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Bad Omens and The Death of Peace of Mind

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Hello friends and welcome to my quick online analysis of the extremely successful band, Bad Omens. If you're new here, welcome to my little internet corner where I like to talk about some of my favourite topics such as anime, music, movies, books and sometimes (trust me, I try not to), my life. Today's topic is the American metalcore band from Richmond, Virginia - Bad Omens - formed in 2015 by Noah Sebastian (frontman), Vincent Riquier (bassist) and Nicholas Ruffilo (guitarist).  The band was later joined by Nick Folio (drummer) and guitarist Joakim "Jolly" (and for some Portuguese fans during a concert in Italy, "#goodmorningjolly") Karlsson. Excuse my joke, but this one is for my Portuguese friends.  

Ex Machina - When Humans Play God and Artificial Intelligence Plays You

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"One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa.  An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction."

I've been gone for too long!

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Hello friends, Long time no see. This feels extremely nostalgic, but I really miss using this platform and this blog in specific.  So much time, research, effort and love was put into this page and all of a sudden, I left it behind.  Life got in the way, I guess. My love for writing didn't end, at all. It's still here, present and alive.  That's why I decided to continue this adventure again.  Everything you like is alive and well in 2024. It's a bit ironic, trust me, after all the shitty years we've been having, my old blog (one of my proudest accomplishments) is coming back to life and I couldn't be more happy.  I hope I still have some readers or at least, that my content is relevant to the ones stumbling upon it.  I guess we'll have a new post soon. Not bad!  I still don't know exactly what I'm about to talk about, but I'll definitely figure it out.  As always, thank you so much for sticking around and if by any chance you're a new reader...

Let's talk about change, baby!

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Hello everyone! I decided to start a new "series"on the blog. It's always nice to change and do things differently and lately I feel like I need it. I would like to start introducing new people on the blog, new music, new artists, or something that inspires me in general. Lately I feel very inspired by people with big dreams. I can surely say that my fiancé is one of those humans that light a certain sparkle in me and I really admire him. He has a natural talent for art, music, photography and poetry and I thought about sharing some of his work on the blog. The same goes for other artists (friends of mine) that have great content and are motivated to share it with the world. I feel a lack of empathy with the world in general. We constantly think about ourselves, we live in our lithe world and forget that others exist as well... and sometimes we can do something to help or even support others and grow as a person. Like I said before in an old...

Why I've been gone

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Hello guys, long time no see! I feel like I've been gone for at least a decade and I apologize. I've been thinking about coming back and do an update of the content and the design of the blog. I don't have much time at the moment due to work and life in general, but I want to do this. I still haven't figured what I want to write about, for the moment. I still love anime and movies, of course, but I don't want to feel trapped in a specific theme. I have evolved as a person and I believe you did too. That's why I feel that I can change a bit my topics and adapt them to my current day-to-day life. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to comment or send me an email and I'll take them into consideration. I love to talk to you and it really make s me happy every time I receive some feedback from you. You can keep up with me through my social media. All the links are listed at the top of the page! Thank you so much...

The future of design

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This blog post is a part of Design Blogger Competition organized by  CGTrader . Hello everyone! How are you doing lately? Is everything okay?  This week's post is going to be a little bit different. I am going to talk about the future of graphic design. This is all based on some research and also my personal opinion, so if you don't agree with it, it's fine, we all have different visions of the world. 😋 Let's get started! The main question here is: are you ready for the future?  I'm not a design expert but I do love to see the different variations of the world we live in.  These different variations that I'm talking about here definitely change our society and the rate and speed of that change makes your head turn.  I will try to predict the future of graphic design by analyzing its evolution through the years: from the craziness to the slimmest technologies offered to us today. 1. Phones and TV's When I was a kid, during t...

Anthem Film Festival

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  Hello my beautiful people! I hope you're having an amazing week so far. A few days ago I was informed by  Vegas.com  about the Anthem Film Festival making an appearance in Vegas this month. With that being said, what I will do, is write about my passion for movies and film, and also give some tips and suggestions to the ones attending the  festival . First of all, I want to thank Vegas From The Inside for contacting me. I was not expecting such a thing and I will definitely enjoy writing this post! Let's get started then! My love for movies and film in general started way back when I was little. I've always been a dreamer and had tons of imagination. And when I started understanding things around me and have a different perception of the world, and see that it was possible to create a "parallel universe" with a story that most times doesn't correspond to reality, my world was changing bit by bit. My parents and family in general share the same love and ...

