I’ve been tracking all of the books, movies and games I’ve been playing each year for about the last five years now. Although I consumed about the same number of books and movies as usual, I saw a massive decrease in games completed this year. I think this is due to me stepping further away from the games industry professionally, as I spend more time working in the general space of technology and less in mobile gaming.
Toward the end of the year I went on a pretty serious 1990’s movie binge, which was most excellent. Many of the books I read this year, especially in the latter half, dealt with politics as I sorted through of the cultural and socioeconomic changes the US is undergoing.
Books Read
- The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties by Christopher Caldwell
- Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan
- The Home Schooled Shootist: Training to Fight with a Carbine by Joe Nobody
- United States of Socialism by Dinesh D’Souza
- Jacked: the Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto by David Kushner
- Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution by Tucker Carlson
- Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America by Adam Winkler
- Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell
- The Rogue Experiment by Fallton Havenstonne
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner
- Shovel Knight by David L. Craddock
- The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great by Ben Shapiro
- The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics by Mark Lilla
Movies & TV Shows
- Rambo: Last Blood
- Den of Thieves
- The Unknown Known
- Time to Hunt
- Hell or High Water
- Uncut Gems
- Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics
- Icarus
- Devil’s Advocate
- Total Recall
- The Long Dumb Road
- Lord of War
- The End of the Tour
- 2012
- The Social Dilemma
- Back to the Future Part II
- Menace II Society
- The Founder
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- The Shining
- Walk the Line
- Demolition Man
- The Rock
- 69: The Saga of Danny Hernandez
- Wild Things
- The Net
- Greenland
- Boiler Room
- Green Room
- Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock n Roll
- Robocop 2
- Cliffhanger
- Escape from New York
- The Substitute
- Triple Frontier
- Lost in Translation
- Wayne’s World 2
- Extraction
- Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 6
- Billions season 5
- Dave season 1
Kept track of these with Trakt.tv
Games Completed
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2
- A Way Out