Showing posts with label Twelve Days of Listmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twelve Days of Listmas. Show all posts

Friday, December 24, 2021

Listmas 2021: Movies

So Listmas always kind of ends with movies, since movies are so important to me. But very little will seem to have changed for longtime readers, so I wanted to spice things up. Read on to see how I did that.

Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Listmas 2021: The Disney Animated Canon

So during the long months in quarantine with small children, I managed to watch in order and rank every single Disney Animated Canon film. And I'm going to talk about it now.

Friday, December 17, 2021

Listmas 2021: Pokémon

So during this latest period of being a bit stuck not at home, it oddly has been Pokémon that has been the main saving grace for me. I have two new Pokémon cartridges, I found some nice Let's Plays, and I finally bit the bullet on the wonderful world of emulation because 1. Paying exorbanent amounts for 15-year-old cartidges is bogus, 2. Pokémon having only one save file past Generation 1 is bogus, and 3. Not being able to fully evolve a Pokémon you want to use without trading - ESPECIALLY in Gen 3 - is bogus (If I can ever afford to get a streaming setup started we're going to have some laughs)

It has allowed me to take my oldest on her first Pokémon journey. While she's still a bit to young to really do the driving (or read thr dialogue), the team and major choices are all hers with no restrictions other than team diversity (We're playing FireRed and she enthusiastically chose Squirtle BTW)

With that giant preamble out of the way, it's time to get into these Pokémon lists

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Listmas 2021: Final Fantasy

Another relarively short one, being a relatively last-minute replacement entry, and there are certain contenders I have to exclude as you will see. But I have enough that I feel I can at least make solid base lists. So without further ado, the world of Final Fantasy!

Monday, December 13, 2021

Listmas 2021: Video Games

 Just a quick entry today, not even giving a sentence or two for each number. Just two Top 11 lists. I am looking to eventually expand to 15 each but I need to play more first, and two franchises will get their own entries this week.

Saturday, December 11, 2021

Listmas 2021: Television

TV has changed dramatically in the last decade. Hell, how we watch TV has changed dramatically in the last two years! As such, my feelings on the medium and the shows I love the most have changed dramatically since I last talked about them in this space. Many shows I used to love or watch religiously have either aged poorly, went into quality nosedives in later seasons, or both. As such, half of this entry will be an "Honorable Mentions" of sorts stating why certain shows I used to adore would no longer be put anywhere near my favorites list. Also, to preserve the surprise, I am not listing any of today's shows in the tags like I did with the first few Listmas entries this year.

Thursday, December 9, 2021

Listmas 2021: Weird Albums

"Weird Al" Yankovic is my favorite musicsl artist of all time. I saw him live twice, shook the man's hand once (and totally choked), and he remains a big part of my entertainmrnt life. I had to devote a full Listmas entry to him.

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Listmas 2021: Music

Welp, as long as I get twelve of these done by Christmas, I'll consider any schedule slippage a mulligan.

Anyway, this one is kind of a toughie since it's been so difficult for me to just stop and listen to music lately. Still, here is what I have for my Music Lists.

A * indicates a potential point of contention and/or future change 

Sunday, December 5, 2021

Listmas 2021: Tabletop Gaming

Tabletop Gaming, while never quite going away, is certainly seeing something of a renaissance. It's been happening since the last half of the previous decade, but quarantines have seen it boost even higher through both family activities and online programs such as Tabletop Simulator.


Some readers may remember that I used to be involved with a community gaming day. This fell apart around the time other things in my life were, and after a falling out with that group in general I am looking for a new community to join. But I will always thank those people for helping me by either introducing me to or rekindling an old passion for many of the games on these lists. While it has been and continues to be difficult, I am eager to make new fond memories playing these games.


Saturday, December 4, 2021

Listmas 2021: The Natural World

Let's...ah...let's pretend I got this out yesterday, hmm? Hey, I'm still trying to get my groove back. 

This entry is a short one too. Kindergarten level stuff. Just two lists of my Top 11 Favorite Animals in different categories of existence.

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Listmas 2021: Top 5 Lists I'm NOT Doing This Year

 Welcome to Listmas 2021, my experiment to see if I can handle semi-regular updates. I plan on posting one of these every other day, then slowing back down to a couple a month if I have something to say. 


