Blog: If you can't tell, I rarely update this blog unless I'm actually finished with a game. I just don't have much time with the blog in general when I have friends to contact, work to worry about, games to play, etc. But hey, at least I don't neglect it, so that's something!
Doomwiki: Secret-hunting is still my forte over there and frankly I'm still doing it each time a new mod has pages for their levels. I basically go until there's nothing left, because filling in the space is perfectly fine as far as I'm concerned. Didn't expect to have over 10,000 edits, I had realized I was hitting that mark at some point, but of course December 10th when the Cacowards get released meant more new articles and pages created, so more hunting is fine! I'll do it whenever possible.
Real-life: I kinda talked about this already. To be honest, the only advice I can actually say is look out if some place wants to hire you almost immediately. Because they're probably lying to your face about it. Either they'll hire you and you'll realize they are a terrible company to work with (or the environment flat out sucks) or they just duped you into trying to get in. With my preferred school system at the moment I'm doing some phone calls to ensure a proper environment and such, and that's my current goal.
Music: The tail end of the year was an interesting one for me because I finally put in several albums into my playlist that for some reason I haven't done yet. In other words, albums I have listened their entirety of on Youtube, like Ultraspank's Progress, but never bothered to have them in my official libraries. Helping matters was getting a brand new computer for the idea. And I was doing this because I actually ran out of all the other stuff to do. For the new stuff this year, the only ones I can even remember listening to this year that I liked were Alter Bridge's Pawns & Kings, Novelists' Deja vu, Monuments' In Stasis, and Dance Gavin Dance's Jackpot Juicer. Maybe I'll update this with stuff I remember later on?
What I've been watching: So I finished watching the Pretty Cure seasons up to Tropical Rouge, which I finished some time in...October I presume. Right now I'm probably going to binge watch Delicious Party, it's ending some time next year and they will have a new season out for it soon. Maybe some day I'll offer a ranking post on this blog of some kind. But I really do enjoy these seasons and their action and fun.
ROM Hacks: I stated that Pokemon Polka Aqua was under my belt last year, and I did finish it this year. Aside from that this was a year of me finishing quite a lot of ROM hacks for Pokemon, 13 more besides Polka Aqua to be honest. I did several betas, including Adventure Blue Chapter, Adventure Gold Chapter, Dark Crystal, and Luria. Gold Unova was the first Gen-2 hack I did since Prism. Metal Red was a jumbled mess. Dark Cry: Legend of Giratina was somewhat interesting. Dark Violet was an interesting revamp of Kanto games while Blazed Glazed was a surprisingly inferior version of Glazed. Stigma was an attempt to put strange lore in a game format, while Red Fire was intended for Nuzlockes and is actually not hard if you're not doing that gameplay style. But Pokemon Dreams? That stole the show and is my new favorite, having nearly everything including the kitchen sink. I really do recommend playing some of the ROM hacks that have the CFRU if anything cause they are a lot of fun.
RPGs: Might and Magic III was something I had been doing, but I put it aside for a while for some reason because of the platformer reviews. However, past completing that, this was my least active year yet for RPG playing due to only completing a whopping nine. Two more M&M games were finished, I finally reviewed Vandal Hearts, and even got to its interesting sequel. I also checked out the predecessor to Shadow Hearts, Koudelka, as well as two games from Realms of Arkania. Plus Chocobo's Dungeon 2 which was a load of fun. But that was it. Damn jobs, having to ruin my schedule a lot.
Platformers: Okay this is surprising. While I ended up doing a ton of platformers in the previous year, my intention this year was to not do nearly as much this year, and in the end, I finished...nine.
Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion
Alex Kidd: High-Tech World
Looney Tunes
Xargon
Crash Bandicoot 2: N-Tranced
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap
Kabuki: Quantum Fighter
Solomon's Key
Moai-kun
Aside from maybe three of these, I didn't feel as much excitement with them and frankly I only played them because I felt like playing them. The latter two were part of a 750-in-1 NES bootleg set and I wanted to try that out, and well maybe I'll get back to that if I'm extremely bored.
So yeah, what a year. Did terribly with RPGs and platformers, while ROM hacks are starting to be my forte for a while. Plus all the Pretty Cure stuff I've been accumulating, and the fact that real life is taking more out of me than usual. I want to survive 2023. I want to. I believe that I won't be doing much in 2023 with regards to platformers unless I really don't want to do anything else. ROM hacks will happen, and the occasional RPG will show up too. Maybe these both will show up more often due to not having as much on Doomwiki to do left.
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