There's something about the number two-thousand and ten that sounds very positive to me. This new year already feels positive, and it seems like everyone else I know is on the same page. Perhaps you can't help but feel like 2010 is going to be a great year after coming off a string of not-so-great years for the world. I don't know what it is, but it feels like the start of something good.
As I sit here in my office, with the warm sun shining through the windows on this cold winter day, I'm thinking about what I want for my 2010. I'm thinking about how good it's going to be. There's already indications that things are going great for us here at Destructoid, as well as at all of the ModernMethod websites. Internally, we're gearing up to make our teams bigger and better than ever. Destructoid has also opened an office in San Francisco, official as of this week, so that we may attack this nation from both coasts. Finally, our own Editor-in-Chief, Nick Chester, welcomed the newest family member into his life, a daughter.
God, this year is going to be so good. We hope you'll stick with us to see what we have up our sleeves. After the jump you'll find our staff's New Year's Resolutions, both personal and professional. We'd love to hear yours, too.
Dale North:
- Be a better musician, and work to get back to what I enjoyed so much about it in the past.
- Master the language I've kind of known for too many years now: Japanese.
- Take better care of my friends and family, see them more.
- Focus on making Destructoid and Japanator bigger and better than ever.
Nick Chester:
Change my diet (dropping my nasty soda "addiction" starting today), and apparently to raise a happy, healthy baby through her first year of life. Uh, what!?!? Also, I'll do my best to finish games I start playing, instead of getting distracted by other titles. I think I'll start by actually completing Modern Warfare 2 this coming week...
Josh Tolentino:
To develop a more professional work ethic (starting with wearing pants), and then get a job that suits it.
Topher Cantler:
Improve my Flash skills and make The Journalism Show into something actually worth watching.
Brad Nicholson:
- Get over this infection, and hit the gym f'ing hard. I plan to become bigger than the Batman.
- Be a better writer
- Be a more assertive leader
- Create more interesting/provoking media
- Learn more about image editing
- Find uses for my History B.A.
- Discover better videogame-related research tools
Jonathan Holmes:
Finish all of the feature ideas that I have (I have at least thirty started that still aren't done), finish all the Dtoid art projects I'm half finished with (current count is at three), review more PS3 and 360 games (if Jim lets me), be less fat, grow my hair back, and stop being so sexy.
Hamza Aziz:
Keep being awesome.
Jim Sterling:
- Kill a man.
- Make a list of everybody I've ever met who owes me an apology for some slight or other.
Samit Sarkar:
It would be nice if I could figure out what I could do with a history degree before I complete it, because everyone keeps asking me about that and I don't have an answer yet. I'd like to say some of the usual crap like "stop consuming junk food, candy, and soda all the damn time," but that's kind of the essence of who I am. Gotta keep that blogger physique!
Maybe I'll finish more of the games I start instead of being schizophrenic about what I play.
Also: Find more names to drop!
Niero:
Make Destructoid felt in San Francisco.
Get back into the shape I was in high school. (And sell tickets to the
Nicholson + Chester + Niero gun show)
Surprise the Dtoid community (and editors) with science.
Dare to do more things I've hesitated to far too long.
Grow.
Conrad Zimmerman:
I'm going to try to be less annoyed by things which I think are a bullshit waste of my time. It's also the year I quit smoking, which may make the first resolution a little bit more of a challenge.
Chad Concelmo:
Finish my 2007 resolution and finally beat Phantasy Star II. [Ed's note: Use graph paper and draw out dungeons!]
Jonathan Ross:
To stop being so fickle with games and buckle down and just finish a game once I start it, instead of getting distracted by new stuff every week.
Ashley Davis:
To draw more, write more, explore more creative ways to entertain everyone, stop procrastinating, and battle my humongous backlog of games.
Brad Rice:
- Get another screenplay done
- Finish this book I'm starting for Jtor-related stuff
- Job!
- Actually meet the FBI's fitness requirements for special agents
- Pass the JLPT level 2
Benjamin PerLee:
I'm going to finish my English degree, get back to the gym and lose 20
lbs before bulking up with proper muscle, read more books, and also
get a dog. All, actually, are possible.
