2021 - Best of's, & In Review
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2021 has all in all been a good year for me. It’s pandemic year so they don’t get scored in the same way.
I’ve learned to care less about the follies of humans, and appreciate more the things immediately here and now. “When life gives you lemons, you don’t have to give a shit.”
Anyway… Who doesn’t love lists, let’s list things I noted in 2021.
Video Games
Notable Qualty
Turip boy commits tax evasion
The soundtrack to this, …. exquisite
It takes Two
Satisfactory
Highest level of polish. Other games should look to this as the standard.
Timberborn
Best City Sim.
Special Mention: Superliminal
Superliminal is … an astounding audacious set of peculiarities.
Sam’s Pick for 2021
It’s fast, clean, fun.
TV
- Documental [AZPrime]
- The first season of Good girls [Nflx]
- I think you should leave [Nflx]
- The new seasons of The Simpsons (I know!, it’s a very different show now)
WORST Thing 2021 awards
- The ongoing preventable pandemic & This ludicrousy we call ‘Government’.
- Systemic Discrimination, and those institutions rife with it still being in denial.
- Anything
- No ridge racer on ps5
- Windows 11 not supporting “remote desktop” due to M$ making accounts ‘passwordless’
- NFT - 2021’s Idiot Tax - Funny Monkey jpeg valuing so much that the tax man wants your pants.
- The state of HDR, specifically the implementations in games.
Best things of 2021
- vegan food for home cooking, catching on at shops.
- Due to lockdown, everything I ever need is online.
- Saw a mudcrab the other day. Horrible creatures.
- Moved to a permo-remote contract. Working from home forever, No commutes ever again!
In Review
The message from 2021 I want to leave you with is, Hope and Frustration. Consider everything; It doesn’t have to be like this. We can all do better.
Honesty.
The game is rigged form the start, the house always wins, but I’m sick of us all pretending like that’s how it’s gotta be.
We need to do better. For all of us now, and for all of us still to come. The good news is we have unlimited opportunities to do better, and so we should also have a little fun along the way.
Here’s to 2022, And to us.
One Love.
Sam