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Smiling Friends Season 3 (i love it) - The Amazing Digital Circus (Untitled, They All Get Guns and The Beach Episode) Knights of Guinevere Gaslight District Pilot Chainsaw Man - The Movie Reze Arc Creature Commandos (December 2024)

Honorable mentions: Hazbin Hotel Season 2 KPop Demon Hunters

This is not going to be one of those user reviews do. I don't have my unemployment behavior time to lose myself into them and be obsessed with their fictional universes. I'm Millennial and maturity has dominated me with 40-hour week job until my heart stops beating.

Smiling Friends, Knights of Guinevere and a bit of Hazbin Hotel took me over at the time of this comment.

Also I'm not so enthused to watch any latest live-action films. Borderlands Movie and Minecraft A Movie ruined my excitement again.

I watched Superman and it was mid. It's definitely not the best James Gunn's movie ever made. At least, the scene where the monkeys were vilifying Superman on social media made me giggle.

i haven't seen Predator Badlands.

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Video games I like this year (2025): Digimon Story: Time Stranger Dispatch Total Chaos ENA Dream BBQ Episode 1 - Arc Raiders Battlefield 6 FragPunk REPO PEAK

just watched the latest episode of The Amazing Digital Circus. I really like it. The characters has shown their own true colors in the bar scene. Pomni, Jax, Ragatha, Gangle and Zooble has been the most remarkable interactions, especially Jax and Pomni. I noticed Jax's thoughts about Ragatha's toxic positivity after watching it twice. Gooseworx did a nice job on it.

I can relate to Jax after his mischiefs as a coping mechanism on the previous episodes of TADC.

I've played ENA Dream BBQ on Steam and I dig it. Despite how short the game is, I was so into the bizarre world of it. Joel Guerra did a splendid job on it with the influence of LSD Dream Emulator game and some other obscure games. The music and some of the characters are so engaging to see them.

I like the dual-faced ENA from Dream BBQ.

At the time of writing, I'm not planning to use BlueSky for posting art or for one-sided political purposes.

I still use Twitter (or X) as long as it remains active in the long run. It baffles me that there are some lunatics trying to gaslight, vilify and damage that social media app. Hell, that app wasn't popular back when it started in 2006.

I love listening to metal records that were released decades ago. I'm not a fan of edgy metal sound like Bring Me The Horizon, The Black Dahlia Murder or 3 Inches of Blood. My taste for Death Metal or Extreme Metal has faded, too.

After listening to Hangman's Chair's Saddiction and Pantera's albums so many times, my interest of metal regained me a bit of interest in this year.

Metal albums I dig that were released years ago:

This one is not a lengthy take as before. Ambient music was something that I was an impatient teenager as I wasn't appreciative enough for diverse genres. In late 2008, I was able to get into that music.

It has very few beats, but it creates a slow-to-normal-paced vibe.

I'll list the ambient albums I love listening to:

The metal music was the one I grew up playing some racing games like the first Carmageddon, Test Drive 5, Twisted Metal 4 and Road Rash 3D as a little kid. Then in 2000s, the metal music was already introduced to Need for Speed games that I didn't know back then. Then I watched plenty of music videos of metal bands (Korn, Alient Ant Farm, Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet For My Valentine, Disturbed, DragonForce, Fuel, Metallica, Meshuggah, Ministry, Papa Roach, Rob Zombie, Slipknot, Static-X, System of a Down, etc.) playing their instruments on MTV or MuchMusic.

In June 2010, I ended up choosing Brütal Legend over Midnight Club: LA Complete Edition at Best Buy. I was so into that game and I couldn't help it with the great metal selection music at the time.

In Summer/Fall 2010, that's where some aspects of metal got me fully, even grindcore. I didn't have one particular metal genre I love. That was my big fault on it and just went to listen to a shitload of different metal music.

That is until early 2013, the crazy metal has started to fade as months went by. There was no curiosity going on with the death metal/black metal stuff.

In Fall 2013, it's the moment I decided to toss metal to the window and try to find another particular genre and be obsessed with.

