Media Log
Books (and comics) | Video games | TV | Movies
Books
| Item | Author | Date read | Status | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| We Hunt the Flame | Hafsah Faizal | 2022 | Paused | Enjoyable so far, I just have an "ebb and flow" approach to reading books, so I usually read a bunch all at once and then stop for a few months, so it's currently on hold. :o |
| Warlock Holmes | 2021 | Abandoned with like two more chapters left. | It wasn't good. | |
| A Curse so Dark and Lonely | Brigid Kemmerer | August 2021 | Finished! | I enjoyed it! |
| The Age of Selfishness (comic) | Darryl Cunningham | August 2021 | Finished. | I would have prefer this as just a book. Also blames crime rate on "liberals" in the last section?? |
| A Heart so Fierce and Broken | Brigid Kemmerer | Bought, want to read | ||
| The Color of Magic | Terry Pratchett | Bought, want to read | ||
| The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Bought after watching the movie for the 2nd time. Wondering if it's actually good, or that's just what dudes say 'cuz it was written by a dude. | ||
| Sabriel | Garth Nix | 2021 | Finished | It was fine |
| Drizzt graphic novels - Homeland, Exile, Sojourn | RA Salvatore, Andrew Dabb, Tim Seely | 2020 | Read those 3 | Boring. |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | HG Wells | 2020 | Finished | Eesh. |
| Crooked Kingdom | Leigh Bardugo | 2020 | Finished | I kind of sped through it so I probably didn't enjoy it as much as the first book. |
| Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo | Finished | It's good!! | |
| Because Internet | Gretchen McCulloch | 2020 | Finished | Great!! |
| Weapons of Math Destruction | Cathy O'Neil | 2020 | Finished | Important!! |
| An Enchantment of Ravens | Margaret Rogerson | Feb 2020 | Finished | Felt too short but I liked it alright. |
| To Kill a Kingdom | Alexandra Christo | Feb 2020 | Finished | It was fine, kind of wanted more. |
| The Power | Naomi Alderman | Feb 2020 | Finished | Oof. |
| Yonder Comes the Other End of Time | Suzette Haden Elgin | Finished | I don't even. | |
| Star-Anchored, Star-Angered | Suzette Haden Elgin | Finished | It's a thing. | |
| Twelve Fair Kingdoms | Suzette Haden Elgin | Finished | I enjoyed it alright, but it definitely had slow parts. | |
| Technically Wrong | Sara Wachter-Boettcher | Finished | Important!! | |
| Black Box Thinking | Matthew Syed | |||
| The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood | |||
| Born a Crime | Trevor Noah | |||
| Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution | Steven Levy | |||
| The Communipaths | Suzette Haden Elgin | |||
| At the Seventh Level | Suzette Haden Elgin | |||
| Furthest | Suzette Haden Elgin | |||
| The Feminine Mystique | Betty Friedan | I learned a lot. | ||
| The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx etc. | |||
| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |||
| Unbelievable | Katy Tur | |||
| Crash Override | Zoe Quinn | |||
| First, Break All The Rules | Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman | |||
| The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense | Suzette Haden Elgin | |||
| Wild Seed | Octavia E. Butler | |||
| Kindred | Octavia E. Butler | |||
| The Judas Rose | Suzette Haden Elgin | |||
| Native Tongue | Suzette Haden Elgin | |||
| Dungeons and Dreamers | Brad King, John Borland | |||
| Imago | Octavia E. Butler | |||
| Adulthood Rites | Octavia E. Butler | |||
| Dawn | Octavia E. Butler | I still think about this series. | ||
| I Am Malala | Malala Yousafzai | |||
| In the Land of Invented Languages | Arika Okrent | |||
| A Wizard in the Way | Christopher Stasheff | This was my favorite book when I was a kid. Maybe because of the pretty lady on the cover. | ||
| Masters of Doom | David Kushner | |||
| Hunger Games series | Suzanne Collins | |||
| The One World School House | Salman Khan | |||
| Mindstorms | Seymour Papert | |||
| The Blue Sword | Robin McKinley | |||
| Marmalade Boy (manga) | ||||
| Kodocha (manga) | ||||
| Boys Over Flowers (manga) | ||||
| Sailor Moon (manga) | ||||
| Magic Knight Rayearth (manga) | ||||
Video games
(If you know me you know there are too many games to list.)
| Item | Date played | Status | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Final Fantasy XIV | Jan 2022 to now | In the Stormblood expansion |
As we begin our third year of pandemic life I decided to pick up an MMORPG, since I'm not planning on going out to many indoor activites anymore.
