2021 Year Review

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01/19/22 • 50 min

It’s 2022. And since we’ve decided to use a recent, arbitrary date as the marker of the completion of a solar revolution, which is a specific period of time, it’s time to review everything that happened in the last 3.154e+7 seconds. We’ll cover the best and worst games, movies and science news from the last year. It wasn’t all bad, promise.

2021 in Gaming

Psychonauts 2

Wildermyth

Unpacking

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy

2021 in Media

Dune

Squid Game

Spiderman No Way Home

The Synder Cut

Daniel Craig final Bond movie : No Time To Die

Cowboy Bebop Live Action

2021 in Science

James Webb Telescope Launch

Ingenuity helicopter launch in Mars

Perseverance Rover deployed on Mars

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

NFT

Shout Outs

31st December 2021 – Betty White’s passed away at 99

Betty White, TV's perennial Golden Girl, has died. "Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever," her agent and close friend Jeff Witjas told in a statement on Friday.

31st December 2021 – 10th anniversary of NASA succeeding in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) was an American lunar science mission in NASA's Discovery Program which used high-quality gravitational field mapping of the Moon to determine its interior structure.

Wackiest movie

31st December 1931 – Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde premiered theatrically

On this day in 1931, the good people of New York City (U.S.) were treated to a limited theatrical premiere of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde. Here's the plot summary: "Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde."

Intro

Artist – Goblins from Mars

Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)

Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJ

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2021 in Gaming

Psychonauts 2

Wildermyth

Unpacking

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy

2021 in Media

Dune

Squid Game

Spiderman No Way Home

The Synder Cut

Daniel Craig final Bond movie : No Time To Die

Cowboy Bebop Live Action

2021 in Science

James Webb Telescope Launch

Ingenuity helicopter launch in Mars

Perseverance Rover deployed on Mars

SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

NFT

Shout Outs

31st December 2021 – Betty White’s passed away at 99

Betty White, TV's perennial Golden Girl, has died. "Even though Betty was about to be 100, I thought she would live forever," her agent and close friend Jeff Witjas told in a statement on Friday.

31st December 2021 – 10th anniversary of NASA succeeding in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

Wackiest movie

31st December 1931 – Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde premiered theatrically

Intro

Artist – Goblins from Mars

Song Title – Super Mario - Overworld Theme (GFM Trap Remix)

Song Link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GNMe6kF0j0&index=4&list=PLHmTsVREU3Ar1AJWkimkl6Pux3R5PB-QJ

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Previous Episode

Dr Who's "Future", Fruity Cancer Trackers & Qualcomm's Quality Mobile Gaming

The 13th Doctor has been incredibly controversial. Jodie Whittaker is worried that she's ruined the idea of a female Doctor. Whose fault is it really though? Is the concept really ruined forever?

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but the doctor teams up with rotten oranges to diagnose early stage cancer.

A New Challenger Joins The Mobile Gaming Battle. Qualcomm has paired with Razor to develop a new handheld gaming dev kit. It'll run on Android and they claim it'll run anything.

The 13th Doctor - A Legacy Of Failure?

- https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/04/jodie-whittaker-on-saying-goodbye-to-doctor-who-i-thought-what-if-ive-ruined-this-for-actresses

Newest cancer tracker tool : Rancid Oranges

- https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2021/12/06/spoiled-oranges-shine-light-on-malignant-cells.html

Qualcomm Mobile Gaming Dev Kit

- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-12-02-qualcomm-announces-handheld-dev-kit-powered-by-its-first-gaming-chip

Shout Outs

4th December 2021 – Magnus Carlsen wins longest game in World Chess Championship history - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-04/magnus-carlsen-wins-longest-game-world-chess-history/100674464

7th December 2021 – 20th anniversary of Ocean’s 11 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0240772/

8th December 2021 – 15th anniversary of the Wii being released in Europe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii#Launch

Wacky movie

7th December 1979 – Star Trek: The Motion Picture premiered theatrically - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079945/

That moment so, so many Trekkies, Trekkers, and general Trek enthusiasts had waited for -- had pined and prayed for -- finally arrived on this day in 1979 (well, at least for the people of Los Angeles) when Paramount Pictures proudly presented Star Trek: The Motion Picture for its theatrical premiere.