I’ve heard both, actually. Ornatos Violeta didn’t leave much of an impression, though. Maybe I’ll give them another listen sometime.

Comme Restus, on the other hand, are stupidly catchy. I know of them since I was a teen. Speaking of questionable lyrics, I gotta mention Kalashnikov. Lyrical content aside, there are some great riffs in there.

+1 for Mata-Ratos, probably my favourite punk band from Portugal.

I’ll also add:

• Aqui D’El Rock

• Peste & Sida

And even though they’re not punk, you might also like Mão Morta.

Just found out about exocomics and spent the past 15 minutes looking through their Mastodon page laughing and smiling at their posts.

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society - A Very Scary Solstice.

Except the ones who are dead 💀

It is true that their failure was due to internal corruption and not the issues that led to the subprime crisis. I misunderstood the question and concede the point.

But the subprime crisis (or the financial landscape after it) did expose the frailties (and in those cases I mentioned, corruption) of the Portuguese banks and was a non-insignificant factor in their demise. But I suppose you can say the same for a lot of other banks in other countries.

That’s great, I’m happy for you! Yes, you should definitely get a cake and celebrate!

Portugal as well. Off the top of my head, BES, Banif and BPP were the most seriously affected, such that they no longer exist.

Iceraven, which is a fork of Fennec. Seems to have a nice compromise between privacy and usability and also tries to support more add-ons than the ones Fennec does.

It’s not an RPG but how about Lollipop Chainsaw?

It has hordes of enemies you can slaughter (which provides a certain kind of relaxation, to be fair) as a pretty girl who possibly looks like you maybe, and you can see boobs.

I never actually played the game (although I’m interested in playing it) but it was the first thing that popped into my mind.

Portugal.

I think Brazilians have a hard time understanding European Portuguese mostly due to the closed vowels and how fast we speak. There are also some words that are different like banheiro instead of casa de banho, or ônibus instead of autocarro , or even suco instead of sumo, but I think mostly everyone will understand what you mean, especially in more urban areas like Lisbon and its surrounding area. I reckon Porto and Braga too.

Although I had a hard time understanding what the hell meia meant when you mention it in the middle of giving out your phone number or that jogo da velha is the Brazilian Portuguese equivalent to cardinal or hashtag.

Anyway, I like to think it’s a softer version of an American going to the UK. You’ll probably going to do just fine in more urban areas, and will have a bit more trouble in rural areas. I’m guessing you’re visiting the country. If so, I don’t think it warrants studying European Portuguese.

As for the attitude, yes we can be condescending towards Brazilians, unfortunately. I’m Portuguese so take this with a grain of salt, but it tends to happen more with people from around 40 years old and up and less with younger people, in my experience.

Just wanted to add a couple of things: the game is Street Fighter 3rd Strike, where you can die due to chip damage. What this means is that even if you block special moves (like Justin’s Chun-li did) they still do damage, the aforementioned chip damage.

So Daigo Umehara, the Ken player, had no option other than parry or he would lose the game and Justin Wong, the Chun-li player, would advance to grand finals. Parrying in 3rd Strike is done by inputting forward as opposed to blocking which is done by inputting back. More specifically you have to press forward in a 10 frame window. Since 60 frames equal a second, you have a window of 1/6th of a second to input it and you also cannot hold forward, otherwise you won’t be able to use parry for the next 23 frames.

So if Daigo had held forward to parry the remaining hits of Chun-li’s attack, he’d die from chip damage (I think). What he did instead was manually parrying every single hit of the attack AND he also parried the attack in the air, which is even harder to do because in the air the frame window is halved (so you have a 5 frame window, or 0,5/6th of a second if my math doesn’t fail me), which doubles the difficulty.

And just to add to this: Daigo had actually done it in a match before but it wasn’t recorded. Also, the number 37 was chosen at random to make it seem as if there were a lot more hype moments like this. Also also Justin Wong, aside from being one of the best fighting game players of all time, has always been (as far as I know) a cool sport about this, even encouraging people online to do the Daigo parry whenever he plays 3rd Strike just so players (the ones who know how to do it at least) can sort of be a Daigo for a moment.

If you want to know more, I suggest this video: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=36m-teYaQmE

P.S.: Daigo would go on to lose in the grand finals. But nobody cares about that, to be honest. I don’t even know who won it.

One of the most iconic moments in video game history.

Hell March! The Red Alert 2 version is the best one to me, maybe because it was the first I heard or because it just feels punchier.

I can’t pick just one, honestly. Aside from the Tetris theme and World 1-1 from the original Super Mario Bros., I consider these to be not only catchy but also iconic:

• Guile theme for SSF2
• Rip & Tear from DOOM (2016). A modern day classic, imo
• Brinstar from the original Metroid
• Hail to the king, baby

I actually watched the first episode of The Inbetweeners yesterday and I loved it. I saw my teenage self more times than I care to admit in that episode.

You can switch backends if one isn’t working for you.

As for Tori Amos, this cover is off her Strange Little Girls album, a cover-only album she released in 2001. I’ve read it’s a bit inconsistent though.

Tori Amos did a fantastic cover of Raining Blood.

For those who aren’t familiar with this wank stain, the first time he was in the hospital, he was moved to a special care unit because, in the words of another member of his party, “you wouldn’t want him to be placed in the same room as a gypsy, would you?!” ( source in portuguese).

Then again, the “gypsy” would probably beat the shit out of him as soon as they could, which is fine by me. Chat shit, get banged, and all that.