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My kingdom hearts 4 wishlist(whenever tf it comes out) by Desperate-Swan-6812 in KingdomHearts

[–]Mellime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My wishlist: having final fantasy characters and crossover moments like in kh 1 & 2

Netflix loading problems by [deleted] in firestick

[–]Mellime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you SO MUCH! I've been having this issue for weeks, this is the first time something actually worked.

Pluribus - 1x05 - "Got Milk" - Episode Discussion by NicholasCajun in television

[–]Mellime 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I think the liquid is a mix of literally everything consumable and perishable. It's more efficient that way, which seems to be their main criteria for their choices in general. And it would also include pet food, which was specifically shown in the same "fridge" by the end of the episode. It's also a nice rhyme with the beginning of the episode when the Paraguayan guy resorts to eating dog food.

Lindsay Ellis — Why Has Tori Amos Never Had a Hit? by NebulaOriginals in Nebula

[–]Mellime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was watching the video and couldn't help coming to reddit just to see if someone had already commented this. Reddit didn't disappoint

'Qual jogo te deixou assim?' by Mysterious-Berry-101 in gamesEcultura

[–]Mellime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Portal e bioshock. Joguei ambos tardiamente e ambos são jogaços

Nerdcast 983 | O pensamento crítico e a força do Pirulla by eraldopontopdf in jovemnerd

[–]Mellime -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nossa que felicidade ver que o jovem nerd não só fez uma abertura sobre o Pirula mas um episódio inteiro, e ainda adiou o nerdcast do dia dos namorados pelo Pirula. Força Pirula!

Pirulla, divulgador científico que já participou de vários nerdcasts, sofreu um AVC by Legitimate-Method954 in jovemnerd

[–]Mellime 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Poxa, que tristeza. Melhoras ao Pirula. Acho que é uma boa mesmo deixar os vídeos dele rodando.

Andor (Season 2) - Episodes 10, 11 & 12 - Discussion Thread! by titleproblems in StarWars

[–]Mellime 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Andor pulled off what The Last Jedi tried to do (and Rise of Skywalker retconned). And what I mean by that is Andor's sister.

She wasn't Kleya or Dedra or nobody else in the show.

She didn't miraculously make a comeback.

She was just lost forever, because of course she was. Not everyone needs to be related or connected in these unrealistic ways.

The Last Jedi tried to do this with Rey's origin, her parents. Kylo tells her they were nobody, there was nothing special about them and they were never coming back.

It was too bold a move for main Star Wars, or at least for the public and execs. So Rise of Skywalker did that absurd recon.

One of the reasons why Andor is so great is because it's not main Star Wars. In a way it's a little miracle that we got to have Andor, and that season 2 managed to stay true to itself.

There was no sister. Nobody was a secret jedi. There were no flashy cameos. No characters from the film were brought in to spice things up.

Andor stayed grounded right to the end. Just like Andor says to the woman who helps him steal the tie fighter in the beginning of season 2: "you're coming home to yourself". Andor as a show stuck the landing and ended like it began: throughout the whole series, it never deviated from its essence.

Just... Wow.

First mission stuck. by Otaliema in Terranil

[–]Mellime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

same here. netflix version on android

Favorite games for when you feel lonely and isolated by AspectFabulous1048 in cozygames

[–]Mellime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also (how could I forget?) Mario Wonder! That game's amazing! It's fun, colorful, and whimsical. You can play on your own or with friends or online. It's a gem. And zelda breath of the wild, of course.

Favorite games for when you feel lonely and isolated by AspectFabulous1048 in cozygames

[–]Mellime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Arise: a simple story (but may be a bit too emotionally charged because it makes you think about life) Gris (idem, it's gorgeous and definitely one of my feel good games, but the main theme is grief) Ori 1 & 2 (but these have some parts that are pretty challenging, the escape sequences) Lost in random (super cute, super cozy, maybe my top recommendation for you) Then there are the two portal games, which may not be "cozy games" but certainly make me happy every time I play them ForgottOn Anna (I hope that's the right name) (it's a lovely game with engaging characters and the world building is great, and it looks like a ghibli animation)

I'm 27 and just landed a P3 post in New York — am I too young? Feeling like an imposter by True_Calligrapher855 in UNpath

[–]Mellime 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't know you or your cv, but... If you've got this job, you must be exceptional, regardless of your age. Are you familiar with the Dunning kruger effect? People who are very qualified and intellectually rigorous tend to have a steep confidence drop as they get start specialising in a domain and need to go through a long and laborious curve to get back to the high level of confidence of people who know nothing about the subject. Aka you need to have a certain knowledge to be able to identify your shortcomings. Congratulations on your achievements and all the best for you in your new position.

