The Quite Nerdy Blog

Hey everyone, welcome to Best of the Decade month! For the next five weeks, I am going to be discussing the very best things that have come out this decade, at least in my opinion. Each week will have at least one post on a subject and because they're such big topics, I may be bending the numbers a bit in terms of how many entries there are (though always aiming to stick to multiples of seven). Those topics are going to include films, books, music and video games but starting us off, we have TV shows. If you talk to anyone who's made an effort to follow TV this decade, they'll tell you it was an amazing decade for TV, a real moment of "Peak TV". As the decade reached its end, that became exhausting for some ( me included ) but it can't be denied that we have seen some of the best shows ever made in the last ten years. Speaking of, I want to be clear how I'm judging release windows. Being ongoing by their very nature, measuring what decade a show came out...

We're going to try out a new format on the blog today! The idea for this came from the fact that we all seem to be overwhelmed with choice all the time when it comes to our entertainment selections. Whether it's on Netflix, on a service like Game Pass or even (if you're like me) your blu-ray shelf, we all have too many choices for consumption. As such, I wanted to try and use random choice to try and pick stuff out from the depths that I may not have tried otherwise. If people like this format, I've got a bunch of other stuff I can do (Netflix, Game Pass and my personal Steam library could all do with some thorough combing) but for today, we're trying out the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality from indie game website itch.io. I'll quickly set up itch.io and the bundle before we start. Itch.io is a website that specialises in truly independent games from independent creators. Many are free, many have very low or flexible pricing and best of all, it's al...

I am incredibly, incredibly privileged at this point in time. Though we are in the midst of a global pandemic, myself and my family are all financially and medically stable and though its exact shape remains uncertain, I have a future ahead of me where I will return to university in September. This is something I'm intimately aware of and I wanted to preface everything I'm about to say by stating this, because I know that for all the struggles I have had in this period, those are basic needs that I have not had to worry about. Regardless though, I have been struggling, particularly psychologically. That state has been far less frequent as lockdown gradually lifts and I can see friends and family again, but especially in the early weeks of lockdown, I found myself totally incapable of finding motivation. Uni work was completed, I was living with my family like a teenager again and I was worried about leaving my little village. In short, I felt like any agency my life had previou...

Here in the UK, cinemas are now allowed to open, once again. It's a weird time and there is a separate debate about whether stuff like that should be open right now, but I'm going to try and keep it light today, so we're steering clear of that particular conversation. What is interesting to me though is that due to Warner Brothers wanting Tenet to have the widest release possible, it seems to be perpetually in a state of being pushed back. Essentially, cinemas are open but the flagship film that wants to reopen them isn't, which is creating an opening for showing old films. I love seeing films in the cinema, it's something I've missed greatly over this lockdown, so I want to rundown the films I would personally curate if I was running a cinema right now. The only films on this list are ones I have already seen but not in a cinema and there's a whole host of reasons they're the perfect films to be seen in a group setting on a big screen. So with all that ...