Examples letters of recommendation for residency

If a plant or bed is recommended to be fertilized with say 4lbs of 10-10-10 fertilizer, can I use, for example, 2.5x the recommended 10-10-10 amount of 4-4-4 (10lbs) or 5/8 as much 16-16-16 (2.5lbs)?

I am applying for a conventional home loan with my spouse, who is a US permanent resident. They are on the loan but we aren’t considering their income on the loan, since their income is from overseas and we keep separate finances anyway. They deposited a couple thousand into my bank account as part of our monthly shared expenses, and our loan officer is asking us to provide documentation to support it. Part of the money will be used towards the down payment.
What types of documentation can we provide here? Do we need to add my partner’s bank statements from overseas? That money primarily came from sold stocks and consolidated bank accounts, so we are worried about the can of worms that it may open since our closing is a week away. Or can we simply write a letter explaining the situation?

Greetings! I'm a guy on the lookout for someone with the potential to become my boyfriend, but let's start as best friends, keeping things strictly SFW. But I am going to ask you that from the start, we both take things seriously, I am not playing here.
What I'm Seeking: I'm searching for a handsome, skinny or average-built, masculine man with a great personality. Let's take the time to get acquainted and see where it leads. Age range: 18 to 25. Could that be you?
About Me: I consider myself more on the masculine side, characterized by love, care, kindness, support, and sensitivity. Writing love letters is a favorite pastime of mine. I value compromise and commitment, and once I fall in love, my loyalty is unwavering.
Physical Description: I have hazel eyes, short dark blonde hair, and an average build. You can also find a picture of me in my profile, along with a heartfelt letter to my future boyfriend, whoever that may be.
Shared Activities: Imagine us making voice and video calls, watching movies, enjoying music together. If this sounds appealing and you fit the description I've given, don't hesitate to send a message. If you don't match what I'm looking for, I'd recommend against it to avoid wasting your time. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to connecting with you all in my DMs.
I'm determined to achieve that success story flair one day! Help me make it a reality!

Greetings! I'm a guy on the lookout for someone with the potential to become my boyfriend, but let's start as best friends, keeping things strictly SFW. But I am going to ask you that from the start, we both take things seriously, I am not playing here.
What I'm Seeking: I'm searching for a handsome, skinny or average-built, masculine man with a great personality. Let's take the time to get acquainted and see where it leads. Age range: 18 to 25. Could that be you?
About Me: I consider myself more on the masculine side, characterized by love, care, kindness, support, and sensitivity. Writing love letters is a favorite pastime of mine. I value compromise and commitment, and once I fall in love, my loyalty is unwavering.
Physical Description: I have hazel eyes, short dark blonde hair, and an average build. You can also find a picture of me in my profile, along with a heartfelt letter to my future boyfriend, whoever that may be.
Shared Activities: Imagine us making voice and video calls, watching movies, enjoying music together. If this sounds appealing and you fit the description I've given, don't hesitate to send a message. If you don't match what I'm looking for, I'd recommend against it to avoid wasting your time. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to connecting with you all in my DMs.
I'm determined to achieve that success story flair one day! Help me make it a reality!

Greetings! I'm a guy on the lookout for someone with the potential to become my boyfriend, but let's start as best friends, keeping things strictly SFW. But I am going to ask you that from the start, we both take things seriously, I am not playing here.
What I'm Seeking: I'm searching for a handsome, skinny or average-built, masculine man with a great personality. Let's take the time to get acquainted and see where it leads. Age range: 18 to 25. Could that be you?
About Me: I consider myself more on the masculine side, characterized by love, care, kindness, support, and sensitivity. Writing love letters is a favorite pastime of mine. I value compromise and commitment, and once I fall in love, my loyalty is unwavering.
Physical Description: I have hazel eyes, short dark blonde hair, and an average build. You can also find a picture of me in my profile, along with a heartfelt letter to my future boyfriend, whoever that may be.
Shared Activities: Imagine us making voice and video calls, watching movies, enjoying music together. If this sounds appealing and you fit the description I've given, don't hesitate to send a message. If you don't match what I'm looking for, I'd recommend against it to avoid wasting your time. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to connecting with you all in my DMs.
I'm determined to achieve that success story flair one day! Help me make it a reality!

