Be Excellent To Each Other

So, time for the custom December 2012 - now stuff.
Here it is in a handy copy/paste format for you to fill in:

Best Film: Stand Up Guys
Best Song: Christ. I think it's probably Drinking from the Bottle by Calvin Harris (featuring Tinie Tempah)
Best Album: One Night Stand by Swedish House Mafia
Best console game: GTA5
Best PC game: Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Best handheld/phone game: Tekken Card Tournament
Best game: Counter Strike: Global Offensive
Best moment: My company Christmas party in Germany last week
Best night out: Trooper's stag do, or the Rasslin' party

I've done very little this year apart from tend to my daughter. This could be hard for me to fill in. I'll give it some thought.

Best Film: Star Trek: Into Darkness, maybe? Damnit, I really want to watch Stand Up Guys.
Best console game: Saint's Row IV
Best moment: Floating in the carribean while a dude brought us mojitos, I reckon.
Best night out: The Saturday before going on holiday. Getting so hammered between 5:30 and 7:30pm that getting a taxi home at that point seemed entirely reasonable.

Best Film: Star Trek into Darkness
Best Song: 1975 - Chocolate
Best Album: Bad Blood by Bastille
Best console game: The Last of Us
Best PC game: N/A
Best handheld/phone game: 8 Ball Pool (Miniclip)
Best game: The Last of Us
Best moment: Son getting great GCSE result & finally buying the Rocketship
Best night out: N/A married with kids don't get a night out.

I really want to watch Into Darkness!

I've not seen or heard anything this year

This is even more wrong than your fabled grenade proclamation.

Best Film: The World's End
Best Song: 'We Are' - Karnivool
Best Album: 'Asymmetry' - Karnivool
Best console game: GTA V
Best PC game: The Stanley Parable
Best handheld/phone game: Hotline Miami
Best game: GTA V
Best moment: Performing at the below
Best night out: Ange's 30th birthday party

Best Film: Lincoln.
Best Song: Frank Turner's 'Polaroid Picture'
Best Album: 'The Beast in its Tracks' by Josh Ritter. Frank Turner's 'Tape deck heart' comes a close second, but Ritter's feels more complete as an album
Best moment: My brother's wedding. Crossing the Carrick Roads on a stormy day with the waves splashing over me was another highlight.
Best night out: Beexbeeque, and the music quiz I went to back in April.

Best Film: Yeah, Star Trek pretty much kicked ass.
Best Song: Lady Gaga: Applause
Best Album: Haven't listened to a whole album from this year but it'd probably be whatever it's called by Rihanna as I have more of her songs from this year than any other artist.
Best console game: Erm. I've only played one game released this year, COD: Ghosts so that'd have to be it by default.
Best PC game: You can play games on PCs...?
Best handheld/phone game: Too busy texting.
Best game: COD: Ghosts by the same default as above.
Best moment: After spending three nights after work building Ikea furniture until gone midnight, being able to stand back and think "this is going to be a good home", that whole week topped everything this year.
Best night out: A Saturday night out in Liverpool, lots of cocktails, good food, seeing someone have their first Jaegarbomb and really not liking it, staggering back to the hotel and pretending to be German to a group of students. Then deciding to ditch the hotel in favour of some dingy rock club, being at least 10yrs older than the next oldest people in there and jumping around to RATM whilst being so overdressed and out of place that we probably started a new hipster trend.

I've not seen many films this year!

Best Film: Gravity
Best Song: 'Get Lucky' by Daft Punk
Best Album: 'No Blues' by Los Campesinos!
Best console game: COD: Ghosts, as I don't think I bought any others...
Best PC game: X-Com? Did I have that last year as well?
Best handheld/phone game: Tekken Card Tournament
Best game: Mafia Scum
Best moment: Any of the many time my amazing daughter has astonished me by doing something marvellous
Best night out: Cripes! A tough one. Maybe the Summerslam wrestling night.

