Things I Like
These are by no means definitive or exhaustive lists, they are just small samples of what I enjoy! Items in no particular order.
I will keep updating this over time.
A Few Favourites
Animal: Frog (especially Kaloula pulchra and Fejervarya limnocharis)
Colour: Yellow
Ice-cream flavour: Mint Chocolate Chip
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Handheld console: New 3DS LL/XL
Home console: Wii
Phone: N-Gage QD or maybe Palm Pre
Music
🎵 A Light In The Dark - Dragonland
Album: The Power Of The Nightstar (2022)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify
🎵 The Matriarch - Unleash the Archers
Album: Apex (2017)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify / Bandcamp
🎵 Death On Black Wings - Gatekeeper
Album: From Western Shores (2023)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify / Bandcamp
🎵 Penguins Of The Apocalypse - Fearofdark
Album: The Coffee Zone (2014)
Listen: Youtube / Bandcamp
🎵 Airbound - quarkimo
Album: TAC+, Vol. 2 (2024)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify / Bandcamp
🎵 Mustang - Beach Vacation
Album: I Fell Apart (2020)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify / Bandcamp
🎵 Zieding - Phronesis
Album: The Behemoth (2017)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify / Bandcamp
🎵 hinterland - Goldbæk
Single (2023)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify
🎵 น้ำค้าง - Desktop Error
Album: Keep looking at the window (2013)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify (No fade in/out)
🎵 จะเอาอะไรไปรักกับเธอ - DAY TRIPPER
Album: The Day Tripper (2005)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify
🎵 時間がない - KIRINJI
Album: 愛をあるだけ、すべて (2018)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify
🎵 泣かない蝶々 - 霜月はるか
Album: 蝶ノ在リ処 (2015)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify
🎵 A New Start - Nanashi Mumei
Single (2022)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify
🎵 Paraíso Lunar - Siddhartha
Album: 00:00 (2022)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify
🎵 Niscaya - Bilal Indrajaya
Album: Nelangsa Pasar Turi (2023)
Listen: Youtube / Spotify
Video Games
🎮 Emil Chronicle Online (PC, TH 2007-2011)
🎮 Etrian Odyssey (series), in particular:
- Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight (3DS, NA 2015)
- Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan (3DS, NA 2013)
- Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth (3DS, NA 2017)
- Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection (Switch/PC, 2023)
🎮 Rune Factory (series), in particular:
- Rune Factory: Frontier (Wii, NA 2009)
- Rune Factory 3: A Fantasy Harvest Moon: (DS, NA 2010)
- Rune Factory 4 (3DS, NA 2013)
🎮 Dragon Quest (series), in particular:
- Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies (DS, NA 2010)
- Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age – Definitive Edition (Switch/PC, 2020)
- ドラゴンクエストXI 過ぎ去りし時を求めて (3DS, 2017)
🎮 The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (3DS, NA 2013)
🎮 Blasphemous (PC, 2019)
🎮 What Remains of Edith Finch (PC 2017, Switch 2019)
🎮 Ghost Trick (DS, NA 2011)
Books
📖 A Psalm for the Wild-Built - Becky Chambers (2021)
📖 A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers (2022)
📖 Gotrek & Felix: The First Omnibus - William King (2018; orig. 2006)
📖 Legends & Lattes - Travis Baldree (2022)
📖 Neuromancer - William Gibson (1984)
📖 The Transall Saga - Gary Paulsen (1998)
📖 Wild Card: Let the Tarot Tell Your Story - Fiona Lensvelt & Jen Cownie (2023, orig. 2022)
📖 What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada - Walpola Rahula (1974, orig. 1959)
📖 Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: Meditations on the Buddhist Path - Ayya Khema (1987)
Manga
🗯️ ゆるキャン△ | Laid-Back Camp - Afro (2015-)
🗯️ ARIA (AQUA) - Kozue Amano (2001-2008)
🗯️ 放課後ていぼう日誌 | Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater - Yasuyuki Kosaka (2017-)
🗯️ 毎月庭つき大家つき | Monthly in the Garden with My Landlord - Yodokawa (2021-2024)
Films
🎥 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
🎥 John Carter (2012)
🎥 A Man Called Otto (2022)
🎥 Once (2007)
🎥 Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
🎥 Koe no Katachi (2016)
🎥 Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)
🎥 Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
🎥 Dune (2021)
🎥 Dune: Part Two (2024)