Movie Review - Raw / Grave

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Hello friends and welcome back to the blog! This week I bring you another movie review and today's trip takes us the Francophone universe. *This is an updated review from 2024, but the original post is from 2017* This movie was all over the news a few months ago and I decided to give it a try and watch it. The main theme is cannibalism.   Here's a brief explanation on the subject: "Cannibalism in humans is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal. The expression cannibalism has been extended into zoology to mean one individual of a species consuming all or part of another individual of the same species as food, including sexual cannibalism."   Raw or Grave (original movie name) was a smart and well structured movie. The plot is simple to the eye, but complex in a more detailed way.  Justine, played by Garance Marillier is a strict vegetarian in first ye...

What it's like to live abroad

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Hello guys, I hope you're doing amazing this week. This week's post is going to be personal and based on my experience living abroad. I hope you like it and that this can help you in some way. I think it's fair to start by explaining why I decided to leave Portugal. For the ones that don't know, this is not my first time living abroad. When I was 12, my mom left our country and started a new life in Switzerland. I was young and my French (at the time) was not the best. It was not easy at first because I had to deal with a lot of racism and stupidity from people and general, but besides that, it was an awesome experience and I would do it all over again. Now I'm 22 and I decided to leave Portugal again to start a new life and try to be happy.  I finished college last year and I thought to my self that my life needed a change. A big one. I always wanted to leave Portugal, to be honest. I never felt really happy in there. The only thing that made me really...

A super talented digital artist: Sara Vida

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Hello my lovely people! You don't even imagine how excited I am to do this post. I'll explain: one of my best friends is a super talented digital artist that loves what she does. I talked to her a few months ago about a possible post on the blog and she was as excited as I was o do this. Whet I will do is present her work, who she is and what inspires her as an artist. She made a text about her, but I want to talk a little bit about this awesome girl as well. Here's a s,all explanation on how we met a few years ago: We had mutual friends back then and at the time, we decided to go to a party all together. We talked for hours, had a drink and our friendship just blew. I am super proud of her and I love her as a person and as a friend. She deserves everything the world has to offer her and I wish her great success and happiness. She's also a friend of my dear friend Alex Moreira ! We're a great team. Three girls with big dreams. I love them both very m...

It's my 2 year blog anniversary!

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Hello guys! How are you? I am super excited this week because it's my blog's second year!! Time flies! Another year has passed and here we are. I just want to thank you for your support, your comments, suggestions, messages and even support in some time of need. I really hope you like my content and that you relate somehow to what I write. Honestly this year was a hell of a ride. I'm glad I made the right choices in some personal aspects of my life. I genuinely feel happy, I fell like I can be myself again without having someone destroying me completely inside. I'm free from that horror that consumed everything I had inside. I felt trapped inside my own mind. It might seem stupid for you to read this because you probably don't know what the hell happened, but believe me, I'm better now. And thank you so much for making me happy as well. For real. I hope to have another year to share everything I like with you.  That's the whole purpose of this bl...

Where have I been?

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Hello guys! I hope you're all doing amazing lately. I want to share with you what's been going on in my life for the past two weeks, that's why I've been a bit absent. For the ones that don't know, I am currently living in France. I have a job (yeeey!) and I've been a little bit busy lately. I work at a Tour Desk in a city called Arc et Senans. It's a cool place to work, honestly. I boss and my co-worker are super nice and help me a lot in here. As a Portuguese girl living in France for the past two months, it's not an easy task to know the all the region where you work. I have to study and do some type of itineraries to know what they have to offer here. I do that during the day, I talk to clients and I have some administrative tasks to do as well. Last week I had the opportunity to visit a beautiful place called "Saline Royale". It's a huge museum just around the corner of my workplace and at least for me, it was an amazing experience....