End of year asks
Dec. 16th, 2022 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
got_quietI was in the mood for answering random questions so I went looking for some end of year surveys and found one that was interesting enough. Here it is below. And the link to the original post is here. Is there an official term for these things? I feel like they were easier to find in the past.
Feel free to post the answers for yourself too, I'm curious how everyone else's year went.
Feel free to post the answers for yourself too, I'm curious how everyone else's year went.
- Song of the year? I'm suffering from some recency bias here but the song that I've been enjoying the most that's not from my favorite album of the year is Maria Chaikovskaya's Kiss Me (Марія Чайковська - Целуй Меня)
- Album of the year? Beyond the Buried and Me's Colors II. I ended listening to this on repeat over multiple cross country trips. It's a massive banger. I don't know if it came out this year but I listened the hell out of it this year.
- Favorite musical artist / group you started listening to this year? Maybe Stoned Jesus. They're sort of a neo retro rock band? I don't know what the genre is called.
- Movie of the year? Shit, which movies did I watch this year? I wasn't going into any theaters up until literally the last couple of weeks and wasn't watching anything streaming either, so I don't even know what's come out recently. By virtue of it having almost no competition whatsoever, I have to go with Everything Everywhere All at Once.
- TV show of the year? Demon Slayers. Watched the shit out of that show, multiple times, for study purposes of course. I also ended up watching a little Bee and Puppycat recently and have been enjoying that a lot.
- Episode of tv or webisode that defined the year for you? I'm not sure about that. I think maybe that Line Goes Up youtube doc on NFTs. I have been popcorning the NFT "Space" since a little before the big Beeple auction, and the vid filled in a number of holes for me.
- Favorite
actorcharacter of the year? I don't really care about actors all that much so I'm swapping this. Zenitsu is one of the most polarizing characters out there in a long time, and I fell in the love bucket with him. I am just too weak to lightning type characters and his whining is kinda relatable. The obsession with girls is not though. - Game of the year? Begrudgingly, Overwatch 2, cause it still sucked up all of my time. But I also got into Deep Rock Galactic this year and started playing multiplayer with randoms instead of just when friends were around and it turned out to be a lot of fun, so I'm getting more and more into that. It's a loooot chiller than Overwatch, but it's also not as satisfying without the competitive aspect.
- Best month for you this year? Eugh. Probably May or June? Was warm? Not much going on?
- Something that made you cry this year? I cry super easy. Put a cheap ass commercial with some over sentimental scene in it and I'll cry. I definitely sobbed for Everything Everywhere All at Once.
- Something you want to do again next year? Hang out with my friend on her birthday. We spent a long weekend together, went to an arboretum and all the bookshops in the area, and played some board games. Was a lot of fun.
- Talk about a new friend you made this year. I don't think I made any new friends this year. I make a new friend approximately every 5 years minimum.
- How was your birthday this year? I don't do anything for it and my family is far away, so it just sort of came and went without fanfare. I have one friend who has a birthday close to mine so we get each other cupcakes.
- Favorite book you read this year? Piranesi. According to my notes I only read 5 books this year. That's a little embarrassing... But even so it's a good book.
- What’s a bad habit you picked up this year? Oversleeping. And especially, screwing around on my phone too much before I get out of bed. It makes mornings really bad.
- Post a picture from the beginning of the year. Here's some Jayce/Victor (SFW) https://twitter.com/O04447809O/status/1480245281216098306
- Post a picture from the end of the year. Zenyatta/Ramattra (SFW) https://twitter.com/timnehparrot/status/1600839292137672706
- A memorable meal this year? I had a nice monkfish dish at a seafood place in Boston. You don't usually see monkfish on the menu I think, but I like it, and it was done very well. I made a lazy version of Dakgalbi for the first time this year and liked the results a lot, so I'm rolling that into my very small repertoire. I also tried the some Bonchon this year. I thought I was going to a place that served banchan and was at first disappointed, but it's still decent chicken.
- What’re you excited about for next year? The sooner it comes the closer to Spring we are. Also excited about the new Hades game! And I've made an agreement with my company to go on a business trip to Japan, which I haven't been able to do in something like 4 years now, so I'm really looking forward to that. Going to have to save up so I can buy some things for myself too while I'm there.
- What’s something you learned this year? Time does fly when you get older.
- What’s something new about your place of residence (room, home, or general location) now vs the start of the year? I bought a radiating heater so I wouldn't be living in 60 degree rooms all winter long. No regrets. But we also got our heater repaired by our landlord and I can't tell if we're spending more money on heating or it's just more efficient now... I guess I'm going to find out when the bill comes this month.
- Favorite place you visited this year? Boston. I like visiting that city a lot, it's walkable, has interesting neighborhoods, I'm a nerd for colonial architecture, and I can get good Italian cookies.
- If you could send a message to yourself back on the first day of the year, what would it be? Stop stressing out, Jesus. I don't know, if I had any good advice at this point I feel like I'd be following it!
- Did you keep any New Year’s Resolutions? No lol. I don't think I managed to keep a single one, but that's par for the course. I am however very close to finishing that batch of VN games.
- Did you create any characters (in games, art, or writing) this year? Describe one. Hmm, I don't think I did. I don't think I played anything that let you and I didn't spend much time writing. In fact I think I wrote less this year than I ever have before, which kind of sucks.
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Date: 2022-12-17 10:01 pm (UTC)I tried a couple of surveys before this but they were all asking questions too many questions that I didn't care about. I cheated on a couple of these too (I'm sure the "picture" questions wanted selfies or something) so I'm all for modifying the thing.
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Date: 2022-12-17 03:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-17 09:58 pm (UTC)I actually hadn't watched any of Folding Ideas' vids before the Line Goes Up one. Even though I thought I had a good sense of the many facets of grift going on there it turned out it was actually even more fucked up than that! It's definitely worth a watch if you have a spare few hours.
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Date: 2022-12-17 10:09 pm (UTC)I would highly recommend exploring Folding Ideas' vids tho, if you haven't already! His contrapreneurs vid is similarly good at taking apart a bunch of grifts, and his video on Ralph Bakshi and LOTR was great. He also has a fascinating trilogy on the 50 shades films.
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Date: 2022-12-17 08:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-17 10:03 pm (UTC)