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2021 Retrospective

All right, let me just say now this isn't going to be video games. I want to talk about movies, I want to talk about music, I want to talk about 2021. Will you hang out for that?

2021 was a weird year to play and purchase video games. I may not have taken as much time as I'd like to finish games but I am glad to state that the games I did play hit a good spot, save for maybe one or two (looking at you Twelve Minutes). This year my Xbox Series X got a lot of use, thank you Game Pass, and I sadly did not touch my Playstation 4 at all. I am holding off for at least another six months before grabbing the Playstation 5. The Nintendo Switch may not have been used as much, and I don't have it logged below, as I dove back into Breath of the Wild for a steady couple of weeks. The list of top 10 games for the year will be the first ten below, consider anything after those 10 unranked. List spoiler here, Hitman 3 sits at the top of the list. It may be unfairly given, as it is really hard to count standalone due to the fact it made me return to the other two games all within Hitman 3; and by that, I mean purchase games I already owned on PS4 on my Series X. Hitman has always been one of my favorite series of video games and I was glad that 2021 was able to pretty much kick off with it. It was beautiful, it was fun, I spent countless hours between all three games.

2021 was a weird year to watch movies. Big movies that would have cost me at least $10 a head actually cost me $15 for a month-long subscription? How did people not take advantage of that? Money, right? As, again, 2021 was a weird year. My list of top 10 movies will follow at the end, here. This year was strange, really, for watching movies, as theaters opened while masses remained rightfully apprehensive. I took advantage of more digital watches, digital rentals, and digital purchases than I had in any year before 2020. Out of the 31 movies I'd seen in 2021 I saw five of them in a theater atmosphere with two of those being a drive-in experience. I love the theater but watching new movies in my own home with my family and having a homemade dinner is fantastic. Can we keep this digital movie scheme?

2021 was a weird year for live music. With our vaccination cards ready, we saw Dropkick Murphys, Incubus, AJR, and The Boxmasters. The Boxmasters is Billy Bob Thornton's band, which is just a weird sentence to type out after a paragraph about movies. The first two bands listed were in an outdoor venue, while the third was inside with our family and a half-packed venue, with the fourth being an inside event we were able to meet Billy Bob Thornton at and hang out downstairs. 2021 was a weird year for live music. Did I miss live music? Yes. Can I live without the anxiety of who among the crowd has this damn virus? Absolutely. Currently, 2022 may come with cool concerts, but, currently, I have the same apprehensions times two from 2021.

2021 was weird. My work life remained steady and earned a promotion, I graduated in May with two Associates' Degrees, I started teaching our oldest how to drive. 2021 was weird as fuck. I will count myself as a lucky individual to have not been hit with the hardships many others have and I wish those people great success as we move into 2022. We can hope 2022 won't be weird as fuck.

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