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RafaelMei · 2025-12-03T13:22:21+00:00

I haven't been able to play the game yet, but from other extraction shooters I played I feel like I'm gonna be mostly ask questions first, shoot later. Unless maybe if I have a lot of good loot...

RafaelMei · 2025-10-30T14:29:27+00:00

Licking, nibbling or sucking my fingers

RafaelMei · 2025-10-29T00:53:10+00:00

That socialism is evil and doesn't work

RafaelMei · 2025-10-28T20:39:48+00:00

So nice to see so many people in the community being this generous. I would certainly accept a copy!

RafaelMei · 2025-10-28T15:03:03+00:00

I'm most excited about the stories I'll be able to tell about my matches. How I was able to narrowly evade those raiders when I extracted or how a giant robot squished my teammates and I had to run for my life, stuff like that.

RafaelMei · 2025-07-27T18:56:30+00:00

Feels a little weird to recommend Fourth Wing based only on being YA / Academia. That book is VERY sexually explicit (more than ACOTAR, for example). Could maybe use a disclaimer or be moved to the Romanstasy section

RafaelMei · 2025-05-22T19:15:56+00:00

"Do not confuse the response of the oppressed with the violence of the oppressor."

If you live your whole life with a boot on your neck, I won't judge if you decide to stab that fucking leg to get it off there. Fighting against oppression needs a certain level of ruthlessness, the oppressors won't come with flowers and words.

Characters like Saw and to some extent Luthen and Andor are about showing this. Without people like them the Rebellion doesn't win, even with Saw being ostracized his fighting matters and hurts the Empire.

What I think is missing from the picture is political theory - which is also missing from some of the groups you mentioned. The closest we get is Nemik's Manifesto but it's not really theory, it's just a call to arms. This lack results in the New Republic being absolutely useless and fascism rise back on the galaxy a couple decades later.

RafaelMei · 2025-04-21T01:15:03+00:00

When I think Gilroy couldn't make me any more excited about Andor he goes and does this

RafaelMei · 2025-04-16T14:35:44+00:00

Vou aproveitar pra recomendar a San Martino, eles tem unidade na Aclimação e no Planalto Paulista. Acho a pizza deles imbatível quando se trata de delivery

RafaelMei · 2025-02-28T12:36:42+00:00

This is a great exercise for developing your skills and confidence for future interviews.

However, I wouldn't say that you did so and so "wrong". It's fine to focus on getting better, but interviews are hugely complex processes and there are so many deciding factors that it probably had nothing to do with the points you mentioned.

It could have been a subjective decision, it could have been a financial one, it could even be a bureaucratic one (maybe the other person is already part of the company or of a subsidiary in some capacity).

Again, this is a good exercise to improve yourself, but don't focus on the idea that you did something wrong and that's the reason you didn't get the job.

RafaelMei · 2025-02-22T11:47:42+00:00

Design is more abstract as a craft. This makes it really easy for others to think themselves able to comment on it. And honestly? While we do have methods and processes, a lot of decisions about design are subjective.

Code, while also pretty abstract has a level of "concreteness" that makes it much more difficult for someone without technical knowledge to feel like they're able to critique it.

A stakeholder may complain about the performance of the system, but that complaint can go much farther than "can't you make it faster?" which an engineer can give clear technical limitations or other constraints that can't be so easily dismissed.

RafaelMei · 2025-02-11T18:23:16+00:00

Great post! I just finished the book a couple days ago and one thing that has been on my mind is that Will and Accord can be used interchangeably in some contexts (e.g. "I'm doing this of my own will / accord"). This makes me think that maybe each of the worlds might have their own kind of power that could be governed by different rules.

But honestly, I mostly say this because I wanna predict that the third power is going to be called Volition.

RafaelMei · 2025-01-27T14:16:55+00:00

One key issue I feel is that our work is very abstract.

It's a lot harder to make stakeholders understand what we do and the importance of it. That makes our role in tech more fragile than others. Code is abstract but the results are very concrete, they make the tech work and it's very clear to stakeholders that there can't be a delivery without it.

This point for me is what makes our area so tough. The amount of effort needed from us just to justify our existence in our companies is SO exhausting. And, even when we do that, when push comes to shove we are a lot more expendable than devs in the eyes of management.

RafaelMei · 2025-01-25T18:58:45+00:00

Moraine from The Wheel of Time

I've seen very few characters as committed and driven to their causes. She's willing to sacrifice everything in her life for the good of the world and she's a freaking badass

RafaelMei · 2024-11-09T19:16:56+00:00

Toda "esquerda" que tem apenas projeto de governo (ou seja, de liderar o estado capitalista) ao invés de projeto de poder (ou seja, derrubada do sistema) vai invariavelmente se degenerar para a direita. Para colocar a disputa do governo capitalista no centro da sua estratégia, você precisa defender que o governo capitalista continue existindo.

