These review posts have proven useful when looking up stuff, so I'll continue this tradition.
(2020/2019/2018/2017/2016/2015/2014/2013)
Non-Board Games I've played/bought
- World of Warcraft - subscribed for the whole year, played a lot in the first half of the year
- EVE Online - subscribed for the whole year, played a lot
- Final Fantasy XIV - resubscribed for the winter
- Horizon: Zero Dawn - it's good!
Books I've read
Finished "A Guide To The Good Life" by William B. Irvine. That's not a lot. But I've read four technical books on Erlang and OTP basically from cover to cover.
Movies I've (re-)watched
- Kingsman: The Golden Circle - the first one was a lot better
- The Old Guard - I liked it
- Falling Inn Love - wanted to watch a movie with NZ accents, no idea how I came to this one, was ok
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - desperately needed a rewatch
- I Kill Giants - it was ok
- The Claus Family - stopped after 30 minutes, I don't like it
- Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey - not bad for a Christmas movie, but not my favourite
TV Series I've (re-)watched
- Arcane - only started, but it looks really good
CDs I bought
Two bands I've actually rediscovered this year and decided to support. I saw Mono Inc. live a few years ago and only had a shirt, I remembered Metric after rewatching Scott Pilgrim, and I discovered Unleash the Archers last year.
- Metric - Art of Doubt
- Metric - Pagans in Vegas
- Metric - Synthetica
- Unleash the Archers - Abyss
- Unleash the Archers - Apex
- Mono Inc. - The Book of Fire
- Mono Inc. - Welcome To Hell
- Mono Inc. - Together Till The End
- Mono Inc. - Terlingua
- Mono Inc. - After The War
- Mono Inc. - Viva Hades
- Mono Inc. - Voices Of Doom
Other stuff I bought
- a new 27" monitor (Dell S2721DGFA) because my 2nd one was old and wonky, it's good, 380 EUR
- a new headset (Corsair HS35) to replace my aging one for work - I don't like it, 30 EUR
- a new unmanaged 8-port switch for below my desk, 11 EUR
Surprisingly little for another year stuck at home, not that I'm complaining.
Social network usage
- Twitter - no change - regularly, not overly much
- Facebook - I actually logged in this year
- Instagram - need to delete that account
- Fediverse - nope
Messaging
- IRC - daily use, default communication channel for many people I communicate with
- Matrix - daily use
- Email - same as usual
- Slack - *work and 2 other communities
- WhatsApp - still kinda unavoidable
Trips
- other countries: half a day in Austria
- other German states: zero
(Online) services
- Still subscribed to Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime, but I don't personally use them a lot
- Mostly MMO subscriptions this year
Programming languages used, roughly in order of hours spent
- C++ - work
- Java - work
- Erlang - work, surprisingly fun to use
- Python - for some small stuff
- Go - for Advent of Code, I don't like it
Podcasts I listen to
Hardly anything this year
Stuff that kinda worked out
I like my new job, that's about the only upside of this second pandemic year.
Stuff I planned to do this year but didn't
- do more Rust
- do more Clojure
- read at least 3 novels this year
- more cycling, more mountain biking
"New Year's Resolutions" aka stuff that would be nice if it would work out
- (more) mountain biking in the summer