I banished 10 games off my backlog last year, 8 of which were full length turn based rpgs. Now I'm taking a refreshment break for the most part to finish more platformers for the first time.
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@treefroggy#13939 I also bailed on Kingdom Hearts after 2. My experience was liking the first game and incorrectly assuming I could play the sequel named the same thing but 2 without finishing a GBA card based battle system spin-off, therefore not understanding a single thing of what happened in the sequel's plot. I like that imaginary world in which the original Kingdom Hearts turns out to be basically another TWEWY and wish I could live there.
@JoJoestar#13991 I somehow can admit I'm going to play KH2 and dabble in chain of gba memories and yet still exist in a headspace where there was only 1 KH game and everybody forgot about it.
@treefroggy#13566 @rejj#13548
Looks like I'm late to the party but here's a trade secret just for the Insert Credit gang to make kimchi without animal products... sea salt.
Also, if you're lucky and you have access to a good Korean grocer and you want to make your own kimchi without much involved work, keep an eye out for already salted napa cabbage packaged by itself. That's the only real tricky part that requires maybe more space or tools or knowhow than any other part. with pre-salted cabbage you just make your own marinade, coat the cabbage, chuck it somewhere cold, gas it a few times in the early stages of fermentation, and then you're good to go.
Also....... we are big enough fans of Maangchi in this house that when this little weirdo in the foreground took to solid food faster and more voraciously than her siblings, we thought it might be funny to give her a food-themed name... so now when people start talking about "Maangchi" it takes a second for me to remember they're talking about a YouTube chef and not my funny little dog
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A little late to this thread, but man, making lists and organizing information in general has always been a real joy for me. The earliest example I can remember was an ongoing Word doc I had of “Pokémon Ash Has Owned,” each Pokémon listed with the anime episode number Ash received it and the episode he released it.
More recently, I've outsourced things that would've been lists to services like [Goodreads ](https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7896229-andrew-adams) and [Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/andrewadamsz/), but those to-watch to-read lists have become so bloated that I've come back around to Notes app lists for "books to ACTUALLY read next," a shared note for movies my partner and I both want to watch, stuff like that. I find myself absentmindedly looking at those lists like I used to/sometimes scroll social media. There's a weird joy in beholding a list of stuff you like.
One last disjointed thing to say. I haven't been able to find a service for tracking video games that does everything I wanted in a simple way, so I still track those on my own spreadsheet. I'm stretching the definition of a list here lol. Left side is purchase info, right side is completion info. Gray is for collections, green is for games I beat, blue is for ongoing games that I rolled credits on:
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Is there a consensus on a service to keep track of games among the Credit Inserters though? Still interested in something where I can more easily just see box art for "Games Completed 2020," stuff like that.
I dont really make many lists apart from for shopping. The most interesting list I‘ve made was one of Persona 4. I knew the game was centered around a murder and I had heard of the scene where (light spoiler) ||you have to pick the murderer from a list of every character in the game||. So as I was playing it I filled out a notebook of everything that happened in the game and everything suspicious thing the game showed to me. While it didn’t help with that scene too much it did help me find the final boss. I think writing notes of the game's plot engrossed me further into the story. It probably helped me keep playing day after day too, because that a long game!
first draft list of games for a thread I might make later
FFX
AC
ACNH
Yoshi's Story
Metroid Fusion
I missed this thread first time around! Love this. I had brainstormed an idea for a thread while commuting the other day that sort of fits the brief in here. I wanted to try and make a sort of huge flow chart Venn diagram type thing for music. I have this huge playlist of around 600 songs called my “Commuter Playlist” (you may have guessed that I have a long commute at this point) that isn’t precisely exhaustive of my musical taste but comes pretty close. I wanted to go through that list and extract every artist, probably in the neighborhood of 100-200, and then arrange them on a big spread by my own-self designed genres. So it would be a relational map, basically, between a bunch of artists that come from a pretty wide range of types.
I figured in the end I would manage to essentially map the inside of my brain by doing this. I also realized it would probably take like a hundred hours to do and so didn't.
@treefroggy#22498 Eagerly awaiting the publishing of that first one!
@kory#22666 I gotta find the lost list I already made for that one it’s getting pretty long
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I feel like this thread has LISTened to my soul; I find writing a list “for fun” to be a deeply creative activity that forces me to think about the breadth of my experience surrounding the list topic. I have a friend who hasn‘t really been into videogames all that much other than getting a Switch and some PC MOBAs and I’ve been creating a list of recommendations for him.
I mostly enjoy making music playlists though. I had a CD player in my old car and drove quite a bit for work, and I had stacks of CDs that I'd burned for the journeys that often reflected a particular time or experience. One in particular was a playlist of songs that I could yell along to as stress relief on the way to inter-city job interviews; at the time I'd lost some confidence in myself after being made redundant and was nervous for the interviews I was getting. Making that particular playlist made a huge difference to how I came across.
Back to games, over the last few years I've undergone the unenviable task of cataloguing my backlog of games as best I can on How Long to Beat (ignoring games with potentially infinite play times). I guess in this case this is a live, continuously updated list as it has everything that I've finished, specifically for the first time, there with an incomplete list of dates that I'm currently retconing. Eventually I would like to add the games that I've beaten prior to starting that list though that in itself would take an inordinate amount of time and research to get a complete list.
But yeah, lists are great!
Here's my list of PS3 games I am going to download:
dragons crown
odin sphere leifthrasir
resogun
3d dot game heroes
mgs4
tokyo jungle
drakengard 3
echochrome
lumines
galaga legions dx
locoroco cocoreccho
boku no natsuyasumi 3
initial d extreme stage
armored core 4
armored core v
armored core for answer
armored core verdict day
enchanted arms
nier
persona 5 + dlc
@“treefroggy”#p36576 This is a good list.
There are _many_ more I'm sure a bunch of us in here could suggest adding, but I'll throw my two bits in and say you should also grab Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.
It is worth it just to hear the "Nanomachines, son" line for yourself.
@“treefroggy”#p36576 Maybe you already own them or whatevs but Folklore, Puppeteer, Eternal Sonata, Shadows of the Damned, Lollipop Chainsaw, Anarchy Reigns, El Shaddai and Child of Eden are all interesting games you may feel inclined to check!
@“treefroggy”#p36576 Fantastic list! If you‘re looking for some PS3 only stuff I’d recommend, with the caveat that they're solid but not particularly Insert Credit Interesting, the Tales Of games that are still only on there. Xillia, Xillia 2, and Graces f. Xillia is a pretty good time!
I'd second both Xillia games too. I had a real fun time with both of those.