2016...Let's Wrap It Up

To anyone who still reads this stuff and still follows me due to some backwards belief that I'm gonna make content available any day now...here I come to burst your bubble.

2016 was not really that good of a year...to me. A lot of good stuff happened, but my brain's still focusing on all the bad stuff sadly. Because along with all the really big things that happened, namely the important people who died and the raucous turn American politics took this year...there's a lot of stuff that just stinks this year. And I wanna wash myself off from it, get it all out of my system and out in the open. Maybe the one or two people who still watch this channel can give a generic "oh no" or something.

So what even happened this year that I need to just push away?

-I lost my job, right after having a weeklong vacation. The vacation drained me of most of my funds, and the way I lost it along with having no way to quickly recover...it destroyed me for a good long time.
-I lost a few friends. Some of them wronged my other friends, and some of them were just wrong in general.
-I haven't mended my relationship with my mother who I left with dad 3 years ago.
-I haven't read any of these books that my best friend recommended to me, just because I can't focus on them.
-I bought a new hard drive for my computer and still haven't put it in yet out of fear or royally screwing something up.
-I lost use of my monitor and now I use my big screen TV as a monitor, and since I'm always on the computer I haven't used my PS3 or my Wii U in ages.
-I tried streaming video games I liked, but my style just didn't mesh well with how analytical I get and I wasn't as entertaining as I had hoped I would be...plus I put all the effort into video editing, which is more a Let's Play than anything else.
-Super Mario Bros. Z, a project I've followed since 2008, is on hiatus once again because Mark Haynes is struggling with personal issues. I respect him, and I wish he were better...
-Two fanmade Pokemon games and a Metroid fangame were C&D'd by Game Freak and Nintendo at the most douchey of times in the most douchey of ways.

And that's all I can really say off the top of my head. So instead...let's talk about the stuff that happened this year that I...can say I'm proud of.

-I managed to buy video editing software and use it for something I considered to be a good thing.
-I streamed the entirety of a romhack, Pokemon XG: NeXt Gen, and I loved it from start to finish.
-The old job I didn't like yet kept coming back to? The one I got fired from? I found a better job at Walmart, first as a seasonal cashier employee, but they like me so much they want to keep me on. I even get paid better than my old job!
-Super Mario Bros. Z did its first rebooted episode in the beginning of January, and I got to be on the list of Patreon supporters. It's the first and only thing I've ever become a patron for, and I got to be in the credits.
-I had my vacation seeing for the second time, and I showed more monetary independence than last time. And this time, I know how long's long enough for a visit for next time.
-I'm writing on and off, still compiling something that I believe will be a better culmination of all of my stray ideas into a more cohesive string of plots. Not sure if I'll even publish it, but when I get far enough I'll make the attempt
-I managed to ask for commissions from people like , again something I never do, and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
-Pokemon Sun and Moon came out this year, and I thoroughly enjoyed the games like never before.

It's not a lot, no...but it's still something. Something I'm proud of at least.

Next year, I plan on saving up as much money as I can while still trying to live comfortably. With gas prices rising all over the place, it's gonna be pretty hard...but it's not impossible.

If this year's taught me anything, it's that anything is indeed possible. We just have to work harder to move things in our favor.

Happy 2017, everyone. If you think I should try and do something...like legit try something...leave a comment. Honestly. Go ahead.