Returning to Animal Crossing: New Leaf

I was first introduced to the Animal Crossing series through it's Wii entry 'Animal Crossing: Let's Go to the City', since then I've been enthralled! The next entry in the series was Animal Crossing: New Leaf and I distinctly remember being blown away by it's reveal trailer in 2011. It took another two years to come out and it became my soul for awhile, I easily amassed more than 500 hours in the following years. Obviously this commitment died down but I did have a short stint where I returned somewhat consistently back in 2019. The Switch edition 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' came out in 2020 and I did spend quite a bit of time with it, but it really really struggles to compare to New Leaf.

In the past week or so (couple of weeks by the time I finish and post this), I've once again gotten into the New Leaf groove. I felt like I've left too much incomplete in my town and an overall Animal Crossing itch has arisen, so why not spend it on the best game in the series?

There were three main goals I had back in the day that I have yet to achieve:

1. Unlock the Police Station
2. Build a Modern Bridge
3. Purchase a Royal Crown
4. Complete my Fishing Catalog 

Funnily enough, I actually completed the Modern Bridge goal just before I started writing this post. I had my Stonehenge public works project (PWP) as my active one since I assume the last time I played in 2019 and I'm not really sure how I hadn't paid it off considering I had a million bells at the bank. Anyways, I finally paid it off and genuinely almost immediately I had a villager suggest the Modern Bridge project to me. I'm not really sure if the game has developed foresight, but it was a crazy coincidence. I've had a giant gap in my town's movement system ever since I removed a bridge in 2019, so it was great to somehow have the stars align with it's replacement. I also paid it off instantly so it was great to see it instantly appear the next morning. 

The other goals require just waiting around and playing often... Getting a villager to recommend the Police Station will probably take years more at this point, while waiting for the Royal Crown to go on sale is more an inevitability and shouldn't take too long. Finally, completing my fishing catalog only really requires either a full-year of time, or simply time traveling, which is the much more appealing option. That's all I've got in regards to those goals for now, but I also have a couple other notes. Actually, I wrote that three weeks ago and I was intending to include images off my 3DS to go alongside these additional notes. I don't have an SD port/reader on me though so I'll save them all for the next post, since I need to get a July one out today! :p

Until next time,

dl 

 

 

Pokemon Global Go Fest 2025

It's that time of the year again - it's the premier event in Pokemon Go: Global Go Fest! Thankfully, I can say that this event was actually fun and worth attending. This year, the primary focus was on the crowned forms of Zamazenta and Zacian, with both being featured in raids. There were also the usual features such as rotating habitats, collection and hourly challenges, as well as a paid ticket being available. Naturally I paid for the ticket since it's brought me value the last few years.

 

Day 1:

Honestly I'd say it's a given with these events that the first day is more fun than the second - everything is all fresh and exciting. It's always great fun slowly completing all the new research that's given to you the moment the clock strikes ten. Compared to the last couple global events, I'm happy to say that the shiny rates were actually increased, but that's to be expected following Go Fest trends. I caught two shinies within my first 500 metres of playing though, so I was pretty much instantly in the mood to play. I started with a shiny red Floette, a colour not usually catchable within my region. Caught two shiny Houndours after which is perfect since I instantly completed the family! One downside to this event is that many of the available Pokemon have already had events where they had been shiny-boosted, thankfully though the majority of my catches did not include these!

Zamazenta was the raid focus of today, with it taking up the vast majority of raid spawns throughout the day. I'm happy to say that after 43 raids, I was able to score both a shiny as well as a perfect one! The latter even came after I had already acquired enough candy to max it, so it instantly rose to be my second highest point Pokemon. I've heard that apparently Zacian is a significantly better attacker in Max Battles, but I decided to max both his Behemoth Bash move as well as his Max Guard. I did not have enough candy for his Max Spirit, but I have a level 50 Blissey to fill that role anyway. Alongside Zamazenta, I also caught a perfect Skarmory, with the two being the only perfect Pokemon I caught in the event.

Another highlight of the day was having a complete stranger join our party of three, making it complete. It was an unusual but enjoyable experience but I wish I wasn't so awkward the entire time. Great guy though, hope you're doing well Ryan!

 

Day 1 Shiny Pokemon

Day 1 Shiny Pokemon

Day 1 Shiny Pokemon

Perfect Pokemon

A Perfect Level 50 Zamazenta!

