Wow, definitely a more complete response than i expected. Thanks a lot

fratelli d'italia: there are too many bike paths in Rome

Rome:

Disassembling stuff. Usually electronics but also items with cool mechanisms like a clock

High voltage power lines and more broadly any infrastructure that serves a purpose for people

I need a balatro mod with these

Strawberry jam for celeste. It's a huge collaborative project that introduces 100+ levels (base game has 25) with a really wide range of difficulties, graphical styles, new mechanics, original music and ideas on par with the quality from the base game. Definitely a must play if you like 2d platformers

Italy: It's really hard to beat pizza, maybe a good lasagna or a "cacio e pepe" pasta depending on the mood.

"Can't live without electricity"

Basically routing a pcb with extra dopamine

I know it's not what you asked for but i think you would enjoy the doom games, specifically eternal but 2016 is also great.

It has great campaign, great music, arguably the best combat system in a shooter game, it's highly replayable, 20€ with all the dlcs when on sale and when played on higher difficulties it becomes extremly technical.

It also has a multiplayer mode but i don't know too much about it

I love learning how things work. Disassembling laptops is extremely stressful the first time (especially if it's your only pc) but it becomes fun when your realize that they're (usually) meant to be opened; it becomes stressful when you open items that aren't supposed to be, like anything that uses glue as a build material. It also helps seeing things less like a magic box and more like a logic interaction between things, meaning i learn how to use them the right way. And congratulations for fixing your laptop, it always seems harder that it actually is

I use kde's power modes on my msi and it works well enough even while gaming. There are more direct alternatives to dragon center but i didn't find them particularly useful

Some general advice would be prioritize interest and don't be scared of buying eternals. You are also at the point where pair builds become the most reliable way to win, you just need chips from planets, one scaling +mult and one xmult plus flex slots for money/more scoring. Also watching balatro university's videos is a lifesaver when learning the right way to go

If you want a shooter i suggest marvel rivals, it has in-game tournaments that you can access after you reach a high enough rank in ladder.

If you want a moba league of legends should have something similar in the client although i don't know too much about it.

If you want a fighting game then you have hundreds of options. Tekken 8, street fighter 6 and guilty gear strive are the more popular ones with weekly tournaments online. (Most of these should be on sale because of the EVO which is the biggest tournament in the community)

Even mario kart wii (and the newer ones) have regular tournaments with very competitive scenes. Ultimately it's about what you like to play and how good you are at it.

The new mode is incredibly addicting, the base rework is great and i like all the new characters, definitely a great update. I vote Celeste btw

The spoiler boss in dead cells.

The boss is not particularly hard but you can only face him after a full run on the max difficulty where you will likely use most of your very limited resources before the bossfight, meaning you can only take a couple hits (at best) before dying.

I did play a lot a couple years ago completely f2p and in the late game the artifact farming gets really bad, to the point that you farm for weeks for one character. It's not necessary to clear the story (at least in the past) but in the late abyss is mandatory and it kills any will to try off-meta/more fun builds. Still a lot of fun if you play casually.

Yea that seems great

Risk of rain 2, frostpunk.

Monster hunter world. I bought it to have a replacement for genshin and it worked a little too well. It just feels different from any other game for how many things it does so well: from enemies to armor design to music to mechanics to weapon variety, everything is amazing.

I think fighting games would make a good community, maybe with friendly tournaments organized regularly. The free ones that i know of are the hololive one (idol showdown) from steam and the emulated arcade titles from fightcade.