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[A Thing]

Here we go again

Spoiler: Burn my dread, I guess. (click to show/hide)

So uhh, is SMT still one of your favorite things?
Did they release/say anything promising about the Nocturne remake being on a console you own?
Finally finish The Story of the Stone or did you finish that before the end of 2018? Or did you do neither?
Bannerlord still in unreleased development? I can guess the answer for this one, but I might as well be a bit optimistic.
Have you learned a decent amount of Spanish?
Doing ok?
Talked to that old friend, or are you out of contact?


You're as useless as pissing on a frog!

[Hanslanda]

Spoiler: Hans (click to show/hide)

Heya Hans. How's the feet? Got new boots yet? What about a shotgun? How's the new baby doing? Boy or girl? Hope the holidays went well. I hope you're behaving. Other than that, peace be upon us all eh?

[NullForceOmega]

This was kind of successful the previous times  did it, and I missed out last year, so here goes:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Okay, things are going pretty well, don't be complacent tho', there are way too many opportunities for shit to fuck up, and you still have to be the one holding it together.
No. 1 has been doing well, but we're having some problems, keep an eye on him and do your best to help him focus.
No. 2 is improving but some of his behavior is out of control, focus on being even-handed.
No. 3 is here.  A little girl.  We've got no experience with this and we'd better stay on top of things as best we can.
We NEED to do something about our physical fitness, there were tons of improvements last summer but this winter was absolutely crippling, get a head start on that shit so next winter doesn't really reduce us to invalids.

Last but not least keep a cap on that stupid boiling rage.  That is the single biggest probable source of failure here, and that is unacceptable.

[NJW2000]

Spoiler: Dear future self (click to show/hide)

Uhhhh. So second year of mathphil. Unless you've quit, in which case fine. Or done way too badly on prelims. It happens.
Hope... you've been reading and keeping fit and all. Have some friends. Eh, you'll manage.

2018 was a good year for us and music, eh? Keep branching out on the taste front, it's something you can talk to people about.
Possibly you could start thinking about having a career? If you haven't already? Still time.

Hope you wrote the thing on ethical fictionalism. Gotta get ahead, be a serious philosopher.
Good luck with girl stuff. And boy stuff, I guess. You thought you were an aesthete when you wrote this, at least.

At the time of writing, you were also considering reinventing yourself a little, if just from the fashion and interpersonal perspectives. That probably went nowhere, huh?

Good luck, anyhow.

[Haspen]

Fix yo spoiler NJW ;v

[NJW2000]

Fix yo spoiler NJW ;v

Thanks.

[penguinofhonor]

Spoiler: dear 2020 penguin (click to show/hide)

Whew, 2018 was a lot. I hope 2019 is less ridiculous, but let's be real here, it probably won't be. Fewer big stressful events coming up in 2019, but I'm sure something will surprise you.

I am in the midst of the job hunt right now and it is not looking good. I suppose you know how that ended. Hopefully it was relatively graceful and you're set with some benefits and enough free time/energy that you can go back to college. You're doing that, right? It's been long enough.

A couple months ago I started Mysterious Art Project A with Mysterious Friend R. Have you made much progress on that? Gotten better at drawing? Published anything yet? I have basically no idea what to expect from that, so anything remotely productive coming out of it would be pretty sweet.

I wanted to read more books in 2018 than I did in 2017, but I ended up reading the same amount. Have you improved on that? I watched a crapton more new movies this year than I usually do, which was pretty fun. Did that number go up again? Around the same? Maybe you picked up a few more new hobbies and didn't have too much free time.

Did you get much crochet done this year? I didn't get as much as I wanted done in 2018.

How was vacation? Hopefully you managed to swing paying for it and whatnot, and had a good time. Don't let Roommate C stress you out talking about having five more vacations in the next two years - he always talks big and never follows through. Heck, in late 2017 he was dead-set on getting us a new fridge. Has that materialized yet? Yeah, didn't expect it to have.

How was the garden? This year was definitely an improvement over 2017 in increased yields, and in the garden being a little more self-sufficient so it wasn't so much damn work to take care of everything. That said, there were still plenty of lessons I learned, and plenty of things I fell behind on and didn't accomplish. Still haven't finished mulching all the paths to keep the weeds down, for example, and there's another raised bed that needs put up in the spring. Did you do anything with that gardening organization I just joined? The guy in charge seems to have big plans for the year, so hopefully those came to fruition.

Did the asparagus do okay this year? Hopefully weird-ass winter/spring weather didn't kill it off. I am pretty paranoid about that happening. I'm not worried about the strawberries - I assume you've got so many of those you're looking for ways to get rid of them in 2020? That's always a good problem to have. Hopefully you've gotten some other good perennials getting established, and more of the front lawn landscaped. It'll be a lot of work, though. Good luck!