Greetings! I'm a guy on the lookout for someone with the potential to become my boyfriend, but let's start as best friends, keeping things strictly SFW. But I am going to ask you that from the start, we both take things seriously, I am not playing here.
What I'm Seeking: I'm searching for a handsome, skinny or average-built, masculine man with a great personality. Let's take the time to get acquainted and see where it leads. Age range: 18 to 25. Could that be you?
About Me: I consider myself more on the masculine side, characterized by love, care, kindness, support, and sensitivity. Writing love letters is a favorite pastime of mine. I value compromise and commitment, and once I fall in love, my loyalty is unwavering.
Physical Description: I have hazel eyes, short dark blonde hair, and an average build. You can also find a picture of me in my profile, along with a heartfelt letter to my future boyfriend, whoever that may be.
Shared Activities: Imagine us making voice and video calls, watching movies, enjoying music together. If this sounds appealing and you fit the description I've given, don't hesitate to send a message. If you don't match what I'm looking for, I'd recommend against it to avoid wasting your time. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to connecting with you all in my DMs.
I'm determined to achieve that success story flair one day! Help me make it a reality!

Greetings! I'm a guy on the lookout for someone with the potential to become my boyfriend, but let's start as best friends, keeping things strictly SFW. But I am going to ask you that from the start, we both take things seriously, I am not playing here.
What I'm Seeking: I'm searching for a handsome, skinny or average-built, masculine man with a great personality. Let's take the time to get acquainted and see where it leads. Age range: 18 to 25. Could that be you?
About Me: I consider myself more on the masculine side, characterized by love, care, kindness, support, and sensitivity. Writing love letters is a favorite pastime of mine. I value compromise and commitment, and once I fall in love, my loyalty is unwavering.
Physical Description: I have hazel eyes, short dark blonde hair, and an average build. You can also find a picture of me in my profile, along with a heartfelt letter to my future boyfriend, whoever that may be.
Shared Activities: Imagine us making voice and video calls, watching movies, enjoying music together. If this sounds appealing and you fit the description I've given, don't hesitate to send a message. If you don't match what I'm looking for, I'd recommend against it to avoid wasting your time. Thanks, and I'm looking forward to connecting with you all in my DMs.
I'm determined to achieve that success story flair one day! Help me make it a reality!

Hello! As the title implies, I was wondering if there were any other romanization systems for Korean besides the standard one? I personally find it easy to pronounce Korean words but by GOD I cannot read the standard romanization half the time.
Let’s give some lines from D.va from OW for example-
teollyeossne
solijilleo
nal igilsu eobs-eulgeol
na michyeossnabwa
These are the standard romanization, but if I were to do a romanization where it sounds more faithful-
tuhl-lyuht-ne
so-ri chil-luh
nal i-gil soon uhp-seul gguhl
na mi-chuht-na-ba
I genuinely don’t have issues following along with the romanizations of eastern Asian languages, like Japanese and Chinese (Chinese takes more time to get used to but once you know the basics it gets easier) but no matter how many times I try i genuinely cannot comprehend Korean romanization because so many of the letters are unpronounced and it trips me up so bad.
Any suggestions?

Basic questions… I was terminated from my employment within my 3 month probation period with a company that is Federally Regulated. The reason she put in my letter was that I was failing to meet the expectations of the position. I never once was advised my performance wasn’t satisfactory or received any sort of feedback or coaching while there so I’m confused. She wouldn’t tell me what expectations I didn’t meet or give examples. I know typically employers can terminate in the probation period but I’m worried my ROE will reflect a reason indicating it was my “fault” and therefore won’t qualify for EI. I’m aware Federally Regulated businesses cannot terminate without cause even with severance but not sure if that is valid in the probation period. What do you think?

I am transfem and I turn 21 in a few days and I'm at my wits end when it comes to not being on HRT. I've had 2 plans on when to start HRT according to my situation: living with my transphobic family and wanting to stay in community college and transfer.
Plan A:

• Start HRT now.
• Save up all my money.
• Look into renting rooms in other states/cities.
• See if I can transfer to another CC.
• Wait and see how long it'll take for shit to hit the fan.

Plan B:

• I will start taking a low dosage of HRT when school begins in August (my sister is having a wedding, so I can't start it beforehand)
• Save my money
• I want to make sure I get great grades and good letters of recommendation to help me get into a great university afterward.
• I will start taking a higher dose around February because, at that point, I would've been accepted into a university, and what happens after that doesn't matter all that much.

