This year was a great game for video games, both for games released and the games I played. My feelings from last year have not only carried on, but grown stronger. My FOMO is dying, and I only want to play games I actually am enjoying going forward. Furthermore, I'm …
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Movie and Show Retrospective for 2018
Very late I know, but I'm a busy guy! There's a lot of bleed over on this list with 2017, I didn't do a good job tracking which ones I finished in which year, but since this is my first time doing these lists for media besides games I'll cut …
Video Game Wishlist for 2019
Games I Hope to Play
- Earthbound
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Baldur's Gate
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
- Total War: Shengoku
- Valkyria Chronicles
- Hate Plus
- Higurashi: When They Cry 1-6
- South Park: The Fractured but Whole
- Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire
- Torment: Tides of Numenara
- Little Witch Academia …
Book Wishlist for 2019
✠ - Started previously
☦ - Audiobook
- Tanya the Evil - 1
- Spice and Wolf - 9
- Roadside Picnic ✠
- Ghost in the Shell - 1 ✠
- Mathematics for Non-Mathematicians ✠
- Concrete Mathematics
- Mythical Man-Hour
- Calculus Made Easy
- Statistics in a Nutshell
- The Witcher: Sword of Destiny
- Count Zero ☦
- Mona Lisa Overdrive ☦
- Manufacturing Consent ☦
- the New Confessions of an Economic …
Movie and Show Wishlist for 2019
✠ - Started previously
☦ - Rewatch
Movies
- Millenium Actress
- Ran
- Yojimbo
- Seven Samurai
- Stalker
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Diebuster
- The Bridge on the River Kwai
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ✠
- The Prestige ✠
- Zulu ✠
- Stalingrad
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley
- The Last Starfighter
- The Chaser
- The Elephant Man
- Terminator 2 ✠
- Mullholland Drive
- Hard Boiled …
Goals for 2019
I want to try something new this year, setting solid goals for myself and ranking them based on how important they are to me. These rankings are based on how much they improve my life, feed in to other goals, and my own desire to achieve them.
Maintain and Improve …
Database Normalization
This is a more advanced topic and assumes you have basic knowledge of relation databases. If you don’t know what an RDMBS or datatypes are, this isn’t for you quite yet :). If you need help visualizing these concepts, check out the referenced Wikipedia articles and YouTube video. For …
reStructuredText Primer
reStructuredText (reST) is a markup language designed to be easy to write, similar to
Markdown, but with more capabilities. I don't recommend most people use it, as Markdown is a better choice most of the time. It's easier to write and supported almost everywhere. Luckily, the site generator I use …2017 Video Game Retrospective
What games I played and what I thought about them in 2017.
2017 General Retrospective
What a year it's been. It's easily been my best year in a long time since I've accomplished so much and made positive changes in my life that will snowball into more long term, positive, structural changes. At the beginning of the year it would have been impossible for me …
2018 Resolutions
Practice German more
- 50+xp daily in Duolingo until gold
- Daily goal in Memrise until completed, then review
- Work through grammar book
- Work through readers
- Pass A1 exam
- Consume German media
Bodyweight workout at least every other day
- 100 squats
- 50 push ups
- 5x10 sec reps/seconds planks, left right …
2018 Video Game Wishlist
What games I hope to play in 2018.
2016 Video Game Retrospective
What games I played and what I thought about them in 2016.
2017 Video Game Wishlist
Games I Hope to Play More
- Day of Infamy
- Divinity: Original Sin Enhanced Edition
- Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen
- Grow Home
- Heart of Iron 4
- Homefront: The Revolution
- Metro: Last Light Redux
- Oddworld New n Tasty
- Superbrothers: Sword and Sorcery
- Pillars of Eternity
- Hyper Light Drifter
- Crusader Kings 2
- Stardew Valley …