Reviews

I have set out to review everything that has been significant to my limited experience here on Earth. So far, I have reviewed: 292 video games, 239 movies, 86 tabletop games, 85 TV shows, 77 books, 56 music releasess, 54 amusement park rides, 41 podcasts, 14 RPGs, and 11 softwares, 8 live performances.

After years of frustration with five-star or four-star systems, I have developed a flexible system that allows me to quickly rank my experiences. I now choose which items belong in the Top 25%, 10%, or Best 1% of its type. The more I've experienced, the more I can promote to the high echelons of the form. I digress!

👇 Now Playing
👇 Best 1%
👇 Top 10%
👇 Top 25%

I have also singled out media that didn't make my Top 25% but I have minority opinion on.

👇 Interesting: Good: I think these are good, actually.
👇 Interesting: Bad: I think these are bad, actually.

Last Update: 2025-10-01.

Now Playing

📖 Dracula (1897): Day-by-day with re: Dracula. I'll finish Nov 7th.
📖 Devil in the 19th Century: Page 17 of 456 (Volume 2 on Kickstarter!)
🍿 The Woman Beneath the Skin: Page 12 of 143.
🍿 Nope: 1.5 hours of 2.5 hours.
📺 Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2024): Episode 1 of 10.
📺 Severance S02: Episode 0 of 9.

Best 1%

15 items

🎢 Iron Gwazi (Busch Gardens: Tampa) (2022)
📕 Dracula (Bram Stoker) (1897)
📕 Going Postal (Terry Pratchett) (2004)
🍿 Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
🍿 RRR (2022)
🍿 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
🎺 12:00 (Isosine) (2015)
🎙️ Midst (2020-2024)
🎲 For the Queen (Alex Roberts)
🃏 Manifold (2014)
📺 Calamity (Exandria Unlimited) (2022)
🎭 Hamilton (musical)
🕹️ A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build (2015)
🕹️ Dance Central 3 (2012)
🕹️ Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)

Top 10%

93 items

🎢 Gemini (Backwards) (Cedar Point) (1978)
🎢 Griffon (Busch Gardens: Williamsburg) (2007)
🎢 Incredible Hulk (Universal Studios: Islands of Adventure) (1999)
🎢 Millennium Force (Cedar Point) (2000)
🎢 Nitro (Six Flags: Great Adventure) (2001)
🎢 Tigris (Busch Gardens: Tampa) (2019)
📕 ASOIAF 05 A Dance with Dragons (George R. R. Martin) (2011)
📕 Broken Earth 01 The Fifth Season (N.K. Jemisin)
📕 Monstrous Regiment (Terry Pratchett) (2003)
📕 Paradise Lost (John Milton)
📕 The Girl Who Played With Fire (Stieg Larsson)
📕 The Martian (Andy Weir)
📕 Understanding Comics (Scott McCloud) (1994)
🍿 Arrival (2016)
🍿 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
🍿 Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
🍿 Hundreds of Beavers (2024)
🍿 Knives Out (2019)
🍿 Labyrinth (1986)
🍿 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
🍿 Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018)
🍿 Moon (2009)
🍿 Princess Mononoke (1997)
🍿 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
🍿 The Big Short
🍿 The Dark Knight (2008)
🍿 The Departed (2006)
🍿 The Game (1997)
🍿 The Imposter (2012)
🍿 The Matrix (1999)
🍿 The Prestige (2006)
🍿 The Social Network (2010)
🍿 The Thing (1982)
🍿 Wolf Children (2012)
🎺 A/B (Kaleo)
🎺 Badlands (Halsey)
🎺 Just This EP (Birdtalker)
🎺 Paper Crown EP (Ballroom Thieves)
🎺 Venus (Joy Williams)
🎺 Yellow/Gold (The Spring Standards)
🎙️ Breaking Mayberry
🎙️ I Will Fight You
🎙️ Re: Dracula (2023)
🎙️ Sly Flourish (Mike Shea)
🎙️ the memory palace
🎲 Eat the Reich (Grant Howitt) (2023)
🎲 Monstrous Menagerie (Paul Hughes)
🃏 Card Golf (9-hole)
🃏 Flamme Rouge (2016)
🃏 Flash Point: Fire Rescue (2011)
🃏 Hues and Cues (2020)
🃏 Love Letter (2019)
🃏 Patchwork (2014)
🃏 Pirateer (1978)
🃏 Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective (The Thames Murders) (2012)
🃏 Treasure Island (2018)
📺 "And When the Sky Was Opened" (The Twilight Zone S01E11) (1959)
📺 "The Original" (Westworld S01E01) (2016)
📺 Avatar: The Last Airbender (2005-2008) (2005)
📺 Chernobyl (2019)
📺 Columbo (1971)
📺 Gamechanger (2019)
📺 The Ravening War (Dimension 20) (2023)
📺 Under the Banner of Heaven (2022)
📺 Watchmen S01 (2019)
🎭 The Book of Mormon (musical) (2011)
🕹️ 7 Billion Humans (2018)
🕹️ Blue Prince (2025)
🕹️ Braid (2008)
🕹️ Burnout 3: Takedown (2004)
🕹️ Dredge (2023)
🕹️ Factorio (2012)
🕹️ Firewatch (2016)
🕹️ Hades (2020)
🕹️ Her Story (2015)
🕹️ Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (2015)
🕹️ Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)
🕹️ Minecraft (2010)
🕹️ Myst (1993)
🕹️ Nidhogg (2014)
🕹️ OpenRCT2 (2014)
🕹️ Osmos (2009)
🕹️ Portal (2007)
🕹️ Shadow of the Colossus (2005)
🕹️ Snakebird (2015)
🕹️ SpaceChem (2011)
🕹️ Stephen's Sausage Roll (2016)
🕹️ The Flame in the Flood (2016)
🕹️ The Last Clockwinder (VR) (2022)
🕹️ The Stanley Parable (2013)
🕹️ Trailmakers (2019)
🕹️ World of Goo (2008)
🕹️ Zip-Zap (mobile)

