#2019 year in review

[fukiana]

VIDEO GAMES I PLAYED • 2022 ✨    Elden Ring (From Software, 25 February 2022)    Halo 2: Master Chief Collection (343 Industries, 3 December 2019)    Mass Effect Legendary Edition (Bioware, 14 May 2021)    Destiny 2: Witch Queen (Bungie, 22 February 2022)    Genshin Impact 3.0 (Mihoyo, 24 August 2022)    Cyberpunk 2077 (CD Projekt RED, 10 December 2020)

#i haven't made one of these in a long time i missed it!!! #gif* #m: cp2077 #m: halo #m: elden ring #m: me #m: d2 #m: destiny #m: genshin impact #m: gi #i can't remember how i tagged either of those lol... #m: year in review #(i went back and made a tag for these! so i can clown on myself for playing 1 or 2 of the games i was excited for) #i deliberated for a stupidly long time what date to use for hmcc but in the end i went with 2019 bc i played on pc

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[manonamora-if-reviews]

New Year's Eve, 2019 by Autumn Chen

============= Links

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============= Synopsis

Social gatherings are not your preferred activity. But this one is obligatory, and it threatens to ruin you. You are Karen Zhao, a senior in college who is home for winter break, and seeing your old high school friends for the first time in years. You are not ready, not even close, but perhaps you could make the best of it. Two endings, many paths to arrive there.

============= Other Info

New Year's Eve, 2019 is a Dendry* game, submitted to the 2022 Edition of the SpringThing. This game is a sequel to Pageant (review). *Autumn is also an unofficial maintainer of the Dendry format.

Status: Completed Genre: Dating-sim, Slice-of-life, LGBT

CW: social anxiety, panic attacks, depression, family conflict

============= Playthrough

First Played: June-2022 Last Played: 31-May-2023 Playtime: around 1h (1 full playthrough - 1 half-assed) Rating: 4 /5 Thoughts: A science-type forgets how to human, has a panic attack at a party. May or may not be fine at the end.

============= Review

Jumping a few years into the future of Pageant, Karen Zhao comes back, more anxious than ever, for a short evening, celebrating the turn of a new year*. Stuck in a house out of social obligation, Karen has the option to interact with a cast of familiar faces, go down memory lane, or hide from everyone as best she can to avoid starting a panic attack before the clock strikes twelve. How ever will she cope????? *and what 2020 brings... rolling eyes

Spoilers ahead. It is recommended to play the game first. The review is based on my understanding/reading of the story.

The one thing that I love about Autumn's games is how real the characters and their interactions feel. NYE19 is no different, continuing on the tradition of anxiety-inducing situation and self-deprecating humour bordering on self-loathing. But unlike its predecessor, Pageant, NYE19's tone translated less as slice-of-life-of-a-stressed-teenager-trying-to-make-it-through-the-semester-oh-god-is-she-having-a-panic-attack-again-just-kiss-her-you-dummy and more of this-is-what-a-college-student-forced-to-come-home-for-the-holidays-special-sitcom-epidose-feels-like. From the really awkward meetings with your old high-school friends (or did you date them? or were they crushes?), to the adults hounding you with questions about your future, or your family wanting to uphold a certain image around people. It's a party we've all been to, it's the kind we wish we didn't have to stay...

And Karen, our favourite anxious lesbian, does too. From the start, she warns the player she does not want to be here, really does not find having to engage in small talk (especially with people she's lost touch with), and actually wishes being anywhere but at this party. It is awkward to interact with people you knew (or more than knew) some years prior but with who you have lost contact (life...), finding how they have (not) changed, and how they've been fairing compared to you.

During the span of an evening, you meet (again) Emily, a trans woman (out of the closet then?) who helped you in Pageant to win (kinda) said pageant; Miri, your best-friend, who tagged along for the party because she did not want to be at her family's party* and became the social butterfly you could not be; and Aubrey, your high-school rival, who seems to still be doing just as well with her Harvard education, her Harvard boyfriend**, her probably-perfect-looking Harvard life... You also get to roam around the party daydreaming nihilisticly about the state of the world, hide in the basement to watch a MCU movie and be cringe to your brother, stuff yourself with food*** to temper with your imminent anxiety attack, play some mahjong and lose badly, hide in the bathroom and take selfies sending your into some self-loathing, play some games on your phone****... *the reason is pretty unclear, even with the option of confronting her. **who the fuck brings up the election topic on a New Year's party?!?!?! The gall of that man... ***which of course, I did... ****that one is hella meta, since you can play IF games AND a Pageant-like dating-sim

Whatever you do (especially your interactions), you are constantly reminded of your shortcomings from the past and how you let your anxiety cause the dwindling of your relationships. Your past haunts your every move and your every thoughts, and being in the presence of people from your past makes it all the worse for your mental being.