Day 2:

For the second day I went completely solo. Zacian was the raid focus today, and my primary goal was to collect enough candy to max both Zacian itself, as well as it's Behemoth Blade move. The new Campfire group Pokestops/gyms made this a breeze though, with my community's ambassador placing these markers in the gaps found between gyms. This allowed for almost continuous raids while walking as long as the raids were actually Zacian... I ended up getting the necessary candy much quicker than expected, but unfortunately my best Zacians were 94%s, and I desire only perfection after my Zamazenta yesterday. I've done a couple lucky trades since but to no avail, I will be doing one more with my shiny soon though.

On the topic of shinies, my very first one was a Karrablast, with the Zacian coming in on the tenth raid. Honestly I felt like the shiny rates were nerfed today - I played significantly sweatier today and struggled to match the amounts I was getting while casually strolling yesterday. I suppose that's how odds work though, I can't win every time. I got a few new shinies today at a rate of 50/50 in terms of whether I had already caught one. The Skiddo/Pachirisu were my main goals but my favourites are Piplup and Elgyem - the latter looks so much more evil compared to his non-shiny counterpart.

I'll also take this moment to pronounce my new love for Skiddo, I discovered over the course of the weekend that I actually adore this damn goat - he's amazing. I assume I just didn't use him in my X/Y playthrough since he would've become my favourite otherwise. The shiny isn't my favourite though, like it's alright but just not perfection.

The second day brings fatigue as always though, and I was out of willpower by the second half of the day. After getting enough candy for my Zacian, I only really had shinies left as a goal to pursue. But as I said earlier, the majority had already been caught through other events. This in conjunction with what felt like a lesser boost when compared to the first day, meant I lost interest and decided to end my day. I also ran out of Pokeballs which probably didn't help. It's also a bit embarrassing to admit, but I spend genuinely most of the last hour chasing a shiny Klefki, and I only just discovered while writing this that it isn't even available...

Day 2 Shiny Pokemon

Day 2 Shiny Pokemon

Final Thoughts:

It's always nice to finally play an event that actually feels like it's worth the effort of traveling to and playing for a large period of time. Zacian/Zamazenta are both desirable Pokemon to raid for and have amazing uses, the shiny rate boost was actually noticeable, and the research tasks weren't tedious or too difficult to complete. The sour taste in my mouth from the last two major events has been cleansed, and I'm hopeful that the recently announced Go Fest Finale event follows the trend this event set.

Also on a semi-related note, catching the Volcanion from research means that I finally have the means to completing my Home living dex from generations 1-8, meaning that I should be able to recieve the special style Magearna! I've been at this stage for a couple years, with Volcanion being a roadblock in it's completion. It's a real damn shame that I got a 96% though...

96% Volcanion

The passes were also another feature that became trivially easy with this event, it became something like 25 points for a single catch, meaning both the June and Ancients passes were completed in no time! I don't think I'm ever going to fully complete another pass again unless they have another event with similarly generous point distributions.

Rank 500 Completed Pass

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope to see you soon!

dl 

These events were better than Go Global Unova Tour!

After the utter disappointment the Go Global Unova Tour event was, I am conflicted to say that almost every event since has been the polar opposite. I'm really happy that there wasn't a paid ticket for Unova Tour now! March was a good month for shinies. We started off with Fuecoco Community Day where I ended up with seven shinies after playing for a whole 20 minutes. For reference I got a total of six over roughly 14 hours of play for Unova Tour.

 

Catch Mastery: Archen

The real kicker was the Catch Mastery: Archen event though! Two weeks after Unova Tour, an event lasting 10 hours featured Archen and a couple other fossil Pokemon with increased shiny rates. Going into this event, I already had one shiny Archen, so I wasn't too committed to playing. I played for around 20 minutes and ended up with the one shiny Archen I needed, as well as somehow two Meditites. I don't even think the latter has a boosted rate, so I guess I got incredibly lucky. 

I had purchased the ticket though, which gave another set of research encounters with Archen. If I had known I was going to get one straight away I probably wouldn't have bothered, but in the last Catch mastery with Cryogonal it took my around 80 encounters to catch my first shiny, so I wasn't taking risks. I later spent the last hour of the event walking around my neighbourhood slowly completing the remaining timed research tasks. I ended up with an additional 5 shiny Pokemon, with the Flabebe being full odds and the Kabuto and Omanyte being somewhat boosted. I had already found it incredibly funny by the time I caught the Flabebe, but the shinies just kept coming. After suffering through Unova Tour, it was such a nice change of pace to finally be catching shinies at a decent rate. I'd rate this event significantly more fun despite playing it for a tenth of the time - those full odds encounters are crazy for a single day. Oh yeah, I also caught a perfect Archen which was a great extra addition.

