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Stats for 2022

Finally got around to getting some stats for the year. I had planned more, but, well, you know... maybe next time!

Links

I had 752 links to interesting pages, and 294 links to programming stuff. That's about 14 regular links per week and 5 cool programming links per week.

Here are the top domains that I linked to, for regular links and programming links:

regular domain programming domain
58 en.wikipedia.org 79 github.com
24 twitter.com 5 towardsdatascience.com
13 github.com 5 twitter.com
8 acoup.blog 4 adamj.eu
7 wersdoerfer.de 4 simonwillison.net
6 arxiv.org 3 www.sqlite.org
6 www.science.org 3 spritesmods.com
6 astralcodexten.substack.com 3 hynek.me
5 neal.fun 3 en.wikipedia.org
5 www.gamedeveloper.com 2 til.simonwillison.net

I also linked to "other media" (ie. Youtube) 279 times, with a total watch time of 73:11:53, or 1:24:27 per week. That's not so bad!

On average, linked videos are 15:44 long. The longest video is 2:03:29 long, the shortest just 00:14. You'll have to click them to find out.

Games

In this year I played 53 different games during 45 weeks.
I added 188 games to my backlog. But I then also took 21 games out of the backlog again.
I played 3 games from my previous backlog of 16, bringing my total backlog at the end of the year to an astounding 180.

times played
Abriss 1 from backlog
Assassin's Creed: Origins 2
Beat Blaster 1 from backlog
Blasphemous 1
Colt Canyon 1
Cosmic Express 1 from backlog
Death's Door 3
Demon's Tilt 1 from backlog
Descenders 1 from backlog
Desk Job 1
Down the Rabbit Hole 1
Eastshade 1
Fez 1
Freelancer 1
Golf Club Wasteland 2
Grand Mountain Adventure: Wonderlands 1
Horizon Zero Dawn 6
Hot Wheels Unleashed 11 from backlog
Immortality 1 from backlog
Journey to the Savage Planet 1
Judgment: Apocalypse Survival Simulation 1
Late Shift 2
Loop Hero 1 from earlier backlog
Mages of Mystralia 1 from earlier backlog
Mindustry 1
Moonglow Bay 1 from backlog
No Man's Sky 1
Not Tonight 1 from backlog
Nurose 1 from backlog
Paradise Killer 3 from backlog
Pierre The Maze Detective 1
Planetary Annihilation: Titans 1
PowerBeats VR 1 from backlog
Project Hospital 1
Rustler 1 from backlog
Snowrunner 2 from backlog
Spiritfarer 1 from earlier backlog
Starbound 5
Steep 1
Strange Horticulture 3 from backlog
Sunshine Heavy Industries 2 from backlog
Sweet Transit 1 from backlog
The Curious Case of the Stolen Pets 1
The Forgotten City 1 from backlog
The Witcher 3 5
Tokyo 42 4 from backlog
Total Annihilation: TITANS 1
Trailmakers 2
Watch Dogs: Legion 1 from backlog
Yuppie Psycho 1
[fr0g] clan official server 24/7 zk map (for stranger) 1
art of rally 1 from backlog
hundred days 1

The backlog (this year):

