Scores are out of 5.

✉️ - Recommended to me

🔁 - Revisit

❌ - Dropped

Music

Heavy Rotation

2026 Log

Forgot When

  • Death From Above 1979 - You're A Woman, I'm A Machine (4.5)

  • okameP - Velvet Thorns (❌)

January

  • Feryquitous - ReAlt (3.5)

  • Number Girl - Sappukei (4)

  • Soulkeeper - Join Us In Creating Excellence (forgot to rate, needs revisit)

February

Went through the Kagerou Project music route with my partner.

  • じん - Mekakucity Days 🔁

  • じん - Mekakucity Actors 🔁

  • じん - Mekakucity Reload (2.5)

After this, my listening/cataloging falls off of a cliff due to a mental health crisis. When I exit the other side of it, it's--

May

  • Chonny Jash - The Ship of Theseus (4) ✉️

  • Penguin Research - 敗者復活戦自由形 (Haisha fukkatsusen jiyuugata) (2.5)

  • Demetori - Lebenstrieb & Todestrieb (4)

  • Demetori - 愧人贖悪 ～ Evil People as the True Object of Salvation ～ (3.5) 🔁

  • Demetori - 寂光寂滅 ～ The Truth of the Cessation of Dukkha (4)

  • Various Artists (Diverse System) - FIREWORKS.BACKDRAFT (4)

  • Various Artists (Diverse System) - FIREWORKS. (3.5)

June

  • okameP - Dreaming Colors 🔁

  • The Malware Ministry - New Technology (3.5)

  • Draw the Emotional - Collapse of the Sky 🔁

  • あばらや - 夢回線 (5) (i need to go stare at my ceiling for a bit)

  • haisuinonasa - Animal Body (4)

July

  • Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (need to relisten! was distracted)

  • Various Artists (Manabu Namiki, Akari Sengoku) - DODONPACHI SAIDAIOUJOU / DODONPACHI MAXIMUM ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK 🔁 (technically)

  • Various Artists (Manabu Namiki, Akari Sengoku) - DODONPACHI SAIDAIOUJOU ARRANGE ALBUM

  • Utsu-P - PERFECT PERSONA 🔁

  • あばらや - 夢回線 🔁

  • The Streets - A Grand Don't Come For Free (3)

  • drillbit - 0db / 0Hz (4)

August

  • OZIGIRI - Wonderful Life (3)

  • Psycho Filth Records - THE PSYCHO FILTH vol8 - Uneasy Unknown

  • The Callous Daoboys - Celebrity Therapist 🔁

  • iyowa - Sleeping Pink Noise (paused cuz it was a bad day and it was Actually giving me anxiety; getting back to soon!!)

  • Alaiyakasico - WHY (4)

  • (It occurred to me at this point that getting Last.fm set back up might not be a bad idea.)

2025 Highlights

Albums

  • The Callous Daoboys - I Don't Want to See You In Heaven

  • Utsu-P - PERFECT PERSONA

  • Sheeno Mirin - Interpretation System / Harmony

Songs

  • TAKIO - Extradimensional Cosmic Phenomenon

  • Sobrem - ANDORXOR

Curious/Send Recs!

  • Dance-punk, dance-punk revival (relevant to current interests)

  • Dub, garage, more "old-school" electronic genres (relevant, long-standing curiosity)

Games

Am I A GM in Tetris The Grandmaster 1 Yet???

  • No.

Playing:

  • R-Type Final

  • DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou (ikzzzzz)

  • Metroid Prime (GCN original)

  • Touhou Perfect Cherry Blossom (for normal 1cc)

Paused:

  • Arcaea (my One live service game. February hit me like a train and I fell off the update cycle again)

  • Minecraft

    • Vanilla 1.21

    • TerraFirmaGreg (Entering HV)

  • Tribal Hunter

  • Gran Turismo 5 (replay)

  • Krastorio 2

  • Touhou Project:

    • Shoot the Bullet

    • Violet Detector

    • Undefined Fantastic Object (hit a wall on Stage 6)

  • Okami (started earlier this year then February happened)

  • Vanquish (bugs with the port on Linux :C)

Finished:

  • Eschatos

  • Ridge Racer Type 4

  • R-Type Leo (kinda? I spammed continues + barely understood it lol)

Shortlist (have/can get)

  • Drakengard

  • Ikaruga

  • Vampire Survivors (last played in 2024 i think, lotsa new stuff since)

  • Disco Elysium

  • Pseudoregalia

  • ULTRAKILL (last played when Minos Prime was added)

  • Dyson Sphere Program

  • ARMORED CORE VI: FIRES OF RUBICON (was filtered by balteus on launch sadge)

  • GTA: Vice City

  • Jet Set Radio (revisit)

  • SHENZHEN I/O (revisit)

  • WORLD OF HORROR

  • Cave Story

Want to Play/Backlog:

  • Blue Prince (sorry wife! you were right it Does look cool)

  • Zone of the Enders HD Collection (PS3's BD drive is dead 😭)

  • Marathon (not enough to go back to windows though...)

  • PROJEKT GODHAND

  • Unbeatable

  • Gauntlet (Foray)

  • Blasphemous

  • Opus Magnum

  • White Knuckle

Anticipating:

  • In Falsus (plsplsplsplsplsplsplsplsplspls)

  • Selaco (was underwhelmed at launch; may've been hellbrain? but anticipating ch2+ch1 overhaul which addresses all my issues!)

Dropped:

  • Ginga Force (bad fit)

  • Marrow (free will)

Finished in 2025:

  • Factorio: Space Age

  • Ballance (i might have one level left actually--)

  • DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu (White Label Novice 1cc)

  • Mushihimesama (Novice 1cc)

  • Touhou Project:

    • Imperishable Night (easy 1cc)

    • Perfect Cherry Blossom (easy 1cc)

    • Double-Dealing Character (easy 1cc)

Other

Recently Watched:

  • Look Around You (2002-2005 British comedy series. Spoof of 80s British educational tapes. Reliable source of Reasonable Chuckles, although there's some :/ jokes. Edgar Wright was in an episode.)

Footnotes

  1. 1.

    "to satisfaction"; though there's more I could achieve, I've gotten all I want from it for the moment ↩