Year in Review 2024

10 February 2025 13 minute read year in review

A look back at some infographics from 2024 for me.

Hi! This is a (very) belated year in review for 2024, because I want to start doing this as a more formal thing, I suppose. In previous years, I’ve posted a few summaries and thoughts about various “Spotify Wrapped”-style infographics provided by services I use on my fedi account, but I’ve also increasingly chafed against the inconvenience of linking back to previous ones; hence, I’m going to be doing this in the form of an annual review post on here moving forwards! They’re all tagged “year in review”, so you can find any of the historical ones that way - I’ve copied across my fedi posts into backdated articles.

So, first I think a look back on 2024 is in order; for me, 2024 was - overall - a great year, personally:

• My employer during university formally gave me a graduate offer, which is fantastic news for me, especially with the job market being what it is;
• I got to work on Rust over Summer, which is really cool!
• I finally started a Dark Souls TTRPG campaign as a DM, which is something I’d been talking about doing for over a year by the time it happened!
• Games this year were phenomenal, with The Final Shape being a spectacular experience, Shadow of the Erdtree yet again demonstrating how exploration should be done, and Persona 3 Reload being a beautiful remake of an already stellar game, and more! It was, truly, a blast.

That said, it would be remiss of me to neglect the many harms that have befallen others, whether they be strangers, people I follow online, or people I care about personally:

• I see the hurt and fear of my US friends, and I feel for you all - I believe you can make it through this, and if you need my help and I can provide it, just ask;
• likewise, the difficulties my trans friends are facing is painful to witness, especially when that isn’t just so far away as across an ocean: you all have my full support, and if there’s any help I can provide, I will;
• to those friends who are struggling to find jobs, please do let me know if you have similar interests to my work, or anything related to the sphere of my employer: I would love to try and help you find a role, and refer you for one;
• and lastly, but not leastly, to the many artists who are strangers to me but whose art I have experienced, enjoyed, and appreciated over the last year, but whose livelihoods have been cruelly stripped away by an uncaring capitalist system and CEOs who simply want more vintage cars: thank you, and I’m so sorry that things worked out that way. I truly hope you can find another position, in a place that truly respects you for your phenomenal talents. You all deserve that.

That is not to diminish the myriad other failings of humanity across the world today, such as the Gaza war, the still-ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, and so much more; whilst they might not be so immediately in my view as things closer to home, they are no less horrifying, and my heart is with everyone facing injustice, genocide, and unnecessary hardship.

2025 may have kicked off to a pretty rough start overall, but one can only have faith that we can push things back into the right direction. Bad may happen, but it is also necessary to look to the future and strive for improvement: humanity is not defined by failure alone.

Twitch (original post)

(Note: this section was taken from the Mastodon post linked above. This was before I decided I’d start moving this stuff into easier-to-track website posts, lmao.)

twitch recap time again! :>

first off: profile picture change happened this year. still stoked about that. had been the better part of a decade lmao.

anyway, next: Streamer recap

• been streaming a lot of Sea of Thieves lately, relatively. pretty fun!
• been planning to branch out into more variety / indie stuff again for a bit - soon.
• honestly, 40~60 streams seems to be around the best I achieve whilst I’m at uni, so I’m happy with that atm and not stressed about doing more.
  • I do expect to stream more next year, once I’ve graduated. though, whether I end up moving out and having a billion other stresses to fight against that… we’ll see.
• one of these days I’ll sort something about with clips. frankly, 2 is more than I’ve seen in a while lmfao.

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viewer: y’know, I was kinda expecting RT to have been real competition for YogurtCorgi this year, but apparently not. instead, they continue to reign supreme on my viewer top channels. lmao. beyond that, it’s about what I’d expect. I do want to watch more APenguinsLullaby in future though - I just keep missing their streams and it makes me sad :<

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Jellyfin

Jellyfin, as ever, has caveats; namely, I had a bit of a backup goof from January until April in 2024, so it’s lacking about a third of the year (and one of my more music-heavy periods of the year, at that)! There’s also a decent bit of double-counting that I’m not really going to talk too much about: it definitely happened, thanks to a bug in the music app I use, but I can’t adequately compensate for it. I’m pretty certain this mostly affected Jeremy Soule and Joseph Trepanese, as I never really sough their music out so it does a lot to explain their unexpectedly high stats. Either way, know that some statistics here will be wrong; I hope this doesn’t happen in 2025!

