2025

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A Diary

January: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... uary-2025/
February: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... uary-2025/
March; https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... arch-2025/
April: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... pril-2025/
May: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... -may-2025/
June-August: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... gust-2025/
September: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... mber-2025/
October: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... ober-2025/
November/December: https://accumulationofthings.com/things ... mber-2025/

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The 20 Best Films I've Seen (That I've Not Seen Before)

All We Imagine As Light (Indian sadness)
The Universal Theory (German madness)
Nickel Boys (American sadness)
All The Long Nights (Japanese sadness)
Soundtrack To A Coup D'Etat (historical infuriating evil)
A Zed And Two Noughts (English sadness, madness)
Alice (Jan Svankmajer stop motion madness)
Bushido (samurai samurainess)
I'm Still Here (brazilian sadness)
Picnic At Hanging Rock (Australian madness)
Return To Reason: Four Films By Man Ray (silent madness)
Flow (a little cat!)
The Juniper Tree (bjork fairy tale madness, sadness)
The General (buster keaton train madness)
Caught Stealing (90s 90sness)
Crimes Of The Future (cronenberg madness)
One Battle After Another (relentless relentlessness)
The Mastermind (baffling ineptitude madness)
The Final Problem (silent moriarty madness)
Key Largo (lovely bogart madness)

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All The Music I Listened To This Year

Neil Young
list ends

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Every Computer Game I Played This Year (in order or approximate hours of play)

Castlevania Rondo Of Blood (about ten minutes)
Devious Dungeon (an hour or so, if that)
Teslagrad (about an hour)
Super Destronaut DX (about an hour)
Manifold Garden (2 hours, after which I felt a bit sick and never played it again)
Paradox Soul (3-4 hours. christ this was shit)
Street Fighter Alpha 3 (about five hours, but a really enjoyable five hours. I'd never played this before and it was pretty great really)
Mario Kart World (about 5 hours. it was okay. it was mario kart)
Grim Fandango (about 5-6 hours, but then it crashed and I was too bored to replay the last hour or so again)
Tetris Effect (10 hours? I don't know really. i play it occasionally when I'm bored)
Dicey Dungeons (also about ten hours or so, mostly spent finally finishing it off a year or so after starting it, because I realised you could do the impossible late levels by cheating a bit)
Smash Bros Wii U (about ten hours, maybe more, because my nieces insist on playing it every time they come here)
Super Mario 3d World (as above)
Untitled Goose Game (as above as above)
Castlevania Symphonia Of The Night (about 30 hours)
Yakuza Kiwami 2 (about 30-40 hours replaying game i'd spent 30-40 hours on before too)
Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name (about 40 or 50 hours)
Persona 4 (about 70 hours, although some of that was probably in 2024 because I bought it last christmas)
Persona 5 (110 hours)
Silksong (150 hours)
Monster Hunter World/Monster Hunter World Iceborne (350 hours)

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Long Dog (seventeen billion hours)

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I read some books too probably

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Top 3 Covids/Flus Of The Year

3. July Covid (not actually that bad really except for being in bloody July)
2. August Covid (pretty awful, but at least I was trapped in a lighthouse while I had it, which was nice)
1. June Covid (absolute fucking death)

[Pual]

https://myflippingpancakeday.blogspot. ... eview.html

I stuck 2025 on my blog

[endar]

2025 can fuck right off

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yes

[Pual]

Yes.

[vom]

I think I might have quite liked 2025 if I didn't hate my terrible job

[vom]

I went to the cinema 51 times and the best film I saw at the cinema was also the final film I saw at the cinema, Marty Supreme. I loved it so much

I went to 88 gigs (including ones I played myself) and the best ones were Pulp at a big arena (I haven't been to a big arena gig since the first gig I ever went to, I liked it more than I expected), Anna Erhard, All Structures Align, Michael Shannon performing REM songs for some reason, a band called Terror Pigeon who set up a tent in the audience in the middle of their set, Baths, Illuminati Hotties, I don't know they were all good I like bands

I played Balatro for one million hours and Silksong completely broke me and I had to give up because it was too difficult. I also really enjoyed Viewfinder and Blue Prince

Did I read any books? I don't remember

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I started playing silksong through again with my nephew recently, and doing it all again made it seem quite easy, and I was all pleased with how good I looked in front of my nephew, as if I was some sort of competent games playing human, and then i got to the last fucking judge again and died seven hundred million times in a row

then my nephew went home in disgust

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he's never going to admire me ever again

[Gravid]

2025 can fuck right off

Yes

[Gravid]

2025 is the year I started playing Hollow Knight. I'm finding that hard enough, so think I might just ignore Silksong altogether.

The best film I saw at the cinema was probably One Battle After Another, or maybe The Phoenician Scheme. The worst film I saw at the cinema was The Polar Express.

[An Unicorn]

I watched Zero movies, i think

I can't recall if i actually purchased and played any new games either, though I've played plenty of old downloads

I read all of the Discworld books, finally
Also a few political books and Metamorphosis and The Trial by Franz Kafka.