2016 recap

Its that time of the year

So this will be in 2 section, first ill address my speedrunning goals and after ill talk abit about IRL stuff


DKR:

Honestly, dissapointed that i did not get the times i wanted, i feel like i should be capable of WR and to be the best but stuff like hand pains and LCD tv (and playing on obs  from september 2015 to february 2016) made my progression slow down alot. That being said, i gave my it my all at some point and atleast my times are very respectable


DK64:

Overwall Happy with the times i got. Not that i think they are good, but mostly because i did not really focus on this game as much as DKR and i still improved alot and i feel that in the next year i will become really good with all what i learned this year. Runs like 1 kong and the current NLE route are some of the runs that i tought would be way to hard for me as a racing game specialist, but i found myself surprised to be able do them fairly decently and it honestly gives me alot of motivation alongside the friendly competition with ballaam/jag/vanity and kiwi pushing me to get better


Banjo-Kazooie:

Only picked up this game about 4 weeks ago, but i can safely say that i enjoy it alot and i know i am not very good right now but i am looking foward to improve it and i feel i got some of the basic stuff down already wich is all i wanted for the end of the year.


Shovel Knight:

I wanted to go back to that game this year, but i just dont like the run that much anymore. That and the fact that i just wanted to play DKR/DK64 all the time made me not PB at all.


Armillo: Did a few run, the game is fun but i dont see myself grind to get a good time. Still happy to do the few runs every now and then.


IRL:

The begening of the year was some of the best time of my life. That being AGDQ where i met alot of cool people and made so many good friends. This was the first event of that type that i attended and also the first time traveling alone/traveling to the USA and it was a very good experience and i am honestly very sad to miss it this coming year.

The other reason i like early 2016 is that i had my first job in my field (computer science/coding) wich was an internship and it well very good. I enjoyed where i was working and the coworkers/my boss where all prety chill and i was enjoying myself alot. However, this was only for 4 months as i had to go back to school for the rest of the year (i was in Uni for software engineering)

The rest of the year was absolute garbage. I was fulltime student + partime working at the same place i did my internship and i just became extremely stressed on top of becoming home sick and just sick of Montreal as a whole. It really did affect me physicly and mentaly ALOT as i could not sleep more than 2 hour on avg and would barely have time to make myself food wich make me eat alot of freezed/fast food stuff and made me even more fat and just feel like crap overwall. Also would have headache almost everyday, because of all thats been said before. Mentaly i just had no motivation for anything at all and some of you even witness my octobre crisis where i kinda when crazy for a week. Its at that point i stop school to go find a job (wich im still trying to find). This was probably the best thing i did all year as ive been taking care of my physical/mental health and now i feel like before all of this crap happened.

It also was a rough year as i lost quite alot of familly member, some closer than others wich really affected my mood in the bad direction.

So Overwall, probably hit the highest point and the lowest point in my life in the same year and it honestly was prety hard and i just want to thanks all of my speedfriends for being patient with me over this year and sticking with me. It really did help me not go even more insane and i hope i can one day be there for you if you need it

On a last note, will release another pastebin tomorow with my speedgoal for 2017

On this, i wish everybody a good 2017 and hopefully everything will be better for yall