2024: Year in Review

Year in Review • 01 January 2025

What a fucking year 2024 has been. Last year I said “It’s 2023 and the hell hole of a year is hopefully behind us” and boy could I not have been more wrong.

# News of The Year

I didn’t follow the news a lot this year, but the one thing I really remember is Scotland getting thumped by Germany in the group stage of the Euro’s and the New York City synagogue tunnel incident. Labour went ahead and stirred up the UK and won the 2024 General Election, some absoloute mad land tried to assassinate Donald Trump and then somehow the United States voted for Donald Trump to the the president for another 4 years. Some far-right arseholes decided to the riot in the UK for a week, which resulted in most of them getting jailed, but least we have a good video of some guy got hit in the nuts with a brick.

Right at the end of the year we finished off with the UnitedHealthcare CEO getting killed by Luigi Mangione and boy did the internet and afar love that. #FreeLuigi

What the fuck.

# General

I spent a lot of 2024 out of the house, hanging with friends and going on holiday, so it’s been a pretty unproductive year. I’m still in the middle of re-writing GameTrakr but I’m not in any rush to finish it, as I want it to be perfect (2025? who knows).

# Television

I watched 52 different shows this year with a total watch time of 374 hours, which is about 31.1 hours per month with my most watched show being The Big Lez Show. My most-watched Week was Week 32 (5 Aug - Aug 11) with 52 plays and my most-watched Month was July with 172 plays. I played 719 episodes in 2024. My first watch of the year was Chernobyl, my last was South Park - Chinpokomon.

My most played TV Shows in 2024, in order of total plays, were:

Show Plays Time Watched
The Big Lez Show 85 00D 6H 49M
Supernatural 56 01D 14H 48M
The Worst Witch 54 00D 23H 40M
The Simpsons 54 00D 20H 42M
American Horror Story 51 01D 14H 45M
Hell’s Kitchen 51 01D 11H 35M
The Rookie 31 00D 22H 13M
Sassy The Sasquatch 30 00D 06H 14M
South Park 29 00D 10H 38M
When Calls the Heart 23 00D 16H 11M

My most popular genre was Comedy with 31 shows, most popular network was CBS with 9 shows.

My highest rated Shows of 2024 were NCIS: Origins, Sassy The Sasquatch, The Worst Witch, The Donny & Clarence Show, and Supernatural.

# Movies

I watched 83 different movies this year with a total watch time of 141 hours, which is about 11.8 hours per month with my most watched movie being Scooby-Doo. My most-watched Week was Week 10 (04 Mar - Mar 10) with 7 plays and my most-watched Month was January with 15 plays each. I watched movies 88 times this year, which is up from 2024 with 77 times, 57 in 2023, but down from 111 in 2021 and 140 in 2020.

My most played Movies in 2023, in order of total hours, were:

Movie Plays Hours
Scooby Doo 3 00D 04H 18M
Everybody’s Everything 3 00D 03H 52M
House of Wax 2 00D 03H 46M
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 2 00D 03H 18M
The Great Escape 1 00D 02H 53M
2012 1 00D 02H 38M
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1 00D 02H 24M
F9 2 00D 02H 23M
Forrest Gump 1 00D 02H 22M
Moonfall 1 00D 02H 11M

My most popular genre was Comedy with 44 movies, most popular Studio was Warner Bros. Pictures with 14 movies.

My highest rated Movies of 2024 were The Floorwalker, MaXXXine, The Breakfast Club, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Despicable Me 2.

# Music

In 2023 I scrobbled 13,634 times with a daily average of 37 plays, down from 18,406 and 50 respectively in 2023. I scrobbled 5,437 unique songs up from 5,187 in 2023. My top five songs for the year were:

Song Artist Scrobbles
ghost boy Lil Peep 67
looking for you Lil Peep 62
crying (feat. Lil Peep) yunggoth✰ 59
Spotlight Marshmello 56
Hate Me - OG Version Lil Peep 53

I scrobbled 3,948 unique albums, up from 3,665 in 2023. My top five albums for the year were:

Album Artist Scrobbles
HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Billie Eilish 252
Lil Peep; Part One Lil Peep 158
Hate Me Lil Peep 154
HELLBOY Lil Peep 145
Happier Than Ever Billie Eilish 137

I scrobbled 1,916 unique artists, and for the 8th year in a row Lil Peep was top of the list, no surprise. My top five artists for the year were:

Artist Scrobbles
Lil Peep 1,522
Billie Eilish 690
As It Is 361
Bring Me the Horizon 189
Sueco 172

# Gaming

I played 98 different games this year, with a total play time of 724.1 hours, which is about 60.3 hours per month and 2 hours per day with my most played game being Call of Duty[1]. My most-played week was Week 44 (Oct 28 - Nov 03) with 38.4 hours and my most-played Month was November with 130.5 hours.

My most played Games in 2024 by month, in order of total hours, were:

Game Month Playtime
Call of Duty[1] January 01D 00H 15M
Call of Duty[1] February 01D 01H 26M
Call of Duty[1] March 01D 13H 31M
Call of Duty[1] April 01D 09H 10M
South Park: Snow Day! May 00D 09H 50M
Still Wakes the Deep June 00D 11H 54M
Zombie Army 4: Dead War July 00D 04H 20M
The Walking Zombie 2 August 00D 06H 15M
Call of Duty[1] September 01D 15H 54M
Call of Duty[1] October 01D 10H 12M
Call of Duty[1] November 02D 08H 15M
Call of Duty[1] December 04D 08H 24M

I completed the following games in 2024, in order of total hours:

Game Playtime
Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection 42.4 Hours
Red Dead Redemption 35.9 Hours
Spider-Man Remastered 26 Hours
Tomb Raider (2013) 16.1 Hours
Still Wakes The Deep 12.7 Hours

# Projects

I’ve created 3 projects this year. The below table is in no particular order.

Project Language Type
AssetTrakr C# WinForms
Vid2ContactSheet C# WinForms
GameTrakr v4 (on-going) C# Secret

# Website

At the time of writing there has been 22 git commits this year.

# Things of The Year

These are my ‘tops’ of the year, things that I really loved entertainment wise.

# Sources and Notes

The below areas were used as data sources for the information within this post.

This data is from 00:00 01 January 2024 to 00:00 31 December 2024.
Updated 01/01/2025 @ 22:11 to correct some gaming numbers. [1] In 2023 Activision decided to make new Call of Duty games DLC for 'Call of Duty HQ' on Steam, so I can no longer split out the time between game released post MWII (2022).