Synthwave was my next obsession back May 2016-2022. I thank Hotline Miami 1 and 2 for that. (Perturbator and Gunship)

In November 2020, I gave Insect Ark - The Vanishing a listen and I didn't have no strong opinions of it. I moved on with 80s music and Synthwave then.

In 2021, I was unconsciously really liked Hangman's Chair - Banlieue Triste and it sparked my small taste of doom metal music, shout-out to Perturbator. Same goes for Emma Ruth Rundle with Thou making Doom Metal music and King Woman - Celestial Blues.

2022, Hangman's Chair released their newest album called A Loner. I thought it was nice, but not enough to pique my interest of doom metal.

2023, I managed to listen to Holy Fawn - Dimensional Bleed. It was pretty great, though not obsessed.

What about 2024? Hmm, I can't recall being enthused about that genre with The Body's music or Thou - Umbilical.

Hangman's Chair - Saddiction was released in February 14th this year and I was sorta excited to listen to it.

…it clicked me.

You just have to listen to it for yourself, if that's your thing.

As much as my current obsessions of music are Darkwave and Ambient, I dig Gothic Doom Metal music. I'm pretty picky atm and I'm not going back.

No wonder I love Type O Negative - October Rust (1996).

I don't know how long I'll be obsessed with doomgaze music after Saddiction.

Baby, life is what you make it. Can't escape it Baby, yesterday's favourite Don't you hate it? -Talk Talk, Life's What You Make It (1986)

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Electronic music (2005-present) 80s music (2004-present) Ambient (Late 2008-present) Darkwave (February 2023-present) Gothic Doom Metal/Doomgaze (February 2025-present)

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My past music preferences: Punk (2003-2006) yet I hated my first taste of music looking back to it. Indie Rock (2004-2010; 2014-2020) Post-Hardcore (Late 2005-2011) Metalcore (Late 2005-2012) Extreme Metal Death Metal and Black Metal (August 2010-Mid 2013) Grindcore (2011)

Late 2013-2016 Identity crisis of my current music preference I grew tired of metal… I remember I didn't like EBM Dubstep by Skrillex. Nor the mumble rap or trap music.

It started in mid 2011, 18 years old, I got Mass Effect 2 in PC (2 DVD discs) on early 2011. The first one was on Steam in December 2011.

The moment I booted up the game, I was amazed by the synth music score (Jack Wall who composed it), the character designs of aliens, even there are non-humanoid like Elcor, Hanar, Salarian or Krogan. To this day, I love humanoid aliens in Mass Effect.

I didn't think much of my customizable human character as [Insert first name here] Shepard, while the rest of the NPCs are going to call your last name only. I just thought the humans looked passable at best, without disrespecting them.

I was really immersed myself in the game and its universe and I couldn't help it finding other sci-fi games like that. Bioware did a wonderful creation on Mass Effect Trilogy.

The alien characters like Garrus, Tali'zorah vas Normandy, Wrex, Mordin, Thane, etc. will be remembered the most. The weapons, the worldbuilding, the story, the NPCs and the planets are something that most people will probably forget about them later on.

Mass Effect 2 has the best story mode I've played in early 2012.

Despite Mass Effect 3's reputation by other people, I really like the game itself back when I played it in December 2013.

I love my time of playing the 'Multiplayer' mode. It's a horde mode against NPCs in 20-40 minutes. What's amazing about it is that you can pick the alien races for your playable character.

I'm deflecting the topic here.

If there's such a thing as advanced people out in the universe IRL, I doubt there might be some hot pretty alien humanoid beings in some star system. Whatever their appearances may be, I don't believe they would be communicate with us, nor they would even try. they'll just think humans as ants.

But humans think that they'd welcome a new civilization from outer space.

It's very unlikely or they would cleanse us. Or if the alien species are not advanced and they land in South Africa to find resources in that country and such, it'd be like District 9.

