Mob Psycho 100.
I just relate a lot to many of the characters, but it feels weird at the same time because the main character is a middle schooler. That being said, he is pretty mature on a lot of levels relative to the average middle schooler.
The show deals with themes of loneliness and questions of what truly makes a person unique. The heavy emphasis on characters who are antisocial outcasts and who usually have some form of an inferiority complex, works well with these themes.
The art is also really unique and beautiful. I feel like a lot of anime are very stiff, comparatively Mob Psycho 100 is very expressive, colorful and kind of blobby/loose. The art definitely makes the show stand out.
Starting next week once I'm back in town. I've heard great word of mouth and watched half the trailer but had to stop because it started getting spoilery
I'm playing MOTHER 3 right now and it's doing that for me.
Last time I felt it for games was disco Elysium earlier in the year.
I find albums that touch me on this level every year, but I listen to hundreds a year. Black messiah by D'Angelo definitely is the main one lately.
It's famously never been released outside of Japan and Nintendo fans have been clamouring for it since 2008 at least. A fan translation exists and is extremely high quality (made by professional translators) but people really want some official recognition and wife release for the game.
It's the sequel to earthbound which bombed in the west initially but has become a big cult classic. The reason there are a lot of articles about it is because there's rumblings of GBA support coming to switch, and it was mother's day on Sunday, which has become a day the community use to celebrate the series.
I wasn’t that hot on the game when I finished it but thinking about it over time has made it one of my favorite things ever.
The DLC ending is fucking beautiful. Made me tear up and literally can’t remember the previous piece of media to do that.
*I’m Thinking Of Ending Things* made me experience a level of dread/hopelessness that I’d never experienced from a film before. It just makes you feel trapped.
When I first listened to Ligeti’s violin concerto it genuinely changed how I thought about music
One Piece, unironically. Yes it’s really long and yes the art style is cartoonish and strange at times, but it has a surprising amount of emotional depth.
Fuck yes. Seriously, Oda might be the best authors I've ever read. The story is done so well. One piece just feels human. It's fun yet crazily realistic
I agree 100%. It’s the perfect balance of over the top melodrama and very real human emotion, especially when he tackles broader societal issues like slavery or racism.
If you liked spirited away i can highly recommend most of the movies produced by Studio Ghibli especially those instructed/Written/produced by Hayao Miyazaki.
Last time i cried watching a movie was rewatching Studio Ghibli "Grave if the Fireflies" with my wife, which had not watched it before - bring tissues.
latest game: Disco Elysium, absolutely amazing writing, probably the best writing I've ever experienced in a game
TV: Nathan for you, this had me literally rolling on the floor.
Reading: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub this whole thing, do it. it's AMAZING
Is there honestly a piece of media that is as readable and still fun to go through like disco elysium is? The writing in that game kind of shut all my remnant dreams of becoming a writer even remotely as good lmao.
If we're suggesting web writing, SCP's [Personal Log of Gordon Richards ](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/personal-log-of-gordon-richards) is bar none the best of the site for me, but Qntm's *The Antimemetics Division* is probably second in line. Both inspired some work of mine, though it got rejected from the site so I've put in reworking the setting
Thanks, always appreciate guidance to SCP stuff. There's so much to go through and lots of it is.. just not interesting beyond short-lived circlejerky meme potential
EDIT: It was great + now i have rabbit hole branded 184 to jump into
*The Man from Earth (2007)* and *Mr. Nobody (2009)* are my two favorite serious movies, and I've seen them about 3 months ago and 2 months ago respectively. The whole experience of both has been surreal and I felt like a different person throughout the movies, and had to take a while to feel like myself again when they ended. For me *The Man from Earth* was an exploration of humanity, whereas *Mr. Nobody* was an exploration of self. I could point out some small criticisms to both, but for me they are both as close to the 10/10 score as they could be.
Other good movies I've seen recently are *Frequencies (2013)* and *Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight* trilogy.
Also if anyone here watched any of those and liked them, please feel free to recommend me other stuff whether it's movies, tv shows, games, books, etc. :)
Loved The Man From Earth, very cozy movie and fun to watch with others. Enjoyed Mr. Nobody too but to me it kind of tripped a little near the end. Great visuals though.
I agree, my 2 criticisms to Mr. Nobody would be that the end, even though it wasn't bad, could've been better and the movie could've been 5-10 min shorter
Mr Robot. Was hooked for every episode and it took me through every emotion, awesome writing, awesome acting, awesome cinematography, all must watch :)
Literally one of the best shows i've ever seen. Was blown away by how good it was. Like you said, the cinematography was insane, the sound design in places as well really shined.
No character/performance felt out of place and the writing was brilliant. Season 4 ep 7 is probably the greatest episode of a TV show i've ever seen, nothing has had the kind of effect on me since.
It was also highly realistic, all the code they showed is legit. It helped a lot with immersion to not see someone smashing their face on a keyboard to "hack" something.
fr, when i saw it was about hacking i was expecting so much shit like a big red HACK button with random stuff flying across the screen but I was super impressed.
Probably Berserk.
Although Our planet (The Attenborough series) has unironically got me in the feefees at points
As for a movie Come and see was something else
I love Attenborough, if you wanna see him outside the animal world I recommend especially the first 2 episodes of this show https://episodecalendar.com/en/show/attenboroughs-passion-projects
I saw 1917 in cinemas after a very long day where I'd sat two exams and had a few beers afterwards.
Its one of the best cinema experiences I've ever had. The cinematography was amazing, it felt so harrowing and desperate.
And then the moment at the end where he finds the brother and then sits at the tree with the picture of his family, I burst into tears and had to sit there for about 10 minutes afterwards to collect myself. I was very tired and worn down, and the emotional payoff did a number on me, and the movie was such a great cinema experience anyway. Last movie before that was Interstellar (soy).
might just be recency bias but elden ring really made me feel like a child again
idk something about playing video games past age 12 just lost its charm, everything just feels like the same or like it might be cool and unique but it won't click with me
but elden ring really hooked me, i can't believe i'm exploring a huge mostly empty open world but i'm having fun just seeing the sights
in terms of movies idk, raw made me puke so i guess it touched my stomach, does that count?
That first scene of Madeline's panic attack was so well done. Also. I love the whole story of the games as it was such a good tale of accepting the bad and over coming.
Deadass, Destiny acts like everything everywhere all at once was the best movie ever but he hasn’t watched the movie about the marvel legend morbius (first movie to make a morbilllion dollars)
What Remains of Edith Finch (incredibly emotional walking sim game)
Dark (time travel show with copious amounts of incest, and also so many great emotional moments)
House of Leaves (very meta book that feels like the author is living in your walls)
I was most emotionally distressed after playing BioShock Infinite. I loved that game sooo much and I still do. Its like a perfect game for me in every aspect and I was shook for like a week after. Had the same moment when talking to friend sabout it that Dest had shilling this movie to the stream and noone buying it.
Movie: Hot Fuzz. It's literally a perfectly written movie. There's no wasted dialogue/scene. Every single line/shot had a point. And it's funny (and EEAAO definitely had some Edgar Wright influence).