 

Shinies after roughly an hour and a half of playing

A Perfect Archen!

 

Deep Depths

A few days after the Archen event, we had the Deep Depths event which focused on underwater as well as Dark-type Pokemon. I must mention that I would personally say I was playing the game super casually around this time frame, and was putting in maybe an hour or so every couple days when I traveled to university. Anyway, I caught two shiny Claunchers within three encounters of the paid research tasks. I don't know which god I pleased recently, but they're amazing shinies and not exactly very easy to shiny hunt naturally, so I'm happy I've completed the family.

 

The Toothpaste Boys!

 

Totodile Community Day Classic

The next major event was a re-run of the original Totodile community day. I was not playing this game back then so this was a welcome re-run. I also have an obsession with the colour green, and shiny Totodile is close enough to becoming a very welcome catch! I knew shinies would come naturally though, so my actual proper goal was to gain enough XL candy to finally max my shadow perfect Feraligatr. This was one of the first shadow Pokemon I caught after picking up this game properly back in 2022, and I've never had the opportunity to gather enough XL candy until today. 

I made one big mistake though - the bonuses. Every new community day these days comes with the bonus of an increased chance of gaining XL candy upon each catch. This however, was a classic community day meaning this bonus was not in play. I had to play a lot longer than I was willing to, and I actually gave up in fact. But I realised I could maximise the guaranteed XL candy upon trade, as well as the chance of receiving them upon releasing Pokemon, to finally achieve the roughly 220 XL candy needed to max my Feraligatr.

It took awhile, but I finally created the strongest Feraligatr possible in the game! On a side note, such a grind also meant I had accrued an asinine number of shinies - I only really needed enough for a full evolution line... The game also decided to mock my goal, and gift me a perfect normal Feraligatr, as if I am ever going to do anything other than look at it once in awhile (Although Legends Z-A is changing that).

My Perfect Shadow Maxed Feraligatr!

A Perfect Feraligatr

Too many shinies to count...

 

Fuzzy Buddy Research Day

The final event of March, the Fuzzy Buddy Research Day, went in a similar way to the other events featured in the same month. Was a nice boiling Australian summer day so I only spent around an hour playing, hiding in the shade as best I could. Ended up with almost everything I needed, with only one additional shiny Stufful missing. I also got both a shiny Weedle as well as a shiny Nicada which were unexpected surprises!

 

Conclusion

I have to be honest, I wrote everything up to the second line of the Fuzzy Buddy Research Day more than a month ago, and I've only just completed this post. I'm happy to say that I've now equaled my record for amount of posts in a year, and will hopefully exceed it and continue my trend of one post a month in June. The next big Pokemon Go event will be in June, Pokemon Go Fest 2025: Global, so hopefully that will live up to the hype. The last two big global events have obviously left a sour taste in my mouth and I'm hoping this will cleanse it. I will be purchasing the paid tickets so I should theoretically have 'increased chance to encounter shiny Pokemon', but only time will tell if this is actually true.

Until then!

dl

I finally accomplished the biggest goal I've had in Pokemon Go!

I have played a lot of Pokemon Go since I properly started back in the middle of 2022. Since then it's been a rather consistent grind aside from a couple weeks off every now and then. In late 2023, I reached level 44 and I remained at that level until just a couple days ago. You may be wondering how on earth it took me more than a year to level up once while playing consistently - fear not, all will be revealed.

Now before levelling up to level 43,  I was already aware of the tasks required to then progress from level 44. These tasks were mostly involved with completing Team Go Rocket related tasks and were mostly ones that would auto-complete naturally through everyday gameplay. One however, was the crux of my entire plan - purify 100 shadow Pokemon. This task was special since I would theoretically be able to complete it whenever I chose fit, providing I had the Pokemon necessary to do so - I did. I had started collecting shadow Pokemon for this task before I had even reached level 44, and that's also while only saving the ones that cost 1,000 stardust to purify. 

Now I have a friend of mine who also plays Pokemon Go consistently. I would personally argue that he's more committed than me in some regards when it comes to grinding the game. He visits the main place to play in my city on most event days, while I skip them since I'm usually working on the weekends. He also is able to play the game for much longer single periods than I, I can't stand most events for more than an hour. He also refuses to quick-catch which infuriates me to no end when I play with him. I have however, neglected to say the most important part of him though - his genes. He heralds from the Bulkan sub-continent, and with this comes an intense competitiveness. I realised I had the perfect combination of factors here and decided to exploit them for a laugh. 

