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My Top 5 Games of 2015

Sadly 2015 was probably the least amount of games I played in a long time. With two moves and just less games that appealed to me personally I just didn't put in the hours on my consoles like I have in the past couple of years. That's not to say I've at all fallen out of love with gaming or that I've grown bored of it. The games of 2015 were spectacular, in fact it might have been one of the best years in recent history. Sadly though the majority of those amazing games were in genres that I don't love. 

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2015: My Year in Numbers

For seven years of my life I was an analyst. I spent much of my 40-hour work week running numbers in Excel and making it look pretty. 2015 in a lot of ways was the continuation of a trend of personal analytics. Using the power of "smart" technology you can learn a lot about yourself just by using the phone already in your pocket. I might have went a bit overboard this year but here is a look at a year in all of the statistics I've been tracking in 2015. 

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Movie Review: Ex-Machina

A couple of weeks back I came down with a cold and had a day at home during the week where all I did was watch episodes of Jessica Jones and watched a movie I've been dying to see, Ex-Machina. It's a movie I wanted to see in theaters and like a ton of movies this year never got around to doing it. Luckily it just recently came out on Amazon Prime so while I was hopped up on Dayquil I sat down and watched it.

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Christmas Decorations - 2015 Edition

What a year its been. 2015 is only the second time since Jenn and I have been married that we haven't decorated our home at The Colony in Newport Beach. Sort of crazy right? Although we anticipated this being the first year we decorated our new home that wasn't meant to be and we couldn't have been more excited to decorate our new apartment. 

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TV Review: Master of None

Netflix is on a roll. On a recent episode of the DarkCast we discussed how much of our TV consumption has come from the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. When I think about how Jenn and I went from DVR'ing everything to watching it all online in the last couple of years its kind of hard to fathom how quickly the change has happened. In the last month Netflix released two huge shows Jessica Jones (which I'm in the middle of) and Master of None which we finished in three days. 

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