Half-way through the game, you sit down to have some dinner, forced at the kids-but-not-really-kids table where all your (former?) friends are interacting. It is very awkward, with Aubrey forcing everyone to introduce themselves as if they were having some sort of team-building meeting, her boyfriend forgetting about the No-No-Conversations (Politics-Religions...)... You can choose to participate in the conversation, eat, or listen, but no matter what happens, you will leave the table before the meal/conversation is over, leaving the party as well to go for a walk.

This is where things get interesting. Emily asks whether she can come along, and agreeing or not will give you very different outcomes. The latter will find you wallowing about your loneliness and how devoid of human connections your life is (much due to your own actions), while the former has a more hopeful and levelheaded conversation (leading possibly to a relationship...). With each still, and throughout the whole game, Karen goes on an introspection about the seemingly importance of human interaction, how easy it is to fuck up things, and the transactionality of relationships, all wrapped in a nihilistic and fatalistic bow (everything goes wrong, even if you do the right things).

Even if this sounds all depressing, it strangely is not. I found myself giggle at some passages*. The dry self-deprecating humour is honestly hilarious (especially the Narrator's comments). At any moment, I was expecting a laughing track to cue. Or maybe I was just playing this with a strange mood... * You have committed CRINGE. Kevin may not remember this, but you will. don't worry, game, I will remember...

The game is also very meta about what it is trying to convey. From playing a dating-sim game within an essentially dating-sim game, to the commentary on human interactions being comparable to dating-sims in the optimisation of [emotions/variables] to get the best possible outcome through a sequence of actions we hope is the correct one while we play a dating-sim where the sequence of choices can be optimised to get that "good ending", the story and the gameplay play quite interestingly on each other to get those points across.

Still, unlike other works from Autumn, while I enjoyed myself playing it, it didn't have the same impact on me. I didn't click as much with it as her other games, and felt a bit unsatisfactory? by the end of the playthroughs. The game has some strong moments, especially the part outside of the house, and some funny moments during the roaming around before dinner/before the countdown, but at other moments, it felt hollow. Maybe it is because of your limited agency in the way you interact with others or act, since Karen is an anxious and socially awkward person who has a hard time expressing her feelings and thoughts. Maybe it is because some of the characters you interact with and the way you defined your previous relationships don't feel as fleshed out (Miri and Aubrey comes to mind*, especially compared to Pageant or even Emily). Or maybe it is Karen's blasé look on dwindling and lost relationships that ticked me** that only allows her to have superficial contact with people (aside from Emily). Or maybe it is the more fragmented type of different gameplay/mechanics that didn't work as well as the Storylet format of Pageant***, or the more linear work of GG and the war. Or maybe because the end was a bit too abrupt... *I was wondering if you could choose to have had a relationship with either of those as in Pageant, but you can only with Emily **was it because the game called me out of doing the same as Karen did to some friends from school? Who knows... ***yes, it's bad to compare games that are inherently different...

There is a wonderful sentence from the post-mortem that really encapsulate the vibe of this game, and strangely reminds us of the hope Karen feels just before returning to the party... and this is where I will be ending this review: The past is inescapable, but the future is not entirely determinate.

There is still time...

Some loose points:

Dendry has some really interesting customisations, from the addition of backgrounds to extra assets in form of character portraits, putting the game in a strange text-only choice-based/visual novel limbo.

The conversation bits, especially the dinner between the gals, have such BPH vibes, which is not surprising, since his work is mentioned in the influence for this game. (with the character portraits style and the formatting of the dialogue with the colours (though the grey for Emily was a bit hard to read).

I really liked the inclusion of the Chinese characters in the dialogues in Chinese. This was only included on the first few lines in Pageant (continuing only in italics), but this really helped distinguished better the conversations in English and the ones in Chinese.

As with Pageant, some choices are worded in a way to form a full sentence or complete a thread of thoughts. I liked that.

