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Films, series, books, albums, games. Skip anything you haven't met.
A taste fingerprint: fourteen dimensions, read against every other Bud. Yours appears after a handful of ratings.
Forrest Gump1994Epic, effortless, nostalgic and meticulous.
Which one are you? The test above will tell you.
Not a genre label: how it moves, how it feels, what it asks of you. Every film, series, book, album and game is read on the same fourteen scales, each in its own terms (a record's tempo and sound, a game's challenge and world), and your profile is matched against them.
A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.
D Fun Pak got under my skin. The comedy lands again and again. This one is going to stay with me.
No thanks is the real thing. Plot is beside the point; the inner life is everything. It does not bother with a big world and does not need one.
J.R.R. Tolkien at the top of their game with The war of the jewels. The sheer scope of it is breathtaking. Go in knowing as little as you can.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Solid, and in places better than solid. Epic in the old sense, and it holds all of it together. Not perfect, but it stays with you.
Mostly about the story, memory.
I finished Star Maker and just sat there for a while. The sheer scope of it is breathtaking. Believe the hype on this one.
Mostly about the story.
David Markson at the top of their game with Wittgenstein's Mistress. It lives inside its characters' heads, and that is where it shines. Go in knowing as little as you can.
Mostly about the performances, the craft, the story.
Netmarble Neo at the top of their game with Game of Thrones: Kingsroad. The sheer scope of it is breathtaking. Rarely does something land this completely.
Mostly about the craft.