In which I show my interests and other things
The purpose of this page is to showcase various things I find good, interesting, or under-appreciated enough to warrant showing to people.
If I find that I have a LOT to say about something, I'll give it its own section, like in Random Thoughts.
This will include all sorts of media (games, books, movies, series, etc), mushed together without any form of sorting, as well as random things I find.
When talking to people about my interests, I tend to just blurt out whatever comes to mind, so I thought of keeping the spirit of just me telling you about random bullshit I care about by keeping this as unorganised as my mind.
fuck i ran out of things to occupy this space with again
have more skull gifs i found in internet archive
Outer Wilds (and Echoes of the Eye)
What can I say about my favorite videogame that doesn't spoil the experience?
Outer Wilds is one of those pieces of art that you really gotta go in knowing as little about it as possible. I can say, though, that it made me cry, it reinforced my love of life, human connection and art, it made me scream out-loud in fear.
I can also say that it's a metroidvania where the only progress items are pieces of knowledge. You could, if you knew what you're doing, beat the game in 20 minutes. The way the gameplay, puzzles, exploration, setting and story all add to each other without leaving ANY redundant or pointless shit just blows my entire left nut into eight quintillion pieces (i dont know how else to finish lol)
Lupin the 3rd
This was my previous obsession back in 2021 and 2022. I'm no longer obsessed, but I still love and return to Lupin III every now and then.
There's been more than 50 years of Lupin, so Lupin is not really about one thing. Some authors and fans emphasize the freedom aspect, some really love the outlaw justice, some take out their gigantic meaty creative muscles and ask just what kind of person would Lupin and the gang have to be to lead the kinds of lives they lead.
As there's more than 50 years of Lupin, the quality of what you'll see will vary extremely wildly, ranging from sick as FUCK to total dogshit, to aggresively mid.
If you want my faves, I can give you Parts 4, 2 and 1, The Mystery of Mamo, The Fuma Conspiracy, all of The Woman Called Fujiko Mine and the movies that followed, and this absolute banger of a fanmade gay ship visual novel that gets the characters SO well and uses its format to tell a very cute, very funny, VERY well-written love story.
The Sopranos
This is my favorite show of all time, full stop, nothing even compares in my opinion.
It's one of those shows where not a single character is weak or bad (don't get me wrong, almost everyone could be called a bad person, but bad character? not a single one).
It's a show where everything affects everything. Tony's domestic family and his criminal family constantly get in the way of each other, and everyone else.
The best part about The Sopranos (besides just how intensely freudian it can get) is that every character has their own inner world; nobody is what they are or does what they do just because. Everyone's actions, choices, moods, ideologies, personalities, etc; all of it comes from somewhere, and the show never, EVER forgets about that.
Not every aspect of it has aged well, there's some very incorrect facts said about BPD, but other than that, I'd say it's a phenomenal show that I'd recommend to pretty much everyone everywhere ever.
Yakuza/Like a Dragon franchise
I think I just like art that screams "I AM FULL OF LIFE" to my face.
This franchise is one of my favorite lifelong commitments (seriously, there's like ten main games, each 500 trillion hours long). It shoves its entire gameussy on you with joy and style.
Ok, but really, at their most basic, these are games about passionate people on the verge of losing everything that matters to them and finding ways to overcome and thrive through not just their own strength but also the strength they all give each other.
There's also a constant comparison between the scheming corrupt massive organizations (like the more institutional and power-hungry part of the Yakuza, society in general, etc) that keep people down and alienate us, and the kind of individual communities (like friends and family) that make people persevere through the worst of circumstances through their support and their influence.
But that alone is not the reason why I'm writing about it right now. What makes it stand out, for me, is how well it mixes the most serious of drama with the goofiest shit you'll ever see. These games give you characters that remain entirely 100% consistent when their best friends all die and when Michael Jackson asks them to fight some zombies.
It's the fact that we see them singing karaoke, playing bowling, drinking with strangers, and helping martial-artist grandmas fight punks that make the entirely serious moments hit like nuclear missiles. You know these guys, you know just how much joy and how much suffering they've experienced.
and then i wrote another sentence that perfectly ended this section, the end.