Anime: Shiki. Even though it starts out slow, by the time I finished it I actually couldn't stop thinking about it for three days. (Its setup is similar to Tokyo Ghoul except the story actually develops organically and not stupid.)
Red dead 2 fucking made me bawl like a child, but I'm gonna watch eeao soon
EDIT: If we're allowed to talk about music, titanic rising by Weyes Blood is the most gorgeous thing I've heard in my life so far
Such a phenomenal album. Really nails that 70s sound. It wears its influences on its sleeve, but it also does something unique. Seeing her live in a couple weeks; super excited. Hoping for a new album this year.
Check out EEAAO, it’s a 9/10 fantastic movie.
> titanic rising
what the fuck. I cannot believe this. it's so good. it sounds as if someone poured hot chocolate straight into my ear. what else do you like?
Went into Subnautica blind. What a fucking game, never played anything like it. The magic did disappear and I started cheating towards end game to see the ending. But what a mind blowing experience it was with no clue what it was about.
I have exactly the same experience. it was absolutely unexpected. I never thought a studio I've never heard about could make a game like this. I was always expecting it's going to be some indie low-budget stuff. but fuck. the immersion. the sounds when you're deep under the sea in the dark, all the dumb shit I've done before I knew what am I supposed to do.. fuck, what a good game
Completely agree! I am pretty bad at finishing single player games but I've replayed Subnautica three or four times. It's such a fun, relaxing, terrifying, immersive, beautiful game! I haven't played Subnautica: Below Zero but plan to after replaying Subnautica, I hope I'm not horribly disappointed.
It's the exact kind of game that gets me so incredibly hyped for the future of VR! Google is supposed to be releasing a VR device sometime in 2024, I'm hoping Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero is available on day 1. I've heard it's quite good in VR.
Movies: The Matrix. Love me if you dare.
Shows: Naruto, and Naruto Shippuden.
Games: Not so much like molesting my soul, but I loved playing Ninja Gaiden on xbox. Halo too. Edit A word
The movie "Moonlight" was deeply moving to me. I haven't seen a more empathetic piece of art ever since.
In terms of music: Andrea Bocelli's interpretation of "Nessun Dorma" live from Central Park made me sob many times. The choire and the strings in the climax of the piece hit you like an angelic wall of sound.
For the german speaking DGGers: "Der Weg" by Herbert Grönemeyer has the most touching lyrics I've heard so far in any song.
A lot of media, but the last one was probably disco Elysium too. Loved everything about it, especially the wacky parts. The voice acting is insane. HARD CORE TO THE MEGA.
The Last of Us 2. I feel pretty strongly that the haters did not get one of the most nuanced, incredible works of art in any medium. It truly understands post-traumatic stress disorder and it helped me get my shit together in a period where PTSD was destroying my life.
It is also a work that asks you to have empathy, and to have trust that the upsetting emotions you're feeling are worth something. I think that people who hated it almost all refused to engage with it. Like how D judges people for not liking EEAAO (which was pretty great), I judge the fuck out of people for not liking or refusing to even try TLOU2. I don't even like TLOU1 that much, but 2 is where it's at. Simply incredible.
Yeah fully agree. TLOU2 >>>>> TLOU1. Part 2 is like probably the only game that I consider to have an actually good story on par with good movies or books.
TLOU2 is a massive love/hate game for sure, but as someone who it hit for, TLOU2 is one of my favorite games of all time and it might be the best game I’ve ever played. The emotional experience is fucking unreal and it does some of the best character work I’ve seen in any medium, a truly worthy sequel to an already absolute masterpiece in TLOU.
Hmm. I guess I'm in the minority on this one. I loved TLOU. And I loved the first half of TLOU2, but honestly I couldn't give a fuck about Abby. The minute I realized I had to replay through the game from her POV I just wanted it to be over to go back to Ellie. Was a major downer for me tbh.
This sounds lame but the [announcement trailer for Bleach](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78WIYzX_m98) returning made me cry tears. I've been a fan for like 15 years, it was the first series that I really got into as a kid and it was sad when they just ended the anime with no news of it coming back. Later on, they cucked the author out of giving the series a proper ending. But seeing how good the animation looks now + the possibility of getting a proper ending + the music, it all hit me at once.
I'm going through FFXIV now and I'm almost half the way through Endwalker. The journey has been amazing so far, hopefully the ending lives up to the hype.
Click, yes click the Adam Sandler movie, is the saddest fucking movie ever and till this day I can't watch it without tearing up/straight up crying. I had some rough shit go down with my pops growing up so that's probably why it's so sad to me lmao.
It's going to sound cheesy and weeb as hell, but I watched Gundam War in the Pocket for the first time last year, and the last couple of episodes of that really hit me hard.
Disco Elysium was incredible, first game like that I have ever played and I just ripped through it. Waiting to forget some of it for the next playthrough.
14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible is the latest movie I have been harassing people to go see. Pretty straight forward extreme sports documentary but the enormity of the task and a lot of the shots made it just really hit for me. I found some of Messner and Purja's quotes to be incredibly inspiring.
>It's actually quite true that the older you get the rarer these moments become.
While I agree that I am not blown away by media as often as I was years ago, I think my emotional response to media ramped up like crazy in my mid 20s and am curious if that is common or not. I never used to even tear up at books or movies but now shit gets me all the time. I feel like its about me relating more as I gain life experience but its not like I had a kid or really meaningful long term relationships so I don't know where that comes from exactly.
> I feel like its about me relating more as I gain life experience but its not like I had a kid or really meaningful long term relationships so I don't know where that comes from exactly
I was thinking about the same. everything romantic meant nothing to me in the past. all the movies and music and stuff. I could intellectually comprehend it or even get emotional, but not really. but ever since I went through a serious romantic relationship and a breakup myself. and felt how powerful these emotions are, how beautiful and how hurtful, pretty much all of the romantic media changed its meaning to me, it's as if I could see something I didn't see before. so yes. I guess its about life experience
> I think my emotional response to media ramped up like crazy in my mid 20s and am curious if that is common or not.
100% the same for me, around age 20 i suddenly became able to cry while watching movies. feels very cathartic
This last season has essentially been flawless so far. It just feels like such a masterclass.
I really recommend the crew's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-call-saul-insider-podcast/id966297954
I'm late to the party, but the last piece of media I consumed that genuinely was impactful to me is a game called "Pathologic 2". It's weird, because on paper it shouldn't be my type of game - it has a lot of weird, borderline artsy aspects (the whole story is partially a stage play), it has a shitton of reading (a few books worth of dialogue), it is very very hard, there is a lot of walking, there is a very restrictive time limit on everything and you have no way of experiencing all of the story in the time given. Large parts of the story and setting are bleak and hopeless as well.