That was epic

Best Film: Star Trek - Into Darkness
Best Song: Pompeii by Bastille
Best Album: BBC Live Lounge 2013 (not much of a album person)
Best console game: Arkham City (not played the xbox much this year)
Best PC game: X-Com
Best handheld/phone game: Minion Run
Best game: Arkham City
Best moment: Hearing my son shouting 'Daddy Daddy Daddy' as I played rugby....
Best night out: Oh, last friday I suppose, when I saw a friend that I have not seen for 24 year.. and the beex weddings!

I'm with Doc; I thought the Star Trek film was absolutely awful.

I liked it. I thought Cummerbund was ace

Best Film: Spring Breakers
Best Song: Darkthrone - Leave no cross unturned
Best Album: SubRosa - More constant that the gods
Best PC game: Rogue Legacy
Best game: Rogue Legacy
Best moment: My wedding
Best night out: My stag party

Congratulations RuySan, I don't think I knew you'd got married this year.

Best Film: Flight (even if it made me even more nervous to fly) and Despicable Me 2 (gotta have one serious and one awww)
Best Song: Au Cinema - Lianne Lahavas
Best Album: Unorthodox Jukebox - Bruno Mars
Best console game: NA!
Best PC game: NA!
Best handheld/phone game: Candy Crush - oh GOD the addiction
Best game: Icing!!!!!
Best moment: (sorry, there are two) Bidding £3,000 (of someone else's money ) and winning! / Swimming in the still warm Caribbean ocean at 5am with a glass of champagne as the sun rose (it actually felt like living out a moment in a Hollywood movie)
Best night out: Hawksmore Dreamteam charity dinner and auction, lots of bubbly, amazing food, doing some good for the world, meeting two new wonderful friends, first trip to duck and waffle for breakfast, going home at 7am on the biggest happy-high ever

I have literally no idea what things I consumed this year. Should I have been keeping a list, or something? Is that what you folk do?

At least I have a new year's resolution now: Keep a list of all things watched/listened to, so that I can participate in all of the "2014 roundup" threads that will inevitably appear.

Thanks!



For the movies, i went to see my imdb voting history. As for everything else, i might be missing something.

I know which books I've read because Goodreads

Best Film:Kick ass 2 or star trek
Best Song: Around Here: Thelma Plum
Best Album: Flume - Flume - was last year but still
Best console game: Haven't really played anything but NHL so that
Best PC game: Don't play any
Best handheld/phone game: played too much hill climb
Best game: Dunno
Best moment: Swimming with fishes on the Barrier reef and seeing the northern lights
Best night out: Leaving do at work in Brisbane.

Best Film: I really enjoyed Gravity, not sure it's my favourite of the year though.
Best Song: Drinking from the Bottle by Calvin Harris is a good shout! Every time I hear it I think about making a playlist for my wedding. That, or Bones by MS MR.
Best Album: Probably Candy Bar Creep Show by MS MR
Best console game: Tough one, either The Last of Us or GTA V.
Best PC game: Not played any.
Best handheld/phone game: Minions!
Best game: board game for me, since 2013 was the year I discovered them. I'd say Carcassonne.
Best moment: 18th January when my girlfriend proposed to me in Central Park
Best night out: I've had so few nights out because of my shift at work! Hogmanay was an incredible start to the year, best one for years. One of my good friends got married this year as well and that was a great day and night.

Best Film: Probably Iron Man 3.
Best Song: Cripes, haven't listened to anything new this year.
Best Album: Ditto. Oh - I have listened to the London Philharmonic Orchestra's "Best Videogame Music" album on Youtube about a zillion times.
Best console game: GTA V has taken up more of my time than anything else.
Best PC game: Company of Heroes, still
Best handheld/phone game: Not played any.
Best game: GTA V
Best moment: There have been quite a few good ones this year. The trip to Singapore was a highlight. The kids starting rugby and being brilliant. The gorgeous idyllic two week holiday with Mrs K and the kids staying right on a beach. Catching a baby cuttlefish!
Best night out: I've barely had any this year, so probably my birthday last week - it was great to have so many of the family in one place.

