Favorites

List of favorites in no particular order.

Books #

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
• Piranesi
• Exhalation
• The Three-Body Problem
• The Gene: An Intimate History
• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
• The Last Samurai
• Stoner
• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Games #

• Dota 2
• Age of Empires 2 & 4
• Half Life
• Halo
• Portal
• Counter Strike
• Warcraft II
• World of Warcraft
• Spelunkey 2
• FEZ
• Elechead
• Terraria
• Dyson Sphere Program
• Factorio
• A Short Hike
• The Witness
• Elden Ring
• Rocket League
• Baba Is You
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Cocoon
• Plate Up
• Dredge
• World of Goo
• Balatro
• Mini Motorways
• Animal Well

Board Games #

• Puerto Rico
• Brass: Birmingham
• Sign: A Game about Being Understood
• Oceans
• Hegemony

Movies #

• Yi Yi
• Tampopo
• Chungking Express
• The Triplets of Belleville
• Exit Through the Gift Shop
• Lord of the Rings
• Spirited Away
• Ocean Waves
• The Square
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• Pulp Fiction
• Honeyland
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• The Color of Pomegranates
• The Incredibles
• Todo: Pick favorite Wes Anderson movie
• The Matrix
• The Night is Short: Walk on Girl
• Best in Show
• My Neighbors the Yamadas

TV Shows #

• Simpsons
• Fleabag
• The Wire
• Arcane
• Firefly
• Twin Peaks
• The Office
• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
• Hunter x Hunter
• The Ping Pong Animation
• Samurai Champloo
• Cowboy Bebop
• Mob Psycho 100
• Last of Us
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Planet Earth and Our Planet
• Chef’s Table
• Scavenger’s Reign
• Breaking Bad
• Over the Garden Wall

Food #

• Տուն, Yerevan
• Pujol, Mexico City
• Absolute Bagels, New York
• La Palma, San Francisco
• Arsicault Bakery, San Francisco
• Tsaghkunk, Armenia
• Batugami, Tokyo
• Mokonuts, Paris
• Hamadeh (man’ousheh), Beirut
• Tawlet, Beirut
• Hiona Taverna, Crete

Photographers #

• Diana Markosian
• Cho Gi-Seok
• Rachael Talibart

Indie Game Devs #

• lexloffle
• Rémy Devaux
• Daniel Linssen
• Benjamin Soule
• Stuffed Wombat
• Oskar Stålberg
• Mrmo Tarius
• Eran Hilleli
• The Water Museum

Visual Artists #

• Tim Peacock
• David Huang
• Natalie Andrewson
• Alba BG
• Sarah Oh
• Loek Vugs
• Prime Materia
• Nikita Diakur
• Quayola

Digital Tools #

• git
• Obsidian

Smells #

• Onion and butter
• Wet forest
• Jasmine