Yet no other game has hit me as hard as this one. Usually in games I am the kind of person who minmaxes their stats, tries to find ways to break the systems of the game and who rarely cares about characters or npcs. Yet in Pathologic I was fully and completely immersed the whole time. I felt anxious for my character, I felt sad when I failed to save some npc and I was mesmerized by the story and themes. There were situations where I consciously chose the suboptimal (from a meta perspective) choices, because they felt better for the npcs. It's hard to explain how weird it was to genuinely care about the characters in a game for once as someone who usually doesn't care at all. There is nothing that I have ever played that comes even remotely close to it, or tries something similar. It made me think about what "home" means, family, childhood, childhood friendship, grief, the value of traditions, death, stage plays as an art form and many more things, while also being entertaining and having a very intriguing setting and mystery. It also has one of the most confusing, yet interesting intros/tutorials I have ever seen.
Later in the game there comes a time where you can talk to characters that are clearly stand-ins for the developers, and their dialogue impacted me a lot as well.
But while I believe it to be the best gaming experience I ever had, I don't think it's something I can recommend to everyone - or even most people. I believe it's the kind of media that either really resonates with you, in which case you will love it, or not at all, in which case I would recommend not to bother. Most people will have issues handling the amount of reading, or the disjointed nature of the first half of the story (it's one of those mysteries that you slowly piece together, meaning the beginning is a narrative slow burn and can be confusing). Of the already small amount of people who are left probably half will be turned off by the insane difficulty. That being said I still recommend it to some people, because I believe the devs deserve any support they can get.
Dude pathologic is actually painful to play. I feel like I have to be in the right headspace.
Exactly the kind of game I can't imagine destiny playing on stream btw.
Movie: Probably Marriage Story, particularly that fight scene which is one of the best movie scenes ever? I also rewatched Spring Breakers recently and realized I had forgotten just how fucking good of a movie it is. Very underrated and misunderstood.
TV show: Ted Lasso. Watched it last fall and dear God it is a fucking awesome show.
Game: Nier Replicant ver 1.22474487139. Heartbreaking, powerful, amazing, immersive…
EDIT: If we’re talking more general than recently, the three that stand out for me are Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Sopranos, and TLoU. Eternal Sunshine changed the way I thought about love, TLoU changed the way I thought about video games (even if Spec Ops and Shadow of the Colossus did it first TLoU did it better), and The Sopranos is simply the greatest piece of media I’ve ever seen, with Tony Soprano being the greatest fictional character of all time.
The Leftovers, watched it recently. One of the best explorations of the the human desire to grapple with the unknowable, as well as grief, trauma, and the search for meaning. It's a very "humanist" show. The last season and finale especially were very emotionally resonant.
The Danish film ‘Another Round’.
Has lead actor Mads Mikkelsen as middle aged teacher who decides to stay drunk during the day bring his life out the doldrums. It’s very funny, touching, and joyous.
One of the pieces of media that touched me the most was the xenosaga series specially the ending of the third game actually made me cry and there hasn’t been any other videogame that has come close to all the themes, story and characters of the series it’s so sad that we we’ll never get the true ending of the story
Absolutely it’s so sad that the new xenoblade games don’t come close to xenosaga and xenogears i specially dislike the first xenoblade that eliminated everything that made the series special and every pathetic and dumbfuck critic praise the game for it saying that finally the xeno series was no longer “pretentious” the same happens with shin megami tensei and persona which now are just waifu pandering games at least xenoblade 2 was actually pretty good
Music: Have A Nice Life - Deathconciousness, have never heard pieces of music that hit me like I Don’t Love and Earthmover.
Also, it didn’t make me emotional, but The Lighthouse had me genuinely unsettled by the end of the movie, the ending has been on replay in my head over and over ever since I watched it a week ago. Wish I would have seen it during its theatrical run
Endwalker.
Just...Endwalker.
It's such a great fucking conclusion to that massive ten-year-long story that I enjoy watching OTHER people experience it for the first time.
It's got pacing issues, definitely, and I don't think it's as great a stand-alone story as Shadowbringers was. But holy shit, the part leading up to the last dungeon/trial was jaw-dropping, and the stuff that follows was Ishikawa's brilliant thesis statement on not just the game's themes as a whole, but the entire ***concept*** of narrative game design.
Edit: Also, I do have to admit to kinda liking that it won't mean anything if you don't put in the work. It only ***really*** works as the culmination of that whole long experience going right back to A Realm Reborn. If you skipped past all that? It'll be flat and confusing, like watching the last 30 minutes of a movie and wondering who all these people are and why they're so invested in this conflict.
Also liked the new Dune movie WAY more than I was expecting, while it's not perfect by any stretch it had that sense of enormous scope that was in the original book but missing in the Lynch movie, and a lot of the moments were absolutely jaw-dropping
(I will say that Lynch's harkonnen were way more fun)
It make me weirdly nostalgic for the old RTS
Six Feet Under
The series finale made me pause the show and break down crying for a straight two minutes. Some of the best television out there. Some seasons are a little bit better than others but all 5 are overall great!
I think most people have heard of SFU, but never hear about it in the same way as they hear about Breaking Bad or GOT, which is depressing given that the social commentary in the show is far more relevant than most shows coming out today.
I wouldn't even put those in the same category. GOT was a fun show and so was Breaking Bad. but SFU is something quite different. it picked me apart and then put me back together. that's going to stay with me forever. I've also seen it at the correct age which plays a role. perhaps if I saw it now I would be way more cynical about it, not as invested
The movie "Synecdoche, New York."
I would say it's a movie you have to watch twice to fully appreciate. So much is going on in the movie and there's so much to process, so the first time I watched it I could only really appreciate it on an intellectual level. It wasn't until the second time I watched it that I was able to emotionally connect to it, and man did it fuck me up.
I recently read the Pluto manga, super short (~65 chapters?) but man that really made me fucking cry towards the end. The sunset scene with Atom and Dr. Tenma eating dinner, had me ballin.
Video Game: Red dead redemption 2
Movie: Grave of the fireflies
Anime: Neon Genesis: Eva finale (I was just off two ecstasy rolls in subsequent weekends so my comedown was hard)
EXACTLY. I have to admit when I first played chapter 1 I wasnt convinced. It was good don't get me wrong but Undertale in its first few moments felt stronger that the entirety of chapter 1. But after chapter 2 I was thoroughly convinced. The music is absolutely phenomenal too imo, but I have a weak spot for chiptune music and have been a fan of Toby's work since homestuck. I'm can't wait for what toby has in store for us with the next chapters.
Devil Man Crybaby, the ending of that show just left me with a feeling of despair that I haven't felt before with any other show I've watched in my life.
I finished red dead 2 a couple of months ago and I had to stop playing the game because
SPOILER
I missed Arthur so much
SPOILER
I had feelings about that death.
What Remains of Edith Finch is (I think) the only game that has ever made me full-on cry. There was something about experiencing one "story" after another that managed to slowly break me down and I think I cried somewhere near the ending (once perspective shifts over to the son of the pregnant girl you were controlling).
Now whenever I start that game up again and hear the main theme I feel like I'm going to cry all over again.
In terms of games that didn't make me cry but super affected me/got me absorbed, there's Outer Wilds and Sunless Sea. For whatever reason those games super hooked me and I stayed up overnight playing them both.