 

My level in December 2023 - I think I previously leveled up in late October

 

He was level 42 when I reached 44, and I quickly shot past the XP level requirement to progress to level 45. I realised however, that I could really piss him off if I remained at level 44 and continued to accrue XP while slowly waiting for him to reach my level. It was a fun little 'prank' and I enjoyed slowly giving my friends updates. He eventually reached level 43 around mid 2024 by which point I was about 30-40 million XP. He only needed 11 million XP to level up and join me.

 

XP in March 2024

 

Now to subvert your expectations, there wasn't ever a big reveal of my XP amount. One of our other friends actually spoiled the surprise and my Pokemon Go mate was already keeping tabs on me anyways. I did decide to continue to accrue as much XP as possible before he reached level 44 though. I was also still able to wind him up about how much XP I was gaining, and thankfully I had the perfect event to rub it in.

One of the bonuses in Pokemon Go is "Evolve 2x", where in evolving a Pokemon will gain you 2,000XP instead of the usual 1,000. This event usually comes around for an hour once a month, but on extremely rare occasions it's bundled with events that hopefully last a few days. The last time this bonus was around as apart of an event was back before the Hoenn Tour. It finally returned though, with the introduction of the new "Max Out" season and it's first event. Now when I say this method of gaining XP is my main one, I mean it. Every time my storage gets full, I cull enough Pokemon to the point where all that's left is stuff I'll be able to evolve. Given the year and a half since the last proper 2x Evolve event, my storage tagged for evolution had grown to more than 4,000 Pokemon. If I used a lucky egg, I would be able to get 4x Evolve XP - heaven.

This all came to a head with this new event. I spent almost a week slowly spamming evolutions on my two phones whenever I had time. My the end of it, I had gained almost 20 million XP and gone from 50 million overall to 69 - almost double what it required my friend to level up. He understandably was not happy and called me a no-life - an apt description, I can't lie.

Early September 2024, before the 2x Evolve XP event

A single week later!

 

It gets lonely at the top however, and started to get quite stale with no goals or tasks to complete. My friend was making progress so slow, I would be dead by the time he reached my level. I couldn't maintain the goal I originally envisioned, it wasn't fun anymore. I instead decided to change my goal to 100 million XP before I levelled up, no easy task but certainly still obtainable.

I have since spent the last few months playing regularly, but almost perfecting my excellent throughs to maximise XP. I also started piling up friendship level up XP, saving them for a cheeky lucky egg to do all of them at once. I also played slightly more during 3 and 4x catch XP events, but nothing I really went out of my way for except Tynamo Community Day, which had 3x XP and I think I played for an hour and a half - significantly more than I usually do on community days. I kept this grind up for several months, and in the past couple weeks we had the Go Tour Unova, in which I used friendship, raid and 3x catch XP to gain over 10 million more XP, planting me solidly at 98 million. That's what I think anyway, but the numbers might be off either way by a few million. I informed my friend who asked which task was taking me so long...

I started completing more and more friendship XP rewards and catching everything I could with an excellent through. Eventually, another 2x Evolve XP hour came by, and my Dad was home to walk the dog - everything had lined up perfectly. I spent that hour clicking at two different screens and by the end of it, peace. The hour had given me the last 800k or so XP necessary to reach 100 million. I gave it a night to settle before I finally purified my Pokemon and reached level 45. Supposedly becoming a shadow Pokemon causes the Pokemon pain, so I had some of them in an eternal torture for years...

 

Early March 2025 - My goal finally accomplished!

 

How do I feel now that I've accomplished this goal? Absolutely the same to be honest. I think the boredom really creeped in once I reached 60 million... I did it though, and now I can enjoy the relatively smooth sailing over to level 49. I need an additional 20 million now to reach level 50, but I'm sure I'll gain that on the way there. I greatly enjoy finally having tasks to complete though, I had almost ran out of special research to do bahahahah. I would highly recommend everyone not try the same thing I did unless you really hate yourself. Anyways, thanks for reading this huge body of text and I hope to see you again soon. Isn't it crazy that this is the first time I've posted twice in a month in years.

My friend is still 2 million XP away from levelling up to 44... 

Extras:

 

My stats while level 44!

 

My shadow army may finally rest in purification!

