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Honest, heartbreaking, and informative.

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Ian, your voice is one of my favorites in games media. I'm so sorry for the current and worsening landscape of games journalism. I hope you find something great as your next thing. If possible, I selfishly hope we keep hearing your opinions on games, too, this artform we love so much. I'll be here reading whatever you post!

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Love seeing your take on this man. I’m glad I have a place I can continue reading your thoughts.

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Thanks for sharing that. It sounds horrible. I'm sorry that you're not able to work reviewing games because you're goddamned great at it. I hope you find something you can make money at and not hate. Journalism is in a real tough spot right now. Everyone wants reliable news and no one wants to pay a dime for it.

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I'm betting you land on your feet. Just watch how Thistle does it.

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Well as it turns out I subscribed! :) Glad you’re here, friend, and sorry for all of this nonsense you’ve had to deal with. Looking forward to what you have to say.

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'We needed multiple stories every day about Fortnite, Call of Duty, Apex Legends—and it didn’t matter whether anything newsworthy was happening with any of those games. We just needed a lot of stories about them, and we needed them right now.' - Yeah, I felt this one straight to my bones all over again.

All I want to do is cover niche interesting Indies- but that's not what the algorithm favors, necessarily. Finding somewhere that would value that is my weird lil pipedream, and sadly, a lot of places I looked that would be into that, would require me to be somewhere other than canada.

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