These review posts have proven incredibly useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition. (2015/2014/2013)
Happy new year 2017, may it be better than 2016 :)
Non-Board Games I've played/bought
- WoW - Resubscribed a month before Legion launch, played a lot for ~3 months, now a little here and there
- EVE Online - been subscribed for a while, played some
- Diablo 3 - seasons are fun, played for a week at a time at some times
- Marvel Heroes - have only actively played in the first half of the year
- Guild Wars 2 - I stopped playing at some point during this year, but when?
- Mass Effect 3 - Finally started part 3, not finished
- Dishonored - gave in when it finally cheap enough on Steam. Fun, but unfinished
- Faeria - bought early access for a few bucks, then it went F2P anyway
- Broken Sword - played one of the best adventure series ever again after nearly 20 years
- SW:KotOR2 - just for completeness sake
- Pony Island - Holiday sale, yay, awesome game
- Stardew Valley - not my copy, but after a quick look it looks as good as promised
Books I've read
Oh, that's a short one this year I guess. After my kindle was stolen in February and I was commuting by bike all spring/summer/fall and also didn't really go on vacation at the beach... I kinda didn't read a lot.
- Starcross (Philip Reeve) - aka Larklight, part 2
- Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks
- Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codeas (John Scalzi) - awesome
- Starman Jones (Robert A. Heinlein) - SF - a bit naive, but really good - I have the German version on paper
- Die Edda: Die germanischen Göttersagen (Walter Hansen) - just a slightly annotated version of the Edda
- Die Chroniken von Waldsee 1-3 (Uschi Zietsch) - High Fantasy, German, very good
- Hart & Herzlich (Anja Bagus)
- Schiit happened (Jason Stoddard) - a series of detailed forum posts with a cool story, IMHO worth being called a book
The pile of shame - books I wanted to read
- Coraline; The Graveyard Book; Fortunately, the Milk (Neil Gaiman) - again
- Off to Be the Wizard (Scott Meyer, Liz Pulido)
- the two Foundation ones from the 2014 list yet again
Movies I've watched
- Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher (Stream) - ok
- Pan (Plane) - not too bad for a movie on a plane
- Skyfall (Plane) - first Bond movie in ages, pretty good
- Spectre (Plane) - and this one as well
- The Intern (Plane) - funny. I liked it.
- Role Models (TV) - really not as bad as it sounds
- Tangled (TV) - one of the better Disney ones
- Inside Out (DVD) - so awesome
- The Expendables (Stream) - really not as mediocre as I had hoped
- 16 Blocks (TV) - I actually liked this one
- Captain America: Civil War (Cinema) - liked it a lot better than I had feared because of the comics storyline
- X-Men: Apocalypse (Cinema) - not my favorite X-Men movie
- Edge of Tomorrow (BD) - finally saw it, really good
- Killers (TV) - ok
- Doctor Strange (Cinema) - woo, awesome
- Deadpool (Cinema) - best or second best movie this year
- Hitchhiker's Guide (Stream) - many people hate it, I found it ok
- Django Unchained (Stream) - quite good
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Stream) - could've skipped that one
- Plan 9 from Outer Space (Stream, Rifftrax version) - not sure I like Rifftrax, but the movie wasn't good either
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Cinema) - very good movie, but not such a good fit in the Harry Potter universe
- A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell (Stream) - a bunch of 4th graders would write a better script
- Spacegirls in Beverly Hills (Stream) - was searching for worse ones after the last one, found one
- B.C. Butcher (Stream) - hilariously bad and thus funny
- Sherlock Holmes (Stream) - not bad, not really good either
- Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Stream) - worse than the first one
- Hummingbird (Stream) - expected something like The Transporter, but wasn't so bad
- Rogue One (Cinema) - been waiting all year, not disappointed
- Climbing The Nose / Cedarwood Trails / Shangri La / Beastmaker (Cinema) - Filmfest St.Anton - overall: really cool
Movies I didn't manage to watch
- Warcraft
- and the 2014 and 2015 lists still stand, minus Edge of Tomorrow
TV Series I've (re)watched
- The Shannara Chronicles - pretty good
- Stranger Things - a bit too creepy, but overall awesome
- Bojack Horseman S01
- Crossing Lines S01-S03 - first two seasons were awesome, stopped watching the third pretty soon
- House of Cards S01-S02 - didn't think I'd like it, but I did
- Sherlock S01-S03 - waiting for S04
- Scorpion S01 - S02 soon, just landed on Netflix a few days ago
- The Grand Tour S01E01 - not too bad, but I guess not my cup of tea
CDs I bought
- Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife
- Gloryhammer - Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards
- technically I bought a few Game OSTs, e.g. Shadowrun Returns
- nothing at Amazon this year, wow
Other stuff I bought
- Nexus 5X in July - replaced my Kingzone N5 that stopped working reliably after 10 months :/
- Fire TV Stick - was on sale and works better than the 360
- a hardtail MTB - Rocky Mountain Vertex 930 (2015 model) and some equipment
- Garmin eTrex 20x handheld GPS - for cycling, used it a lot
- again a PSU for a laptop
- new graphics card - Asus ROG Strix RX 470 - well, the old one died
- a fancy office chair for the home office
- Kickstarter/Indiegogo - nothing
Comics I read
- Ms Marvel (Wilson/Alphone) 3-4
- Punisher (Edmondson/Gerads) 3
- Spider-Gwen (Latour/Rodriguez) 0
- Serenity 3
- Web comics:
Social network usage
- Twitter - no change - regularly, not overly much, more reading and answering than writing
- Facebook - no change - maybe a few more posts, regularly messaging with a few people
- Instagram - made an account and trying to post photos there instead of random places
Messaging
- IRC - daily use, default communication channel for many people I communicate with
- Jabber - practically dead this year
- Email - same as usual
- Slack - using it for work via their IRC bridge, but still have the browser open for the bonus things besides chat
Trips
- Costa Rica and Cuba in February/March
- Austria in July, September, and December
Online services
- Subscribed to Netflix in autumn and still watching stuff
Programming languages used, roughly in order of hours spent
- Java - work, not so bad
- Python - work and a few private things, deployment and packaging is still hell
- Go - work and a few small things, still learning
- Rust - still learning
- Clojure - still tinkering with multiplex
- bash - still too much
- PHP - work, I'm quite indifferent right now
- Lua - work, could've been more
Podcasts I listen to
A lot less than last year, but still basically keeping up with those:
- ATP - I'm not using any Apple products and still listen to these guys sometimes.
- Under the Radar - short and kind of interesting views from app developers
- Battle Bards - "A musical journey through MMO soundscapes"
- some real gaming podcasts, but even less regularly