I am leaning more towards Plan B, but not being on HRT now really sucks, and it's been causing me to become depressed, but I am willing to wait for a lil longer if it means I can continue my studies.

I am transfem and I turn 21 in a few days and I'm at my wits end when it comes to not being on HRT. I've had 2 plans on when to start HRT according to my situation: living with my transphobic family and wanting to stay in community college and transfer. I just need some input and advice if any.
Plan A:

• Start HRT now.
• Save up all my money.
• Look into renting rooms in other states/cities.
• See if I can transfer to another CC.
• Wait and see how long it'll take for shit to hit the fan.

Plan B:

• I will start taking a low dosage of HRT when school begins in August (my sister is having a wedding, so I can't start it beforehand)
• Save my money
• I want to make sure I get great grades and good letters of recommendation to help me get into a great university afterward.
• I will start taking a higher dose around February because, at that point, I would've been accepted into a university, and what happens after that doesn't matter all that much.

I am leaning more towards Plan B, but not being on HRT now really sucks, and it's been causing me to become depressed, but I am willing to wait for a lil longer if it means I can continue my studies.

The best way to get better with colored pencils is to practice, but don't underestimate your knowledge of color in general!
I've been playing a game on my phone for a long time called "I love hue too". It helps me to focus on color in ways that benefit colored pencil and other art! It really trains my eyes to see cooler vs warmer colors, and really understand how certain colors interact with their contextual colors. For example, does that red have more blue or more purple? Is that green pure, or slightly muted? I better understand steps of gradation, and how specific colors blend visually.
Yes, a phone game uses light instead of pigment, but the overall color theory shines through.
It's a great way to train your eyes on colors, which will help you pick better colored pencils while you're drawing. I recommend it to anyone who wishes to understand color better. (Plus it's relaxing.)

So I've already developed a prototype that has a structure similar to this:

├── README.md ├── application │ ├── __init__.py │ ├── helpers ### Helper scripts/functions │ │ ├── __init__.py │ │ └── data_translation.py └── email_handler.py │ └── my_app.py ### Main app calling helper functions └── terraform ### Break prod here └── main.tf 

I'm looking at various examples of Cloud Function applications, however, and it seems like this is not as common a project structure for serverless as I thought it'd be.
This is my first serverless project so I'm feeling things out as they go. Does anyone have any alternative approaches to recommend?

As the title says, certain Norwegian dialects pronounce the letters sk and skj differently from the rest of the country, and I've been looking all over the internet to see if anybody knows if there is a name for this specific sound?
An example of this is found in the first line of Henning Sommerro's song "Vårsøg":
"No skin det sol e høgste Svealiå".

Hello 👋🏻
Thanks in advance for everyone who answers!
Two questions!
Background: Im a canadian with low CAS gpa of 2.94, looking to do my lsat in august or September aiming for a min 170 wanting to get into big law. Low gpa because first gen (no guidance or help), also English is not my first or second language.
Q1. Can anyone can recommend some great schools anywhere in the USA that has good prospects for big law and that may offer either full tuition or some scholarships? Also looking to hear some success stories about similar stats? Aiming for t50.
Q2. How much importance is placed on LOR? I have been out of school for 5+yrs and the profs can’t remember that far back and have declined to give me a letter. Not sure if employer letters would be any accepted or looked at with the same regard? (Been a stay at home mom for past 2-3yrs so that may be a bit hard too)

Is there anyone with experience applying to CSU system schools? I'm a rising senior and wondering if I need to have letter (s) of recommendation and essays for the application. I searched online and didn't see any useful information.
Thanks and appreciate for any experience/information sharing.

Apologies if this has already been posted.
Like me you're probably sick of the awful search function on Youtube, which gives you maybe a half-dozen relevant videos to start, but then after that your results get polluted by categories you never asked for like "Recommended For You" or "Continue Watching" or "People Also Watched", and other crap like that. Well, thankfully I found a quick and easy way to make searching on Youtube far more viable.
Basically, after typing in your search prompt, add "before:3000" to the end of the search without quotes, and it'll only bring up videos and shorts that are both related to your search and were posted before the year 3000, without any annoying sections of useless algorithmic garbage!
Really, you can just put in any year after the current one (the earliest of which, at time of writing, would be 2025) and it'll give you the same results. For example, if you were searching for, I dunno, sea shanty videos, you'd type in:

sea shanties before:2025 

Granted, you have to remember to type it in manually every time you search, but that's a small price to pay for a much more convenient search engine.