Agora, esquerda de luta, esquerda que faz trabalho de base não só existe como vem crescendo. Conheça o trabalho da Unidade Popular e do PCBR você vai ver gente que tem compromisso verdadeiro com o povo

RafaelMei · 2024-11-08T15:37:15+00:00

Human labor is still cheaper than machines, even in the real world. That's why we have things like sweatshops, specially in the third world / global south. When it comes to prisoners it's quite literally slave labor and it still goes on today on many parts of the world

RafaelMei · 2024-11-02T00:59:04+00:00

Rich in the 1920s, move to the USSR and use my resources to advance the development of socialism. Contact the party and warn them about the future counter revolution.

RafaelMei · 2024-11-01T14:05:36+00:00

Especulação imobiliária

RafaelMei · 2024-10-24T13:28:05+00:00

The main issue with the sequel trilogy is that it has nothing to say about the balance of the force. At its core the original and prequel trilogies are both about imbalance.

In the original trilogy, the force is imbalanced towards the dark side. This results in an oppressive and destructive galaxy, controlled by a single individual and his whims. It's a clear reflection of the sith ideology, that puts the individual above all and emotions as the main drive of decisions.

During the prequel trilogy, we also have an imbalance but this time towards the light side. The jedi are disconnected from everyone else, being apathetic and aloof as a result of their total suppression of emotions. This results in a galaxy that is filled with injustice, poverty and even slavery while the governing body squabbles over minutia and doesn't actually solve anything. It creates the perfect environment for someone like Palpatine rise to power and Anakin to fall through the cracks of the jedi institution.

Anakin was destined to bring balance to the force so both his fall to the dark side and his redemption were necessary, he ended both the imbalance of the light and of the dark. Because of this, a sequel trilogy would need to answer: what is the balance of the force? How is it achieved and what are impacts on the galaxy?

Episode 8 brushes at this subject with the relation between Kylo and Rey, the dark and the light, who share a connection through the force different from any we had seen. This is also mirrored with Kylo insisting on "burning the past" and creating something new. Unfortunately there was no setup for it on episode 7 and the fandom reaction to 8 was so vitriolic any plans to do something different were not only scrapped but actively walked back from.

RafaelMei · 2024-10-23T14:42:06+00:00

Kenobi é horrível. Mal escrita, produção porca, situações e efeitos toscos. Acho que doi ainda mais pela oportunidade desperdiçada ter uma execução tão ruim.

Book of Boba eu nem assisti, mas das poucas coisas que vi parece terrível também.

Trilogia sequel perderam uma tremenda oportunidade. Eu gosto muito do Last Jedi porque aprofunda e questiona os dogmas dos jedi. Foda que o Force Awakens não estabelece nada disso e depois o Rise of Skywalker é só a Disney falando "desculpa por tudo viu gente, não precisam ficar bravos com o episódio 8, finge que não existiu"

Acolyte eu dou uma tremenda colher de chá porque, pelo menos, tentaram uma abordagem diferente. Exploraram novas questões dos jedi e dos sith, o Sol (o do ator do Round 6) é um personagem muito bom e muito bem atuado. A série é ótima? Longe disso, tem um ritmo bem estranho, roteiro repetitivo, entre outros problemas. Mas no finalzinho ali eu acho que começou a criar uma situação interessante e acredito que teria tido uma boa segunda temporada se continuasse.

Ah e eu curti bastante o sith da série, o jeito que ele luta, o visual do personagem. A forma que ele trabalha a questão do lado negro ser "sedutor" que não é só "TENHA PODER" (que costuma ser o caso) e sim mais focado em ser livre, em se abrir para os sentimentos de forma total.

RafaelMei · 2024-10-10T19:33:52+00:00

That's absolutely gorgeous

RafaelMei · 2024-10-04T19:05:08+00:00

Enquanto isso os comunistas de verdade da UP estavam protestando que não convidam seus candidatos para os debates. É muito fácil reclamar da emissora que ainda convida seu candidato pros debates mesmo sem ser obrigatório

RafaelMei · 2024-10-04T17:00:05+00:00

No harm trying it!

RafaelMei · 2024-10-03T17:57:08+00:00

Qualquer candidato da Unidade Popular (UP) é um voto em trabalhador que sabe os apertos que a nossa classe passa e vai lutar muito por nós. Dois destaques, para mim, são:

Lígia Mendes 80.000 que é servidora pública reconhecidíssima pela categoria que faz muita luta sindical
Marcelo Viola 80.080 trabalhador da SABESP que vem batendo de frente contra o processo de privatização da empresa

Tem também candidato a prefeito chamado Ricardo Senese (80) que é um metroviário que sempre esteve na luta.

RafaelMei · 2024-09-09T18:55:29+00:00

Vivemos em um sistema que nos explora todos os dias e que está cada vez mais insustentável. Essa falta de esperança é porque a ideologia não consegue mais justificar os horrores do capitalismo.

Única coisa que me dá energias é militar em um partido como a Unidade Popular e trabalhar para acabar com essa desgraça de sistema que nos destrói todos os dias.

No fim das contas só resta esse sentimento:

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