Even so, we can talk about the remaining two-thirds:

• Overall, I listened for 31,417 minutes (that’s 21⅔ days straight)
  • That’s all spread over 190 days, with 9,308 (+3,910) total streams
  • Out of
    • 16,144 unique tracks (of which 846 are favourites), with an average length of 200 seconds
    • 1,400 unique artists
    • 1,812 unique albums
  • It’d take 37.4 days to listen to it all!
• My top tracks were:
  1. Stay Together by Joseph Trepanese (241 streams; 1,038 mins)
  2. The Gathering Storm by Jeremy Soule (231 streams; 637 mins)
  3. November 30 (Goodnight) by Sockpuppet (109 streams; 102 mins)
  4. The Cult of Dionysus by The Orion Experience (96 streams; 299 mins)
  5. Paper Cuts and Spilling Guts [Song Fight!, 2004] by Sockpuppet (74 streams; 339 minutes)
  6. 珠閒瑠TV by Toshiko Tasaki, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Masaki Kurokawa & Shoji Meguro
  7. Guren No Yumiya (from “Attack on Titan”) by AmaLee
  8. In the Here and Now by Dace Merryweather
  9. Mycoturgy by young scrolls
  10. Away (Refrain) by Masayoshi Soken
  11. Mystery Horse Show by Dace Merryweather
  12. Bread And Games by Saltatio Mortis
• My top albums were:
  1. The Witcher: Season 3 by Joseph Trepanese (262 streams; 1,099 mins)
  2. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Original Game Soundtrack by Jeremy Soule (257 streams; 724 mins)
  3. Shin Megami Tensei 30th Anniversary Special Sound Compilation by ATLUS Sound Team (215 streams; 498 mins)
  4. Persona2 Eternal Punishment Original Soundtrack by Toshiko Tasaki, Kenichi Tsuchiya, Masaki Kurokawa & Shoji Meguro (208 streams; 470 mins)
  5. LORKHAN by young scrolls (169 streams; 481 mins)
  6. FINAL FANTASY XV: Original Soundtrack by Yoko Shimomura
  7. FINAL FANTASY XVI Original Soundtrack Ultimate Edition by Masayoshi Soken
  8. Novembeat 2016 by Sockpuppet
  9. Deadnames by Sockpuppet
  10. Cosmicandy by The Orion Experience
  11. Persona 3 Reload Limited Box Original Soundtrack by ATLUS Sound Team
  12. Hadestown: Original Broadway Cast Recording by Anaïs Mitchell
  13. CMYK by CircusP
• My top artists were:
  1. Sockpuppet (475 streams; 189 unique tracks; 1,185 minutes)
  2. Jeremy Soule (276 streams; 99 tracks; 765 mins)
  3. Joseph Trepanese (261 streams; 50 tracks; 1,092 mins)
  4. HOYO-MiX (253 streams; 691 tracks; 490 mins)
  5. ATLUS Sound Team (227 streams; 557 tracks; 535 mins)
  6. Dace Merryweather
  7. young scrolls
  8. Masayoshi Soken
  9. Aviators
  10. CircusP
  11. Yu-Peng Chen & HOYO-MiX
  12. Linkin Park
  13. Bring Me the Horizon
  14. The Orion Experience
  15. Muse
  16. Anaïs Mitchell
  17. All Time Low
  18. Lord of the Lost
  19. Escape the Fate
• My top genres are famously unhelpful, but:
  1. Soundtrack(s) (3,344 streams; 4,972 tracks; 9,790 mins)
  2. Game (1,158 streams; 2,225 tracks; 2,905 mins)
  3. Rock (1,152 streams; 1,788 tracks; 4,507 mins)
  4. Electronic (860 streams; 1,205 tracks; 2,629 mins)
  5. Classical
  6. Pop
  7. Score
  8. Hard Rock
  9. Alternative Rock
  10. Indie Pop
  11. Metalcore
  12. Folk
  13. Metal
  14. Post-Hardcore
  15. Alternative Metal
  16. Dance
  17. Heavy Metal
• I listened to Guren No Yumiya (from “Attack on Titan”) by AmaLee most consecutive times

YouTube Music

I do not use YouTube Music anymore, to be quite honest. It’s useful occassionally, to listen to a song first to “try it out”, you know? And sometimes it lets me know about new music I’ll enjoy! But certainly, I think the total time being 1,107 minutes tells you all you need to know:

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I do sometimes use it for listening to podcasts, though, of which I spent 115 minutes listening to The Yascast this year! That’s… less than an episode. Oops.

Nonetheless, it didn’t refrain from taking the opportunity to call me a brat:

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YouTube Gaming

Well, this is a new one?!

We’ll start with the nonsense: my “gamer card”

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What does that mean? Well, for one, that RTGame was my top creator to watch this year (and that I was in the top 15% of viewers), apparently. Other creators included A Jolly Wangcore, illusory wall, a redacted creator that I genuinely have never watched in my life but whatever YouTube, and Zullie the Witch!

I watched videos about 30 different games this year, taking up 36.5% of my watchtime, and the most time was spent watching RTGame’s minecraft videos.

Somehow, it determined that that’s all shooter content, I guess…

Steam

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I didn’t manage to catch PlayStation Wrapped this year, but I don’t recall playing much on the PS5 anyway.