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A long-haired Finnish culture geek with bad attitude. They say I'm at times completely out of my mind and crazy, so you can expect anything coming out of my keyboard when the planets are aligned and my inner creative lunacy kicks in.

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Music Diary from Hell (2023-2024) (488 items)
Music list by Darth Brutus
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People I find Inspiring (50 items)
Person list by Darth Brutus
Published 2 years, 1 month ago
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My Favourite Books (72 items)
Book list by Darth Brutus
Published 3 years, 10 months ago
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The Return of the Film Diary (2024) (39 items)
Movie list by Darth Brutus
Published 10 months, 3 weeks ago
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My Favourite Albums (517 items)
Music list by Darth Brutus
Published 4 years, 8 months ago



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A Great Game Ruined by a Disappointing Ending

Posted : 2 years, 5 months ago on 29 May 2022 07:35 (A review of Breath of Fire IV)

I was lucky enough to find this game back when it was still new and hot. Back then I was keen on classics JRPG's and the cover art alone told me this was something really special.

To keep this short, Breath of Fire IV is more or less a very typical late 90's JRPG with leveling up system, random fights and such, if you happen to know games like Lunar then you pretty much have the same good stuff here.

What really got me and still do are the design choices which couldn't be any more interesting and creative. Instead of taking the easy anime and fairy tale route all the others were doing, these guys were inspired by Chinese and Shinto mythologies and the presentation is truly memorable and unique, there's nothing quite like it even in our time.

I especially love the hardest motherf'king boss of the game that is Won-Qu, a shishi and guardian spirit of the god emperor. That beast always handed me my arse, but the character itself is so damn cool.

The ending is the reason why this isn't one of my favourites, though, I just hate it. There's two different endings, both of which are more or less the apocalypse of this fancy and unique fairy tale world. I just hate it so much, why not just let it be as it is and leave the rest to the player's imagination. Not only that, but if you happen to choose the good ending, it just stops all of a sudden out of the blue. Everything leading up to that point is so epic and fun it ruined the latter part of the game for me.


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THE definite proof that God does exist!

Posted : 2 years, 10 months ago on 12 January 2022 07:58 (A review of Rambo: The Force of Freedom)

I know it's for kids, but good lord is it so much fun! Like, imagine the dumbest films Steven Seagal has ever made and put in John Rambo to do his usual stuff. Because it's for kids there's shitton of stupid humor and moral lessons and some of the most awful one-liners I have ever heard in my life. The action is so over the top it's awesome, like Rambo sinks every damn battleship and shoots down planes and even nuclear missiles, but because of censorship nobody ever hits anything with their guns or gets hurt. That's because the people who made the show realized that there's a fine line between violence and action and that's how they could go extreme with the latter without breaking any rules.

The best (and most bonkers) episode in the whole series is the one where a group of international terrorists kidnap Santa Claus and Rambo has to go teach those evil men what Christmas is really all about... in his own merry and loving way. In this episode alone Rambo rides Santa's sleigh while being chased by a battle helicopter. It's insane and over the top, but that's just how it should be. I can't believe I just found out recently about this gem, it's so entertaining and full of unintentionally hilarious stuff it should be taught in schools.


This cartoon is THE definite proof that God does exist.



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One of the best black metal albums ever.

Posted : 2 years, 10 months ago on 6 January 2022 06:42 (A review of Exercises in Futility)

I can't believe how back in the day when people told me to get this thing I just thought it would by another cookie cutter Norwegian style black metal album with lo-fi production and lots of blastbeats. It wasn't until recently that I got really curious since its popularity and acclaim have only gotten bigger over the years, to the point even mainstream metal groups in social media are constantly telling me to listen to it. Then I finally did, and...

Jesus frigging Christ this is good. Mgla are anything but average, they may be very straightforward, but the skill and talent present here are insane. The production quality is more or less lo-fi and there's even some blastbeats, but that's just how it's supposed to be. The songs themselves are masterfully constructed and despite being very long, they never get boring. There's amazing atmosphere and tensionbuilding, great use of repetition... it's amazing stuff.

