Here is the Christian “Cato Xuelder” Simmers Wrapped 2025. Its an understatement to say 2025 sucked, but it felt less like one specific event made everything crap. Moreso there was just a low background radiation of suck this year. Still, life goes on, and I try to keep my chin up. Here are the things that kept me from going full doomer this year…

Music

I want to start with music cause good god, it feels like this was a dismal year for music. The song of the summer was a song made by a TikTok hype house dude who sang a song that was clearly inspired by Christian(not me though) Rock. A lot of music choices I have made weren’t even made this year, but still spoke to me in this crazy year. Anyways, here are the songs that kept me sane in 2025.

Not in any particular order:

Books

Read a few, I don’t know what is huge and new this year, I kind of just picked books at random from my Library and from my local book store. A lot of these are just novels that had been on the backburner for a while. The only book I didn’t get to this year that I intended to read was R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis, more or less I am like 12th in line to pick it up from the local library.

Games

2025 was the first year of my life that wasn’t dominated by constantly being on the Destiny 2 grind2. One of the things I learned is that I have missed so many opportunities to play so many JRPGs that I think would have been game of the year for me they came out had my gaming hours had not been consumed by Destiny. They will start off the list.

Television & Movies

I’m gonna be honest. The only television show that mattered to me this year was Andor. The only movie to me that mattered as well was One Battle After Another, though I finally watched Sinners this past weekend and that shit was fire. Honestly, I tended to stay away from the theatre or television this year except to watch football. I’m just so tired of movies and a lot of what’s coming out of Hollywood lately man. Superman3 is probably the only blockbuster that I kind of looked forward to this year, and it was good.

Podcasts

I listen to a lot of Podcasts, honestly if you want more recommendations on that front my podcast day post from 2024 should suffice. These are just the ones that kept me informed and sane this year.

In Conclusion

I did not enjoy 2025. While not as horrible as 2016, 2019 or 2020, this was just not a good year. There was something in the atmosphere about it too. I spent way too much on microblogging and not enough posting on something like this blog. It really felt like all hope was sucked out by the bad miasma permeating the air. Nothing really got done by me this past year, it lacked so much in my own personal growth and production. I want 2026 to be a year of hope and change for me, I even have a plan for that! Good riddance to bad rubbish, goodbye 2025, you shitheel of a year.

  1. Fun Fact: I found out that my Grandpa not only knew him, but helped train him in the Army Air Corp.↩︎

  2. I did not play Destiny at all this past year, and I do not miss it. Strange feeling to have really, after devoting a decade of my life to it.↩︎

  3. This is probably the first live action Superman movie that I have actually enjoyed watching.↩︎

  4. I finally finished this arc, I took a break and am about to start PALISADE. Probably will finish this arc just in time for the next Divine Cycle campaign.↩︎