Oh, and become fluent in a language that I've been learning/annoying
people with. Fingers crossed!
Jordan Devore:
As decided a few weeks ago, my two resolutions were going to be losing ten pounds or so and also starting (and finishing) Mass Effect, but I've already accomplished both of those somehow. Hell, I even had time to play a certain Valve game after everything was said and done.
So my actual resolutions are to play games I wouldn't normally play for the sake of better coverage for the site, to continue having obscene amounts of fun with great friends, and, here's the big one, to keep the stories flowing throughout the night (including weekends but not holidays).
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2. Finish the video game I am making.
3. Finish recording all my stuff for my solo project Affinitia.
4. Make a full flash video of some kind (It's been years since I've completed anything in flash)
5. Fight less with my fiancee.
6. Make more money.
Also, that's the finest photograph of champagne I've ever seen in my life.
2) Create a game.
3) Get a job.
2010 is going to be tits yo.
1. Gain weight
b. Play more games
4. Touch myself harder, longer and more frequently.
?. Learn to count.
2) Learn guitar
3) Be social/make friends
4) Go to Japan either through school or by taking a year off school
Also, Samit: PLAY PORTAL.
1.) Write at least 100 words a day for my book.
2.) Get said book published.
3.) Be stinking rich and find El Dorado.
But seriously.
1.) Write at least 100 words a day for the book, get it published.
2.) Be a little bit more active than usual. Not really "work my ass off" but I don't want to be a blob.
3.) Uh...yeah.
So I'll get back to you on that.
Also, not to move on to the next game until I see the credits rolling during whatever I'm playing at the moment.
2) Music degree: Kepp on it.
3) Job: Find one. Had one, loved it, now I gotta move. Lame.
4) PC games: Play 'em.
5) PS3: Buy it. Hopefully before Heavy Rain.
6) Contestoid: Run it. I've got one in my head as a thank you to the community. Now to get the cash to do it.
7) Friends: Make some. Like I said I'm moving soo yeah. Specifically GAMER friends. And musicians of course.
8) Lover: Find one. I had one, a girlfriend, this year and it was a disaster. I'd like to think a new locale can help me find better company.
9) Video game convention: Go to one. One of the biggest downers of this sudden move is that I'm be nowhere near PAX or PAX East but it is Texas so there's plenty of fucking room. Hopefully since I won't be in a rural area I'll find some DToiders.
10) Be awesome: Less of a bitch. Maybe loosen up and talk a little less.
I'm sure I could find more. Basically this since all these changes have occured in my life the last year and more on the way I wanna tale advantage of it and kind of change and mature and experience new things and all that jazz.
Happy 2010 for all!
Happy New Years everyone! I wish you all the best with the new year and your new resolutions! D-toid 2010, here we come!!
San Fran doesnt know what will hit it <3
2. start learning php for web development, and also enroll in some game development classes.
3. write more and strive to write better.
4. start writing and recording music again.
And I need a real job.
Plus I must bring about the Apocalypse to destroy the filth that is humanity! But that's more of a '12 resolution.
General life resolutions-
1) GET A JOB AGAIN.
2) Buy a hi-hat stand so I can actually learn to play that drum set I bought so long ago.
3) Address the many many problems I have made for myself in life, and resolve them accordingly.
4) Stay classy.
Because I fail quite bad, all you people who are starting bands/learning languages/gaining muscle that isn't just going over the fat/making something of yourselves. I'm surrounded by people that make me modest.
2. Move to California to continue education (big move from Arkansas)
3. Improve writing skills
4. Get in shape, eat healthier, basically be more like Brad Nicholson
5. Participate more in the Dtoid community
- Write at least 2 cblogs a month
- Attend at least 1 NARP this year, maybe PAX as well
I also think this is going to be a good year! Glad to hear good things are happening within Destructoid as well :)
2) Write something worth reading.
3) Survive my first year of Uni without killing the housemates.
2. Start participating in this community
3. Play games
4. Not download less
5. Get a job
6. Muscle muscle mussels
7. Start something new
8. Drive more
9. Focus
10. Finish games
2. Finish the sweet ass game I'm working on. Sell it to all the idiots on Destructoid who say crap like "how many games have you made?" when I say a shit game is shit. Burn the money on blow and hookers.
