You could achieve the same effect by grabbing some guy off the street and injecting cocaine into his veins. Might make for better music

look 10 movies in a year is a lot for me. i think i saw one singular movie in cinemas in 2024 and it was a showing of monty python.

the main reason i go to the cinema is to eat popcorn

Looking at my list, there are 4 tiers to it. 10-7 are slop, made for making money by utilising known IPs. These movies have no creativity or originality. 5-6 are good slop, adaptations that do something interesting with the source material and are interesting standalone movies. 4-2 are great original movies that are made because someone had a vision. Chainsaw Man is in a tier of its own.

11 days into January is surely not too late to rank all the movies I watched in cinema in 2025 (in ascending order)

10- Captain America: Brave New World. Dogshit movie. Its offensively bland with no themes or creativity whatsoever. Just a series of action scenes strung together by bad dialogue. 1/10. I can’t think of a single thing I liked about it beyond some competent action scenes

9- Fantastic 4: it’s mid. Its whatever. You can skip it. 5/10. It doesn’t do much wrong, doesn’t do much right, does a lot of things just fine. I’ll never rewatch it.

8- Avatar: Fire and Ash. Did I enjoy this movie? Yes, I think it’s hilarious. Its way, way too long and basically the exact same as the second Avatar movie. I enjoy forgetting all the plot and characters of avatar movies as soon as I walk out of them. 4/10, this movie doesn’t do anything interesting but it does do a lot of very funny things.

7- Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Easily the funniest movie I watched this year. The first movie was acceptable, this one was so bad that it’s good. I disliked every single writing decision, but the props and sets looked amazing. 3/10 Josh Hutcherson rips an animatronics head off.

6 - Thunderbolts. Now I’m in actually good movie territory. A marvel movie that I want to rewatch. On par with some of the better marvel movies, I’d say tying with Guardians of the Galaxy as somewhere in the top 5. I went in expecting nothing and was very very pleasantly surprised. 7/10, more of this please marvel

5 - Superman. Idk if it’s as good as Thunderbolts, there’s an argument to be made either way, but I think about it a lot more than Thunderbolts. A movie celebrating kindness and humanity felt very needed in 2025. 7/10

4 - Sinners. These next three are interchangeable tbh, I think they’re all great. Sinners was a really good movie, but I don’t think it clicked with me the way it did for others. 9/10, great but not top-tier imo.

3- One Battle After Another. This movie had such a strange, discordant tone that I really liked, swinging between stoner comedy, political thriller and social commentary. 9/10 the most pro-drink-driving movie I’ve ever seen.

2 - 28 Years Later. This movie really surprised me with how good it was. I thought the trailer looked good but zombie media does nothing for me. This actually does something interesting with the themes of zombies, in death, birth and war. Also I just love the depictions of a massive English wilderness. 9/10

1- Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc. This movie was made for me. The gap between my number 2 and 10 is about as big as the gap between 2 and 1. Its mind blowing. Its beyond beautiful. MAPPA did such an incredible job. A perfect adaptation of ky favourite manga. This might be my favorite movie of all time. 10/10, holy fuck I could say so much about why I love this movie. Perfect

I QUIT MY JOB LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

I spent my last day reading Blackshirts and Reds and stealing from the register

Last night I dreamt that I was running a tabletop version of Deltarune for my sisters and their boyfriends who have no idea what Deltarune is. So I made character sheets for Kris, Susie, Noelle and Berdly, and decided not to make one for Ralsei since he shows up later than everyone else and is a tutorial character. The character sheets all had objectives on them to railroad the game into the actual story of Deltarune, like Susie and Kris had the objective to get chalk. I don’t know why my dream went so in depth about ttrpg mechanics but honestly the objective thing seems like a good idea

Things that happened in my dream last night:

I received karate training from a really nice guy. He was the apprentice of some elder karate master. He said I was learning really well.

My parents said that Maduro is no saint. I argued that there have probably been some saints in history who have done pretty fucked up things, worse than Maduro, so therefore Maduro actually should be a saint. Chavez too.

I kissed a girl with really dry lips.

I teamed up with Denji and Yoru to fight Spiderman and some other prehistoric devils. I wondered how the hell I could fight, given that Denji is Chainsaw Man and Yoru is the War Devil and they both have powers and I’m just some guy. Then I remembered my karate training from earlier in the dream (amazing foreshadowing). I karate chopped a big hairy guy and I grabbed Spiderman by his web and swung him around like a hammer throw, then spiked him into the ground.

There was also boobs.

The avatar movies are very funny for a lot of reasons, but one of them is the way that Jake Sully treats adoption. He takes blue Jesus into his family entirely, even though she is a clone of Sigourney Weaver, and not related to him biologically. She is treated as a full part of the family, her siblings call her sister and her parents call her daughter.