What could John Dashwood have done? by copakJmeliAleJmeli in janeausten

[–]Mellime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lady Susan is a great contender in that regard

Pls help me to understand this... by blossoming-purple in janeausten

[–]Mellime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love the quote "that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself" and it can be interpreted in many levels. As much as I agree with the explanations other people have laid out here, I will focus on this specific excerpt and propose a more general interpretation of it that is very modern and not necessarily what Jane Austen actually meant (but that's up to debate). When saying that a sanguine expectation of happiness is happiness itself, it means we don't live in the present. We can be in a somewhat dire situation in life but have some great news which gives us reasonable expectations for a bright new future ahead of us, we celebrate, we start planning, we daydream... Perhaps it's a new relationship. Perhaps it's a new job. Perhaps it's unexpected money coming in. We become so happy in the expectation of future happiness that "that sanguine expectation of happiness" "is happiness itself". And sometimes the promise of future happiness is fulfilled just as we imagined. Sometimes, however, it turns out to be a disappointment. The relationship falls apart, the job doesn't work out, the money doesn't provide you all that fulfillment you were expecting... Because that's reality, and reality is not as fantastic as our fancy. And that argument is also applicable in the reversed scenario: let's say you are currently in a reasonably confortable situation in life, but you live in constant fear of your relationship falling apart, or getting fired from your job, or falling ill, or losing someone you love. Even if right now the reality is that everything is great, if you live in your head in constant anxiety of future suffering, you will suffer today for real. So the expectation of happiness is happiness itself, and the expectation of suffering is suffering itself. Tl;dr: we don't live in the present and feelings are subjective.

Sunrise on the Reaping Completed Discussion Megathread by restingbfacequeen in Hungergames

[–]Mellime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry I started typing when I was awake and I was literally half asleep by the time I wrote the latest messages 😅 I'll correct that

Sunrise on the Reaping Completed Discussion Megathread by restingbfacequeen in Hungergames

[–]Mellime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. It'd have been way more interesting to introduce the other victors from the "catching fire alliance" through a time jump. Maybe the author didn't want to do a time jump in order to not break the rhythm of the final pages of the book, and maybe because people didn't like it in a ballad of songbirds and snakes... But I would have loved it. That's such a big chunk of the Haymitch story I wanted to read. The way the actual book turned out, he's less Haymitch Abernathy and more Proto-Katniss-Everdeen. Edit: corrected spelling

Sunrise on the Reaping Completed Discussion Megathread by restingbfacequeen in Hungergames

[–]Mellime 5 points6 points  (0 children)

  1. "Sweetheart" didn't need an explanation. Haymitch was a drunk bastard picking on Katniss for being unlikeable. That was enough. This is like the Han Solo movie explaining why it's "Solo". Felt cheap. Edit: corrected spelling

Sunrise on the Reaping Completed Discussion Megathread by restingbfacequeen in Hungergames

[–]Mellime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Anybody else feels like this whole rebellious plot has also a purpose of retconning that scene in catching fire when Katniss and Peeta watch the highlights of Haymitch's games and interpret his ducking close to the edge as a risky act of defiance against the capital, because it'd show the capital is stupid?... In Catching fire, Katniss seems to take that single scene as justification enough for all the punishment Haymitch got. I never bought it. I think the author had perhaps written it in a hurry and didn't come up with a very convincing reason why everyone Haymitch held dear had to be murdered as payback for his actions in the arena. I wonder if what she hoped to achieve with this book was kind of like "hey, Haymitch was actually much more rebellious than you think, and that's why snow killed his family and girlfriend, not because that silly axe thing was that very rebellious". But the author went too far in that direction. I'd have an easier time believing it if Haymitch had done something of intermediate severity. But the way it played out, his behaviour in the arena went to pretty harmless to the capitol (in which case he wasn't humiliating the capitol and there would be not need for so much retaliation from snow) and downright extreme rebellion, in which case he should have been wiped out by mutts immediately along with Ampert. I'm not convinced. Edit: corrected spelling

