Against all odds, the year 2021 now draws to an end (for a while, I wasn't sure we'd make it this far). The past 365 days have dragged on longer than 2020 did, but somehow they also passed in the blink of an eye. As we prepare to celebrate the end of the year and look hopefully toward\u2014or brace ourselves for\u2014a shiny new 2022, we've got one last little bit of business left. Important business!<\/p>\n
Just like we did last year<\/a>, let's take a look back at what shocked, surprised, delighted, and appalled the PC Gamer team in 2021, not by flexing our memories or writing well-considered think-pieces but by simply searching our Slack channel to see how many times we said “holy shit” over the past year and revealing what, exactly, we were talking about when we said it.<\/p>\n And a lot of things made us say “holy shit” this year! E3 trailers. Laptop prototypes. Grilled cheese sandwiches. Tiny Draculas. Anime diseases. Vacuum cleaners. And more. Sometimes, even videogames. Here are 91 things that made us say “holy shit” in 2021.<\/p>\n January 5<\/strong><\/p>\n Mollie starts us off with our first “holy shit” of 2021. It was in response to Graeme saying he puts curry in his grilled cheese. “Holy shit, that sounds amazing,” said Mollie. We're off to a great start!<\/p>\n January 6<\/strong><\/p>\n “Holy shit, what a day” declares Morgan. If you're in the US, you won't need context.<\/p>\n January 14<\/strong><\/p>\n Morgan delivers a “holy shit tyler lol” while we discuss PC gaming things that have gotten smaller or bigger<\/a>, and I find a picture of an absolute unit of a gaming chair. Tyler says the chair (which we dunk on in its very own article<\/a>) looks like it should close around you and make you into a chunky Iron Man.<\/p>\n January 15<\/strong><\/p>\n Morgan drops another when Andy Kelly tells him about the Berlin level in Hitman<\/a>, which is holy shit-level good.<\/p>\n January 18<\/strong><\/p>\n Morgan continues his streak, saying “Lol holy shit” when MMA fighter Max Holloway talks about Warzone's DMR nerf and stim glitch during a UFC press conference<\/a>. “Holy shit, feeling very targeted here,” Andy Chalk says the same day when Jon Bolding tells him the sim game “Farmer's Life” was about him.<\/p>\n January 19<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n James googles “blood computer.”\u00a0<\/p>\n Look, if you know James, that's not an unexpected thing for him to do, but this was specifically because he learns electronic blood<\/a> is a thing. This leads to him finding images of a tiny Dracula rising from a coffin on a keyboard (the numpad + key). Evan says “oh, shit” but edited it to say “holy shit” considering the religious ramifications of the wee vampire lord.<\/p>\n January 26<\/strong><\/p>\n James exclaims “holy shit whooping cough's headpiece!!!!!!!” and I'm tempted to skip the context because it's an extremely weird thing to say, even for James. But the context only makes it weirder because Taiwan's Center for Disease Control created highly detailed anime characters for different diseases<\/a>, and everyone in chat freaks out over how good they are<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Some days we don't get much work done.<\/p>\n January 29<\/strong><\/p>\n Andy Chalk closes out the month by saying, “Holy shit, who remembers Koss headphones?” because that Wall Street Bets thing<\/a> was pumping up Koss stock.<\/p>\n February 2<\/strong><\/p>\n “Holy shit, these game controllers<\/a> look amazing,” says Dave.\u00a0<\/p>\n February 4<\/strong><\/p>\n “Holy shit” says Fraser, our Agent 47 appreciator<\/a>, when Andy Kelly mentions wanting to interview Agent 47's voice actor and have him create a custom voice message for Fraser. I don't think that happened, unfortunately.<\/p>\n February 8<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n A flurry of “holy shits” erupt in a single conversation, as Wes considers a headline that read “Holy shit, this laptop” about a laptop prototype that had seven screens. Morgan and Tyler suggest alternate headlines (one with holy shit and one without), and Wes revises his, keeping the holy shit, though he ultimately goes with a sadly holy shit-less headline<\/a>.<\/p>\n February 18<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n Tyler shows us some video of Hellish Quart<\/a>, a dope and gory sword fighting game. “Holy shit” said Andy Chalk. “That's some Mortal Kombat worthy action there.”\u00a0<\/p>\n February 19<\/strong><\/p>\n Phil “holy shits” about the total cost of Crusader Kings 2's DLC (\u00a3230).<\/p>\n February 24<\/strong><\/p>\n Andy Chalk reacts to a website<\/a> created for a class action suit against Bethesda over the Fallout 4 season pass.<\/p>\n February 25<\/strong><\/p>\n Morgan exclaims “holy shit, dude” when Steven posts a picture of a pizza he badly burned. Most of us agree we would still eat it.<\/p>\n March 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Mollie says “holy shit robin that sounds like the start of a tv show” when Robin reveals he once lived with “a drug dealer, a creationist, and the creator of Plague Inc”.\u00a0<\/p>\n March 8<\/strong><\/p>\n Dave considers the headline “holy shit, there's a sale on for an RTX 30-series gaming PC?!'” He does not use that headline. Holy shit never makes it into our headlines. Except for today.<\/p>\n March 19<\/strong><\/p>\n Tyler uses abductive reasoning to prove that if Spider-Man could save the Avengers and Spider-Man can do whatever a spider can, then a spider, too, can save the Avengers. Morgan: “holy shit.”<\/p>\n March 24<\/strong><\/p>\n James drops another one over the trailer of Rodent People: Origins<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n March 25<\/strong><\/p>\n Andy finishes off a pretty mild month with some thoughts on hardware.<\/p>\n April 7<\/strong><\/p>\n James declares “Conkers rules, holy shit” during a discussion about games we played as children. (Here's a video about Conkers<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/p>\n April 8<\/strong><\/p>\n Phil reveals he tweaked the difficulty on one of Control's optional bosses because “holy shit it was some bullshit.”<\/p>\n April 9<\/strong><\/p>\n Evan says “holy shit” when Morgan shows us a Twitter thread where someone said something mean to him but then… apologized? An apology on Twitter. If anything is a holy shit moment, it's an apology on Twitter. “God damn,” Andy Chalk adds.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Holy shit, the body count is deranged,” Tim says, regarding the TV show Gangs of London. Tim is correct. The body count. Is. Deranged.<\/p>\n April 15<\/strong><\/p>\n This next one needs some context. Back in 2019 Ninja tweeted his “phone number” allowing fans to text him as part of a marketing initiative. Little known fact: Andy texted him. Since then he's been getting fewer and fewer texts from the world famous streamer. But on April 15 their friendship abruptly continued:<\/p>\n April 16<\/strong><\/p>\n Mollie reacts to this story<\/a> about someone pretending to have a disability in Path of Exile.\u00a0<\/p>\n April 20<\/strong><\/p>\n Chris (that's me, hello) says “holy shit” to a clip of Scavengers' 9,000 player mode<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n April 21<\/strong><\/p>\n Fraser, when it's announced Samurai Gunn 2 is coming to Steam.\u00a0<\/p>\n April 23<\/strong><\/p>\n Jacob is impressed enough to deliver one for the 2,730 MHz boost of the Toxic AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Extreme Edition<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n April 26<\/strong><\/p>\n Nat issues a “holy shit what” over news that someone had apparently tried to assassinate the founders of MiHoYo, makers of Genshin Impact. That's grim.\u00a0<\/p>\n April 27<\/strong><\/p>\n On a lighter note, Andy Chalk discovers you can type “docs.new” into a browser tab and it'll create a new document. “Holy dog shit” he said, cleverly tweaking the formula. 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