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In March, I got a chance to work with filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali right after he made Gangubai Kathiawadi, and Alia Bhatt, playing the titular character in the film, retweeted me.
The headline (in my head) was going to be, ‘The Boy From Kamathipura Goes To Bhansali Mandi.’
Then reality struck in April.
One of my closest friends Sweta called me from the Shivapuri National Park near Kathmandu and put me on speaker. Two other friends Mona and Ayush were listening to the WhatsApp call.
‘How’s it going with Bhansu?’ Sweta asked.
‘We are not working together anymore,’ I said.
‘Whaaaaaaaat?’ the three people shrieked, creating a wavy disturbance in audio frequency.
‘Whyyyyy?’ they cried, collectively anguished.
‘He said he is not feeling the vibes.’
‘What?’
‘Vibes,’ I said aloud, causing a seismic tremor in the audio frequency.
‘What vibes?’ Sweta jibed, ‘Maybe he can’t feel the vibrator.’
Laughter upped the vibes.
First, a little context on how I got that far. Check this, this, this & this.
So my tweets were going viral in February-March.
In the second week of March, a woman DM’d me saying she loves the tweets. I said thank you. She said she works at Bhansali Productions.
Whoopsie Daisy!
I asked if I could be a part of the production. She checked with SLB and team. He said he wants to meet now.
NOW!
How?
I was in Calcutta.
I called an actor friend in Bombay and told him about it.
“They will book your tickets and put you up in 5-star,” he said, “Like Hollywood.”
“This is Bhansaliwood,” I said, “Yahan dhanda hamesha manda hai.”
I flew (on my own expense) and met him.
I was ‘prepared’ by his team for the meeting with His High and Mightiness.
I was told:
I sashayed in a brown kurta and white linen trousers. Please see Madhuri Dixit-Nene’s brown ghagra for aesthetic reference I used from my very limited wardrobe of the only kurta I had at the time. By the way, the chorus sings ‘Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje,’ aesthetically referencing you know what, right?
He was lunching with his minions (strictly calling them minions from his pov) when I arrived in his pristine white dining hall in a building called Magnum Opus. Where else should he reside, no? Both his house, and his office (where I was ‘prepared’ earlier) were tastefully done in creamy white.
It was, as I said to my friend later, like walking into a cumulus cloud, or like sitting on his favourite singer Lata Mangeshkar’s lap. Calm, serene and quite surreal. I was inside his snow globe. Violins from a Bach concerto (in my head) were replaced with say Madan Mohan’s doleful rendition of ‘Mai ri main ka se kahoon peedh apne jiya ki.’ (Side effect of writing this on Mother’s Day.)
I look for books when I enter a house for signs of intelligent life. There were lots of lamps and candelabras but where were the stacks of books they were perched on? The aesthetic was high on film set disposable kitsch. I stared into a cumulative void.
The minions were intensely debating Darjeeling momos. What’s that? I spent my childhood there. Never heard of this GI tag!
SLB relished his meal and said, “I want puranpoli today.”
Puranpoli appeared not out of thin air, but a house-help flipping wishes instantly on a griddle on the fifth floor. We were on the first floor. Although the puranpoli is shaped like a flying saucer, it doesn’t fly, perhaps burdened by the weight of excess ghee and crowd-pleasing expectation. It does, however, reach SLB’s plate at the speed of light.
‘Give him some,’ he asked a minion to serve me while I waited on the sofa.
‘I’ve had lunch, thank you,’ I said, trying to behave. The plate arrived. I took a mousy bite to exhibit my failing attempt to transform into a champion minion.
When he came to chat, he noticed the unfinished food and gently reminded me how there were days he went hungry. I should have rolled my eyes for my own lean days.
‘One should not waste food,’ he said.
‘I don’t,’ I said, ‘I was going to parcel it home in a doggy bag.’
Hearing the word doggy, his well-behaved dog came over to inspect me.
He observed me. I petted her perfunctorily. Am a cat person. Stereotypical writer stuff — allergic to undesired petting and attention.
‘So, what have you done?’ he asked, sitting on a sort of empire-style bergere chair. Full marks for faux-ornate.
‘A novel, some writing for a series,’ I said nervously, dismissively.
‘Anything I might have seen?’ he asked.
‘No, not worthwhile.’
‘Are you interested in direction also?’
‘No, am not delusional.’
A moment passed. I might have displayed an errant repartee.
‘I mean, I can only write, or am trying to,’ I said. L’esprit de l’escalier.
He gave me a spiel on writing, how screenplay is an art not many understand, etc, et cetera.
I nodded to make his voice disappear.
‘What are you writing now?’
I showed him the cover of my new book, The Last Courtesan, featuring my mother, on my phone.
‘Oh, this is so fascinating,’ he said.
He spoke rapturously about Calcutta’s great food and colonial architecture when I mentioned growing up in Bowbazar kothas. If you watch any of his interviews now on YouTube you will realise he only speaks in raptures. He’s always explaining things like an impassioned conductor at a dime-store opera. It can exhaust the boorish audience immediately. He spoke about living in the Kamathipura area as a child when I said I had lived there. The mythmaker was interested in exoticising his own legend as an ‘outsider’.
‘But how will you work here if your mother is in Calcutta?’ he said, ‘I am a maa-ka-bhakt.’
Everything is about him or his mother. I have reached that stage too, though only by circumstances unavoidable.
‘Actually it was my mother who asked me to come here. I told her it would only work out if you understand that I will have to vacillate between the two cities initially. Jaise Sanjay ki Leela hai, waise meri Rekha.’
Corny dialogue, but worked. No one calls him by his first name, except perhaps his own mother. He is sir for everyone.
‘If I am speaking to you for so long means I like you,’ he said. ‘Otherwise, I would have asked you to leave long ago.’
Barely five minutes into the conversation, he asked me to return to his office and inform his team that I was going to be a part of his writer’s room.
I went back to his office and read a script. This is the part I cannot mention. His legal team sits in the adjacent room.
I flew to Calcutta and was to return after a week. I had to make arrangements for my mother’s tri-weekly dialysis sessions at a nearby hospital, figure out a tiffin-delivery service for her, find a house help (she sent four nurses scurrying in the past), all of which is a bit of a task in this retrograde city.
Remember the woman who had DM’d me about my tweets? She messaged. She had met SLB after my meeting. He said this about me: ‘What a wonderful find. That boy has so much potential and is talented. Most importantly, he is sensitive.’
I told her I’d get this engraved on my tombstone.
Like how he wants to take Alia Bhatt’s golchakkar in Dholida to his grave.
“It’s a shot that I will take to my grave. If there’s any shot that I want to be played when I breathe my last, it would be Alia doing that shot. It is the best thing I have seen an actor do in a very long, long time.”
I was only emulating the high priest of hyperbole in my tombstone comment. Perhaps I was regressing into a minion.
I had only managed a few tasks for mother when I was back in Bombay. It worried me that the old, frail woman with shaky limbs and slurred speech was trying to be brave to send me to work. I hadn’t worked since the pandemic; she was in and out of hospitals so frequently that I had surrendered the thought of getting another job ever again. Taking care of her was my full-time job.
The first day in his office was to chill in my new, aesthetically pleasing kurta I had shopped for in Gariahat. There was a security camera in every corner that was apparently accessible on his phone. My skin tingled with this information. Chilled. He was at home. Probably watching. That’s a great way to create a myth.
The next day, there were more minions on the lunch table in his first floor apartment. The magically appearing steamy and fragrant sheera was delicious. A minion deemed it the best sheera in the city. I nodded to make that statement evaporate.
A courier boy interrupted for a document signature. SLB flared at a spelling mistake in the document papers.
‘Go wash your face and come back,’ he yelled at the young man.
The minions at the table laughed nervously. I so wished I was wearing a mask to cover my surprise emoji face.
The minions on the table were writers and assistant directors.
‘Dastavez,’ SLB said, ‘would that be correct to use?’
‘Kaaghzaat,’ the minion replied.
‘Kaaghzaat is paper, dastavez is document,’ said the second minion.
‘You always mislead me,’ SLB sternly reprimanded the first minion. ‘Don’t ever do that again.’
Only that minion tried to laugh, offering an apology. He shut the minion down.
My mask, my mask emoji face.
A third minion was sulking in a corner before I arrived for the writing session. This minion had reportedly offered a script suggestion, which he disliked and barked down. I liked this minion the most. Relatable.
A faint noise of a person running or perhaps just a rumbling sound from somewhere outside interrupted the room. He looked up at the ceiling and said, ‘No one lives there. Am certain it is a ghost. I hear running sounds all the time. I have heard sounds of furniture being dragged.’
I wondered if he actually believed in half the things he uttered, or was he just saying it to create enigma about himself. Mythical thoughts certainly kept him preoccupied.
Reality bored him. SLB had nothing good to say about the ‘current plague’ of South Indian films upsetting the Bollywood cartel. He compared them to a circus. He wasn’t kind to the actors he had worked with in his last film. He cracked lame jokes about everyone and everything. The minions laughed and kept him busy. I chuckled a few times to blend in. The mythmaker revelled in his prophesies about the impending doom of charlatans with no aesthetics: just crass, commercial peddlers pimping art. It was all said to amuse and bemuse while he fussed over the yellow shade of fabric from several swatches.
When he left for his music session, the minions bitched him out, and how! All the horror stories I had heard over the years about his moods, behaviour, language and violent temper were true. How else will he create myth about himself as a maestro? The Glomar response. Let the plebs indulge in hearsay. I will neither confirm nor deny. The minions sang effigy songs in happy tunes, if I may stretch this part a bit like his penchant for high camp.
That night, when I went to my actor friend’s house, where I was temporarily staying, I said to him, ‘I don’t think I will last a week there.’
I was rattled by how he spoke to the courier boy and the minions, with no filter. Well, at least it was clear he had no tact, endearing as that might be of a ‘genius’ if one compromises with his erratic behaviour. The CEO of his company does it beautifully and advises to develop a ‘thick hide’ around him. Cows, essentially.
Verve
The words genius, great, master, maverick, were so loosely bandied by his office staff even in his absence that I was tempted to add auteur, if they could spell or pronounce it. They worked in perpetual fear of him turning up at any hour and checking on their tidiness. A minion whined she wasn’t dressed appropriately for his surprise visit. Once, he even cut pay for unscheduled leave, said another minion. A minion narrated a shot he copied from a photographer in Gangubai Kathiawadi. Another minion recounted how he made her cry on shoot by screaming at her for a silly mistake. Minions couldn’t leave the office till his evenings were scheduled. It was a well-paying job so long as they did not have to see ‘chacha’s’ face and only applaud his cinematic sorcery.
His office team would assign me desk-work and warn me not to inform him about it.
‘What am I supposed to say if he asks?’
‘Make up something,’ I was told.
‘Why should I?’
‘You will slowly understand,’ I was told.
His team of assistants would sneak around me. I didn’t know who was reporting what back to him. He would interrogate the management team. They would lash out at me for informing the assistants. The management wanted to control me a certain way because ‘sir’ does not need to know everything. It was quite a guessing game. He had created an ecosystem of complete chaos and loved the hubbub. New people were hired for him to use the ‘new energy’ to rekindle the ‘old energy’ that needed to be reminded it could be snuffed out and replaced. He thrived on confusion because it all boiled down to him to sort out the mess. He was the provider so long as the minions ingratiated and served their grand master.
One time he called me upstairs, what his CEO called the god’s chamber aka the Shahenshah’s durbar: his office on the seventh floor. Walls were lined with giant posters of his films. We minions sat on the fifth floor. I was of course by now a week old in the toady mill. On the seventh floor, production team members, set designer, director assistant, young people sat on the floor, armed with notebooks and laptops, alert and sugar-tongued. He sat on a throne and dictated each one about their duty. A masseur massaged his leg. He asked me what I thought of a script. I said it was lovely. He asked me to elaborate. I said I liked a character’s resolve. He denied it was written. I said that’s my interpretation. A minion promptly backed me.
‘What changes do you suggest?’ he asked.
‘We should sit on it collectively and decide,’ I said.
He mumbled something. My suggestion was dismissed. I was dismissed. I bowed out. A minion whispered to me, ‘We all walk on eggshells around him.’ I had to be a chicken in a coop I suppose.
Another time he dismissed my suggestion for a scene saying, ‘That’s not how art is made.’ I had referenced a scene from Bandit Queen to illustrate my point. Just like his entire oeuvre is homage to a classic. How else does he make his art?
Allow me to illustrate with a frame from his first film Khamoshi: The Musical. The second image is from Pakeezah.
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam references Red Beard, Woh 7 Din.
Devdas references Pakeezah more than once.
Black references The Miracle Worker.
Saawariya references Pyaasa, Awaara.
Guzaarish references Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela references Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story.
Bajirao Mastani references Mughal-E-Azam.
Padmaavat references Mirch Masala.
Gangubai Kathiawadi, let’s give him the benefit of doubt is all his own, original artistry.
The American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch once meta quoted the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard when he said:
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.”
SLB believes he takes art and betters it, removing the grubby coat of slime from the sublime, often not concerned with acknowledging the source. He is a master’s master, elevating it to an otherworldly experience, the creator of a mythoverse.
He asked me to rewrite a scene I didn’t agree with. He banged the script folders on the table like a petulant, little child. I watched his posture change into a frump. Tiger Shroff’s ‘Bacchi ho kya,’ dialogue comes to mind.
‘You are talking like those critics who find fault but don’t know how to write. They should write the film,’ he said.
That argument will never make sense to me but since I write movies now and not just about them, I rewrote the scene in half an hour and showed it to him. He found it rubbish.
I was not called to the writer’s room for a week.
His CEO said I should go to his house; hang around him, like the other assistants whose only purpose in life is to feed his ego. We are slaves to his vision, she said. She thought I was a better writer than the team he had assembled. ‘From whatever I read, only three lines of your work on social media, I could sense it,’ she said.
Either she was encouraging, or bluffing with a perfectly Zen face. From the hundreds of Ganesh idols stacked in her room, it was clear she wasn’t a reader. She was good at reading numbers, data, and stats. She would sense a sign if one of the metal idols sucked milk from a spoon on the day she enquired about box –office figures.
There was more than one right-wing hardliner in his office. Secular staff was invisible. A pretty minion in baby pink t-shirt, whose main grouse was that another minion called him a Barbie doll, said he was happy with the Modi government building roads in his home state Bihar. Another minion countered him by asking: What about the persecution of minorities by the same government? The pretty minion said he didn’t care for that. He was assisting ‘sir’ because he wanted to be an actor. Which lead me to wonder how many Muslim actors has this production worked with? Silly of me to think, right? Given that I myself don’t use my Muslim surname. I’ve now successfully planted a myth in your head. That’s how it works.
In the time that I was in Versova during my brief stint at Bhansali Productions, I met several people with their own SLB horror story. A producer said, ‘He is a difficult man but life changes for good after you work with him. Some people want to go through hell first. Life bann jaati hai.’ I didn’t understand why purgatory was necessary. Another former assistant said, ‘When you work with the worst (SLB) and the best (KJO), you are ready for the rest.’
A young woman gave him a thesis she wrote on his films. He asked her to write a book on her. She said she wanted to assist as a director. She never heard from him. A filmmaker said SLB was too friendly with another assistant, suggesting intimacy. A writer wasn’t given credit in a film.
Another writer was promised his script will be turned into a film but it never took off and now he feels his life has been ruined. A young filmmaker’s debut movie SLB produced was delayed, not promoted, and called ‘kachra’ to his face.
The young man said SLB is sexist, homophobe, classist, fat shamer, emotional abuser, and a body shamer. “He is a joyless pit of darkness where happiness goes to die. And those are the nicest words I can think of to describe him,” he said. Another filmmaker said a choreographer was in a relationship with SLB and wanted to marry him but he wouldn’t even touch her, a hotly discussed conversation amongst his minions.
Everything sounds hokum. A successful man is likely to upset a few. The few will talk. Their words may ring true through a gossamer veil of implausibility. Myths magnifying his persona.
There are too many myths about his personal life, aroused by his silence on the subject but all too obvious in his work. When people want to confirm with me, I am equally appalled at their lack of aesthetics. Like the great reader of curtains, Edgar Allan Poe, you only have to look at SLB’s use of billowy curtains in films to guess.
Hope you get the drift, or draft, hawa ka jhonka! By the way, am digressing now, is the weirdly named character Sameer Rosselline in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam the first mainstream Hindi film hero to pass wind? The ruffled curtains are first to be cautioned though.
Unlike most people willing to swallow their pride to work with SLB, few like the eponymous Gangubai character choose izzat. The house-help employed in my actor friend’s house was asked to work as a cook in his house. When she heard the whimsy, dessert-craving demands, she declined the offer. I identify with her no-nonsense style.
In November 2021, a filmmaker read a film script I wrote and said, ‘This is SLB territory. Only he can make it. It is the modern love-story he has been wanting to make for a long time.’
‘Are you sure?’ I asked, somewhat flattered but also bewildered.
‘Yes, we just have to change the setting from Calcutta-Bombay to Calcutta-New York. It is what he has been trying to crack. I’ll get him to read it.’
