Through December and January, the CAPC team has compiled the list of favorite pop culture artifacts the previous year. Unlike most year -end lists, they do not claim that they are the best. Rather, they have the most joy and satisfaction to us over the past 12 months.
In 2024, it includes our favorite games, Mome, and cultural moments Fashion criticism, Super capitalist terrifying, JRPG, etc.
Delegui
The social media account dedicated to men’s fashion may seem strange to celebrate, Delegui-AKA “The Menswear Guy” -It is not just a fashion blogger or social media influencer. Certainly, he spends a lot of time criticizing men’s fashion, such as the decline of men’s suits and the elegant fashion from the past. But his posts are more interesting. They are very useful, educated, emphasized the evolution of fashion and the power that causes their evolution. And how did we change not only fashion but also the concepts and definitions of our cultural masculinity?
As part of that, he is not afraid to call the emperor who does not have clothes, Sharp, cheerful, and sometimes, no -AV politicians and public figuresAnd not only the taste of ties and suits jackets is bad. His fashion explanation is as hypocrisy as poor Auto couture。
-Jason Morehead
Planetary crafter
Planetary crafter It is a debut game of an indie studio with a very simple premise. You crashed on a barren planet with a gun that mined everything and made something. Your mission? Make the planet livable. It is a beautiful game that shows the dangers of materialism while really grasping the amazing of the creation.
You robbed your character -like prisoner, essentially fired them on a planet other than the oxygen tank, and said an omni gun. They have little attention and concerns about “employees”, and can only contact you after a dangerous job is completed and harvest the planet. It is possible to produce products outside the planet and set up sustainable automated systems to be shipped, but the various records remaining around the planet indicate that this does not work for a long time. 。 The original residents have left a huge gravity sink that trapped someone on the earth, especially after seeing the destruction of RAMP made by humans as a whole.
Despite this harsh message Planetary crafter It is an undoubtedly beautiful game. Even the barren version of the planet is gorgeous, and there are large -scale sandstorms and transparent planets on the horizon. Players can find a complex rock formation and the abandoned archeological sites suffering from their dignity. And as the game progresses, as the player introduces the atmosphere, water, plants, and animals to the world, it is really a respect for seeing how to change the familiar area and become a brilliant image of life. 。
Of course, it is as worth as much as that Planetary crafter The theory of criticism, the same beautiful transformation of the planet, is a process that can only be made through the technology of the light Corns of the game. You can display it in this way Planetary crafter As an excellent expression of the earth’s stewardship that God is ordering in his words, he is trying to further amplify it while highlighting the natural beauty of the creation.
-The John Cross Terman
Barusky’s rise
When ELON MUSK took over Twitter in October 2022 and then remodeled it in his image as X, some people were excited, given Musk’s claim that he was “absolute speech absoluteist.” You may be doing it. Twitter is increasingly mixed OTIC, and has been overrun by bot and censorship accusations. Musk promised to change everything. He wrote a note by sharing the theory of conspiracy and making it a friendly place for the Nazi and other extremists.
It’s not surprising, but X has begun to search for alternatives as X has begun to flutter and more hostile to ordinary users looking for information and communities, not only advertisers. I did it. Meta has developed thread It has an Instagram derivative, and it has a larger user base, but it’s definitely an empty. Blue ski This is a true X/Twitter alternative.
After a long invitation, Bluesky began registration in February 2024. So far, there are about 30 million users. This is just a part of the thread and X/Twitter user base. However, the fact that Bluesky focuses on the user control is definitely a safer platform. It is much easier to control the content displayed in your news feed and the person you talk to. Furthermore, it is built on a “distributed” protocol, aiming to create and execute a unique Bluesky version. In other words, the user’s content is not under the management of a single company or its billionaire.
-Jason Morehead
Satisfying
After playing for years Satisfying With early access, coffee stains finally released a complete game in the fall of 2024 and started again from the beginning. And how happy!
One of my favorite games is to build a permanent structure. The idea of changing the world scenery that I can cross is quietly thrilling for me. It’s a bit cool to put a building, house, or a small settlement in a place that lasts the rest of the game. It’s all short -lived (clearly!), But in the game space, I created something permanent.
Minecraft I hunted down the early market of ideas (even if I saw this in an early SIM type game in an early and early stage Simsity and Populus) But during that time Minecraft It is functionally excellent in creating a monument or building. (A) Aesthetically interesting, (B) Maybe it’s a place where spiders can be inside without eating your face, Satisfying Do some of the personality for strutures to do something -Delete all boring parts Minecraft。
Beyond that players work to automate all mining/craft grind Minecraft,, Satisfying It boasts a rich world for exploration. The design of the world is beautiful, diverse and large (a little big) Skyrim,, GTA: Sun Andreasand Forced oblesIt has 21 kinds of biome and a lot of vertical. Occasionally, while you are waiting for you to end your factory to produce what you need, you are just a new resource, other crashed ships, or just beautiful views You may want to look for it for a while. None of this game was generated in procedure. It was all made with affection by a person who intentionally designed it in a place where trees, rocks and geothermal ventilation go.
And all the beauty will make it even more attractive when I finally paved everything in the industry. The untouched world that is not mentioned in human colonization suddenly becomes a huge production facility to produce my own only material to produce the necessary quantum material with my own lonely hands. Masu. It is moving around the world like Hoshima locusts. So, well, I think it is. However, looking at the men, those twins, how beautiful it is!
-Set T. Khan
Unicorn overload
One of the surprise hits in 2024 Unicorn overload Unfortunately, the protagonist is not a unicorn, but a very large monarch. Alan, the main character of blue hair, must form a poor, talented army in order to kill his mother a few years ago and overthrow the treasurer who inherited the world. It is a tactical -based game on the surface, but it is actually an important game play Unicorn overload Learn to get close to your friends and cooperate to overcome the disability.
Unicorn overload, Unlike other tactical turn -based games, characters will automatically proceed with attacks without input in a battle from you. As a result, many of the battles are rationalized, but basically the game is to attack one AI attacker in another set.
For this reason, the main edges of the battle find out which characters are the most effective when forming a team by building a relationship between the hosted “team dinner”, and maximizes the effects. That is. As a commander, you decide which troops can handle what threat, but you mainly need to trust your subordinates to gain yourself. It’s not a game of a tactical genius, it’s a game on relying on talented people with the same goals you have.
This fact is particularly emphasized by the fact that the main villain is a crazy dictator who gives all his power to himself and brainwashes his accurate order. There is no teamwork on the other side, a single hybemind (as later revealed, it is formed by a flock of undead souls from many years of kingdom). An individual who has a backstub if it is possible to have each other S humiliation, be humiliating, or if possible. Others will be happy to participate in your banner when you are released from the control of the devil leader.
Unicorn overloadThen, pit a “strong man” dictator to leaders who avoid glorious and grandness to serve his followers. It’s a very strong or very intellectual story that the hero is very strong or very intelligent. At least not than his opponent. Instead, Alan’s main quality is his grace and ability to cooperate with others. He shares the new kingdom’s wishes and inspires a broken, defective, biased, former warrior community. It is an excellent image of how the church itself should work.
-The John Cross Terman
Source: Christ and Pop Culture – christandpopculture.com
