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Here’s a list of stuff I loved or didn’t love in 2015. All of these are my favorites and not me saying “these are objectively the best” or anything like that. Just my picks!



BEST VIDEO GAME:

We can sit and talk about the behind the scenes drama, the weird omissions, the strange unexplainables, etc. but the fact of the matter is, I played 100+ hours of this game, it was massive but maintained the weirdness and quirks Kojima games do best, and took the series into a completely different genre and atmosphere altogether. It has flaws but I can’t name the last game I played this often. It wins.

BEST PORTABLE GAME:

I wouldn’t be into this series on console (didn’t really enjoy playing the last one that much on Wii U) but this is the perfect game to be portable. Had a blast playing it with other people.

BIGGEST VIDEO GAME DISAPPOINTMENT:

I’m not gonna call this “worst game” because there’s a lot of really well done things here. The world is vast and gorgeous, the soundtrack is incredible– presentation is awesome here. But man, for me- as someone blown away by the original Xenoblade Chronicles as one of the best, most fun, exciting single-player RPG’s since the last golden moments of Final Fantasy- I can’t help but be so let down with the direction they took this game. Exciting characters and story (the thing that was so batshit crazy it DROVE the last game) are replaced with Star-Trek-anime exposition and it isn’t enticing to me at all.

BEST MOVIE:

The plot is derivative, but what I care about in Star Wars are the characters and the family drama (the whole reason Return of the Jedi is my favorite). This movie brought that back in hard and I loved it for that. In another dull year for movies, I had the most fun during this one so I’m fucking picking it.

MOST UNDERRATED MOVIE:

This movie is polarizing, but in a world where that now means “bad,” most people never gave it a shot at all. It wasn’t a masterpiece, but I love what this movie represents and it was absurdly sentimental to my sappy side. Ignore Rotten Tomato numbers and just watch this sometime.

MOST OVERRATED MOVIE:

This was a totally badass action movie and I loved it. But I didn’t feel anything and I don’t really know any of the characters, so I don’t feel like “really cool long car chase” deserves the awards or accolades it’s getting. But I get it- it was an action movie that stood alone and a really different stroke in a dull movie year.

FAVORITE TV SHOW:

Season 2 of The Leftovers was SO good. It blows my mind, because I gave season 1 a shot last year and couldn’t have been more turned off. Once they bailed on the dry, overly morose book-based content of the first season, this show really took off and let things roar with Breaking Bad-level intense episodes and mysteries/inexplicables on the level of Lost. Super stoked to hear there’s one more season to actually conclude it all.

WORST TV SHOW:

Actually I never watched this show but come on ahahahahahahahaahaha

MY BEST PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT:

I actually had a lot of personal business moments behind the scenes that were more valuable, but the one thing I can actually show as a tangible thing was this. Derrick, Shawn and I were on Tom Green’s show. I still can’t convey what this meant to me and I was genuinely will cherish that forever. Mega inspiration.

WORST ACCOMPLISHMENT:

Took a dump at a Jack In The Box on the way to LA and I can’t see how they wouldn’t have closed the restaurant down. Absolutely horrible morning.

Anyway, let me know your thoughts. Again, these aren’t objective- I have dumb tastes but for whatever they count for, these are what I was into. See you in 2016!