f5n : 2017 in Review

These review posts have proven incredibly useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition. (2016/2015/2014/2013)

A bit late this year (last year?) but before it gets too weird:

WoW - Was playing a bit for the first 4 months of the year
SW:TOR - Played quite a lot in autumn/winter, unsubscribed around New Year's Eve
EVE Online - Not subscribed, but played a little
Guild Wars 2 - Quite a bit, but more randomly in bursts
Marvel Heroes - More at the start of the year, and now it's been shutdown :(
Mass Effect 3 - Managed to finish it, awesome!
Fallout Shelter - Mobile game I played on the PC. hmmm.

Again not much in the sense of vacation and thus not much reading done.

Off to be the Wizard - good, should read the sequels
Ready Player One (Ernest Cline) - pretty good, but a little pop-culture heavy, even for me
The Bloodline Feud - A Merchant Princes Omnibus (Charles Stross) - pretty good, should grab the sequels
The Graveyard Book/Coraline/Fortunately the Milk (Neil Gaiman) - Coraline was very good, the other two... well, children's books.
Accelerated C++ (Koenig/Moo) - Pretty good introduction for people who know other languages I'd say

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (Cinema) - AWESOME
20000 Miles on a Horse (Stream) - interesting, probably not good if you don't like horses
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (Stream) - nope
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (Stream) - also nope
Warcraft (DVD) - not as bad as I had feared, but not my cup of tea
The Saint (Stream?) - well, it wasn't terrible, but I much prefer the 1997 one
Star Wars Ep. VII - The Force Awakens (Stream) - still very good, had to rewatch because of...
Star Wars Ep. VIII - The Last Jedi (Cinema) - unsure if I liked it a little better or a little less then TFA
Maleficent (Stream) - was on the 2014 list, finally managed to. I liked it a lot.

Wonder Woman
Thor: Ragnarok
Blade Runner 2049
Baby Driver
Logan
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
and the 2014 and 2015 lists still stand, minus Edge of Tomorrow and Maleficent

TV Series I've watched

Iron Fist S1 (Netflix) - meh
Wynonna Earp S1 (Netflix) - awesome
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Netflix) - weird, but good
The Expanse S1 (Netflix) - good
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ~S1 (Netflix) - ok
Rick and Morty (stopped after S1E1) - meh
Adventure Time (stopped after S1E1, might continue)
unCaged S1E1-S1E2 (Stream) - could've been good, wasn't
Daredevil S1-S2 (Netflix) - good, not as brutal as I had feared, because people had said that
Killjoys S1-S2 (Netflix) - surprise hit, it's a little wannabe-Firefly
Punisher ~S1 (Netflix) - didn't like this Punisher in Daredevil at first, but now it's ok
Godless ~S1 (Netflix)

Wait, that's weird. Either I'm missing something big or I really didn't buy any unusual stuff. Hmm...

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 - actually using it, posted a pic a day on vacation and from time to time

IRC - daily use, default communication channel for many people I communicate with
Jabber - still practically dead this year
Email - same as usual
Slack - using two communities, sparingly

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, not a huge fan anymore
C++ - work, I like it a lot more than I had thought
Rust - still learning
Clojure - still tinkering with multiplex
bash - still too much

Very irregular this year:

Battle Bards - "A musical journey through MMO soundscapes"
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
some real gaming podcasts, but even less regularly