The Climbing Games video (and an announcement) (Patreon)

(Skip to the TL;DR for the important bit)Well it's three weeks late, but better late than never.These are some of my favorite games. I'd been playing White Knuckle since last year, and PEAK was another fun one with a friend, but with Cairn releasing this year I decided that it would be a great opportunity to talk about games which involve climbing things.As it turns out, they're all great, and unlike my other genre dives, there were times I felt like I was at a loss of what to even criticize. I think that's saying something. I don't generally do game rankings, but Cairn was an incredible experience, and one that I'd recommend to anyone. White Knuckle has quickly become one of my all time favorites, and PEAK is a real good time with friends, or even solo. Peaks of Yore surprised me with how addicting it was, and Lorn's Lure was a wonderful setting and story, despite some of its shortcomings. Idols of Ash is more of a tech demo, but it's done a lot with a little.Now, as for the announcement.I've been struggling with motivation a lot this year. I should've been finished by the end of the last month, but it was difficult to do more than an hour of work each day. I tried to take some of the work off my back with an editor, but I shouldn't need to remind you how well that went. I'm not going to bore you with the details, but this stuff is a lot of work. I'm immensely thankful and proud of what I've built over the years. The amount of support you all give me is truly overwhelming, so it's always with a sense of guilt that I can't deliver the content you crave as quickly as you deserve.For over four years now, what started as a hobby has become the foremost priority in my life, and I've been running on that for a long time now. I'm so fortunate that I refused to let myself believe that I could be burning out, but there were points in this video where my body seemed to reject working on it entirely. So, I'm not going to say I need a break, but I will say that I want to knock content creation down from my #1 priority to maybe #2, or #3, at least for a little while. I don't want to stop, but I think I need to let myself focus on other things for a while. Before, everything revolved around videos, and I'd only let myself play with other projects in my life when a video was finished or on a good schedule. It was a great system in the first two or three years of my channel, but as my motivation has waned it's become this self punishing slog where I won't let myself work on things I'd rather do because there was a video I was putting off. I've always used carrot and stick approaches like this to manage my effort, like how I'd always try to only change for a month if I finished a video, but they've just completely lost their effectiveness and it's just making me a little miserable. TL;DRI'm going to be prioritizing some personal projects for the near future and I'll only be working on videos when I want to. It's totally possible you could still see videos coming out at a similar rate as before, it'll just depend entirely on how much I "want" to workI might stream Nullius on the weekends to keep some semblance of community engagement, but all I'll say is the next video will happen when it happens. Thanks for supporting me, and hopefully it won't be too long before I get to post again!