I never spoke to SLB about my script. I did not want to look like a schemer. I had only got a chance because of my mother’s story. I had come to write courtesan songs. Hindi films are recognised by their songs. His films have show tunes that live on long after the sequins and mirrors reflect a decadent style. He employs the old-fashioned method of making Hindi films, which is to stitch scenes around a song, not the other way round. And when you glean your references from the best of classical melodies, how can you falter?
My own SLB story is that after watching Saawariya in 2007, I wrote a few songs, moved to Bombay, lived in Versova, close to Magnum Opus, and hoped to meet him, but made no effort even though I came in close contact with people who worked directly with him. I never requested for a meeting. Over the years, I too had heard a few horror stories about him. I only believe in what I see. I waited when he would call for me, my work would have to speak for itself.
A day before Good Friday, his CEO sat me down and said it’s not working out.
There’s a mythical story of how Lata Mangeshkar was on her way to record a song for SLB but the heavens poured and she had to turn her car back. A typical SLB frame of hope and hopelessness.
Never work with your idols. You’ll have a better story to imagine and create myths.
I was so relieved to leave. I hadn’t got a moment to read, or write, let alone think since I got here. Why I wanted to work with SLB was to not believe in hearsay. I will either confirm or deny.
‘Great,’ I said, ‘everyone deserves an off on Good Friday.’
The office was unsure about public holidays. SLB’s mood dictated the calendar.
Before returning to Calcutta, I met a friend entrenched in the film business.
When she heard of the fiasco, she said, ‘I’ve heard he is very anal, is he?’
The vibrator jokes never stop.
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In March, I got a chance to work with filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali right after he made Gangubai Kathiawadi, and Alia Bhatt, playing the titular character in the film, retweeted me.
The headline (in my head) was going to be, ‘The Boy From Kamathipura Goes To Bhansali Mandi.’
Then reality struck in April.
One of my closest friends Sweta called me from the Shivapuri National Park near Kathmandu and put me on speaker. Two other friends Mona and Ayush were listening to the WhatsApp call.
‘How’s it going with Bhansu?’ Sweta asked.
‘We are not working together anymore,’ I said.
‘Whaaaaaaaat?’ the three people shrieked, creating a wavy disturbance in audio frequency.
‘Whyyyyy?’ they cried, collectively anguished.
‘He said he is not feeling the vibes.’
‘What?’
‘Vibes,’ I said aloud, causing a seismic tremor in the audio frequency.
‘What vibes?’ Sweta jibed, ‘Maybe he can’t feel the vibrator.’
Laughter upped the vibes.
First, a little context on how I got that far. Check this, this, this & this.
So my tweets were going viral in February-March.
In the second week of March, a woman DM’d me saying she loves the tweets. I said thank you. She said she works at Bhansali Productions.
Whoopsie Daisy!
I asked if I could be a part of the production. She checked with SLB and team. He said he wants to meet now.
NOW!
How?
I was in Calcutta.
I called an actor friend in Bombay and told him about it.
“They will book your tickets and put you up in 5-star,” he said, “Like Hollywood.”
“This is Bhansaliwood,” I said, “Yahan dhanda hamesha manda hai.”
I flew (on my own expense) and met him.
I was ‘prepared’ by his team for the meeting with His High and Mightiness.
I was told:
Arre, then what do I say?
I sashayed in a brown kurta and white linen trousers. Please see Madhuri Dixit-Nene’s brown ghagra for aesthetic reference I used from my very limited wardrobe of the only kurta I had at the time. By the way, the chorus sings ‘Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje,’ aesthetically referencing you know what, right?
He was lunching with his minions (strictly calling them minions from his pov) when I arrived in his pristine white dining hall in a building called Magnum Opus. Where else should he reside, no? Both his house, and his office (where I was ‘prepared’ earlier) were tastefully done in creamy white.
It was, as I said to my friend later, like walking into a cumulus cloud, or like sitting on his favourite singer Lata Mangeshkar’s lap. Calm, serene and quite surreal. I was inside his snow globe. Violins from a Bach concerto (in my head) were replaced with say Madan Mohan’s doleful rendition of ‘Mai ri main ka se kahoon peedh apne jiya ki.’ (Side effect of writing this on Mother’s Day.)
I look for books when I enter a house for signs of intelligent life. There were lots of lamps and candelabras but where were the stacks of books they were perched on? The aesthetic was high on film set disposable kitsch. I stared into a cumulative void.
The minions were intensely debating Darjeeling momos. What’s that? I spent my childhood there. Never heard of this GI tag!
SLB relished his meal and said, “I want puranpoli today.”
Puranpoli appeared not out of thin air, but a house-help flipping wishes instantly on a griddle on the fifth floor. We were on the first floor. Although the puranpoli is shaped like a flying saucer, it doesn’t fly, perhaps burdened by the weight of excess ghee and crowd-pleasing expectation. It does, however, reach SLB’s plate at the speed of light.
‘Give him some,’ he asked a minion to serve me while I waited on the sofa.
‘I’ve had lunch, thank you,’ I said, trying to behave. The plate arrived. I took a mousy bite to exhibit my failing attempt to transform into a champion minion.
When he came to chat, he noticed the unfinished food and gently reminded me how there were days he went hungry. I should have rolled my eyes for my own lean days.
‘One should not waste food,’ he said.
‘I don’t,’ I said, ‘I was going to parcel it home in a doggy bag.’
Hearing the word doggy, his well-behaved dog came over to inspect me.
He observed me. I petted her perfunctorily. Am a cat person. Stereotypical writer stuff — allergic to undesired petting and attention.
‘So, what have you done?’ he asked, sitting on a sort of empire-style bergere chair. Full marks for faux-ornate.
‘A novel, some writing for a series,’ I said nervously, dismissively.
‘Anything I might have seen?’ he asked.
‘No, not worthwhile.’
‘Are you interested in direction also?’
‘No, am not delusional.’
A moment passed. I might have displayed an errant repartee.
‘I mean, I can only write, or am trying to,’ I said. L’esprit de l’escalier.
He gave me a spiel on writing, how screenplay is an art not many understand, etc, et cetera.
I nodded to make his voice disappear.
‘What are you writing now?’
I showed him the cover of my new book, The Last Courtesan, featuring my mother, on my phone.
‘Oh, this is so fascinating,’ he said.
He spoke rapturously about Calcutta’s great food and colonial architecture when I mentioned growing up in Bowbazar kothas. If you watch any of his interviews now on YouTube you will realise he only speaks in raptures. He’s always explaining things like an impassioned conductor at a dime-store opera. It can exhaust the boorish audience immediately. He spoke about living in the Kamathipura area as a child when I said I had lived there. The mythmaker was interested in exoticising his own legend as an ‘outsider’.
‘But how will you work here if your mother is in Calcutta?’ he said, ‘I am a maa-ka-bhakt.’
Everything is about him or his mother. I have reached that stage too, though only by circumstances unavoidable.
‘Actually it was my mother who asked me to come here. I told her it would only work out if you understand that I will have to vacillate between the two cities initially. Jaise Sanjay ki Leela hai, waise meri Rekha.’
Corny dialogue, but worked. No one calls him by his first name, except perhaps his own mother. He is sir for everyone.
‘If I am speaking to you for so long means I like you,’ he said. ‘Otherwise, I would have asked you to leave long ago.’
Barely five minutes into the conversation, he asked me to return to his office and inform his team that I was going to be a part of his writer’s room.
I went back to his office and read a script. This is the part I cannot mention. His legal team sits in the adjacent room.
I flew to Calcutta and was to return after a week. I had to make arrangements for my mother’s tri-weekly dialysis sessions at a nearby hospital, figure out a tiffin-delivery service for her, find a house help (she sent four nurses scurrying in the past), all of which is a bit of a task in this retrograde city.
Remember the woman who had DM’d me about my tweets? She messaged. She had met SLB after my meeting. He said this about me: ‘What a wonderful find. That boy has so much potential and is talented. Most importantly, he is sensitive.’
I told her I’d get this engraved on my tombstone.
Like how he wants to take Alia Bhatt’s golchakkar in Dholida to his grave.
“It’s a shot that I will take to my grave. If there’s any shot that I want to be played when I breathe my last, it would be Alia doing that shot. It is the best thing I have seen an actor do in a very long, long time.”
I was only emulating the high priest of hyperbole in my tombstone comment. Perhaps I was regressing into a minion.
I had only managed a few tasks for mother when I was back in Bombay. It worried me that the old, frail woman with shaky limbs and slurred speech was trying to be brave to send me to work. I hadn’t worked since the pandemic; she was in and out of hospitals so frequently that I had surrendered the thought of getting another job ever again. Taking care of her was my full-time job.
The first day in his office was to chill in my new, aesthetically pleasing kurta I had shopped for in Gariahat. There was a security camera in every corner that was apparently accessible on his phone. My skin tingled with this information. Chilled. He was at home. Probably watching. That’s a great way to create a myth.
The next day, there were more minions on the lunch table in his first floor apartment. The magically appearing steamy and fragrant sheera was delicious. A minion deemed it the best sheera in the city. I nodded to make that statement evaporate.
A courier boy interrupted for a document signature. SLB flared at a spelling mistake in the document papers.
‘Go wash your face and come back,’ he yelled at the young man.
The minions at the table laughed nervously. I so wished I was wearing a mask to cover my surprise emoji face.
The minions on the table were writers and assistant directors.
‘Dastavez,’ SLB said, ‘would that be correct to use?’
‘Kaaghzaat,’ the minion replied.
‘Kaaghzaat is paper, dastavez is document,’ said the second minion.
‘You always mislead me,’ SLB sternly reprimanded the first minion. ‘Don’t ever do that again.’
Only that minion tried to laugh, offering an apology. He shut the minion down.
My mask, my mask emoji face.
A third minion was sulking in a corner before I arrived for the writing session. This minion had reportedly offered a script suggestion, which he disliked and barked down. I liked this minion the most. Relatable.
A faint noise of a person running or perhaps just a rumbling sound from somewhere outside interrupted the room. He looked up at the ceiling and said, ‘No one lives there. Am certain it is a ghost. I hear running sounds all the time. I have heard sounds of furniture being dragged.’
I wondered if he actually believed in half the things he uttered, or was he just saying it to create enigma about himself. Mythical thoughts certainly kept him preoccupied.
Reality bored him. SLB had nothing good to say about the ‘current plague’ of South Indian films upsetting the Bollywood cartel. He compared them to a circus. He wasn’t kind to the actors he had worked with in his last film. He cracked lame jokes about everyone and everything. The minions laughed and kept him busy. I chuckled a few times to blend in. The mythmaker revelled in his prophesies about the impending doom of charlatans with no aesthetics: just crass, commercial peddlers pimping art. It was all said to amuse and bemuse while he fussed over the yellow shade of fabric from several swatches.
When he left for his music session, the minions bitched him out, and how! All the horror stories I had heard over the years about his moods, behaviour, language and violent temper were true. How else will he create myth about himself as a maestro? The Glomar response. Let the plebs indulge in hearsay. I will neither confirm nor deny. The minions sang effigy songs in happy tunes, if I may stretch this part a bit like his penchant for high camp.
That night, when I went to my actor friend’s house, where I was temporarily staying, I said to him, ‘I don’t think I will last a week there.’
I was rattled by how he spoke to the courier boy and the minions, with no filter. Well, at least it was clear he had no tact, endearing as that might be of a ‘genius’ if one compromises with his erratic behaviour. The CEO of his company does it beautifully and advises to develop a ‘thick hide’ around him. Cows, essentially.
Verve
The words genius, great, master, maverick, were so loosely bandied by his office staff even in his absence that I was tempted to add auteur, if they could spell or pronounce it. They worked in perpetual fear of him turning up at any hour and checking on their tidiness. A minion whined she wasn’t dressed appropriately for his surprise visit. Once, he even cut pay for unscheduled leave, said another minion. A minion narrated a shot he copied from a photographer in Gangubai Kathiawadi. Another minion recounted how he made her cry on shoot by screaming at her for a silly mistake. Minions couldn’t leave the office till his evenings were scheduled. It was a well-paying job so long as they did not have to see ‘chacha’s’ face and only applaud his cinematic sorcery.
His office team would assign me desk-work and warn me not to inform him about it.
‘What am I supposed to say if he asks?’
‘Make up something,’ I was told.
‘Why should I?’
‘You will slowly understand,’ I was told.
His team of assistants would sneak around me. I didn’t know who was reporting what back to him. He would interrogate the management team. They would lash out at me for informing the assistants. The management wanted to control me a certain way because ‘sir’ does not need to know everything. It was quite a guessing game. He had created an ecosystem of complete chaos and loved the hubbub. New people were hired for him to use the ‘new energy’ to rekindle the ‘old energy’ that needed to be reminded it could be snuffed out and replaced. He thrived on confusion because it all boiled down to him to sort out the mess. He was the provider so long as the minions ingratiated and served their grand master.
One time he called me upstairs, what his CEO called the god’s chamber aka the Shahenshah’s durbar: his office on the seventh floor. Walls were lined with giant posters of his films. We minions sat on the fifth floor. I was of course by now a week old in the toady mill. On the seventh floor, production team members, set designer, director assistant, young people sat on the floor, armed with notebooks and laptops, alert and sugar-tongued. He sat on a throne and dictated each one about their duty. A masseur massaged his leg. He asked me what I thought of a script. I said it was lovely. He asked me to elaborate. I said I liked a character’s resolve. He denied it was written. I said that’s my interpretation. A minion promptly backed me.
‘What changes do you suggest?’ he asked.
‘We should sit on it collectively and decide,’ I said.
He mumbled something. My suggestion was dismissed. I was dismissed. I bowed out. A minion whispered to me, ‘We all walk on eggshells around him.’ I had to be a chicken in a coop I suppose.
Another time he dismissed my suggestion for a scene saying, ‘That’s not how art is made.’ I had referenced a scene from Bandit Queen to illustrate my point. Just like his entire oeuvre is homage to a classic. How else does he make his art?
Allow me to illustrate with a frame from his first film Khamoshi: The Musical. The second image is from Pakeezah.
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam references Red Beard, Woh 7 Din.
Devdas references Pakeezah more than once.
Black references The Miracle Worker.
Saawariya references Pyaasa, Awaara.
Guzaarish references Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela references Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story.
Bajirao Mastani references Mughal-E-Azam.
Padmaavat references Mirch Masala.
Gangubai Kathiawadi, let’s give him the benefit of doubt is all his own, original artistry.
The American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch once meta quoted the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard when he said:
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery — celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from — it’s where you take them to.”
SLB believes he takes art and betters it, removing the grubby coat of slime from the sublime, often not concerned with acknowledging the source. He is a master’s master, elevating it to an otherworldly experience, the creator of a mythoverse.
He asked me to rewrite a scene I didn’t agree with. He banged the script folders on the table like a petulant, little child. I watched his posture change into a frump. Tiger Shroff’s ‘Bacchi ho kya,’ dialogue comes to mind.
‘You are talking like those critics who find fault but don’t know how to write. They should write the film,’ he said.
That argument will never make sense to me but since I write movies now and not just about them, I rewrote the scene in half an hour and showed it to him. He found it rubbish.
I was not called to the writer’s room for a week.
His CEO said I should go to his house; hang around him, like the other assistants whose only purpose in life is to feed his ego. We are slaves to his vision, she said. She thought I was a better writer than the team he had assembled. ‘From whatever I read, only three lines of your work on social media, I could sense it,’ she said.
Either she was encouraging, or bluffing with a perfectly Zen face. From the hundreds of Ganesh idols stacked in her room, it was clear she wasn’t a reader. She was good at reading numbers, data, and stats. She would sense a sign if one of the metal idols sucked milk from a spoon on the day she enquired about box –office figures.
There was more than one right-wing hardliner in his office. Secular staff was invisible. A pretty minion in baby pink t-shirt, whose main grouse was that another minion called him a Barbie doll, said he was happy with the Modi government building roads in his home state Bihar. Another minion countered him by asking: What about the persecution of minorities by the same government? The pretty minion said he didn’t care for that. He was assisting ‘sir’ because he wanted to be an actor. Which lead me to wonder how many Muslim actors has this production worked with? Silly of me to think, right? Given that I myself don’t use my Muslim surname. I’ve now successfully planted a myth in your head. That’s how it works.
In the time that I was in Versova during my brief stint at Bhansali Productions, I met several people with their own SLB horror story. A producer said, ‘He is a difficult man but life changes for good after you work with him. Some people want to go through hell first. Life bann jaati hai.’ I didn’t understand why purgatory was necessary. Another former assistant said, ‘When you work with the worst (SLB) and the best (KJO), you are ready for the rest.’
A young woman gave him a thesis she wrote on his films. He asked her to write a book on her. She said she wanted to assist as a director. She never heard from him. A filmmaker said SLB was too friendly with another assistant, suggesting intimacy. A writer wasn’t given credit in a film.
Another writer was promised his script will be turned into a film but it never took off and now he feels his life has been ruined. A young filmmaker’s debut movie SLB produced was delayed, not promoted, and called ‘kachra’ to his face.
The young man said SLB is sexist, homophobe, classist, fat shamer, emotional abuser, and a body shamer. “He is a joyless pit of darkness where happiness goes to die. And those are the nicest words I can think of to describe him,” he said. Another filmmaker said a choreographer was in a relationship with SLB and wanted to marry him but he wouldn’t even touch her, a hotly discussed conversation amongst his minions.
