I really don't know. For me, it's been one fail of some sort after another.

Passed my exams with flying colours. Phew. I'm just glad thats over.

I stopped playing osu!

Glad I made that decision.

i changed the way i think, totally
stopped caring about things, i don't know if this is good
passed one hard subject after 3 years
kicked most of my friends out of my life and welcomed some old ones whom i mostly ignored for years and years
started reading more VNs and made a blog about it with that old friend
improved myself
got my map ranked (first blood)
became a chat mod
had the best bday ever (also the first bday without a bday cake)

and other shit things i can't remember

UnderminE wrote:

stopped caring about things, i don't know if this is good

This is mostly good.

i thought it would make me an empty person in a way

UnderminE: Well, it's ok not caing about things in the sense that you don't make them stress you, but you should not avoid reality. Uhm, it's kinda like the Zen or the Taoist approach to the world, maybe you could look those up? I have some great books but they're in spanish, hehe ^_^

IppE: How has stopped playing improved your life ? Have you done any new things?

Jarby, B-52, Gladi: I'm sad to hear you guys had a bad year, but I wish you all a great 2014 when it begins

Krisom wrote:

IppE: How has stopped playing improved your life ? Have you done any new things?

I've been stuck in the army mostly, but not playing osu! means less cramped fingers, less frustration and more free time to do something actually productive.

I've accomplished my goal of accomplishing nothing at all.

Woo! >w<;;~

I could list all the things I've managed to fuck up, though. They're also a sort of accomplishment.

First off I managed to compromise myself ever graduating from highschool, have attended enough classes but can't pass any exams

Second, managed to start seeing a shrink and got some nice pills to stop me from feeling anything. Then I decided to stop taking them and ended up passed out on the street from which I was escorted home by the police. It's a long story.

Third and last, I managed to spend 500€ on train tickets this autumn.

I haven't accomplished anything really. I did manage to get to the second year at school, but just barely (got 45/60 points, and you fail when you have 44 or less). So now I have to retake a lot of tests this year (already failed the first one and have to retake it for the 4th time(last chance)), and am fucking up my internship which is going on until the end of January. It's only a matter of time before I drop out. To make things worse, this is my second study I'm doing too (I quit my previous one after 5 months).
I just can't do this, because I find it no fun at all (not even a little bit). I did mechanical engineering before this, and am doing industrial engineering now.

I don't even know anymore. I guess I'll be more happy once it all has ended (in 2 weeks ~ 2 months), until then I will feel like shit.
Yes I know it's better to just stop now already if I'm failing anyway, but I have agreed to 'give it a try' anyway.

TL;DR: I managed to waste 3 years of time and money.

/blog

this year was so-so for me, lost some, won some. but these are probably my accomplishments for this year:

1. got into my university of choice (currently 1st year second semester Psychology student)
2. found me some good irl friends (explains why im not that active in the game )
3. probably found a special someone? heuehuehe
4. got back some of my old friends
5. <osu! related> I had the first approved CtB map so yay for me.

Weeeeell.

I moved 150km away from everyone I know. One of my better decisions, plus living on my own suits me just fiiine!
Graduated high school with the 4th best grades of my year - Started university 4 months later.
I met some very wonderful people both in real life and on the internet.
Some less-fortunate events taught me more about myself as well as other people. I believe I became a better person because of it. (If nothing bad ever happens, you never appreciate the good parts of life!)

things

1. ive gotten toxic people/friends out of my life and have opened myself up to more oppertunity and chance, managing to go out and experience new things
2. i learned a lot from the people who i've lost and i miss them dearly but i won't live in the past and i've improved myself for the better
3. im getting my pet bird named pepper today and i think that is a GOOD accomplishment i've always wanted one
4. ive met the sweeeeetest girl ever who i'm glad i can call mine
5. i've been getting better grades
6. i started writing my novel

I JUST HAD SEveral good grades, not a single one below 10/20 actually, I feel relieved.
Moreover, I finally managed to control my addiction to MMORPGs (either that, or I just got bored, 'dont even know), and I'm now using my spare time to play osu! meet friends etc.
(yeah that's pretty much all, boring life is boring)

3 Big things happened this year, 1 isn't so much of an accomplishment as it is just a part of life.

1. I turned 18, entered the world of being considered an adult. (Don't EVER wish to grow up, its not as good as you think it will be.)
2. I graduated from High School. (and got a nice scholarship)
3. (not achieved yet) After next week, if things go well, I will have officially conquered my first semester of college.

