Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. - attributed to Mark Twain
This website is the successor to my old Google Drive documents; in effect, it aims to make a comprehensive list of my media favorites - though technically the word 'favorites' is misleading, as that would imply that I exclude works below a certain quality threshold. On the contrary, I aim to list every work I have ever seen/experienced. (There are certain exceptions to this; they will be noted where needed.)
I sort media in two ways: first by format, and then by tier.
Tiers are simply relative divisions, which show my relative perspective of certain works compared to others. In accordance with the convention used in the video game House of the Dead 4, the tiers are named, from top to bottom: S, A, B, C, D, E.
Works within the same tier are generally to be treated as roughly equivalent; they are listed in alphabetical order within tiers for this reason.
Important caveats...
- Tiers do not follow any guaranteed mathematical progression; the difference between an S tier work and an A tier work may be drastically different than that between an A tier work and a B tier work. This is because tiers are relative divisions, and do not have fixed definitions.
- A corollary to the above point is that tiers are not directly comparable across different forms of media. Just because a film is in my S tier, for instance, does not necessarily mean I like it "about as much" as an anime in my S tier.
- I judge works based on both my perspective of their quality and my personal "likability" factor; if one is high and the other is not, the work may score rather differently than one might expect. For full details, please read the individual work's page if available, and/or contact me for explanations.
On some individual works' pages, there will be a status section explaining which format I have viewed the work in (if applicable), followed with a status code, and then (optionally) further explanations afterwards. The status codes used are:
- Complete: the work has been released in its entirety, and I have finished it completely. Note that this does not account for unknown future extensions; those will be noted if/when they come up. As for known future extensions, they will be listed as...
- Up to date: the work has not been released in its entirety, either because it is currently ongoing, or there is a gap between current releases and future releases. In this case, see the explanations for further details.
- Incomplete: I am not completely up to date with the work, regardless of whether the work has been released in its entirety or not. Furthermore, I have no intentions, as of the time of writing, to continue with it. If I do have such plans, then it will be listed as...
- In progress: I am not completely up to date with the work, regardless of whether the work has been released in its entirety or not, but I am attempting to catch up.
See here.