Everything sounds hokum. A successful man is likely to upset a few. The few will talk. Their words may ring true through a gossamer veil of implausibility. Myths magnifying his persona.
There are too many myths about his personal life, aroused by his silence on the subject but all too obvious in his work. When people want to confirm with me, I am equally appalled at their lack of aesthetics. Like the great reader of curtains, Edgar Allan Poe, you only have to look at SLB’s use of billowy curtains in films to guess.
Above stanza, courtesy Poe, poem: The Raven.
Hope you get the drift, or draft, hawa ka jhonka! By the way, am digressing now, is the weirdly named character Sameer Rosselline in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam the first mainstream Hindi film hero to pass wind? The ruffled curtains are first to be cautioned though.
Unlike most people willing to swallow their pride to work with SLB, few like the eponymous Gangubai character choose izzat. The house-help employed in my actor friend’s house was asked to work as a cook in his house. When she heard the whimsy, dessert-craving demands, she declined the offer. I identify with her no-nonsense style.
In November 2021, a filmmaker read a film script I wrote and said, ‘This is SLB territory. Only he can make it. It is the modern love-story he has been wanting to make for a long time.’
‘Are you sure?’ I asked, somewhat flattered but also bewildered.
‘Yes, we just have to change the setting from Calcutta-Bombay to Calcutta-New York. It is what he has been trying to crack. I’ll get him to read it.’
I never spoke to SLB about my script. I did not want to look like a schemer. I had only got a chance because of my mother’s story. I had come to write courtesan songs. Hindi films are recognised by their songs. His films have show tunes that live on long after the sequins and mirrors reflect a decadent style. He employs the old-fashioned method of making Hindi films, which is to stitch scenes around a song, not the other way round. And when you glean your references from the best of classical melodies, how can you falter?
My own SLB story is that after watching Saawariya in 2007, I wrote a few songs, moved to Bombay, lived in Versova, close to Magnum Opus, and hoped to meet him, but made no effort even though I came in close contact with people who worked directly with him. I never requested for a meeting. Over the years, I too had heard a few horror stories about him. I only believe in what I see. I waited when he would call for me, my work would have to speak for itself.
A day before Good Friday, his CEO sat me down and said it’s not working out.
There’s a mythical story of how Lata Mangeshkar was on her way to record a song for SLB but the heavens poured and she had to turn her car back. A typical SLB frame of hope and hopelessness.
Never work with your idols. You’ll have a better story to imagine and create myths.
I was so relieved to leave. I hadn’t got a moment to read, or write, let alone think since I got here. Why I wanted to work with SLB was to not believe in hearsay. I will either confirm or deny.
‘Great,’ I said, ‘everyone deserves an off on Good Friday.’
The office was unsure about public holidays. SLB’s mood dictated the calendar.
Before returning to Calcutta, I met a friend entrenched in the film business.
When she heard of the fiasco, she said, ‘I’ve heard he is very anal, is he?’
The vibrator jokes never stop.
2024.05.16 16:04 Educational-System85 Tournament Review: Dubai Police Masters 2024
 | Dubai Police Global Chess Challenge was a new event started and hosted by Dubai Police from 4th to 12th May. I have played multiple times in United Arab Emirates including the Sharjah Masters and Abu Dhabi Masters. This was my 5th time playing in UAE. submitted by Educational-System85 to chess [link] [comments] OrganizationThe Master Event is very nicely organized in the Dubai Police Officers Club. Organizers have arranged transport from official hotels to the tournament venue. They were very welcoming and gave a lot of respect to players. UAE has a great history of organizing big chess events including the Dubai Open, Sharjah Masters, Abu Dhabi Open, etc. This tournament will be a new addition and hopefully, they will organize this every year. Organizers provided Black Tea, Desi Tea (Karak Tea), Coffee, and a selection of different cakes and croissants. All the boards are Digital Chess Board and the tournament games are published on Lichess broadcast and on other websites. The other two events, Open and Youth, were organized at Dubai Chess Club. It’s a different venue. I will talk specifically about the Masters event.Accommodationhttps://preview.redd.it/gve7kalzos0d1.jpg?width=1156&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c4f6871fe48fc2d36eeecbc93ebf30f7c80d7895Organizers provided a list of hotels. Players are allowed to book it from anywhere or they can even choose different hotels. (Staying in the official hotel was not compulsory) I stayed at the Kingsgate Al Jaddaf Hotel which is one of the hotels mentioned by the Organizers in the list. I paid 28500 INR ($350) for 9 Nights for a single room without breakfast. I booked it from an Indian booking website. Team Dubai Police provided pick up and drop up from the hotel. Overall, the hotel stay was very good and the price was also very moderate. For the hotel and overall stay experience, I would rate 9.5/10. ScheduleFrom 4th to 12th May Daily single round. Everyday round starts at 5 PM except the last day at 10 AM. The event consisted of a total of 9 rounds.Playing FieldThe Master’s category is open for above 2300 players. The total number of players was 135 and 124 players were 2300+ Three 2700 players participated including Yu Yangyi, Tabatabaei Amin, and Artemiev Vladislav. 35% of the total participants were Grandmasters and almost all players had some title.Should you play in the Next Edition?As I said above, this was my 5th time playing classical events in UAE country and I would highly recommend it. I always feel very safe while traveling. Food is cheap and hospitality is great. There is not a single thing to complain about the event.Here are some ratings according to meOrganization – 10/10 Food – 9/10 (I ordered from nearby restaurants. Mostly Indian food) Accommodation – 9.5/10Expenses BreakdownWhen I published my last article about the Rilton Cup, I got 2 messages from players to include a breakdown. (USD figures are approximate)
My PerformanceI gained 40 rating points and I made best rating performance in my life. I already have 5 IM norms so I don't have to worry about more norms. This is my 1st classical tournament in 2024 and I am happy with the performance.https://preview.redd.it/pwsvg8jxos0d1.png?width=623&format=png&auto=webp&s=44acba5ae727007bb04e0a55353c090d106fb321 PhotosMiscellaneous photos of the hotel, food, Dubai, etc. Photo References – (Burj Khalifa, Lunch, Shawramaa, Buttermilk Pack, Dubai Mall, Dubai Downtown, Thai Boba Tea, Coffee)All the following images are taken by Nikhil Dixit https://preview.redd.it/19awon53os0d1.jpg?width=867&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=54454cc146e2499afbd435386e16886d346c64a7 https://preview.redd.it/xaxtyp53os0d1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd1190b8dcd09ca9d4e81ffd15bb786d42623722 https://preview.redd.it/vizwoo53os0d1.jpg?width=1156&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74ed17802169faa3d1981c3f12c0981331f12cb1 https://preview.redd.it/tvdr2u53os0d1.jpg?width=867&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7db42ad77e577e26876aeb1fca370d3cad6f455f https://preview.redd.it/lma3du53os0d1.jpg?width=1156&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20da022f731be387e80016766bc0c5846a474795 https://preview.redd.it/2cunxs63os0d1.jpg?width=1156&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ba1f140505e1af8084f51c849f494f9dc66ba7f https://preview.redd.it/liak8u53os0d1.jpg?width=867&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7f8b28e71b4cbb04d18ee5418623df09e180394 https://preview.redd.it/k9bsyh83os0d1.jpg?width=867&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=609e118aff64643bb10204bee1f9fa5faa1180a8 |
2024.05.11 20:38 NyaanGyaan The World of KCD and KFS
Hello everyone, first I have to warn you that this is going to be a very long post, so pardon me before you continue my side of the KCD and KFS assumption. This post is for the new readers and the existing readers of these two stories, and if I missed any points, please feel free to mention, thank you and moving on…
I suddenly got an urge to calculate the possible ages of all the present characters from prequel and the main story of the kali series. I made few assumptions based on the story and created few other assumptions outside of the story (only if these characters were real and what could have been different?) and if the author and RC were planning on sequel which characters would be existing!
Point to note: KFS first season has only completed, so these assumptions were made with the help of season 1 and the entire KCD series.
Now, remember the story setting time periods and the main relations of the top main characters and frequent characters and their possible ages (with the help of pictures)
In the KCD Basu and Doobay family tree picture, the name of Radha Basu’s husband was ending with ____al and not ___il, so even if Anil was engaged to Radha he won’t possibly her husband (or it could be the dev and authors has made some great changes to the story before KFS was aired, so he could be the husband of Radha(but this old hag doesn’t deserve her)) and I heavily suspect he is married in secret but hasn’t told anyone yet!! So Avur could possibly be his descendant!
or else, if the author has some plans for Deviya to be resurrected in season 2, she would first and foremost meet Ratan in Tamas-Vittal (imo), because that place connects but separates the dead and the living (Samsara literally means life-cycle of birth and death) and probably just like fellow redditors mentioned that she may enter into time transmigration in season 2 (just like Christopher Nolan's movie interstellar but without black hole) and would adopt her own family member later in the story and her descendant would be Avur (Husband of Lalit Doobay)… (I hope the author can give a better surprise with this brand new S2 of KFS)
In the KFS, season 1 - episode of 10, Sara (Kali through her) says something like “You will spill rivers of blood after you die… Don’t be afraid… Death is always followed by new life and blood is your greatest strength. Spill it. Spill it and Die!” and later in the last episode Devi spilled the blood and killed the Dixit heir and then died in de clare’s arms, but I suspect, her blood contains some powers, that not only kill others but will also help her in resurrecting a new life.
Now, I have to mention that I really have a love-hate relationship with Amrit, one is he is arrogant for being a Doobay and second is that his soul is darker than the galaxy yet has some kindness to it, his whole aura was mostly created by Devdas and I should blame him for raising this baby like that.
Coming back to the point, he is a brahmin and has similar powers just like his grand-uncle Ram Doobay (I can strongly say that Ram was more human than Raj, Devdas, Vimal and Amrit can ever be and has seriously stolen my heart), yet also nowhere similar to the great powers that Ram holds, simply because Ram is driven with belief, is sometimes realistic but majorly idealistic and follows heart and not mind, while Amrit choose to be realistic more than anything and he is not driven by heart (ik my Amrit wife clan would be storming to snap me back but calm down, its just my assumption, nothing serious).
Whereas the fun part is that Amrit’s half-nephew Kiran Basu has the exact same powers like Ram, its just not explored enough in his journey yet but he shares all the qualities of Ram right from his appearances to behaviour, etc… (and I heavily suspect he could be Ram’s re-incarnation too, if his character was real and has a life outside the story, he would be obviously meant to be reborn as Kiran, like just look at the smile and grace Kiran holds, c’mon I am smitten with these two!!!).
Last but not least can we just take a look at how Priyanka has avenged the death of her ancestors indirectly!!! She chose to betray The Basu’s with the help of Vimal Doobay and later tried to kill Kiran, who would become her son if her plan got succeed!!! Thankfully, Amrit or Amala was able to stop that (depending on the players choice)
I want to clarify my doubt, please help me ppl.. In both the Stories, they mention that if Doobay and Basu form a connection, Kali Yuga would be born, but in the KFS, Indira is already about to exist, so how come no one foreseen that situation?!!
In KCD, Vimal believed that Amala was the reason that Kali Yuga born early, but if I am right, Kali Yuga was born even before Amala and Kiran came into existence and all the Doobay and Basu chose to ignore the fact of how Indira was born!!! (Plot hole)
Kiran repeats the words that he heard from Devdas and says “Doesn’t belong here, Doesn’t belong there, Desired by all and Rejected by all”(something like that and I have forgotten the dialogue pardon me, but you can get the context, if you have played the story!), he was talking about Amala and his mixed birth, then there was no mention of how Amala was born (In-detail I mean, they just said few sentences about it, but didn’t went deep into that) or who is their father!!! When Jyotsna was about to escape with Indira leaving India, She was already carrying Amala in her womb (again no characters noticed this, except for Vimal thou, he helped them escape so he can kill them later, wtf?! - Plot hole)
Someone said Basu generally have dark complexion, No they don’t, The ancestors of Indira, have a fair complexion and the later was born due to the affair of Raj and Radha, that mostly showed her Doobay side qualities and her daughter Jyotsna shares the same dark complexion but was more looking like her uncle Erit Thakur (If you looked closely) and as for Amala and Kiran (they mentioned in the story itself!!)….
So friends, just clarify my doubt and if I missed something mention that too!!! (ig&ik, I forgot something important, but I will catch-up to that later if I create a second part after KFS is over 😅)
Till then Sayonara people!!!
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I suddenly got an urge to calculate the possible ages of all the present characters from prequel and the main story of the kali series. I made few assumptions based on the story and created few other assumptions outside of the story (only if these characters were real and what could have been different?) and if the author and RC were planning on sequel which characters would be existing!
Point to note: KFS first season has only completed, so these assumptions were made with the help of season 1 and the entire KCD series.
Now, remember the story setting time periods and the main relations of the top main characters and frequent characters and their possible ages (with the help of pictures)
KCD - 1980 story setting:
- MC - Amala Basu - 25 (1980) most probably born at 1955
- Kiran Basu - 14 (1980) most probably born at 1966
- Amrit Doobay - 29 (1980) most probably born at 1951
- Jyotsna Basu - most probably born during the time period 1930 - 1931, died at the age of 47 or 48
- Kamal Basu - most probably born during the time period 1935 - 1936, aged around 44 or 45
- Avur Sharma - He is elder than Amrit, so he was most probably born during the time period of 1948-1950.
KFS - 1895 & 1900 story setting:
- MC - Deviya Sharma - 18 (1895), 23 (1900) - most probably born at 1877
- Radha Basu & Saraswathi Basu born during the same year like Deviya
- Kairas Sharma - most probably born at 1857 - 1861
- Kamal Rai - 39 (1895), 44 (1900) - most probably born at 1856
- Amrita Rai - most probably born during 1878 - 1879 (she would be aged around 16 or 17 during 1895) and (At 1900 she would be 21 or 22)
- Doran Basu - 36 (1895), 41 (1900) - most probably born at 1859
- Ram Doobay - 23 (1895), 28 (1900) - most probably born at 1872
- Raj Doobay - would be hardly around the age 35 or 36 during 1900 and the possible age difference with Ram would be 7 or 8 years
- Aditya Thakur - was 10 years old during 1900, most probably born at 1890
- Indira Basu - was born during the time period of 1900 - 1901
Basu Family:
- Vidya Basu - Mother to twins Radha and Saraswathi, elder sister of Doran, grandmother to Indira, great-grandmother to Jyotsna and Kamal, great-great-grandmother to Amala and Kiran
- Doran Basu - Younger brother of Vidya, uncle to the twins, granduncle of Indira, great-grand-uncle to Jyotsna and Kamal, great-great-granduncle of Amala and Kiran
- Radha Basu - Elder twin, mother to Indira, grandmother to Jyotsna and Kamal, great-grandmother to Amala and Kiran
- Saraswathi Basu - Younger twin, aunt of Indira, great-aunt to Jyotsna and Kamal, great-grandaunt to Amala and Kiran
- Indira Basu - Only daughter of Raj and Radha (born before Raj’s wedding to Amritha), half-sister to Devdas and Vimal Doobay, wife of Aditya Thakur, mother to Jyotsna and Kamal, grandmother of Amala and Kiran
- Jyotsna Basu - Elder and only daughter of Indira and Aditya, mother of Amala and Kiran, elder sister to Kamal, half-cousin to Amrit, Lalit and Rishi Doobay
- Kamal Basu - Younger and only son of Indira and Aditya, younger brother to Jyotsna, uncle to Amala and Kiran, half-cousin to Amrit, Lalit and Rishi Doobay
- Amala Basu - Daughter of Jyotsna and Foreigner father, niece of Kamal, half-niece to Amrit, Lalit and Rishi Doobay
- Kiran Basu - Son of Jyotsna and Foreigner father, nephew of Kamal, half-nephew to Amrit, Lalit and Rishi Doobay
Doobay Family:
- Doobay - Late father to Raj and Ram Doobay and previous head of Doobay family
- Raj Doobay - Head of the Doobay family, lover of Radha Basu, husband to Amrita Rai, father of Indira Basu, Devdas and Vimal, grandfather to Jyotsna, Kamal, Amrit, Lalit and Rishi and great-grandfather of Amala and Kiran
- Amrita Doobay (neé Rai) - Wife to Raj, mother of Devdas and Vimal Doobay, younger sister to Kamal Rai, grandmother of Amrit, Lalit and Rishi
- Ram Doobay - Second heir to Doobay, brother of Raj. Uncle to Indira Basu, Devdas and Vimal, grand-uncle to Amrit, Lalit and Rishi
- Devdas Doobay - Son of Raj and Amrita, half-brother to Indira Basu, elder brother to Vimal, father of Amrit, half-uncle to Jyotsna and Kamal, great-grand half-uncle to Amala and Kiran Basu. He became the head of Doobay family after Raj as the eldest heir and later his son Amrit took the charge of being the head of the family
- Sitara Doobay (neé Dixit) - Wife to Devdas and mother of Amrit (as per the image, the name is Sitarait)
- Vimal Doobay - Second son of Raj and Amrita, half-brother to Indira Basu, younger brother to Devdas, father of Lalit and Rishi, half-uncle to Jyotsna and Kamal, great-grand half-uncle to Amala and Kiran Basu. He hopes to become head of the Doobay family and the Dozen
- Aishwarya Doobay (neé Prasad) - Wife to Vimal Doobay and mother of Lalit and Rishi
- Amrit Doobay - Head of the Doobay family, cousin of Lalit and Rishi, half-cousin to Jyotsna and Kamal Basu, half-uncle to Amala (his betrothed and possible wife) and Kiran Basu
- Lalit Doobay - Vimal Doobay’s only daughter and elder sister to Rishi, younger cousin to Amrit, half-cousin to Jyotsna and Kamal Basu, half-aunt to Amala and Kiran Basu, wife of Avur Sharma
- Rishi Doobay - Only son to Vimal Doobay and younger brother of Lalit, youngest cousin to Amrit, half-cousin to Jyotsna and Kamal Basu, half-uncle to Amala and Kiran Basu (Just few years elder than Kiran and rival in love), One-side lover of Jaya Banerjeé
Sharma Family:
- Sharma - Late Brother of Anil Sharma and father of Kairas and Deviya. First heir to take over the Sharma family as a head
- Anil Sharma - He is the only uncle to Kairas and Deviya Sharma. supposedly engaged to Radha and is older than her by 20+ years, is meant to marry her according to Vidya Basu’s plan in getting him removed from the Sharma family to help Deviya, as he dreams to become the head of the Sharma family by taking Deviya’s place
- Kairas Sharma - Previous head of the Sharma family, elder brother to Deviya Sharma
- Deviya Sharma - Became the head of the Sharma family after her brother died, younger sister to Kairas Sharma.