#New Year's Eve 2019 #Autumn Chen #complete #interactive fiction #2022 #review #LGBT #romance #slice of life #dendry game #choice based #SpringThing

[mg549]

5 years in review (2018-2022)

#art review #year in review #art summary #art meme #my art #i wanted to look at them together :))) #i feel like 2018 is a solid start #2019 was a little rough as i learn a new medium [digital art] #2020 was mw sort of finding brand stability in the types of pieces i did #2021 was pushing myself to really improve with focus on texture and unintentional focus on lighting #and 2022 was a fucking STRUGGLE trying to learn how to put art out consistently while working full time #like for example. jan feb march of this year. i only put out one piece each month #bc i rly dont like my job lmao and it took so much out of me >moving cross country >starting first full time job >moving AGAIN across town #also the piece from july looks wonky to me now but it still is the most polished thing from that month bc i did a bunch of quick art fight p #ieces #unintentional themes for this year: realism. red/teal palettes [or more generally warm/cool contrast]. #almost exclusively music fanart or mh/sta stuff #idk im always over critical of my year in review stuff when i first make them then warm up as i become nostalgic #you can also notice a trend of yellow slowly becoming completely absent from my works. this is bc my old laptop had issues with displaying #color and washed yellow out so i never saw it. hence why old drawings of ppl look RLY JAUNDICED. i couldnt goddamn see it #and i dont rly gravitate towards yellow too often #aqua is my fave color in general but also to work with #i didnt do 0 traditional art this year but i felt like i did less that usual probably bc i used to work on my bed but now i work at my desk #which is Very Small and doesnt have a lot of space for me to get out pens or paints or whatever #that and also. less time and energy than in previous years :( #my faves for each year by month: jan-21 feb-19 mar-21 apr-22 may-22 jun-22 jul-18 aug-22 sep-21 oct- #18/21 [tie] nov-21 dec-22 [altho i def seem to always push myself to make sth rly good in the last month of the year tbh]

[imaginary-wanderer]

Or when you correct a French language question in the application test of your company...

#personal #they asked me to review some of the new applicants' answers #and i spotted a mistake in a tricky question #that's why you need to hire proofreaders #we have eyes on everything when we're asked to review something #the mistake has been there for years and all the applicants are right but the system says it's wrong #i passed the same test in 2019 so i'm sure i was 'wrong' too lmao

[angrycowboy]

I posted 1,450 times in 2022

175 posts created (12%)

1,275 posts reblogged (88%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 1,449 of my posts in 2022

#roswell new mexico - 961 posts

#a not so queue - 674 posts

#malex - 621 posts

#michael guerin - 309 posts

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#s/r - 167 posts

#rnm spoilers - 144 posts

#malex fic - 55 posts

#about me - 53 posts

#ask notso - 46 posts

Longest Tag: 117 characters

#at least not for three seventeen year olds who were alone in the world covering up an alien murder they didn't commit

My Top Posts in 2022:

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3x13 || 4x13

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#4

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Michael & Alex || RNM 4x01 “Steal My Sunshine” Sneak Peek

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#2

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My #1 post of 2022

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #roswell new mexico #the guerins #malex #oy vey i was not active AT ALL this year #and without rnm my tumblr is gonna go quiet for a while #not surprised AGAIN that malex is my top posts #it's been that way since 2019 lol #I AM MY SECOND MOST REBLOGGED #i am cracking up at that #long post

[amalgamationink]

#prompt: write a poetic review of something that isn't normally reviewed. #this is a review of the year 2019. truly a year of “started from the bottom now we here” #got a little funky with my formatting for this one. not sure if i like it but you know... try something new #also don't @ me i know i have missed several days. i will try to post something for all of them but i wanted to make sure i did today's. #napowrimo #napowrimo 2023 #spilled ink #spilled poetry #writeblr #poetry #poets on tumblr #poetry on tumblr #breakup poetry #heartbreak #recovery poem #hopeful poem #recovery poetry #damien.txt #napowrimo day 24 #image description in alt

[meat-wentz]

How do you feel about the people who were like Patrick needs to regain weight when he was skinniest or the I only liked him when he was fat "fans"

legitimately always thought it was weird af behavior like i just can’t like wrap my head around the thought process of “he needs to do something about his body to appease me/because *i’m* worried about him” which goes along with both gaining and losing weight. like it’s just like icky and gross behavior to me especially when it comes along with all kinds of speculation about a person’s relative health when it’s like 1) a giant can of nunya fucking beeswax and 2) damaging not only towards the person in question, but towards the audience of your comments.

