Hashtag Survival

Hey Reader Congrats to everyone who redeemed the free paid month of the Patreon sub from last week’s email! You’ve still got time to fill out the Hashtag input form before I pull two more names for a free month. (📝 Link to form!) Before we get into the three things worth noting from last week—a quick heads-up that there were new posts and updates to the Curator, Reddit, and the website. Speaking of Reddit, I’m toying with the idea of posting those recaps a little more often. Might even start...

Hey Reader Man, May is almost dead and we're bout to enter my least-liked/most-hated season: summer.I’m sorry, but even someone who grew up spending most summers at the family beach house still fucking hates summer.(Also: summers now are way more humid and disgusting than summers 20+ years ago. Fight me.) Give me blue sky, bright sun, low 60s or high 50s. Yessss. Speaking of weather and newsletters—heads-up that I might shift next week’s newsletter to Tuesday. I’m off for the holiday and...

Hey Reader No Friday Forage this week! Here's the TLDR, which will probably be long anyway. I started writing it on Friday, but the Forage is really aimed at impactful updates or news that can be picked apart - and two of the three highlighted bits would really function better as an article. So I shifted gears and tried to bumrush the articles...but I got held up by the fact that a large portion of my research was coming from a contact in Poland, six hours ahead time wise, and I couldn't...

Hey Reader Fair bit to cover this week—but first: Friday Forage is a thing I’m starting in April. It'll be a weekly post to the website every Friday, rounding up stuff that caught my eye across survival games, dev drama, and all the other nonsense. This section will link to that post in future emails and discuss any follow-up. I think it'll be a great way to tie together stuff in Discord with things I post elsewhere. The most noteworthy thing I did last week was post this rant/screed about...

Hey Reader - Happy Monday! Fingers crossed, this email lands in your inbox without getting yeeted into the void. If you were around in 2024, you might remember the GIANT WEBSITE FUCKATHON—downtime, bullshit, and endless headaches. That whole mess ended with me telling my host of five-plus years to fuck off and moving Hashtag to a paid host that (theoretically) knows how to keep shit online. But because I’m done shoving all my eggs into one unreliable basket, I also moved my domain emails to a...

Hey Reader, Each night feels colder than the last, and it’s supposed to hit negative five on Tuesday. Nope, hard pass on that!!! It just makes me even more set on trying car camping in the Spring. Big thanks to everyone who sent kind words and suggestions after last week’s email—much appreciated! (Also, shoutout to my fellow Subie owners! Send me pics of your ride if you’re feeling it. There’s a little car update farther down the email.) Things are in a solid place right now for The Infected....