Yeah, that’s a fair point. After my post I thought A minha casinha or Não sou o único would also be good choices.

(Grândola is well-known amongst at least some niche circles in Spain, where it was first released/sung during the dictatorship).

That’s true, from what I can tell, it’s pretty popular in Galiza.

Portugal: Grândola, Vila Morena - Zeca Afonso. Probably not a hit when it came out, as it was banned by the dictatorial regime at the time but it became the anthem of our 1974 revolution, pretty much because it was the song that the revolutionary group chose to be played on the radio station (they took control of) to mobilize their forces.

Zeca Afonso has a bunch of other well-known (and really good) songs, all sung in Portuguese but this is the one most people know by heart. It helps that it gets played every year on the anniversary of the revolution and whenever there’s a protest.

Alright, I stand corrected then.

But I don’t think it has rollback netcode or crossplay so I only recommend it if you’re not interested in playing online.

If you want to play online, the latest entry (XV) is the best. It has rollback netcode for smooth online play and crossplay so you have a bigger pool of people to fight against. It’s also more beginner-friendly than earlier games, although its learning curve is still a bit steep compared to other recent fighting games. Also, the new additions to the cast, namely Isla and Dolores, are really cool.

Since you own an Xbox, I wouldn’t think twice about getting it.

As for my personal favourite, I’d say KoF 2002 but it’s not on Xbox.

I started with Crunchbang in its final years. It was a great introduction to Linux, to be honest. It was also a very solid distro, as it was Debian-based.

But, sadly, it eventually folded. It still has a spiritual sequel in BunsenLabs but, in the meantime, I’d moved to Arch (btw).

Portuguese here. This is anecdotal evidence but, as far as I can tell, a lot of our proficiency comes, essentially, to constant exposure to the English language since the early to mid-90s. We don’t dub English-speaking media (apart from movies and tv shows more aimed at kids, but even then, Cartoon Network didn’t even have subs when I was a kid and I still watched it religiously), the video games we played when we were kids also didn’t have a Portuguese language option so we were basically forced to learn English.

And now that the Internet has become widespread throughout the country, the younger generation consume a lot of English-speaking content, so they have little trouble with speaking and writing in it.

This results in a good % of the population having decent to good English, not just the kids but a lot of people in their 30s (and some in their 40s) too.

I’m ashamed to say I’ve never watched Initial D. But it’s on my watchlist.

Not necessarily a song but a whole sub-genre: Eurobeat. It started with Running in the 90s and I just went from there to listening and thoroughly enjoying pretty much the whole Initial D soundtrack.