June 2025 Summary

What I watched, read, listened to and spent my time with during June

Month after month I keep surprising myself. This June was definitely the month of actually completing things. For once! I managed to turn a quarter of a century old, I managed to complete a book, and three different videogames as well!

I also wrote quite a few blog posts in between the weeknotes and the reviews, which makes me quite happy. Still not as many as March, but that was just a really good streak that broke by the last half, compared to the consistency of this month. I’m happy!

Overall, it was a rollercoaster of emotions, my sister currently studying abroad visited, my parents were travelling for a variety of reasons, my birthday happened, and at the same time, it just felt kind of normal, weird stuff.

Regardless, here is the media I enjoyed throughout the month.

Podcasts

Podcasts

I listened to a total of 57 hours of podcasts! It’s been a relatively quiet month, to be honest.

  • Welcome to Night Vale - For sleep and not much else, but sometimes the plot is so good I relisten.
  • Into The Aether - Some great episodes, they recently got rid of ads and went indie again, love it.
  • Darknet Diaries - I listened to many great stories, Shannen’s (Ep. 145) was my favorite.
  • The Ten Minute Bible Hour - Now at chapter 12 of Matthew, but it remains super interesting.
  • Retro Game Time Machine - The episodes on Left 4 Dead was fun, I always wanted to try it.
  • Dotzip - The 5 hour long episode about 1000xRESIST, it was beautiful and glorious.
  • The Worst Community Report - Just some fun banter from people in the Discord server I’m a part of.

Movies

Movies

There were a lot of movies this time around, like, I don’t think I’ve watched as many movies in a single month since I started doing monthly summaries! I’ve been thinking that I already dedicate a paragraph or so to all of these on my weeknotes, so I’ll just stick to one-sentence reviews from now on for media, I think.

  • A Minecraft Movie - Fun, ridiculous, but uncanny animation, Jack Black has fun.
  • How To Train Your Dragon 3 - Perfect finale, an amazing trilogy and closure to the characters.
  • Arrival - Cool concepts and amazing visuals with some mind-bending moments.
  • The Fugitive - Cool thriller with Harrison Ford being chased by Tomy Lee Jones, it can only be fun.
  • Tangled - Probably the best of the 3D Disney animation movies? Great songs too.
  • Transformers One - This was a great prequel/origin story and I love it, a rewatch.
  • Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - Pure nostalgia for me, amazing VFX for the time though.
  • World War Z - A zombie movie where they go fast, what were they thinking?
  • Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning - Thrilling action sequences, convoluted talks in between.

Anime

Anime

It is always a good month when I actually get to complete an anime show, which was the case this time. Even if I don’t know if it was best use of my time, I still think that if I enjoyed it, it was worth it.

Completed

  • Solo Leveling - Good adaptation, meh animation but it gets a lot better on season two, epic finale.

Ongoing

  • Mashle Season 2 - Really fun, I love the dub localization, it just makes me laugh, but the action is cool.
  • Death Note - Only three episodes in, but yeah, it’s good! I am going slowly for no real reason, hmm.

Manga

Manga

Quite a few ongoing series! And of course, Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou! I’ve been having a lot of fun with all these.

  • Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou - Simply perfect read for the turbulent times of today. Just amazing.
  • How to Grill Our Love - Wholesome side-character stories for now, still great and cozy.
  • Hunter x Hunter - Catching up and slowing down, the plot just keeps thickening, good stuff.
  • One Punch Man - Finally returned to this. New arc is developing, Saitama remains OP.
  • Sakamoto Days - Fully catched up now, and I am on cliff-hanger, oof. Still, top-notch action here.
  • DanDaDan - Ridiculously fun arc with tornadoes, while still having incredible character development.

Books

Books

One finished, one started, not bad, not great. Will the day come when I can read as much as others?

  • The Big Time - What a weird book to have finished, an interesting work for its time, but confusing for me, as a non-native speaker.
  • Nemesis Games - Finally started the fifth book of The Expanse. This is off to a great start, since all the characters of the crew are having their own concurrent arcs right now, and they are quite fun and distinct from previous adventures.

Gaming

Games

Yeah I just love videogames, what an incredible medium. The games I completed represent many facets of my taste and I had a blast with all of them. It is extremely weird for me to just roll credits three times in a month, but it was worth it.

Completed

Ongoing

  • Hollow Knight - I am in the endgame now, exploring as many corners I can find because I want to enjoy this game as much as possible. I will face the final boss some time soon! Maybe some of the extra bosses as well.
  • Dragon Quest XI - Still charmed by this story, I played hours this month, and I’ve made it to a pretty big moment of the story. This game just sparks joy.
  • Final Fantasy VI - I also progressed a lot here, made it to the second half of the game, and it’s so good, holds up great today. Gotta level up my characters though.
  • Full Metal Furies - The current choice with my couch gaming friends. it’s been great to fight cool bosses and hordes of enemies.
  • Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade - I didn’t really play it much, but I intend to complete the story this month to be done with it.
  • Monster Hunter Rise - Did a high rank mission and realized I really need to upgrade my equipment.
  • Super Mario 3D World - Just some levels here and there.

Shelved

  • Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver Remastered - I got this on Steam but it got picked for October in my gaming club, so I decided to play it until then, the original voice acting and the remastered graphics are super good though.

Device Usage

Laptop

I used my laptop for a total of 75 hours. Not a lot to say here, I use my computer at work a lot more lately, for obvious reasons.

  • Firefox for 37 hours
  • Zen Browser for 14 hours
  • Alacritty for 10 hours
  • Signal for 2 hours
  • PPSSPP for 1 hour

Phone

I used my phone for a total of 252 hours. That is definitely a problem, I’ve been way too active on Fosstodon and Polymaths Social this time. At least I cut down on YouTube consumption and the like. I also returned to some mainstream social media lately, but at least I didn’t use them much, ugh.

  • Tusky for 42 hours
  • Fennec for 41 hours
  • Mattermost for 28 hours
  • Tubular for 25 hours
  • Signal for 21 hours
  • Discord for 17 hours
  • WhatsApp for 16 hours
  • Mihon for 8 hours
  • Instagram for 7 hours
  • Lite for 5 hours
  • Reddit for 2 hours

Kobo

Not a lot of reading compared to other months, it’s a bit of a shame, but it’s the cost of finishing so many videogames! Time ends up going somewhere else.

I read 291 pages in 6 hours and 10 minutes

  • The Big Time for 2 hours and 10 minutes, 96 pages
  • Nemesis Games for 4 hours, 195 pages

Final thoughts

Not a lot to add this time around. I hope you guys have a great day. Thank you for reading this post. What were you up to this month?

This is day 92 of #100DaysToOffload

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