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THE END? - by Mr Biffo

7/10/2019

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Apologies to those of you who read this site hoping to read stuff about video games, and keep clicking to find instead these kind of personal blog posts about me figuring out the direction of all things Digitiser.

We're coming up on five years since I brought Mr Biffo and Digitiser out of retirement, and it feels like it's time to shake things up in a dramatic way. 

I'm going away at the end of next week for a bit, so there'll be a little break in service for a while. That's probably good, and the right time for it. I think we all need it. 

Some of you will have noticed that I've announced that the Digitiser videos are dropping down to one a week. I'd just had a feeling in my gut that the audience was struggling to keep up with two a week... and this was confirmed by a couple of polls I did over the weekend. Overwhelmingly, most people wanted less. 

I know a few of you are disappointed, but it's going to give me more time to work on the edits, and "plus" the eps a bit. What that means... I don't yet know, but it feels like we're just getting started with them.

What's more, I've now got a clearer sense of direction, which is what I've been searching for of late.
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THE STRUGGLES OF BIFFO
Something I've been struggling with for months is how to follow up Digitiser The Show. The immediate inclination was to do more of the same. I loved doing the live show - I think it was a triumph - but as I got further away from the filming of the series, I became less enamoured with the idea of repeating myself.

As we filmed the Digitiser Minis, we've moved away from gaming, because it was feeling restrictive. We've talked about using the Digitiser The Show format for a show that isn't about gaming - possibly called Bubblegun - but even that idea I started to waver on, because I couldn't hit upon a conceit for it that got me properly fired-up creatively.

On paper the idea of doing a kids' show-for-adults should've excited me - I thought it would do - but it just wasn't happening. I think to do the idea justice we need a Digitiser The Show-size budget, and I'm pretty certain that without video games attached then we'd never raise enough. The jury is still out as to whether enough people enjoy what we're doing on the Digi Minis, so it would end up having to come out of my own pocket (as a lot of Digitiser The Show did anyway).

Which would've been fine if it satisfied me creatively, but I wasn't sure it was going to. Not when the Digitiser Minis were pretty much scratching that itch anyway. I'd rather we'd called them 'Bubblegun', and use the ideas in the weekly episodes. But too late for that now probably.

I digress.

At the same time... I had this weird cognitive dissonance thing going on, because everything was under the Digitiser brand. It was also confusing for the people who associate Digitiser with gaming. Digi casts a long shadow. It brings with it a certain set of expectations. Anything I do under the Digitiser name will be compared to the Teletext era, and because of that I will always feel restricted by it to a certain degree. 

Even if it's only me doing the comparing, I struggle to escape from it.
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HALFWAY THERE
So, I want to do stuff which I find creatively fulfilling and freeing. I'm over halfway through my life and I don't want to waste the time any longer than I have to. I've had a tough few months, with various important people in my life dying, and it has sort of lit a bit of a fire under me. 

Digitiser has given me so much, but I need to break free of it, I think. I need to stop hiding behind it. When I came back five years ago, that was literally what I was doing. I came back as "Digitiser" - not as "Mr Biffo" - because I was scared of getting the sort of unpleasant attention which had driven me away in the first place. I thought Digitiser would take the focus off of me... and it did.

Since then though, because the vast majority of you have been so decent and kind and supportive, I've increased in confidence. Back in 2014 I couldn't have imagined I'd ever reach a time where I'd put my face on YouTube. That's down to you lot.

Yet at the minute, I feel almost like I'm working for Digitiser - that everything I do is somehow beholden to it, when in reality... Digitiser is just one of the things that I want to do. Now that I know my skin is thick and calloused enough, I need to own my work more, and step out from behind the brand.

I would love to have the time to try a podcast, more live stuff - things which have less pressure on them to succeed, that give me the space to experiment. Much as I'm disappointed at the Minis going down to one day a week, my brain hates a vacuum, so it'll be filled with me trying different things. 

