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No actually. The main reason is I wanted to play the game first (especially as it came to PC not long after the show aired) as if I know an adaptation of a well-regarded narrative video game or visual novel exists before watching the TV show then I tend to hold to the maxim that the interactive experience is generally better based on the intense feelings I experienced with those I've played in the past; and for the same reason I haven't touched the latest Fallout show. That said my games longlist is gigantic and shows little sign of depleting especially with narrative games so I may eventually just decide to do the TV show route for The Last Of Us, I'm sure it's a great way to experience it regardless. I'll have to look at a few on your list in general, there's a bunch there I know I need to get to.

+30 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – Shallow +29 Alan Walker (feat. Au/Ra & Tomine Harket) - Darkside +28 SOPHIE - Immaterial +27 Virtual Self - Ghost Voices +26 Childish Gambino - This Is America +25 Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams +24 Clean Bandit (feat. Marina & Luis Fonsi) - Baby +23 Arctic Monkeys - Four Out of Five +22 Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel +21 Panic! At The Disco - High Hopes +20 Ariana Grande - No Tears Left To Cry +19 Eleni Foureira - Fuego +18 Eminem (feat. Ed Sheeran) – River +17 Metric - Risk +16 Clean Bandit (feat. Demi Lovato) - Solo +15 Drake - Nice For What +14 Twenty One Pilots - Jumpsuit +13 Freya Ridings – Lost Without You +12 Billie Eilish - When the Party's Over +11 Sigrid - Strangers +10 ROSALÍA - Malamente +9 Charli XCX & Troye Sivan - 1999 +8 5 Seconds Of Summer – Youngblood +7 BROCKHAMPTON - 1999 Wildfire +6 Mark Ronson (feat. Miley Cyrus) - Nothing Breaks Like A Heart