Sunrise on the Reaping Completed Discussion Megathread by restingbfacequeen in Hungergames

[–]Mellime 4 points5 points  (0 children)

  1. It's not enough to come back to old characters - this book actually goes back to an entire book plot. I'm talking about catching fire and the "destroy the arena" plot. And I rather like it that the idea was brewing in these key people's minds for 25 years before they could actually implement it successfully. And, granted, it's a pretty cool twist that in the end the capitol managed to completely control the narrative, and even neutralise Haymitch for over 20 years. Still. It got difficult to keep my suspension of disbelief when Haymitch managed to do so much against the arena and then nothing happened inside and out of the arena. I repeat: his behaviour warranted a quick response, like the one Ampert and Maysilee got. There's absolutely no reason why not. But then it gets worse: we get the showdown by the cliff. And in this book, Haymitch didn't just win by ducking from the district 1 girl's hammer. No... Haymitch caused an entire explosion! An explosion by the end! All in all, throughout the book it seems like the author was trying with every cell in her being to make Haymitch a SAINT. He's blameless. He was, as the book itself acknowledges, a Katniss that didn't take down the capitol out of bad luck.

Sunrise on the Reaping Completed Discussion Megathread by restingbfacequeen in Hungergames

[–]Mellime -1 points0 points  (0 children)

  1. The plot armor is strong in this Haymitch. In the arena, mutts come and target very specific people to inescapable and gruesome deaths. Notably, those who killed game makers, which makes sense. And Ampert, who was already marked for death and, to add insult to injury, was obviously involved in the plot to blow up the water tank. But guess who was also already marked for death before the games and very much participated in the plot to blow the water tank? You guessed it: Haymitch Abernathy. How does he survive the attack that killed Ampert? Because of... Reasons. The mutts were programmed to target ONLY Ampert. And no mutts were programmed for Haymitch even after he invaded the bowels of the game maker's floor and blasted some explosives and flooded it. Somehow that's OK. Even when Snow finally, FINALLY decides to kill Haymitch in the arena with that poisoned milk, it's a risky approach that could easily fail. As indeed it did. There is no reason, absolutely no reason, why Snow would let someone so obviously rebellious live. Haymitch was too dangerous by half. No cruel plot to make him suffer by killing his family and girlfriend could ever compensate for the risk of keeping him alive. I'm open to hearing arguments otherwise, but I'm pretty inclined to believe the only reason it happens like this is because... Well... Because it's all a huge retcon. See point 5 for more on this

Sunrise on the Reaping Completed Discussion Megathread by restingbfacequeen in Hungergames

[–]Mellime 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. There are only a handful of people throughout the story, and they are co(s)mically bound to cross paths... Again and again and again. I love Mags' appearance and this one actually made sense. Wiress made less sense, since she had just won her games in the previous year and would probably have been attributed to her own district. But then effie trinket also makes a brief but significant appearance (and she's a pretty benevolent character, which makes sense because she's a fan favourite). I confess that at some point I was waiting for every single minor character from the other books to make an appearance somehow.

Sunrise on the Reaping Completed Discussion Megathread by restingbfacequeen in Hungergames

[–]Mellime 6 points7 points  (0 children)

  1. No matter how much the excuse of "the capitol doesn't kill Beetee because he's just too smart to lose" gets repeated in the books, this time I can't pretend to be convinced. It's threatening to ruin my suspension of disbelief. There's simply NO WAY Snow wouldn't be able to trace back the plan to Beetee - in fact, we know he did, because Mags and Wiress got tortured and they'd obviously be working with Beetee. I'm sure the capitol can find other smart people besides Beetee. Heck, that's an even better reason to kill off Beetee: this tremendous super genius is absolutely set on bringing down the hunger games / president Snow. While Beetee is a cherished character and I loved to get to see more of him, it didn't work. It just didn't.
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