10 years reflecting on alien characters in fiction and people's ideas of what alien lifeforms might look like, I stopped obsessing over non-humanoid aliens and original alien characters.

Mass Effect was an entertainment product I ended up to adore it fictionally. I'm not looking forward to the new Bioware team with Mass Effect 5 after Dragon Age Veilguard's result.

I still love alien character designs, but not obsessively.

I don't have a lengthy take on Marvel Rivals.

It's nothing but fun third-person shooter game by NetEase.

It's such a very rare Chinese company that took my attention and especially 600k concurrent players at the time I'm writing this.

I can't say that I'm so obsessed with the Marvel Rivals atm, but I actually like it and the character designs.

I've been thinking about the older racing games I grew up playing 2 decades ago.

Need for Speed Most Wanted (2005) is still a great street illegal racing game and the game is 20 years old at the time I'm writing this.

But what I get to forget the most is the rivals from the Blacklist, except Ronnie, Toru and Razor.

As a guy who grew up playing some NFS games with a Career Mode, I barely remember Eddie and Samantha from NFSU1. Or Rachel and Caleb from Underground 2.

Kenji, Wolf, Angie and Darius were just okay in NFS Carbon.

Ryo Watanabe was the boring rival I've seen in Prostreet.

Aki Kimura, Ray Krieger, Karol Monroe and Nate Denver? Who the hell are those fellas? (At least, the soundtrack is nice)

What about Undercover? Welp, the player doesn't have rivals. He's an undercover police officer instead.

All I could remember was a mediocre story with this Inspector Maggie Q.

The story has a 2 Fast 2 Furious vibe. It just wasn't good with the handling of the car.

Let's see, Midnight Club?

While people said that the 3rd one considers to be the best Midnight Club game, I don't overlook how awesome the game was. Here's a photo of my car I drove back in 2009.

I just don't cherish the rivals or even remember them. Vanessa? Bishop? And Carlos? I don't even remember their faces before. They just mentioned their names on the game.

Those fictional competitors are from San Diego? Right.

Let's go to Atlanta. We have Roy, Dre, Cheng, Vito, Lamont and Naomi.

I don't even remember them...

As for MC Los Angeles, there aren't many rivals, except for Booke.

So…

I cherish the most rivals in Midnight Club 2.

Moses, Steven, Maria, Angel, Gina, Hector, Dice, Blog, Jewel & Julie, Primo, Stephane, Ian, Farid, Parfait, Shing, Ricky, Halev, Nikko, Zen, Ken'ichi, Makoto and Savo.

Seeing their facial animations and their voices are pretty cool.

Love Gina.

There isn't other racing game with interesting facial rivals like Midnight Club 2.

I almost forgot. I used to play R Racing Evolution.

It's hard to keep up listening to music that's up-to-date or looking at the new releases in music websites such as Bandcamp, Bleep, Pitchfork, etc.

I'm picky when it comes to choosing the albums I like to listen to. Metal and rock don't excite me so much in 2013 as I keep growing up as a Millennial. Darkwave, ambient and some electronic music are my current obsession. Even though, I'm passable about the rock music, I'm not very enthusiastic of it.

I haven't mentioned the other albums here, but I don't think the ones from Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, Coldplay or Glass Animals were the best albums they did. If you enjoy and like those albums, that's okay.

If I have something new to post a thread about the newest albums in December, I'll do it. You guys are welcome to share yours.

I wanted to post this thread a little a bit early before this year ends. These are the ones I've been listening to in 2024:

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Darkwave: Dead Astronauts - Ghosts <3 Feyleux - Midnight Hearts Filmmaker - Grim Encoders (Dark Electro / EBM) NECRO - Into Oblivion Night in Athens - Wasted Reflektions Profit Prison - Gilt Sixth June - Stay! <3 Soror Dolorosa - Mond Sydney Valette - The Healer Electronic music: Erika de Casier - Still Charli XCX - BRAT Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi Skee Mask - Resort Uboa - Impossible Light Kelly Lee Owens - Dreamstate Fennesz - Mosaic (ambient) Old Amica - For alltid (ambient) alva noto - HYbr:ID III (ambient) The Green Kingdom - Arcadian (ambient) / Horizons (ambient)

