2017 Review

[trysdyn]

2017 was pretty rough; I'm a little disappointed because I expected it to be a better year than 2016 for me. I can say for certain it wasn't, but it still had its up moments. I guess the big moments were, in no particular order:

• Being unable to stream, game, or do more than browse the net for 3 months due to Comcast's tomfoolery. That seems... mostly fixed now, at least
• The roommate being in and out of the ER several times over a two months period, which also seems to be cleared up now
• My company being sold and leading to a 6 weeks period where I thought I was losing my job, only to be kept on; though at this point I'm unsure how long I'll stay
• Staffing Big Bad Game-a-thon and getting into the BBG team and making some pretty cool friends there who I continue to interact with daily
• The other roommmate moving out, leaving just the two of us in this house. This has its up sides and down sides, of course. This is the first time it's been just us, ever
• Learning a TON of new speedgames: Neugier, Hop-a-bout, Hachiemon, Bao Qing Tian, Kid Niki 2, Ghostbusters 2, Rockin' Kats, Great Battle IV, Snoopy, Shining Soul II... Phew that's a lot

I don't really do resolutions, but stream/speedrun/online plans for 2018, again in no particular order...

• Do better about promoting my stream, not so much because I want popularity/revenue but because a lot of people want to watch but I never tell them when I'm live
• Experiment with the speedrun podcast concept I've hammered out
• Pick up several games for SNES Superstars. Up to four of them are on my list right now
• Kusogrande 3.0 is starting soon. I want to commentate the hell out of that, as well as compete
• Finish and distribute my chat widget, now that I have affiliate I can test bits and subs more readily
• Maybe this year will be the year I learn LttP? I wanted to in 2017, but the rando craze kind of soured me on the game
• Get a solid plan for my book down and actually execute on it rather than waffle with yak shaving (seriously I spent 3 months writing a serial prose blog engine I never used)

Do I expect 2018 will be better than 2017? I don't know. I do expect I'll better myself, though. I'm really the only factor of the year I have control of, after all.