Some games I've been playing:
Enter the Gungeon
Kentucky Route Zero
Kingsway

Some songs I've been listening to a lot lately:
"Bonjour Jeune Fille" by The Blow
"One of These Days" by Bedouine
"Short Court Style" by Natalie Prass
"Whathegirlmuthafuckinwannadoo" by The Coup and Janelle Monae
"Worth It" by Haley Heynderickx

Some movies I've watched and enjoyed recently:
Grave of the Fireflies
Hot Fuzz
Train to Busan

[Hanslanda]

Spoiler: Also Hans (click to show/hide)

Did you hit that?

[Rose]

Spoiler: To the Japa of the future (click to show/hide)

Are you a girl yet?
did you get your family over there?

[Tack]

Merry happy, all. I'll ask Toady to pull his mod magic somewhere around the 7th of Jan.
Those who haven't yet, time to start thinking about it.

[scourge728]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well, this is...hard to think of ideas for.... so.. have we started writing, have we lost any weight, have we started on any of those ideas we've got, how about the ones you've come up with since this post? Have we beaten any games? Are we good at anything yet? Have you kept in touch with your friends? how are the pets doing? Get any new books? Did tf2 die yet? Have you 100%d any game yet (not expecting that, but still)? Make any music?

[Xantalos]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Keep writing. Seriously. Try to get some other non-game projects going - that story about the dude and the wizard in his kitchen, perhaps? Something gothic about the Pacific Northwest? Just some suggestions that are currently bouncing around in our skull. But we've been doing this for a while, and getting good at it - if there's an opportunity to start making money from it, via writing contests, short story magazines, whatever, take it.

Keep training. Belt rank is whatever, sandan probably isn't coming for a while, but there's always the opportunity to get better at actually fighting. So ... keep practicing. Get better at teaching, get better at fighting. Keep training judo if you get any opportunity to, that stuff's useful.

Hopefully our luck with avoiding the mental corruption that comes with infatuation continues. Past patterns have indicated occurrence of a major infatuation every 4-6 months, and as it stands I'm roughly on the 6-month mark. I've learned more and more about the mechanics of why they occur each time, though, and am able to more accurately track their progression and shut burgeoning ones down preemptively. Regardless, new social settings introduce new opportunities for contamination to occur, so just keep frosty, metaphorically speaking.

Uh...not really much else relevant to say here. Keep writing, keep training, hopefully don't irrevocably fuck up your life situation. See you in a year or so, me.

[heydude6]

Didn’t make one last year due to the confusing new format, let’s see if we can fix that.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. How is University again? The work is starting to get a lot harder, but at the same time you discovered a well of resourcefulness that you didn’t even know you had. Are you able to maintain it for an entire year or did you change career paths?

2. What about that program who’s name you are keeping a secret for confidentiality reasons? You’ve been trying to get out more and you’ve done a lot of things to further that goal, but this program is the ultimate version of that. Did you enjoy it? Is the experience worth it? Did you even get in?

3. How’s the family doing? I’m honestly not expecting much change here, but maybe you finally find some common ground with that one person. I wouldn’t be surprised if nothing changed though.

4. What about friends. You’ve met some new people and very recently you’ve started strengthening bonds with old people who you didn’t have time for in the past. Do those relationships end up developing into something with meaning? Do you meet someone completely new instead?

5. What’s your favourite new work? It could be either a video game, movie, tv show, book, or even an anime.

[Arx]

Spoiler: Hey Arx (click to show/hide)

Message in a bottle here. By the time you read this, you should be registered for all kinds of things and preparing for the 2020 school year. Crazy thought right now.
Are you still painting with some kind of regularity? Still running TFSF?
How's Cinderella doing? Do you get to see her as often as you'd hoped, and is she as annoying as you thought?
Is the Hearth still alive?
Have you actually got much singing done? How about mercantile pursuits?
How's fencing going? Right now, you have the lofty goal of fencing every FWC ranking (and maybe even placing).
I've been listening to Falkkone, PurpleSchala, Deadlock, FFDP, BSC, Loona, and Stalker Blues lately.
Playing a lot of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., not playing Paladins because of lag. Did that ever get fixed?
Finished every shoujo manga ever serialised yet? Are you still even reading much manga?
Did you end up hanging with the fisheries crowd for honours? And if so, did you manage to actually introduce them to the rest of the department at all? It would have been good, I think, but I know nothing.
How's Scarlett? She getting out much? Seen Thea recently?
How's your cooking been going? Right now I'm on an Asian kick, cooking a lot of stir fry, tempura, and curries. I've been meaning to look into borscht and some summer foods, though.
On which note, have you finally properly learnt another language? No half-baked German, no sketchy Chinese, no basic Xhosa. Actual proficiency?

Anyway, I've rambled a whole bunch. Hope this is an entertaining and/or nostalgic read for you. I'm rooting for you. May God make his face to smile upon you.

[Enemy post]

Spoiler: January 2020 (click to show/hide)

1.Update your mods!

2.What was the big surprise this year?

3.Work situation?

4.Sprechen wir Deutsch?

5.Do we know who the Democrats are running in 2020? Who are the prominent candidates?

6.Did Mueller finish his report?

7.Did anything cool happen with Primal?

8.How's the game backlog doing?

9.Did you make a game?

10.Did you run another RTD?