I have managed to control more or less my anger, made many new friends, and even once had a gf. In osu! I managed to be the first ever French player to reach 6,000pp (all modes counted) -- and top 15 (topping to #11 in August).
I finally had the chance to talk to one of the people I admire for his works in ITG tournaments (thanks a lot Lizzy ;^;).
I also reached a significant milestone in rhythm gaming, I am able to play streams in StepMania up to 280-300 bpm (passed Vertex Gamma once) and 250 consistently, and exploded my PBs in Ratchet&Clank series.
I participated in charities, too !
... And I have been praised for my taiko modding by OnosakiHito himself. That's what I consider my biggest accomplishment.

shameless necro

2 Skins in one year

i guess my only accomplishments were graduating from school with decent grades and getting rid of medications.

also i probably improved as a human being. i dunno.

i also had a lot of shit happen

I think I acutally managed to accomplish something this year:

I once again have the person that I've loved for a really long time. Yeah it prolly sounds lame but it's really important to me.

I think the most noticeable things I did this year are:

- told my parents I'm transgender (and I really shouldn't have)
- haven't failed school yet
- started taking antidepressants
- bought a cosplay fox tail
- came back to drawing, albeit kinda sparingly

This year was horrible in too many ways despite that.

Non-osu! related:

- Really pushed myself in climbing and still am doing so
- Climbed outdoors for the first time
- Survived the year

osu! related:

- Stopped playing as much which gave me time to focus on other things
- Couple cool ranks here and there

My osu highlight of 2013:

- Managed to stick to what I love to play (Touhou maps) and that helped me stay
- Translated osu!Rank and have my feedbacks positively received by the dev
- Have people told me that my osu story has inspired them and brought them back to the game
- Made lots of friends in mp. Love you all

OsuMe65 wrote:

2 Skins in one year

lol I forgot that in my highlights of the year, first skin released and positive feedback overall (for a first non-personal skin attempt)

I found a new position to play in that I think it actually going to help me finally improve. That is to say, after 3000+ plays, im still as bad as i was at like 1000. [not from lack of trying, mind you] it was infuriating beyond belief, even though i spent every one of my plays on stuff i struggle on [hence the rank]

I spent the past 4-5 years with mouse at neck level basically which more or less means I had to keep my left shoulder/arm tensed at all times to keep my hand on the mouse and even then my mouse movements were always restricted. It's made it so hard to do ANYTHING. I remember seeing people flare their cursors [bouncing on slow notes, spinning their cursors in slow sliders] and I thought "how?" because for me, those types of movements took immense effort.

Getting a real desk and moving it down to slightly above navel height lets me actually take a relaxed position and move my mouse more freely.. suffice to say my spinner speed went up by like 50 rpms instantly, and I don't feel any sort of physical tension while playing which, amplified by the stress of trying to get better, just created misery. Now I can actually MOVE my mouse freely. It feels like a new game. Feels like I can start progressing again. No longer is it a struggle just to get my cursor across the screen, im addicted to just throwing my cursor everywhere in loops and bounces just because I can now without being restricted..

Still gotta get used to it but it feels so nice now.

i still cant read for shit, but that can be fixed in time. there's time now. i feel like the last man on earth who just walked into a library.

Who knows, maybe my next 3000 plays will actually count for something now. *crosses fingers*

- Released "A Vague Sense of an Autumn Wind".
- Got signed to a step bigger label.
- Started up a YouTube channel.
- Started studying French.
- Met people. Which basically means "met NEDM". #5evralone

Dropped out of high school, took a teaching job, and moved out of my parents' place.

Achievement(?)

I guess it's more of a milestone, but I worked my first retail job as a sales associate at a toy store for seasonal employment. I'm happy it's something I finally got the chance to experience. Other than that 2013 wasn't that special for me.

osu-related: Got the chance to befriend so many new people since I started playing again in February and now have 2 ranked beatmaps

Did a tv size. Didn't get 9.5 stars. Going for gold right there.

Oh, hey Krisom! BD, Garven and Andrea are still around. They are never ending stories; old stones. Haha
Anyway, my accomplishments this year is probably the gain of my driving license and that I introduced the Taiko BATs.

Hi D33d.

- Graduated from high school~ Applying for arts university now
- Started making music arrangements and covers
- Started streaming and making LPs
- Reaching #1 in national rankings (don't care much for this one but hey, it's an accomplishment)
- Completed more than 100 mods this year (some better than others)~
- Got another GD ranked~

- joined osu! forums
- probably get secretly insulted by some1
- double silence
- >insert accomplishment here<

-traveled to Egypt in March by myself(first solo flight. took 4 or 5 different planes to get there >_>)
-traveled overseas to finally meet Azure_Kyte. second best trip ever
-joined the GMT
-joined the osu! news team
-custom built first desktop, though that wasn't really hard to do x.x
-met Joe Flanigan and Jason Momoa. even got a picture with them

1. No infringements obtained since I joined (01-24-2013). XD
2. Obtained a supporter tag even once (unexpectedly gifted by a friend on my birthday).
3. Met more friends here (and met them personally).
4. Listened to more interesting music (e.g. Nightcore).
5. Posted more than 1,000 posts less than a year.

