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• American McGee's Alice
• Stronghold (the first one)

I'm not a gamer, but these two games are almost indispensable for me. Yes, there are Madness Returns and other Strongholds, but I've never really played them.

I'm not that much of a gamer, but I remember many years ago I bought a Spawn game for the PSOne because I wanted to buy something and Spawn was still somewhat cool (don't know if it still is, really). It was slow, ugly, with awkward controls and whenever you confronted an enemy the game play changed into something like Tekken or Bloody Roar, but with much worse controls. After you defeated the enemy it changed back to a 3rd person perspective. I didn't even make it to the first boss, I simply put it away and went to play Syphon Filter for the 30th time.

Panspermia, by melodysheep. Part of his "Life Beyond" series. Highly recommended if you like science, biology, astrobiology and existential crisis.

Yes, if I recall correctly, the last one is lit on Christmas day, though some people do it on Christmas Eve.

Here in Mexico, a predominantly Catholic country, Advent wreaths (with five candles) are definitely a thing, though I can't say how much the tradition is still followed nowadays (I'm not a religious person). I've seen them in the central and southern regions, but I'm not sure about other parts of the the country. I've seen Advent calendars too, in churches and some houses.

Same. I've tried dozens of music players, but I always return to mpd, though I use Cantata as my front end. And M.A.L.P. allows me to control playback from my Android devices.

I also quite like QuodLibet, but my computer has a bug where the music randomly pauses when using Gstreamer (which QL uses), so for the most part I use mpd.

I tried Ironfox for several weeks some months ago. I like the project, but it was painfully slow, mainly because it disables JIT and some other things. (Brave also has a JIT-less mode, but I found it to be faster than Ironfox.)

Also, it comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, which is good, but the devs enable by default a ton of lists, which contributes to the slowness. I suppose that if you have a fast device it won't matter, but on a low to mid-range device it becomes unbearable. The best you can do is disable the preinstalled lists and use one of the modes recommended by uBlock.

https://sandspiel.club/

I've wasted so many hours playing there.

There's this heavy metal Japanese band named Aldious. Many of their songs are real bangers, like "Ground Angel" and "Yozakura", but there are two particular songs that, as you said, get me dancing and yelling, even if they're more "pop-ish" than the others: "Without You" and "Die for You". They put me in a good mood every time I listen to them 😆.

Have you got the latest brick from Stephen King?

I have a soft spot for two dinos because of videogames:

• Giganotosaurus: Because Dino Crisis 2. I mean, I know that its size was greatly exaggerated, but I'll never forget how damn frightening it was when you were about to fight the T. rex and suddenly, bam!, a fucking thing twice it's size appeared and kicked its ass like it was nothing.

• Utahraptor. Many years ago, there was a little game called "Primal Prey", where you could go back in time and hunt for dinos. I thought (again) that the T. rex would be the most frightening, but when I got to the part where you have to hunt for the Utahraptor, oh boy, I almost pissed myself because this dude appeared behind me out of nowhere and killed me in an instant. Since then I've really liked this species.