Then there’s the white kid with dreads who was also raised by Jake and grew up on Pandora and spends all his time with Jake’s family. But Jake is like. Yeah he’s just some guy. Not my son idfc. I don’t really fuck with him so I’m not adopting him. I’m fact I’m really considering killing him (this actually happens)

US is already in a soft recession, natural/climate disaster is a given, China is already making inroads in soft power as of 2025 (REDnote explosion in early 2025, “I’m in a very Chinese time of my life” is a dumb meme but demonstrates that people are becoming a lot less hostile to China), AI agent does something unexpected is very vague, idk what “another deepseek moment” means. Of the ones that aren’t a given, I think a social media exodus is actually very likely. I’ve seen a lot of pushback on social media and a big push to touch grass. It might not be an organized thing, but rather people quietly logging off.

The most unlikely is AR glasses becoming good. They will always be for dorks

I watched some anti-SJW garbage for a couple months when I was around 14. I didn’t go that far down the pipeline, I watched stuff like h3h3 and Amazing Atheist. I had literally no idea what they were talking about, I was 14 and had no context for politics, but I just saw other people saying they were good and funny and absorbed that opinion. Then I guess I realised pretty quickly that I didn’t agree with any of it

I watched avatar 3 today and it’s a pretty decent movie until the 3rd act, which is literally identical to the 2nd movie’s 3rd act. Like the exact same situations, characters and setting.

No, 4 out of 7 chapters are currently released, with chapter 5 set to release in 2026

What can you say to recommend Requieum for Skyrim?

I played a lot of games this year, but literally none of them matter in comparison to Deltarune. Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 released at some point this year and hijacked my mind like an evil fungus. It was simply incredible. The music is unparalleled, I truly believe that if you don’t like a single aspect of Deltarune you will like the music anyway. Listen to the soundtrack if you haven’t. Some highlights are Guardian, Ruder Buster and the Third Sanctuary. None of these are my favourite one, but my favourite comes with a very very cool narrative moment and I think its best to go in completely blind. The Third Sanctuary is unlike anything I’ve ever heard.

I don’t want to say too much about the story because if you haven’t played Deltarune, and Undertale was of any interest to you whatsoever, you need to play it unspoiled. Suffice to say that Kris might have unseated Asa Mitaka as my favourite character in fiction. I’m obsessed with them. Also they’re the most visible nonbinary protagonist that I know of and helped me realise that I was nonbinary back when chapter 2 came out.

Undertale was a generational masterpiece. If you recall ten years ago, a popular discussion among journalists was whether or not video games are art, and people would always point to Undertale as proof of the artistry of video games. It was a paradigm changer. I was utterly obsessed with Undertale, and it was a very obvious 10/10 for me. So when Deltarune was announced, I was pretty cautiously optimistic, because nothing can really live up to Undertale.

But Deltarune is better than Undertale in every single way. Its the easiest 10/10 I’ve ever seen in my life. I thought it would be impossible to surpass Undertale, but Deltarune goes so far above and beyond. Its an incredible achievement.

Its one of those games where, when the credits roll, you know you’ve had something permanently changed in your brain chemistry. You’ll never be able to relive the feeling of playing this game for the first time. Its like Disco Elysium or Nier: Automata, where the ending credits make me realise I’ve just witnessed something beautiful. Deltarune made me feel like this, but with the caveat that the game isn’t even finished yet, its only halfway there. Seeing the message from the narrator and hearing Neverending Nights still gives me chills.

I’m always aware that the creators I love can fail even when they make something incredible. Tatsuki Fujimoto wrote my favourite manga ever, Chainsaw Man, and unfortunately I think part 2 just isn’t as good as part 1. No one is infallible, and I’m always aware of the possibility of disappointment. But Toby Fox might be infallible I’m not gonna lie. Given everything that Undertale and Deltarune have delivered, I can’t possibly imagine being disappointed by the final three chapters.

Honestly I found the 9s segments great because imo the hacking minigame was really well implemented. It flows so quickly between combat and hacking that it didn’t feel like the pace was being destroyed, which really impressed me. That said I still like playing as 2b and a2 more. The hot robot game is so good

A top-tier part of Christmas is working hard all day to eat a meal, stuffing yourself to the gills, then getting warm and sleepy and passing out. I just took a nap that would make even the biggest and lasiest of carnivores jealous. I am in many ways a bear today

Elf general strike when?

I only need one day off next week. I didn’t need to get tested last time I had covid, but it will probably be very obvious that I’m just faking sick to go out instead of working.

Then again I’m quitting in January so maybe I just shouldn’t worry about it

Oh no I just need the one day off next week

Whats the best way to fake being sick for work? I so desperately do not want to be in next week