Hm..

- Had my ancient map go for approval, and it did. Also, that Madoka map.
- Worked on a number of experimental storyboards, some un-released and mostly unfinished. Plenty of progress made.
- Clocked close to 400 km in route marches since enlistment.

Well..

1. Stabilized my current relationship.
2. Moved to Germany and found a stable job here.
3. Learnt the language quite quick, I'd say (BUT I STILL NEED TO LEARN MORE!).
4. 1st in getting a CtB mapset ranked.
5. Joined the CtB BAT.
6. Joined the Tournament Management.
7. Many other things I probably forgot about...

I guess it was a pretty productive year

* Started to work
* Started a new relationship
* Bought a wacom
* Played more than 14 hours in multi with some friends (we didnt stop orz)
* Made a lot of friends here!
* Got silenced 84 hs for a sign in Osu! Forums GG

Year of mixed feelings and experiences.

-Lost my part time job, rather unjustly in my eyes.
-Stressed a lot. As in, a seriously unhealthy amount. I've lost way too much weight, fearing that I've got serious stress issues.
-Passed some tough subjects which I initially thought I'd struggle with.
-Got my driving license.
-Spent quality time with family but not much with friends.

A lot of bad things happened hope I can forget them eventually

- had an awesome group of friends
- met really awesome people
- became a dean's lister
- 2 years in a relationship

I have no osu! accomplishments GG

Learned how to play osu!. Sort of. Obviously not since I haven't got an S in Big Black yet... Right?

Might as well thank my parents for the decent computer and the five-month long vacation I had because of travel from PH to Canada. (Started vacation on April and ended on start of September)

-Reached 4k pp on taiko mode
-Learned how to do jumps on standard
-Went from 100k+ ranking to 21k-ish rank on standard
-Watched and completed about 150 anime
-Improved my writing skills and now able to write an anime review and a one-page back-to-back essay
-Reached 1k post? lel
-Got to Silver V in League
-Got to grow my hair long \:D/
-Able to retain the forever no supporter
-I can pass level 97 now in DrumMania. Auto-bass though. Manual bass still depends on song (can finish Die Zauberflote (85) on Manual but not Toccata (83))
-Improved my stamina
-Now able to pass streamy DDR charts and got to pass Saber Wing Challenge 17 and Xythar's level18 Edit Data of Saber Wing.
-Now able to do Double/Triple Performance on Pump It Up.
-Can do okay drawings and not just horrible stick figures.
edit: Got to meet new friends in the anime club in our school and played snowball fight with them despite me being that shy in real life

This is quite many holy crap. I didn't know I did that much until I listed it.

Otonashi07 wrote:

-Able to retain the forever no supporter

I'm afraid I disagree

destroied

OMG WHAT DID YOU DO

Otonashi07 wrote:

OMG WHAT DID YOU DO

Shouldn't have posted that. Tempo trainee op.

Real Life
Made my first friendship with a girl at school
Watched 109 Animes
Played my first Visual Novel that was Rewrite and played Hoshizora no Memoria and Kamidori Alchemy Meister too.
Read Denpa Kyoushi and Utsuro no Hako to Zero no Maria
Spend time having fun with my friends at school and skype
Played some games

Osu
Started to play 7k
Started to comment in the forum
Reached 5.5k pp in Mania and became #130 in the mania ranking
Made some friends

Well that's all I remember. Actually, I'm proud of this. But on other side this make me think what I'm doing of my life

My achievements, huh

- able to get in my dream university
- passed 1st semester
- 5000 PP

I learned how to suck at osu!, that's all there is I guess.

I didn't really accomplished anything in 2013 and I'm most likely not going to accomplish anything this year as well!

I thought I posted in this thread. Oh well.

High School Accomplishments:
Became Prom King without even really wanting to.
Found a tight group of friends to hang out with.
Almost finished senior year with a 4.0 GPA
Got a bunch of accomplishments in music even though the band director hated my guts lol
Finished my year as president of a club, with positive remarks all around.

Collegiate accomplishments:
Got accepted to college for Music Ed.
Did pretty well in all of my classes
Somehow passed ear training like seriously wtf how are people good at this.
My tuba instructor only thinks I'm a little bit of a little shit instead of a big shit.
Made a total of 0 people that I got really close to.
Didn't die.
Got a job woo
Made it to where I don't suck at the tuba sometimes on occasion.

Other:
Spent the full year without wanting to ask someone out or liking anyone or anything.
Got denied from a bunch of leadership positions both irl and online
Actually got shit ranked on osu!
Probably a bunch of other shit that I'm forgetting right now.

-1,000 posts, holy shit. at the first of 2013 i just talked with my friend and did nothing else here....