Pokemon Go Global Unova Tour!

Well, that sucked...

The past weekend held the annual Go Tour, with this year's focusing on the Unova region. Featuring only Pokemon from said region, the events are usually a somewhat easy way to complete your regional pokedex, collect a few shinies, and catch new legendaries - who are usually some of the best.

Shinies are usually the primary reason I play these events, as well as the game in general. I went into this event optimistic due to the lack of a paid ticket, which usually includes boosted shiny odds. I am still a bit burnt from the Go Wild Area Global event which had a paid ticket with boosted odds, except I got significantly less than other paid events... These regional tours have no paid ticket, but instead have several Pokemon that have boosted shiny rates anyways, meaning you end up with less shinies than a paid event, but still usually a decent haul. For context, the last two regional tours I ended up with around 10-12 shinies per day. While the Go Fest events (paid ticket), nets me around 25-34 shinies. So a difference, but still great.

For this event, across one and a half days, I ended up with seven shinies in total... To say I'm disappointed would be an understatement. The only Pokemon that seemed to have boosted rates were the Deerling and Basculin found within field research tasks. There are claims that the starter you chose in the special research gave you increased odds for that particular Pokemon. I believed this since it was certainly the case last year. However, I only claimed that step of the research in the second half of day 1, and I barely saw enough Tepig on the second day to make an apt judgement on the shiny rates. At least in previous years numerous other wild spawns would have increased rates - this event had none.

Day 1 Shinies

Day 2 Shinies

This year also saw the removal of roaming legendaries and their associated snapshot task. This was another source of shinies in previous years, so seeing their removal even with numerous candidates for it, was a huge disappointment.

I also saw people complaining about the catch rate/difficulty for Kyurem, but I found them to be fine and I think I only had one or two flee from me. I also had forgotten to use either form's special moves on day 1. Using it made the overall catching process significantly easier. My group also had atrocious raid luck. Between the four of us we did around 100 raids and got a single shiny from it, but somehow got two perfects. I am a bit annoyed, but I had a hard limit on raids once I got enough candy to max one, so I didn't spend too much.

Anyway, that's an incredible amount of ranting and rambling. Now to reveal my amazing haul! Comprising my seven shinies are: four Deeling, one Basculin, and a Zekrom. I also got a shiny Genesect from my final encounter of the Road to Unova research, but I'm not sure if I really include that. Out of this wide assortment, I am most happy with the shiny Zekrom. The colour green is an obsession of mine and I have wanted a shiny Zekrom ever since I started playing Pokemon with Black 2. I raided an absolute ton of them a couple years back, but the shiny eluded me. I'm elated to finally have it (although the green looks much better in sprite form :p).

I also caught a whopping two perfect Pokemon during the event. I'm not actually serious with my sarcasm for this, since perfect Pokemon are super rare no matter what (except when mighty Pokemon are around). Anyways, the first is a Dunsparce which is something... The second day brought about a beautiful perfect Kyurem, which I immediately maxed once I was able to. I chose White Kyurem for it since I'd rather have the strongest pure ice attacker, and not Black Kyurem which is stronger but only really against other dragons. I still ended up with two of each Kyurem though (I still need 30 candy to fuse my last black one). 

Perfect Dunsparce

Perfect White Kyurem

White Kyurem (was my best before this event)

Will one day become a black Kyurem when I have the candy

Lucky Black Kyurem

Overall, an incredibly disappointing event although not everything is cloudy ahead, the leaks for the next Go Fest have it sounding pretty darn exciting. There's potentially a Volcanion as a part of the ticket, and it's the last thing I need for a full living dex in Pokemon Home! Also, two of my friends have had this event and the Go Wild Area as their first event respectively, and I feel annoyed that these were their first experiences with global events...

 

Pokemon Go - Last Year's Big Events!

Okay look, I may just be writing this post really quick so I can still attempt to write one post a month this year. Last year after my Sinnoh Tour post, Pokemon Go hosted another two major global events: Pokemon Global Go Fest 2024 and Pokemon Go Wild Area 2024 Global. I barely remember anything from these events aside from a couple things, but I did take screenshots of my haul, so I've got that going for me.

 

Pokemon Global Go Fest 2024

As usual, Go Fest was a blast and I ended up with a significant amount of shinies throughout the day. I didn't do too many raids on the first day due to it being comprised of mainly Ultra Beasts. The second day however, I primarily focused on completing Dusk Mane/Dawn Wings raids for fusion energy.

