Get tickets to QuakeCon, August 8th to the 10th, 2024: https://quakecon.bethesda.net/en/ This is Kenneth Vigue and I just want to say, I miss you….we all miss you. I wanted to give everyone a positive update on our life situation. As many of you longtime listeners know, our financial situation these past several years has not been great. Like many of you, we have been no strangers to struggle, living paycheck to paycheck and I’ve been working 7 days a week trying to keep us afloat, crushed by debt that began with long term mental healthcare for my husband Travis for a debilitating condition called C-PTSD and co-occurring conditions. So many of you have reached out, no strangers to either suffering through no fault of your own with mental health or who serve as caregivers for someone does. Everyone’s support over the years has meant the world to us and finally we have hope. Next month we finish a cross country move after finally selling our house, eliminating our debt completely and putting us in a much better living situation. We’ll be living in Texas, and after just getting back from there after signing on a new house for us I do have to say I have never eaten so well.

Once this move is completed by July 16th, I’ll be free both mentally and financially to be far more consistent with writing and editing. More of my free time spent in panic mode drumming up work will be mine again, and I can’t wait to get back to telling stories in Fallout 76 and beyond. So don’t worry…I’m not stopping.

I also want to share something exciting: I’ll be at QuakeCon in August, from the 8th to the 11th in Grapevine Texas and I would love to see any of you who may be going. It’s a truly spectacular event, panels, a truly epic LAN party in the BYOC. Though the convention may have started being all about Quake, today it is the largest yearly convention run by ZeniMax Media, and a celebration of all its studios and games. If you’re nearby or are planning to attend, it’s well worth a visit, and even if you can’t, Bethesda usually has a series of live streams from the event at Twitch.TV/Bethesda. Tickets start at just $16.50 for a day pass or if you want to bring your own computer and grab a spot in the LAN BYOC, you can grab those tickets for $75.

Again, I really miss you…I miss this. I’m so excited and frankly relieved for the next chapter in our personal life, but also the brighter horizons of my creative one. Care for yourself, take time to get out and see the world this summer. Unplugging for a while is chicken soup for the soul, it broadens the mind, declutters our thinking and allows less of the shadows to gain purchase.

I’ll be back in a few months, but I hope to see you in the Wasteland.

Listen in for a sneak peek of our next feature length episode, "Vault-Tec Rises!".

This year some major life changes will be occurring that will impact the show schedule this year but will help me in a big way in terms of being able to create more consistently in the future. Please give this a listen.

THAT'S A WRAP! The Fallout For Hope Team has raised $84,201 for the kids of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Because of our efforts children we will never, ever meet with have the surgeries the need, the chemo, oxygen and medicines to help them fight and the support their parents need to get through it all. To date, we’ve now raised almost half a million for St. Jude alone: $444,608.39 to be exact.

This year the team raised a total of $139,600 in 2023 for St. Jude, the American Heart Association, the Alzheimer’s Association, and Project Hope.

Over 712 Streamers, Content Creators and Volunteers joined us this year, our largest team ever assembled, streaming from 86 countries.

The Fallout For Hope hashtag and all related its related streams, content, and posts from us and you reached 76.4 million people in 2023.

To date the team has raised over $610,639 for charitable causes, which is no small number and no small an impact on things that really matter and people who really needed our help and most importantly, hope.