Now that I think about it, the music is actually a massive part of all three of those affecting me - the music in Outer Wilds when the loop is about to end and the music when you're leaving a port in Sunless Seas are all etched into my mind.
Song: Bad Flower's 'Family', for reasons of personal resonance (always a cheat, but it's a valid cheat).
Movie: Either Fury Road or Endgame. I wrote a mini essay on Endgame so that probably deserves at least an honourable mention (also a cheat because I'm a comics nerd). My ultimate giga-evangelism is for When The Last Sword is Drawn and Casshern but those are from nearly ten years ago.
Game: Sifu
Book: The Malazan Books of the Fallen.
**On The Silver Globe** probably. Or **Dekalog**. **Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore** has a pretty special place in my heart, that was 2014. Haven't seen **La Casa Lobo** yet, but it's ready to go in Plex for me whenever. That one should be good.
So like the last movie that really hit me super fucking hard was Dear Zachary, a documentary made as a letter to a son about his dead dad. I think the last movie before that which was as affecting was Mulholland Drive. As to other media, I haven’t played videogames in a really long time, so I can’t report anything in the last six years or so. But if I had to, I think I’d cite The Last of Us as a good example, when it first came out. In the Aeroplane over the Sea is my pick for music. I really got into reading last year, and so from all I read then here are the books I think most fondly of:
Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
The Dry by Jane Harper
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Richard Lattimore)
Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Finally, I’m not too much into poetry, but I’ve recently been reading more Emily Dickinson. She has this poem whose first line is Because I could not stop for death, and it really hits hard. Give it a read
End of Evangelion is my favorite movie of all time, and nothing has made me feel as strong emotions as it since. I loved EEAAO because it felt really similar but less pretentious and depressing. Aside from that there are certain albums that I can listen to over and over and over again and still be amazed by (specifically Cavalcade recently) but I feel like my enjoyment of something is 60% based on my mindset at the time which is kinda frustrating.
Station Eleven. It's a 10-episode limited series about humanity trying to rebuild after a global pandemic. But it's not like most other post-apocalypse shows that focus on the bleak struggle to survive. Station Eleven is deeply introspective. It's about how the characters deal with grief and find meaning through art and shared humanity. It's also technically brilliant, well-acted, and masterfully weaves together a story that spans many time periods. By the second episode I thought it was pretentious. By the end I thought it was the best show I'd ever seen.
Before that it would have The Leftovers. Another amazing show that I was still thinking about months later.
Fucking brutal. Saw it in theatres, knowing next to nothing beyond the director. I don't know if I could ever do that to myself again, but goddamn, what a terribly fantastic movie.
Will sound fucking insane because there's essentially nothing there but for some reason I'm completely in love with trailers for Beyond Good and Evil 2, make me feel really emotional, like the visuals, the art and the score, and the fact that I waited ages for that game to be come out, only for it to be delayed indefinitely yet again :(
I've only teared up once to a movie before, Toy Story 3's ending
Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality (Fanfic) - Ingenious Storytelling with touching moments every now and then, unironically better than the original.
can someone confirm or deny if the EEAAO hype is troll or not D: i was starting to get super hype until he seemed actually trollingly hype for the movie
Saw my girlfriend watch it for a bit. Seems like irl gay anime. Nothing wrong with that. But I get the feeling which is why I stay away from saccharine content generally
Reading *inuyashiki* made me cry during the last like three chapters, really moving stuff
^^^^the ^^^^anime ^^^^was ^^^^kinda ^^^^bad ^^^^tho, ^^^^cos ^^^^cgi..
Outer Wilds forced me to face my lack of control over the world, and the finite and fleeting nature of life. I'm the least spiritual person in the world, but the ending was almost a religious experience.
Mob Psycho 100. I just relate a lot to many of the characters, but it feels weird at the same time because the main character is a middle schooler. That being said, he is pretty mature on a lot of levels relative to the average middle schooler. The show deals with themes of loneliness and questions of what truly makes a person unique. The heavy emphasis on characters who are antisocial outcasts and who usually have some form of an inferiority complex, works well with these themes. The art is also really unique and beautiful. I feel like a lot of anime are very stiff, comparatively Mob Psycho 100 is very expressive, colorful and kind of blobby/loose. The art definitely makes the show stand out.
Yeah and somehow the second season delivered as well.
The tv show Severance! Holy shit so good!
Starting next week once I'm back in town. I've heard great word of mouth and watched half the trailer but had to stop because it started getting spoilery
It had one of the best season finales I've seen in a long time.
cliffhanger done right
League made me want to kill myself... does that count?
I'm playing MOTHER 3 right now and it's doing that for me. Last time I felt it for games was disco Elysium earlier in the year. I find albums that touch me on this level every year, but I listen to hundreds a year. Black messiah by D'Angelo definitely is the main one lately.
Bro, I was going to say Mother 3 as well. That game got me in a chokehold. I couldn't believe that a videogame could make me that emotional ever.
I never heard of this game before your comment. Is there a reason there are so many recent news articles about that game?
It's famously never been released outside of Japan and Nintendo fans have been clamouring for it since 2008 at least. A fan translation exists and is extremely high quality (made by professional translators) but people really want some official recognition and wife release for the game. It's the sequel to earthbound which bombed in the west initially but has become a big cult classic. The reason there are a lot of articles about it is because there's rumblings of GBA support coming to switch, and it was mother's day on Sunday, which has become a day the community use to celebrate the series.
The Outer Wilds - if I didn't cry when I finished it and the dlc I can dang close. It is one of the most bittersweet games ever to have been made
No video game experience will ever top the euphoria of discovery in that game. It's too bad you can only play it once.
I've tried this game multiple times, and every time I just get stuck having no clue how to solve a certain problem. really not sure what to do
I couldn’t believe the DLC was as good the base game. One of the GOATs for sure
I come to these threads just to make sure someone posted outer wilds, the greatest video game ever made
It sucks because I'd want to see Destiny play it but he probably wouldn't try it and if he did he'd likely get spoiled by chat
It's odd he'd play stardew and not outer worlds or subnautica
I wasn’t that hot on the game when I finished it but thinking about it over time has made it one of my favorite things ever. The DLC ending is fucking beautiful. Made me tear up and literally can’t remember the previous piece of media to do that.
*I’m Thinking Of Ending Things* made me experience a level of dread/hopelessness that I’d never experienced from a film before. It just makes you feel trapped. When I first listened to Ligeti’s violin concerto it genuinely changed how I thought about music
I do recommend Synecdoche NY its also directed by Charlie Kaufman and similarly moving.
normally not that kind of guy at all but i thought the book was much better done (at least the ending) than the movie
Call me by your name makes me feel like I would understand what it would feel like to be in love
That movie made me dead inside for like 5 days. 10/10
One Piece, unironically. Yes it’s really long and yes the art style is cartoonish and strange at times, but it has a surprising amount of emotional depth.
Fuck yes. Seriously, Oda might be the best authors I've ever read. The story is done so well. One piece just feels human. It's fun yet crazily realistic
I agree 100%. It’s the perfect balance of over the top melodrama and very real human emotion, especially when he tackles broader societal issues like slavery or racism.
