I love that your list is 9 things, wait I have to add another but it's cheating, and an honourable mention. The honourable mention could just have been number 10, Riona! :P (I think the musical actually qualifies fine in tenth!)
The issue with me doing this is I often don't realise exactly when I've experienced a media - I guess it's somewhat easier with the journal. Sometimes it feels like some things are just from yesterday but whoops, it was ten years ago. Or more so!
I guess I could try and go with a number that is definitely not ten obsessions I've had relatively recently so probably in the past 5 years? This is a numbered list without ranking, more as I think of them:
1) I put hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours in Town of Salem and it really built up my very strong love of social deduction games, so it has to go on here, although part of me suspects it's been more like the past 10 years than 5. I can't check!
2) My current media obsession is Blood on the Clocktower, so this must go on here - I watched hundreds of hours on Twitch last year and have even played a bit online. This comes from the Town of Salem love, as it's social deduction!
3) Trails in the Sky - Estelle is probably my favourite female protagonist ever, so putting a Trails game on this list - or sub-series - it must be Trails in the Sky. Got me through a really tough time by giving me something to wake up to and do when I just felt motivationless, a lovely story and months of fun blasting through Trails. So it's very important to me.
4) Batman! I got into this within the last year or two and have gone full on geeky, with comics and fun and excitement, and I am so happy about that.
I'm struggling on the spot after that so I'll leave it there even though 4 feels odder than 5! (Insert joke about 4 being an even number here.)
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What would be interesting as well is something about what media you get very different things out of some years later. It might be because of growing up: FF8 is a great example, because when playing it as a kid, it isn't clear how fucked up this mercenary school concept is. (Although even as a kid, I always thought Cid chucking Squall into a leadership role during a time of crisis is completely inappropriate, what were you thinking, Cid?)
I'm sort of tempted to re-play Shardlight, a point and click adventure game I definitely played pre-2020. It's set in a world where there is a pandemic, a very limited amount of vaccine against it and therefore it's extremely expensive. For people who can't afford it, they must participate in a "labour lottery" if they want a chance, where they take on jobs that nobody else wants as they're dangerous enough to be potentially deadly to be entered into a lottery to win some vaccine. That's not the full plot as such (more worldbuilding) - but our protagonist is participating in the labour lottery. There's a guy wearing a plague doctor mask. I bet that feels somewhat different having lived through covid.
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In other news: There's some FF7 free DLC on powerwash simulator which I played, and I was very amused. Tifa! Look, I'm some random powerwash guy. Why are you talking about AVALANCHE meeting here and implying - nope, now it's almost outright stating that you're a member? I'm a powerwash employee, you don't know my political views! Did you know my last 2 jobs were with Shinra - Heidegger wasn't great, but Reeve seemed okay! (After cleaning Seventh Heaven, I was then commissioned to clean up a very dusty looking reactor-like place, presumably after my previous client bombed it. Shinra, typically, did not provide me with safety gear.) It's such a random crossover that it made me laugh but Tifa, please, respect secrecy! (NB: They don't actually appear in the game you just get some in character text from them about the jobs etc as you progress.) Every time it did some other ridiculous message I was like "I have to tell Riona about this, the only person who will understand the ridiculousness and maybe find it as funny as me".
I'm currently playing FF16 and don't know how I feel about it currently! As I have the attention span of a sieve at times, I do wish it had a text log feature though - I'm really spoiled with that in most of the RPGs I play these days as well as it nearly always being a thing in visual novels.
At some point I will play ANONYMOUS;CODE which I've sat down to play a few times and either bounced off or thought it was okay but not been able to motivate myself to put it back on!
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The issue with me doing this is I often don't realise exactly when I've experienced a media - I guess it's somewhat easier with the journal. Sometimes it feels like some things are just from yesterday but whoops, it was ten years ago. Or more so!
I guess I could try and go with a number that is definitely not ten obsessions I've had relatively recently so probably in the past 5 years? This is a numbered list without ranking, more as I think of them:
1) I put hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours in Town of Salem and it really built up my very strong love of social deduction games, so it has to go on here, although part of me suspects it's been more like the past 10 years than 5. I can't check!
2) My current media obsession is Blood on the Clocktower, so this must go on here - I watched hundreds of hours on Twitch last year and have even played a bit online. This comes from the Town of Salem love, as it's social deduction!
3) Trails in the Sky - Estelle is probably my favourite female protagonist ever, so putting a Trails game on this list - or sub-series - it must be Trails in the Sky. Got me through a really tough time by giving me something to wake up to and do when I just felt motivationless, a lovely story and months of fun blasting through Trails. So it's very important to me.
4) Batman! I got into this within the last year or two and have gone full on geeky, with comics and fun and excitement, and I am so happy about that.
I'm struggling on the spot after that so I'll leave it there even though 4 feels odder than 5! (Insert joke about 4 being an even number here.)
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What would be interesting as well is something about what media you get very different things out of some years later. It might be because of growing up: FF8 is a great example, because when playing it as a kid, it isn't clear how fucked up this mercenary school concept is. (Although even as a kid, I always thought Cid chucking Squall into a leadership role during a time of crisis is completely inappropriate, what were you thinking, Cid?)
I'm sort of tempted to re-play Shardlight, a point and click adventure game I definitely played pre-2020. It's set in a world where there is a pandemic, a very limited amount of vaccine against it and therefore it's extremely expensive. For people who can't afford it, they must participate in a "labour lottery" if they want a chance, where they take on jobs that nobody else wants as they're dangerous enough to be potentially deadly to be entered into a lottery to win some vaccine. That's not the full plot as such (more worldbuilding) - but our protagonist is participating in the labour lottery. There's a guy wearing a plague doctor mask. I bet that feels somewhat different having lived through covid.
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In other news: There's some FF7 free DLC on powerwash simulator which I played, and I was very amused. Tifa! Look, I'm some random powerwash guy. Why are you talking about AVALANCHE meeting here and implying - nope, now it's almost outright stating that you're a member? I'm a powerwash employee, you don't know my political views! Did you know my last 2 jobs were with Shinra - Heidegger wasn't great, but Reeve seemed okay! (After cleaning Seventh Heaven, I was then commissioned to clean up a very dusty looking reactor-like place, presumably after my previous client bombed it. Shinra, typically, did not provide me with safety gear.) It's such a random crossover that it made me laugh but Tifa, please, respect secrecy! (NB: They don't actually appear in the game you just get some in character text from them about the jobs etc as you progress.) Every time it did some other ridiculous message I was like "I have to tell Riona about this, the only person who will understand the ridiculousness and maybe find it as funny as me".
I'm currently playing FF16 and don't know how I feel about it currently! As I have the attention span of a sieve at times, I do wish it had a text log feature though - I'm really spoiled with that in most of the RPGs I play these days as well as it nearly always being a thing in visual novels.
At some point I will play ANONYMOUS;CODE which I've sat down to play a few times and either bounced off or thought it was okay but not been able to motivate myself to put it back on!
-timydamonkey