Greetings fellow Malaysians! I have recently decided to permanently move to Japan and get a P residence status (preferably the former so I can retain my Malaysian citizenship(?) Or If im wrona here please do corn After spending about 7 months in Japan I have come to the conclusion that this country is perfect for my retirement.
I was told that getting a PR status in Japan would be equivalent to getting PR in Singapore, aka your citizenship in Malaysia is still intact. Unless you fully convert your PR into citizenship (which i have no idea how to). If there's anyone here that has the same experience in relocating to other countries please do inform me on how to process goes. Would be helpful if it's also someone who has relocated to Japan.
Since I run my own business and company in Malaysia, i already have my own team of people fully set up to handle the jobs there. And financially I'm not too worried about getting a landed house after looking through the prices in Shin Yokohama, a Japanese friend of mine recommended there as it's cheaper than any other (including Saitama) to live in and it's close to Tokyo. I can also get a decently used car with the leftover budget I have. But here comes my main question - am I allowed to just transfer one of the cars I have in Malaysia to Japan? I own 2 cars (2021 BMW G20 330i and Tesla Model 3 Highland LR), and once I settle down in Japan I wouldn't have the need to own 2 cars in Malaysia.
Is it possible at all within JPJ laws / Japanese national automobile laws to transport used personal vehicles from Malaysia to Japan? Or is it more appropriate just to sell one of my cars and use those money to buy another one in Japan? If possible i'd also like to get the same car (bmw 3 series, 330i or m340i) new. Since Malaysia charges sky high prices for vehicle import taxes new bmws there ir Japan are the same price as a 5 vears old used bmw Malaysia. But if there's an option to transport my vehic i'd still go for it
I only know about the basic laws of needing to stay in Japan for a total of 10 years- 5 years of work/study and 5 years of clean stay with no criminal record. Or if im lucky find and marry a girl there to shorten all of that process to one year. I'm still single but i wouldnt count too much on thatAny advice is appreciated! Have a good day ahead!