I've had a few people suggest pitching to people with money, but... there was a reason I stopped taking comedy ideas to broadcasters and production companies. The sort of stuff I want to do simply doesn't have an outlet in this country, and I sometimes find the comedy community in the UK  cliquey and soul-destroying. I'm old now; I no longer tick the right demographic box. Plus... my day job is writing for broadcasters and producers. I've got enough of that going on already.  

So, here's what I think is the way forwards, in both the immediate future, and slightly more longer-term.
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OH, HAI ATUS!
Firstly... there'll be one more Digi Mini next Sunday before the hiatus.

Secondly, this site is going to remain as a hub for everything I'm doing. I'd change the name of it if I could, but it's probably too late for that. It might nonetheless be more blog-y, and feature stuff that's of interest to me beyond video games. It might also still talk about video games. But I need to give myself permission to not always have to do that. It's long overdue, frankly.

I might, however, go the Buck's Fizz route and call it "Mr Biffo's Digitiser", or something. We'll see.

Then I need to still get the Digi The Show rewards fulfilled, which I'm feeling horrifically guilty about. I've been waiting on the second camera footage from the live show, which still hasn't arrived yet, but I'll at least get the single camera footage uploaded for Patreon and Kickstarter backers before I go away, by way of an apology.

Then the Digi Minis will continue in much the same vein, hopefully with another step up in production values, but I think I'm going to bundle all of the ones thus far as "series 1". They, like this website, will be the constant going forwards. When I return, I'm going to do a little relaunch for "series 2". We've got filming planned with Ashens and Larry, and the former is likely to appear in the first batch of new eps.

There might be more exclusive videos for Patrons (indeed, a recent one about Sea Monkeys will probably remain as a Patreon exclusive, if only to spare us from the outrage of animal rights activists).

Far bigger, and more significant, is that I think I'm going to rebrand the Digitiser2000 YouTube channel as "Mr Biffo". It'll free me up from all the weird baggage that Digitiser brings, and that way Digitiser The Show becomes just another thing I've done, alongside Mr Biffo's Found Footage.

And then, after Christmas, I'm going to be ramping up towards a new crowd-funding campaign for a direct sequel to Mr Biffo's Found Footage.
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MR BIFFO'S LOST TAPES
I've been testing the water of various different ideas over the past six months. All have had merits, but only this one has gotten me genuinely excited. Like properly, truly, already-started-work-on-it excited. And the best thing is, my wife, Sanja, is excited too - and she needs to be, as she'll once again be producing it with me every step of the way. 

It's still in the embryonic stages as an idea, but we have a format and a "story" already, and the structure will be completely different to how we did it last time, while not losing what the fans of it loved.

​I'm so much better now as an editor that I can't wait to see what I can achieve. We know more about production, we can make something that is even more ambitious with our limited resources, and we're going to deliver a show that rewards the increasing number of people who have, of late, been asking for more. 

Like the original, it'll be incredibly silly and surreal, but dark with weird horror and sci-fi undertones. Yet it will told in a completely different, bigger and better, way, that will challenge what I'm capable of.

Why this? Because it's what I want to do, simply. I want to make another messed-up sketch show, and I need to give into that, and shove aside this guilt I have whenever I do something that isn't about  video games. Mr Biffo's Found Footage has my name - well, my stupid fake name - embedded into the very title. In that respect, it's perfect. 

I had the best time making the first series. I worked with people who have since become friends, taught myself a bunch of new skills, and felt completely creatively fulfilled. Best of all, it's working in the arena I find most comfortable: love-it-or-hate-it.

The new series will be standalone, in as much as you will be able to watch it without having seen the first series, but there'll be links for those who are familiar with that world. I'm also going to revisit an idea I had for series one: there'll be a sort 'alternate reality game' embedded in it - with clues that you'll be able to solve, which will lead 'players' to something in the real world.

And we already know what that something is...