Top 25%

186 items

🎢 Apollo's Chariot (Busch Gardens: Williamsburg) (1999)
🎢 Cheetah Hunt (Busch Gardens: Tampa) (2011)
🎢 Coney Island Cyclone (Coney Island) (1927)
🎢 Flying Turns (Knoebels) (2013)
🎢 Great Bear (Hersheypark) (1998)
🎢 Great Nor'Easter (Wildwood) (1995)
🎢 Hercules (Dorney Park) (1989)
🎢 Journey to Atlantis (SeaWorld) (1998)
🎢 Kumba (Busch Gardens: Tampa) (1993)
🎢 Lightning Racer (Hersheypark) (2000)
🎢 Talon (Dorney Park) (2001)
🎢 Timber Ripper (Okemo, VT) (2010)
📕 Algorithmic Puzzles (Anany and Maria Levitin) (2011)
📕 American Gods (Neil Gaiman) (2011)
📕 ASOIAF 03 A Storm of Swords (George R.R. Martin) (2003)
📕 Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates) (2015)
📕 Blue Like Jazz (Donald Miller) (2003)
📕 Company of Liars (Karen Maitland) (2008)
📕 Good Omens (Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman) (1990)
📕 Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones) (1986)
📕 Neuromancer (William Gibson) (1984)
📕 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey) (1962)
📕 Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir) (2021)
📕 Rapture (David Sosnowki) (1996)
📕 Romeo and/or Juliet (Ryan North) (2016)
📕 Snuff (Terry Pratchett) (2011)
📕 Someone You Can Build A Nest In (John Wiswell) (2024)
📕 Strong Female Protagonist (Brennan Lee Mulligan, Lee Knox Ostertag) (2012)
📕 The Crucible (Arthur Miller) (1953)
📕 The Crystal Shard (R. A. Salvatore) (1988)
📕 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle) (1893)
📕 The Princess Bride (William Goldman) (1973)
🍿 Alphane - Mellow Climbing (2022)
🍿 Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
🍿 Baby Driver (2017)
🍿 Bāhubali 2: The Conclusion (2017)
🍿 Bāhubali: The Beginning (2015)
🍿 Bo Burnham: Inside (2021)
🍿 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
🍿 Coco (2017)
🍿 Conclave (2024)
🍿 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
🍿 Fight Club (1999)
🍿 Free Solo (2018)
🍿 Game Night (2018)
🍿 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
🍿 Godzilla Minus One (2023)
🍿 How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
🍿 Indie Game: The Movie (2012)
🍿 Inglourious Basterds (2009)
🍿 Iron Man (2008)
🍿 Jungle Cruise (2021)
🍿 La La Land (2016)
🍿 Mars Express (2023)
🍿 Memento (2001)
🍿 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
🍿 Rise of the Guardians (2012)
🍿 Sherlock Holmes
🍿 Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
🍿 Stop Making Sense (1984)
🍿 Superman (2025)
🍿 The Hurt Locker (2009)
🍿 The Truman Show (1998)
🍿 Tremors (1990)
🍿 V for Vendetta (2006)
🍿 When Marnie Was There (2014)
🍿 Where to Invade Next (2015)
🎺 Another Night (Good Morning Babylon) (2016)
🎺 Beast Epic (Iron & Wine) (2017)
🎺 Breath of the Wild OST (Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata, Hajime Wakai) (2018)
🎺 evermore. (Taylor Swift)
🎺 Hamilton (Original Cast)
🎺 I'm Alone, No You're Not (Joseph) (2016)
🎺 Let Live & Let Ghosts (Jukebox the Ghost) (2015)
🎺 Long Way Home: Live (Jukebox the Ghost) (2016)
🎺 Lost on You (LP)
🎺 Mashup Manifesto V (Isosine)
🎺 Nivalis (Árstíðir)