Other: 070 Shake - Petrichor Arooj Aftab - Night Reign FLO - Access All Areas mk.gee - Two Star & The Dream Police Nessa Barrett - AFTERCARE Tinashe - Quantum Baby The Cure - Songs of a Lost World Wrong Organ - Mouthwashing OST

Honorable mentions / the albums that were okay: (G)I-DLE - 2 

Allie X - Girl with No Face (Synthpop)

Ariana Grande - eternal sunshine 

Arooj Aftab - Night Reign 

Artemas - pretty 

Artemas - yustyna

Astrid S - Joyride 

BUNT. - Levi Don't Do  

Bad Omens - CONCRETE JUNGLE [THE OST]

Bill Ryder-Jones - Iechyd Da 

Black Nail Cabaret - Chrysanthemum (Darkwave)

Blisspoint - DOG 

Blue Oyster Cult - Ghost Stories 

Bolis Pupul - Letter to Yu

Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: NeX GEn 

Bruce Dickinson - The Mandrake Project

C Z A R I N A - Empire 

Calignosia - Malpaís 

Carlita - Sentimental  

Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want to Turn into You: Everasking Edition 

Chelsea Wolfe - She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (Electronic/Goth Rock)

Cigarettes After Sex - X's

Clan Of Xymox - Exodus (Darkwave / Goth Rock)

Disintegration - Shiver in a Weak Light (Post-punk / Synthpop) 

Donny Benet - Infinite Desires (Italo-Disco / Synthpop)

Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism

Echoberyl - Through the Chaos (Darkwave) 

Elbow - Audio Vertigo 

Embedded Figures - 6 Lovers EP (Darkwave) 

Eminem - The Death of Slim Shady 

Erik Wollo - Solastalgia 

FLETCHER -  In Search of the Antidote 

Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

Filmmaker - Land of Hidden Variables (Darkwave-ish with noise) 

Florrie - The Lost Ones 

Four Tet - Three 

Fred again.. - USB / ten days 

Future Islands - People Who Aren't There Anymore 

GENDEMA - sassy things

Gente De Zona - Demasiado

Geordie Greep - The New Sound 

Glaring - Hope (Darkwave)

Goat - Goat 

Golden Apes - Our Ashes at the End of the Day

Greyhaven - Stereo Grief EP

Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free

Habitants - Alma

Hainbach - Breve

Houses of Heaven - Within/Without 

Hudson Mohawke / Tyga - L'Ecstasy 

IAMTHESHADOW - To End What Never Began (Darkwave) 

Iglooghost - Tidal Memory Exo

Jacob Collier - Djesse Vol. 4 

James Woods / Shooter Jennings - Hear the Thunder Crack

Jamie xx - In Waves 

Jlin - Akoma 

John Grant - The Art of the Lie

Judas Priest - Invincible Shield 

Julia Holter - Something in the Room She Moves 

Julian Lage - Speak to Me

KMFDM - LET GO 

Kacy Hill - BUG 

Kaelan Mikla / Bardi Johannsson - The Phantom Carriage OST

Kali Uchis - Orquideas 

Kat Von D - My Side of the Mountain (Synthwave / Synthpop)

Keaton Henson - Somnambulant Cycles (Classical) 

Kelly Moran - Moves in the Field (Piano music)

Kendrick Lamar - GNX 

Kim Gordon - The Collective 

Kinoteki - Faith and the Vessel

L'Ame Immortelle - Ungelebte Leben (EBM / Synthpop)

LEATHERS - Ultraviolet 

Lo Moon - I Wish You Way More than Luck 

Locrian - End Terrain

Lucy Rose - This ain't the Way you Go Out 

MAX - LOVE IN STEREO 

Machine Girl - MG Ultra

Machine Girl - SUPER FREQ EP

Machinedrum - 3FOR82 

Male Tears - Paradisco (New Wave / Synthpop)

Mamaleek - Vida Blue

Marika Hackman - Big Sigh

Marilyn Manson - One Assassination Under God - Chapter 1 

Mark E Moon - Resist (Darkwave)

Maruja - Connla's Well EP 

Mary Lattimore and Walt McClements - Rain on the Road

Matte Blvck - Vows (Dark Electro / Darkwave?) 