So, you said Lord Nicholas has no personality, which is true lol, but since I'm the devil's advocate, I took that as a challenge. Make yourself comfortable for a long read. Have some popcorn.
Why is this guy more of a tragic character, rather than a villain? And how does a man lose identity, and becomes a monster through desperation? I'll answer this for you below.
• Throughout Plague Tale Innocence, there are various signs that although he is personally close to Vitalis (no use of titles or formalities when speaking to each other) he is the execution, and not the mastermind behind the plans. For example, when Hugo's Macula was to be tested, he urged Vitalis on to put an end to the plague already, they are not here to play games.
• In the very same chapter, we get a little insight on what he believes and thinks about the conflict between the Inquisition and the De Runes. He doesn't understand why Beatrice De Rune resists their persuasion for information regarding the Macula, since their goals are shared -> ending the Plague. Ultimately, he blindly believes Vitalis wants to control the Plague to save them. And he does anything, ANYTHING to make that happen.
Commit genocide against peasants, and in the end, even go as far as killing Hugo.
Now, let's take a little turn to make a background check for this guy. Or at least what is hinted, and what can be assumed with intuition and theories.
• Like I mentioned before, him and Vitalis are personally close, and in the preultimate chapter of Plague Tale: Innocence, after his death, guards talk about him in the city. They are confused why Vitalis hasn't sent anyone for his search (I'll get to that one later), since he was his Protégé. This alone in itself wouldn't mean anything, but right after that a guard added "Maybe he found himself another Protégé" regarding Hugo of course.
Since this game is about innocence and children, it's almost safe to assume that Nicholas likely got taken under Vitalis' wings just as Hugo was now in the present. That would explain why they are close, and why Nicholas blindly trusts his master. Another dialogue backs this up, between the Arch Bishop and Vitalis. "Puppets like you will kneel and beg me to save them." and look who appears and kneels right there and then? Lord Nicholas. This is my theory, I can back it up but it isn't 100% surely true of course. Take it with a pinch of salt please.
• Now, time to get to why Vitalis didn't send anyone after Nicholas' disappearance... We saw nothing of the two months Hugo spent in the Bastion, but based on the Cathedral's state, it's safe to assume things didn't go that well with controlling the Macula. The plan was to get Hugo through the threshold finally, so that the Conjuration can begin. (Note to self: another essay later about that one). Although they tried to push Hugo through with hurting his mother, it didn't work. Because of this, Vitalis tasked Nicholas with taking Hugo to his sister, to end her life. This is simple, but it doesn't stop here.
In the chapter Blood Ties (where we control Hugo), we already meet an impatient Nicholas who wants to put an end to the Plague. Not only that, but let me get to one crucial sentence told by Vitalis. "Nicholas... You cannot understand." This hints at the disagreements between the two, and that Nicholas is not indulged in how this should be done. Nicholas tries to help Vitalis up, but he rejects the help too. It's quite symbolic for the one-sided trust between the two. Due to this growing mistrust, and how Vitalis didn't expect Nicholas to come back after his mission later on, to me it seems like Vitalis cut the ties and sent him exactly to his death to get rid of him.
• Vitalis' plan was never to get rid of Hugo once they pass the threshold ("I have a lot to teach the Carrier, and his friends."), and knew well, that Nicholas has no chance against Hugo and Amicia with the rats alongside them. He sent the man who trusted him the most to his death, and with that also chose his ultimate protégé - Hugo. It's also likely that Nicholas' mistrust grew because his position in the hierarchy was compromised, since it's likely Vitalis got obsessed with Hugo, and Nicholas almost realized he is played with. There is also the idea, that Vitalis sent him away to actually save him from the white rats he meant to send on the crowd anyway. Anyway, Vitalis is for another essay...
• The betrayed, the sacrificed. Who is he? There is absolutely little we know of him, except for his title and occupation. What always speaks in Plague Tale: Innocence though, is the design. I mean look at that drip- sorry.. In "A Making of Plague Tale: Innocence" the creative developers mention the importance of faces, and overall pure, intuitive impressions we get of our characters.
• There is only one character whose face we never see, and that is Nicholas. That doesn't only play as a psychological trick to make him more terrifying, but also hints at certain points. First of all, his robes are Dominican. This is historically fitting (although there were no dominican knights) since Dominicans were those entrusted by the Church to handle trials against heresy and begin inquisitions. This also hints that he is very religious and dedicated to serving the (assumed) good. I know, no way. Let's not forget about how faded out it is, or bloody. In NO way he is a good guy, but a tragic believer? Likely. Under the robes is the armour, which is hit all around. It's no news we talk about a very experienced and efficient knight who also happens to be serving Vitalis (NOT the Church! Explained in another essay, chill.). Knights start their training at 7, and only nobles are in for the job, obviously. I made the connection, that since he likely knows Vitalis from his childhood, and his training also began when he was 7 years old, and his name was Nicholas...
Side note: In medieval times, children were named after Saints to inwoke their blessing, in this case, among many things, protecting children.
It's likely that he himself, just like those he hunts, was an orphan, perhaps even a sinner, who had to be saved by none else, than Vitalis. Give it a thought, maybe he was a lost little boy like Hugo, whose innocence was stolen way too early. With how Plague Tale likes to play with irony and parallels between characters, I don't see this as unlikely.
• All in all, he is what his occupation is, and nothing human. He is the machine that serves. The cross, the judgement. We cannot see his face, because he has no identity except what Vitalis gave him. His role, his title, his mission (perhaps even name). As it can be seen, Hugo too, was dressed in robes showing the Inquisition's sign, like a mark of ownership over him.
• From the very start of the story, he was the representative of that time's barbaric cruelty, unforgiving, misplaced judgement. And as though from the children's perspective he was a monster from the very beginning, how did it go down? As I said before, he has no identity except his committment, and through that his morals, ambitions are shown. At the very start, they ambushed the De Rune estate, and we CANNOT know, if the violance was planned beforehand or it came due to Robert's resistance.
People were taken hostage for questioning, the goal was to capture Hugo, the Carrier, and Beatrice, the only one who can help them understand the plague's origins. It was bloody, but after this chapter, you can hear guards clearly say "capture children" and not just Hugo. Now, unbelivably, I don't think he wanted Amicia bad at the start. They confront each other in the English camp for the second time (where he paid a ransom for both of them), where he tries to negotiate with her to give them Hugo and stop running. Later his methods change, telling the plain truth that there is nowehere for her to go out there (These methods of convincing show a lot of personality and insight especially in the boss fight).
Later on, it's mentioned Vitalis is going hard on him but "he is used to it". Again, their shared history is hinted. The hunt for Hugo is fruitless still, and the plague is spreading day-by-day.