- Avur Sharma - Became the head of the family during the period 1970 - 1980 and husband of Lalit Sharma (neé Doobay)
- Lalit Sharma (neé Doobay) - Wife of Avur Sharma
Thakur Family:
- Erit Thakur - Engaged to Saraswathi Basu, Uncle of Jyotsna and Kamal, grand-uncle to Amala and Kiran Basu
- Aditya Thakur - Husband to Indira Basu and is 10 or 11 years older than her, father of Jyotsna and Kamal, grandfather to Amala and Kiran Basu
Banerjeé Family:
- Priyanka Chauhan (neé Banerjeé) - Wife of Aryan Chauhan (who doesn’t belong to the Dozen)
- Jaya Banerjeé - Niece of Priyanka, possible gf/wife of Kiran Basu (depending on the players choice).
In the KCD Basu and Doobay family tree picture, the name of Radha Basu’s husband was ending with ____al and not ___il, so even if Anil was engaged to Radha he won’t possibly her husband (or it could be the dev and authors has made some great changes to the story before KFS was aired, so he could be the husband of Radha(but this old hag doesn’t deserve her)) and I heavily suspect he is married in secret but hasn’t told anyone yet!! So Avur could possibly be his descendant!
or else, if the author has some plans for Deviya to be resurrected in season 2, she would first and foremost meet Ratan in Tamas-Vittal (imo), because that place connects but separates the dead and the living (Samsara literally means life-cycle of birth and death) and probably just like fellow redditors mentioned that she may enter into time transmigration in season 2 (just like Christopher Nolan's movie interstellar but without black hole) and would adopt her own family member later in the story and her descendant would be Avur (Husband of Lalit Doobay)… (I hope the author can give a better surprise with this brand new S2 of KFS)
In the KFS, season 1 - episode of 10, Sara (Kali through her) says something like “You will spill rivers of blood after you die… Don’t be afraid… Death is always followed by new life and blood is your greatest strength. Spill it. Spill it and Die!” and later in the last episode Devi spilled the blood and killed the Dixit heir and then died in de clare’s arms, but I suspect, her blood contains some powers, that not only kill others but will also help her in resurrecting a new life.
Now, I have to mention that I really have a love-hate relationship with Amrit, one is he is arrogant for being a Doobay and second is that his soul is darker than the galaxy yet has some kindness to it, his whole aura was mostly created by Devdas and I should blame him for raising this baby like that.
Coming back to the point, he is a brahmin and has similar powers just like his grand-uncle Ram Doobay (I can strongly say that Ram was more human than Raj, Devdas, Vimal and Amrit can ever be and has seriously stolen my heart), yet also nowhere similar to the great powers that Ram holds, simply because Ram is driven with belief, is sometimes realistic but majorly idealistic and follows heart and not mind, while Amrit choose to be realistic more than anything and he is not driven by heart (ik my Amrit wife clan would be storming to snap me back but calm down, its just my assumption, nothing serious).
Whereas the fun part is that Amrit’s half-nephew Kiran Basu has the exact same powers like Ram, its just not explored enough in his journey yet but he shares all the qualities of Ram right from his appearances to behaviour, etc… (and I heavily suspect he could be Ram’s re-incarnation too, if his character was real and has a life outside the story, he would be obviously meant to be reborn as Kiran, like just look at the smile and grace Kiran holds, c’mon I am smitten with these two!!!).
Last but not least can we just take a look at how Priyanka has avenged the death of her ancestors indirectly!!! She chose to betray The Basu’s with the help of Vimal Doobay and later tried to kill Kiran, who would become her son if her plan got succeed!!! Thankfully, Amrit or Amala was able to stop that (depending on the players choice)
I want to clarify my doubt, please help me ppl.. In both the Stories, they mention that if Doobay and Basu form a connection, Kali Yuga would be born, but in the KFS, Indira is already about to exist, so how come no one foreseen that situation?!!
In KCD, Vimal believed that Amala was the reason that Kali Yuga born early, but if I am right, Kali Yuga was born even before Amala and Kiran came into existence and all the Doobay and Basu chose to ignore the fact of how Indira was born!!! (Plot hole)
Kiran repeats the words that he heard from Devdas and says “Doesn’t belong here, Doesn’t belong there, Desired by all and Rejected by all”(something like that and I have forgotten the dialogue pardon me, but you can get the context, if you have played the story!), he was talking about Amala and his mixed birth, then there was no mention of how Amala was born (In-detail I mean, they just said few sentences about it, but didn’t went deep into that) or who is their father!!! When Jyotsna was about to escape with Indira leaving India, She was already carrying Amala in her womb (again no characters noticed this, except for Vimal thou, he helped them escape so he can kill them later, wtf?! - Plot hole)
Someone said Basu generally have dark complexion, No they don’t, The ancestors of Indira, have a fair complexion and the later was born due to the affair of Raj and Radha, that mostly showed her Doobay side qualities and her daughter Jyotsna shares the same dark complexion but was more looking like her uncle Erit Thakur (If you looked closely) and as for Amala and Kiran (they mentioned in the story itself!!)….
So friends, just clarify my doubt and if I missed something mention that too!!! (ig&ik, I forgot something important, but I will catch-up to that later if I create a second part after KFS is over 😅)
Till then Sayonara people!!!
2024.04.29 21:24 mesenius 50 Oink Games Reviewed!
 | submitted by mesenius to boardgames [link] [comments] My current collection. Some of the games reviewed I don't own but have obviously played them and hope to acquire some of them soon. This past weekend I realized I had played 50 different Oink Games. And because I’ve already written comments for so many of them on BGG I decided I would write one for the games that I hadn’t. Since I’ve never quite seen a list like this I decided to compile all mini reviews and present them to you unabridged. Some are silly, some are rather insightful, some are really short and some are long (and could be longer). I apologise in advance for the abuse of parentheses. For those that don’t know, Oink Games is a Japanese publisher that has been around since the early 2010s. They’re famous for their mini box games with attractive design and high quality components, as well as a tendency to experiment with game mechanics in ways not usually seen in the West. I’m aware many of these were not originally Oink Games. Friends often say that Modern Art shouldn’t be counted. But if that’s the case then neither should Scout, nor Troll, nor Tricks and the Phantom, etc. That said, these mini reviews are arranged based on year of release of the Oink edition. Oink Games that are not reviewed: Stray Thieves, Cowardly Bat, Dibdib, Sanrio Speedwolf, People Friendly Game, Kankeri, Dying Message (unreleased). A friend in the city I used to live owns the first three but we never got to play them (I’m particularly interested in Cowardly Bat as I’m a Taiki Shinzawa fan). The next two are available in Japan but I really have no interest in them. I hope to get Kankeri at some point, and I hope Dying Message gets an English release (so far all photos show components only in Japanese). Without further ado. In a Grove 5 I've played In a Grove five times now and have come to the conclusion that despite being excited about it, it just doesn’t work for me. I keep coming back to it because the way the murder scene is set is so inviting, it’s a game asking to be played. But it just doesn't do it for me. It’s a bit of a deduction game with a bit of a bluffing game, but it's too repetitive, opportunities for clever bluffing plays are few, and it outstays its welcome. I also can't believe that for the newer edition they got rid of the token and rule that let you tamper the scene, that was the best part! A Fake Artist Goes to New York 9 This is probably my favourite party game. For starters it’s one where you can truly say that no two plays will ever be the same. Even the same clue, with the same group and the same fake artist would result in a different outcome. At surface level it’s certainly the best drawing game there is, it’s super easy to explain, and post-game laughs are guaranteed when you hear your friend explain why they drew that odd looking line with a swirl at the end. Under the surface its name and the collectively created outcome (the “painting” if you will) are a pretty funny commentary on the world of art and the New York scene. Saruyama 7 I haven't played the Oink edition, which unfortunately seems nearly impossible to get nowadays, never mind for a reasonable price (someone please sell me one!). That said, I really like this game, it feels like a proto-LAMA, making it way all about managing your hand of cards. While the best decisions in LAMA are not present (push your luck for another card, or cut your losses and quit the round early), setting yourself up as you build the pyramid is also an interesting decision as it's possible that your plan is hijacked by others and now you're left with a narrower pyramid with less options available. It's clever, super simple to teach, plays in less than 15 minutes, and thus is the perfect filler. Kobayakawa 8 Mr. Sasaki's Kobayakawa is probably the best version of poker striped down to its basics that I've played. This plays great at all player counts (3-6p) and is truly a great starting point for anyone wanting to get into poker as it gets rid of the added complexity of learning poker hands and how they rank, instead introducing an easy to interpret system of probability while retaining the core bluffing and betting element of poker. I enjoy both the direct simplicity of the original game (in which bet amounts are fixed) and the slightly added more poker-like rules of the second edition (in which you can decide how much you bet). The Oink production is fantastic, the metal coins are great and there really is no reason for a game so simple to come in a larger package (like the non-Oink editions have done). Dungeon of Mandom 7 A really good push your luck game, although unless you're a collector or like an even smaller box, there's no reason to have this one instead of Dungeon of Mandom VIII which includes everything in this box plus more. Maskmen 9 For how hard a time I had learning this one properly, you wouldn't expect me to have it in such high regard. And yet Maskmen is probably my favourite Oink original. I've become quite fond of Taiki Shinzawa's designs, a lot of them as trick-takers/card-shedders seem to rely on the strength of their gimmick, and while they remain great games, they also lose some of their charm once you get past the gimmick. Not Maskmen. Maskmen treads the (ring's) rope and strikes a harmony between novelty (cards are unranked at the beginning of the round) and tradition (this is a straightforward card-shedder) that I can't say I've encountered in any other design. Unlike Scout, of which my regard drops with every play, my enjoyment and admiration of Maskmen has not stopped increasing. There is one caveat. From my own experience as someone who struggled with getting all the rules down correctly, to know that we were playing the right way, and from the experience of friends who have taught it whilst having only a 90% understanding of the rules, you would ideally want to learn to play this from someone who already knows how to play it, as it could easily fall flat if you're learning it from scratch and play something wrong. Or maybe I'm just dumb and you're way smarter than I am and won't have a problem at all :) Deep Sea Adventure 7 In the words of Jay from Cardboard East: “The game that built the house of Oink.” And indeed the one that started it all for me around 6-7 years ago. After playing 50 different Oinks, beginning to write about this one made me realize how much Oink/Mr. Sasaki loves push your luck games! I love them myself, perhaps why I was so enamoured by this after my first play. Deep Sea Adventure is definitely improved by the expansion die, which opens up the game to more improbable plays happening (specially at higher player counts). While it's nowhere near my top 5 of favourite Oinks, this one just feels like an evergreen, hopefully there's always an Oink around to keep on publishing it. Rights 6 Rights is easily overshadowed by its older brother Startups. The problem with Rights is that passing a card for a second time is generally always a bad decision. You're giving the next player a risk-free card AND they get to take the next turn as well. Meanwhile you simply paid AND lost the chance of drawing a card of your own, essentially paid to forfeit your turn to very little gain for yourself. I'll gladly play Rights from time to time, it makes for an even lighter game than Startups because the decisions are simpler, but it’s just nowhere near as good. Troll 6 When I first got into Oinks this is the game I most desperately wanted to play. Dan Thurot's review, the theme, and the attractive images on here made it a must have for me. Unfortunately Troll didn't quite live to these expectations I had for it. While it's a fine push your luck game, often turn order will force you into playing certain cards, leaving the impression that your chances have been hindered by no fault of your own. In a way I guess I don’t love this for the same reasons that In a Grove doesn’t work for me. Perhaps this sounds too harsh, because I do enjoy it, it's quick, and when you do manage to pull off a risky x2 play it's so satisfying. If someone wants to play it I’ll gladly play it so it's definitely worth having, but not for the secondary market prices it usually goes for nowadays. Nine Tiles 7 An exercise in pure speed, nothing more, and a perfect game because of it. This game can be explained in 10 seconds, probably the only one in my collection I can say that about. Like many games of its kind, it very rapidly pushes away people who are not evenly matched. But finding someone who can match you and taking them on 1v1 is one of the best experiences in the hobby. Alternatively, it can very easily be balanced by handicapping good players and allowing slower players a 10-15 second head start. I own two copies of this because it includes rules to easily expand it to 8p (which unfortunately I haven't been able to try yet). I'm not really interested in any of the IP editions (I've lost count of how many there are now) (save for the Moomin edition as a gift for my partner), but I would love to be able to find the wooden version. I remember seeing it on amazon jp back in the day but I wasn't really a collector yet and importing it seemed too expensive. Twins 7 One of (as far as I know) Knizia's take on poker is unfortunately rather incomplete in its packed form. The extra round scoring cards uploaded by the Dr. himself are a must in order to keep the game from becoming a repetitive amount of rounds that play out the same way. Unlike Oink's other poker inspired game (Kobayakawa) where the focus is on the bluffing and betting aspect of the game, Twins is more focused on the timing, hand analysis/interpretation, and knowing when to go big with regards to the available pot (which is pre-set). Twins changes the luck-of-the-draw aspect as well, which is frontloaded instead of spread out through a hand, which also helps players build their hands in what they believe will give them the best chances at a win. All in all, a very good and underrated and rather obscure Knizia! Insider 8 Despite the slightly convoluted flow chart ending, Insider is an all-round fantastic social deduction game that can pretty much be played with anyone. My family loves this, non-gamer friends love this, gamer friends love this. Albeit, the game is better (specially with gamers) when adding the follower role from the Black edition, it's still perfectly playable without it. Also, although gameplay is very similar I much prefer (and it's easier to explain) the theme of an insider sneakily manipulating the group into an answer, rather than a werewolf who knows a word… The Pyramid’s Deadline 7 Why is this one held in such low regard!? The answer is probably because an unclear rulebook leaves you wondering about the most important part of the game; what is a valid pyramid? When you have that down (and it really isn't that hard, the info is there) this is a fantastic dice drafting and personal puzzle builder that I would play any day over Sagrada. Yes, it's possible that the group gets super unlucky and the game ends in round one or two (I never said it was a perfect game), but more often than not it's a quick battle of how many risks you can take before it is over, while your neighbour there played it safely with his crappy but simple and effective pyramid and is just pushing for the game to end. Startups 9 A strong contender for the title of "Most Knizian Game Not Designed by Knizia". This is probably by 3rd favourite game published by Oink (after Maskmen and Modern). The theme in Rights probably works better (smaller holders have to pay for using a patent to the main holder), but the companies in Startups are so endearing that I've no doubt they've been a factor in this game's continued success. Mechanically, the anti-monopoly tile is one of the smartest design decisions there is, and arguably what keeps the whole game together and prevents it from devolving into a luck of the draw fest. The anti-monopoly tile in combination with the open market effectively get rid of all the problems in Rights, you will never lose your turn while still making existing shares more attractive for subsequent players. Dungeon of Mandom VIII 8 One of my top bluffing and push your luck games. And probably my favourite one for 2 players. The variety in adventurers, small box size, and attractive art (going minimalist on the equipment but detailed on the monster cards) make this the definitive version of this game. I love how this game provides you with only the slightest information to help you inform your decision; it's very rare that taking your turn is a total crapshoot. It's so quick and having two different ways of winning (by conquering the dungeon twice or having everyone else be defeated by it twice) is a brilliant design decision that provides for diverse game situations that, again, give you just the right amount of information for you to take a choice. A perfect balance between that and your luck. Modern Art 10 In my experience this is a game that brings out the best in people. The amount of hilarious moments I've had from people roleplaying Modern Art probably outweighs every other game. It's possibly the best integration of mechanics and theme that I can think of, although some newer versions have sort of missed the point by including canonical pieces of art with earned historical/cultural value (looking at you DiceTree). The Oink edition strikes a good balance between attractive graphic design, some lesser known artists, and a subtle dig at Mondrian (simply by including him). The genius in Modern Art is that the gameplay itself reflects and informs the theme; that the art pieces auctioned have no inherent value, it’s all created by and for the players. I guess it’s also obligatory to address the existence of another Oink edition of Modern Art. If you’re an Oink fan you’ve probably heard of Stamps, if you haven’t heard of it look it up on ebay. I don’t think I’ll ever own Stamps, it’s waaaaay too expensive for something I would never dare play, and as much as I love this collection keeping the investment at a relatively sane level has been a part of it from the very start. Troika 8 I'm always impressed by how low some of these games are ranked (6.2 atm). Troika integrates rummy-like hand building mechanics with a timer that is relatively managed by the players themselves. Rounds are tense, especially when half of the tiles have been revealed and nobody has managed to get fuel (a set of 3), working with the knowledge of your hidden tiles is crucial to avoid someone taking the tile you needed out of spite (something which happens very often). This is one of my go-to games with my partner, albeit it works much better with 3-4 players as in the 2 player game there's very little chance of someone ending the round without fuel. Zogen 4 A very mechanical game that doesn't really elicit any moments of laughter or excitement. It's just meh, not much