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Great stuff this year, the quality of content is amazing for a thrice-weekly, single person publication!

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Going with December Early Adopter.

Cheers to one year, and many more. 🏝️

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Congrats on a great first year!

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Over 1000 paid subs in a year, working solo to break the global industry wide scoops that you break is an outstanding effort.

Congrats mate! Onwards and upwards!

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Congrats on year 1 done! Excited for all coming from you for the upcoming year. Also your sale worked, I did your Black Friday deal and I'm 100% going to be re-upping when my annual runs out

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I had a Black Friday deal? Did Substack do that? I had no idea!

Regardless, thank you!

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Oh wait my memory is garbage; receipt is 8/5/24, so whatever sale that was for!

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Ha ha. Yes, that's the one.

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Thank you for all your energy and honest content in the past year!! This anniversary article is really informative and absolutely feels like it comes right from the heart!!

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Happy anniversary!

I made a meme to illustrate my newly developed dilemma https://imgur.com/a/TmmGRs8

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Ahhh. I thought it was going to be about whether you were a December Truther or a January Believer!

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No dilemma there—the first Game File article says Dec 2024 in all caps!

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Hi ! I'm a content creator myself, former journalist and I also get by with the support of my audience so I probably know some of what anguish you can feel daily ^^ I'm really glad to have subscribed to your newsletter and it's now my major source of informations.

I also follow Simon Carless GDC newsletter and some bluesky accounts but that's it ! All the best for the next years.

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Congrats on an amazing year of games journalism! You are an inspiration Stephen!

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Amazing job so far, you’re doing such good work. Love the description of Game File as a “no bullshit” publication!

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Go with December for the "birthday." You've done an excellent job so far!

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Thanks for a great year, Stephen - you've done incredible work, and I can't wait to see what Year Two holds!

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