List your accomplishments for 2009.

[Specineff]

All right folks, instead of starting one of those silly new year's resolutions (which are teh fail) thread, how about we speak about what we accomplished in this past year? Anything goes, as long as it's positive. No matter how small or silly, as long as it's a goal you managed to meet.

I'll start by sharing that I managed to:

Break away from my family and live on my own, and have less emotional problems. I only regret not doing it before, and seeing they were a bunch of jerks anyway.

Saved over 5K in the bank.

Get two molars fixed, with top of the line treatment.

Learned to ride my bicycle with no hands on the bar, and without falling off.

Achieved 2 consecutive months with the highest quality rating at work.

[Udderdude]

Made an update to Liquidpaint and some new Liquidpaint-related Java stuff. http://rydia.net/udder/art/lp/compressor1.html

Went nuts and made a ton of new music. http://rydia.net/udder/mod.html

Other than that .. not much. >_>

[EinhanderZwei]

Hmm, let's see:

- Got familiarized with a FUCKaton of shmups

- Purchased PS2 and PS3 (I'm the first guy in my city to obtain the PS3 Slim. All nerdy chicks are mine )

- Stopped drinking Coca Cola and switched to Baykal

- Survived the ass surgery

- Createad a Facebook account

- Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

- Nearly became a stepfather

[emphatic]

1. Discovered what a fucking great show Trailer Park Boys is. OMG.
2. Gained lotsa weight. This year I'm gonna try to reverse it. Damn you, unemployment sofa surfing.
3. Improved my Barista skills. I can do pretty nice rosettas now.

[CptRansom]

-Survived another year of teaching high schoolers.
-Started playing shooters.
-Got a PS3.
-Started saving money for the first time in my life.
-Started working out regularly for the first time since 2001.
-Began re-teaching myself the piano after a 14-year hiatus.
-Realized that the love of good family/friends is one of the most important things ever.

[ASK]

- Got promoted at work, now a Systems Administrator
- Moved out into my first place with my girlfriend
- Expanded culinary palette, and began taking an interest in cooking
- Finally got a candy cabinet (Blast City), and some PCBs (DP, Raiden, Mushi)
- Set goal of putting together a downpayment for a house/condo to be met in the next few years, met my savings goal for the year despite some crazy purchases
- Reunited with some of my family

Pretty eventful year for me, hoping 2010 goes just as well.

[Jockel]

All nerdy chicks are mine )

Both of them?

[Skykid]

- Looked into buying my first property and learned a lot about the processes.
- Got a mortgage offer (although yet to find the right property).
- Went to Japan for a 2 week marathon up and down the country
- Went and learned to snowboard for the first time in my life (in Japan)
- Got a fuck ton of Cave kits
- 1cc'd Dodonpachi, Mushi Futari 1.5, Deathsmiles MBL

Pretty uneventful otherwise, especially compared to the year before.

[t0yrobo]

Not a very eventful year for me, but better than the last couple for sure.
Got all my bills paid and was able to buy more games than I normally would.
Made it to a shmupmeet/visited friends that moved/mini vacation.
Did pretty well in all my classes.

[alits]

Graduated High School
Got a 3.9 in my first semester of college
Been unemployed for a year and a half pushing 2 years

[mrtie]

-Bought my first Cave pcbs (Ibara,PS,Espgaluda)
-Bought my First Candy Cab(E2)
-Moved into my GF's house
-Got a promotion at work
-Got fatter, working on that now.
-Met a bunch of cool people from Shmups IRL.

[EinhanderZwei]

All nerdy chicks are mine )

Both of them?

LOL, exactly

Oh yeah, one more:
- Zone Of The Fuckin' Enders 2

[MyGameCompany]

* Finished developing two new games
* Doubled my sales volume from last year (will be able to go full-time indie this summer)
* Survived both h1n1 and pneumonia
* Celebrated my 40th birthday with a big party
* Adopted a second puppy

[professor ganson]

Research wise:
-published a paper that may end up being my most influential piece (hopefully not)
-had another paper accepted for publication that is easily my best work to date
Gaming wise:
-discovered that some jrpgs really are my thing, especially some srpgs, and managed to beat a number of them
Health wise:
-family survived the roughest summer/fall/winter I can recall-- so many viruses!!!

[kengou]

Pretty uneventful for me.

-Got a PS3, wee.
-Discovered a genre of music that I actually like outside of video game soundtracks! (It's Heavy Metal!) Started listening to and appreciating music more.
-Figured out just what the heck was happening in the movie Primer. I consider that a pretty big accomplishment.

edit: forgot the biggest one!
-Went to see a beautiful night launch of the Space Shuttle back in august

Otherwise just chugging along through college.

[Damocles]

-Designed and implemented four complete residential electrical systems.

-Won "Battle for the Kingdom" on a Medieval Madness table.
-Totally raped, on a regular occurance, the Austin Powers table.

-Sat through "New Moon" without Quaaludes, alcohol, or sedatives of any sort...with my girl, of course. ...and without falling asleep too much.