else to say. Moneybags 6 Moneybags gets a bad rep for being a stupid game about guessing where the diamond might be. But it never pretends to be anything else! It's a funny stupid game, that I'll gladly play with a group of slight inebriated friends (gamers or non-gamers). It's not a masterpiece, but it's given me more moments of genuine laughter than so many more prestigious party games have. Plus, the coins and bags are awesome. Tomatomato 4 Infamously ranked by SU&SD as the worst Oink game (out of like 10 that they reviewed), this is probably aimed at a much younger audience. Lack of clarity in the rules regarding how quickly or how exactly the word should be intoned make it a very irregular experience. I do have to say, I played this with my mother and brother while the rest of my family was in the room next door. In their words, they were having a blast because of how stupid we sounded. Flotsam Fight 5 I have to play this one again and maybe with a different group. Generally well regarded by Oink fans, to me it felt like yet another funky card game in which many of my decisions are taken for me. It limits your options to the point that there’s usually a rather obvious play Void ? I could possibly write a whole essay about this game. If I were still a uni student I would do it for my theory class, with numerous references to Benjamin, Barthes, and Baudrillard. There’s just so many questions that arise from its (purported) existence, and I would love to attempt to answer them and have the paper published. But I digress, I’m pretty sure every board gamer has heard the snobbish comment “it’s not even a game, it’s an activity” used as a derogatory for a game they don’t think much of. Void asks players to entertain this dilemma both in form and in function. There is text on the box asking the question. There is a commanded rule for the components. The rule (as famously uttered by John Cleese in the 2001 classic, Rat Race): there are no rules. Interacting with the components is an act that relies on players executing their preconceived notions of what a game looks like, this creation of a game being the game itself. Is the game just the container of components then? Does Void become a game in the moment that someone partakes into accepting it’s scandalous proposition? Let’s go back two steps. Is Void a game? And if so can it be rated? Can the same subjective logic that we apply when offhandedly rating any other game be so easily applied to an object that is pushing to break the definition itself of everything that constitutes its whole? I’m ignoring something of course, and in fact I haven’t been completely honest about one thing. There is in fact one additional rule: to post the simulated final “game” situation online and compete with all the other, potentially limitless, amount of simulations, all from different creators (or should it be manipulators). When you think Void has handed you all the deconstructive blows it can by taking physical board game components to the limit, it hands you yet another one by transporting and transforming the resolutive endgame step of a regular game into an everchanging and never ending phase. Activity or game, they both end, Void persists, secula seculorum. Mr. Sasaki, you’re a genius. Tricks and the Phantom 8 This is probably one of the weirdest Oink games even though when you pull apart its pieces it doesn't really seem like it. The way hands are resolved operates a bit like an odd trick taker. Although it's not simply about winning the trick but about being able to identify who won the trick with limited information (the suit) regarding what they played. But then there's an added bluffing element with a card (the phantom) that can be played as any suit in an attempt to make other players believe it's the winner of the trick (something it can never actually do). So, it's mainly a bluffing and deduction game, with rounds that are pretty much tricks played in secret. This is a good one, if you can track a copy down then don't miss the chance. Attempting to explain it doesn't do justice to how well this game works, especially when everyone already understands well the game and you introduce the possibility of there being two phantoms. Mr. Face 6 Mr. Face is a bit of a Dixit clone although I'd rather play this any day. Yes, the scoring as per the rules is not exactly like Dixit's, but it's a tiny tweak to the game to house rule it and it works much better. This one has been a hit specially with younger people who are more attuned to the gargantuan amount of modern emojis and their uses. Always makes people laugh. Definitely wouldn't play it with less than 5 players. Dual Clash Poker 5 A simple partnership game that doesn't really bring much to the table. Would rather play any other partnership game before this one again. Very unexciting. Nine Tiles Panic 7 Another Oink title with a really random theme (burger eating aliens!?). I prefer this one although I think the OG Nine Tiles is a better design because of its sheer simplicity; it's pretty much an essential game. Yet the large variety of scoring cards and the fact that there's always three different ones at a time make Panic feel more complete (at least gamers will believe this). On top of this, the exciting balance between best city vs rushed city, make this one so much more replayable to me. Nine Tiles is a fine set of bones, but Nine Tiles Panic is the meat on those bones, it just works better because you're never left thinking that you've played the same game over and over again. Fafnir 7 Fafnir is such an oddball. It's an auction game, with the most random theme, Modern Art-like scoring, but a strange end of round system that always seems so confuse players in the first round, and which is controlled by what the players are using to pay auctions themselves. It's really easy for people to forget the colour limit when bidding during the game, and this rule is sort of integral to the game actually working. It works surprisingly well at 2p (not as good as Biblios as far as auction games go) and for that alone I rate it highly, although it's still better at 4p. Insider Black 8 While the Follower role is essential for my group at this point, and the question restriction cards are also fun, the actual words to be guessed and the shorter timer make it hard to prefer Black over the original. But in the end it's good old Insider, it does have the Follower, and it's a great game. Not to mention that box is so sexy! Ninja Catfoot and the Covert Action 7 Where Diamond Swap (more on this up ahead) fails at innovating Ninja Catfoot succeeds. Good dexterity games either rework a classic, or have a gimmick, and the gimmick in this one is quite unique. Yes, it's not going to be a fair game, phone's accelerometers have different sensibility, but it doesn't matter. It's so hilariously inventive to see everyone on the table slowly moving their hands like a cat's paw, everyone holding their breath, amazing experience. Durian 6 The game is super easy to explain and has generally been a hit with gamers and non-gamers alike, in game nights and party settings. But it's another one that I like less the more I play it. There's a few situations I've found really annoying, all of which make me a bit of an asshole because they're all people related. The game's outcome is wildly influenced by where people sit. Often someone will never the ring the bell, and if you never ring the bell the person before you will very likely win. The snowball negative scoring works thematically but I just don't enjoy it mechanically, as it makes it quite circumstantial that you're able to hurt the leading players in latter rounds. Often someone will not ring the bell on the person before them (who is winning) because there's only a small chance that the stock is wrong, despite knowing that by doing so they're condemning themselves and/or the person after them (both of whom are already 99% out of the game). This reminds me a lot of Sheriff of Nottingham, a game for which I really enjoy the gameplay and interactions, but absolutely hate the resolution. Hey Yo 8 The single team variant is great, but the team battle variant makes this one of my favourites Oinks. I love how it pushes everyone in a team to actually collaborate by speaking out on what they have and if they can keep a streak going for longer or not. The tiny speaker is a fantastic component too. Dokojong 6 Every play of this has made me like it a little less. It's a fun bluffing and guessing game but the consequences of one's actions are sometimes not very clear; it takes at least a couple of rounds for people I've played this with to really understand what's going on. It's also a bit hard to understand what's the correct play to inch you closer to winning. A strange design that I enjoy but am not desperate to bring out to the table very often. Moon Adventure 6 Turning Deep Sea Adventure into a coop game was not on anyone’s bingo card. I'm generally more of the thought that non-narrative coop games need to have some hidden information to be truly interesting. Even as a solo puzzle, there’s too much chance and it’s a bit too long to fit in alongside the Sprawlopolis and Orchards of the world. It’s just not for me but Moon Adventure works quite well, it's challenging, and doesn't outstay its welcome as it has a ver clear build up towards the endgame. Scout 6 If Deep Sea Adventure is Matt Busby, then Scout is Alex Ferguson (or Ruth and Jeter for US folks). But okay, this is going to be unpopular. I know I've written this for a lot of Oinks, but the more I play Scout the less I like it. Candy Crush style hand management is an amazing gimmick and climbing games are my fave. However, I do feel like this one has a bit of a learning curve and once that plateaued I lost almost most interest in the game. I still play it rather often because people really enjoy it (again crazy how this has supplanted Deep Sea Adventure as the Oink everyone knows!) but I always find myself playing my hands in autopilot. The really important decision comes at the start of every round, when you decide what path (side of the cards) you're going to take, and after this, I'm simply just executing this plan. For quite some time now, it's lacked the sparks of unpredictability that make games like this really enjoyable to me. The Diamond Swap 3 I think the idea and the way the game intends to execute it are brilliant. But in practice our group felt like it doesn't really work at all; the gems are way too similar which makes differentiating them a bit of a random exercise. More than once we even guessed who the burglar was, but it was still of little use in determining what was changed. The larger problem is the notice cards though. In practice, the notice cards with a higher reward, and in theory a bigger risk for the security leader, are actually always a better and easier option for the security leader. The more swaps there are, the most likely it is that you’ll get the right diamond by chance (since you only need to find one of the fakes!). The components and the rules as they are don't create what appears to be the intended gameplay and interactions. A disappointment. Tiger & Dragon 6 I've unfortunately only played the non-4p partnership versions of this, which from my perspective (and seemingly from BGG voters as well) is probably the only player count at which this really works. All in all, the 3p and 5p games are not good. There are few decisions to be taken (often none) and they're generally uninformed when you do have them. Really want to try the partnership game though. Town 66 6 I'm writing this now that Town 77 has released and officially replaced it (understandably so). Interactive sudoku-like puzzle is good though! The push your luck element of deciding when you should start to shed tiles is interesting, but plays of this are always really close (which I see as a bit of a negative) making it feel like early turns don't have much importance. Order Overload: Cafe 8 The premise itself is so good, you’re workers at a café trying to memorize as much as you can of a really large order. This is currently one of my favourite coops and definitely my favourite memory game (although That's Not a Hat is up there!). It's super easy to teach to the point I don't even bother with an explanation anymore; I just use level 1 to explain it on the go. It took me around 15 plays before one of my groups was able to clear level 7 (and at 6 players nonetheless!) The excitement as that final card was played when 4 players were out of the round already is the kind of rush I live for when playing games. Order Overload: Burgers 8 Order Overload: Burgers plays exactly the same as Order Overload: Cafe but players are now employees at a fast food restaurant. Cafe has been a big hit for my group, and I'd daresay it's probably my favourite memory game and one of the best truly intro level hidden information coops. Our group found Burgers to be easier as the menu is a bit less varied and there aren't 50 types of latte and coffee like in Cafe. This is more of a curiosity or a collector’s item but combining the two decks for an even larger menu is awesome. Note: This game and Order Overload: Insects come in a larger flatter box (you can see images I've uploaded on BGG), the Oink-sized box in the picture of my collection is custom made so it can fit in with the rest of them. Order Overload: Insects N/A After obtaining Burgers (and really enjoying mixing Cafe and Burgers together), the completionist in me sought out Insects. Unfortunately for us folks who can't read Japanese it turns out that the cards in this set don't include any text in English or any language that is not Japanese. I also learnt that it's more of a game version of an insects encyclopaedia, with each card including an illustration and additional information of the insect. The completionist in me still wants to attempt at translating every card using an image to text translator, but that probably won't go very well. Quickity Pickity 6 I really like a lot of real time speed games and this one is no exception. The different scoring objectives per round keep it from becoming stale. It seems to have come and gone only two years after being released. Possibly the ugliest looking Oink though, the colour choices and that cover… Make the Difference 6 I would not recommend playing this one with more than 3 players, definitely not with 5. With too many people searching for your differences it becomes very likely that they'll all be found, and very likely that they'll be found in the first run of the hourglass. Speed Where's Wally? is a great concept, but so far it just hasn't worked for me. Telecraft 8 Telecraft is an extremely amusing experience. While it clearly has rules and steps to be followed, its true joy lies in the minute-long experience of hearing your friends attempt to articulate what they are seeing, and the subsequent 2-3 minutes of seeing them completely butcher what you were sure was a perfect explanation. Without being a party game, this is one of Oink's most unexpectedly social games, in that it truly puts in the spotlight everyone's particular way of communicating. The abstract shapes and the figures they create are but a vessel for laughter and renewed kinship. Nine Tiles Extreme 7 Like the original it can still be taught in under a minute, the only added rule being how the theme card has to be interpreted. This small rule change really messes up with by brain. While with the original it only took me a few rounds to sort of memorize the tiles to find what I need, in this one the combinations and the fact that they're never related to each other with the theme card has made it really hard for me to get to know the tiles. It will probably happen eventually, and I'm eager to play Extreme more to get there. Whale to Look 8 Although it's considerably more rules heavy (including a handful of mini rules) than most Oinks, it ends up being a really nice mix between a collective light deduction puzzle and a betting game. Like many of Faidutti's designs this feels very classic, way less experimental than what you sometimes get from Oink. Turns are fast, and because you're playing in a shared space your opponents’ turns are always relevant to you. Finally, how the hell did they manage to fit so much stuff in that tiny box!? Order Overload: Spiel 23 7 Definitely more of a collector's item, but it's still Order Overload in the end. I think this one is way more fun when combined with the other sets than on its own. Town 77 7 It's easy to understate how much better this is than Town 66. The added flexibility of one more colour+shape is just the right amount so that the midgame feels more robust and players have more manoeuvrability with regards to what they can do and how they can attempt to screw their opponents. But the core tension of "when should I begin to discard?" is very much still there, in fact, the added flexibility just makes this decision better as you feel that you might still have a chance and hold out for another turn without discarding. Interactive sudoku ftw! Rafter Five 7 This is a solid dexterity game in the vein of Rhino Hero with regards to the gameplay (placing cards with a weight balance, and avoid making the structure fall), and with the same creative inventiveness of Icecool with regards to using the box itself as a crucial game component, both functional (elevate the play area so pieces can fall) and visual (the dramatic effect of seeing pieces elevated from the table is great). DroPolter 7 Oink's late 2023 venture into dexterity games has been everything I expected from them. DroPolter is such a quirky game, possibly the best looking Oink (sorry Modern Art), and a proof that you can totally design a game with the random assorted components you have lying around. Although it's clear the ones in the game were specifically chosen to be a pain in the ass when trying to drop them (will the key stop going into the ring!). The little bells are a great balancing tool; being the scoring mechanism and at the same time making subsequent rounds harder for you as there's more things in your hand. And they are so easy to drop unintended, I’ve played hilarious rounds were everyone in the table drops at least one. Moving Wild 6 I’ve only played this in its original release Zuuli. And while I think the art in Zuuli is charming, the Oink editions looks like an improvement, especially in making it easier to see how much certain cards with powers score. The meat and bones of this game is a straightforward drafting game. I’m already a big fan of Sushi Go, which is my go-to quick drafting game, this works very similarly except with extra steps and types of cards, which at least for me is not an improvement. I can’t say I love it, it does nothing wrong but it just lacks excitement or anything new to make it stand out. On a different note, animals you drafted for which you don’t have an enclosure simply… go away? Where are they going? D: - tl;dr this is my tierlist. And before I get hate for some of these placements, I'll gladly play and enjoy anything C and above. I can even play Ds every so often. E and F I'll never play again unless someone really really wants to try them out. My Oink Tierlist If you’ve read all this and you have Void, Saruyama, Kankeri, Cowardly Bat, Stray Thieves, or Dibdib and you want to help a fan out, shoot me a message and maybe we can do some business :) And if you’ve read all this, I guess thanks are in order as well. ¡Gracias! |
2024.04.27 16:28 tilted_dog7691 Board Games at 6:00 at the Social BTB
Game night will occur on Thursday (May 2) at the Social BTB. Games will be available between 6pm and 9pm. I will bring a mix of games, please feel free to bring your own. These are some of the games I will bring:
Hungry Hippos - Classic marble eating game
Citadel- select your allies and build the best city.
Love Letter - a card game where you flirt with a princess.
Dixit - can you communicate with surreal images? This card game will prove it.
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Hungry Hippos - Classic marble eating game
Citadel- select your allies and build the best city.
Love Letter - a card game where you flirt with a princess.
Dixit - can you communicate with surreal images? This card game will prove it.
2024.03.29 08:33 HammerHouseofHorrors Dixit Puzzle Collection - Blue Mishmash 1000 pieces
 | This was a lot of fun! I'd never heard of Dixit but I love the images on this one. submitted by HammerHouseofHorrors to Jigsawpuzzles [link] [comments] |
2024.03.27 18:38 selmonkhon I asked ChatGPT to list all the controversies that Bollywood A-listers have been involved in. I had to repeat it a few times, but I think it did a pretty decent job.