The gameplay itself is very rudimentary, where the story quests just boil down to "flipping switches" in the game, where a switch could be talking to an NPC to trigger something, or interacting with a shiny thing to trigger something, and so on. The original game, A Realm Reborn, I didn't feel like it had a great story, and I wasn't really blown away by the "Award Winning Expansion Heavensward", but I am getting attached to all the characters and the world, and I'm interested in seeing where it goes. The story itself is a bit lonely, it's like a single-player game that has other people playing, but I have enjoyed joining Free Companies (basically guilds) and meeting other people via that. |
| Heaven's Vault | May 2022 | Finished (1 ending) | I was really hooked on the translation aspect and overall enjoyed the game. I want to do a replay but I might wait a bit because navigating the areas is a little slow, so probably not best to run back-to-back. |
| Haven | April 2022 | Finished (1 ending) | I still think about this game and I love the new update they released where you can choose the gender of each of the two protagonists. It felt very authentic as far as a story about a relationship between two people, and I enjoyed exploring and "skating" around the world. My only complaint is that I got lost a lot? lol |
| Boyfriend Dungeon | August 2021 | Finished story | I should play more Visual Novels. |
| Chicory | July 2021 | Not yet | |
| Dragon Quest Builders 2 | 2021 | Story finished twice; working on platinum trophy | I love this game so much. |
| D&D Dark Alliance | July 2021 | Finished what was available; worked towards platinum trophy but lost steam | My friend bought it and so I bought it and then he never played it, so I did. |
| Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart | 2021 | Finished story. Haven't gone back to play more. | It was fun! I just haven't had a reason to go back and play it after finishing the story. Tophies look easy though. |
| Forge of Empires | 2021 | Meh | I began playing this 'cuz my dad plays it. I mostly write Python scripts to automate playing it for me. |
| Fortnite | 2021 | The kiddos like to play Fortnite together | |
| Legend of Mana | 2021 | I've beaten it in the past, haven't finished the remake. | |
| Miitopia | 2021 | Finished it this time on Switch. Enjoyed it! Haven't gone back to play more. | |
| Greedfall | 2021 | I've discovered that these days I really like games where I wander around randomly exploring, so I enjoyed that. | |
| It Takes Two | 2021 | It was good! Played with Will and Rose at different times. | |
| Balan Wonderworld | 2021 | I enjoyed it! Was thinking of getting platinum trophy but too much work. | |
| Eastshade | 2021 | I got pretty deep into it but then got lost | |
| Oddworld Soulstorm | 2021 | This doesn't play like original Oddworld, its not precise enough. | |
| Yakuza Like A Dragon | 2021 | Kind of lost interest after getting new classes. | |
| Kokopoko Creatures | 2021 | Finished it! \('u')/ | |
| Adios | 2021 | Finished the story! | |
| Astro's Playroom | 2021 | Cool! | |
| Dragon Quest Builders 1 | 2020 | Beaten | |
| Hades | 2020 | Seen credits + then some, but not seen final ending? | |
| Divinity Original Sin 2 | 2020 | Finished story | |
| Baldurs Gate 3 (Early Access) | 2020 | Finished Early Access right when it first came out. | |
| Tell Me Why | 2020 | Played thru with my cousin Bekah. Game made me feel trans feels. | |
| Bugsnax | 2020 | Finished! |
Random other games I've played and want to make note of...