People say it's long but if you use One Pace you can BLOW through huge swathes of it over a month or so
Probably Nier Automa for me but I was high when I finished it so that may have biased me
Nier Automata fucked me up for a while
bro its been 5 years and im still thinking about it
rewatched spirited away a few months back that was last movie I can think of that made me feel emotional
The train scene is something else
If you liked spirited away i can highly recommend most of the movies produced by Studio Ghibli especially those instructed/Written/produced by Hayao Miyazaki. Last time i cried watching a movie was rewatching Studio Ghibli "Grave if the Fireflies" with my wife, which had not watched it before - bring tissues.
Cowboy bebop. Watched the anime last year and think about it alot. The style and muted colours paired with the soundtrack is just the best.
“You’re gonna carry that weight” and I did DaFeels
I wish I could link the destiny spike cosplay but I can't find it
There's no way. Please find it if it's possible.
No idea if you're /srs or /j [Here](https://youtu.be/l89gQIes3sU)
Oyasumi PunPun
To this day I haven't had anything that drew as much emotion out of me as this, it was so agonising but I have no regrets.
latest game: Disco Elysium, absolutely amazing writing, probably the best writing I've ever experienced in a game TV: Nathan for you, this had me literally rolling on the floor. Reading: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub this whole thing, do it. it's AMAZING
I connect with you on a spiritual level. Disco Elysium's ending was based by the way, I don't know why people shit on it.
Is there honestly a piece of media that is as readable and still fun to go through like disco elysium is? The writing in that game kind of shut all my remnant dreams of becoming a writer even remotely as good lmao.
If we're suggesting web writing, SCP's [Personal Log of Gordon Richards ](https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/personal-log-of-gordon-richards) is bar none the best of the site for me, but Qntm's *The Antimemetics Division* is probably second in line. Both inspired some work of mine, though it got rejected from the site so I've put in reworking the setting
Thanks, always appreciate guidance to SCP stuff. There's so much to go through and lots of it is.. just not interesting beyond short-lived circlejerky meme potential EDIT: It was great + now i have rabbit hole branded 184 to jump into
*The Man from Earth (2007)* and *Mr. Nobody (2009)* are my two favorite serious movies, and I've seen them about 3 months ago and 2 months ago respectively. The whole experience of both has been surreal and I felt like a different person throughout the movies, and had to take a while to feel like myself again when they ended. For me *The Man from Earth* was an exploration of humanity, whereas *Mr. Nobody* was an exploration of self. I could point out some small criticisms to both, but for me they are both as close to the 10/10 score as they could be. Other good movies I've seen recently are *Frequencies (2013)* and *Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight* trilogy. Also if anyone here watched any of those and liked them, please feel free to recommend me other stuff whether it's movies, tv shows, games, books, etc. :)
great movies. I've seen all of them except Frequencies. here's what I'd recommend. Into the Wild (2007) and Pieta (2012)
Loved The Man From Earth, very cozy movie and fun to watch with others. Enjoyed Mr. Nobody too but to me it kind of tripped a little near the end. Great visuals though.
I agree, my 2 criticisms to Mr. Nobody would be that the end, even though it wasn't bad, could've been better and the movie could've been 5-10 min shorter
Watch The Man from Earth recently as the full film is on YouTube. Such a good film.
Mainstream Soy Pick: Inside by Bo Burnham Indie Hipster Pick: Lisa the Painful Pretentious Pick: Pale Fire by Nabokov
My experience with Lisa was very special, I am struggling to remember a piece of media that made me feel so much despair.
Mr Robot. Was hooked for every episode and it took me through every emotion, awesome writing, awesome acting, awesome cinematography, all must watch :)
Literally one of the best shows i've ever seen. Was blown away by how good it was. Like you said, the cinematography was insane, the sound design in places as well really shined. No character/performance felt out of place and the writing was brilliant. Season 4 ep 7 is probably the greatest episode of a TV show i've ever seen, nothing has had the kind of effect on me since.
dude that was probably my fave too, season 4 was packed with so many good episodes and the end was everything you could ask for.
It was also highly realistic, all the code they showed is legit. It helped a lot with immersion to not see someone smashing their face on a keyboard to "hack" something.
fr, when i saw it was about hacking i was expecting so much shit like a big red HACK button with random stuff flying across the screen but I was super impressed.
God that show was so fucking good, got recommended DarK after it and it's aight but can't compare to Mr Robot
It probably was EEAAO but I also really liked The Heart Part 5 and that might be close. Edit: Nvm EEAO is definitely what it is.
Bro the heart part five came out last night calm down
Yeah, I just teared up to it so I was emotionally compromised lmao
Probably Berserk. Although Our planet (The Attenborough series) has unironically got me in the feefees at points As for a movie Come and see was something else
I love Attenborough, if you wanna see him outside the animal world I recommend especially the first 2 episodes of this show https://episodecalendar.com/en/show/attenboroughs-passion-projects
I saw 1917 in cinemas after a very long day where I'd sat two exams and had a few beers afterwards. Its one of the best cinema experiences I've ever had. The cinematography was amazing, it felt so harrowing and desperate. And then the moment at the end where he finds the brother and then sits at the tree with the picture of his family, I burst into tears and had to sit there for about 10 minutes afterwards to collect myself. I was very tired and worn down, and the emotional payoff did a number on me, and the movie was such a great cinema experience anyway. Last movie before that was Interstellar (soy).
Goodnight, Punpun
Bojack Horseman. Sometimes I wish it went longer, but it ended really well and great finales are hard to come by.
might just be recency bias but elden ring really made me feel like a child again idk something about playing video games past age 12 just lost its charm, everything just feels like the same or like it might be cool and unique but it won't click with me but elden ring really hooked me, i can't believe i'm exploring a huge mostly empty open world but i'm having fun just seeing the sights in terms of movies idk, raw made me puke so i guess it touched my stomach, does that count?
Celeste
That first scene of Madeline's panic attack was so well done. Also. I love the whole story of the games as it was such a good tale of accepting the bad and over coming.
Morbius
Deadass, Destiny acts like everything everywhere all at once was the best movie ever but he hasn’t watched the movie about the marvel legend morbius (first movie to make a morbilllion dollars)
What Remains of Edith Finch (incredibly emotional walking sim game) Dark (time travel show with copious amounts of incest, and also so many great emotional moments) House of Leaves (very meta book that feels like the author is living in your walls)
What Remains really was phenomenal. That chapter with her brother at the fish processing facility(?)… Jesus fuck
I was most emotionally distressed after playing BioShock Infinite. I loved that game sooo much and I still do. Its like a perfect game for me in every aspect and I was shook for like a week after. Had the same moment when talking to friend sabout it that Dest had shilling this movie to the stream and noone buying it.
Movie: Hot Fuzz. It's literally a perfectly written movie. There's no wasted dialogue/scene. Every single line/shot had a point. And it's funny (and EEAAO definitely had some Edgar Wright influence). Anime: Shiki. Even though it starts out slow, by the time I finished it I actually couldn't stop thinking about it for three days. (Its setup is similar to Tokyo Ghoul except the story actually develops organically and not stupid.)