3. Cement my position on Jim's list of people who owe him an apology. Start by calling him too fat and stupid even for America.
2. Bury the bodies
3. Learn to spell "apoclapse" correctly
4. become master of time and space.
5. Gain 20 pounds.
6. more vagina
7. seven
8.
1. Become fluent in German. I'm passable, but I want to be better.
2. Continue going to the gym and learning guitar.
3. Survive the next year of college.
4. Platinum Demon's Souls, and do everything possible in Okami. I'm really close with Okami, but whenever I attempt the last thing I have to do my Wii overheats and shuts off due to pure awesomeness.
5. Start to understand Japanese. Should make my import copy of FFXIII more understandable.
6. Tackle the backlog of games.
7. Bathe in the blood of my mortal enemies.
2. Spend more time practicing bass guitar.
3. Find a job I enjoy and will keep for more than 8 months.
4. Take the SAT again and get a score good enough for me to get into college again.
5. Don't buy any games for PC until Steam's next holiday sale.
6. Beat some of my massive backlog of games. Even if it's just one.
1. Find a way to move into the next tax bracket, while working less hours. I need more time for videogames and certain classes I would like to take.
2. Help fix my F'ed up family without getting as annoyed at their lack of drive and intelligence.
3. Try to get back into online gaming without playing only with my close friends. I should start with something I'm good at like Street Fighter, then move to games I will die a lot in, like Modern Warfare 2. Xbox live will make it a challenge to stand some of the people on their, though.
4. Stop trading in games. Just stop it.
5. Train my minions better, and keep the bosses lame ideas in check so the company I work for does not have a critical meltdown when I take time off.
7. Find more me time. My work out time(body) and meditation time (mind) to make a more complete me have been severed. Needs patch.
6. Last, but most important, take a LOT of time off.
For myself... since losing our dog last year and not going on daily walks anymore, I've put on about 8 pounds that I'd like to lose.
I also have to quit smoking so that I'm not "going out for a quick smoke" while playing in the FNF games (besides, it's really not good for me and it makes me feel like crap).
Additionally I'd actually like to spend a little less time at Destructoid - generally I read and comment while doing housework, but it's quite addictive and I find myself compulsively in front of the computer when I could be doing other things... things that could help drop those 8 pounds! LOL!
2. Save money
3. Do well in school (and go to each basketball game. Go IU!)
4. Play the hell out of Mass Effect 2 and Modern Warfare 2 (easiest on the list)
5. Get a summer job
Welcome to my world ever since I got this stupid iPhone. Why do you think I comment so much?
WHAT HAPPEND WITH COLETTE?
I was thinking the very same thing.
1)finish the short-story I've been working on for about thre years -_-
2)get a job
3)Beat Chrono Cross
4)Go to college
5)Relax and laugh more and learn to not take things so seriously and learn to ignore tiny bullsh*t.
6)Play more games!
These are mine, so far. I probably have about 1-3 more that I can't think of right now.
And I didn't see Anthony up there.. =(
2. Play more games more regularly, and actually finish them.
3. Dust off the guitar and purge my music collection of crap so I have a good foundation to grow from.
4. Accept that I have to take three semesters of Spanish in college despite my three years of French (thanks to my high school guidance counselors consistently screwing up my classes).
4. This one is hard to admit, let alone accomplish, but I'm going to try to stave off porn-watching indefinitely. Because, really, I'm better than that. Who's with me!?
2. Be less lazy (probably never gonna happen, but still)
3. Beat some of my backlog
4. Be less anti-social
5. Play more games with Dtoiders
6. Try to find and beat Persona 3 and 4
7. Get a job
1. Learn how to play guitar, FO REALZ this time. I started teaching myself again a few months ago, but I kinda forgot about it.
2. Become a better writer, write more in general, etc. People around me have always insisted that I'm a good writer, so why not?
3. Try to save money instead of blowing paychecks on clothes/makeup/video games.
2. Be less lazy (probably never gonna happen, but still)
3. Beat some of my backlog
4. Be less anti-social
5. Play more games with Dtoiders
6. Try to find and beat Persona 3 and 4
7. Get a job
8. Make sure brother hasn't signed me out