Manuel Magpapian

RESIST.
Don't quit.
Don't stop fighting.
Don't obey in advance.
Don't stop calling them out.
Keep raising your voices as loudly as you can.
Keep organizing your friends, family, everyone.
Keep supporting orgs that are leading the fight.

RESIST.

What I’m reading now:

1. The Women by Kristin Hannah
2. Dark Tide 1: Onslaught by Michael A. Stackpole (Star Wars EU New Jedi Order series

What I’m Playing now:

1. Cyberpunk 2077
2. Fallout 4
3. NBA 2K25

More good: it didn’t feel like the book was 1300 pages long. Rlain and Renarin were awesome. Sigzil and taln.

More bad: Shallan’s character. Since WoR her character has been very “meh” to me. I still don’t care about Venli. If you dislike Sandersons writing you will probably hate this book

Finally finished Wind and Truth, Book 5 of Stormlight Archive. I gotta say, I really loved it.

The good: Dalinar, kaladin, adolin and Szeth were all great. The story as a whole was amazingly written. The ending was perfect imo. The twists were great too.

The bad: the prose and humor.

9.5/10

To my dear Los Angeles: I hope you are doing better. And even if you're not, don't worry, we'll be there to pick you back up.

Sincerely,

Angelenos

Anyone else find themselves taking a leisurely stroll in Skyrim? I don’t need to even do any side quests. Just want to walk around and enjoy the scenery as the Skyrim music plays

Getting into Cyberpunk 2077. At first I was not much of a fan of it. Now I find myself thinking about it constantly and not able to put it down. Strongly recommend it.

I’m always looking for more recs, thanks!

I’ve also started Malazan. So far that’s good too

6. Mistborn Trilogy
7. Harry Potter Series
8. The Thrawn Trilogy by Timothy Zahn

Here are my 5 favorite fantasy/sci-fi series' I've read (I'm fairly new to fantasy and haven't read a lot)

1. A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones series)
2. Wheel of Time
3. Lord of the Rings trilogy
4. Stormlight Archive
5. First Law Trilogy

Here are all the games I played in 2024 ranked from best to worst

1. God of War Ragnarok
2. Ghosts of Tsushima
3. Indiana Jones
4. Baldur’s Gate 3
5. Cyberpunk 2077
6. Starfield

None of these games were “bad” except for Starfield

Recently discovered "Cheers". It makes me want to find a bar where everyone knows my name. Err- that is if they can pronounce it.

Here are some classics I would strongly recommend to everyone:

✝️East of Eden
👹Frankenstein
🧛‍♂️Dracula
🤔The Brothers Karamazov
⚖️The Trial
❤️Anna Karanina
☮️War and Peace
💔The Count of Monte Cristo
🎉The Great Gatsby
💼To Kill a Mockingbird
🏴‍☠️Treasure Island
👁️1984
🎨The Moon and Sixpence
🔫All Quiet on tWF

I didn't read as many books this year as years prior, but here are a few that stood out.

🔎And Then There Were None by Christie
😈The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
🎯11/22/63 by SK
⚔️Gardens of the Moon by Erikson
🧞Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
💉Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Since I posted one about video games, here’s my 10 favorite fictional books/series of all time

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Brothers Karamazov
ASOIAF series
The Moon and Sixpence
1984
The Trial
East of Eden
Wheel of Time series
LOTR trilogy
Frankenstein

Damn. I was worried about that. At least there’s the first one we can always go back to

The art of defending by Paolo Maldini 🐐

I find it tragically hilarious that Gen Z men, who seemed to have shifted more toward Trump in this last election, grew up on the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, and seemed to have completely missed the entire point of what that trilogy was attempting to warn them about.

Dear MAGA, I'm just going to leave this here.

Folks on here just posting thoughts and shit they like without catering to an algorithm or ragebait is insanely refreshing. Just for the love of the game

Man I miss Turok. That game needs a comeback. That and Timesplitters 2

Just thought I’d list my 10 favorite games of all time

1. Fallout New Vegas
2. Witcher 3
3. Skyrim
4. Uncharted 4
5. The Last of us 1
6. COD4: MW
7. BF1
8. BF1942
9. Mass effect 2
10. AC2 and Brotherhood (tied)

HM: RDR2, GoW2018, uncharted 2, Max Payne 2, Rollercoaster tycoon, CODMW2