What Were 2024’s Resolutions?

I just did Board Game ones which you can read here.

Play Unplayed Games – I did okay with this one. I played quite a number of new to me games last year. I played 81 new games, so that did put a dent into my unplayed games. However, that is also going to include games from Gen Con that I played. And there are certainly games that I added throughout the year as well. So we’ll call this one a wash, I did some but I could and can do more. And I did say that my target for unplayed games was 75 to play, so I hit that number.

Buy Trading Cards/Games with Store Credit – I won’t lie, both of these fell off fairly quickly. Now, not completely. I do feel like I purchased fewer games overall without store credit. But there are certainly a number that I did purchase. Also trading cards, not so much. But I managed a couple of good sales of games through trading them in or through a board game sale.

2025 Nerds-Year Resolutions

So let’s talk about this upcoming year. What resolutions do I have, or goals am I trying to set for myself when it comes to nerdy things. Let’s be clear, it’s mainly going to be around board games, but I want to give myself some different challenges than previous years.

Prototype Game Idea/Work On Other Idea

I have two game ideas that I want to continue to work on. Both of these are of course board games. I have stuff to prototype one of them. i just need to get to it and get some prototypes into the wild and get people playtesting them. Because I would love to get a board game created at some point in time. Even if it’s just something that I use Game Crafter for, great resource by the way, and have fun with. Plus I have a bigger idea that I want to keep working on, it’s going to be a big passion project if it ever get completed, but I want to try.

Learn A New Game Per Week

Thanks to Board Game Arena this should be pretty easy for me to do. But I want to learn and play a new game on there, or in person, per week. Now, this is going to be different than last years goal. Last years goal was simply to play new games. With this I want to be intentional about learning something new. This is the first full week so a great time to start this one.

Watch Seven New Anime

I think this is setting the goal low for me. But I want to watch more new anime. I am pretty sure that I crushed that resolution this past year. But I want to keep it up. Especially since I know that I will have a lot anime returning in 2025 that I want to watch. So if I want to get to this goal of seven, I need make sure that I make time to watch new stuff as well.

Read 100 Marvel Comic Issues

This one is probably going to low again. But I know myself. I go in runs with this, and I want to be very intentional about it. I want to read more comics this year. That said, I am off to a solid start by reading a bunch of Ultimate Spider-Man comics by Brian Michael Bendis. So I want to keep on building on that.

And a sub resolution to this one. I want to put out comic book content videos on 10 Minute Marvel. Basically, with this reading, I want to use it to help grow that channel and see that continued growth be around news, rumors, comics, and more, but the additional content being around what is in different books, and what is worth checking out or themes and stories worth checking out.

Four Videos a Week on 10 Minute Marvel and Four on Malts and Meeples

So this is changing up the numbers slightly from what they were last year. I ended doing three on Malts and Meeples and five on 10 Minute Marvel. I still want to do five on 10 Minute Marvel. But that might be for the channel and if my co-host does one per week, fingers crossed that habit gets started, that can mean I do four. But also, I want to start doing more not live content on Malts and Meeples. I love my live game plays and that schedule will stay the same, but one uploaded video per week is my goal beyond the live stuff.

How About You?

What are your resolutions around nerdy things for 2025? Let me know in the comments section below.

I definitely set a few more harder/more challenging goals this year. In particular around videos, but I hope that I can hit some of them and at least start off strong with them. Because I want to keep this website growing and the YouTube channels as well.

I did drop off some this year around Gen Con because my goal is just to go, play games and have fun. And that’s going to be my goal for a long time. We’ll see if I make it any other cons, but I don’t want to assume or overextend myself with them.

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Five Other Random YouTube Channels

5. Neil Newbon

This is a new one to me, and I don’t know how much I’ll keep watching after I finish up what is currently their main show. Neil Newbon is the voice for Astarion in Baldur’s Gate 3 (BG3), a game that I am enjoying a ton. He and a friend are streaming and playing through Baldur’s Gate 3 as well as interviewing other cast members. So it’s just a fun time and a weird way to watch the stream, also to watch them struggle to stream. They are not streamers, they do stream more than just BG3, and it’s not always the best, but it is fun.

4. The Breakroom

There are a number of channels that I could put here. I’ll do a quick honorable mention to Screen Crush and New Rockstars. The Breakroom is a spin-off channel for New Rockstars. New Rockstars didn’t want to dilute the brand of their channel and wanted to spread a net wider, so The Breakroom, which had been a show on New Rockstars moved over to it’s own channel as well as it’s own Twitch channel. I watch it after the fact on YouTube. They do a few times a week edited videos around some of our favorite nerdy things.

Right now I’m watching it less. They are doing episodes regularly about The Boys and House of Dragons, two shows that I have watched and don’t have a ton of interest in. But when they do their headlines shows, and in particular, when they talk Marvel, I’m into it. And some of the people on The Breakroom are amazing, and some are just good. But it’s always entertaining and a bit more of a chance for them to be silly versus the regular New Rockstars channel.

3. PokeRev

You might have caught me doing a sneaky stream last week. It is down below this. But PokeRev is a Pokemon YouTuber. Not the video games, but the collectible cards. And he does things like box breaks that you can buy into (I haven’t ever and won’t likely ever. But the more common thing that he does is that he’s opening up the new sets, he’s opening up the Japanese sets, or he’s finding various products out there. A lot of them are the mystery boxes and sometimes they are good and sometimes, like the mass produced ones, they are terrible. But it’s fun to watch and he’s a very engaging host.

2. NFLStockExchange

Now what if you’re into football. But not just into football, in particular you are into the NFL Draft. Then the NFL Stock Exchange podcast might be the one for you. Trevor and Connor the hosts are great. Another more light hearted handling of football and just a chance to sit back and be excited. They do a lot of Mock Drafts around the NFL Draft season, they talk college football players throughout the year, and right now they are doing summer scouting. Both of them bring interesting thoughts to it and they’ll disagree.

One of the things, though , that I really like is what when they disagree, it’s never that negative. Their is almost always a positive end to it. The number of times when someone likes a player better than the other the person who likes it less hopes the other person will be right. And it is genuine because they want the college players to succeed in the NFL. So it’s nice to have a very positive football show, not everything is roses, but positive.

1. Viva La Dirt League

Finally, this is one that I’ve been catching up on again, but Viva La Dirt League (VLDL) is amazing. They make a ton of sketch videos but they generally fall into different categories. There is one about a business, retail tech company, that is good. But the main one that I love is Epic NPC Man. They create a video game world for these videos and it’s just over the top and a ton of fun. The NPC wavers on the edge to sometimes fully knowing that they are in a video game. And it pokes fun at a ton of different video game tropes. Highly recommended for sketch comedy.

Final Thoughts

There are more that I could have mentioned as well. To toot my own horn, I have a channel for the Marvel podcast, 10 Minute Marvel. I watch AhnaldT101 for videos around Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes a game that I play daily on my phone. And there is ViniiTube a channel that I’ve stumbled across which I mainly use to find out what anime is coming up. Taskmaster, to watch episodes of the show Taskmaster. And well, I think I could find more, but that’s about where the watching regularly drops off.

What are some of your favorite random YouTube Channels, let me know them in the comments section below.

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