Tips
The best free PC games: 13 picks worth the download
Counter-Strike 2, Valorant, Overwatch, League of Legends, Warframe and more: the list with clear criteria, minimum requirements and the official link for each game.
Features
Lists, explainers and tutorials that don't go stale, organized by universe.
MATHEUZERA Games
6 articles
Indies
What makes a roguelike so hard to put down
From Rogue to Balatro: what a roguelike is, how it differs from a roguelite, why the loop hooks you and where to start.
Tips
Graphics settings: what each option really changes
DLSS, FSR, shadows, ray tracing and video memory. What to cut first when a game struggles, and what is not worth touching.
Analysis
Co-op horror: why playing with friends is scary in a different way
From Left 4 Dead to R.E.P.O.: proximity voice chat, fragile characters and stories that only happen in a group.
Development
Godot for beginners: where to start
Scenes, nodes and signals, GDScript or C#, and the right first project. A practical guide for anyone who has never opened Godot.
Development
Glims: what it takes to build a battle pet that lives on your desktop
The taskbar, a 3D house, four modes that open on top of your work and a modest computer as the requirement. The decisions behind Glims.
MATHEUZERA Technology & AI
4 articles
Artificial intelligence
How a language model works, without the math
A language model predicts the next word, but that explains little. What it learns, why it gets things wrong with confidence and how to use it better.
Tutorials
Backing up Windows: File History, OneDrive and the 3-2-1 rule
File History on an external drive, the difference between syncing and backing up, what the Windows Backup app really does and how to test a restore.
Digital security
Why a password manager is safer than your memory
Password reuse, what NIST's latest standard says, how to choose a manager, the ideal master password and the road to passkeys.
Digital security
Two-factor authentication: the types and which to choose
Why a second step blocks most account takeovers, the SIM swap scam, the push fatigue that brought down Uber and which method to use for each account.
MATHEUZERA Music
5 articles
Culture
Funk and electronic music: a bridge that has existed for decades
Planet Rock, Miami bass, the Funk Brasil album, tamborzão, 150 BPM and the Spotify record. Plus how to mix funk with house and techno in practice.
DJs
BPM, key and phrasing: the basics of mixing two tracks
How to match tempo, why key matters, the Camelot wheel, counting phrases and the bass-swap trick on the EQ.
Production
Your first beat in FL Studio: a one-hour roadmap
The Channel Rack, Piano Roll, Playlist and Mixer explained, a timed roadmap for your first beat and the care the free version requires.
Gear
Headphones, monitors and the room: where to invest first in a home studio
Reference headphones, an audio interface, acoustic treatment, monitors and a microphone. The right sequence for building a home studio without throwing money away.
DJs
How to record a DJ set people want to hear to the end
The energy arc, the first minutes, recording through the mixer or the software, recording levels, loudness targets and the difference between Mixcloud, SoundCloud and YouTube.
MATHEUZERA Investing
5 articles
Concepts
Compound interest, explained calmly
Interest on interest, why time matters more than the rate, the rule of 72, the effect of inflation and the dangerous side: credit card debt.
Planning
Emergency fund: the first step before investing
The right size for each situation, the three criteria for choosing where to keep it, deposit guarantees and a plan to start with any amount.
First steps
Fixed income and equities: the difference on one page
Government bonds, deposits, stocks and index funds side by side, with credit, interest rate and inflation risk and the question that decides everything: when will you need the money?
Economy
Inflation: what it does to money sitting idle
Price indices, inflation targets in Brazil, the euro area and the United States, the purchasing power math and the most common ways to protect yourself.
Concepts
Risk, return and diversification
The link between risk and return, the idea that won Harry Markowitz a Nobel, market risk and specific risk, allocation by time frame and rebalancing.
MATHEUZERA Anime
5 articles
First steps
Where to start with anime: a no-pressure guide
Films or series, subbed or dubbed, where to watch without piracy and which anime to start with based on what you already like.
First steps
Shonen, seinen, shojo, josei: what they mean
Why Frieren is shonen, Monster is seinen and Chihayafuru is josei: how Japanese magazines define these labels and why they are not genres.
Industry
How an anime season works
January, April, July and October: understand the anime premiere calendar, what cour and simulcast mean and why second seasons take so long.
Manga
Manga, light novels and anime: who adapts whom
Manga, light novels, web manga, visual novels and games: where anime comes from, why so many end without an ending and how to continue the story through official channels.
Industry
Animation studios: why the name in the credits matters
Hunter x Hunter from 1999 and 2011, Attack on Titan from Wit to MAPPA, the same director behind Bocchi and Frieren: what a studio does and how to use the credits to choose what to watch.
MATHEUZERA POP
3 articles
Film
What a long take does to us
Rope, Russian Ark, 1917 and Adolescence: how the long take turns time into tension and why not every single take is really single.
Film
Three-act structure: the skeleton of almost every film
Beginning, middle and end became a Hollywood formula: what Aristotle said, what Syd Field added, where the plot points fall and when the structure becomes a cage.
Awards
How voting works at the major film awards
More than 10,000 Oscar voters, a ranked ballot for best picture, around 300 journalists at the Golden Globes and a small jury at Cannes: how each award picks its winners.