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25 votes
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The wildest anime of the year is based on entertainment horror stories
6 votes -
Worst books of the year
You always see a lot of threads around the best books of the year or of their favourite ever books, but how about the opposite - let’s have a thread of books you hated. There are so many books in...
You always see a lot of threads around the best books of the year or of their favourite ever books, but how about the opposite - let’s have a thread of books you hated. There are so many books in the world to read, it can be handy to know which ones to avoid!
I’ll start in the comments! I’m not sure how to do spoiler tags (if that’s possible here?) so I suggest putting the title of the book in the first line so anyone who hasn’t read it can minimise the comment without seeing spoilers :)
14 votes -
Now that half the year is over, what are your recommended horror flix in 2023
My list has been pretty short this year so I am curious if asked what you are recommending and a brief why.
22 votes -
Real wage growth in the USA at the individual level in 2022
15 votes -
The best adventure games on PC in 2023
22 votes -
Raven Sings The Blues: 2023 favorites (so far)
7 votes -
App Store developers generated $1.1 trillion in total billings and sales in the App Store ecosystem in 2022
9 votes -
Sharp rise in piracy rates across Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway – Mediavision has been tracking citizens' piracy habits across the Nordics since 2010
12 votes -
The best temporary email services for 2023
2 votes -
2023 Library Systems Report | The advance of open source systems
4 votes -
‘Avatar: The Way Of Water’ finds sea of green to finish No. 1 in Deadline’s 2022 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament
3 votes -
Small movies, big profits: An Oscar winner and horror hits among overachievers in Deadline’s 2022 Most Valuable Blockbuster Tournament
3 votes -
The top 100 games played on the Steam Deck
7 votes -
Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022
8 votes -
Dan Wang's 2022 letter
6 votes -
Over 300 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have already been filed in 2023
7 votes -
Denmark, Finland and New Zealand take the top three positions in the Corruption Perceptions Index for 2022
4 votes -
Norway's sovereign wealth fund reported a record loss of $164 billion for the whole of 2022, citing 'very unusual' market conditions
7 votes -
The best game animation of 2022
1 vote -
Who predicted 2022?
2 votes -
The five best mobile scanner apps in 2023
4 votes -
Best video editing apps for mobile in 2023
3 votes -
Danish bank workers celebrate full year without robberies – finance workers' union says number of bank heists has been affected by fall in use of cash in recent years
8 votes -
Four of out every five cars registered in Norway last year was an electric car, according to data released by the Norwegian Road Federation
9 votes -
Your failures in 2022
Share what your failures were in 2022. Your regrets; where you came worse off at the end of the year than at the beginning. What will you do better next year? Counterpart of the successes thread:...
Share what your failures were in 2022. Your regrets; where you came worse off at the end of the year than at the beginning. What will you do better next year?
Counterpart of the successes thread: https://tildes.net/~talk/13w4/your_successes_in_2022
13 votes -
2022 saw launcher bloat turn from a minor annoyance into a genuine problem
12 votes -
Year in Review: Books of 2022
What were your highlights for the year? What were the best things you read? What surprised you? What let you down? Reflect back on the year and talk about anything and everything related to the...
What were your highlights for the year? What were the best things you read? What surprised you? What let you down?
Reflect back on the year and talk about anything and everything related to the books you read in 2022. You do NOT have to limit it to 2022 releases -- anything you read this year counts.
6 votes -
Your successes in 2022
Share what you achieved this year. Your highlights.
13 votes -
What did we get stuck in our rectums last year?
15 votes -
Year in Review: Television of 2022
What were your highlights for the year? What were the best things you watched? What surprised you? What let you down? Reflect back on the year and talk about anything and everything related to the...
What were your highlights for the year? What were the best things you watched? What surprised you? What let you down?
Reflect back on the year and talk about anything and everything related to the television you watched in 2022. You do NOT have to limit it to 2022 releases -- anything you watched this year counts.
7 votes -
Steam Replay 2022, a highlight summary of your Steam gaming this year, is now available
13 votes -
The ten best comics of 2022
4 votes -
Readup's 2022 in review
4 votes -
Kim Masters on Hollywood’s year of wishful thinking
1 vote -
Twenty directors praise 2022’s best films: Guillermo del Toro on ‘Elvis,’ Wes Anderson on ‘White Noise’ and more
3 votes -
Year in Review: Movies of 2022
What were your highlights for the year? What were the best things you watched? What surprised you? What let you down? Reflect back on the year and talk about anything and everything related to the...
What were your highlights for the year? What were the best things you watched? What surprised you? What let you down?
Reflect back on the year and talk about anything and everything related to the movies you watched in 2022. You do NOT have to limit it to 2022 releases -- anything you watched this year counts.
7 votes -
Pornhub 2022 Year in Review
18 votes -
The best manual espresso makers in 2022
9 votes -
Bandcamp's best hip-hop of 2022
7 votes -
Year in Review: Games of 2022
What were your highlights for the year? What were the best things you played? What surprised you? What let you down? Reflect back on the year and talk about anything and everything related to your...
What were your highlights for the year? What were the best things you played? What surprised you? What let you down?
