My 2025 was a uninteresting yet happy and lonely one, I didn't do anything noteworthy this year but I suppose I should go through what I did do last year and what I do this year

Starting in January I finished Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 and I worked continued working on collecting every Pokémon from the earliest point you can get them aka from the Gameboy Advance to Pokemon Home and this has been a few years in the making of catching every Pokémon and all their other forms in my OT/Name (Original Trainer) at least most of them anyway, also I started playing through The Smoke Room again since a new update came out and I wanted to play through the other routes aside from Nik's

February was a chill time of year for me, since I went on a 14 night cruise to New Zealand again and that was nice, but on the cruises I go on, I don't really meet many people of my age group so making friends is kinda hard to do and I normally go with my family, I suppose I got to use my Steam Deck out at sea which was nice, shame that most of the time I was gaming was spent on Super Smash Brothers Melee rather then my actual steam library, I guess I feel with a good chunk of my games is that their less pickup and go and more you have to play long sessions at least that's what I want to do, also this month I finished transferring Pokemon from the Gameboy Boy Advance to the Switch/Home and every game in between (Expect for the Virtual console releases of Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver and Crystal) and I also did a playthrough of Pokemon Scarlet

Anywho in March, I played alot of C&C:R (Command and Conquer: Remastered), I finished the allied campaign first and then the soviet one afterwards and I think most of my March was eaten up by Pokemon again, which I finally caught all 1025 of them

In April I played a lot of Stardew Valley which was a nice change of pace and I also started working on game specific pokedexs, I won't bore you with the details game by game

In May, I played a lot of Medieval 2 total war and I think I played as the Moors and I conquered the Iberian peninsula and pretty much all of North Africa including Egypt this game and also the islands of Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, and I kept getting crusades sent against me by the pope which was just lovely and I also played on easy since I'm a noob when it comes to strategy despite owning a good collection of Real Time and Turn Based Strategy games and this game lasted into June, I also did some collecting in Pokemon at the beginning of the month

Halfway there, in June I started playing through The Smoke Room again since it's last update came out of the wardrobe (Heh) in this month, I also got a Switch 2 with Mario Kart World and that was interesting and I gave my old Switch to my brother, again played some Pokemon again

In July I finally collected every Pokémon from the Switch games and registered them in Home and I got Donkey Kong Bananza and that was fun for what it was, I really enjoyed it in the moment but upon refection I don't think it's my cup of tea, also it was my 25th birthday this month and I made my first journal about it

In August, I think I did a playthrough of TLOZ: OOT (The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time) with my Switch N64 controller and stopped just before Ganondorf's Castle, I also did a playthrough of a Banjo Kazooie rom hack on my computer and that was fun, I also played through Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow this month

In September, I played a bit of everything from Tales of Vesperia to Sonic and Shadow Generations to playing a modded version of Webfishing with my friends, I also started my shiny hunt of Cyndaquil in Pokemon Gold on the 3rd for a shiny Pokemon team and I also started a shiny hunt for Totodile in Pokemon Silver on the 13th

In October, I played through Sonic 1, CD, 2 and 3&K in Sonic Origins for a second time, I also played Pokemon Legends Z-A and chose Totodile as my starter and I really enjoyed the real time combat of Legends Z-A, I was hoping to have shiny hunted Cyndaquil or Totodile before Legends Z-A came out, but oh well that's just how the cookie crumbles

In November, I finally got my shiny Cyndaquil after 6,236 attempts and with that I began my journey through Johto and Kanto, still no luck on Totodile tho and I also played Rise of Nations and played through the Alexander campaign and I conquered everything on the map, again played on easy, because again I'm a noob

And last but not least December, I watched the last season of Stranger Things (Excluding the finale that came out today), I also had my Gameboy Pokémon cartridges refitted with new batteries, I also got a GBxCart that allows me to transfer you to transfer save files from the computer to a cartridge and I also got a new preowned Gameboy Colour and N64, and so with my soft-modded 3DS I was able to transfer my Pokemon save files from the 3DS to the Gameboy cartridge via my computer, man it's nice to see your Pokemon you trained up in Pokemon Stadium, its a lot of work to transfer Pokémon from the virtual consoles Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2, I also finished a playthrough of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky with my Buizel mod

Yeah my accomplishments this year was all artificial, what probably doesn't help this year is that one of my closet friends on Discord just blocked me one day on everything and they didn't give me a reason why, and they were the life of my discord group and so it's been kinda dead since then, either way I'm baffled by why they blocked me, but at the same time that's just how life is sometimes

Anyway for this year, I want to design my own otter fursona, more healthy and also try to be social irl, which is kinda hard when you don't know where to start, oh and also finish my playthrough/shiny hunts in the classic Pokemon games, but yeah I want to try and be more artistic this year and not follow a path that's someone's already laid out for me

Anyway Happy New Year Everyone