I would also like to, possibly the year after next, put on some sort of Found Footage live. Again, the format for that has been rattling around my head for a while. 
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DISAPPOINTS OF VIEW
So, that's all of that. I know some of you are going to be disappointed - I accept that what I want to do is never going to be what everyone wants me to do. I know a large number of people just want to hear my opinion on video games, but where I'm at right now in my life - unless I'm making a living out of it - I've no massive interest in doing so.

My current opinion on video games is: I'm a bit bored of talking about them. 

I know too that this is going to see my audience diminish. Already over the past month or so the views on this site have dropped off a cliff, and the double blow of videos about balloons and owl pellets has seen the Digi channel haemorragh subscribers.

If the price I have to pay to keep as big an audience as possible is to continue writing and making stuff that I'm not interested in... then I no longer want to pay it. I don't desire the biggest audience ever, just one that's on board for the ride. I really relied on the Patreon income this year when funds were tight, but that has held me back in a creative sense, because I always worry that they'll desert me if I drop gaming altogether.

I need to get over that, and accept that it's about audience refinement, and that means whittling it down to an absolute hardcore of people who love what I do, by refusing to compromise. Which is fine with me. 

Will I come back to video games? Of course. But not just yet. I need a break.

Right now the things I'm interested in are dicking around with my mates on camera, playing around with editing videos, and documenting the fall of The Xenoxxx Empire... 
48 Comments
Chris
7/10/2019 10:22:38 am

First.

I've always wanted to be one of those losers that does that in the comments.

Also, I'm totally on board with this. Do whatever makes you happy.

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THX 1139
7/10/2019 10:22:52 am

You know, even when it was on Teletext, I didn't read Digitiser for the game reviews, I read it for the jokes and weirdness. So I'm very happy to see what you're doing next, whether it's anything to do with gaming or not. The only thing I'll miss are the roundups of terrible covers. Onwards!

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King of Sass
7/10/2019 11:07:37 pm

Similar for me, I got bored of computer games for a while (probably a year or so) but always tuned in to Digitiser.

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Purplephlebas
7/10/2019 10:24:59 am

My recommendation: Park gaming stuff entirely on a Twitch channel. Do it when you feel like it but not to a schedule. Allows YouTube to be for Other Stuff™ and gaming nerds can lurk awaiting a rare notification they know will slurp their awful juices whilst watching Limmy slowly disintegrate as a human being

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Purplephlebas
7/10/2019 10:35:23 am

Also: the more I watch my 7 year old watching YouTube Minecraft or Overwatch videos, the more at 42 I think 'this is all a bit toxic. You should be out climbing trees. At least I learnt Basic as a by product of gaming but can see much C++++++ going on'

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Dudley of Yesterzine link
7/10/2019 10:27:52 am

I've been thinking about this while you've been pondering it as well, being a tiny content creator without the baggage but also with literally no monetisation means, there are at least some parallels.

And I think if you have anything it might be the curse of being "Interesting". Virtually anything you could do would excite a good number of the people reading here or Patreon or Facebook. The trouble is it's always a different number of people and some of the remainers, especially those who ambled in at various points of Digi : The Show or the Minis would feel "Their" Biffo/Digi is going away which is both true and not at all true.

So for what it's worth I think you're making decisions with the best priorities here, because in the face of that all you can do is be your best you and hopefully drag enough of the people with you that you need for viewers and whatever funding it might demand. I for one intend to step up with any next kickstarter because in general it'll be the kind of thing there should be more of.

I'm sure we all wish you luck and anyone who doesn't is probably in the wrong place.

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John
7/10/2019 10:35:17 am

I'm in. Looking forward to it. Whatever it, or them, is.

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Wapojif
7/10/2019 10:39:30 am

Go for it, man. Digi was never just about video games for me, the humour and non-gaming stuff was more important.

