Welcome Programming Throwdown, Episode 124, 2021 holiday episode. Take it away, Patrick.

Welcome, everyone, to this evening of sitting by the fireplace on the bearskin rug

and played out in front and sipping on whatever beverage you want to use your imagination about

and thinking about all the wonderful, oh wait, this is 2021, never

mind. No, I'm just kidding. So we got a holiday show. It's, I guess, it's a tradition. As much as we've

been doing this way too many years, it's become ingrained. We have some good questions from

users in the Discord. And so we'll be doing those.

Some people are here listening live.

So shout out to all the people live listening to this later,

hearing that they were listening live.

And in general, yeah, just going to have a little bit of a casual episode

where we talk about what's been amazing this year.

That'll be short. It's been amazing this year. That'll be short.

It's been a tough year, man. But there's been a lot of good, too. Yeah, yeah. I actually, like, I feel bad. I mean, it's been a really hard year for a lot of people. I think we said that last year, too, which it was last year too. This year was supposed to be better. I went to the party store to pick up some supplies for Christmas, which first of all, like, everything was out of stock. That was horrible. I noticed that

too. Yeah. So is that related to the, you think, to the supply chain issue or I wonder what's

going on there. Yeah, I assume. Everything gets blamed on COVID and supply chain.

I'm sure that is true a lot, but I'm not sure, like, to what degree it's true.

But I saw all the New Year's stuff was like, you know, screw 2021, 2022 or bust, you know, all

this stuff.

And I'm just thinking it's like, I feel like we've been on this roller coaster before. Yeah. Yeah. So, so yeah, yeah, totally agree. I think, I feel like

2021 was better than 2020. I mean, obviously, like, personally, you know, anything could happen.

But I feel like for like, for globally, I feel like 2021 was better. But, but I'm not but I'm not totally sure. I haven't thought about it enough.

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