watched · 23h
The Invisible Jan Gogola 2026
★★★★★5.0
Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
@pixel_pete · 56 logs · 14 followers · 9 following
Comfort Seeker · cool · warm · interior
Demo account. Indie games and animation. I care about how a thing feels in the hands.
Warmth, resolution, a place they can return to. The rewatch is the point; the third time is the best time.
Where it goes wrong: Comfort can be a wall. The work that would have changed your mind never gets past the first ten minutes.
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
The five this Bud would hand you first.
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Among 649 curators with a profile.
Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Prestige vs. pulp barely moves their ratings.
How far this Bud leans on each of the fourteen dimensions compared with everyone else, strongest first.
This month they were drawn to comfort and warmth and in a generous mood. From 29 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
Profile built from 56 rated titles.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
Luke J. McDonough at the top of their game with Lobster Film. Close and quiet, and it gets under your skin. 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.
Ayoade on Ayoade is the real thing. The setting stays sketched, so the people stay in focus. Go in knowing as little as you can.
Mostly about the performances.
I liked Yoshi and the Mysterious Book a lot more than I expected to. There is a warmth to it that never tips into sugar.
I did not expect Dogwalk to hit this hard. It stays close to a few people and that is where its power is. Unhurried, and the unhurriedness is the point.
One of the best things I have played this year. Fresh and current without chasing trends. It is kind to its people, and that kindness is the point.
The run-based loop and the story are the same machine; dying is how the plot advances. Nobody had done that properly before and everyone has copied it since.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
Every frame has a thing in the corner that nobody needed to draw and somebody drew anyway. That is love, and you can feel it.
Mostly about the craft, how it felt.
Further out is a stronger lean than other Buds.
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other Buds. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
One row a medium, half a star a bar; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Pixel Pete is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Every Bud, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