The best songs here are the first and the fifth, but it's still all killer and no filler. The latter is especially famous for the drummer making it sound like he has multiple extra limbs, that's some crazy skill right there. So frigging cool.


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17.11. The first part is more metal, the latter gothic. Nice, but not one of their best.
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16.11. This is very typical Meshuggah. It's one of their more popular albums, so no wonder.
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Lex Fridman
In the vast sea of online podcasts, Lex Fridman is one of the best. While Joe Rogan has more down to earth and entertaining approach, Fridman is known for being an academic and his style is more thinking man's talk. Lex has talked with multiple presidents and big CEO's like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and soon Javier Milei from Argentina. I think it's awesome how even smarter entertainment such as this can have such a huge audience and impact, and Fridman managed to create this brand his out of thin air in few short years.
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NWOBHM Thunder - New Wave Of British Heavy Metal: 1978-1986
15.11. One of the most legit heavy metal compilations I have ever seen or heard in my life. This shit is full of all the good stuff, lesser known classics and grassroots metal. They even avoided the common cliches and chose more rare songs from the big bands. That's 3 disks worth of banging goodness.
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15.11. Nice retro speed metal. Though, I think people should come up with new stuff instead of just lazily reproducing the old classics.
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The president of El Salvador might have his personal flaws, but cracking down and destroying the violent gangs and organized crime that ruined his country is a huge deal. El Salvador used to be one of the most dangerous countries in the world, but with the magnate from Bukele the army and the police cleaned up the place by force and the gangs will hopefully rot in the country's newly built special prisons for the rest of their miserable lives. The infamous Mexican cartels will be next once uncle Don gets his business going.
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14.11. Highly entertaining industrial metal. A very typical Turmion Kätilöt album.
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On The Seventh Day God Created... Master
13.11. Lesser known old school death metal, still awesome. This album along with their debut are the only one's you need to get. The rest are more or less just your average death metal.
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Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Janusz Korwin-Mikke is my spirit animal. Mr. Korwin-Mikke is known for being very provocative and in your face, and also bold as Cato the Elder. The man is also sharp as a razor blade: he's a mathematician, libertarian thinker and a master of bridge. In other words, a true individual and someone who lots of pretentious people love to hate. I think the funniest part about Korwin-Mikke is his political career. As a man of culture and intellect he could dance around your average asshat politicians and make them look like complete fools. As an uncertified extreme capitalist his views were very extreme, but never illogical or unfounded. I presume they were afraid of this man even on the highest levels of EU, since they really couldn't control him.
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thanks for the vote, 600 books? wow, you must have insane knowledge
Posted: 2 years, 6 months ago at May 10 13:19
At last, I'm finally done with this list!
If you are interested and you want to check the end-result, you can use the following link :
Listal's 100 Films To See Before You Die (2022)
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Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Jan 31 11:35
Hey, good news! I have added your book reading and viewing lists to an aggregate list for the year 2022!
A little project of mine to have one place where we can see what everyone is into this year:
www.listal.com/list/listal-2022-viewingreadinglistening-logs-lalaman
Posted: 2 years, 10 months ago at Jan 21 10:38
Thanks for you help!

The list has been updated with your vote.

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Posted: 2 years, 10 months ago at Jan 18 15:22
Hello!

I'm currently working on a new project and maybe you could help me out.

It's pretty simple.

You just need to click on the link underneath and provide your 10 favorite movies.

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Posted: 2 years, 11 months ago at Dec 20 17:33
Sankyu.
Posted: 3 years, 5 months ago at May 26 16:15
Thank you for your vote!
Posted: 3 years, 7 months ago at Apr 13 15:08
Thanks for your vote!

Would you mind going back to one of my lists and provide your 10 favorite movies?

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Hello!

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It's pretty simple.

You just need to click on the link underneath and provide your 10 favorite movies.

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Thanks for the vote ;)
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Thanks again! :-)
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Thanks again my friend.
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a little tardy, yet sincere... thank you for your list vote darth brutus! :))
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Thank you for the vote!