@ Mart:

Congratulations on the child birthing thing! :)

Oh, btw – how is Kindle with language support? From what I read it’s UI is English only. I want to get one for my dad, but it would be nice if I could switch the UI language to Polish for him.

k00pa wrote:

And for worst game of the year…. Mw2… Why the fuck did I buy that?!?

Hype maybe? It was pretty hyped up and pretty much every non-geek male I know was pretty much like this but about MW2. It was kinda surreal.

@ Tormod Haugen:

I have not bitten the Minecraft bug yet. I only played the demo, for a very limited time. I’m afraid that if I start playing it, I won’t have time for anything else. lol

@ jambarama:

Well the second season of Walking Dead is in the works. They really got the thumbs up from the critics so I think they gave them 12 episodes this time, but don’t quote me on this.

@ Matt`:

Interesting. I didn’t really notice this, but now that you mention it you are right. It did become more black and white. Then again this season was sort of dominated by Julia Stiles’ character and her story arc which sort of prompted this dichotomy.

On the other hand, the entire series has sort of shown a slow humanization of Dexter. In Season 1 he was just a reclusive serial killer who didn’t care about anything and anyone, save maybe for his sister. Over time however he developed this relationships and attachments (in spite of the code) – he became a real brother, a real husband, a real parent. I find it really interesting to watch him adapt to these roles while still being the introverted psychopath we all know and love.

It seems that the writers actually get the introverted personality type. There is this scene at the end of this season when he is watching all the happy couples at his son’s birthday party and he says something like: “They make it look so easy, connecting with another human being. It’s like no one told them it’s the hardest thing in the world.” I don’t know about other people , but that hit very close to home for me. :)

Well, I haven’t been playing many new games, but one of those was VVVVVV, which was OK, but not great. I like trail and error type of games, but enough is enough ;)

Also bought the Oddbox in the Steam Sale, since I loved Abe’s Oddysee and Exoddus, but unfortunately both Munch’s Oddysee and Stranger’s Wrath were badly ported and crash all the time. Fortunately the developers have promised to fix it, and some updates were already released.

As for movies, the best was definitively Inception, although I’ve heard good things about Black Swan.

I’m still watching and enjoying Dexter, but I feel it has lost something since the beginning… specifically, the moral ambiguity – Season 1’s Dexter was fairly categorically not a Good Guy; he was a compelling protagonist ‘n all, but still a somewhat inhuman serial killer.

Dexter of the latest season… it’s changed tone, he seems more heroic and the bad guys he kills are practically pure evil (rather than just being probably-deserving murderers). I think it started to swing that way with Season 4, but the whole serial killer vs serial killer element, with them being so similar, retained some of the old dark character.

Paladin-Dexter hunting down and swiftly dispatching a gang of murderous rapists, well it’s still good TV but it does seem like the lines are more harshly drawn between good ‘n evil.

My favorite game I played this year was probably Spelunky or Iji – I don’t have a gaming rig yet, but they were really fun games to play. Iji grabbed me immediately, Spelunky took a while to get into, but became absurdly addictive. On the Wii I played Cave Story a lot, Soul Calibur 2 a lot (GC game), and I went through the Metriod trilogy.

I still haven’t see Inception, and there weren’t many new movies I really liked. Sita Sings the Blues was fun (and free!), but mostly I liked old movies I hadn’t seen before: The Seventh Seal & Sanjuro were tops.

For TV, I thought Breaking Bad got too absurd around season 2, and this season was worse. I still loved 30 Rock, and Treme was pretty good as well (not The Wire good, but hey, nothing is). Walking Dead started so well, but they’ve only gotten 6 episodes, so I’m hoping.

For music, Sufjan Stevens, Gorillaz, Joanna Newsom, & Arcade Fire all released good albums. I really liked Cee-Lo Green’s album too. For books, my favorite was Mr. Sammler’s Planet by Saul Bellow.

Oh, cursed sales at Steam and GOG. I can’t.. ooo… new sales today. BRB, money to spend.

[…] Right. I jotted down a short list at my blog, and it being my second blog post this year, I must be allowed to say it is my best. Especially since the other one was a “long time no blog” message this spring. This one was more of a “I don’t watch TV or Movies” post, and I also bragged (as I am bragging here) that my mother knitted me a Totoro teddy.

And even though I am not at all happy with it, Civilization V almost tops my list this year – only beaten by Minecraft. And I cannot explain why. So my top is filled with games I can’t explain why I like the most and a game I can explain why I shouldn’t like as much as I do. Go figure.

Still, thank you for a nice year in blogposts, good luck with the next.

I can’t really decide between Starcraft 2 and Mass Effect 2. Both are great games, in their own genre.

Haven’t really keep track of movies I have watched, so I have to also say inception. (kick-ass was also pretty awesome :P)

And for worst game of the year…. Mw2… Why the fuck did I buy that?!?

(And I think you meant Steam, not Seam holiday sales :) )

It’s difficult for me to put out a list such as this. I don’t remember half the games, movies, TV shows or books between Jan and Nov. The ones that are still fresh are the ones I played, watched and read in December. :P

But I do have a Favourite-est Gadget Of The Year: my Kindle! Got one in October, and in those 3 short months, I think I have read more books than the previous 9. It’s a bit of a hassle buying Kindle books from Amazon since I’m technically not allowed to do so, but it’s really worth it.

And how about the Awesome-st/Surreal-est Experience Of 2010? Mine’s definitely watching the birth of my kid. That experience will be etched in my mind until I die or assimilate my consciousness into the singularity.