[CptRansom]

-Sat through "New Moon" without Quaaludes, alcohol, or sedatives of any sort...with my girl, of course. ...and without falling asleep too much.

That's one hell of an accomplishment, sir.

[Acid King]

-Finished my grad school coursework and worked everything out for my thesis.
-Concocted my first recipe and made my first batch of non-kit homebrew.
-Managed to make it another year without getting the flu.
-Got an MVS.

[ED-057]

In 2009 I:
-welded a bunch of stuff
-tuned my car on a dynamometer and converted my other car to distributorless ignition
-replaced half my roof
-traveled to Japan without being detained by airport security or having my stuff lost/confiscated
-dodged the colds/flus
-bought a bunch of computer stuff that I don't need on ebay

[undamned]

Wow, you guys have been busy!

Break away from my family and live on my own, and have less emotional problems. I only regret not doing it before, and seeing they were a bunch of jerks anyway.

Saved over 5K in the bank.

Get two molars fixed, with top of the line treatment.

Learned to ride my bicycle with no hands on the bar, and without falling off.

Achieved 2 consecutive months with the highest quality rating at work.

Sweet! That's some big stuff to go down all in one year!

- Createad a Facebook account

Haha, I did that, too

-Realized that the love of good family/friends is one of the most important things ever.

Serious. I'm not going to be laying on my deathbed thinking about work and videogames.

- 1cc'd Dodonpachi

Mad props!

-Went to see a beautiful night launch of the Space Shuttle back in august

I bet that was unreal!

-Won "Battle for the Kingdom" on a Medieval Madness table.
-Totally raped, on a regular occurance, the Austin Powers table.

Nice! Didn't know you were a "pin-head!"

My accomplishments:

- Got braces (again. Last time was when I was a kid and due to a few things, they got kinda messed up later on)
- after many years of wanting to launch my own website I settled for a blog, which has proven to be an excellent creative outlet (mostly games / electronics): http://therealundamned.blogspot.com
- furthered my knowledge of the electronic music genre (by about 4x)
- had my one year wedding anniversary!
- Got my braces off
- had oral implants drilled into my skull (literally)
- got to see some family I'd not seen in a long time

-ud

[Lordstar]

helped out with IC09
held on to the last fragments of my sanity
Got my frist candy cabinets. Finally got a 100% working PC after frist building it over a year ago (something was always missing be it a faulty speakers or the monitor dying on me)

[chempop]

In 2009 I

* worked my ass off in 6 different schools and saved a bunch of money
* spent most of my saved money on an JPN-PS2, JPN-360, and a bunch of Cave games LOL
* held summer-camp classes in my old 9th grade homeroom, flashbacks oh my!
* wrote and directed my 5th children's theater show The Last Throne
* transitioned to using a joystick to play games, got much better at shmups in general
* bought a bunch of great anime and some Ashley Wood art books
* started researching and collecting Versace and Hermes
* created tons of new designs for my clothing line

[kernow]

* Nothing
* Nothing
* Nothing
* Despair
* Hardship
* Misery
* Nothing
* Nothing
* PS3 died
* DOJ PCB died
* Laptop died
* didn't find work

[Smraedis]

I survived
Still have a job
Got good at the Psyvariar series
Made significant improvements on lightgun games, and also
Getting the highest score recorded on Point Blank

[seattlexc]

- After 8 years I'm finally single (3 long relationships that overlapped a little)
- Finally got a professional job (not manual labor or retail)
- Hung out in China for a while
- FINALLY had my first one night stand and loved it (I blame those damn long term relationships for putting this off until now)
- Got back into running, lost a good amount of weight
- Made a few new friends

All in all I'm happy with the last year of my life. Hopefully the next year will be better

Learned to ride my bicycle with no hands on the bar, and without falling off.

I envy you!

[CptRansom]

-Realized that the love of good family/friends is one of the most important things ever.

Serious. I'm not going to be laying on my deathbed thinking about work and videogames.

Oh, I'll be thinking about video games too. I'll probably be lying there telling everyone goodbye... and my last words will be, "Fuck you, Futari Ultra." As I breathe my last, my family's going to wonder what the hell I'm talking about. My best friend will laugh. A lot. Totally worth it.

[Deathgeese88]

Easily the accomplishment I'm most proud of for 2009 is getting an A in my Ethics in Engineering class. WOW. That was a hard class. I put a lot of effort (in a short amount of time -_-;;) into my term paper and I'm so glad the hard work paid off. I also got an A in my Computer Programming II class which was very challenging. However, that feels more due to luck than anything because I didn't technically get an A, but our professor curves our grades. And he does it rather heavily, it would seem, because I'm still completely shocked I got an A in his class.

[RoninBuddha]

remained celibate the entire year

[BryanM]

remained celibate the entire year

Allllllllllll right no babies for us. *high five*

It was tough. Here's hoping '10 goes just as well!

[mortified_penguin]

I somehow managed to get myself fired as well as dragged into someone else's lawsuit against the company, all within mere days of each other. My 'laying low' skills really failed me in 09.