Here's how we do things here. My lists come in two flavors: Top 11 and Multiples of 5. I find Top 11 to be vastly superior to Top 10, the one and only worthwhile contribution Doug Walker ever gave society (told you some of my older posts would age like buttermilk). But sometimes I have far more or far less so I otherwise keep it to Multiples of 5.


Some lists will just be lists from top to bottom with no further explanation. Other times when I have more to say and want to indulge in some dramatic tension, I'll go for a more countdown-oriented model. Some posts will be several lists surrounding a topic and other posts will focus on just one.


Today's list will be a single short countdown: The Top 5 Lists I'm NOT Doing This Year

Saturday, December 24, 2016

The Twelve Lists of Listmas

Tonight is both Christmas Eve and the First Night of Hannukah. So here are Twelve new and updated Lists  of my favorite things because if anyone is still reading after the various long periods of silence knows, it's that I'm self-indulgent like that.

Plus, I'd like to keep up for posterity how things have changed, even if its as minuscule as  slight reordering.



Sunday, October 30, 2016

After Over a Month of Nothing, Hey! Post-A-Day!

Yes yes, like I always do after not having anything to say for a month, I try and go for a week of one post per day before going off into obscurity again for a while. So I'm here to announce that.

What I won't have this year is a standard Halloween entry, since due to budget and time concerns I'm just pulling my Vader suit out, and it's like - who hasn't seen that?

I'll also be stepping outside my comfort zone a bit this week, so be prepared.

Lastly, this December I'm bringing back my Listmas thing from my early days, to simply update based on new material and changing opinions.

Watch this space.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Listmas 2013: Eight Crazy Nights - Eighth Candle

So here's the final update list, and like last time I'm going into slightly more detail. I've upped the number and broke some ties to bring you my

TOP 25 FAVORITE FILMS OF ALL TIME



Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Listmas 2013: Eight Crazy Nights - Seventh Candle

Some more important changes and rearranges here in the TV list. It's been a while since I've been able to really think about television even though it's been a huge part of my life.

Of course, some of you can probably see the biggest change coming...


Monday, December 2, 2013

Listmas 2013: Eight Crazy Nights - Sixth Candle

There's a new addition to my Video Games list, and it's right near the top:

Top 20 Favorite Video Games of All Time
20. Crash Bandicoot 1-3 and Crash Team Racing
19. Desert Demolition with Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner
18. Final Fantasy VI and IX
17. Spore
16. The Lost World: Jurassic Park
15. Freaky Flyers
14. Lego Pop-Culture series
13. South Park Rally
12. Star Wars Episode I Racer and Racer Revenge
11. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
10. Star Wars Battlefront II
9. Super Smash Bros. series
8. Mario Kart series
7. X-Men Legends/Marvel Ultimate Alliance series
6. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
5. Star Wars: The Old Republic
4. Skylanders series
3. Pokémon series
2. Kingdom Hearts series
1. World of Warcraft

Skyrim places a close 6th, just narrowly missing ToR. Not bad for a game I used to avoid like the plague.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Listmas 2013: Eight Crazy Nights - Fifth Candle

A very small change to a very small list:

Top 11 Favorite Novels
11. Frankenstien by Mary Shelley
10. His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philup Pullman
9. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. Darth Plagueis by James Luceno
7. The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins
6. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
5. The Spider-Man Trilogy novelizations by Peter David
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
3. Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
2. IT by Stephen King
1. The Harry Potter saga by J.K. Rowling

Because Darth Plagueis was awesome and Revenge of the Sith novelization was not quite as awesome as I remembered when I wrote the last list.

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Listmas 2013: Eight Crazy Nights - Fourth Candle

My music list last time was way too confusing, so this time I'm going to try and simplify it. The truth of the matter being: my music tastes are just too confusing.


Friday, November 29, 2013

Listmas 2013: Eight Crazy Nights - Third Candle

Stop the presses folks!

My list of Top Star Wars Characters? My Order of Preferred Films? The ones I've referenced in dozens of articles? The things I was set on?

Well, I'm changing them!

That's right! I've changed my mind about how certain things are ordered in these lists! Bet you never expected THAT!