Help Me Make the Geekerati Newsletter Better
An annual survey that might become more frequent.
In one of my final posts last year, I asked you to help spread the word and help the Geekerati Newsletter grow. I also articulated some of my goals for the site in my Cartoons, Film Reviews, Videos, and Adventures post in late December.
As I stated in that post, I’d like to achieve the following goals:
Increase the number of long form film reviews by Luke Y. Thompson and (hopefully) other film critics.
Be able to offer a stipend sufficient to make it work Luke’s and other critics’ time and effort.
Incorporate a weekly/monthly cartoon feature in the Weekly Geekly Newsletter illustrated by my wife Jody.
Write and publish RPG adventures of both the “it’s just an idea/outline” and “fully developed and designed” variety.
Create regular content on my YouTube channel that includes interviews with my (hopefully regular) critics and with game designers, television writers, and more people from the geekosphere.
Those are my personal content goals, but I also want to make sure to provide content that is interesting to my readership so that we can build a great community and share our thoughts on a variety of geeky topics. I’d love for this to be a modern version of the old White Dwarf and Dragon Magazines of the 1980s, professional in content but free from the industrial restrictions of larger publications.
To that end, I’d like you to please answer a couple of poll questions regarding each of these goals.
Film Reviews
Game Reviews
Regular Cartoon Feature
Table Top Role Playing Game Adventures
If you answer yes to either question below, please feel free to leave a comment regarding which gaming systems you’d like to see me make content for.YouTube Channel
I know that’s a lot of questions, but your answers will really help me out in managing my weekly content. My hope is to write/publish one or two posts a week in addition to the Weekly Geekly Rundown. That feature is one that I want to keep every week and is a grab bag of things I think are cool.
While those questions are aimed at how well my own content goals align with the preferences of my audience, I’d also like to take a moment to ask you to share what you’d like to see. What should I write about that I’m overlooking?
Please share your thoughts on that in the comments below.
As the writer of a gaming newsletter, I’m obviously biased, but I’m always for more ttrpg content. Your series on indie RPGs introduced me to a lot of cool systems I’d never heard of before, and I enjoyed your Shadow of the Krampus adventure, despite never having played Shadow of the Demonlord.
Admittedly, I haven’t watched movies regularly in years, so reviews aren’t very useful to me, but I love film analysis. I enjoy breakdowns of films and insights into the filmmaking process. I loved your writing on the difference between “liking film” and “liking the films you are supposed to like,” and the Criterion closet videos that accompanied it.
Hope that gives my answers some context!