#tw weight #tw weightloss #tw discussion of weight #and like the way the 2000’s REALLY went all out with the fatphobia really set the stage #for fandom to really consistently make it a topic of discussion and point of focus #it’s splattered across all forms of coverage/interviews/reviews #patrick talks a lot about this in confessions of a pariah #fans have always been really fuckin weird and or gross about the topic of weight and speculation behind it #they were like this with gerard they were like this with ray they were like this with frank and they were like this with joe #and it’s disheartening that ive literally seen people act like this in the year 2022 #like when the first photo of mcr dropped this year and i saw a bunch of people immediately start talking about how they were worried #it’s just odd and weird to see people say they were worried about gerard’s body in 2019 and then again in 2022 #when like you are not owed an explanation of someone’s body and you are not owed comfortability with someone else’s body #idk why i wrote all this in the tags #anyways!!!! important question thanks anon #anon #ask

[sizzlingbirdllama]

Watch this amazing video on Instagram and enjoy 🃏

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[reviewsbykarla]

my favorite albums of 2019

it's december 30th and you thought i forgot!! here are my favorite albums of 2019 organized by time of year they were significant in my life, with a few choice words on each. I spent a large part of the year listening back to older stuff and not particularly into anything new, but with fall came albums that defined the rest of my year. 2019 was a year of positive change for me and reaffirmed to me that with tragedy comes growth. don't forget it!

find an extensive playlist of my favorite songs from 2019 here: open.spotify.com/playlist/0ZgjOmyLpLFAp1xxEa0e5j

Assume Form by James Blake (January-March)

The song "I'll Come Too" was a topic of discussion for a while amongst me and my best music nerd friend. He thinks it's about someone finding true, lasting love. I think it's about the intensity of orgasm with someone you truly love. Thoughts?

Purple Mountains by Purple Mountains (July-August, December)

David Berman has always been an influential songwriter in my life. When I first heard this album, I felt so sad; It sounded like he had given up on life. When he committed suicide soon after its release, I couldn't bring myself to listen to this album again for months. It's so tragic, that sometimes death is the only thing that can give you life.

Immunity by Clairo (August-October)

I had low expectations for this album and I was completely surprised. The production quality is so high and the style of the album overall felt very original. Clairo is a really great lyricist able to write relatable songs and working with Rostam was a really good move on her part. While I loved the album and had it on non-stop repeat, her live show was the worst show I have ever seen in my entire life. I'm sorry.

Essentials by Erika de Casier (August-September)

This album is SO good. It slaps in all the right places and is reminiscent of 90s hip-hop r&b, but better. Listening to this is like walking through a candy shop and getting all of your favorite things.

House of Sugar by Alex G (September-December)

I love Alex G. Always have, always will. I genuinely think he is one of the greatest artists of my lifetime. This is his best album yet hands down. I can't even begin to tell you why, but please listen to it. Go birds.

Pang by Caroline Polachek (October-December)

Wow! Pang is a masterpiece. If I had to pick a #1 album of the year, it's Pang. Caroline Polachek wrote Pang coming out of her divorce. Each song hits hard lyrically, both simple and complex at the same time. The production is incredible and the album is as niche as it is accessible. The perfect album.

Iowa dream by Arthur Russell (November-December)

Arthur Russell was a genius. Towards the end of 2019 I was reverting back to my old folk-rock sensibilities, Iowa Dream coming out at the exact right time. I felt nostalgic, content, excited. Every song on this album is beautiful and touching. I hope there is more to come from Russell's thousands of unreleased recordings.

Information by Galcher Lustwerk (December)

This album is hot. Every track is thick with beats that make me feel like jello. Play this at the club and get close with that cutie you want to dance with.

Zdenka 2080 by Salami Rose Joe Louis (December)

I only recently found this album and I immediately fell in love with it. It's so beautiful, minimalist and slightly haunting. An experimental album of this variety always tugs at my heart strings, reinforces butterflies in my stomach, makes me want to swim in a lake at midnight under a starry sky with the person I love.