Bolded games are/were favorites~
Early games -- DOOM, Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Commander Keen 4, Jazz Jackrabbit, Sim Ant, Sim Town, Sim Safari, Sim Earth, Lego Island, Lego Creator, Lego Friends, EverQuest, Monkey Island 1-3, Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Grim Fandango, King's Quest 1-7, Warcraft 1-3, Starcraft, Space Quest 4, Super Mario World 1-2 (at friends' houses), Legend of Zelda Link to the Past (at friends' houses), Neopets, Shinobi 2 GG, XMen (GameGear), Sonic Chaos, Tony's Teddy/Nobby Nuss/Super Kid (Burkhard Rathesier), Myst/Riven (I didn't understand these as a kid), Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker, Opening Night, Hollywood, Storybook Weaver Deluxe, Math Blaster, Cluefinders, Humongous Entertainment games (Fatty Bear, Putt-Putt, Freddi Fish, Spy Fox), Bad Mojo, The Journeyman Project 3, Klik N Play,
Tweens/teens? (I'm grouping these as "before I moved out of parents' house" memories) -- Quake 3 Arena, The Sims 1-3, Rayman 1-3, Croc 2, Chocobo Racing, Diablo 2, Septerra Core, Shadow of Yserbius, Spyro 1-3, Oddworld: Abe's Odyssey, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Final Fantasy 8-10, Runescape, Oni, Unreal Tournament, Monster Rancher 1-2, Harveset Moon (PS1), Metal Gear Solid 1-3, Harry Potter 1 (PC,PS1), DarkStone (PS1), TrackMania, Prince of Persia Sands of Time, EOE: Eve of Extinction, Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!, Ratchet and Clank, MTV Snowboarding, Jak and Daxter, Jak 2, Final Fantasy 4-5, Whatever free-to-play MMORPGs I could find online, Fire Emblem and Fire Emblem The Sacred Stones, Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland, Summon Night Swordcraft Story, Digimon World 1 and 3, Cave Story, Pokemon Red/Blue, EyeToy, The Movies, Avernum (Demo), .Hack//Infection, Devil May Cry 2, Legend of Mana, Tower of Druaga, Chrono Trigger, Maple Story, RPG Maker 2000 and 2003, RPG Maker 1 and 2 for PS1 and PS2, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, Toy Story 2 (PS1), Insaniquarium,
Early Adulthood (Based on who I remember playing these with lol, probably like til I was 23) -- Half Life 2 (and ep1-2), Unreal Tournament 2000-2k4-3, Champions of Norrath, Skyrim, Fable 1-3, Gunbound, Gauntlet Dark Legacy, Contra: Shattered Soldier, Guardian Legend (NES), Dance Dance Revolution (Extreme?), In The Groove 1-2, Beyond Good and Evil, Kya: Dark Lineage, Braid, Bastion, World of Warcraft, City of Heroes, Super Smash Bros Melee, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Doom 3, Digimon World DS, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Resident Evil 4, TimeSplitters 2, Façade, Psychonauts, Saints Row The Third, Team Fortress 2, AudioSurf, Kameo: Elements of Power, Minecraft, Portal, Fallout 3, Left 4 Dead 1-2, Fez, L.A. Noire, Borderlands, Stacking, Picross DS, Brain Age, Tao's Adventure, Hotel Dusk, StarFox Adventures (on my then-bf's gamecube), Okami, Final Fantasy 3 DS, Rayman Raving Rabbids, WarioWare: Smooth Moves, MySims, Innocent Life: A Futuristic Harvest Moon, Draglade (DS), Dawn of Mana, Drawn to Life, Zack and Wiki, We Love Katamari, Orcs and Elves, Nanostray, LostWinds, Metal Gear Solid 4, Brütal Legend, Eversion, Ragnarok Online (on a player server), Spore, World of Goo, X-COM: UFO Defense, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King, LIT, A Boy and His Blob (WayForward), Aliens: Infestation, Mighty Switch Force!, Harvest Moon DS, Animal Crossing Wild World, DeathSpank, Final Fantasy hallway one, Out of Order (Tim Furnish), Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, 7 Days a Skeptic, Alan Wake, The White Chamber, Final Fantasy Adventure, Final Fantasy Legend 1-3, Robotron 2084, Qix, Castle Crashers,
More recent adulthood -- To The Moon, Portal 2, Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, Indigo Prophecy, Detroit: Become Human, Overwatch, Paladins Life is Strange 1/BTS/2, Human Resource Machine/7 Billion Humans, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Assassin's Creed 1, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Assassin's Creed Valhalla (yawn), Remember Me, Gurumin, Hack N Slash, Massive Chalice, Etrian Odyssey, Dragon Age Origins/Awakening/2/Inquisition, Tomb Raider/Shadow of/Rise of, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, A Way Out, BattleBlock Theater, Nine Parchments, Mass Effect 1, The Walking Dead Season 1, Limbo, Mark of the Ninja, Super Meat Boy, Rayman Origins, Rayman Legends, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, Dreamfall Chapters, Obduction, Metroid Prime 1, Game Dev Story (Kairosoft), Dungeon Village (Kairosoft), Monster Hunter World, Monster Hunter Rise, God of War reboot, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles the Crystal Bearers, Secret of Mana remake, Trials of Mana remake, Banished, Prison Architect, Gone Home, Blackwell series (except the last game, which wasn't out when I originally binged them), FTL, Broken