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Paddy Hill
7/10/2019 10:39:42 am

I was initially sad at the thought of you moving away from gaming - your reviews always make an entertaining read! But..... Found Footage 2 is a great idea. The first series really hit the mark! Good luck to ya! :)

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Liam
7/10/2019 10:41:32 am

I love reading your articles, both video-game and personal, as both are always filled with wit, insight and funny bum jokes. But I must admit, I've never given much time to the YouTube videos. This is nothing to do with their quality, but I just find I don't engage with youtube as much as I do with written articles. That said, you mentioned a podcast, and that sounds like something I'd be very keen on. I love podcasts, because I can listen while I'm shopping or out for a run, and don't need to dedicate set time to consume as I would a video. Probably why I listen to more podcasts than I watch TV these days, but anyway, podcast Biffo would be a delight!

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Gaming Mill link
7/10/2019 10:43:14 am

I'm with you (so to speak) on this.

I have nothing else to really add but if you need any help with Xenoxxx then you've got my number (so to speak).

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Jack Blackadder link
7/10/2019 10:47:26 am

Honestly, I was fond of the Mr Biffo's Found Footage format, and while I did start watching Digitser afterward - I really wanted a return to the Xenoxxx Saga. I mean, we kind-of had an end. Kind-of. But after watching The Flash and getting back into comics recently via DC's Rebirth, I was thinking about all the different Xenoxxx worlds that could exist. I mean, obviously you could just as easily just add to the previous tape series, but I think the Many Worlds theory could leave you far more open to crazy happenings

...Okay, I'm way too bloody into the Found Footage tapes. It was just my first finding online of humor that I really identified with. I'm kinda' glad you're stepping away from gaming though as, given I'm a streamer... I get kinda' sick of game content myself. So I totally understand.

Good luck, and I look forward to seeing future videos. Always will.

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@danceswithyaks
7/10/2019 11:07:00 am

I'm not getting back in that van until you say we're heavy metal.

Yes, Digitiser had a very limited number of pages so it was never really about the game news and reviews.

I like the idea of having a Mr Biffo umbrella brand the contains Digitiser and whatever else you feel like producing.

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Treacle
7/10/2019 01:08:44 pm

Right, that's it, I'm getting out of here if we're anything to do with the New Romantics.

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"Guru Larry" Bundy Jr link
7/10/2019 11:08:36 am

This comic strip has always pretty much encapsulate the sense of feeling you have to do what others expect of you:

http://i.imgur.com/7Fi72Dg.jpg

But, you got to be happy in work/life dude, there's no point carrying on doing something if you're feeling burnt out, the quality drops severely and you end up hating what you once loved.

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Alan gsotrr
7/10/2019 11:20:49 am

Do what makes you happy,life’s to short to do stuff you don’t want to do

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Korruptor
7/10/2019 12:01:41 pm

Gotta go where the muse is, Mr B. No point otherwise.

’m totally on board for the ride. Wheeee!

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Stuart Parsnips
7/10/2019 12:30:59 pm

Please don’t use Ashens too much. He is on every similar channel and is honestly quite dreadful and divisive.

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King of Sass
7/10/2019 11:08:22 pm

No such thing as too much Ashens.

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Jennifer
7/10/2019 12:41:17 pm

I enjoy your humour and I'm along for the ride. With any content creator there will be parts that people won't like (I myself am not into the FF stuff) however it's your life, your content and at the end of the day only you have any right to say what you do and don't produce. I'll happily watch the bits you produce that I do like and I'll watch it with a great big smile on face.

I'm happy that you are finding your way and that Inspiration has hit you once again I wish you all the best with Xenoxxx, I might not enjoy it but I also know that once you're done with that you'll probably end up doing something that I really will enjoy so happy to stick along for the ride <3 <3 <3

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Pete
7/10/2019 01:01:15 pm

I won't blow smoke here - I'm one of the people who is primarily interested in the gaming content, and will likely read/watch less of the upcoming stuff (though I will still watch some!). But I don't feel any entitlement about it, and as a generally creative type myself I am 100% behind you on not doing things that you're not enjoying anymore just for the clicks. As you say, life's too short. Good luck with it, and wherever it leads you next.

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Pete Davison link
7/10/2019 01:27:53 pm

The Pete above is not me, but his views are pretty similar to mine! I came back to Digitiser because of the gaming content and found a great deal of enjoyment from the anarchic humour that came attached to it.