1. Breaking Bad - pure cinema that happens to be in TV format, perfect length, rewatchable, multiple greatest ever episodes, some of the most compelling character moments you've ever seen. 2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - the greatest sci-fi allegorical show tackling foreign policy drama with episodes that were prescient of modern politics, and a hugely likeable cast of characters and secondary cast. 3. The Wire - when I watched this a few years ago I was enthralled from one season to the next, a ruthless show with incredible social commentary. 4. The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya - still something that's left a huge impact on me, a genius show that now looks like it was made on a shoestring but very deliberately so, perfectly captures the spirit of the 00s with its animation and its... loose approach to plot and sane show ordering. 5. Jojo's Bizarre Adventure - The audacity of Jojo's really pushes it above the rest of my 10/10s for anime, that and the volume I've loved from it, so many differently well-constructed fights and narratives. 6. Steins;Gate - Everything good about anime coupled with nothing bad about anime, time travel story extraordinaire and easily watchable in one season (we don't talk about Steins;Gate 0) 7. The Sopranos - Tony Soprano is one of the defining literary characters of modern times. 8. Succession - some of the best TV moments of the decade so far have come from this show. Underrated. 9. The West Wing - yes it's very liberal (in the derogatory too smug for its own good sense) but it's fantastic comfort television lounging in the thrill of politics while benefiting from not being a comedy. 10. The Expanse - the second greatest sci-fi allegorical show tackling foreign policy drama, very much recommend if you like hard sci-fi and the idea of Cold Wars between Earth and Mars with the asteroid belt acting as the third world. 11. Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War - Perhaps the peak of anime comedy, in that you let two goofballs who don't want to admit they're into each other into a student council room and let sparks and banter fly. Which works... SO WELL. 12. Higurashi: When They Cry - incredible story done nearly as well in anime format as it is in novel format. Nearly as well. Definitely the best way to experience Higu if you're never going to spend 50 hours reading. 13. Fate/Zero - the single greatest battle royale show ever, all made even better through the tangible feeling of doom that hangs over the show from knowledge you gain experiencing its companion story Fate/Stay Night (which is good, just not quite top 50 good). 14. Lost - a show that happened upon one of the most inventive and effective TV hour telling formats ever and holds up for it, particularly early on. 15. Game Of Thrones - mostly great etc 16. Death Note - a classic of cat-and-mouse crime thrillers 17. Assassination Classroom - love letter to education done through ridiculous comedy 18. Star Trek: The Next Generation - so so many brilliant episodes that have passed into TV canon and led fantastically by Patrick Stewart throughout. 19. Kaiji - 2 seasons of this was not nearly enough, addictive high-stakes show about a gambler Squid Game copied its homework 20. Parks And Recreation - best american sitcom through being low-stakes and positive (about its characters) while biting (in its satire of small-town America) 21. Fringe - science + sci-fi together, I haven't seen X-Files but I imagine with how much I love this, this'd do similarly. 22. Peaky Blinders - is this my highest British show? oop. This is how we need to do prestige TV though. 23. Neon Genesis Evangelion - cornerstone of modern anime and full of cool religious allegories and classic 24. Black Mirror - many moments of brilliance here and there and good social commentary besides. 25. Odd Taxi - highly recommend this short little series, everything is absolutely perfectly plotted to perfection in the series' single mystery. 26. Doctor Who - sure, it has some great moments, will give it that xx 27. Gintama - anime Futurama is the among the highest rated anime (on average across multiple seasons) on MAL for good reason, mixing absurdist comedy with great serious samurai arcs almost seamlessly. 28. Avatar: The Last Airbender - highly rated even among dirty weebs for a reason 29. Uma Musume - silly little horse girl anime if you look at it one way, the greatest sports show in existence if you look at it another way. 30. Veep - fantastic political comedy (and yes I enjoyed it more than The Thick Of It). 31. Attack On Titan - big budget anime fantasy is good lets go 32. Better Call Saul - in the same universe as Breaking Bad and very talky 33. Puella Magi Madoka Magica - features magical girls being very demure, very mindful, very Jesus in purgatory 34. Welcome To The NHK - how to ward off depression 35. A Place Further Than The Universe - another pretty much perfect short show that just spreads good vibes and adventure 36. Bojack Horseman - some of the best of modern western animation 37. Chernobyl - very impactful limited series 38. Vikings - one of the best historical TV series by playing a little loose with history while having amazing casting. 39. Re:ZERO - Starting Life In Another World - counterbalances it looking like anime wish fulfilment isekai trash with a ruthless unique concept and some jawdropping cinematic moments. 40. Nichijou - My Ordinary Life - delightfully kooky anime comedy 41. My Hero Academia - baby's first anime doing everything a show of that description needs to do right with a great cast of characters, fantastic music and good arcs supporting the overarching plot. 42. Misfits - always liked shows where people have different powers and this might have been where it originated. 43. One Piece - nearly 200 episodes in and I still have nearly 1000 episodes to go but it's done great so far... 44. The Boys - ridiculous and on the nose but entertaining with it. 45. The Inbetweeners - a classic, not many British comedies top this. 46. Chihayafuru - learned so much about karuta since watching this unorthodox sports anime + some of the most beautiful character designs you'll get anywhere 47. Friends - undeniable in just how good so many of its episodes are. 48. Angel Beats! - funny, emotional and short, like life itself. 49. Psycho-Pass - hey believable worlds set in Philip K Dick-land are hard to come by, PP nails it. 50. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - I'll give the people determined to put this at #1 on MAL something (though Frieren's defeated them for now, yet to see myself how good the whole of Frieren is), this is a banger. made some criminal cuts, need more prestige sci-fi and talky dramas if anyone has any of those x

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Well done Lindsey, that's an excellent pop winner, always good to get one of those I pointed, and well deserved after so long. Trifoski in 4th is somehow really shocking to be but incredible to see, Danny Brown mopping up BJSC points :cheeseblock: I was shocked that I got top 20 when reading through in bed last night, but apparently that wasn't enough and actually I got 14th on countback?! With 2 18s hiding in the jury? Thank you everyone, this smashed what I was expecting for 'Carbonated Love', really appreciate it Excellent hosting all the way through blacksquare, really enjoyed your aesthetic approach to the contest and those videos were perfect for tension in revealing each place.

criminal that 'Devour' finished last place... what??? Sudan Archives also about 20 places too low at least

I would support a Taahino win even more diverse votes keeping me in a good midtable yay

What I mean by that is voters seeing the Trump of 2024, who is completely different to the man who won in 2016, he's lethargic, out of sorts. He always rambled and had run on sentences but he does this more than ever now, talks about nothing in particular. All very telling signs of age and verging on senility. With Biden now out of the race, the Dems can and should go all in on Trump being too old, and the more voters see what he visibly looks like and acts now, the better the chance that works.

well I've certainly got points from what feels like a much wider range than I normally do, thank you all so far scoreboard is looking quite good so far but Persephonia and Nelionoir really need to pick up