Age, Broken Sword 1-2, Cities Skylines, Dark Void Zero, Death Stranding, Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten, Disco Elysium, House Flipper, Invisible Inc, Fran Bow, Primordia, King's Quest (reboot), Later Alligator, Legend of Grimrock, Legend of Grimrock 2, Limbo, Loop Hero, Message Quest, Shadow of Mordor, Freedroid RPG, Nihilumbra, One Hour One Life, Orcs Must Die!, Princess Remedy, Proteus, Risk of Rain 2, Rogue Legacy, Rogue, Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed, Spelunky, Thomas Was Alone, Stardew Valley, Subnautica, Intro the Breach, The Dig, The Fall, Frog Detective 1, The Journey Down Chapter 1, The Maw, Night in the Woods, Torchlight 1-2, Undertale, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Wandersong, PUBG, Animal Crossing New Horizons, Rune Factory 4, The Cave, Final Fantasy 15, Octopath Traveler, Horizon Zero Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan, Until Dawn, Overcooked, Baba Is You, Hypnospace Outlaw, BoxBoy! + BoxGirl!, Outer Wilds, Game Builder Garage, Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy, Bibleman (PC), Five Nights at Freddy's, Control, Loom, Yoku's Island Express, Fledgling Heroes, Good Job!, Moving Out, Ring Fit Advneture, Song Bird Symphony, Streets of Rogue, Sky, Wilmot's Warehouse, Super Mario Odyssey, Fire Emblem Three Houses, Destiny 2, Fuser, Yakuza: Like a Dragon, Overland, Gender Wrecked, Extreme Meatpunks Forever: Bound By Ash, Transistor, Giana Sisters: Twisted Dream, Antichamber, Realm of the Mad God,
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We grew up on PC games. Friends all had SNES, we didn't get a PS1 until right when the PS2 was released. My sister had a GBA at one point. Oh, the parents made my stepbro give me his Game Gear, I really loved the games I had on there because it was my only console as a child, haha.
Once I began working at 16 years old I began buying older consoles but this was during adulthood. I also began using NES/SNES emulators when I was a teenager on my first computer.
I had a Nintendo DS during my time at community college and university (Age 14 - 21), I spent a lot of time on those. <3
Consoles I have/have had: ColecoVision, Atari 2600, GameGear, GBA, Gameboy Color, DS, 3DS, NES, SNES, Wii, Switch, Genesis, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, XBox 360, OUYA, Playdate (preordered!!)
All time favorite video games... (In no particular order)
Dragon Quest Builders 2, Obduction, Outer Wilds, Divinity Original Sin 2, Metal Gear Solid 2-3, Life is Strange 1, Dragon Age Origins, Picross DS, Quake 3 Arena, Human Resource Machine, Rayman Origins, Final Fantasy X, Bastion, Death Stranding?,
Games I'ved loved but don't feel as strongly about now, but still fond for: Septerra Core, Quake 1, Curse of Monkey Island, Spyro 1-3, Legend of Mana, Commander Keen, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Beyond Good and Evil,
TV Shows
| Item | Date watched | Status | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Better Call Saul | 2022 | All seasons | Waiting for the last batch of episodes! :0 |
| Our Flag Means Death | 2022 | Season 1 | Make more please!! Gay pirates! |
| Ted Lasso | 2022 | Season 1, 2 | Y'all were right - it IS wholesome! |
| Shadow and Bone | 2021 | Season 1 | I like it! |
| Never Have I Ever | July 2021 | Season 1, Season 2 | Yay it's gay. I don't really care about either dude. |
| Centaurworld | August 2021 | Season 1 | Shiny. |
| Marmalade Boy | 2021 | Abandoned | I loved these comics as a kid, but why are there so many episodes?? I lost interest. |
| Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts | 2020 | Season 1 | I need to finish this, aaahhh!! |
| She-Ra | 2020 | All seasons | Great! |
| Boys Over Flowers (Korean Drama) | 2014? | Finished | Guilty pleasure lol |
| Rooftop Prince (Korean Drama) | I really liked it, but I can't find a way to watch it again. :( |
All time favorite TV shows... (In no particular order)
Xena: Warrior Princess, Avatar: The Last Airbender, She-ra,
Stuff I'll definitely watch if you put it on... Breaking Bad, Star Trek (any, but the original less so), The Good Place, probably any shoujo animes, The [movies/toys/etc] that made us, Rilakkuma and Kaoru, most documentaries probably,
Movies
| Item | Date watched | Thoughts |
|---|---|---|
| My Neighbor Totoro | As a child | |
| Kiki's Delivery Service | As a child | I love it and watch when I'm burnt out :( |
| The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra | As a teen | My favorite movie of all time |
All time favorite movies... (In no particular order)
THE LOST SKELETON OF CADAVRA, Kiki's Delivery Service,
Stuff I'll definitely watch if you put it on... Sunset Boulevard, Casablanca, Jackie Brown, Mulan, any Ghibli movie, Arrival, most documentaries, The Matrix, Some Like It Hot, Being John Malkovich,
I don't even watch that much TV or movies because I have a hard time sitting still and not doing anything.