I don’t like lists, but I wanted to make one. I like certain things, but I also don’t like certain things. That’s two lists worth of things, but the only thing worse than one list is more than one list, so I’ve combined my two lists of things to make one list of things. Additionally, I’ve disorganized the items.

• Ben There, Dan That!
• “The Cloud”
• Forums
• Glee
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Chronicles of Wormwood
• Skate 2
• Apple commercials
• Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft commercials
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• World in Conflict: Soviet Assault’s Soviet Strength Trailer
• Infinite Undiscovery
• “Value proposition”
• King’s Bounty: The Legend
• Audible
• The Unwritten
• Robert Kirkman’s character dialogue
• News posts which note whether what they’re cynically reporting on is a “shocker” or “surprise”
• Better Off Ted
• Fantastic Four #570
• Joe Hill
• Fountain pens
• Twitter
• Dexter
• Secret Six
• Tea
• Final Crisis #6
• What Ever Happened To The Caped Crusader?
• The Elements of Style
• Glenn Beck
• Games journalism in general
• Community
• IW.NET
• Justice League of America
• Idle Thumbs
• Almonds
• Cashews
• Fallout 3
• Lists
• The Dresden Files (books)
• The Retrieval Artist book 1 and the first half of book 2
• League of Legends
• Keith and The Girl
• Lucidity
• Garth Ennis’ Battlefields
• Dollhouse
• Flash Forward
• Dante’s Inferno’s marketing campaign
• FEAR 2: Project Origin
• Ghost Rider #33 – #35
• Moleskine
• “You know, I know about farming.”
• Tuesdays
• The Apple Tablet
• Torchlight
• Tales of Symphonia
• On Writing Well
• Defense Grid: The Awakening
• Ultimatum
• K’naan’s The Troubador
• Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
• Zune Pass
• Persona 4
• Neil Gaiman’s Narration
• “High octane”
• Windows 7

It seems that the thing to do at the end of each year on sites like this is to write a series of wrap-ups. Game of The Year, retrospective reports, trends analysis. People also like to make predictions for the impending new year. I really do disdain things like holidays and imposing tradition, and while I honestly have very little sentiment for New Years, I do think it’s appropriate to acknowledge what has happened as long as the world insists on operating cyclically.

But I won’t. In fact, I tried to just now. I got half a dozen items into a list before I scrapped it. Deciding what’s universally important isn’t for me. I’m not sure who it’s for; the real enthusiast press doesn’t do a good job of it either. Much of what they say is very hype-driven, lazy and predictable. I won’t do that, though that may be what people really want.

I’m going to go finish riding the planet around a star now.