Howdy folks!
I'm not a man of many words so hopefully you enjoy reading this
Firstly, I hope you are keeping safe and well in what are uncertain times for all of us. I'm not going to detail my personal thoughts on COVID, quite frankly I'm sick to death of hearing about it. Instead I'll summarise in one sentence my current mindset - Who knows when things will go back to normal but until then its important that we enjoy every day as it comes with those we love (family and friends)
Moving on
Recently (enters bragging mode) I did a madness on TT. #1 diver for Bean Dive 2020. Why? Because I'm crazy thats why
. In all seriousness though, I saw it as an opportunity to right a wrong. 5 years ago I took part in a bean dive with a lot of PS3 games that I will probably never complete. At that point in my life I didn't really think about what I was doing and personally wasn't in a great place. Over the last little while I have been thinking about making a new profile but that would have thrown away the hard work I have put in already. Strategically I have put in the dive lots of easy stacks which I know for a fact I can finish with time (bearing in mind its about 300 games) and repair some of the damage caused. The only thing I will definitely take a hit on is my ratio.
This brings me on to my short-term and long-term aspirations
Short-term (Rest of 2020)For the moment I am going to focus on PS3. It is important that I repair the mess as much as possible. Still plenty of completions to be had and who knows when Playstation will pull the plug on the PS3 servers. Personally I hope it isn't soon but with the imminent release of PS5 it is becoming more and more inevitable.
This means that I will not be participating in GTTSC 2020 (if it exists)
Long-term (2021)2021 will be used for 4 things
1 - To complete the games in this bean dive. I am 1000000% confident about this.
2 - Tidy up outstanding Vita completions. I am generally happy at where I was with Vita before the dive began. Still work to do but nowhere as much as PS3
3 - Play PS5 and Xbox Series X. Yes I am buying both but please don't assume I am rich
4
- Hit my dream of reaching 1 million TT and hopefully beyond.
On a personal note in the last 12 months I have recently purchased a Nintendo Switch as well a Playstation 2 which has re-ignited my game collecting hobby but I'm worried it will send this blog into a tangent so I will save it for a separate post in a few weeks
I'm really proud of my progress in that and look forward to sharing it with you all
In the meantime I just want to take a moment to say thank you to all. As someone who joined this site nearly from the beginning I must say we have a small but unique community that is always very supportive of each other and I'm proud to be part of it. Maybe in the future we could have a group meet somewhere? COVID may throw that out of the window for the foreseeable
Stay safe guys and gals. I'll be posting again in the weeks to come