This is a bit of a new thing we’re all doing. 2018 was a rough year for most of us, and we all took a moment to reflect on that and our goals for this year. Without further ado: our goals and retrospective.
Greg:
- Get a new job. I work too much and too hard. I’m in a constant state of punishing myself for relaxing. Its hilariously bad for my mental health. I need to find something that pays more so I can work less or some shitty job where I could potentially bring a laptop and do some TLC work there.
- Homebrew video. Got a few homebrews lined up just wanna make something start to finish for video editting practice primarily. I want my No.3 to be good
- Video Essay/Longform review. I’m super long-winded. I don’t have many skills but I know about games and I can fucking talk. I need to channel this power. We need content for youtube so we can potentially garner eyes. So its a no-brainer.
Deanna:
I’m actually pretty proud of the progress I’ve made this year and how much I’ve gone through. I was going to say that I don’t want to brag, but I do. I really worked on my self-destructive thoughts and habits. I’m seeing a therapist! I’m flourishing! I have ambitions for more than a couple weeks in advance. This past year was short yet traumatic. It felt like it took about three years to get through it. In a lot of ways it felt like my life as I knew it was being torched by the universe. And yet, here I am. Probably better for it, but still scarred.
Anyway. Phoenix allegories aside, I’ve accomplished a lot, and here are my proudest moments.
- Started up two podcasts, put a third in hiatus for rework. This is also something I want to accomplish next year, but I’m happy to have an outlet for my creativity again. I’m so proud of This B*tch of an Earth because I want to put out positive energy. I love doing Leave It All to Us because I really want to understand why iCarly was so appealing, and it’s just so much fun to record. I want to keep playing Shadowrun through Coda. I want to tell that story, when I find out what it’s going to be about.
- I tapped into my creative talents again. I started writing character backstories, I wrote this, I clocked in at 7500 (formally recorded) words for National Novel Writing Month. I’ve kept a daily journal for at least some days. Writing has become something I find solace in instead of something I was afraid to do because I thought I was bad at it. Who cares? It’s the way I express myself the best. It’s my work and I’m damn proud of it.
- Found out what it was like to exist outside of an oppressive environment. There’s just been so much that I found I was being a doormat to. I know my worth and I’m taking stock of everything I want to apply myself to. I’m starting to set healthy boundaries and take care of myself. Not the ~uwu self care~ type either. The hard, gritty, “you need to get up and shower and go to work” self care. Self discipline? I don’t know. But I feel better about myself.
And now for things I want to accomplish next year. This year was definitely more focused on personal growth instead of, you know, Lifecast work. But I needed to look inward before I could improve publicly.
- Improve my work ethic. Get better at delegating. Be self-sufficient. Make more of what gets me jazzed up.
- Same boat as Greg: job upgrade. I’m over being someone else’s employee so I’m really focusing on that self-employment hustle.
- Make a difference. We’ve all got a limited amount of time on this rock and I’m not going to spend it bringing other people down or being indifferent to issues around me.
Ok that was pretty long but hey. I have a lot to say. With that, I’m claiming good energy for 2019.
Dan:
- I want to make an effort to encourage more in-depth discussion on the podcast. There’s definitely more we can expand on when we talk, and I think it’ll help us make better content in the long run if we can flesh it out more.
- I have a bunch of shit going on in my life that I’m a part of. Lifecast, That Blasted Salami, freelancing, not to mention a full-time job. I’m going to work on balancing these things in my life better, so that I can really optimize my time and energy.
- I have no specific ideas for projects but I wanna make video content. Video essays, short films, skits, whatever. I just wanna make stuff because I haven’t flexed my production muscles in a while.
Pat:
At the moment I don’t really have anything in mind besides finally getting the episode of Vinyl Vault out that we filmed back in the summer. And since I have somewhat more free time now possibly try and be part of more projects that are happening currently.
Adam:
I love critiquing games. In the past year I haven’t done any of that, I’ve just been playing games hardly thinking of anything that has to do with them AND IT SUCKS! One thing I’d like to is get my critique mojo back because I’ve definitely lost it in some ways. When people ask me about a game I’ve boiled it down to “it’s good” or “it’s bad” and I greatly dislike that. So in some form, I’d really like critiquing to come back. It’s also been the year where I’ve played the least amount of individual games in a very long time and I’d like to fix that.
Tiffany:
I agree with everything Dan said about our podcasts. I want to make vids and I already have some ideas. I also want to create my own content.