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  The year is drawing to a close. And winter is here. And I'm thinking about my garden. The one I managed to grow. For the first time in 2025, I managed to grow a garden. A full-fledged garden in front of the house. So to speak, the main sunny achievement of 2025. And the garden is excellent. Asters, lupines, Vesyolye Rebyata, dahlias, marigolds. Those are the flowers. There were also some edible things growing. Various lettuces, for example. And radishes. Everything grew too. Moreover, the lettuce even grows quickly. You could harvest such a crop several times over the summer!

   The year is coming to an end. And as per tradition, I'm trying to somehow put together my gaming year-end review. I didn't play much. Throughout the year, I tried to play more, in various ways. But in the end, there were just periods when I played regularly. And there were times when I didn't play games at all.

  New century – new fantasies. About space and other galaxies. That's what Lian Ross thinks. And she's releasing another version of the song. That same one. The famous one. Super Eurodance. This is the 2023 version. With a video. A new video. Not at all like the '80s version. Now Lian Ross looks absolutely amazing! A truly super singer. And she sings great too. Such an interesting cosmic story is emerging.

  Road. Asphalt. It's summer here. And everything is so bright. Like a palette of 256 colors. From the era of multimedia and Windows 95. A simple game. About the road and you. You're driving a cool summer car. Somewhere. Palm trees and bushes all around. Maybe you're going on vacation. To the sea. Or just driving with the breeze. Along a straight road. It could be a long road.

  I'm not abandoning the Visual I theme. As Gosha says, don't put off learning new technologies. Words of wisdom. I'm continuing the theme of my screensaver programs, united under the name Visual I. This one has a controlled screensaver again. And again, space. Andromeda.

  The dacha. It's such a wonderful place. It's like a summer garden. It has summer weather. The sun shines there. The grass grows there. And it's so wonderful to spend a weekend there. A visit to the dacha. A longing for summer and sunshine. And there are flowers and grass. And May tea. My favorite. Everything summery. And so bright and beautiful.

  As a fantasy lover, I really enjoyed Candice Night's album, Sea Glass. The album is very musical and full of fantasy. For dreamers. For those who want to feel sad. Or listen to profound, artistic songs. It's not every day that albums like this come out. Sarah Brightman has records like that. For me, it's the album "Dive." Records like this don't even come out every year.

  New little cards about animals—what could be more interesting? Each card is a small program written in Visual Basic. It contains a picture and a story about the animal. This version adds 8 new animals. There are definitely more than 10 in total, and now 15. There are 15 of them! 15 animals. 15 pictures. 15 stories.

  I'm continuing to master web technologies. Thanks to Gosha for the lessons! And here's a new result. Also about kind little animals. About a kitten. A tiny kitten and his internet space. About how he lives. A simple website, simple HTML.

  What I'm writing about actually happened to me. It was like a dream. Like a horror movie. Like an action movie. Like Star Wars. I was on a space station. And the atmosphere there, I tell you, was pretty bad. And that cinematic cutscene in the shadows really shook me. And the game wouldn't start. Or rather, the game was playing and there was only a black screen. The blackness of the black hole itself. Nothing less. That's what it was. But I fixed it. And some other little things.

  5,4,3,2,1, activate! This is how science fiction begins. Like Star Trek for the next generation. Or this is how Lian Ross's 80s song begins. A great rhythmic beat. The rhythm fits the song perfectly. And there's even a music video from those legendary 80s. It's all so special. Cosmic. Like from another galaxy.

  This is another third-party program for good and kind animals Cards. It's another list. A list program. With all the cards. But as images. In the form of banners. Like someone's signature on a forum online. Or banners. Such fun and cool buttons. Small in size.

  Good Animals Cards continues. There's also a program called Little List. It simply displays all the cards you have. Cards are now stored in the Cards folder. And the program scans them automatically. That is, it tries to recognize the cards.

  I started playing a decent action RPG. One with a big world. Beautiful graphics. Isometric. I remember that game. It was around a long time ago. And I really liked it too. You run around open areas. Fields. Desert. Lots of monsters. You level up. I really appreciate this genre of games. This type of game is great for relaxation! It's a great way to unwind! You forget about everything else when you're running around those fields.

  In the spring, Candice Night released a beautiful and highly artistic CD called Sea Glass. Sea glass. A very fantasy-like musical theme. Many songs with emotion and depth. About everything around us. About walking among graves. About the beach and shells. About life's events. Such an all-encompassing fantasy CD. Like the lore of a druid from a fantasy magical video game.

  I'm working with HTML. And a little PHP and CSS. Just a little bit. And here are the first practical results. My small projects. About things I like. It could be a video game. Or a musician.

  I'm continuing to practice hypertext markup language. That is, HTML. Simple HTML. And literally a pinch of salt from CSS and PHP. I've even developed a template of sorts. The site header. The end of the site. The menu on the left. And each site differs from the next – in content and style.

  I'm sorting through my digital GOG game collection. And I remembered how much I love playing fantasy games. Like Heroes of Might and Magic. And that I've been really interested in this theme for a long time, ever since my Pentium 2 days. What else is out there like that? Well, not exactly, but something interesting about fantasy. What's so interesting?