the company, but I am still committed to keeping the lights on with a larger staff than Shacknews Founder Steve Gibson ever had. I could trim our budget in an effort to reach breakeven financially, but it would undoubtedly hurt our growth. This has been a delicate balance, and the name of the game is to keep Shacknews afloat while a lot of our larger competitors flounder and shrink.

On the dev side of things, I am currently outlining the next phase of the redesign that began last year and continued with the LOL page integration update earllier this year. Phase 3 of the redesign will be a huge update that will change how Shackers interact with the site while keeping some things exactly the same. I look forward to sharing more information about the update once we are closer to launch.

Shacknews celebrates its 23rd year in 2019, and it has been a pleasure reviving the site over the past five years. My time here is not over by a longshot, and I remain motivated by my vision for the future of Shacknews. This is truly a special place on the Internet, and I will continue to do right by the community as we continue to grow. Thanks to our Shascknews staff, readers, viewers, Chatty posters, and filthy lurkers for your support.

The 996 working hour system is a work schedule commonly practiced in the People's Republic of China. It derives its name from its requirement that employees work from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm, 6 days per week.

ughh

My father used to throw plates at my mom when he didn't like the dinner she'd made. He once dumped a full trash can on her in front of me and my brother and told her trash was all she'd ever be.

He had several affairs, but when she had one, my father stole the sex tape the affair dude had made without my mom's knowledge, made copies, and sent them to my mom's siblings, her parents, her friends, and he even tried to show it to my little sister so she could see 'how much of a whore her mother was.'

He wrote her letters while the were married, but living in different states. Some were kind, but most revolved around my father's negative opinon of my mom's intelligence, her looks. He often called her an 'average black woman' He hit her and knocked her down some stairs, long ago. I'm not sure if it was result of that or something else, but I was supposed to have an older sister, but she miscarried. And the act of my brother's conception, she told me, was not consensual.

It's hard to shake the fear that you'll be like your parents. I've been married for two weeks now and that little voice in the back of my head, telling me all the ways he and I are similar, all the ways that I'll hurt my wife and be a bad father to the kids we're going to have, it's louder than it was before the wedding.

This second book I've been writing is partly about that, as has my work with my therapist over the past five years. I am my father's son, but my father was (and is) a terrible person. I know there's a lot of folks on here with abusive, narcissistic parents that are married and/or have kids. Did any of y'all ever feel this way? Does it ever go away?

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Jon Stewart slapping Congress around. https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1138476445204959234

Noctua and Seasonic announce a 1600W PSU with dual 16-pin GPU power cables - $569

image - https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2024/11/NOCTUA-PRIME-1600W-PSU-4.jpg

https://videocardz.com/newz/seasonic-and-noctua-launch-prime-tx-1600w-power-supply-with-dual-pcie-12v-6x2-gpu-connectors-costs-569

Looks pretty sweet actually

Well today my daughter threatened me with a knife. How's your parenting going shack?

Sucks - big time. I just got out of a 2 month interview process where I was ghosted early, picked back up - told I was the front runner, had the in person interview where one of the people said "I look forward to working with you", only to find out 3 weeks later that they decided not to hire anyone for the position.

Meanwhile in Japan

In a controversial address on Japan’s birth rate crisis, Naoki Hyakuta, leader of Japan's Conservative Party, proposed stringent reproductive policies including banning women from marriage after age 25 and mandating uterine removal at age 30. The statement, made in a November 8 YouTube video, sparked widespread backlash across Japan. Hyakuta suggested that these extreme measures would compel women to have children earlier, thus countering the country’s declining birth rate.

https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/trends/japan-leader-proposes-ban-on-women-marrying-after-25-removal-of-uterus-at-30-apologises-after-row-12866489.html

dudes:

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on hour 10 of our conference call. joy.