While it's challenging to list every single controversy involving Bollywood actors and actresses due to the vast number of incidents and the evolving nature of the industry, here are some notable instances:
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Certainly, here are five more examples of controversies involving Bollywood actors and actresses:
Certainly, here are five more examples of controversies involving Bollywood actors and actresses:
Certainly, here are five more examples of controversies involving Bollywood actors and actresses:
Certainly, here are 10 more examples of controversies involving Bollywood actors and actresses:
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- Salman Khan:
- Hit-and-run case: Salman Khan was involved in a hit-and-run incident in 2002, where his car allegedly ran over homeless people sleeping on a Mumbai pavement, resulting in one death and several injuries.
- Blackbuck poaching case: Khan was convicted in a case related to the poaching of blackbucks during the filming of the movie "Hum Saath-Saath Hain" in 1998.
- Allegations of domestic violence: There have been allegations of domestic violence against Khan by former partners, including actress Aishwarya Rai.
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan:
- Allegations of abuse: During her relationship with Salman Khan, Aishwarya Rai accused him of physical and emotional abuse, which garnered significant media attention.
- Controversial film scenes: Rai has faced criticism for certain scenes in her films that were deemed culturally insensitive or controversial.
- Shah Rukh Khan:
- Wankhede Stadium brawl: Shah Rukh Khan was involved in a physical altercation with security personnel at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium during an Indian Premier League match in 2012.
- Alleged links with Pakistan: Khan faced backlash and controversy for his comments regarding the inclusion of Pakistani cricketers in the Indian Premier League.
- Kangana Ranaut:
- Nepotism debate: Kangana Ranaut has been at the center of the nepotism debate in Bollywood, often making controversial statements about industry insiders and the prevalence of nepotism.
- Legal battles: Ranaut has been involved in several legal battles with fellow actors, filmmakers, and industry associations over issues ranging from defamation to copyright infringement.
- Deepika Padukone:
- JNU visit: Deepika Padukone faced backlash and controversy for her visit to Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in support of students protesting against a controversial citizenship law.
- Drug allegations: Padukone was named in media reports during an investigation into alleged drug abuse in Bollywood, although she denied any involvement.
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Certainly, here are five more examples of controversies involving Bollywood actors and actresses:
- Sanjay Dutt:
- Arms Act case: Sanjay Dutt was convicted under the Arms Act for possessing illegal firearms in connection with the 1993 Mumbai bombings. He served time in prison as a result of the conviction.
- Priyanka Chopra:
- Quantico controversy: Priyanka Chopra faced criticism for an episode of her television series "Quantico" that depicted Indian nationalists as terrorists, leading to backlash and calls for boycotts in India.
- Kareena Kapoor Khan:
- Size-zero controversy: Kareena Kapoor Khan sparked controversy and debate when she popularized the trend of achieving a size-zero figure, leading to concerns about unhealthy body image standards in the industry.
- Ranbir Kapoor:
- Alleged leaked video: Ranbir Kapoor found himself in the midst of controversy when a video purportedly showing him in a compromising position with a co-star was leaked online. The authenticity of the video was questioned, and Kapoor maintained that it was doctored.
- Madhuri Dixit:
- Affair rumors: Madhuri Dixit was embroiled in controversy when rumors of her alleged affair with actor Sanjay Dutt surfaced during the filming of the movie "Saajan." The rumors attracted significant media attention and scrutiny.
Certainly, here are five more examples of controversies involving Bollywood actors and actresses:
- Ranveer Singh:
- Intimate scenes controversy: Ranveer Singh faced criticism and controversy for his portrayal of intimate scenes in several films, with some viewers and critics labeling them as vulgar or inappropriate for Indian audiences.
- Alia Bhatt:
- Nepotism debate: Alia Bhatt, being from a family with strong ties to the industry, has been part of the ongoing debate surrounding nepotism in Bollywood. Some critics argue that her success is primarily due to her family background rather than her talent.
- Saif Ali Khan:
- Comments on history: Saif Ali Khan stirred controversy with his remarks about Indian history during promotions for the film "Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior," where he suggested that history could be rewritten to reflect different perspectives.
- Sonam Kapoor:
- Social media controversies: Sonam Kapoor has been involved in several social media controversies, including heated exchanges with followers over various issues such as feminism, politics, and social justice.
- Akshay Kumar:
- Citizenship controversy: Akshay Kumar faced scrutiny and controversy over his citizenship status when he was listed as a Canadian citizen in a voting list in India. This led to debates about his patriotism and loyalty to India.
Certainly, here are five more examples of controversies involving Bollywood actors and actresses:
- Kangana Ranaut:
- Bollywood drug nexus: Kangana Ranaut became embroiled in controversy when she made allegations of drug use and a drug culture prevalent in Bollywood, leading to a heated debate and investigation by authorities.
- Kartik Aaryan:
- Ouster from films: Kartik Aaryan's removal from several high-profile film projects, reportedly due to creative differences with filmmakers and producers, sparked controversy and speculation about his future in Bollywood.
- Anushka Sharma:
- Virat Kohli's performance criticism: Anushka Sharma faced backlash and controversy for being targeted by cricket fans who blamed her for her husband, Indian cricketer Virat Kohli's, poor performance in matches.
- Shilpa Shetty:
- Celebrity endorsements controversy: Shilpa Shetty faced criticism and controversy for promoting a controversial weight-loss product that was later banned by Indian authorities for false advertising and misleading claims.
- Rhea Chakraborty:
- Involvement in Sushant Singh Rajput's death: Rhea Chakraborty was at the center of a media frenzy and controversy following the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. She faced allegations of abetting his suicide and drug-related charges, which led to a prolonged investigation and trial.
Certainly, here are 10 more examples of controversies involving Bollywood actors and actresses:
- Aamir Khan:
- Intolerance remark: Aamir Khan sparked controversy and a heated national debate when he expressed concerns about rising intolerance in India during an awards ceremony, leading to backlash and criticism from various quarters.
- Sonakshi Sinha:
- Alleged unprofessional behavior: Sonakshi Sinha faced allegations of unprofessional behavior on the sets of certain films, including arriving late and causing delays in shooting schedules, which led to friction with filmmakers and co-stars.
- Varun Dhawan:
- Nepotism debate comments: Varun Dhawan came under fire for his remarks defending nepotism in Bollywood, where he stated that nepotism exists in every industry and that talent and hard work ultimately determine success.
- Jacqueline Fernandez:
- Tax evasion allegations: Jacqueline Fernandez faced allegations of tax evasion and financial irregularities related to her income and assets, leading to investigations by tax authorities and media scrutiny.
- Abhishek Bachchan:
- Criticism of acting skills: Abhishek Bachchan has faced criticism and controversy for his acting skills, with some questioning his ability to carry lead roles and attributing his success to his family background rather than his talent.
- Vidya Balan:
- Wardrobe malfunction controversy: Vidya Balan was embroiled in controversy when a wardrobe malfunction occurred during a public event, leading to widespread media coverage and debates about wardrobe choices and celebrity appearances.
- Ranvir Shorey:
- Twitter feud with filmmaker: Ranvir Shorey engaged in a heated Twitter feud with filmmaker Anurag Kashyap, where allegations and personal attacks were exchanged, leading to a public spectacle and media attention.
- Dia Mirza:
- Wildlife controversy: Dia Mirza faced backlash and controversy for her involvement in an event promoting wildlife conservation, where she was criticized for allegedly mistreating and mishandling animals during the event.
- Randeep Hooda:
- Social media controversy: Randeep Hooda faced criticism and controversy for his comments on social media, where he made remarks that were perceived as insensitive or offensive by certain sections of society, leading to backlash and calls for apology.
- Sara Ali Khan:
- Allegations of drug consumption: Sara Ali Khan was accused of consuming drugs during a party hosted by filmmaker Karan Johar, leading to speculation and media scrutiny about her personal life and associations.
2024.03.05 19:39 GobBluth9 [FS] [IL, 60563] - Android Netrunner, Castles of Burgundy, Alhambra, and more!
Cleaning up the collection - let me know if interested!
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- Android Netrunner (Core box) [4] - $45 This is the version. The coins are punched but the cards are untouched.
- Castles of Burgundy (Ravensburger ed) [4] - $35
- Risk English Vintage Collection Wooden Box Edition [4] - $15 (wooden box has small blemish, game is unplayed).
- Alhambra [4] - $30
- Mr. Jack New York [4] - $25
- Wits and Wagers [4] - $20
- Dixit [4] - $20
- Get Bit [3] - $15
- Catan: Dice Game [4] - $10
- Original 4 Root Faction Boards (first edition, old rules) [4] - $5
2024.03.04 19:24 Scott_Chtape From a Psalter?
Hey all-
Looking for help identifying what this is, and/or help in translating it. The area that the matting exposes is 10" (25.5cm) wide by 18" (45.75cm) long. Looks like ink on vellum, maybe? It's kind of wrinkly and fabric-ish. Google images turns up similar-looking examples, but nothing really exact.
I'm thinking it's a hymn or a psalm, maybe based on John 3:16?
Any help at all is appreciated!
Running it through Google translate gives me this:
Front (Latin->English):
fum alekua.ps It enchants.
No. Dequat. aplis Jhia.iij. good Amen
Dritnobis doctor. God
Loric q's uirt ſpüs ſtiquit
Cordanta purges the clemeter: aboib tucat aducrtis.
Bo fum ofhum
I became a common person through me
mervierit will be ditched and pas
Back (Latin->English):
Cook the people of your piety and make them come true: as if you gave them faith
larglaris tpacem.peronines Invnitate aufde.ibcoio dat perba ras diet cetera alia necia verso VoA Dú cóplerent.cn lys.ps.Dixit ons.cn ceteris Capt. Dù cóplerene Alli.i. They want to make friends. ibv. blessed us. The spirit of the saints.. Spüs ont No big deal
Is the most honorable MI
he becomes a son of a fu um in the world
to indicate to the world that l
that the world may be saved by ip
Front (Google text detection):
fum alekua.ps. Magificat.
No.Dequt.aplis. Jhia.iij. dobris. Amen
Dritnobis amédico. Dio.
Loric q's uirt ſpüs ſtiquit
cordanta cleméter expurget: aboib tucat aducrtis.Per:- In vnitate auß.cożonať phoǝศ.
Bo fum ofhum
lat commus per me fi quis
mervierit faluabitur et pas
ala mucomet ateluia.p's :-
Back (Google text detection):
cocede plebi tue pie pethaoms effecti:ut quibxdıntı fidem
larglaris tpacem.peronines. Invnitate aufde.ibcoio dat perba ras diet cetera alia necia verso VoA Dú cóplerent.cn lys.ps.Dixit ons.cn ceteris Capt. Dù cóplerene Alli.i. Voent fancte fpris. ibv.beata nobis.vel profa. Sancti ſpirit.. Spüs ont. No magnitu
On enim aUS MI
fit filium fu um in mundu
ut indicet mundum ſe l
ut faluetur mundus per ip
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Looking for help identifying what this is, and/or help in translating it. The area that the matting exposes is 10" (25.5cm) wide by 18" (45.75cm) long. Looks like ink on vellum, maybe? It's kind of wrinkly and fabric-ish. Google images turns up similar-looking examples, but nothing really exact.
I'm thinking it's a hymn or a psalm, maybe based on John 3:16?
Any help at all is appreciated!
Running it through Google translate gives me this:
Front (Latin->English):
fum alekua.ps It enchants.
No. Dequat. aplis Jhia.iij. good Amen
Dritnobis doctor. God
Loric q's uirt ſpüs ſtiquit
Cordanta purges the clemeter: aboib tucat aducrtis.
Bo fum ofhum
I became a common person through me
mervierit will be ditched and pas
Back (Latin->English):
Cook the people of your piety and make them come true: as if you gave them faith
larglaris tpacem.peronines Invnitate aufde.ibcoio dat perba ras diet cetera alia necia verso VoA Dú cóplerent.cn lys.ps.Dixit ons.cn ceteris Capt. Dù cóplerene Alli.i. They want to make friends. ibv. blessed us. The spirit of the saints.. Spüs ont No big deal
Is the most honorable MI
he becomes a son of a fu um in the world
to indicate to the world that l
that the world may be saved by ip
Front (Google text detection):
fum alekua.ps. Magificat.
No.Dequt.aplis. Jhia.iij. dobris. Amen
Dritnobis amédico. Dio.
Loric q's uirt ſpüs ſtiquit
cordanta cleméter expurget: aboib tucat aducrtis.Per:- In vnitate auß.cożonať phoǝศ.
Bo fum ofhum
lat commus per me fi quis
mervierit faluabitur et pas
ala mucomet ateluia.p's :-
Back (Google text detection):
cocede plebi tue pie pethaoms effecti:ut quibxdıntı fidem
larglaris tpacem.peronines. Invnitate aufde.ibcoio dat perba ras diet cetera alia necia verso VoA Dú cóplerent.cn lys.ps.Dixit ons.cn ceteris Capt. Dù cóplerene Alli.i. Voent fancte fpris. ibv.beata nobis.vel profa. Sancti ſpirit.. Spüs ont. No magnitu
On enim aUS MI
fit filium fu um in mundu
ut indicet mundum ſe l
ut faluetur mundus per ip
2024.02.29 23:08 pjdixit Accelerating growth for 3D Printing Service Providers
 | submitted by pjdixit to 3Dprinting [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/s7x0w5hclllc1.png?width=1289&format=png&auto=webp&s=10b4052ca801dfbea18540a9fa5b0a17891b0b55 Recorded this webinar this week which touches up on different aspects of accelerating growth for 3D Printing service providers. I hope it offers you some fresh perspective and some actionable items to take your 3D printing services business to the new heights. Link to the on demand webinar - https://youtu.be/C_NsHAKno2Y?si=jU5QC08rkOeMKNq0 If you have suggestion to make improvements, I am all ears. |
2024.02.23 23:15 QuennNa Escape, 500 pieces. Dixit puzzle collection.
 | Never played the game (Dixit). Just had to get this puzzle. Love the image. Nice little evening project. submitted by QuennNa to Jigsawpuzzles [link] [comments] |
2024.02.23 00:18 pjdixit Predicting optimal orientation of a part in 3D space to minimize time and material required to print the part using AI/ML
 | Hi 3D Printing community, With increasing adoption of generative design, finding optimal orientation of the part is not as intuitive as it is for manually designed parts with flat surfaces. submitted by pjdixit to 3Dprinting [link] [comments] What do you think about ability to predict the following using AI/ML: 1. Optimal orientation of a part in 3D space to minimize time and material required to 3D print a part. This meant for professional 3D printing services which print hundreds if not thousands of parts. If you are printing 100's of parts with expensive metal powder or resins cost of material can easily add up significantly. Similarly, even few mins of time saved on each part can add up to days of lead time. Additional material cost and lead time can cause to lose the business. So anything that can help you with saving material cost and expedite production is worth considering in my opinion.