Reflect back on the year and talk about anything and everything related to your gaming experiences in 2022. You do NOT have to limit it to 2022 releases -- anything you played this year counts.
Meta note: Yes, I know this is still a tad on the early side, but I'm trying to space these posts out between groups so that they don't step on each others' toes. I also plan to post this to ~books, ~movies, ~television. I'm not active in ~anime, so if someone wants to take up the mantle for that group (or any others you feel need a Year in Review post), go for it!
7 votes -
Year in Review: Music of 2022
Spotify Wrapped and Apple Replay are out. Soon we'll start being deluged with annual Best Of lists like this one. It's that time of year! What were your favorite listens this year? What new finds...
Spotify Wrapped and Apple Replay are out. Soon we'll start being deluged with annual Best Of lists like this one. It's that time of year!
What were your favorite listens this year? What new finds did you unexpectedly love? How did your tastes change/evolve (if at all)? What do you consider the best albums of the year? What did the critics get wrong?
Discuss any and all end-of-year music stuff here. Share your Wrapped/Replay/Last.fm/Listenbrainz summary if you'd like. Hype up that hidden gem you think deserves more attention. Anything goes!
13 votes -
How 2019 marked the end of movie nerd YouTube channels
I don’t know how many of you watch “nerd” movie channels, or ever did. But for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about. I’m talking about stuff like ScreenJunkies, Collider and all...
I don’t know how many of you watch “nerd” movie channels, or ever did. But for those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about. I’m talking about stuff like ScreenJunkies, Collider and all their auxiliaries like SchmoesKnow.
These are the people that were made fun of by RedLetterMedia in their NerdCrew videos which funnily enough they don’t do anymore.
They were pillars of the YouTube film community. In fact, back when I was first getting into movies in the early 2010s, they were the majority of content. Until the video essay boom came into fruition circa 2015, and of which is now the primary style of video.
They would make dozens upon dozens of videos and podcasts talking about the latest trailer for a Marvel movie. They would speculate about what would happen in the next Star Wars movie. They would react to trailers and over-exaggerate. They would fully embrace all things that Funko Pop nerds embraced.
2019 was the height of all of this. The MCU’s Infinity Saga came to a close with Endgame and Spider-Man: Far From Home, and the Star Wars Sequel trilogy wrapped up later in the year with The Rise of Skywalker. The hype for these movies were unbelievable, even if one of them disappointed and left everyone with a bitter after-taste.
Then the pandemic happened and all nerd movie news stopped. There was nothing to react to, there was nothing to hype. Wonder Woman 1984 came out, but nobody liked it.
The following year was a little bit better thanks to the hype machine surrounding Spider-Man: No Way Home. But still, the views that these nerd channels were getting dropped significantly. Check out the difference between the reviews on Fandom Entertainment's channel for Endgame and Spider-Man: No Way Home. The drop in audience is remarkable. And that’s for the big reviews. The day-to-day content that these channels posted are down significantly, and in the case of Fandom Entertainment (of ScreenJunkies), they have stopped producing daily videos. It’s a YouTube channel on life support.
Collider is an empty shell of itself, they canceled all of their nerd panels and only do generic press junket videos.
It’s simple really. These things ended. Interest in the MCU has dipped since Endgame (with the exception of Spider-Man). Star Wars has stopped making movies, and the TV shows have been of mixed quality. People moved on. These channels aren't needed anymore.
The era of the 2010s movie nerd YouTube channel is over. The only ones staying alive are ones that relied more on personality rather than farming content. I’m talking about JeremyJahns, Chris Stuckmann, and Mr. Sunday Movies. Their audience stayed around because their audience liked their personality.
12 votes -
How 2022 became a huge year for horror movies
2 votes -
How Finland put traffic crashes on ice – only 219 people died on Finnish roads in 2021, or four per 100,000 residents
7 votes -
The Matrix Summer Special 2022
9 votes -
Best running apps in 2022
5 votes -
How to choose the best grill in 2022: We tested gas, charcoal and pellet grills
4 votes -
We’re just over half-way done with 2022. What are your favorite films of the year so far?
I haven’t watched as many films from this year as I would like. But here’s my current Top 5: Top Gun: Maverick Happening Ambulance The Bad Guys The Black Phone The ones that will most likely stay...
I haven’t watched as many films from this year as I would like. But here’s my current Top 5:
The ones that will most likely stay in my top 10 at the end of the year are 1-3. Most of my yearly favorite films come out at the end of the year as you can see by this list that only contains two movies released earlier in the year.
And really quickly I’ll give you my most anticipated films for the rest of the year:
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Story
- Avatar: The Way of Water
- Babylon
- Amsterdam
- The Fabelmans
8 votes -
We are (almost) halfway through the year. How is 2022 going for you?
I'd like to know how you're all doing. Did you have any goals for this year? Have you achieved any of them? Given up on any of them? What are the top 3 things that changed in your life so far this...
I'd like to know how you're all doing. Did you have any goals for this year? Have you achieved any of them? Given up on any of them? What are the top 3 things that changed in your life so far this year?
16 votes