Last year, I combined my "best of..." into a single post, highlighting my favorites in each medium, but 2024 was such a good year for reading that gaming got its own post so I can spotlight my favorites in different categories: nonfiction, fiction, comics, and manga.
Books I read, games I played, things I watched, with a brief note on what I thought about each of them. 2024 ended with some bangers across the board!
The past three years have found me reading a lot more comics and manga again, to the point where I've had to be more intentional about what I'm planning to read next year, mainly because there's so much manga to choose from!
Personally, 2024 was one of the best years for gaming in a long time, and I even played more acclaimed new releases than usual. I also replayed several old favorites that remain in heavy rotation, some as palate cleansers, some as in-between mains. These were my favorites, a few of which could have been my game of the year in any other year.
"I approve of the bird in a trench coat." Five Things for December 19, 2024
The AI hype train is reaching predictably ridiculous extremes in a desperate attempt to force acceptance of its “inevitable” narrative, and it’s partly because credulous journalists who should absolutely know better by now happily platform the worst of this nonsense.
"An actual local would justifiably call bullshit on that." Five Things for December 5, 2024