Happy New Year

It's been almost a month of basically nonstop gaming. Mostly played Hades, Path of Exile, and League of Legends. I do appreciate the experience, though. I think it will help in my game design ventures.

But anyway, I guess I'll talk about last year.

Graduated college
A big life achievement this year. YAY! …I feel nothing, honestly. I simply believe society expects this of me.

Moved away from Sydney back home with my parents.
I'm actually much happier about this than the act of graduating in itself. Even after a month, my dad regularly makes me take the card out to practice my driving (as I haven't really driven a car in about 2 years) and I simply marvel at how everyone doesn't tailgate the fuck out of each other. And I didn't even drive in Sydney. I guess I really hated the place, huh. (Still better than LA/Chicago/NY though.)

Learned a lot about HR
I have Dr. Veen to thank for this one. Absolutely excellent lecturer. Six months ago I was kind of asking myself, "Did I actually learn more than fuck all from this degree?" and was feeling pretty shitty about it. Then in my final semester, Dr. Veen took the academic smidgens of knowledge I barely remembered and put them together in a coherent manner that I actually feel I could utilize in a workplace.

Began aspiring to be a game designer.
This has many sub-lessons, not all of which are pretty and awesome.

• The main thing I've quickly learned in game design is the industry is incredibly saturated. Everyone wants to get in on the next big entertainment cash cow, and a lot of people think they're a good artist. Every month I come across at least 5-10 new games from small-time developers that are absolutely amazing but no one has heard of it and no one has played it.
• As a result of the previous point, I have also learned I wish to build video games as a non-profit hobby. I see video games as a conglomerate of art - written, visual, soundtrack, acting - and I don't wish to be limited in that department by the need to make money.
• Finally, I've also learned that I need to pick up programming. One step at a time, I suppose.

Stopped letting depression keep me down.

Knew it would happen one day, but I didn't really think it would be this year. Although I should have expected it really, as I was already mostly recovered by the end of last year.

Alright, I guess it's time to talk about the coming year now.

At this point in my life, I have few real expectations. I merely expect that the coming year is going to be shit. I have no reasonable super long-term goals either, because the world is going to change at such a fast pace that I don't see any reason to plan anything. Boomers like my father always taught me to not think so far ahead: just in 1 day, then 1 week, 1 month, 6 month, 1 year intervals...which is exactly how we got global warming. But oh well. Better than no plan.

That being said, New Years' Resolutions.

• Get a job
• Finish the SAP course I bought
• Finish the Python course I bought
• Finish a book (lmao)
• Write 40,000 words of fiction for my game 
• Clear 24 Heat in Hades