User blog:Jacked Maverick/How Right Were My 2020 Predictions

Hello, Berrypickers! It’s been a long time since I’ve made a blog post. In case you didn’t know, I gave up on Choices after Blades of Light & Shadow. But I figured I should make a blog post to honor my 2020 predictions.

https://choices-stories-you-play.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:The_Jacked_Maverick/Possible_2020_Predictions

And… yeah. 2020 proved me wrong. I thought 2019 was going to be the worst year. But now… I don’t know if it’s the pandemic or just their natural evolution. I’m leaning more towards the latter.



Incorrect
Let’s start off with the things I was wrong about.


 * Open Heart was not a duology. Instead, it will receive a trilogy. I am happy, even though I don’t play anymore. Heh.


 * A “Long Distance” Relationship book.


 * French or Italian renaissance book. I wasn’t that surprised after Masquerade basically was a renaissance book in themselves. But I thought we were going to get something similar to A Courtesan of Rome.


 * Spy. Pretty self explanatory. There wasn’t any book or even where we had to infiltrate an organization or anything.


 * Blades of Light & Shadow will be a standalone. Seeing the finished product, I still think it was planned as a one-shot. But no. It got a sequel. *Monotone voice* Yippee.

Stuff That Somewhat Came True
This is a list of stuff I was kind of right about, but a few of the finer details were off.


 * “Running for Presidancy”. We DID get a political book about being the leader of a nation, but it was not in the way I thought. Plus, I predicted it would be gender locked, when in actuality it was not. Foreign Affairs.


 * “Heir is the next Freshman. There will be a sequel series after Heir that tackles parenthood.” This one is still up in the air. I predicted there would be a sequel series, when really, there WAS plans for an Heir Four. The Royal Finale.

Correct


The stuff I was right about makes me so internally oppressed. Like, 80% of my predictions were correct.


 * The Royal Masquerade being a one shot. This one looks tame by comparison.


 * The Elementalists not getting a Class Act treatment.


 * Of course, no news about Hero and Most Wanted.

Queen B


Yeah… Queen B was the most true in all of my predictions (and deserves it’s own subheading).

Berrypickers, I was only joking when I made this prediction! All the other predictions I made were all lazy guesses, but this one…

This was the one I had the most bet on! Maybe not the entire premise, but the fact that I predicted “A high schooler/college student having an affair with her teacher before the school year begins. When school finally begins in the Fall, there will be drama, and the story will portray this relation as "charming".”

I wish I bet money on this one. DX

Lo & behold… nah. It’s not worth writing an entire essay about this one. You all have eyes, you know what happened, you know how it went down in Queen B. But I will say, if The Elementalists getting cancelled knocked me down, Blades of Light & Shadow made me stay down, Queen B (and how I predicted it) was just the final nail in the coffin.

Having said that, I have no doubt I would have loved this book! Especially Zoey. But the fact that I was so right deters me.

All it did was ensure I would never reinstall Choices (except for sequels I actually want).

Numbering
Love Interests I will Actually Like: Two. (Only one in 2019)

Zero... for either gender.

The Books I will for Real Enjoy: Three. (Four in 2019)

Zero, sadly. I guess if I was being generous, only one. Blades of Light & Shadow was the only one I mildly enjoyed, but the ending made me hate the rest of the book.

Conclusion
We got fewer books this year. Something I did not expect. If I thought about it, I would have indeed guessed three books were not going to be genderlocked.

I was originally going to give predictions on what I think will happen in 2021 (and believe me, I have plenty), but I figure, what’s the point? It just feels like beating a dead horse over and over.

This was a bad year for me. The person I love the most in this world left social media. The downfall of Choices was a big reason. She doesn’t play anymore.

Combine that with the fact of how unhappy I’ve been with current Choices events, there is no point to play anything else. Even with Crimes of Passion getting announced, I won’t be playing anything new at all. I know it’s gender of choice. I know it takes place in a city I love.

To me, Blades of Light & Shadow was the perfect “series finale”. That was the last book I ever played here. I have not read anything new since it concluded. From Queen B onward. The perfect place to say goodbye to a company I’ve been with since 2014.

Having said that, it is highly unlikely I will make another blog post. I won’t deactivate, but I will say to be on the lookout. I plan on making a YouTube channel covering movies and TV reviews. With my first video being a remaster to my Blades of Light & Shadow review!

Here is Matt, signing out. :)