Epic poem Os Lusíadas by great Portuguese writer Luís Vaz de Camões, about the travels of Vasco da Gama

Yikes. If my husband of decades started clearly acting WAY out of character and denying any form of help from legitimate means, then going missing, etc. I would act just like Skyler

Breaking Bad is my default answer, but here’s another one: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. Tight, engaging plot in an interesting world with unique German aesthetics, cool side characters with great character arcs, killer soundtrack and animation that hits at the right times without looking like computer effects bonanza (looking at you, Ufotable), evocative magic system hitting just the right spot of the hard vs soft magic spectrum…

Forgot to mention that it unfortunately is a US-owned company, so it would be off the table for the full-on US boycott crowd, especially because it’s a paid service.
Though they seem to be a genuinely good company that consistenly provides good customer support and improves the product in tangible ways. Privacy Pass was implemented because of customer feedback, for example, and so were crypto payments, and both were publicly discussed on the forums with good transparency. They also actively promote the decentralization of the internet: with that Small Web feature I mentioned, with Fediverse and Usenet Archives search being implemented by default, by providing an interface to use any LLM model through their assistant… So I wouldn’t want to boycott them, and I don’t

I see you have commented about those intentions a few times. I don’t know how serious you are about opsec, but in these times I would refrain from publicizing any violent intentions without at least being in a secure account I have only ever accessed via Tor, and I wouldn’t post personal stuff like cat pictures or mentions of any siblings in that account. Please, be safe

I switched to Kagi and am beyond satisfied. If your goal is to strictly degoogle, it fits the bill, but it still does if you are looking for better privacy, as it now comes with an implementation of Privacy Pass. The algorithm is leagues above Google’s and DDGs, IMO, and the “lens” feature allows you to seamlessly filter the results to specialized sources, including the Fediverse. “Small web” is a fun feature for when you’re bored running unit tests at work, too

Almost all of this goes for pretty much every other country, though…

I work in finance, so I know plenty of rich guys. Despite the stereotypes, many are pretty down to earth guys who just happened to luck out and be raised insanely interested in something very profitable. But the truly rich dudes, the CEOs and CIOs I worked with, are for the most part sociopaths

Undertale, but I want to go back to those times where I didn’t know anything about it, not now that it’s been memed to death. Playing it for the first time was such an experience back then.
Also, a boardgame: Settlers of Catan. Now I loathe the game, but back when I was being introduced to this hobby it was so good

Your opsec better be tight after saying something like that nowadays

It will just trigger a migraine if I’m not drinking like a 2:1 ratio of water to liquor

It seems so unnecessarily angry now

Videogames. Most of them assume an unreasonable amount of time to enjoy a fraction of the content, AND they are expensive as hell… I’m defaulting to stuff that is fun from the start or short indie titles

MundoRPGMaker. It was a big RPG Maker forum in Brazil which I spent a lot of my tween years contributing to, but now it’s lost forever

Maybe that could be somewhat revived as a pixelfed or lemmy instance?

Free speech shouldn’t be a thing and the countries that go furthest with this “right” are dying because of it (looking at you, USA). Before anyone says “what about when it’s your opponents controlling the speech?”: they already do where I live and with my beliefs, and I still think it’s within the rights of the government to control speech

A ton of videogames I never ended up playing lmao

Getting married about this time next year

Breaded, deep fried cheese. It’s just fat on fat on fat, and for some reason it’s spammed in every burger where I live

Idk, I’m on lemm.ee because I tried sh.itjust.works and just never got an email. It is frustrating when it happens