Media diet
The concept of a “media diet” is one that I think I originally stole from Steven Soderbergh by way of Kottke.org. The idea is a simple one: write down whatever media (in my case video games, books, movies, and/or television) you watched that day.
This started out as a lazy compulsion, but I’ve grown rather found of this habit over time. “You are what you eat”, and all that — I’ve realized that paying more attention to how I’m spending my consumptive time has made me more focused on consuming what I’m interested in, and not simply what’s easiest. (I don’t think it’s coincidental that since starting this, I’ve started watching much less television.)
Additionally, media is a surprisingly good cursor with which to paginate my memory; I don’t necessarily remember what March 2018 was like, but I can look back and see what I was reading and playing back then — Ni No Kuni II, and Claudius The God — and suddenly I am taken back to my old apartment on Capitol Hill, and my three weeks of funemployment before Stripe, and how thrilled (& anxious) I was!
(Finished bits of media have links to my thoughts on them.)
Baccano
Breath of the Wild
Mushishi
Mushishi
Infinite Jest
Breath of the Wild
Baccano
Infinite Jest
Breath of the Wild
Neverwhere
Dungeon Encounters
Baccano
Infinite Jest
Breath of the Wild
Mushishi
Melvor Idle
Slay the Spire
Path to Power
Final Fantasy XIV
30 Rock
Streets of Rogue
Slay the Spire
Lufia II
An Everlasting Meal
Path to Power
30 Rock
Final Fantasy XIV
No One Is Talking About This
Loki
The Tatami Galaxy
Atomic Habits
Medium Raw
Stardew Valley
Serial Experiments Lain
Moonflower Murders
A Million Miles Away
Postwar
The Decline And Fall Of Practically Everybody
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
The Song of Achilles
The White Queen
The Life and Times of Prince Albert
Xenoblade Chronicles
Slay the Spire
Ethics in the Real World
To the Lighthouse
The Thin Man
Rune Factory 4
Ugly Delicious
Topics of Conversation
Final Fantasy XIV
Business Adventures
Luigi's Mansion 3
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Love Actually
The Power Broker
The Power Broker
Final Fantasy XIV
Obviously Awesome
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
The End is Always Near
The Power Broker
Succession
Succession
The Wizard and the Prophet
Octopath Traveler
Battle Chasers
CrossCode
Paddleton
The Friend
The master & Margarita
The Story of The Lost Child
World of Warcraft: Shadowblands
World of Warcraft: Shadowblands
The Gardens Between
Hamilton