Not a lit major, just someone who spends too long going through Wikipedia and TV Tropes and was looking for any way to pass the time at work, haha.

It also occurred to me that folks from the younger generation may not have played OoT, so here is the same reapplied to Breath of the Wild:

1. Ordinary World: The Great Plateau

2. Call to Adventure: The message left by Zelda after waking up.

3. Refusal of the Call: The temptation not to climb that damn frozen mountain because you haven’t figured out how to keep warm yet. Alternatively, the temptation to spend hours just chopping trees and killing Bokoblins instead of moving on.

4. Meeting the Mentor: The old man (King Rhoam) who teaches you how to do things like staying warm to be able to climb the mountain.

5. Crossing the Threshold: Climbing the tower and gliding down to Hyrule Field.

6. Tests, Allies, Enemies: The majority of the game, including all shrines and the four divine beasts.

7. Approach: Pushing through Hyrule Castle.

8. Ordeal, Death & Rebirth: Fighting Calamity Ganon (and the 4 Blights if skipped). Also Link fully recovering his memories and being “reborn” in a metaphorical sense.

9. Reward, Seizing the Sword: Rescuing Zelda, obtaining the Bow of Light.

10. The Road Back: Returning back out to Hyrule Field.

11. Resurrection: Calamity Ganon returns as Dark Beast Ganon

12. Return with Elixir: The calamity is over, the guardians are deactivated, and Hyrule Castle is no longer corrupted. People can move back and rebuild.

Yeah, it’s definitely not a one-size-fits-all approach, but more like “If this story has these aspects, this is generally the order in which they occur.” Some of the terminology developed from the original concept is also flexible or substitutible.

Edit: Applying the example above to Zelda (Ocarina of Time), just based on the question towards the top:

1. Ordinary World: Kokiri Forest

2. Call to Adventure: Navi arriving, The Deku Tree

3. Refusal of the Call: Saria’s disappointment at Link leaving (interpreted this case merely as the temptation to stay)

4. Meeting the Mentor: The Owl who teaches you not to mash A too quickly

5. Crossing the Threshold: Stepping out into Hyrule Field

6. Tests, Allies, Enemies: The majority of the game, from the end of Kokiri Forest up to collecting all the Medallions.

7. Approach: Going to Ganon’s Castle

8. Ordeal, Death & Rebirth: Fighting Ganondorf and Ganon, awakening to the power of the Triforce of Courage. Also Link fully recovering his memories and being “reborn” in a metaphorical sense.

9. Reward, Seizing the Sword: Ganondorf’s defeat, rescuing Zelda (the Master Sword is not itself the reward in this case, despite the specific mention of a Sword in this stage, though could maybe interpret as grabbing the Master Sword again during the Resurrection stage)

10. The Road Back: Escaping from the collapsing castle

11. Resurrection: Ganondorf returns as Ganon and must be confronted one final time.

12. Return with Elixir: Reclaiming the Triforce, sealing the darkness, returning to childhood and meeting Zelda again.

Insomuch as most heroic narratives follow a similar template, absolutely.

More context about the Hero’s Journey narrative:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero's_journey

The Earth’s magnetic field is gone and we all die.

If money was no issue, I’d choose to live close to where I live now, but in an actual house that I could call my own.

Fire that burns down the whole town

U and me

No survivors

Hell, I’m in.

Oh man, takes me back to the Magic Treehouse books.

I feel like the best approach would be to take any work of fiction which has some sort of no-consequence superpower and obtain it to bring back to the real world, though off the cuff I am struggling to think of which example to use (too many superhero origin stories involve traumatic experiences, couldn’t be done by people who weren’t already extraordinary, or have some undesirable consequence down the road, haha).

The other element is that you probably want to aim for something that gives you as much power as you can get, but not something that completely detaches you from humanity. For example, you could go to the episode of Star Trek: TNG where Riker is given Q powers (though I suppose good luck somehow intercepting that, since I feel like the powers would not be given to just some rando who isn’t part of the bridge crew), but then getting powers that make you nearly omnipotent serves to separate you from humanity, and it could become too tempting to develop a god complex.

Maybe I’d just go to something like Apple TV’s Foundation series and just steal some imperial nanomachines to keep me healthy and fast-healing for the duration of my natural life, and leave it at that.

And ramen is Japanese.

All commonly eaten in America, granted, but it’s weird to call it “American” food.

PFAS air

Make it third. I’m currently earning what I thought would be my life goal.

I can’t even afford to move out of my two-room apartment.

And they’re based in a blue state, so if they were to declare a recession, the Trump admin would just discredit them as fake news and “radical left” propaganda.

Yeah, call it cheesy or too on-the-nose, but I think I would have preferred just having an explicit glimpse of someone about to shoot Tony. Can still do the cut to black, but there’s a split second of someone drawing a gun before it happens.

The viewers are not Tony Soprano, so it just seems weird to limit it to his perspective and obscure events to only what he would be aware of in that moment. It’s just that you have an entire series where viewers can see all of the moving parts that most characters are oblivious to, except for the very last one apparently.

Commas would have helped a bit, that way you could at least just count the commas or the more visible blocks they space out, instead of counting each set of 3 digits one digit at a time.

There are more pragmatic ways to write numbers, though, depending on the need for specificity. If the lower digits are insignificant, simply writing 4.81 billion is easy, or 4.81e9.

Hwæt?

I would never stoop as low as that.

…

PS4 and Xbox One are weak, last-gen consoles. I’d use the same PC that I have all the porn tabs open on.

Videogames, eh?

Plenty of options, but you’ll be hard-pressed to target something specific without both skills and money.

The easiest option available to many Americans is to see if you can prove ancestry from a country with jus sanguinis citizenship that you have a direct link to. Some countries need it to be within a generation or two, other countries don’t have a specific cutoff point. But anticipate a long, bureaucratic process and costs to have documents translated.

The other easiest option is to marry a citizen of another country and move there together. But good luck with that.

But if either of those aren’t options, you’re going to have a hard time if you don’t have a college degree and don’t have experience working in a desired field.

From what I’ve heard and read in the past, in addition to other comments here, there are probably two additional reasons why surgeries aren’t commonly recorded:

1. Patients probably wouldn’t like knowing how casual a lot of operating rooms are. While you’re unconscious, they’re often playing music in the background and having idle gossip.

2. Surgeons don’t want an additional element of stress caused by recording and additional regulation that would likely accompany that during situations that are already stressful.