That said, I do enjoy the random silliness too, as does my wife, and I think she finds that stuff more "accessible" as someone who didn't grow up with Digi, and who has a fairly narrow range of experience with video gaming in general. As such I'm not mad or disappointed or anything -- I'd seen this coming for a while based on your recent posts.

I hope you don't abandon the gaming stuff entirely, though. There are a lot of subjects -- particularly in retro, and especially from Digi's original era -- that don't get covered or explored at all, and while Larry and Octavius in particular do a great job in that regard, it'd be nice to see the unique Biffo take on certain things too.

With regard to your recent post on feeling burnt out by modern games, I'll suggest something I think I've said before: look outside of the "big name" blockbuster games and the indie darlings of the month. I have little interest in either of these -- I tend to find myself suffering a sort of "reverse hype" where the more people bang on about something the less I want to check it out -- but I still find enough things from both yesterday and today to play to make gaming (and writing about games) my main hobby.

Ultimately I'll add my voice to the throng of people saying that above all, you should do what makes you happy. Audience members will come and go as you figure things out, but you 1) already have a loyal "core" of people following your work, and 2) once you settle on something that really gets you fired up, the broader, more casual audience will inevitably follow.

Good luck with figuring things out, and I hope the break helps!

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Chris
7/10/2019 02:09:33 pm

"I tend to find myself suffering a sort of "reverse hype" where the more people bang on about something the less I want to check it out"

I suffer from this too! If something's popular I just can't be bothered with it, unless it looks particularly interesting to me.

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Earhorn
7/10/2019 01:46:30 pm

I'm sure I can speak for everyone when I say: None of us cares about any of that stuff wot you wrote , we jus want surreal top 10 lists judged by odd D list celebrities.

ROFL Rodney, jus messing we do care about all that stuff wot u wrote, but also want top 10 lists too.

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Tim Egg
7/10/2019 03:26:22 pm

I understand the need to be creative (something I'm in dire need of doing myself) but you've got to remember a lot of people started to watch Digitiser because of the videogame content and you will alienate them with anything not videogame based.

I've stuck around because of the shambolicness of it all and to see how far you guys will go until it's gone full Jackass and somebodies launching fireworks out of their arse.
With the news of videogame content taking a backseat and your creativity being freed I'll keep watching just to see if you do one day make your own episode in the style of black mirror and go full Charlie Brooker.....best of luck with all this malarkey and maybe you could hand off the gaming content to one of the other members of Digitiser.

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John Whyte
7/10/2019 03:34:28 pm

As many have said, more eloquently than I can, the most important thing is for you to do whatever you feel is most fulfilling. This isn't your job and might never be therefore you do not have to trudge through it to make ends meet or for anyone's appreciation - even if I do suspect that you feel, incorrectly that you owe this to 'us,' at least to some extent.

To be honest, I felt a few weeks ago that I should stop sending in the games-related questions because of the change in direction. Not because I was interested/disliked your answers, more that I didn't want to make you interact with something that no longer interested you.

I have always admired your work and it has inspired me in ways that you genuinely might struggle to believe and for that reason I will always support your choices and be grateful for what you have given us - whether freely or as patrons.

I cannot pretend that I am not saddened by your lack of current interest in games and the new direction because, as good as it genuinely is, I believe that having games as an anchor brings out the best in your work. It might make me disagree with many other patrons, but Digitiser the Show was excellent and I enjoyed it more than Found Footage.

Hopefully I don't have to say this, but this shouldn't be taken as a criticism. I actually liked Found Footage and the recent YouTube videos. It's more a paen to what we are losing. To emphasise though, you are doing this for the absolute correct reasons and I fully support your choice. I haven't actually commented on a post before so I'll finish with the feeling that if this is the end of Digitiser 2000 as we know it then it was brilliant while it lasted.

Good luck with the next projects.