We have developed the prototype with AI/ML model trained with over 10000 CAD models so far. To our own surprise prediction were 95% accurate when compared to manually slicing the part and obtaining time and material values. However, there is still a lot to be done to improve the results. Below is the snapshot of current UI. Upload Page Orientation Analysis Results We would like to partner with 3D Printier OEMs to make this functionality available in their own build prep software so that users can access this feature without leaving their current slicers. I will appreciate any feedback and how we can make it better. Thank you! |
2024.02.06 08:35 AkshatSn Please help us :police is just questioning us no arrest is being made
 | Please help this spread I lost my mother submitted by AkshatSn to FingMemes [link] [comments] Yeh meri late mother ka note aur news cutting hai jo ki wo dard prateet karta hai jo wo 18 mahino se seh Rahi thi aur yeh prateet karta hai ki iss Desh ka kanoon aur loktantra ka so-called chautha stambh "samachaar mahyam "kin cheezo pe dhyaan Dena chahta hai aur de rha hai - kya kisi ki fake death ko cover karna jyada jaroori hai rather than kahi kisi ki sahi mein jaan Jaa Rahi hai ? Retweet at https://twitter.com/Akshat_Sn/status/1754176391514619906?t=8dIwEiSRuCeLvAYTGHaOEw&s=19 Context:- mein 3rd floor. Pe rehta hu flats mein Mummy aur buaji Ghar se bahar nikalte the to yeh log galat tareeke se galat jagah choote the mummy ne bahar nikalna band kardiya ghar se toh. Apne Ghar se yeh log cheekh cheekh ke ghatiya. Baatein bolte the mummy bohot pareshaan ho gyi thi papa 1.5 saal se police ko 3-4 kilo bhar ke literally complaints bhej bhej. Ke thak chuke the lekin court case ko ulte seedhe cheezein laga ke band kardete the cause. Of rishwat from 12 people papa cm office bhi gyi Yogi adityanath ke paas Lucknow mein but wo case bhi aise hi galat tareeke se band kar diya gya 1 August 2022 se ladd rhe the hum sab apne justice ke liye but koi saath nahi de rha tha we have no political backround And no grandparents support no family backround we have only 4 members in our family Toh mummy aakhirkaar thak gyi aur pankhe se latak kar apni Jaan dedi Maine unhe sabse pehle dekha thha sach bata rha hu abhi Tak tuta hua hu andar unki jo body neeli padh rakhi thi aur jeeb bahar aankhein ssoji abhi bhi exact image yaad hai it was 1 is of Feb on 2024 Main abhi 14 yrs ka hu agar aap kuch help karna chaho toh please iss article ko share kardo |
2024.02.06 08:34 AkshatSn Please help us :police is just questioning us no arrest is being made
 | Please help this spread I lost my mother submitted by AkshatSn to sunraybee [link] [comments] Yeh meri late mother ka note aur news cutting hai jo ki wo dard prateet karta hai jo wo 18 mahino se seh Rahi thi aur yeh prateet karta hai ki iss Desh ka kanoon aur loktantra ka so-called chautha stambh "samachaar mahyam "kin cheezo pe dhyaan Dena chahta hai aur de rha hai - kya kisi ki fake death ko cover karna jyada jaroori hai rather than kahi kisi ki sahi mein jaan Jaa Rahi hai ? Retweet at https://twitter.com/Akshat_Sn/status/1754176391514619906?t=8dIwEiSRuCeLvAYTGHaOEw&s=19 Context:- mein 3rd floor. Pe rehta hu flats mein Mummy aur buaji Ghar se bahar nikalte the to yeh log galat tareeke se galat jagah choote the mummy ne bahar nikalna band kardiya ghar se toh. Apne Ghar se yeh log cheekh cheekh ke ghatiya. Baatein bolte the mummy bohot pareshaan ho gyi thi papa 1.5 saal se police ko 3-4 kilo bhar ke literally complaints bhej bhej. Ke thak chuke the lekin court case ko ulte seedhe cheezein laga ke band kardete the cause. Of rishwat from 12 people papa cm office bhi gyi Yogi adityanath ke paas Lucknow mein but wo case bhi aise hi galat tareeke se band kar diya gya 1 August 2022 se ladd rhe the hum sab apne justice ke liye but koi saath nahi de rha tha we have no political backround And no grandparents support no family backround we have only 4 members in our family Toh mummy aakhirkaar thak gyi aur pankhe se latak kar apni Jaan dedi Maine unhe sabse pehle dekha thha sach bata rha hu abhi Tak tuta hua hu andar unki jo body neeli padh rakhi thi aur jeeb bahar aankhein ssoji abhi bhi exact image yaad hai it was 1 is of Feb on 2024 Main abhi 14 yrs ka hu agar aap kuch help karna chaho toh please iss article ko share kardo |
2024.02.04 07:42 ACTRESSESKAKURSI Dharmendra - Sexy Dad..
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2024.01.27 06:54 tilted_dog7691 Game night at the Social BTB
Game night will occur on Thursday, February 1, at the Social BTB. Games will be available between 6 pm and 9 pm. Games will be present during this time, but arrive whenever you want to. I will bring a mix of games, please feel free to bring your own. These are some of the games I will bring:
Dixit - Use surreal images to give clues.
Thunder Ally: Vendetta - A Mad Max board game. Blow up cars and race through the desert.
Flux- Starts as a simple card game. Draw a card, play a card. The problem is that the rules change.
Elder Sign - Use dice to fight Cthulu and his dark minions.
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Dixit - Use surreal images to give clues.
Thunder Ally: Vendetta - A Mad Max board game. Blow up cars and race through the desert.
Flux- Starts as a simple card game. Draw a card, play a card. The problem is that the rules change.
Elder Sign - Use dice to fight Cthulu and his dark minions.
2024.01.22 17:58 miarrial Le mystère de Copernic résolu : sa tombe enfin retrouvée !
 | Lien submitted by miarrial to Histoire [link] [comments] Il aura fallu cinq siècles et deux enterrements pour que les archéologues confirment avoir trouvé la tombe de l'astronome Nicolas Copernic. Pour découvrir la dépouille du « père » de la cosmogonie héliocentrique, les scientifiques ont dû mener une véritable enquête à travers le temps, faisant même appel à des médecins-légistes procédant à des analyses ADN pendant plusieurs années. Gravure sur bois de Nicolas Copernic surplombé par le système solaire héliocentrique, entouré d'illustres astronomes En se baladant dans les collatéraux de la basilique Santa Croce, à Florence (Italie), on peut admirer les gisants de quelques illustres personnalités, dont Galileo Galilée. La sépulture abritant les restes du savant toscan est à la mesure de l'importance de ses travaux. De nombreuses figures de la Renaissance et l'époque moderne, ayant eu une influence dans le développement des sciences au sortir du Moyen Âge, ont ainsi eu droit à la création de monuments posthumes. Une personnalité faisait office d'exception : Nicolas Copernic. L'astronome, médecin et mathématicien s'est trouvé au cœur d'une enquête archéologique durant plusieurs décennies. Les spécialistes n'ont découvert l'emplacement de sa dépouille qu'en 2005, près de 500 ans après sa mort. Nicolas Copernic (Mikołaj Kopernik en polonais) est une figure majeure de l'histoire de la Pologne, trônant ici devant le Palais Staszic de Varsovie De revolutionibus copernicienneNé en 1473 dans un village de Poméranie, dans l'actuelle Pologne, Nicolas Copernic fréquente les cercles savants d'Europe centrale, intégrant l'Université de Cracovie en 1491. Cet ardent humaniste développe ses goûts pour les sciences, tout en entretenant de bonnes relations avec le clergé. Le XVIe siècle est une ère de changements pour la science européenne. Les penseurs argumentent et débattent des axiomes transmis par les « Anciens », les philosophes de l'Antiquité tels qu'Aristote, Galien, Plutarque ou Ptolémée. Ce dernier, né en 100 et mort en 168, avait notamment influencé les sciences médiévales avec son traité d'astronomie, L'Almageste. Mais, en étudiant rigoureusement les manuscrits de Ptolémée, Copernic en souligne la complexité et les irrégularités.Le jeune astronome polonais réfléchit alors à un système différent, dont l'issue est un changement radical de la conception cosmogonique. En rédigeant son Magnum opus, nommé De Revolutionibus orbium coelestium, Copernic étaye l'idée d'un système héliocentrique, en opposition au géocentrisme. Là où les précédentes cosmogonies plaçaient la Terre au centre de la révolution de tous les astres de la voûte céleste, c'est désormais le Soleil qui occupe cette place. Une idée existant déjà depuis l'Antiquité, mais marginalement, avec des philosophes comme Philolaos de Crotone, au Ve avant J.-C. De Revolutionibus est un ouvrage massif de plus de 2 500 pages, en six livres. Des proches de Copernic, dont deux cardinaux, l'incitent à publier son traité peu de temps avant sa mort. Des écrits racontent comment l’astronome s'est vu remettre la première version imprimée de son ouvrage seulement quelques heures avant sa mort. La cathédrale de Frombork, lieu de sépulture de Nicolas Copernic Comme le nez au milieu de la figureCopernic meurt dans la petite commune de Frombork, à quelques kilomètres de Gdansk. Le savant est alors inhumé dans la cathédrale locale, sans extravagance. Copernic était surtout connu au sein de la communauté universitaire. Des personnes commencent à rechercher la dépouille du savant à partir du XVIIe siècle, sans succès. Autour de la cathédrale, des centaines de tombes inconnues ont fleuri au fil des années. Et c'est en 2004 qu'un archéologue, Jerzy Gassowski, va émettre l'idée que Copernic est enterré parmi les nombreuses tombes de la cathédrale de Frombork.Une mission d'excavation est mise en place avec l'accord de l'évêque pour creuser à l'intérieur du bâtiment, à proximité de l'autel duquel Copernic priait tous les jours. En 2005, une quinzaine de squelettes ont été exhumés de la fosse, dont un crâne. En examinant ses caractéristiques, les chercheurs réalisent qu'ils viennent de mettre la main sur un individu âgé d'environ 70 ans au moment de sa mort. Soit l'âge de Copernic lors de ses funérailles. La tombe de Nicolas Copernic, située dans la cathédrale de Frombork. Le crâne est étudié par des services de police qui reconstituent virtuellement le faciès de l'homme retrouvé sous la cathédrale. Et la ressemblance avec les portraits de Copernic peints au XVIe siècle est frappante. Mais tout n'est que supposition. C'est en 2008 que les théories sont avérées. Des chercheurs de l'université d'Uppsala, en collaboration avec l'institut médico-légal de Cracovie, analysent deux cheveux retrouvés dans un traité d'astronomie, le Calendarium Romanum Magnum de Johann Stöffler. Écrit en 1518 et traitant du calendrier romain et des interprétations zodiacales, le livre est d'une grande inspiration pour Copernic dans ses travaux. L'exemplaire du Calendarium détenu par Uppsala appartenait à Copernic lui-même. En croisant les résultats ADN du crâne et d'un fémur retrouvés dans la sépulture de Frombork, et ceux des cheveux prélevés dans le livre de Stöffler, les archéologues ont établi le lien formel. La preuve était là, cachée aux yeux de tous pendant cinq siècles. En 2010, les restes de l'astronome sont retournés à la terre, au sein de la cathédrale. Cette fois-ci, une grande stèle noire gravée du portrait de Copernic et du système solaire vient marquer son tombeau. Une marque de réconciliation, quelque peu tardive, avec l'Église catholique. En 1616, le Vatican frappait de censure De Revolutionibus, après qu'un certain Galilée ait fait la démonstration des thèses coperniciennes dans une série d'expériences ayant suscité l'émoi et la polémique dans la société croyante du XVIIe siècle. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Copernic retrouvé et inhumé une seconde foisArticle de Jean-Luc Goudet, publié le 25 mai 2010Au terme d'une enquête étonnante, le corps de Nicolas Copernic a été formellement identifié et le grand astronome a pu être inhumé en grande pompe presque exactement 467 ans après sa mort dans la cathédrale de Frombork, en Pologne, là où il disposait d'un observatoire. Nicolas Copernic avait disparu. Comme les prêtres de Frombork, le chanoine, qui était aussi médecin et astronome, a été enterré sous la cathédrale dans une sépulture anonyme. Par la suite, rien n'a été fait pour rappeler la mémoire de cet homme qui avait écrit De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (Des révolutions des sphères célestes), un ouvrage imprimé seulement l'année de sa mort, ainsi que Commentariolus, qui sera publié... au dix-neuvième siècle. Son œuvre, confidentielle de son vivant, était connue de quelques-uns, notamment de Georg Joachim Rheticus, enthousiasmé devant la théorie de Copernic qui faisait tourner la Terre et les planètes (au sens moderne du mot) autour du Soleil, comme l'avait imaginé aussi Aristarque de Samos 1.700 ans auparavant. L'idée, considérée comme contraire aux Ecritures, était condamnée par l'Eglise et deviendra même une hérésie lorsque, plus tard, elle commencera à se répandre et sera portée par d'autres, dont, bien sûr, Galilée et Kepler. C'est donc discrètement que le chanoine Copernic, décédé à 70 ans, est inhumé après sa mort, datée (sans certitude) du 24 mai 1453. Il faut attendre 2004 pour qu'un archevêque de Frombork, Jacek Jezierski, décide de rechercher le corps de l'astronome héliocentriste sous les dalles de la cathédrale. Il fait appel à Jerzy Gassowski, de l'Institut d'archéologie de l'Ecole supérieure des sciences humaines de Pultusk, lequel demande l'aide de Karol Piasecki, anthropologue qui avait déjà collaboré avec la police de Varsovie pour la reconstruction de visages à partir de crânes. Système héliocentrique simplifié de Copernic, extrait de De revolutionibus Enquête policièreA l'aide d'un système radar, les scientifiques auscultent les sous-sols de la cathédrale à la recherche des sépultures après avoir délicatement soulevé quelques dalles de marbre (classées en tant que monument historiques). En août 2005, dans la tombe numéro 13, les archéologues découvrent un squelette qui semble intéressant, dont il manque seulement la mâchoire et le pied gauche, du fait d'un déplacement des restes postérieurement à l'inhumation. Dans cette couche du seizième siècle, c'est le seul squelette de vieillard. Le « crâne très prometteur », selon les termes de Karol Piasecki (dans un rapport sur la découverte du corps de Copernic), est transporté au laboratoire central de la police scientifique. Le secret est bien gardé, notamment pour éviter que la presse s'empare de l'affaire car, dixit le même Piasecki, elle est « capable de créer une réalité indépendamment de la vérité ».L'analyse des os et du squelette conclut qu'il s'agit d'un homme dont l'âge au moment du décès correspond aux soixante-dix ans de Copernic. La reconstitution du visage, réalisée sur ordinateur, montre une grande ressemblance avec les portraits connus de l'astronome, notamment un nez asymétrique, cassé durant sa jeunesse. A ce stade, les enquêteurs semblent à peu près persuadés que ces restes sont bien les bons. Mais comment le prouver ? Une bonne idée serait un test ADN puisque du matériel génétique a été récupéré dans une dent du crâne de Frombork. Reste à en trouver d'autres dont l'origine pourrait être démontrée. Un astronome suédois, Göran Henriksson, tente sa chance en allant consulter un ouvrage daté de 1518, Calendarium Romanum Magnum, écrit par Johannes Stoeffler, un astronome allemand contemporain de Copernic, lequel avait, disent les historiens des sciences, consulté ce livre. A l'intérieur, Henriksson découvre quelques cheveux, dont on sait depuis peu qu'ils renferment de l'ADN. Des analyses sont réalisées en Suède et en Pologne. L'ADN de deux des cheveux est identiques à celui retrouvé à l'intérieur de la dent. Pour les scientifiques de l'équipe, le doute est levé. Ce chanoine de Frombork qui a consulté le livre de Johannes Stoeffler ne peut être personne d'autre que Nicolas Copernic. C'est donc sous son nom et avec les fastes dus à un héros du pays que les Polonais d'aujourd'hui ont inhumé l'illustre astronome sous les dalles de la cathédrale de Frombork... |
2024.01.19 18:56 TF-Fanfic-Resident Can you spot Ratchet?
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2023.12.30 20:10 ilovebrownbutter Suggestions for games to use in therapy (1-on-1 therapy)
Hello!
A few months ago, I searched in the search bar for games to use in therapy. Well, this time I'm bringing some of my own, hoping to spark more discussion about it, of course. The other posts we quite old already.
Why are games good in therapy?
Well, I'm not an expert by any means. For me, personally, games provide a means to a conversation and a relationship at any time, not only in therapy. It takes pressure out of making a conversation because it's like doing a task together. Depending on the game, it can spark up some connection and opportunity for conversation or simply allow us to relax in each other's company.
Now, in therapy, games should probably aim for a little less "theory of the game" conversations, but instead, provide opportunities to utilize its concepts to spark reflection upon ourselves. To bring feelings and thoughts up that may have been buried. But do it in a less pressured manner. We have something to touch and focus on which makes us feel less vulnerable. There's a task to do, and the task is something concrete. I'm not the only one in charge, nor it the therapist: it can be the games rules, pure luck, the structure of the game.
A List of Games
I have two official "games" I've used in therapy, one I used at home, and a variety of game-like concepts we adapted and created over there.
1) Dixit
2) Cerebria (at home)
3) A simple card set
DIXIT
It's actually only one expansion that my therapist has. We're used it twice but I can only remember one of them. Once, when we were reassessing my goals in therapy, we conceptualized them into several areas/problems/issues. Each of them had a name. The idea was to choose a card for each of these areas. Look at them and pick the one I would identify as the one that applied the best. I picked one and my therapist picked another. Then we'd discuss about its symbolism, etc. We only ended up choosing the cards for one of the issues.
Another time, I can't remember very well, but I was stuck and wasn't able to verbalize how I was feeling. It was a difficult day. So we did the same. In times like this, Dixit is very good to express how we're feeling inside when we don't know how we feel, or how to explain it.
A CARD SET
I brought a card set (or a 8-sided die) to represent each day of the week. For the first 6 months, we always drew a card to choose one day of the previous week for me to talk about, and break the ice. It always led to good discussions. It helps me conceptualize the time and it's the luck drawing the rules. I wish I'd have made statistics, because Wednesdays were only drawn twice in all these months, I would have liked to know the percentages.
We also use luck and game-like concepts to decide on things. Such as having a set of cards I wrote in with things to talk about, facing them down and shuffling them, then choosing one. It makes it easier to handle things after breaking them down but also not having to choose where to start.
A CHILDREN'S GAME ABOUT EMOTIONS
I can't remember what it was called, but it was nothing fancy and it was suited for 2 year olds.
She had it in her office and it was actually too basic for me. It was basically a child's face broken into three parts: hair, eyes and mouth. There were several hair styles, several eyes, several mouths. I assume this is good to help children express how they are feeling. I also used it one time I didn't feel able to verbalize anything and needed to break the ice with a game. It was the only one she had in the office. I don't recommend it for adults, although I might if it had more than just 4-5 expressions as it did. My emotion wasn't there.
CEREBRIA
Now this one is actually the coolest, although the hardest to bring to the office. As we know, Cerebria is a game about the gloomy and the blissful emotions of the mind that make up out personality. The board features several parts of the mind, which would be:
So what I did this time I was at home was: I looked at the board's areas and thought: What emotions rule my values? I thought: clearly, Justice seems to be one I have quite strongly. It doesn't only help me - it also harms me to put value it so much. Then it's also interesting to choose when you choose a card that will "influence" two areas: thoughts seem very inward focusing, but desires are very much sense-focused. In my experience, my thoughts tend to want to deny me opportunities to fulfill my desires, so this one was a challenge for me as well.