#music #music review #music reviews #review #reviews #album reviews #year ender 2019 #year ender list #end of year list #Youtube

[aforeffortenjolras]

girl groups truly can not catch a break 🫥

#personal #in like 2019 or 2020 i watched a video that reviewed all the girl group debuts of the year #and honestly it was one of the worst decisions of my life #of course i support jieun and everyone taking care of themselves and doing what they want #but if purple kiss stayc or red velvet disappear so do i #but secret number lives for now! that’s a pleasant surprise

[antifragi1e]

omg

#every year i always have movies i hyperfixate on. #in 2018 it was a star is born #i was so so so soooo obsessed with it i watched it in the cinema 6 different times and i cried in 5 of those #i do hope that phase doesnt come back because i was so annoying #Actually my midsommar 2019 fixation was the worst i know everyone in class hated me for it #i couldnt stop talking about it the entire school year . #had to ask my professor to let us write a review about it so we can have extra credit (i was the only one who did it btw) #but anyway i love a star is born so muchhhhh i know im being biased coz of gaga whatever but i love it i really do #i dont wanna rewatch it coz i know its gonna send me into a spiral n it will be the only thing i'll talk about for 3 months

[startingfires]

i'm going through my year in books on goodreads and i read 60 books in 2018????? bestie what how did you do that

#and then in 2019 it's 23 lol #and i read like 50 in 2017???? #thankfully i didn't have goodreads in 2012-2013 otherwise that would have been A LOT #escapism at its finest #you can also see how my average rating drops through the years lmao #also found a review of fangirl from 2020 and i might cry

[thebirdmanhewatches]

okay but what was i doing before i found fanfic and tumblr?

i think i got all of my fandom content from youtube comic dubs

my undertale/voltron/gametheory video phase was weak cos it was all on youtube i got into the gacha life community because i was that content starved (i was also like 12/11 and had even less quality control than i have now but still)

i only got properly into fandom 2 years ago before that my life was reading actual books watching comic dubs and having like one or two mha ocs no aus no fic ideas no ninjago i had my ocs i guess

#my brain kept telling me to put my eas as aes #consequences of trying to learn welsh #when i found ikimaru/sunny on this site i was like thats the person behind the comics giggling 14 year old girls would voice act #and id watch them at like 3am #i think i was home ed then #i watched my first anime in like 2019/2020 #2020 i think cos i read my first fanfic in 2021 #it was pulling the wires mha villain deku #my friend wrote a massive review for it #hes since read like 400 fanfics #i have an ao3 acount now pog

[darkwithasharpenededge]

Damn I Had Bad Luck With The Hardcovers I Bought At Goodwill: A review of Restoration Heights by Wil Medearis

DNF at page 97 (29%)

Summary: I bought this book because I thought the cover was pretty, which was, of course, my first mistake. I won't be giving a full review, because I didn't finish it, but I can tell you why I didn't finish it.

The plot really just didn't hold together at all for me. This main character, his name is Reddick or something stupid like that, runs into this girl in the alley behind his apartment. The next day while he's at work he finds out that she's missing, and her fiance's family refuses to investigate. His fiance's family's neighbor (yes really it's this stupid) asks him to investigate her disappearance on his own, strictly off the books. The guy has a million more productive things to do, but just can't let the idea that he was the last person to see her go, and he starts cooking up wild scenarios where she's dead. He breaks into her apartment. He gets accused of stalking. He gets told by literally everyone to stop investigating this. He keeps on going because the plot of the book demands that he keeps on going. Also the main character looks kind of like a picture of the author I saw when I was browsing, and based on the about the author section in the back, the main character lives the author's life with the addition of a missing girl. Ugh.

Final Verdict: The author really wanted to write about tension in the neighborhood he lives in, got reminded that he needed a plot, and squished together some kind of investigation mystery. The result is not great.

Review Word Count: 269

#Void's 2024 reads #book review #genre: mystery #author: Wil Medearis #DNFed #publication year: 2019

[nagitoedit]

crying.

[I D: A screenshot of a wikipedia article with a high lighted sentence. The high lighted sentence reads "In 2019, Nintenderos listed Nagito as the 25th most searched video game character in a poll involving Tumblr." end I D]

these results may have been... skewed. by something. LMAO

#like as in did they get their like. stats From tumblr ? #ok just went to the site to see and yeah it was a ranking that was taken directly from tumblrs 2019 'year in review' #scream #sans is no 3 btw