Katamari Damacy
To quote the famous Tumblr post:
"katamari damacy is the game ever .you select a level and your giant father calls you a shithead to your face and then places you onto earth and tells you to go roll up some fish for 10 minutes and then the best song you’ve ever heard starts playing"
That's the essence of the game, a playful and lovely time that pummels you over and over with charm and goofyness. A dreamlike experience where you start by collecting matches, coins and pins and end up devastating entire continents and landmasses as people desperately and hopelessly run away from your gigantic mass of devastation... only to learn that it's fine! People love the little ball of everything you managed to consolidate (in fact, both your father and, in the case of We Love Katamari, the people who requested your katamari seem disappointed if you don't roll up enough stuff).
All the while, some EXTREMELY fucking great music plays during all of your sessions, giving the entire level this "hehehhehehehe :3" energy that ties it all together into a very encouraging lil burst of hoarding.
It also helps that the final rating that your strict and neglectful but absurdly handsome father gives you pushes you to learn the levels and really go for the most optimal way to gather as much shit as you possibly can.
It's an experience I appreciate more and more as time passes, and is only really satisfied by these games, and maybe Sonic or Rhythm Heaven. I clock out of my job, or come home from a lovely but tiring social event, turn on the racecar level from We Love Katamari and reset seventeen quadrillion times whenever my run doesn't start in the most optimal way possible.
Half an hour later, my spirit has been cleansed and renewed, and I have a smile on my face. I think it's admirable when a game can do that to someone.
Los Simuladores
oh my FUCKING god what a good show, JESUS
I don't know how easy it is to get this show with English subtitles but please, do yourself a favour and WATCH THIS.
What's this show about? Confidence schemes! Think The Great Pretender but good, and nobody doing the actual scheme is out of the loop.
There's a lot of context that's specific to post-2001 early 2000s Argentina, but there's never anything that you'd go "huh????????" at if you don't know about it.
What ties this show together is the main four characters. All of them have VERY different personalities, and all of them have different areas of expertise, but the four of them come together and complement each other beatufully.
As this is also a 20+ year old show, not all of it has aged well, but the drama and comedy of it are second to none, especially in Argentine TV.
So please, stop whatever you're doing right now and watch Los Simuladores. The first episode's not much more than a good introduction, but the second one is just an absolute banger.
Other things
This section is dedicated to things I feel are worth including but don't have that many words to dedicate to them (not that that makes them any less notable)
Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
Another game (at least partly) about life and how to live. You're born and immediately you have expectations to fulfill, nowhere NEAR enough guidance, and a magical seed that helps you cope with the world by shutting up every supposedly undesirable emotion. There's more I could say but I'm trying to keep it short. What draws me so hard about this game, to the point where it was my favorite before Outer Wilds came around, is the fucking perfect vibes this game has going for it, the insane charm that never leaves even for a moment, and how EVERYTHING, from the world, to the gameplay to the music contributes to the beautiful story it tells. Having played the first game contributes to the experience of this one, but it is absolutely not necessary in order to enjoy it.
Pikmin franchise
First of all: adorable little guys carry stuff for you while making cute noises. That alone makes me love it already.
For real tho. Pikmin is a stressful multi-tasking game, and I don't normally like stressful multi-tasking games. However, I think the reason I love Pikmin so much is how well controlled it all is. It's never too stressful or chaotic. Makes sense that I got into it at an extremely stressful moment in my life where I felt like I needed to be everywhere at once, and playing a game that puts you in that exact same kind of situation and tells you "it can be done" appealed to me.
This sick fucking skull I have
Ain't it cool?
Avatar: The Last Airbender
I've been in love with this show since I was like, seven or eight, and I'm still in love with it now.
There's phenomenal growth in all of the characters, incredible animation and locales, and something I love to see is that all the different bending styles look recognisably like martial arts, with their own moves and feels to them.
If you somehow haven't seen this masterpiece of a show, please stop committing the crime that is depriving yourself of having seen this show. It is punishable by death.
Fallout franchise
To be clear, I've only played Fallout 1, 2, and New Vegas. I have no plans to play Fallout 3, I want to play Tactics, and I played a little bit of 4 before getting pissed off at how nothing it was and quitting.