game since
1976 Back to Midway 2022-02-27
A Forgetful Loop 2022-03-13
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build 2022-03-13
A Juggler's Tale 2022-05-01
A Planet of Mine 2022-03-13
After the Fall 2022-12-04
Amnesia: Rebirth 2022-04-24
Back 4 Blood 2022-07-24
Backbone 2022-04-24
Bean Stalker 2022-12-04
Before We Leave 2022-03-06
Between the Stars 2022-01-30
BioShock Infinite 2022-05-29
Black Book 2022-03-06
Black Widow: Recharged 2022-03-06
Blaston 2022-02-27
Boiling Steel 2022-08-21
BoomBox 2022-08-21
Borderlands 3 2022-03-06
Brothers 2022-02-20
Budget Cuts 2 2022-08-21
Call of the Sea 2022-07-03
Car Mechanic Simulator 2022-07-03
Catch & Release 2022-08-21
Cave Digger 2 2022-12-04
Centipede: Recharged 2022-03-06
City of Brass 2022-04-03
Cloudpunk 2022-01-30
Contractors 2022-08-21
Cook-Out 2022-02-27
Creeper World 4 2022-11-27
Damaged in Transit 2022-11-27
Dance Collider 2022-02-27
Dark Pictures: Little Hope 2022-10-30
Darkwood 2022-10-16
Death Stranding 2022-12-25
Deathloop 2022-10-30
DeepStates [VR] 2022-10-02
Deliver Us The Moon 2022-06-05
Desperados III 2022-04-03
Doctor Who: The Edge of Time 2022-02-27
Doom VFR 2022-12-04
Dragon Fist: VR Kung Fu 2022-08-21
Dreadhalls 2022-02-27
Dwarrows 2022-11-27
Dépanneur Nocturne 2022-03-13
EarthX 2022-07-24
embr 2022-06-12
Encased 2022-12-25
Epic Chef 2022-10-30
Everything Must Fall 2022-10-02
Fable 2022-07-24
Falconeer 2022-04-03
Fallout 3 2022-10-23
Fallout New Vegas 2022-11-06
Figment 2022-03-13
Filament 2022-11-06
Foundation 2022-02-13
Fujii 2022-02-27
Gamedec 2022-07-03
Geneforge 1: Mutagen 2022-07-10
Gloomhaven 2022-09-25
God of War 2022-12-18
Golf Gang 2022-10-30
Gravity Pilot 2022-03-13
Hard Bullets 2022-08-21
Hello Puppets! 2022-02-27
Hood: Outlaws & Legends 2022-07-10
Hyperdash 2022-08-21
I Am Fish 2022-07-03
If found... 2022-06-12
In Sound Mind 2022-03-20
Industria 2022-10-02
Instruments of Destruction 2022-07-03
Insurmountable 2022-04-17
Into the Radius VR 2022-08-21
Jurassic World Evolution 2 2022-12-18
Just Cause 4 2022-10-02
Kena: Bridge of Spirits 2022-12-18
Kingdom Two Crowns 2022-03-13
Labyrinth City 2022-05-01
Lucifer Within Us 2022-03-13
LyraVR 2022-10-02
Mafia 2022-01-30
Magnibox 2022-03-13
Maid of Sker 2022-10-30
Maneater 2022-06-12
Minit Fun Racer 2022-03-13
Nebuchadnezzar 2022-04-03
Neverout 2022-07-24
Old Man's Journey 2022-03-13
Once Upon A Crime In The West 2022-08-21
Overboard 2022-04-03
Panoptic 2022-02-27
Paradigm 2022-05-01
Paradise Lost 2022-03-06
Payday 2 2022-10-23
Per Aspera 2022-03-06
Pinball FX2 VR 2022-10-02
Pistol Whip 2022-05-01
Planet Zoo 2022-06-12
Pumpkin Jack 2022-07-03
Ragnarock 2022-05-01
Railgrade 2022-12-18
Railroad Corporation 2022-10-30
Raji 2022-12-11
Rebel Galaxy 2022-07-31
Red Matter 2022-02-27
Redout 2022-05-15
Republique VR 2022-02-27
Riverbond 2022-04-24
Rogue Legacy 2022-04-10
Rubber Bandits 2022-05-01
Ryse: Son of Rome 2022-07-24
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected 2022-12-11
Scanner Sombre 2022-09-04
Schildmaid MX 2022-03-13
Sea of Craft 2022-05-08
Secrets of Raetikon 2022-03-13
Shadow Tactics: Aiko's Choice 2022-12-11
Shadowgate VR: The Mines of Mythrok 2022-10-02
Silence 2022-07-31
Slinger VR 2022-07-24
Space Haven 2022-06-12
Sparklite 2022-07-31
Spellcaster University 2022-06-12
Spirit of the North 2022-09-18
Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe 2022-05-08
Star Shelter 2022-08-21
Star Wars: Squadrons 2022-07-03
Submerged 2022-09-04
Subserial Network 2022-10-30
Summer in Mara 2022-03-13
Summertime Madness 2022-08-21
Sunset Overdrive 2022-07-24
Supraland 2022-06-19
Synth Riders 2022-02-27
TOEM 2022-05-01
TYPE 2022-03-13
Takelings House Party 2022-08-21
Telefrag VR 2022-07-24
The Assembly 2022-02-27
The Captain 2022-09-18
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man Of Medan 2022-04-03
The Long Dark 2022-07-24
The Ramp 2022-07-31
The Spirit and the Mouse 2022-12-18
The USB Stick Found in the Grass 2022-07-24
Throw Cubes into Brick Towers To Collapse Them 2022-03-13
Timberborn 2022-06-05
Touring Karts 2022-02-27
Tower Tag 2022-02-27
Towerfall: Dark World 2022-03-13
Toybox Aviation 2022-03-13
Traffic Jams 2022-05-01
VTOL VR 2022-08-21
Vacation Simulator 2022-05-01
Vanishing Realms 2022-05-01
Vienny Automobile Society 2022-03-13
Vox Machinae 2022-12-04
Wanderlust: Travel Stories 2022-07-24
Warplanes: WW1 Fighters 2022-08-21
We Were Here Forever 2022-05-29
Wheels of Aurelia 2022-03-13
Windbound 2022-02-13
Wolfenstein: New Order 2022-06-05
Wonder Boy The Dragons Trap 2022-07-17
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