🎺 One (Birdtalker)
🎺 Rafters EP (Good in the Dark)
🎺 The Flame in the Flood (Chuck Ragan)
🎙️ "Monumental Lies" (Reveal) (2018)
🎙️ A Storm of Spoilers
🎙️ Campaign: Skyjacks
🎙️ Crimetown S01
🎙️ Factually! with Adam Conover
🎙️ Old Gods of Appalachia
🎙️ Radiolab Presents: More Perfect
🎙️ Shut Up & Sit Down
🎙️ Somebody Knows Something
🎙️ Tangle
🎙️ The Weekly Podcast with Jon Stewart
🎲 Flee, Mortals! (MDCM)
🎲 Kenku FM (Discord Music Player)
🎲 Knave 2e (Questing Beast)
🎲 Mothership (Sean McCoy) (2021)
💽 Sophie's Dice
🃏 Anomia
🃏 Azul
🃏 Can't Stop
🃏 Clusterfuck
🃏 Fabled Fruit
🃏 Hanabi
🃏 Incan Gold
🃏 Lords of Waterdeep
🃏 Mafia / Werewolf
🃏 Mia
🃏 Monikers
🃏 Mountain Goats
🃏 No Return
🃏 Pandemic Legacy: Season 1
🃏 Santorini
🃏 Secret Hitler (2015)
🃏 Skull
🃏 Sushi Go Party
🃏 The Resistance
🃏 Trio (2021)
🃏 Utter Nonsense
🃏 Wavelength
📺 "Blink" (Doctor Who S03E10) (2007)
📺 Breaking Bad (2013)
📺 Buzzfeed: Supernatural
📺 Criminal: United Kingdom
📺 Fantasy High (Dimension 20)
📺 Firefly
📺 Game of Thrones (2019)
📺 Ghost Files (2022-)
📺 Good Omens S01 (2019)
📺 Our Flag Means Death S01 (2022)
📺 Over the Garden Wall (2014)
📺 Poker Face S01 (2023)
📺 Scavenger's Reign S01
📺 Shokugeki No Soma (Food Wars)
📺 Staged
📺 Ted Lasso S01-S02
📺 The Bear S01-S02 (2023)
📺 The Jinx (2024)
📺 The Legend of Vox Machina S01
📺 The Unsleeping City (Dimension 20)
📺 The West Wing
📺 True Detective S01 (2014)
🎭 Dog Sees God (Bert V. Royal)
🎭 Joy Williams (live)
🕹️ A Short Hike
🕹️ Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
🕹️ Bad North: Jotunn Edition
🕹️ Balatro+ (mobile)
🕹️ Beat Saber (VR)
🕹️ Celeste (2018)
🕹️ Cobble Clicker (Minecraft: Java) (2019)
🕹️ COCOON (2023)
🕹️ Deep Rock Galactic (2020)
🕹️ Gone Home (2013)
🕹️ Good Sudoku
🕹️ Gunpoint (2013)
🕹️ Human Resource Machine (2015)
🕹️ ibb & obb (2014)
🕹️ Journey (2012)
🕹️ Leap Year (2024)
🕹️ Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
🕹️ LIMBO (2010)
🕹️ Linelight (2017)
🕹️ Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine (2013)
🕹️ NecroMerger (mobile)
🕹️ Night In The Woods
🕹️ Overcooked (2016)
🕹️ Oxygen Not Included (2019)
🕹️ Patrick's Parabox (2022)
🕹️ Pistol Whip (VR)
🕹️ Portal 2 (2011)
🕹️ PowerWash Simulator (2022)
🕹️ Receiver (2013)
🕹️ Sokobond (2014)
🕹️ Super Meat Boy
🕹️ Thank Goodness You're Here
🕹️ Tharsis (2016)
🕹️ The Jackbox Party Pack 3 (2016)
🕹️ The Last of Us (2013)
🕹️ The Room Two+ (mobile)
🕹️ The Swapper (2013)
🕹️ Threes! (mobile)
🕹️ TowerFall Ascension (2014)
🕹️ Trials Evolution
🕹️ Viscera Cleanup Detail (2015)
🕹️ We Were Here (series) (2017)
🕹️ YOU DON'T KNOW JACK® (2011)

Interesting: Good

3 items

🍿 Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
🕹️ Dante's Inferno (2010)
🕹️ Prognostic (2022)

Interesting: Bad

10 items

📕 11/22/63 (Stephen King)
📕 One of Us Is Lying (Karen M. McManus)
📕 Under the Dome (Stephen King)
🍿 Elf (2003)
🍿 The Shining (1980)
🃏 To Hunt A Killer (Awakening)
📺 "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (The Twilight Zone S05E03) (1963)
🕹️ Stoneblock 3 (Minecraft: Bedrock) (2022)
🕹️ The Talos Principle (2014)
🕹️ Thomas Was Alone (2012)