Archetype
The Thrill Chaser
Pacing and spectacle first. With a streak of The Genre Devotee.
11% of curators. Today's reading; it moves as they rate.
Momentum. Set pieces, stakes, a story that grabs they by the collar and does not let go until the credits.
Where it goes wrong: Speed can hide emptiness. Some of your five stars are adrenaline, not admiration.
More about the Thrill Chaser
- Avoids
- Drift. Contemplation without event feels like a waiting room, whatever the critics say.
- How they rate
- Your stars follow your pulse. Pacing and spectacle earn them; interiority has to bring an engine.
- Good company
- Genre Devotees and Cartographers ride along. Formalists find you impatient; you find them slow.
- Against the crowd
- You are close to the crowd on blockbusters and much harsher than it on the acclaimed and unhurried.
Curators like them:
Dev
In three lines
- More event-driven than almost every curator. character vs. plotcharacter-ledplot-driven 67%
- More dense world than almost every curator. world-buildingsparerichly built 60%
- More relentless than almost every curator. pacingcontemplativerelentless 58%
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
Badges
All 25- Omnivore · GoldMaxed
- Shelved · Silver21 of 25
- Time traveler · Silver8 of 10
- On a streak · Silver35 of 100
- First entry · BronzeMaxed
- Opinionated · Bronze45 of 50
- Generous24 of 25
- Conversationalist9 of 10
Favorites
The five this curator would hand you first, in no particular order.
Films
Heat
Interstellar
Deadpool
Forrest Gump
The Martian
Seriess
Severance
Twin Peaks
Fleabag
Ted Lasso
Succession
Books
Project Hail Mary
Circe
Albums
Make a playlist- To Pimp a Butterfly
- Hounds of Love
- Lemonade
- Abbey Road
Games
Hades
Outer Wilds
Celeste
Hollow Knight
Dark Souls
Fingerprint
Fourteen dimensions, against everyone
Further out is a stronger lean than other curators.
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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 Toby rates each kind of thing
One row a medium; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
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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; Toby 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. Neighbors are worth a look.
Against the crowd
Where Toby 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 Toby 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 favorites moved toward that pole.
The numbers
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Archetype, with the runners-up
- The Thrill Chaser60%
- The Genre Devotee23%
- The Cartographer16%
In the community
- Harsher than 52% of curators
- Has rated more than 37% of curators
- More event-driven than 99% of curators
- 11% of curators are Thrill Chasers
Among 634 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 42 rated titles.
This month they were harder to please than usual and wandering outside your usual taste. From 12 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Logs
Succession 2018
★★★3.0
Fleabag 2016
★★★½3.5
Circe 2018
★★★½3.5
Before Sunrise 1995
★★½2.5
Stardew Valley 2016
★★★½3.5
Nice, and I put forty hours in, so clearly it works. But I kept waiting for the game to push back and it never did.
The Thing 1982
★★★3.0
WALL·E 2008
★★½2.5
The Last of Us 2013
★★★½3.5
Project Hail Mary 2021
★★★★4.0
Sunset Boulevard 1950
★★★½3.5
Portal 2 2011
★★★★4.0
Severance 2022
★★★★½4.5
Outer Wilds 2019
★★★★★5.0
The only game where the progress is entirely in your head. No upgrades, no levels, just knowing. The moment the loop clicks is the best twenty seconds in the medium.
Mostly about the craft.
Return of the Obra Dinn 2018
★★★★½4.5
A deduction game that trusts you completely. I kept a notebook. When the last three names fell into place I said something out loud that I will not repeat.
Interstellar 2014
★★★★4.0
A film that stops for a lecture every twenty minutes. The docking scene is incredible. The rest of it should have been a game.
Mostly about the pace.
Forrest Gump 1994
★★★½3.5
Ted Lasso 2020
★★★3.0
Chernobyl 2019
★★★3.0
Elden Ring 2022
★★★★½4.5
Hounds of Love 1985
★★★★4.0
Spirited Away 2001
★★★½3.5
Twin Peaks 1990
★★★★4.0
Celeste 2018
★★★★★5.0
A platformer about anxiety that respects you enough to be hard. Assist mode is there and the game never judges you for it. Chapter seven B-side broke me and then I broke it.
Mostly about the craft, how it felt.
Deadpool 2016
★★★★4.0
Abbey Road 1969
★★★3.0
Dark Souls 2011
★★★★★5.0
To Pimp a Butterfly 2015
★★★★½4.5
Disco Elysium 2019
★★★½3.5
Baldur's Gate III 2023
★★★★4.0
The Martian 2015
★★★½3.5
Lemonade 2016
★★★½3.5
Hollow Knight 2017
★★★★★5.0
Got lost for ten hours and never once felt cheated. The map is the game. Charms are the best build system in a metroidvania, full stop.
Mostly about the craft, comfort.
Slay the Spire 2019
★★★★★5.0
Every run is a small argument with probability. The Silent is the best designed character in any deckbuilder.
Mostly about the performances, the craft.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
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