While I don't have the answers I did attempt to write a book for fun many years ago. It was quite an eye opening experience, because it turns out writing a book is hard, and very time consuming. I was only about 20 pages in before I gave up the idea.
That said, you don't have to actually write a book. Writing creative essays, short stories, and even articles can be very rewarding without needing any long-term commitments. I'd give those a shot before jumping into something as big as making a real book. I still enjoy writing and I'm sure you will too, but you need a ton of commitment to make a book.
g2a and similar websites are grey market websites. That means they're not literally illegal, but most of their keys are usually gotten illegally. Sometimes (it's rare, but it happens) people buy keys and they get revoked later if Steam confirms it was stolen. I wouldn't use them at all if you care about giving the developers their money, you might as well pirate it.
Meanwhile there are legit websites like Fanatical that do sell cheap mystery keys. Most of them are shovelware they're trying to get rid of, don't bother.
I was coming to comment this. I've used a lot of free video editing software over the years and most of them are ass. The ones that aren't usually have a catch like watermarking your output. Davinci resolve came out of nowhere for me and blew me away, it's everything you could want in a video editing program but free!
Oh boy, unfortunately most Flash games aren't playable on the web yet, else I'd be name-dropping like 200 games.
Everyone has to play Sonny 2 at some point. It's a genuine masterpiece of turn based RPGs despite being a 14 year old flash game. The atmosphere is amazing. The music is banging. The build variety is immense.
I'm sure it feels awesome with a Dualsense, I've heard a lot about the adaptivr triggers on this game. I've played it with an 8bitdo controller and the game was still pretty fun, the controls felt nice regardless.
I’ll have to check out Returnal, I’ve heard mixed reviews
The game had technical issues on release but they've since been resolved, I've played it recently and had no issues. It's fun but pretty short so I'd buy it on sale.
Nothing beats stacking so much TNT and blowing it up for your screen to freeze for 20 seconds, only to show you one frame of everything going to hell before freezing again
I'd rather not have bots posting outside bot communities. It's annoying seeing them here.