Its how I found1000xResistlast year.
But its not as easy with other things.
My New Years resolution is to read more in 2025, and I already watch a lot of movies.
So I turn to lists made by strangers.
And, strangers, your lists are bad.
These Lists Are Too Dang Big
I dont mean I disagree with them.
What a day that would be if a list made enough sense that I could disagree with it!
These are less lists than they are incomprehensible art experiments.
What I want is a collection of similar things grouped by a specific similarity.
You know, a list.
For example, at TheGamer we haveBest Indie Games To Play If You Love Animals.
This is very clear - theres the hook, the justification, and the list.
It gives you what youre looking for.
This can be changed to most (or least) recent, but that hardly helps.
But if you want something more curated, youre out of luck.
Its a relatively small movie, and yet it appears in 11 thousand lists.
I think my Watchlist is already a little big, and it has just 842 movies on it.
[exclamation point theirs, but also mine because why make a three part list?]
Are These Supposed To Be Helpful?
But these lists have no purpose.
Every movie with a poster?
Why does anyone care about that?
Then it features on READ IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN!
[caps and exclamation mark theirs and definitelynotmine], which contains 10,282 books.
Far more than the average person could even read once in a lifetime.
Its just another sign of the increasingly isolated individualism of the internet.
These lists arent made for others to participate in or use, but to look at.
Maintaining these lists of every book with blue on the cover becomes part of your identity.
And, all the same, complaining about everything has become part of mine.
Here’s all the games that TG’s staff is most looking forward to playing.