My main goal was a shiny Corsola, which I thankfully eventually got on the second day. Most of my other shinies are also great, and thankfully ones I mostly don't already have. My annoying shiny pikachu luck persists though, with another four to add to my collection... :) In terms of Necrozmas, I got a solid 94% one I fully upgraded and fused to Dusk Mane, and another high 80s that I used my remaining candy on and fused into Dawn Wings. I also got a shadow shiny Trapinch after the event which is pretty snazzy! 

That first shiny rattata I named Michael, we both caught the same shiny. It wasn't even a perfect but were both shiny and had the same CP and IVs somehow. I think the height might've been slightly different though. I also really love the shiny Espeon colour and I am slightly triggered that I can't trade them to home...

Day 1 Shinies

Day 1 Shinies

 

Day 2 Shinies

Day 2 Shinies

Day 2 Shinies

Shadow Shiny Trapinch!

My best Necrozma

My second best Necrozma

 

Pokemon Go Wild Area 2024 Global

I did not like this event. The thing that really bothered me was the shiny rate. It was around $20 for the event ticket here in Australia and that supposedly brought 'increased shiny odds' with it. Unfortunately said increased rates seem to be barely better than the regional tours, which are free events. I didn't move as much as I usually would have, but even so the rates were atrocious and left a sour taste in my mouth both days.

The Pokemon selection was also kind of meh, but that's to be expected given it was a poison and electric event. I'm mixed on the raids, on one hand I didn't really care for them since they were all previously featured in these big events. On the other hand, I do like candy XL, so I grinded a ton of them. I even finally got enough XL candy to max out my perfect Kyogre, which I think became my first maxed perfect!

The one thing I did enjoy about this event were the mighty Pokemon. I didn't play this game at it's peak in 2016, so I never got to experience everyone running over to check out particular Pokemon. Thankfully this feature recreated that craze. The Pokemon selection was also pretty good, and I wouldn't ever say no to easy candy for them. The only downside was everyone having the same stats, so there was no excitement if the first person didn't get a perfect. My only notable catch is a perfect Dragonite though - there was a perfect Poliwrath, but unfortunately it ran away from me. :( 

EDIT: I also got a perfect Scolipede which is something I suppose.

I don't know for certain what I traded for the Terrakion - I'm pretty sure it was a shiny Palkia though.

Day 1 Shinies

Day 2 Shinies

Day 2 Shinies

My fully maxed perfect best-buddy Kyogre!

 

Perfect Dragonite

Perfect Scolipede

Thanks for reading yet another post. I might as well continue to try to write at least one post a month at this rate. I am still working on my food blog website - currently writing reviews and compressing photos. After that I've got to clean and finish up a few parts of the website. Hopefully I'll be able to give this blog a cleanup as well after! Until next time!

 

Delukatio's 2024 Year in Review!

I swear I want to use this blog more 😂. Welcome to the Delukatio 2024 year-in-review. Over the past year this blog has had a whole two posts (one of which was the previous year-in-review), while the YouTube channel had around 60 short videos posted and a few livestreams. 

 

Blog Stats:

I don't really trust the statistics part of the Blogger software I use for this blog. Supposedly I had 7.32K views on the blog this year which I guess it somewhat believable except for the fact 95% of the views has 'Other' as the source; so I would assume it's a majority of bots making up these 'views'. In terms of blog posts though, most of them have gone up a significant amount, with both the 100 and 200 view barrier being broken. The most viewed individual post is... last year's year-in-review. See what I mean about bots, there is no way real humans would find that more interesting than my other more focused posts.

 

 

Youtube Stats:

The YouTube channel seems about right though. I didn't really upload anything of note and my releases consisted primarily of old clips that I uploaded in both short and clip form. I don't really know what caused the overall dip in the final third of the year but I'm not too bothered. The channel is basically just going to be a dumping ground for playthroughs of games as well as clips I still haven't uploaded over the past five years... The livestreams were fun although they had effectively zero audience. Going back to Minecraft with my Generations series was great though!

 

This Year's Plans:

As usual I would like to use this blog significantly more than I do. I was preoccupied with university studies last year and recently I've been focusing on developing/adding content to my blog focusing on my home city of Perth, Western Australia. I'm currently sorting through 380 venues that I have taken photos of the past 5 years and after that I've got to write a couple posts for it. After I finally release that (the idea is two years old at this point), I will hopefully have time to continually update this barring university studies overwhelming me. Anyways, hopefully I see you again soon!