Infinite,
Worthless
Time

I played, watched, read, and did some stuff last year. Here are some lists.

Video Games

• Vampire Survivors (2021)
• Tinykin (2022)
• You Suck at Parking (2022) (Abandoned)
• Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (2021)
• Fortnite (2017)
• Astro’s Playroom (2020) (Abandoned)
• Halo Infinite (2021) (Replay, abandoned)
• Hi-Fi Rush (2023)
• Hot Wheels Unleashed (2021)
• The Legend of Zelda (1986)
• Burnout Paradise (2008) (Replay)
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1988) (Replay)
• The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1991) (Replay)
• Cruis’n Blast (2021) (Abandoned)
• Terra Nil (2023)
• Bugsnax (2020)
• Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores (2023)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)
• PowerWash Simulator (2021) (Replay)
• Starfield (2023) (Abandoned)
• Cocoon (2023)
• A Short Hike (2021)
• Toem (2021)
• Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2023)
• Jusant (2023)
• Nour: Play with Your Food (2023) (Abandoned)
• The Talos Principle (2014) (In progress)
• SteamWorld Build (2023)
• Chants of Sennaar (2023)
• Dave the Diver (2023) (In progress)

Tears of the Kingdom is probably my game of the year (of the 2023 games I played in 2023). I spent about 300 hours on it over three months. It’s a very solid second pass on Breath of the Wild: same map, better abilities, much better dungeons, a bunch more clever shrines.

Hi-Fi Rush, Cocoon, Mario Wonder, and Chants of Sennaar are also great. Terra Nil and SteamWorld Build are good. I probably would have liked Dave the Diver more if I hadn’t played it while sick and feverish.

Burning Shores didn’t bring anything new to Horizon except some additional story that I found unexpectedly touching. Tinykin was probably my favorite “old” game I played this year, excluding all-time favorites like Link to the Past and Burnout Paradise.

Books

• Master of Furies (The Firemane Saga #3), by Raymond E. Feist
• Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers #1), by Becky Chambers
• A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers #2), by Becky Chambers
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin
• Stories of Your Life and Others, by Ted Chiang
• The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel
• Heat 2, Michael Mann & Meg Gardiner
• Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers #3), by Becky Chambers
• The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers #4), by Becky Chambers
• The End of Everything, by Katie Mack
• Wool (Silo #1), by Hugh Howey

I tried to read more this year, but this list looks pretty sad compared to the ones above and below it. Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers books were my favorites of the year. Tough to pick one of them over the others, so I won’t.

Movies

• What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018)
• The Dark Knight (2008) (Rewatch)
• The Italian Job (2003)
• Deadpool (2016) (Rewatch)
• Captain Phillips (2013)
• Deadpool 2 (2018)
• Sicario (2015) (Rewatch)
• Asteroid City (2023) (Theater)
• Con Air (1997)
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
• Pineapple Express (2008)
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
• Crimson Tide (1995) (Rewatch)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• Oppenheimer (Theater)
• The Sum of All Fears (2002)
• Iron Man (2008) (Rewatch)
• The Incredible Hulk (2008)
• Iron Man 2 (2010) (Rewatch)
• Thor (2011)
• Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) (Rewatch)
• Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant (2022?)
• Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor’s Hammer (2022?)
• The Avengers (2012) (Rewatch)
• Iron Man 3 (2013)
• Marvel One-Shot: Item 47 (2022?)
• Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter (2013)
• Thor: The Dark World (2013) (Rewatch)
• Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King (2014)
• Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) (Rewatch)
• Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) (Rewatch)
• Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) (Rewatch)
• Ant-Man (2015) (Rewatch)
• Captain America: Civil War (2016) (Rewatch)
• Team Thor (2016)
• Doctor Strange (2016) (Rewatch)
• Team Thor: Part 2 (2017)
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
• Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
• Thor: Ragnarok (2017) (Rewatch)
• Team Darryl (2018)
• Black Panther (2018) (Rewatch)
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
• Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) (Rewatch)
• Captain Marvel (2019)
• Avengers: Endgame (2019)
• Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
• Black Widow (2021)

I blazed through the MCU’s Infinity Saga in November. There’s some fun stuff in there, and I can see why people enjoyed it so much. Of the stuff I hadn’t seen, I think the end of Infinity War hit me the hardest.

Other than that I was mostly watching or rewatching mindless stuff while riding a stationary bike. Oppenheimer was my favorite movie of the the year by default. I liked it well enough.

TV

• Reservations Dogs (S1 and S2)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• For All Mankind (S1-3)
• Dead to Me
• Only Murders in the Building (S1 and S2)
• Russian Doll (S2)
• Brooklyn 99
• Ted Lasso (S3)
• I Am Groot
• What We Do in the Shadows (S5)
• Reservation Dogs (S3)
• Loki
• Only Murders in the Building (S3)

Reservation Dogs was great. Loki sagged in spots but was overall pretty good.

Other stuff

• Miles walked: 1,806.04