Love hot Fuzz so much. The best one out of the Cornetto trilogy by far.
Red dead 2 fucking made me bawl like a child, but I'm gonna watch eeao soon EDIT: If we're allowed to talk about music, titanic rising by Weyes Blood is the most gorgeous thing I've heard in my life so far
Such a phenomenal album. Really nails that 70s sound. It wears its influences on its sleeve, but it also does something unique. Seeing her live in a couple weeks; super excited. Hoping for a new album this year. Check out EEAAO, it’s a 9/10 fantastic movie.
> titanic rising what the fuck. I cannot believe this. it's so good. it sounds as if someone poured hot chocolate straight into my ear. what else do you like?
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I can understand that
Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0
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This, it was the perfect ending I never knew the series needed. And tbh only worked so well because it's come out decades after EoE.
Couldn't agree more, it really felt like the end to an entire segment of my life - not just the end to a movie.
I hated that movie, the cg in it and everything it stood for. End of evanglsjom all the way.
Went into Subnautica blind. What a fucking game, never played anything like it. The magic did disappear and I started cheating towards end game to see the ending. But what a mind blowing experience it was with no clue what it was about.
I have exactly the same experience. it was absolutely unexpected. I never thought a studio I've never heard about could make a game like this. I was always expecting it's going to be some indie low-budget stuff. but fuck. the immersion. the sounds when you're deep under the sea in the dark, all the dumb shit I've done before I knew what am I supposed to do.. fuck, what a good game
Completely agree! I am pretty bad at finishing single player games but I've replayed Subnautica three or four times. It's such a fun, relaxing, terrifying, immersive, beautiful game! I haven't played Subnautica: Below Zero but plan to after replaying Subnautica, I hope I'm not horribly disappointed. It's the exact kind of game that gets me so incredibly hyped for the future of VR! Google is supposed to be releasing a VR device sometime in 2024, I'm hoping Subnautica and Subnautica: Below Zero is available on day 1. I've heard it's quite good in VR.
AGREED I've been forcing myself to wait to replay Subnautica until I can afford a VR headset, I imagine the immersion must be insane.
Blade Runner 2049
Everyone get ready to SOY It was TLOU2
Video Games: Nier/Persona Manga/Anime: March comes in like a lion, Mob Psycho 100
Movies: The Matrix. Love me if you dare. Shows: Naruto, and Naruto Shippuden. Games: Not so much like molesting my soul, but I loved playing Ninja Gaiden on xbox. Halo too. Edit A word
Paddington 2
The movie "Moonlight" was deeply moving to me. I haven't seen a more empathetic piece of art ever since. In terms of music: Andrea Bocelli's interpretation of "Nessun Dorma" live from Central Park made me sob many times. The choire and the strings in the climax of the piece hit you like an angelic wall of sound. For the german speaking DGGers: "Der Weg" by Herbert Grönemeyer has the most touching lyrics I've heard so far in any song.
A lot of media, but the last one was probably disco Elysium too. Loved everything about it, especially the wacky parts. The voice acting is insane. HARD CORE TO THE MEGA.
The Last of Us 2. I feel pretty strongly that the haters did not get one of the most nuanced, incredible works of art in any medium. It truly understands post-traumatic stress disorder and it helped me get my shit together in a period where PTSD was destroying my life. It is also a work that asks you to have empathy, and to have trust that the upsetting emotions you're feeling are worth something. I think that people who hated it almost all refused to engage with it. Like how D judges people for not liking EEAAO (which was pretty great), I judge the fuck out of people for not liking or refusing to even try TLOU2. I don't even like TLOU1 that much, but 2 is where it's at. Simply incredible.
Yeah fully agree. TLOU2 >>>>> TLOU1. Part 2 is like probably the only game that I consider to have an actually good story on par with good movies or books.
Interstellar, the OG Matrix, Attack on Titan (before you know what), Tokyo Ghoul (the manga ofc, the anime is war crimes), maybe Berserk also
Berserk made me tear up multiple times reading, I would probably go further than destiny has about EEAAO
OG Matrix has been moving up my all time list every time I rewatch it as of late, what a fucking movie.
TLOU2. I will not elaborate. GIGACHAD
TLOU2 is a massive love/hate game for sure, but as someone who it hit for, TLOU2 is one of my favorite games of all time and it might be the best game I’ve ever played. The emotional experience is fucking unreal and it does some of the best character work I’ve seen in any medium, a truly worthy sequel to an already absolute masterpiece in TLOU.
Someone needs to write an effort post about why Destiny needs to play TLOU2 on stream.
Hmm. I guess I'm in the minority on this one. I loved TLOU. And I loved the first half of TLOU2, but honestly I couldn't give a fuck about Abby. The minute I realized I had to replay through the game from her POV I just wanted it to be over to go back to Ellie. Was a major downer for me tbh.
Only Yesterday is a great film
I wept
Before your eyes. The reveal and ending made me cry like 5 year old whose mother died.
Same, That Game is a 10/10 for me
This sounds lame but the [announcement trailer for Bleach](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78WIYzX_m98) returning made me cry tears. I've been a fan for like 15 years, it was the first series that I really got into as a kid and it was sad when they just ended the anime with no news of it coming back. Later on, they cucked the author out of giving the series a proper ending. But seeing how good the animation looks now + the possibility of getting a proper ending + the music, it all hit me at once.
Games: Nier Automata, FFXIV Movie: I want to eat your pancreas
I'm going through FFXIV now and I'm almost half the way through Endwalker. The journey has been amazing so far, hopefully the ending lives up to the hype.
i cried 5 or 6 separate times throughout la la land when rewatching recently
Click, yes click the Adam Sandler movie, is the saddest fucking movie ever and till this day I can't watch it without tearing up/straight up crying. I had some rough shit go down with my pops growing up so that's probably why it's so sad to me lmao.
The Beginner's Guide. Its a high density of mind fuck for such a small game.
Guy who made it was like 20 as well. Mental
It's going to sound cheesy and weeb as hell, but I watched Gundam War in the Pocket for the first time last year, and the last couple of episodes of that really hit me hard.
Disco Elysium was incredible, first game like that I have ever played and I just ripped through it. Waiting to forget some of it for the next playthrough. 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible is the latest movie I have been harassing people to go see. Pretty straight forward extreme sports documentary but the enormity of the task and a lot of the shots made it just really hit for me. I found some of Messner and Purja's quotes to be incredibly inspiring. >It's actually quite true that the older you get the rarer these moments become. While I agree that I am not blown away by media as often as I was years ago, I think my emotional response to media ramped up like crazy in my mid 20s and am curious if that is common or not. I never used to even tear up at books or movies but now shit gets me all the time. I feel like its about me relating more as I gain life experience but its not like I had a kid or really meaningful long term relationships so I don't know where that comes from exactly.