Next we hear from him, is in the chapter where we visit the city with Amicia. Or rather, that he is not exactly participating in the mission killing the sick. Since him and Vitalis disagree with methods of solving the Plague, and he is occupied with catching Hugo, there is a possibility this order of slaughter was carried out without his consent. Though, this is a high take and it would be totally in character to do such a task in the means of self-preservation.
Amicia's visions of him from Penance is not reliable, but at the very same time she clearly dreamed what happened and it's likely she mixed reality with hallucinations from exhaust. If, the hallucinations were true, that means Hugo did hear Amicia, but Nicholas directly diverted his attention from her and led him away.
It's hard to speculate if he did this to let nature do its work, or to actually show mercy, which is equally possible, since it was clear from the beginning that even though she killed his men, he knew she is simply running and kills as a means to survive.
Now, as I explained earlier, many things go down when Hugo resides in the Bastion, and we can only guess what that causes. I mentioned Nicholas' growing distrust, now let me introduce you to the psychological denial he experiences during the boss fight, along with his reflections pointing at the children. The man, becoming the monster. The fire (another essay since fire in Plague Tale is symbolic) causing him to destroy himself.
In the chapter Remembrance he goes to the Château d'Ombrage along Hugo, to ensure the boy passes the threshold with killing his sister, with this enabling Vitalis to pass as well. At first, Nicholas is quite calm and confident, sending Hugo to kill her "Go, and do what has to be done.". Interestingly, despite this, he still has his sword prepared, which shows he still doesn't trust Hugo. Later on, he knocks Arthur out, but doesn't kill him senselessly, despite the fiasco at the English camp. He takes Amicia to Hugo, and now threatens him to kill her, or else he kills his mother in front of him. After that, he tells him, if Hugo does as he tells him so, maybe Vitalis keeps him by his side.
This could hint that only by accomplishments such as this, and proving devotion, can one remain important in Vitalis' eyes. Also, that maybe, Nicholas had to go through something similar, "She means nothing to you now".
Doubts and frantic impatience take hold, which ultimately lead him to take matters into his own hands. He decides to kill her, himself. As he pushes Hugo away, she calls him a bastard, which he then turns back at her, to question her morality and self-righteousness. She betrayed him, that is why he gave himself up. It can be perhaps far-fetched, but this also can count as self-reflection already. Betrayal -> causing giving up, which happens later to him too.
After Arthur "takes care of him" (not exactly...) and the siblings reunite, Nicholas wakes up and this time, immediately kills Arthur. The death is not just a shock value as many believe, it also shows the already progressing monster stepping forth, and losing humanity entirely.
The boss fight has three phases. His methods at provoking the children, and self-reflect change and become way more intense with time.
In the first phase, he tries to separate them and tells Amicia that he knows it must be difficult to live in the Carrier's shadow. Also, that they are terrified. He is poking at her most vulnerable place, their biggest fear, which's "face" is ultimately him. Also, reminding Amicia of her biggest desire, that is to be acknowledged by her parents. Especially this can count as self-reflective, since as I said earlier Nicholas likely noticed Hugo is slowly replacing him in Vitalis' eyes. The wish to excell, and be acknowledged for the devotion is a deep scar this character could carry. He also reminds them of how their father died, to remind them of honour, which Nicholas obviously has a twisted sense of.
In the second phase, his first voice line shows surprise and fear, and anger in response to those feelings. He is more reckless and aggressive too. Here, again, he manipulatively reminds them how little they can do, and threatens them. This is both calculated and instinctual, since he says such things to bring the children out of their hiding places, but at the very same time also because he is slowly losing himself. There are also lines which can be reflective to his beliefs and assumptions based on himself, such as: "Your sister won't be able to save you child.... You are alone." There were already connections made between how Vitalis saved him, and if one puts it all together, this line shows how he doesn't believe in the siblings' bond, because his own bond with Vitalis broke, and Nicholas is (alike to Hugo) alone. Or there is also the line "What do you think you can do? You are nothing. [...]" I wanted to highlight this line because Plague Tale (among many other things) is about the helplessness one faces trying to protect loved ones, and/or trying to rewrite their fates. The fact that Nicholas dehumanizes them entirely, shows he knows the fact one, them or him, cannot change the course that has been set, but he is still in denial trying to fight it (a lot like Amicia in Requiem, by the way. Also, fire (this is why that needs another essay....).
In the third phase, he becomes uncharacteristically reckless and desperate, where he succumbs to the wrath and, his fate. "Come to me, come into my arms my dear children." His sanity decreases and he knows death is unavoidable. The question left is whenever he can bring them down with himself or fails. And failure, is unacceptable. He is better dead, than failed. "I will teach you the meaning of sacrifice" this line shows that likely, he accepted his last quest knowing well he is going to die probably. That he rather burns himself, bring hell, than letting go. He keeps shouting the motto of his order, because that is the only thing that he clings to. It's pathetic and forced, inhumane. "[...] We'll die together" <-> "I will boil your blood until it spurts from your eyes", "You are going to pay, [...]" by this time, he keeps switching tactics at approaching and luring them out, frantic and monstrous. His words mean nothing by this time and desperation takes hold. What line of him is the purest, rawest, and most honest, between all the threads and claims, self-convincing attempts to maintain devoted is this: "The pain... To feel oneself alive... And deliver death." This line might seem like one among the many terrible threats, but it in fact shows his deepest belief. That is, of pain and life. Sacrifice and death. That those who live, have to kill, and that is what it means to exist in this world.
• In Plague Tale Innocence and Requiem, we see Amicia's development into a murderer who follows similarly blind committments.
She ultimately becomes, what she condemned, and what caused her great misery. What, in the end, she herself becomes if Hugo doesn't lead her on the right path. A monster.
So, to sum it all up, Lord Nicholas represents the human being of that time, whose identity is what he serves, and nothing else.
It makes one selfless, righteous, but at what cost? Violence spreads from one person to another, while everyone tries to save what is precious to them. Hope this helped seeing him as more human and with more personality. Cheers. A few more points I couldn't exactly integrate are the following:
• A few things showing the underlying morality and plain intentions: at first he tried to negotiate with both Robert, Amicia, and Beatrice as well. He condones stealing entirely. He doesn't kill Arthur at first.
• In the concept art he is left handed. In Middle Ages, left handed people were considered sinful, since it was the "devil's hand". This added with the self-punishing- self-destructive-Catholic mindset, added with his devotion, signs that he is penitent, and does what he should for a greater good, a salvation, and carries the burden of "sacrifice".

