I've always said I'd absolutely NEVER do recurring charges on the forums, and I will always stand by that. If you would like to donate in a recurring charge way, my Patreon is https://www.patreon.com/GamingGarbage

And to the dude saying I need to be "humble," you're insane. I was quoting an actual attempt somebody tried to troll me, and I was using it to explain I never intended for this place to become commercialized and rake in money, because that was never my goal in any way whatsoever. I don't think I'm hot shit; I'm a fucking webmaster. I'm fucking in debt from medical expenses. I'm fucking broke because I suck at business. I've been fucking living in a bed for over a year. I sleep and work in a fucking basement. I usually go through the entire day without wearing pants. I play Xbox games in the nude. One time I accidently shit in the shower because I thought it was a fart, and I spent like 10 minutes trying to stomp that motherfucking log through the drain. I never claimed to be better than anybody else; if you'll read what I wrote, I openly claim to be much, much dumber than everybody else.

And to the people wishing me well and offering to donate (or donating), I absolutely tremendously appreciate it. I feel bad (again) because I've been away from these forums for so long, and again that comes with guilt. I don't know, this sounds stupid, but I felt leaving the forums would be for the best, because I did not want to deal with some of the drama that came with owning the joint. I don't know, it's been two decades of running this place and it's like I got burnt out or something. For like half a fucking decade. Shit really wore me down when the forums were peaking around 2005 or so, with banned people calling my school and telling the principal that I molest my kids, and paying weev to dox me, and folks calling my parents nonstop to annoy them and threaten them and all that other fun shit that naturally and obviously comes with owning a comedy website. The best way I can describe the feeling is writers block, but for the forums. Forums block. Eh.

Well anyway I might do an announcement on the forums saying I'm fucked I need cash for drugs and bills and shit, but honestly I've been using this thread to gauge what kind of reception would come from it, because, again, I feel guilty at the prospect of seeming like OH LOWTAX ONLY COMES TO HIS OWN FORUMS WHEN HE'S GOTTA BEG FOR MONEY. Which I guess has been partially true these last few years or so. I'm trying to be transparent with how my brain works here, because again, I'm just trying to communicate to everybody why I do the dumb shit I do. The Something Awful community has always been fucking awesome and incredible (I dare anybody to find another community as tight and generous as this one), and I'm always grateful to have a website that has successfully avoided all the goddamn dumb shit on social media. Trust me, I know how shit Twitter is, and I know how shit Facebook is, and coming back here and seeing people actually type fucking words and sentences actually seems somewhat amazing to me. We're living in an age where any fucking idiot can get on any fucking stupid shit social media service and instantly vomit up their dumb opinions, photos of confederate flags, emojis, and memes within seconds. I hate that shit. I hate this age. Let's go back to when people had to actually put goddamn EFFORT into getting on the internet and finding a community and were forced to type a moderate amount of words to form a coherent paragraph. Coming back to SA reminds me that good people still exist, and the rest of the internet is a fucking sea of garbage. Thank you for not being a sea of garbage.