Two things appeal to me about Fallout: First, its lovely stories, both in main quests and side quests. There's always something going on somewhere. The world is never there for you, you are just in the middle of it.
The other thing that really gets to me is that it's a franchise about a nuclear post-apocalypse, yet people are still goofing. The world is harsh, death is everywhere, but there's always fun goin on somewhere, people living and not just surviving. It's good to think that humanity can survive and rebuild from even the most catastrophic of circumstances.
Chainsaw Man
SICK fucking action, just insane, both in the manga and the anime.
That's just one incredible aspect of this work that draws me. I also think it does something kinda similar to Yakuza, in the sense that it shows very clearly how our friends, our family, those we call our loved ones can give us the strength to do amazing things.
It also shows how the appearance of that, especially when used on people who desperately need and crave human connection, can be used to manipulate, control, and abuse.
Denji is also a little fucking gremlin man whom I love.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Had I made this website four years ago, Jojo would have an entire section dedicated to it.
There's not much I can say about Jojo that hasn't been said before, So I'll just say that every part is good, and I respect the fuck out of Araki for letting every one of them have a different kind of appeal and vibe to it.
My favorite part rn as of 20/02/2024 is Part 4, my favorite Jojo is Jolyne and my favorite JoBro is Gyro.
And that's it!
That is alllllll
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No sirree
wait
Oh no
oh shit
oh fuck!
I am so sorry,
but it seems like you have just
wandered into...
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The Star Trek Zone!
OOPS! Turns out I'm also a pretty big trekkie!
Ok, I'm not enough of a trekkie to know all the lore and trivia.
But I did care enough to make this whole section.
Sorry the text is so strange, I'm trying not to cover DS9.
(the best one, btw)
Oh, and that font is called "Rocket Rinder", I got it from fontspace.
The Original Series
My god I love the "eh fuck it" attitude this one has to lore. This show just loves to make shit up on the spot, and that is just incredible.
It's also fun to see "the show that started it all," the cheesy 60s exaggerated acting, the skungy sets, the gorgeous model of the Enterprise (sadly Netflix only has the version with the CGI recreation), and the wild moon logic they use for some of the twists.
What I could get the most out of from this show was the performances. There's a reason why there's two Leonard Nimoys to the sides of this text, the man was legendary. William Shatner and DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koenig, too. They're all incredible (Nichols especially, whenever they let Uhura do anything).
It has issues, it drags at times, what at the time was insanely progressive still had a very US-centric perspective, and half the episodes are just "what if problem BUT ALSO WOMAN?? WOMAN SEX???????????????" Roddenberry had his preferences.
So, if you can take the show and its problems for what they are, you're in for some incredible 60s silly yet sincere optimistic sci-fi.
The Animated Series
Very bad. Skip it unless you like laughing at the cheap 1970s animation.
The Original Series (movies)
Ok so, the first movie is boring as shit and it kinda slays because of that, but I wouldn't recommend it really.
Other than that, you're in for an amazing time with Star Trek II to VI (II, III and IV especially), to the point where I'd recommend them even if you haven't really seen much Star Trek before.
They get serious, they get big, they get goofy, all in the best ways possible. Plus, III and IV show that Nimoy could fUCKING DIRECT holy shit those movies are SO well directed.
These movies follow a continuous plot, though the most important ones are 2, 3 and 4's, and then 5 and 6's.
They might be lacking in weirdo goofy shit to the level that the show went to (except for the first one maybe) but FUUUCK they offer so much in its place it's worth it.
i know this is the enterprise c shhhhhhhhhh
The Next Generation
The best show about guys sitting in a room discussing politics all day.
There's a reason why this show is such a classic. It takes that optimism, that commitment to the very best that humanity can be and it just fucking goes with it.
I wouldn't recommend binging this one, just watch a few episodes at a time, cus otherwise it can start to feel very repetitive.
Just like with TOS, this show would not be the same without its characters. While they're all phenomenal (and Tasha could've been if she were given more of a chance), the best of the best here is Data. Brent Spiner's performance, not just as Data, but Lore, Noonien Soong, but all the other excuses he gets to flex how truly versatile he is.
