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.)
Farm RPG
Softwar
White Noise
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Attack on Titan
Softwar
Farm RPG
Coventry
In The Mood for Love
Attack on Titan
Passage of Power
People From My Neighborhood
Inscryption
Farm RPG
Passage of Power
The Other Side of Make-Believe
Tokyo Vice (Season 1)
Attack on Titan
People From My Neighborhood
Passage of Power
The Flute
The Listening
The Savage Detectives
The Secret History
Spy x Family
Bob's Burgers
Farm RPG
The Savage Detectives
Farm RPG
Bob's Burgers
Farm RPG
Live a Live
Barbarians at the Gate
Bob's Burgers
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Farm RPG
Working Backwards
Goldfinger
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
More Black Superheroes
Tokyo Vice (Season 1)
Middlemarch
Farm RPG
Crystal Project
Attack on Titan
Farm RPG
Middlemarch
Bob's Burgers
Crystal Project
Azumanga Daioh
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Bob's Burgers
Middlemarch
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Crystal Project
Slay the Spire
Come Home The Kids Miss You
What We Do In The Shadows
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
RuneScape
Bob's Burgers
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Horizontal Vertigo
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: Shadowlands
Octopath Traveler