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Robobob
7/10/2019 09:48:50 pm

I mean I'm not gonna force you or anything, but somehow it feels important you get to question 500. MILESTONE. Or something.

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John Whyte
8/10/2019 08:41:10 am

Thank you for that, Robobob. I planned to stop at 500 anyway as it's probably boring for everyone except me to have these very dry, straight questions every Letters Page. I'd continue to 1,000 otherwise.

I'm at 450 now and that might be as good a place to stop as any - if it was 495 then I'd go for 500 but I don't want to coerce Paul into talking about games when he doesn't really want to any more. This is, of course, despite the fact that he would because he's a gentleman who does his best for his readers.

I'd just feel guilty if, in my own small way, I held back the site's transition.

John Whyte
8/10/2019 08:43:17 am

I forgot to say, I apologise for misspelling 'paean;' I'm not sure how that happened.

Reversible Sedgewick
7/10/2019 03:46:38 pm

Mr Biffo's Digitiser?

Somewhere in a room with black wallpaper and a taxidermy crow, American McGee rubs his hands with glee, the glint of revenge in his eye. He opens the notebook next to his brass rotary phone. Runs his finger down the list, down to D. D for Dini.

Sorry to bring up the Digitiser past there. Probably a good example of the kind of straightjacket you're wanting to throw off. And good on you for deciding to do so. Do what makes you happy, make a Found Footage sequel entirely about balloons filled with owl pellets if you have to. You're worth it™

I still think the world needs "Do You Remember This? A Netflix Original Series", but what do I know?

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Richard William
7/10/2019 04:50:05 pm

For me, the Digitiser Minis have filled the gap that Barshens left behind when they changed their styling. I love the anarchy and the free flowing of the Digitiser shorts with Biffo and Gannon, with guest appearances from Octav1us and Larry Bundy Jr. They have a similar feel to what the Comic Strip guys were doing in the early 80s. Comedy that's not for everybody's taste but breaks moulds in humour and stuff that's funny when you probably shouldn't be laughing and sometimes don't know why you are laughing. I have a fondness for video games, retro and current, but the Digi stuff that I get more of a kick out of is the science experiments, looking at and trying to use old tat and the irreverent humour that comes from these things.

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Starbuck
7/10/2019 05:03:44 pm

I must admit that I'm massively excited about the proposition of a Found Footage sequel - the original was the one telly thing that I looked forward to watching on broadcast day, and a perfect bridge between Sunday and Monday!

Just one thing. Whatever happens with whatever media you are etching upon, make sure that the Friday Letters Page still exists!

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Sedric-and-Charlie
7/10/2019 05:41:59 pm

As long as it doesn't conflict with my 90-chapter fanfic explaining how Lord Brannigan 7 came to be taller than a skyscraper and being assaulted by a similarly giant police officer, we're all good

Seriously though, whatever path you take, you have my support

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kyle
7/10/2019 06:33:53 pm

Biffo mate at this point you've made about 4000 posts angsting about if you should make what you want to or not. I'm not arsed what you make so long as you're making something. Or not making anything, if you want to not anymore. who cares, just get on with it.

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Mr Biffo
7/10/2019 07:01:04 pm

Not really what the blog post was doing, Kyle, but whatever. Thanks for your input!!!!!?!!!!

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kyle
7/10/2019 11:15:09 pm

I'm going to make crap comments until you learn to stop reading them

Craig
7/10/2019 07:31:27 pm

Was kind of hoping you'd do a digi for modern gaming with your unique presentation. I think that'd be excellent

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Mr Biffo
7/10/2019 07:55:18 pm

I don't know enough about modern gaming, really.

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Craig
7/10/2019 10:54:51 pm

You don't need to!

Cod
7/10/2019 09:30:51 pm

I'll watch anything, man! #sacmagique

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Stringfellow Hawke
7/10/2019 10:26:50 pm

I'm not sure about the move away from gaming. I worry that you will leave the way open for the return of that guy who wrote about video games on Ceefax.

Although I did prefer Found Footage to Digitiser the Show. Each FF episode felt like an event.