I also have the habit of rating books on Goodreads, but their ratings just don't have the same weight as IMDB's. Makes sense, as people usually don't read books that they know they won't like. It's a much bigger time investment.

Best Film: Iron Man 3. Honorable mentions to Compliance, Shame, Dredd, Silver Linings Playbook, Much Ado About Nothing.
Best Song: iTunes says I don't own anything recorded in 2013. In terms of music I bought this year, probably Stadium Love by Metric.
Best Album: see above. Again, in terms of what I bought, maybe Not Your Kind Of People by Garbage. Honourable mentions to Bleed Like Me (also Garbage) and Fantasies by Metric.
Best console game: The Last Of Us. Second place is GTA V.
Best PC game: Barely played any. Shadowrun, maybe. Might change my mind if I check my Steam history.
Best handheld/phone game: Depending on how the next few weeks go, Persona 4 Golden might take this. For now, Hotline Miami.
Best game: The Last Of Us.
Best moment: Leaving my interview at Google and knowing, absolutely knowing, that I'd smashed it. I didn't know I had the job, not a clue, but I knew I couldn't have done anything else to be any better, and that was all I needed right then.
Best night out: Hmm. Not sure. In terms of being badly drunk, probably the night I went for cocktails with Cras and not-from-here Ryan. In terms of eating a meal, maybe Hawksmoor with Danielle in August.

Iron Man 3?
Both of you need to go and think about that some more.

I love Downey Jr in the role and I'm a sucker for Shane Black's writing and direction. I'm hideously biased.

Best Film: Sightseers
Best Song: Warm and Easy by 2 Bears
Best Album: Light Up Gold by Parquet Courts
Best console game: GTA V
Best PC game: Not played any
Best handheld/phone game: Super Stickman Golf 2
Best game: GTA V
Best moment: Seeing my baby daughter for the first time, obv.
Best night out: Probably the nights out camping really.

Best Film: One Shot, even though Tom Cruise is miles too short to play Jack Reacher.
Best Song: Get Lucky Daft Punk
Best Album: Legowelt Loch Ness Adventure
Best PC game: Spelunky
Best handheld/phone game: Candy Crush Saga even though Bejewelled is miles better.
Best moment: Getting my Prickly Pear to flower.

Best Film: Filth.
Best Song: I'm not sure. Nothing has blown me away. Maybe 'Speed Limit' by Kerli.
Best Album: as above. I'm sure there's something amazing I haven't heard. Swans, Propagandhi, Fang Island, Black Breath, Enabler, Sleigh Bells from last year were all better than anything I've heard from this. Maybe RockaByeBaby by Cassie. Or the Carcass one.
Best console game: don't even know which of my games are from this year. Probably Resistance 3
Best PC game: n/a
Best handheld/phone game: Fuck, Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 were 2011? Okay, Marvel Puzzle Quest. Pretty damn addictive.
Best game: Marvel Puzzle Quest
Best moment: I'm not sure how it'll pan out yet...
Best night out: God knows. Seeing Propagandhi, I think. Met up with some old pals. Went to Sheffield. Rocked out.

Had a legitimate "had to think hard about swallowing my Pepsi Max" moment then. How have I not heard of this?

It's really good. Like the use of special moves in the otherwise match-three gameplay, and you know, Marvel!

Downloading now!

All of , except the Pepsi Max thing.

This is my best moment.

From reading a couple of reviews, it appears to be infested with f2p bullshit.

I had it installed on my phone and uninstalled it pretty quickly but I can't remember if it was the F2P bullshit or always-online DRM that drove me to get rid of it. The latter might be an Android only thing but it's becoming an increasing fucking annoyance. Designing a game for mobile devices that cannot actually be played within the kind of reception blackspots that most commutes have at times is just idiotic.

I've been pretty obsessed with it for the last week or so, and have never had the urge (nor had the urge thrust upon me by the game) to buy anything. Its nowhere near your Candy Crushes of this world.

But in the truest sense of the phrase, I can't argue with the assertion that it is, indeed, free to play. I'm cool with that.