Worf is also very important to the progressive message of the show. Here you have a fucking Klingon, a race that was the main antagonist in TOS, TAS and the movies, serving on the flagship of the Federation of Planets! It helps that Michael Dorn also slays hard as Worf, there's a reason he was brought back for DS9 (other than boosting ratings, I promise).
There's so much TNG, and so many different types of episodes that I struggle to think about one specific thing that I could say about the whole show. I can say that there's bound to be something for you in TNG, and if you don't wanna watch it from beginning to end (understandable, the first two seasons are ROUGH), you can't go wrong with watching random episodes.
Another good thing TNG brought is the best Star Trek videogame (and perhaps best ever videogame).
also i think data does have emotions, he doesnt need the chip he just expresses them differently :c
TNG Movies
I really don't have much to say about these.
They mostly just follow Data and Picard, without much caring that much for the other characters.
Generations is alright, if a bit mid, though the PS3 ass lighting they use on thE SAME SETS AS THE SHOW to say "ooo we got movie budget" is very funny. First Contact is really good, though I'm not that big a fan of the Borg Queen as a concept. Insurrection is a bad movie, but an EXCELLENT Star Trek movie. Nemesis is garbage, trash shit.
If you were about to die and watching one of these movies was the only way of saving you, I'd say First Contact is the best one. The only prior knowledge you need for this one is that Data got the emotion chip recently.
I exaggerate, they're not that bad. Just know that you're not getting into the excellent saga that the TOS movies were.
i found this gif while looking for borg stuff and i lost my shit, it's so funny
Deep Space Nine
"On Earth there is no poverty, no crime, and no war. You look out the window and you see Paradise. Well, it's easy to be a saint in Paradise but the Maquis do not live in Paradise." - Benjamin Lafayette Sisko in "The Maquis, Part II"
OH BOY DEEP SPACE NINE
Ok strap your seatbelts, tuck your dicks in, get fucking ready because DS9 is PEAK Star Trek.
This show made the bold decision in the 90s to be serialised instead of episodic, and I think it's part of why it has aged SO much better than the other shows.
EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER is a delight to see on screen, both in serious moments, and in more comedic bits. There's some characters that start out kinda meh but grow SO much over the course of the show that by the end you just wanna give them a lil kiss on the lips.
They fleshed out the Cardassians, they made the Ferengi good (Quark is my boyfriend btw, this is A QUARK APPRECIATING WEBSITE), they seriously considered the political tensions between a very recently occupied peoples, their former colonizing freaks, and the fucking Federation of Planets.
The show gets darker than ever, but it also has some of the best comedy in the franchise. Seriously you cannot go wrong with this one, it is a banger from top to bottom (Except "Profit and Lace", do NOT watch "Profit and Lace").
Luckily, they had the grace to make the only bad episode completely skippable. Literally everything else in DS9 is fucking perfection and you need to watch it RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
Voyager
More like VoyaMID
Ok, Voyager is not all mid, some episodes are REALLY good. My problem with Voyager is that it commits the sin of being comfort food.
Now, there's nothing wrong with a comfort food show, something easy to watch to unwind or chill but, at least for me, Star Trek is the last place I'd go looking for comfort food.
I think Steve Shives put it best when he said Voyager suffers from having "perfectly acceptable Trek" episodes.
I also don't love what they've done to the Borg. They went from imposing and terrifying to another set of recurring villains that they can understand and maneuver around without THAT much trouble.
I do, however, fucking LOVE Seven of Nine, she's me, she is myself and she is me, literally me, you see her and you see me. That is not a character, that is my soul travelling into Jeri Ryan's body in 1997. That is to be my fate when I die, it is written. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
It's a shame, cus when they take advantage of their unique setting, they do some truly incredible things! Sadly, half the episodes were just "hey, remember TNG?"
Enterprise
Boring as shit, skipped it halfway through.
They had the chance to show a side of humanity that was still developing the kind of progressivism and acceptance that TOS and TNG were famous for, but instead they just did TNG again... but with DIFFERENT TECHNO-BABBLE.
What kills this show, other than the crawl that is its pacing, is that it's not confident in its premise. Every piece of technology present in TOS has an analogue here, hell the second or third episode has an alien race with a holodeck!