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Rob link
7/10/2019 10:28:03 pm

I know where you are coming from; I've got several projects in the "I need to do more on this" pile that I just can't find the enthusiasm for any more. [linked website being one in particular..] Instead I'm learning a new (computer) language simply so I can write (for the third time) a server for a now long obsolete virtual world... Absolutely no reward involved, nobody would care, and only two people know about it, but I'm enjoying the challenge, and it's keeping my brain active. Trying to force yourself to keep doing things you've lost the enthusiasm for will simply make you hate it, and won't produce any worthwhile results.

So, if you need to step back and refocus, you should do so. Take a break, plan out new projects, let your creative juices run wild for a bit, see what happens!

I have to admit I just couldn't get into FF, maybe I need a bit more uninterrupted time when I can actually *watch* it, but was a backer for D:TS, and have enjoyed the minis since, when I've had time to watch them. I'm sure anything new you come up with will be enjoyable, though, especially if you are enjoying making it - the love always shines through.

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King of Sass
7/10/2019 11:04:55 pm

Whatever you do, I will lap it up like a hungry dog. I love your stuff.

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CK
7/10/2019 11:57:44 pm

On the basis that I’ve been reading your work since the times of pressing the HOLD button to make the next page load quicker on Teletext I suppose I’m committed to the long haul.

I had years of free entertainment out of Digi and I remember finishing reading the last article (with the screenshot above) when it updated and feeling sad that Digi was gone.

I love gaming and though a lot of your other content isn’t for me, the articles that you write that aren’t about gaming, the ones about you and ‘the behind the scenes’ processes all are well worth the price of admission.

My Patreon donation will remain in place indefinitely.

Unless I die. Then the bank will likely stop my Direct Debit...

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James Walker
8/10/2019 12:07:16 am

I go through periods when I batter the video games then get totally sick of em and don’t go near em for months, sometimes years. I think I’m in one of those periods now.
Long story short, keep doing dem funny videos mon!!!!

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Random Reviewer
8/10/2019 07:06:40 am

I think you might need to sit around for a bit and see what comes along and bites your arse (piques your interest). I love the longform pieces you wrote here, whether they've been about the history of Digi, silly games journo drama or your personal response to a national tragedy, they've all been measured and insightful.

You've kept the humour and irreverence whilst adding a mature, compassionate touch, and your thoughts on how perception changes with age make me all reflective and melancholy, in a good way. I wouldn't give a blind toss if you didn't cover the latest releases, I'd just like an occasional blog post here about your views on various things, with maybe the occasional article about something in gaming that interests you.

However, I don't think the divide in your audience is as sharp as you think. I'm willing to bet there were plenty of people who loved these articles and also loved Found Footage.and went on that journey with you. I may be a bit biased here, because I loved FF and the Space 2001 parody was my favourite sort of skit - one where the humour comes primarily from the premise itself and the design (music and animation) that supports it..

I enjoyed Digi The Show too, but gradually found myself not bothering with the Ganonn uploads as they're just not my cup of tea. I think if you hived off those vids as a side project and kept them as their own thing, away from the site, whilst also focusing on written pieces, you could get the best of both worlds.

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Tyronne Mann
9/10/2019 02:16:50 pm

Paul - You carry on doing whatever you want to do as there is nothing worse than being confined within your own pre-set boundary.
Kick the walls down, smash the roof off and run amock as I would love to see a found footage live if that comes to be, kinda like a Ted talk that goes terrily wrong for some reason or one of those royal society things they do at Christmas that takes a bizaare turn.
Truth be told, Digi for me was never actually about the games themselves but more of an umbrella for all kinds of things to be watched, read about and more importantly join in with a community of liked minded people.
Life is change and if people do not like it then other people will come along who do.
People like me will still be here....you poor poor sod :)

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FatDave
21/10/2019 08:27:14 pm

Much like teletext digitiser I came for the games but Its the unique humor that gets me to stay, I'm way more excited over the prospect of more found footage than digitiser the show.

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