Update: Thank you everyone for all the heartfelt and encouraging emails in response to this post. I can’t reply to all of them, but I do read every single one. <3 Back in the late 2000s, I was a major contributor to the Wii homebrew scene. At the time, I worked on software (people call them “jailbreaks” these days) to allow users to run their own unofficial apps on the Nintendo Wii. I was passiona