Meat Beat Manifesto / Merzbow - Extinct 

Mega Drive - Memory Disc EP 

Micah Dailey-White - Micah

Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa 

Nadine Shah - Filthy Underneath

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

Night Club - Masochist (Darkawave-ish / Synthwave)

Occams Laser - Headspace (Synthwave) 

Ockeroid - Crow Country OST 

Opeth - The Last Will and Testament  

Owen - The Falls of Sioux 

Patricia Taxxon - Bicycle

Paysage D'Hiver - Die Berge

Philippe Blache - Tristitiam Et Metus Tradam Portare Ventis (Dark Ambient / Darkwave-ish) 

Photay - Windswept 

Pink Milk - Night on Earth (Darkwave / Shoegaze)

Porter Robinson - SMILE! :D 

Priest - Dark Pulse (Darkwave / Synthwave)

Qual - Techsick EP 

Ravyn Lenae - Bird's Eye

Remi Wolf - Big Ideas 

Ritchot Textiles - i 

SENTRIES - Snow as a Metaphor for Death 

SINE - Luxuria 

Sabrina Carpenter - Short N Sweet

Sega Bodega - Dennis 

Selofan - Animal Mentality (Post-Punk)

Shygirl - Club Shy 

Skee Mask - D 

Slash - Orgy of the Damned

Sleeping Rabbits - Breathing Room EP

Snow Strippers - Night Killaz, Vol. 2 

Sofi Tukker - BREAD 

Soft Kill - Escape Forever 

Squarepusher - Dostrotime

St. Vincent - All Born Screaming

TR/ST - Performance (Darkwave / Synthpop)

The Black Monolith - End and Beginning are Dreams 

The Fauns - How Lost (Dream Pop / Shoegaze)

The KVB - Tremors 

The Spirit of the Beehive - You'll Have to Lose Something 

The Sweet Kill - Nowhere 

Thief - Bleed, Memory (Darkwave / Experimental) [Prophecy Productions]

Thou - Umbilical

Toby Driver - Raven, I Know that You Can Give Me Anything 

Tommy Richman - COYOTE

Tomo Akikawabaya - The Castle II (Darkwave and Minimal wave)

Tusks - Gold

Twenty One Pilots - Clancy 

Tyla - Tyla 

Tyler, The Creator - CHROMAKOPIA

ULTRA SUNN - US

Ulver - Liminal Animals 

Union of Knives - Start from the Endless

VR SEX - Hard Copy 

Vampire Weekend - Only God was Above Us

Vince Staples - Dark Times 

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

Whores - War

Witch of the Vale - 100 Ways to Leave, Vol.1

Xiu Xiu - 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto with Bison Horn Grips 

ben. - subculture

ben. - subculture 

i Haxa - i Haxa

r beny - discerned in the fugue of streams 

sleepmakeswaves - It's Here, But I have no Names for it

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Ambient:

Actress - Statik 

Alora Crucible - Oak Lace Apparition

Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 5 (ambient) 

Black Brunswicker - A Moment of Clarity EP 

Disasterpeace - Standstill

Duncan Ritchie - Lords of Wolves OST

Faded Cloak - Wrapped in Fog and Freezing Mist 

Field Lines Cartographer - Portable Reality Generator

Jogging House - Rendezvous

Lustmord - Much Unseen Is Also Here 

Mark Van Hoen - Plan for a Miracle 

Nils Frahm - Day 

Nonkeen - All Good? 

Polypores - There Are Other Worlds

Pye Corner Audio - The Endless Echo 

SUSS - Birds & Beasts

Scanner - Alchemeia

Steve Moore - Eye of Horus