Things I really Like

This is just a page to collect and showcase my preferences and favorites in various categories. This is more personal and fun than useful, but perhaps you find some inspiration, ideas, or schadenfreude by looking at some of my choices.

Updated: 2026-03-22

entertainment

movies

• Good Will Hunting
• The Dark Knight
• The Last Samurai
• Inception
• Se7en
• V for Vendetta
• Gladiator
• The Prestige
• American Beauty
• Heat
• The Gentlemen
• Margin Call
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Dead Poets Society
• Hurt Locker
• Rush

series

• Band of Brothers
• The Office
• Peaky Blinders
• Modern Family
• Full Metal Alchemist
• Death Note
• Silver Fang (Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin)
• Attack on Titan

books (fiction)

• Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
• Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
• Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
• 1984 by George Orwell
• Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) by Väinö Linna
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Red Rising (books 1 to 3) by Pierce Brown

games

• Legend of Zelda games (basically all of them)
• Pokemon (GBA/DS/3DS era aka BW2, HGSS, ORAS, FRLG)
• Fire Emblem (Path of Radiance, Awakening, Three Houses)
• Advance Wars (everything except Days of Ruin)
• Metroid Prime + Dread
• Eastside Hockey Manager
• Ghost of Tsushima
• beautiful metroidvania games (Ori, Hollow Knight, Dust, etc.)

consoles

• Nintendo Handhelds (3DS, GBA)
• Nintendo Switch
• Super Nintendo
• Nintendo Gamecube

food (last meal menu items)

main courses

• steak + green beans or aspargus on the side
• blazed salmon with a bit of dill butter
• American BBQ (brisket, smoked chicken, sausage, and some greens)
• smash burger
• hot wings

snacks & desserts

• salmiakki (the really salty kind)
• crème brûlée
• pecan with salty caramel (a pie or just coated nuts)
• Cheetos