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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.
sujay (@sskhandek): taste profile and reviews · Taste Buds
Overview Taste Diary12 Queue Lists
Archetype
The Thrill Chaser Pacing and spectacle first. With a streak of The Cartographer.
11% of Buds. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
Momentum. Set pieces, stakes, a story that grabs they by the collar and does not let go until the credits.
Where it goes wrong: Speed can hide emptiness. Some of your five stars are adrenaline, not admiration.
More about the Thrill Chaser
Avoids Drift. Contemplation without event feels like a waiting room, whatever the critics say.
How they rate Your stars follow your pulse. Pacing and spectacle earn them; interiority has to bring an engine.
Good company Genre Devotees and Cartographers ride along. Formalists find you impatient; you find them slow.
Against the crowd You are close to the crowd on blockbusters and much harsher than it on the acclaimed and unhurried. Rates generously
In three lines
They care more about what happens than about what characters feel. More than almost anyone here.
character-led plot-driven 72%
They love a richly built world to get lost in. More than almost anyone here.
spare richly built 63%
They go for genre fun over prestige. More than almost anyone here.
unpretentious prestige 56%
From 12 ratings; sharper with twenty or more. The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste .
The numbers What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
The Thrill Chaser 61% The Cartographer 33% In the community
Kinder than 60% of Buds Has rated more than 2% of Buds More event-driven than 99% of Buds 11% of curators are Thrill Chasers Among 662 curators with a profile.
Cares most about
character-led plot-driven spare richly built unpretentious prestige Solid mark is what they love; hollow is what they avoid. Craft attention barely moves their ratings.
Taste profile
How far this Bud leans on each of the fourteen dimensions compared with everyone else, strongest first.
Interior Event-driven Character vs. plot: +4.1σ toward Event-driven +4.1σ Thin setting Dense world World-building: +2.1σ toward Dense world +2.1σ Pulp Prestige Prestige vs. pulp: -1.6σ toward Pulp -1.6σ Earnest Ironic Sincerity vs. irony: +1.5σ toward Ironic +1.5σ Conventional Experimental Formal experimentation: -1.3σ toward Conventional This month they were settling in for long things. From 12 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Films Empty. Add things from their pages.
First entry · Bronze
Maxed
Time traveler · Bronze
6 of 8
4.4★ · 5
-1.3σ Resolved Open Ambiguity: -1.2σ toward Resolved -1.2σ Serious Comedy-forward Humor: +1.1σ toward Comedy-forward +1.1σ Intimate Epic Scale: +1.0σ toward Epic +1.0σ Contemporary Retro Nostalgia: -1.0σ toward Contemporary -1.0σ Cool Overwhelming Emotional intensity: -0.8σ toward Cool -0.8σ Contemplative Relentless Pacing: +0.7σ toward Relentless +0.7σ Warm Bleak Tonal darkness: +0.6σ toward Bleak +0.6σ Rough Meticulous Craft attention: -0.5σ toward Rough -0.5σ Easy Demanding Challenge: -0.2σ toward Easy standard deviations from the average Bud Ratings
3 stars: 3 3.5 stars: 1 4 stars: 5 4.5 stars: 2 5 stars: 1 ½★ 3★ 5★
12 rated · mean 3.88 Profile built from 12 rated titles.
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Fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone bleak resolved conventional relentless cool epic easy ironic dense world event-driven pulp contemporary comedy-forward rough sujay. The ring is the average curator; the further out, the stronger the lean toward the word. Further out is a stronger lean than other Buds.
Read this chart 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.
Glossary
By medium
How sujay rates each kind of thing Music 7 ratings mean 3.50 Games 5 ratings mean 4.40
The map
Every Bud, placed by taste Against the crowd
Where sujay parts ways with the audience Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Read this chart 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.
Glossary
Drift
How what sujay loved has moved
One row a medium, half a star a bar; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
Read this chart 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.
Glossary
kanuahs · The Cartographer keegan · The Cartographer cozy_cal · The Comfort Seeker kofi_k · The Provocateur shreyvalia · The Provocateur theo.thrills · The Ironist samkosciolek · The Cartographer ruthless_ruth · The Provocateur pixel_pete · The Comfort Seeker rafael.replay · The Comfort Seeker quinn.ironist · The Ironist sol_sings · The Sincere ines.v · The Empath omni_omar · The Comfort Seeker eviltwin13 · The Formalist marcus_mainline · The Genre Devotee amara.reads · The Provocateur yuki.reads · The Provocateur mara_k · The Provocateur ada.archive · The Provocateur cartographer_cy · The Cartographer priya.pages · The Provocateur hana.watches · The Provocateur beatsbyleo · The Provocateur amillio · The Genre Devotee tessa.tv · The Provocateur viktor_v · The Provocateur lena.lofi · The Provocateur sib.contrarian · The Provocateur pabreume · The Archivist hollis · The Archivist taya · The Sincere pranathitipparam · The Formalist kit.everything · The Comfort Seeker xolodolo · The Comfort Seeker tobyplays · The Genre Devotee paigeb · The Empath kellymarie · The Ironist garganchuan · The Prestige Hunter ryan · The Omnivore shan · The Comfort Seeker perfectdru · The Empath oneilld136 · The Sincere devontae · The Genre Devotee june_bug · The Comfort Seeker dannythemermaid · The Comfort Seeker ragingbert · The Empath nadia_noir · The Provocateur sim555 · The Omnivore inktrap · The Provocateur gaz_horror · The Provocateur you easy · pulp demanding · prestige intimate · ironic epic · earnest · faint dots are the research dataset; ringed dots are your circle
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; sujay is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Read this chart 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.
Glossary
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Read this chart 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.
Glossary
