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Two types of irritating characters

     Hello, how are you all? Today I will talk about a very personal topic, which I have wanted to discuss for a long time. These are two types of characters in fiction that I hate or, at least, seem quite insufferable to me. What I am about to say may sound very direct, but as I said, it is just my point of view.      Ready? Here I go.    In the first place, the characters are exaggeratedly "good" or too moralistic. These appear in works of different genres, from comedy to horror. However, it is in the latter where their shortcomings are most noted. I'll give an example from a zombie game: One group of survivors meets another. The second is desperate and tries to rob the first, so a shootout begins. In the end, the group that was attacked returns fire and kills almost all but one. He begs for his life, and one or more members of the first group plead to let him live, ignoring the fact that he and his group recently ambushed and nearly killed ...

If you are going to do something, do it informed

              Hello, how are you all? Today I will give some advice for young people who are just finishing high school and are about to enter university.          Not to beat around the bush, I want to advise you on something that may sound obvious (and it is), but it will probably give you a little encouragement to rethink your future university careers. Ready? Here goes: Do not study something that has not interested you for a long time.        Seriously, it can be surprising how much we can excel when we study something that we are passionate about, not recently, but a considerable time ago. Why? Because this way we will already have experience in our field, and we will not have such unpleasant surprises when we come across something that we do not know.        Obviously, not all races have the same complexity. It is a fact that the difficulty ...

The importance of moving away from my beliefs

       Hello, today I am going to tell you something very personal. Since I was little, religion was an important factor in my upbringing. I was interested -even now, a little-, in studying the stories that appeared in the Bible and the teachings or morals that they tried to imply. However, in recent years, my perception changed.      I am an agnostic, but I used to call myself a Christian. Much of my family is a believer, so I was too. I saw the commandments of God as something almost sacred, and I even put it into practice in my day-to-day life. I confess that, at one point, I became a fanatic.    In my teens, I was extreme and emotionally unstable. At that time, I liked (and still like) horror movies, videos, books and manga. And this, although it sounds ridiculous, led me to have a debate with my religion, to the point of almost abandoning my tastes for my beliefs. It was a stupid thing to do and I'm glad I did the opposite, in the end. ...