Pretty every poll, newspaper report and reaction I've seen have it bad for Trump and good for Harris, (think it was 63-37 for 'who won the debate' from CNN, WaPo's swing state voter poll had them swinging for Harris by 23-2). Huge gaffes from Trump too at least from what I've been able to see, 'illegal aliens getting transgender operations in prisons' (?) and 'eating cats and dogs'. It's looking good for the Dem campaign from this. As I suspected. We need another debate closer to the time, the more people see of Trump at this stage the less they like him, conversely, the more they see of Harris, the more she is liked.

man flip leww's odds literally upside down and that'd be a quality result

People are voters no matter whether they are in California or Missouri or Vermont or Utah. If New York always outvotes Vermont that's not a problem to fix in Vermont's favour because states aren't people. In actual fact, if you live in any of those states your vote is treated as a foregone conclusion while both presidential candidates woo the 100,000 or so swing voters in Pennsylvania every year and no one else. Your vote also literally counts less if you live in a large state, because each state has 2 senators in addition to their other electoral votes which means that votes per state is biased in favour of small states.

Difference with that is that the UK has parliamentary elections, each election is for a specific MP. As to whether that should be the case, or how people's votes get wasted in our system, a topic for some place that is not the US election thread, but the US presidential election is for one office that is responsible for the whole country, so splitting it by states makes zero sense. Prescriptively if more people vote for the leader of a whole country, then they should be the leader. Especially because the Americans are already voting for Congress and some Senators and some governors at the same time, each with their own problems but it's not like there's no statewide representation.

It’s actually on to be a hit, sheesh! Is What I’ve Done still their highest peak? Insane to think there’s a possibility of it being beaten in 2024. Been playing it loads, absolutely loving this sound.

I am absolutely going to be repping PEAK fiction when I make my list, been a while since I properly evaluated my faves.

Very much a collection of songs with King Of The Slugs as the literal and figurative centerpiece, taking up 20% of the runtime alone as it does, but this is such a fun record throughout, all the craziness I'd hoped for is still there in the tracks I hadn't heard, 'Vigilante' and 'Running' in particular are new highlights I hadn't heard before.

Great list of songs that I have for the most part not heard for about a decade and a half. Really good strong rock selection from what I know of the scene at that time too and Disc 2 looks incredibly strong also.

+30 Gareth Emery & STANDERWICK (feat. HALIENE) - Saving Light +29 Arcade Fire - Everything Now +28 MGMT - Little Dark Age +27 Linkin Park (feat. Kiiara) - Heavy +26 Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses +25 Clean Bandit (feat. Zara Larsson) - Symphony +24 alt-J - 3WW +23 Danny L Harle - 1UL +22 Lorde - Green Light +21 Kesha - Praying +20 Avicii (feat. Sandro Cavazzo) - Without You +19 Kendrick Lamar - Humble. +18 Dua Lipa - New Rules +17 Burak Yeter (feat. Danielle Sandoval) - Tuesday +16 Arcade Fire - Creature Comfort +15 Paramore - Hard Times +14 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still +13 MUNA - I Know a Place +12 Rita Ora - Anywhere +11 Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee - Despacito (Original / Justin Bieber Remix)

So after the LEFT winning the elections in France, the LEFT putting forward their candidate for prime minister, including ones that might be a bit more center-left and acceptable to parts of Macron's coalition, Macron just goes ahead and appoints Michel Barnier, from the 4th-placed right-wing Republicans, as PM. Acceptable to the center, and the right, and not censured by the extreme right is their strategy. Where's the left, idk, they're not important. God I hate Macron. *gestures vaguely at the New Popular Front leading the election results, literally saving Macron from having a Le Pen led majority in his Parliament*

Caught a bit of their livestream last night - she popped off. Seems like Mike's having a blast with it too, and I could definitely get behind a female voice on future LP tracks.

Excellent winner, had a listen to their album back when they were nominated and it is a really great listen all the way through, very innovative group.

i wish pain upon Pink Friday (the original) otherwise good performance

@1831339529648656484 Patel's out. good riddance etc etc Major shock is that Mel Stride managed to beat someone.

It's not (I don't think?) mathematically impossible that there'd be none of the qualified entries in semi 1 scoring between 34 and 51 points, we've certainly had semi-finals where the point values drop off a cliff, but as to whether that's a plausible or likely scenario...