watched · 1d
Before Sunrise 1995
★★★★4.0
Archetype
The Comfort Seeker
Warmth, resolution, rewatchability. With a streak of The Genre Devotee.
15% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
Warmth, resolution, a place they can return to. The rewatch is the point; the third time is the best time.
Where it goes wrong: Comfort can be a wall. The work that would have changed your mind never gets past the first ten minutes.
More about the Comfort Seeker
- Avoids
- Cruelty for its own sake, endings that withhold, homework. You do not need to be tested by an evening in.
- How they rate
- You rate on how something leaves you. Reliability earns stars; ambition without kindness does not.
- Good company
- The Empath and the Sincere feel like home. Provocateurs baffle you, and you are the one they most need to hear from.
- Against the crowd
- You are kinder than the crowd to gentle, unfashionable work and cooler on acclaimed bleakness.
In three lines
- More cool than almost every curator. emotional intensitycooloverwhelming 65%
- More warm than almost every curator. tonal darknesswarmbleak 62%
- More intimate than most curators. scaleintimateepic 59%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Time traveller · Silver8 of 10
- Opinionated · Silver54 of 200
- Shelved · Silver15 of 25
- On a streak · Silver30 of 100
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Again4 of 5
- Critic3 of 5
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
Up
Spirited Away- Before Sunrise
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shawshank Redemption
Seriess
Chernobyl
Books
Never Let Me Go
Albums
Make a playlist- Blonde
- Rumours
- Hounds of Love
Games
Outer Wilds
Celeste
Stardew Valley
Return of the Obra Dinn
Slay the Spire
Fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone
Further out is a stronger lean than other curators.
Read this chart
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other curators. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
By medium
How Pixel Pete rates each kind of thing
One row a medium; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
Read this chart
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The map
Every curator, placed by taste
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Pixel Pete is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Read this chart
Every curator, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbours are worth a look.
Against the crowd
Where Pixel Pete parts ways with the audience
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Read this chart
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Drift
How what Pixel Pete loved has moved
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
Read this chart
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favourites moved toward that pole.
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Comfort Seeker54%
- The Genre Devotee31%
In the community
- Kinder than 57% of curators
- Has rated more than 27% of curators
- More cool than 99% of curators
- 15% of curators are Comfort Seekers
Among 632 curators with a profile.
Taste profile
How far this curator leans on each dimension compared with everyone else. Strongest eight; the rest below.
All fourteen dimensions
Ratings
Profile built from 33 rated titles.
This month they were wandering outside your usual taste and chasing intensity. From 7 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
played · 2d
Hades 2020
★★★★½4.5
The run-based loop and the story are the same machine; dying is how the plot advances. Nobody had done that properly before and everyone has copied it since.
Mostly about the craft, the story.
played · Sep 12
Stardew Valley 2016
★★★★★5.0
played · Sep 10
Outer Wilds 2019
★★★★★5.0
played · Sep 8
Return of the Obra Dinn 2018
★★★★★5.0
watched · Sep 8
Mad Max: Fury Road 2015
★★½2.5
listened · Aug 26
Hounds of Love 1985
★★★½3.5
played · Aug 17
Slay the Spire 2019
★★★★★5.0
played · Aug 15
The Last of Us 2013
★★½2.5
watched · Aug 12
Aftersun 2022
★★★½3.5
watched · Aug 9
Shutter Island 2010
★★★3.0
played · Jul 31
Elden Ring 2022
★★★★4.0
listened · Jul 21
Rumours 1977
★★★★½4.5
played · Jul 19
Baldur's Gate III 2023
★★½2.5
watched · Jul 19
Spirited Away 2001
★★★★½4.5
Every frame has a thing in the corner that nobody needed to draw and somebody drew anyway. That is love, and you can feel it.
Mostly about the craft, how it felt.
watched · Jul 17
Sunset Boulevard 1950
★★★3.0
watched · Jul 15
Deadpool 2016
★★★3.0
watched · Jul 12
Pulp Fiction 1994
★★★½3.5
watched · Jul 11
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
★★★★4.0
played · Jul 10
Disco Elysium 2019
★★★3.0
played · Jul 6
Hollow Knight 2017
★★★★½4.5
watched · Jul 2
Chernobyl 2019
★★★3.0
played · Jun 23
Dark Souls 2011
★★★★4.0
listened · Jun 21
Blonde 2016
★★★★½4.5
finished · Jun 9
Never Let Me Go 2005
★★★3.0
played · Jun 6
Celeste 2018
★★★★★5.0
The dash feels like a thought. That is the whole review: a platformer where the input is so clean the difficulty becomes a conversation instead of a wall.
Mostly about the craft.
played · May 30
Portal 2 2011
★★★★4.0
watched · May 29
Se7en 1995
★★★½3.5
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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