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Melos

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Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · Aug 16

Please don’t feel like you should follow me back. I really don’t care, to the point that I find it difficult to say thank anyone who does so, because this is just a bin for my thoughts. I will not curate my account and I will often fall deep into one topic for weeks and then abandon it completely

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 8h

Genuinely, no hate intended, how does Lando come up with the worst soundbites that have everyone making fun of him

People like to make fun of him on a good day but definitely feels like it happens with him more than the other guys.

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scottie 🍊 @psyopengager.bsky.social · 9h

franco when it's time to fight for p17

a man drinking water from a bottle with the word infinity on his jacket

ALT: a man drinking water from a bottle with the word infinity on his jacket

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Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 10h

Man I was so worried about a SC I didn’t want to say anything until everybody pitted

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck pretend I didn’t say anything

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 10h

Lmao Charles, 20 lap softs

I don’t care about Verstappen, but if Norris can’t get to second place it’ll soften the blow slightly for the horrendous weekend Oscar is having (but yes, Verstappen is benefiting the most. Again, I don’t care)

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 10h

Oscar… come on

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 11h

Charles breaks DRS, Oscar… sorry HAM but I was hoping Oscar could get past you as well

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 20h

Genuinely hate the narrative that cats are not affectionate

Yes you don’t hype them up and get them playing and doing outdoorsy things the same way as a dog, but they are more than capable of loving us and showing that love. I was at a friend’s birthday for 8h and now my cat is all over me

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 21h

Accurate, I saw your post that you’ll be watching the sprint race at like, what 4.30am AEDT?? I could barely get up for qualy. Even the main race will be a very early Monday morning before work…

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 1d

My sports results app is bugging out and predicting the future

Thank you I too would like a podium for Charles tomorrow (if not better)

Screenshot of sports results app, showing Charles’ quali results and the upcoming schedule, with 3 as the result for the main race tomorrow

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 2d

It’s best if you could find a native Chinese speaker familiar with the series, the English text to evaluate the response on social media before making measured changes. It can feel like a race against time with the community clamouring for change, but please take the time to think things through

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 2d

And the original team had some great ones like Pharloom, which got across the “loom” bit while keeping the sound very similar. The new translation team also doesn’t feel like they’re very familiar with the series, like using soul in the name for the Unravelled when Soul has its own meaning in HK.

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 2d

Please take the response with a grain of salt. There was a lot of dogpiling on the original translations: some things needed to be changes (unfortunate homophones that don’t pass the penis test), content differences like the Journal (was it a version difference?), but some weren’t translation issues

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 2d

@teamcherry.bsky.social

Hey TC, don’t know if you come onto this platform much, but I’m not on twitter so

I’m a native speaker of English and Chinese, and am on Chinese social media quite a bit. I’ve been following the discourse on the translation bc I used to do fan translations (CN→ENG, JP→ENG)

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 2d

RTA鯖で1年間ネタバレ禁止は流石に笑った。自衛しろよ。なんで他人が1年間も合わすべきなんだよ。ゲームクリアしてないならさっさとやってからRTA鯖に戻れよ。前作も同じ鯖なのは分かってるけどクリアまでに一時離脱すれば？

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 3d

I’m obsessed with this. It’s incredibly difficult to do this on an instrument so different but the performance is so good. Lowkey one of my favourite performances of Bach’s Chaconne.

youtube.com/watch?v=h-ts...

Chaconne J.S.Bach transcribed by Karl Scheit,supplemented by Maya Kimura koto

YouTube video by 木村麻耶

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 4d

I’m not that well-adjusted, but at least I’m bad enough at being online that I like to think I don’t end up being too “online” in most spaces

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 4d

Generally speaking, the most bearable people I see on the internet are the people with other jobs and families

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 4d

Very late look at some “online breadtube” drama and it’s all painfully online. The ones are too online will all come up with a shit take once or twice because they can’t just log off. Yes, that is in part because it’s their living. Live by the blade, die by the blade.

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 4d

Went into a random silksong stream and the chat was so shit playing up how impossible and unreasonable the game is. I guess these types exist everywhere; it’s just that I already knew who to watch that wouldn’t make me tear out my hair.

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 5d

They’re nice though, so they let me come with. I’m going to one of these friends’ birthday this weekend now. I still feel like scum of the earth, but she actively asked if I’ll be there, so I will. I said thanks so many times and idk if they’ll know what it was about, but I’m grateful nonetheless.

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 5d

Being able to go get food afterwards and bond with friends over what we’d just gone through is worth it though

I stayed away for a while bc I missed a few big things this year of theirs and I felt like a piece of shit human being who should never be allowed to be friends with them again

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 5d

The sports team called a 30min meeting after training so I decided to go even though I’m not going to training, if only to figure out what the latest goss was. It was a 2 hour motivational speech/passive-aggressive guilt-trip to take the sport seriously.

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 9d

Anyways, I feel quite ambivalent abt silksong rando. Yeah there’s extremely fun stuff like silk soar and clawline for movement, but it’s such a hard game. I really don’t want to be in like Ducts or something with no dash or spells and like only one vert skill

Melos @runmelos.bsky.social · 9d

For 1 yeah there’s no way around it, it’ll be kinda miserable. But if you’re that good skip buying the benches and just smack a few enemies to heal up.

For 2, there’s an in-game mechanic to prevent this kind of thing.