They coul've had something spectacular here, but they lacked the confidence to really get it right.
But hey, the opening is funny as hell, T'Pol and Phlox are amazing, and I adore the look of the Enterprise here.
The Kelvin Timeline
Some people say this is not Star Trek, I say bullshit.
As of 21/02/2024, there's only three movies in this timeline and I can say that 2 out of 3 good ones is pretty alright.
If you come in expecting TOS again, you'll be very disappointed. In fact, the second movie, Into Darkness, completely shits itself in trying to be Wrath of Khan again (and not just because Benedict Cumberbatch's Khan doesn't even come close to the big titty old man perfection that was Ricardo Montalbán's).
But if you accept the more frenetic pacing, the fact that these are younger, more inexperienced versions of the characters you already know, you're in for a pretty fucking good first and third movie, with a second movie that's completely skippable.
They're not the best shit you'll ever see, but it's fun, it's different, and it is, indeed, Star Trek.
Discovery
All of these came out way after the apex of Geocities so these gifs are gonne be much more sparse and boring. Sorry.
This one's super dull. They derail the first season with an extremely stupid venture into the Mirror Universe, the Klingon shit is super boring. This is another Star Trek show I dropped after the second season.
Good things it does, though. Saru, the cutie to the right over there. Captain Pike, he's set up for the next show I'll be talking about. And I'd be doing Star Trek as a whole a disservice if I didn't pay respects to Disco for bringing it back from the dead.
But yea, there's not much more to this. I'd say this is where the real pit of Mid Trek lies. Skip it, you're not missing much.
Picard
Haven't seen it
Heard it's dogshit
Strange New Worlds
Of the modern Trek shows, this one's easily the best of the best, I REALLY like what it's doing.
This is a prequel to TOS, that follows Pike, the captain that came before Kirk and got strapped to the Beep Chair by the time TOS season 2 took place.
If you expect this to look and feel exactly like "TOS minus a few years", you're not gonna see much of value here, and I think you should do some introspection, because what you want is slop, and this is absolutely NOT slop.
What this is is a different take on the returning characters, along with a few new ones, and a lil sweetiepie of a captain.
It brings back some of the wacky weird shit that TOS got to, while also not trying to emulate all of its atmosphere.
All the classics are here: reusing and trashing the set of the ship to make a different ship, the "an epidemic spreads across the Enterprise and we need to find a cure ASAP" episode, the "what if this alien race is just trying to communicate with us?" episode, all the greats.
But again, this is not just a re-tread of old tropes. The atmosphere is all new, the look of the show is genuinely different (and gorgeous), there's new premises that feel like capital C Classics (oh my GOD please watch Among the Lotus Eaters), and THEY MADE THE FIRST MUSICAL EPISODE IN ALMOST 60 YEARS OF STAR TREK AND IT SLAPS IT FUCKS SO HARD, CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY'D NEVER MADE ONE BEFORE???????????
It's also more episodic, but that really works here! And while not at all perfect, every episode has been a blast.
The only episode that, for me, doesn't work at all is the Lower Decks crossover (Season 2, Episode 7: "Those Old Scientists") but the reasons why it doesn't work are all the reasons why Lower Decks in general is meh, though this episode is still alright.
It also continues the trend of every Spock actor being super hot, so hey, that's another reason to watch it. Seriously, this is one you don't wanna sleep on.
Lower Decks
Ok, you know how I accused Voyager of being comfort food? Well, Lower Decks is junk food.
This is a show written by Star Trek giganerds, for Star Trek giganerds. That means it's lovely for when you're feeling like seeing a whole bunch of references, but it also means that it suffers in terms of having an actual plot or its own identity.
My issue with this show is that the characters are written like Star Trek fans, and the universe of Star Trek isn't made up of Star Trek fans, it's made up of Star Trek characters.
I do come back to this show a lot, now that I have all this lore in my head that I need validated. Like I said, it's made for bitches like me.
So yeah, this is a pretty good show if you've seen everything else and you wanna see it all again in joke form, but unfortunately, it does not boldly go anywhere.
Ok NOW I'm done.