Wavlake is a good option. Keep in mind, though, that no popular music of today (think The Weekend, Eilish, etc.) will be on this platform. Instead, it'll be Bitcoiners who also produce music and podcasts.
You don't have to use BTC with a Lightning Network wallet, though, as that's option. Nostr is another option that you can use, but again, that's optional.
Otherwise, use a net to catch the music you want. If you get the reference, then you know I'm a viewer of Louis Rossmann's content.
You need to first identify who they are. Follow the money, and you'll see their ties. That's how you defeat them: by starving them of your energy, and not participating in their Roman bread and circuses.
For those unaware of what I'm talking about, there's this thing called energetic participation. You may have heard it said as "predictive programming". This is a technique used in most media today, and to keep it brief, the propagandists tell everyone who watches something with subliminal messaging approved by them what some people will do sometime in the future (using things like numerology, astrology, etc.), and how they want us, the consoomer, to respond appropriately to the problem they'll cause. Gauging the reaction, they'll provide the "solution" that will lead to a worse quality of life than before. They'll do this every single time they want something to make people's lives more miserable than previously.
Case in point: this current talk on digital ID's. Well, first, they create the issue necessary for it (importing poverty and invading a Caucasian-majority country like the UK or US with 3rd world criminals released from their home country's prisons), then they gauge the reaction (calls for the government to fix it), and then, after some time, they provide the fake solution (digital ID's to "stop the invasion", "stop the flippin' terrorists", and "protect the children", all kinds of nonsense like that).
They told us that they would do this in some piece of programming in the past, and we didn't catch onto it, likely because the propagandists didn't want us to notice what they were planning on doing so we could stop them. They don't want us to, and that's the point. This is a simplification of energetic participation, as it's much more nuanced than that.
My only other concern is with the publisher, B-site (as it's called in China, though I'm not from there). Otherwise, it doesn't look that bad, despite being a top-down shooter instead of an FPS like Tarkov is.
OP wanted 90's-early 00's, though I thought 80's could suffice of OP hadn't thought of it. I could try to find someone obscure too, but I think that's pointless for what OP requested.
I hadn't thought of anyone from Inuyasha or Ranma 1/2... as I hadn't watched either of their animated adaptations.
I'd be honest all the way. If my member is small, I'd tell her that. If it's big... I'd tell her that. It doesn't matter to me, as lying just gets anyone nowhere.
Trump weirdly admitted that Democrats were better at economics than Republicans were (and he was a Democrat before switching to a RINO).
I sure as heck hope they allow Linux (basically, no ACE or anything of the sort). If they do, and the game's free, I'll check this sucker out to spite the Tarkov devs.
Not late 90's or early oughts, but I'd put a Vtuber or two on there (personally, I'd do either Fuwamoco or Mel [if Mel were still in Hololive]). Otherwise, because of the ThinkPad, and the OS you're using (which, from my experience, is a huge mistake if you're a beginner to Linux), I remember watching something from the 80's, that being Urusei Yatsura, so maybe Lum if you wanted to go that route. Otherwise, I'd say one of the characters from Rec!.
That is invincibility to me.
I'd probably just save a little for them, and once you invest enough for a powerful enough machine, then I'd purchase it with a little bit of money left. That's how I'd do it, though your mileage may vary.
Netflix wouldn't work. DRM is what ultimately makes it garbage for me.