Just picked up a K5 Pro last month to replace my G815 for aesthetic reasons: I hated how the paint on the keycaps chipped off over time, and my friends recommended Keychron since they have double-shot pbt keycaps.
Visually it's very nice and the feel is great (I got brown switches), but I've been experiencing a lot of inconsistent inputs that are seeemingly only getting worse: Keys will often have a long delay (showing up about a second after I've pushed the key, usually leading to a typo since I've already typed more letters by then), or input twice (I'll press "B" once and get "BB"), and sometimes, it just completely fails to register repeatedly as if the key is disabled: I can press "F" 10 times and nothing will happen for upwards of 15 seconds, then it'll start accepting inputs again (but the inputs ffrom when it's not working are completely eaten, and don't ever show up) - this has only happened to 1 key at a time max.
When I first got the keyboard, it was only happening on a few keys: F, Q and 7, but as the weeks went on I started noticing it from more and more keys, most recently F11 and B (granted, F11 couldd've been like that from the beginning, I just use it very infrequently)
These problems are extremely disruptive for both typing and gaming, leading to typos and failed actions; but I'm completely lost on how to solve them. I'm not sure what's responsible: The switches, the firmware, or maybe the USB-C cable? I've generally assumed it's the firmware, because when it's bad, the whole keyboard acts up. There are hour long periods where it works flawlessly, but then all the problem keys start acting up at once: Q, E, U, P, A, D, F, K, B, 7, comma, period, and F11. But I've also had instances that seemingly implied it was the switches (i.e I switched the switch on "F" with a switch from the numpad and it worked fine for weeks after I did), so, I'm completely lost now.
Dust and grime shouldn't be an issue, considering I've had it less than a month and keep my hands washed before using it, and it seems to be affecting wayyy too many keys for it to be something like that (Unless these things require way more frequent maintainance than I thought).
I'm hoping it's not a switch durability issue, as I was led to believe that "real" switches (red, brown, blue, etc) were way better than gaming keyboards with soldered switches.
I don't want to return it if I don't have to because I've heard Keychron can be iffy with returns, so I'm looking for any possible resolutions before trying?
Using it wired on a Windows 10 desktop PC.
Thank you!