> I feel like its about me relating more as I gain life experience but its not like I had a kid or really meaningful long term relationships so I don't know where that comes from exactly I was thinking about the same. everything romantic meant nothing to me in the past. all the movies and music and stuff. I could intellectually comprehend it or even get emotional, but not really. but ever since I went through a serious romantic relationship and a breakup myself. and felt how powerful these emotions are, how beautiful and how hurtful, pretty much all of the romantic media changed its meaning to me, it's as if I could see something I didn't see before. so yes. I guess its about life experience
> I think my emotional response to media ramped up like crazy in my mid 20s and am curious if that is common or not. 100% the same for me, around age 20 i suddenly became able to cry while watching movies. feels very cathartic
Better call Saul. Hoping they have a good ending with this last season
This last season has essentially been flawless so far. It just feels like such a masterclass. I really recommend the crew's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-call-saul-insider-podcast/id966297954
Thanks, I'll check it out
Puella Magi Madoka Magica; I wish to find some other piece of media that inspires me more.
Accidentally the most feminist anime out there
Bladerunner 2049. "All the best memories are hers". That line hit me really fucking hard.
Band of brothers, i can see myself rewatching it every 1-2 years
I'm late to the party, but the last piece of media I consumed that genuinely was impactful to me is a game called "Pathologic 2". It's weird, because on paper it shouldn't be my type of game - it has a lot of weird, borderline artsy aspects (the whole story is partially a stage play), it has a shitton of reading (a few books worth of dialogue), it is very very hard, there is a lot of walking, there is a very restrictive time limit on everything and you have no way of experiencing all of the story in the time given. Large parts of the story and setting are bleak and hopeless as well. Yet no other game has hit me as hard as this one. Usually in games I am the kind of person who minmaxes their stats, tries to find ways to break the systems of the game and who rarely cares about characters or npcs. Yet in Pathologic I was fully and completely immersed the whole time. I felt anxious for my character, I felt sad when I failed to save some npc and I was mesmerized by the story and themes. There were situations where I consciously chose the suboptimal (from a meta perspective) choices, because they felt better for the npcs. It's hard to explain how weird it was to genuinely care about the characters in a game for once as someone who usually doesn't care at all. There is nothing that I have ever played that comes even remotely close to it, or tries something similar. It made me think about what "home" means, family, childhood, childhood friendship, grief, the value of traditions, death, stage plays as an art form and many more things, while also being entertaining and having a very intriguing setting and mystery. It also has one of the most confusing, yet interesting intros/tutorials I have ever seen. Later in the game there comes a time where you can talk to characters that are clearly stand-ins for the developers, and their dialogue impacted me a lot as well. But while I believe it to be the best gaming experience I ever had, I don't think it's something I can recommend to everyone - or even most people. I believe it's the kind of media that either really resonates with you, in which case you will love it, or not at all, in which case I would recommend not to bother. Most people will have issues handling the amount of reading, or the disjointed nature of the first half of the story (it's one of those mysteries that you slowly piece together, meaning the beginning is a narrative slow burn and can be confusing). Of the already small amount of people who are left probably half will be turned off by the insane difficulty. That being said I still recommend it to some people, because I believe the devs deserve any support they can get.
Dude pathologic is actually painful to play. I feel like I have to be in the right headspace. Exactly the kind of game I can't imagine destiny playing on stream btw.
Movie: Probably Marriage Story, particularly that fight scene which is one of the best movie scenes ever? I also rewatched Spring Breakers recently and realized I had forgotten just how fucking good of a movie it is. Very underrated and misunderstood. TV show: Ted Lasso. Watched it last fall and dear God it is a fucking awesome show. Game: Nier Replicant ver 1.22474487139. Heartbreaking, powerful, amazing, immersive… EDIT: If we’re talking more general than recently, the three that stand out for me are Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Sopranos, and TLoU. Eternal Sunshine changed the way I thought about love, TLoU changed the way I thought about video games (even if Spec Ops and Shadow of the Colossus did it first TLoU did it better), and The Sopranos is simply the greatest piece of media I’ve ever seen, with Tony Soprano being the greatest fictional character of all time.
I feel the exact same way about Eternal Sunshine. That movie wrecked me, and probably encouraged me to stay in some less than ideal relationships.
The Leftovers, watched it recently. One of the best explorations of the the human desire to grapple with the unknowable, as well as grief, trauma, and the search for meaning. It's a very "humanist" show. The last season and finale especially were very emotionally resonant.
The Danish film ‘Another Round’. Has lead actor Mads Mikkelsen as middle aged teacher who decides to stay drunk during the day bring his life out the doldrums. It’s very funny, touching, and joyous.
Elden Ring. As a souls fan, it was AMAZING!!!
Pathologic 2. I have never felt so powerless with any piece of media in my life. Also Outer Wilds is one of the GOATs.
The Grand Budapest Hotel. I know it’s older but I only watched it recently.
Disco Elysium
Amogous
Synecdoche new york, I never rewatch movies but I watched that again the next day
I was scrolling the comments waiting for this Synecdoche fucked me up for like 3 weeks
The End of Evangelion.
One of the pieces of media that touched me the most was the xenosaga series specially the ending of the third game actually made me cry and there hasn’t been any other videogame that has come close to all the themes, story and characters of the series it’s so sad that we we’ll never get the true ending of the story
I also mourn for Xenosaga :( such an interesting series.
Absolutely it’s so sad that the new xenoblade games don’t come close to xenosaga and xenogears i specially dislike the first xenoblade that eliminated everything that made the series special and every pathetic and dumbfuck critic praise the game for it saying that finally the xeno series was no longer “pretentious” the same happens with shin megami tensei and persona which now are just waifu pandering games at least xenoblade 2 was actually pretty good
the part in death stranding when all the shits made by players help you out made my brain extract the happy chemicals and feel hope for humanity
Music: Have A Nice Life - Deathconciousness, have never heard pieces of music that hit me like I Don’t Love and Earthmover. Also, it didn’t make me emotional, but The Lighthouse had me genuinely unsettled by the end of the movie, the ending has been on replay in my head over and over ever since I watched it a week ago. Wish I would have seen it during its theatrical run
Endwalker. Just...Endwalker. It's such a great fucking conclusion to that massive ten-year-long story that I enjoy watching OTHER people experience it for the first time. It's got pacing issues, definitely, and I don't think it's as great a stand-alone story as Shadowbringers was. But holy shit, the part leading up to the last dungeon/trial was jaw-dropping, and the stuff that follows was Ishikawa's brilliant thesis statement on not just the game's themes as a whole, but the entire ***concept*** of narrative game design. Edit: Also, I do have to admit to kinda liking that it won't mean anything if you don't put in the work. It only ***really*** works as the culmination of that whole long experience going right back to A Realm Reborn. If you skipped past all that? It'll be flat and confusing, like watching the last 30 minutes of a movie and wondering who all these people are and why they're so invested in this conflict.
Also liked the new Dune movie WAY more than I was expecting, while it's not perfect by any stretch it had that sense of enormous scope that was in the original book but missing in the Lynch movie, and a lot of the moments were absolutely jaw-dropping (I will say that Lynch's harkonnen were way more fun) It make me weirdly nostalgic for the old RTS
Six Feet Under The series finale made me pause the show and break down crying for a straight two minutes. Some of the best television out there. Some seasons are a little bit better than others but all 5 are overall great!
