Don't. Give. Up.

You got this. 🙂

There will be a day when the people or luxuries you love are affected by what's going on.

You'll say, "HOW COME NOBODY SAID ANYTHING???"

And people like Ana will just shake their head, throw their hands up, and laugh.

Because they tried. You should've listened when it mattered.

Me, y'all taught me many, *many* lessons, and I chose silence and sanity. I can't justify "fighting the good fight" publicly anymore at the cost of my own well-being.

Ana, however, spends every day explaining, educating, and *TRYING.*

To be censored. To be taken in malicious bad faith.

I don't think there's any other artistic medium on the planet where people who claim to love it want the people creating it (and reporting on it) to suffer so senselessly.

But Waypoint 2.0 stood for something.

And for all the miscalculations and mistakes I made? You won't take that away from me. From us. Ever.

And let's be clear: I DO NOT want your pity. Your sympathy. I'm good! In these 10 months, it wasn't all for nothing.

We supported indie devs like nobody's goddamn business.

We fought the games journalism pitfalls as best as we could.

And it just ain't work out. And that's fine!

Be a content creator. Assemble a group of friends and *try.* If you want to give games the respect they deserve -- and the developers who unnecessarily suffer as a result?

Do. Your. Own. Thing. Far away from "games journalism." Please.

Because there are two "sects" of games journalism.

1. The predatory companies with all the money who will never truly understand *WHY* video games resonate with people.

2. Personalities who will undercut you, judge you, berate you, and everyone will defer to their "authority" in the space.

I hope aspiring games journalists see and, most importantly, *understand* the "inevitability" of the death of "Waypoint 2.0."

If you love and care about this beautiful, tortured medium and you don't have a preexisting "reputation"?

Don't. Just don't.