I definitely recommend trying this one out. PS: it's always ok to cheat and put more cards in a given area! What matters is discovering things about yourself.
END
These are the games I've used to conceptualize and reflect on my inner workings.
Recently, I also thought it would be interesting to play a very competitive game that I'm bad at because I'm very competitive and very bad at losing. I was wondering if I could analyse my thoughts during the process. The only problem is I don't want to "waste" time in therapy and these games are usually quite long. The long wait to lose at the end is what makes it so hard; losing at a 15 minute game is not as frustrating. Another problem is if I somehow win. Still, I'd really like to lose to my therapist and have her help me figure out why it's so hard for me to lose, and help me figure out if these emotions come up in life.
What are some games you use in your therapy (as a client or as a therapist) to aid the process of reflection and/or break the ice? What are some games you have that you would adapt, like I did with Cerebria, for this purpose, and how would you adapt it?
Do share your thoughts!
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A few months ago, I searched in the search bar for games to use in therapy. Well, this time I'm bringing some of my own, hoping to spark more discussion about it, of course. The other posts we quite old already.
Why are games good in therapy?
Well, I'm not an expert by any means. For me, personally, games provide a means to a conversation and a relationship at any time, not only in therapy. It takes pressure out of making a conversation because it's like doing a task together. Depending on the game, it can spark up some connection and opportunity for conversation or simply allow us to relax in each other's company.
Now, in therapy, games should probably aim for a little less "theory of the game" conversations, but instead, provide opportunities to utilize its concepts to spark reflection upon ourselves. To bring feelings and thoughts up that may have been buried. But do it in a less pressured manner. We have something to touch and focus on which makes us feel less vulnerable. There's a task to do, and the task is something concrete. I'm not the only one in charge, nor it the therapist: it can be the games rules, pure luck, the structure of the game.
A List of Games
I have two official "games" I've used in therapy, one I used at home, and a variety of game-like concepts we adapted and created over there.
1) Dixit
2) Cerebria (at home)
3) A simple card set
DIXIT
It's actually only one expansion that my therapist has. We're used it twice but I can only remember one of them. Once, when we were reassessing my goals in therapy, we conceptualized them into several areas/problems/issues. Each of them had a name. The idea was to choose a card for each of these areas. Look at them and pick the one I would identify as the one that applied the best. I picked one and my therapist picked another. Then we'd discuss about its symbolism, etc. We only ended up choosing the cards for one of the issues.
Another time, I can't remember very well, but I was stuck and wasn't able to verbalize how I was feeling. It was a difficult day. So we did the same. In times like this, Dixit is very good to express how we're feeling inside when we don't know how we feel, or how to explain it.
A CARD SET
I brought a card set (or a 8-sided die) to represent each day of the week. For the first 6 months, we always drew a card to choose one day of the previous week for me to talk about, and break the ice. It always led to good discussions. It helps me conceptualize the time and it's the luck drawing the rules. I wish I'd have made statistics, because Wednesdays were only drawn twice in all these months, I would have liked to know the percentages.
We also use luck and game-like concepts to decide on things. Such as having a set of cards I wrote in with things to talk about, facing them down and shuffling them, then choosing one. It makes it easier to handle things after breaking them down but also not having to choose where to start.
A CHILDREN'S GAME ABOUT EMOTIONS
I can't remember what it was called, but it was nothing fancy and it was suited for 2 year olds.
She had it in her office and it was actually too basic for me. It was basically a child's face broken into three parts: hair, eyes and mouth. There were several hair styles, several eyes, several mouths. I assume this is good to help children express how they are feeling. I also used it one time I didn't feel able to verbalize anything and needed to break the ice with a game. It was the only one she had in the office. I don't recommend it for adults, although I might if it had more than just 4-5 expressions as it did. My emotion wasn't there.
CEREBRIA
Now this one is actually the coolest, although the hardest to bring to the office. As we know, Cerebria is a game about the gloomy and the blissful emotions of the mind that make up out personality. The board features several parts of the mind, which would be:
- The Cradle of Senses
- Willow of Values
- Land of Desires
- Valley of Motives
- Network of thoughts
So what I did this time I was at home was: I looked at the board's areas and thought: What emotions rule my values? I thought: clearly, Justice seems to be one I have quite strongly. It doesn't only help me - it also harms me to put value it so much. Then it's also interesting to choose when you choose a card that will "influence" two areas: thoughts seem very inward focusing, but desires are very much sense-focused. In my experience, my thoughts tend to want to deny me opportunities to fulfill my desires, so this one was a challenge for me as well.
I definitely recommend trying this one out. PS: it's always ok to cheat and put more cards in a given area! What matters is discovering things about yourself.
END
These are the games I've used to conceptualize and reflect on my inner workings.
Recently, I also thought it would be interesting to play a very competitive game that I'm bad at because I'm very competitive and very bad at losing. I was wondering if I could analyse my thoughts during the process. The only problem is I don't want to "waste" time in therapy and these games are usually quite long. The long wait to lose at the end is what makes it so hard; losing at a 15 minute game is not as frustrating. Another problem is if I somehow win. Still, I'd really like to lose to my therapist and have her help me figure out why it's so hard for me to lose, and help me figure out if these emotions come up in life.
What are some games you use in your therapy (as a client or as a therapist) to aid the process of reflection and/or break the ice? What are some games you have that you would adapt, like I did with Cerebria, for this purpose, and how would you adapt it?
Do share your thoughts!
2023.12.05 11:58 Foodsspecialist Best Restaurants in Jabalpur: A Culinary Delight
 | Image Source: https://pixabay.com/ submitted by Foodsspecialist to u/Foodsspecialist [link] [comments] Jabalpur, a city known for its rich culinary heritage, offers a plethora of dining options for food enthusiasts. Whether you're craving traditional Indian delicacies or international cuisines, Jabalpur has something to suit every palate. In this article, we will explore the best restaurants in Jabalpur, ranging from rooftop eateries to family-friendly establishments, to help you embark on a gastronomic journey like no other. 1. Indian Coffee HouseAddress: C/O, Hotel India, Karamchand Chowk, Naya Mohalla, Jabalpur Rating: 4/5Start your culinary exploration in Jabalpur with a visit to the iconic Indian Coffee House. Located in the heart of the city, this restaurant is a favorite among locals and tourists alike. Indulge in a hearty breakfast consisting of crispy dosas, fluffy idlis, and aromatic filter coffee. The relaxed ambiance and friendly staff make it the perfect spot to kickstart your day. 2. The Yellow ChilliAddress: Ground Floor, Dixit Pride Mall, Old Napier Town, Jabalpur Rating: 4/5For a unique dining experience, head to The Yellow Chilli. This upscale restaurant offers a fusion of Indian and international flavors curated by renowned chef Sanjeev Kapoor. The elegant interiors and attentive service add to the overall charm. Treat your taste buds to signature dishes like Butter Chicken Lasagna and Galouti Kebab. With its delightful culinary creations, The Yellow Chilli promises an unforgettable dining experience. 3. Best ChoiceAddress: Napier Town, Jabalpur Rating: 5/5If you're in search of a restaurant that caters to diverse taste buds, look no further than Best Choice. This eatery offers a wide range of cuisines, including Indian, Chinese, and continental. From sizzling kebabs to aromatic biryanis, their menu boasts an extensive selection of delectable dishes. With its cozy ambiance and impeccable service, Best Choice is a top choice for both locals and tourists. 4. Satya Ashoka HotelAddress: Wright Town, Jabalpur Rating: 3/5Satya Ashoka Hotel is a hidden gem nestled in the bustling neighborhood of Wright Town. This family-friendly restaurant specializes in authentic Indian cuisine, prepared with the finest ingredients. From succulent tandoori dishes to flavorful curries, every bite at Satya Ashoka Hotel is a burst of flavors. The warm hospitality and inviting atmosphere make it an ideal venue for a memorable dining experience with your loved ones. 5. Clock Tower Chinese RestaurantAddress: Omti Bridge SH 22, Madhya Pradesh State Highway 37A, Naya Mohalla, Jabalpur Rating: 3/5For those craving Chinese cuisine, Clock Tower Chinese Restaurant is a must-visit. Located near the iconic Clock Tower, this restaurant offers a wide range of Chinese staples and seafood delicacies. Indulge in flavorful dishes like Kung Pao Chicken and Szechuan Noodles. The cozy ambiance and prompt service make it a popular choice for a casual dining experience. Image Source: https://pixabay.com/ 6. Crystal - Sip & DineAddress: Ratan Colony, Gorakhpur, Jabalpur Rating: 4/5If you're in search of a cozy cafe to relax and unwind, Crystal - Sip & Dine is the perfect spot. This quaint eatery offers a variety of Indian dishes and beverages in a serene ambiance. Enjoy a cup of aromatic coffee or savor their mouthwatering snacks while spending quality time with friends or family. The peaceful atmosphere and friendly staff make Crystal - Sip & Dine a favorite among locals. 7. AsanzoAddress: Govindh Bhavan Colony, South Civil Lines, Jabalpur Rating: 4/5Asanzo is a culinary haven for vegetarian food enthusiasts. This vegetarian diner serves a variety of cuisines, including North Indian, Italian, Chinese, and fast food. From delectable pasta dishes to flavorful curries, every dish at Asanzo is prepared with utmost care and attention to detail. The cozy ambiance and prompt service make it a popular choice among families and friends. 8. Vinco LawnAddress: Kanyakumari Road, Jabalpur Rating: 4/5For a unique dining experience in a picturesque setting, head to Vinco Lawn. This restaurant offers a serene ambiance with lush green surroundings, making it an ideal venue for special occasions. Indulge in a variety of delicacies from their extensive menu, which includes Indian, Chinese, and continental dishes. The exceptional service and breathtaking views make Vinco Lawn a top choice for a memorable dining experience. Read also: Top 10 Best Restaurants in Jabalpur 9. Bandhavgarh 365 "Her Cafe"Address: B365, Tala Village, Bandhavgarh National Park, Tala Rating: Not availableIf you're exploring the outskirts of Jabalpur, a visit to Bandhavgarh 365 "Her Cafe" is a must. Located near Bandhavgarh National Park, this cafe offers a tranquil ambiance amidst nature's beauty. Indulge in a variety of dishes ranging from Indian to continental cuisine while enjoying the panoramic views. Bandhavgarh 365 "Her Cafe" is a perfect spot to relax and rejuvenate after a wildlife safari. 10. Bandhav VilasAddress: Village Kuchwahi, Bandhav Garh (Tala), Distt. Umaria, Guruwahi Rating: Not availableAnother hidden gem near Bandhavgarh National Park is Bandhav Vilas. This resort offers a unique dining experience in the lap of nature. Enjoy a fusion of Indian and international flavors while soaking in the breathtaking views of the surrounding forests. The luxurious ambiance and personalized service make Bandhav Vilas a perfect choice for a romantic dinner or a special celebration. Read also: Famous food of Jabalpur 11. Panna National ParkAddress: NH 75, Chhatarpur Rating: 4/5For those venturing further from Jabalpur, a visit to Panna National Park is a must. This wildlife sanctuary offers a unique dining experience in the midst of nature. Enjoy a delicious meal while spotting exotic wildlife and soaking in the tranquility of the park. Panna National Park is a paradise for nature lovers and food enthusiasts alike. 12. Maheshwari SweetsAddress: Jeevan Jyoti Colony, Satna Rating: 2/5If you have a sweet tooth, Maheshwari Sweets in Satna is a must-visit. This renowned sweet shop offers a wide range of traditional Indian sweets and savory snacks. Indulge in mouthwatering delicacies like Gulab Jamun, Jalebi, and Rasgulla. The delectable treats and impeccable quality make Maheshwari Sweets a favorite among locals and tourists. Visit: Order Biryani Online in Jabalpur ConclusionJabalpur, with its diverse culinary offerings, is a food lover's paradise. From traditional Indian cuisine to international flavors, the city offers a range of dining options to suit every taste and preference. Whether you're enjoying a meal at a rooftop restaurant, savoring street food, or indulging in fine dining, Jabalpur promises a memorable gastronomic journey. So, explore these best restaurants in Jabalpur and treat your taste buds to a delightful experience like no other. |
2023.11.27 11:01 karthikmurli Unveiling the Intriguing History of Shirdi Sai Baba Mandir
Shirdi Sai Baba Mandir is the chief tourist attraction in Shirdi. This is where Sai Baba’s body was laid to rest forever. An affluent person named Shreemant Gopalrao Buti, who really admired Sai Baba, built this place in 1917-1918. At first, it was for a statue of Lord Krishna, but later, it became Sai Baba’s final resting spot. Lots of people who love Sri Sai Baba come from around the world to visit this sacred place. Shirdi Sai Baba was a spiritual teacher loved by both Hindus and Muslims. He decided to live in the small village of Shirdi. Even though the much revered spiritual Guru looked like a Muslim holy person, he often talked about Hindu teachings. He treated everyone the same irrespective of religion, caste, or beliefs. People from all religions adore Sai Baba, and lots of them visit his temple every year. They chant Sai Aarti with total devotion.
Historical Backdrop
A rich man named Gopal Rao Buti, a genuine devotee and fan of Sai Baba wanted to build a Wadaa in Nagpur. At first, he planned for a building with a temple for Krishna and a restroom. One night, Sai Baba appeared in Gopal Rao Buti’s dream. He expressed his desire for a Wadaa with a sacred temple. He wanted to fulfill everyone's wishes. Gopal Rao told his friend Shaama about the dream. It appears that Sai Baba appeared in Shaama’s dream too with the same request. Everything seemed magical for them. They both became emotionally charged. They made drawings and showed them to Kakasaheb Dixit. Together, they asked Sai Baba if they could build the temple. Sai Baba agreed. They started working on it in 1915. It was called Dagadi Wada since it was created with stones. Shaama supervised the construction of the building. Moreover, Baba would sometimes, suggest things while passing by. The Sai Baba temple is usually open from 5 every morning till almost 11 every night. People line up in big groups. They wait patiently, till it is time to step in and gain Sai Baba's blessings.
Shirdi Sai Mandir Facts
Shirdi Darshan Timings start from 4 am until 11 pm. Kakad Aarti begins at 4: 30 am and ends at 5 am. Chanting the holy Mid-Day Aarti at sharp 12:00 noon can be a memorable experience. You can join the Evening Aarti at Sunset Time and Shej Aarti at 10:30 pm.
On Guru Purnima, Dussera, Rama Navami, and special occasions the temple stays open all night. There is a colorful parade known as Palkhi. This takes place even on Thursdays. The image of Sai Baba is taken out of the Sai Baba Mandir by the Bhaktas or devotees. The serene atmosphere inside the temple feels like Sai Baba's spirit is there. Dedicated devotees of Sai Baba would love to visit this holy place. When you walk into the sacred temple premises, you can experience peace and tranquility like never before.
Conclusion
Remember to provide your Aadhar Card to get a Darshan Pass from the authorities. You must visit the Holy Land of Sai Baba for an unmatched divine experience.
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Historical Backdrop
A rich man named Gopal Rao Buti, a genuine devotee and fan of Sai Baba wanted to build a Wadaa in Nagpur. At first, he planned for a building with a temple for Krishna and a restroom. One night, Sai Baba appeared in Gopal Rao Buti’s dream. He expressed his desire for a Wadaa with a sacred temple. He wanted to fulfill everyone's wishes. Gopal Rao told his friend Shaama about the dream. It appears that Sai Baba appeared in Shaama’s dream too with the same request. Everything seemed magical for them. They both became emotionally charged. They made drawings and showed them to Kakasaheb Dixit. Together, they asked Sai Baba if they could build the temple. Sai Baba agreed. They started working on it in 1915. It was called Dagadi Wada since it was created with stones. Shaama supervised the construction of the building. Moreover, Baba would sometimes, suggest things while passing by. The Sai Baba temple is usually open from 5 every morning till almost 11 every night. People line up in big groups. They wait patiently, till it is time to step in and gain Sai Baba's blessings.
Shirdi Sai Mandir Facts
Shirdi Darshan Timings start from 4 am until 11 pm. Kakad Aarti begins at 4: 30 am and ends at 5 am. Chanting the holy Mid-Day Aarti at sharp 12:00 noon can be a memorable experience. You can join the Evening Aarti at Sunset Time and Shej Aarti at 10:30 pm.
On Guru Purnima, Dussera, Rama Navami, and special occasions the temple stays open all night. There is a colorful parade known as Palkhi. This takes place even on Thursdays. The image of Sai Baba is taken out of the Sai Baba Mandir by the Bhaktas or devotees. The serene atmosphere inside the temple feels like Sai Baba's spirit is there. Dedicated devotees of Sai Baba would love to visit this holy place. When you walk into the sacred temple premises, you can experience peace and tranquility like never before.
Conclusion
Remember to provide your Aadhar Card to get a Darshan Pass from the authorities. You must visit the Holy Land of Sai Baba for an unmatched divine experience.
2023.11.22 14:07 Complete-Sweet5222 I want to be a Hema Malini or a Jaya Bachchan and be remembered like that. Aishwarya Rai-Cineblitz Magazine 2004
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