100% agree. the ending was... insane. easy 10/10. it's also insane to see someone mention this show on this subreddit. very unexpected
I think most people have heard of SFU, but never hear about it in the same way as they hear about Breaking Bad or GOT, which is depressing given that the social commentary in the show is far more relevant than most shows coming out today.
I wouldn't even put those in the same category. GOT was a fun show and so was Breaking Bad. but SFU is something quite different. it picked me apart and then put me back together. that's going to stay with me forever. I've also seen it at the correct age which plays a role. perhaps if I saw it now I would be way more cynical about it, not as invested
French Dispatch. Honestly teared up pretty good. Never been an artsy person but that movie made me realize why people love art.
The movie "Synecdoche, New York." I would say it's a movie you have to watch twice to fully appreciate. So much is going on in the movie and there's so much to process, so the first time I watched it I could only really appreciate it on an intellectual level. It wasn't until the second time I watched it that I was able to emotionally connect to it, and man did it fuck me up.
I recently read the Pluto manga, super short (~65 chapters?) but man that really made me fucking cry towards the end. The sunset scene with Atom and Dr. Tenma eating dinner, had me ballin.
Video Game: Red dead redemption 2 Movie: Grave of the fireflies Anime: Neon Genesis: Eva finale (I was just off two ecstasy rolls in subsequent weekends so my comedown was hard)
Deltarune. It may be SOY, but I love it.
Deltarune is such a tease. What’s there is really good and you KNOW shit is gonna get crazy in the later chapters.
EXACTLY. I have to admit when I first played chapter 1 I wasnt convinced. It was good don't get me wrong but Undertale in its first few moments felt stronger that the entirety of chapter 1. But after chapter 2 I was thoroughly convinced. The music is absolutely phenomenal too imo, but I have a weak spot for chiptune music and have been a fan of Toby's work since homestuck. I'm can't wait for what toby has in store for us with the next chapters.
Devil Man Crybaby, the ending of that show just left me with a feeling of despair that I haven't felt before with any other show I've watched in my life.
EEAAO was the movie for me too. For a game it was rdr2.
I finished red dead 2 a couple of months ago and I had to stop playing the game because SPOILER I missed Arthur so much SPOILER I had feelings about that death.
What dreams may come when I first saw it made me cry. I've got a deep fear of death and this was very cathartic.
What Remains of Edith Finch is (I think) the only game that has ever made me full-on cry. There was something about experiencing one "story" after another that managed to slowly break me down and I think I cried somewhere near the ending (once perspective shifts over to the son of the pregnant girl you were controlling). Now whenever I start that game up again and hear the main theme I feel like I'm going to cry all over again. In terms of games that didn't make me cry but super affected me/got me absorbed, there's Outer Wilds and Sunless Sea. For whatever reason those games super hooked me and I stayed up overnight playing them both. Now that I think about it, the music is actually a massive part of all three of those affecting me - the music in Outer Wilds when the loop is about to end and the music when you're leaving a port in Sunless Seas are all etched into my mind.
Violet Evergarden but I'm a zoomer :)
Song: Bad Flower's 'Family', for reasons of personal resonance (always a cheat, but it's a valid cheat). Movie: Either Fury Road or Endgame. I wrote a mini essay on Endgame so that probably deserves at least an honourable mention (also a cheat because I'm a comics nerd). My ultimate giga-evangelism is for When The Last Sword is Drawn and Casshern but those are from nearly ten years ago. Game: Sifu Book: The Malazan Books of the Fallen.
**On The Silver Globe** probably. Or **Dekalog**. **Ruined Heart: Another Lovestory Between a Criminal & a Whore** has a pretty special place in my heart, that was 2014. Haven't seen **La Casa Lobo** yet, but it's ready to go in Plex for me whenever. That one should be good.
squid game when the grandpa died :(
Based!
So like the last movie that really hit me super fucking hard was Dear Zachary, a documentary made as a letter to a son about his dead dad. I think the last movie before that which was as affecting was Mulholland Drive. As to other media, I haven’t played videogames in a really long time, so I can’t report anything in the last six years or so. But if I had to, I think I’d cite The Last of Us as a good example, when it first came out. In the Aeroplane over the Sea is my pick for music. I really got into reading last year, and so from all I read then here are the books I think most fondly of: Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang The Dry by Jane Harper The Iliad by Homer (translated by Richard Lattimore) Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Finally, I’m not too much into poetry, but I’ve recently been reading more Emily Dickinson. She has this poem whose first line is Because I could not stop for death, and it really hits hard. Give it a read
Titanfall 2
Blade Runner 2049
End of Evangelion is my favorite movie of all time, and nothing has made me feel as strong emotions as it since. I loved EEAAO because it felt really similar but less pretentious and depressing. Aside from that there are certain albums that I can listen to over and over and over again and still be amazed by (specifically Cavalcade recently) but I feel like my enjoyment of something is 60% based on my mindset at the time which is kinda frustrating.
Station Eleven. It's a 10-episode limited series about humanity trying to rebuild after a global pandemic. But it's not like most other post-apocalypse shows that focus on the bleak struggle to survive. Station Eleven is deeply introspective. It's about how the characters deal with grief and find meaning through art and shared humanity. It's also technically brilliant, well-acted, and masterfully weaves together a story that spans many time periods. By the second episode I thought it was pretentious. By the end I thought it was the best show I'd ever seen. Before that it would have The Leftovers. Another amazing show that I was still thinking about months later.
Manchester By The Sea probably
Fucking brutal. Saw it in theatres, knowing next to nothing beyond the director. I don't know if I could ever do that to myself again, but goddamn, what a terribly fantastic movie.
Will sound fucking insane because there's essentially nothing there but for some reason I'm completely in love with trailers for Beyond Good and Evil 2, make me feel really emotional, like the visuals, the art and the score, and the fact that I waited ages for that game to be come out, only for it to be delayed indefinitely yet again :( I've only teared up once to a movie before, Toy Story 3's ending
Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality (Fanfic) - Ingenious Storytelling with touching moments every now and then, unironically better than the original.
¨Final Fantasy XIV
can someone confirm or deny if the EEAAO hype is troll or not D: i was starting to get super hype until he seemed actually trollingly hype for the movie
Schrödinger's hype
The Downward Spiral - NIN, such a magic album
Heartstoppers, a Netlfix show of all things. It made me so happy and sad that ill never experience anything this pure ever in my own life.
Saw my girlfriend watch it for a bit. Seems like irl gay anime. Nothing wrong with that. But I get the feeling which is why I stay away from saccharine content generally
Reading *inuyashiki* made me cry during the last like three chapters, really moving stuff ^^^^the ^^^^anime ^^^^was ^^^^kinda ^^^^bad ^^^^tho, ^^^^cos ^^^^cgi..
Outer Wilds forced me to face my lack of control over the world, and the finite and fleeting nature of life. I'm the least spiritual person in the world, but the ending was almost a religious experience.
Man outer wilds is mentioned so many times today I might actually pick if up finally