"Kaala Paani" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19072562) seems pretty interesting — at least based on the first episode ...

First, the setting is different from most Indian shows — Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Second, there are all these tiny touches which, if you pay attention, pay off for a viewer. I liked these little details a lot and am hoping that it continues on beyond the first episode ...

#TV #Hindi #KaalaPaani #Netflix

Watched two different Tamil movies today where they mention that China (and other countries) are plotting to stop India's progress by sending drugs and poisoned products to India ...

Seems like classic human behaviour — "others" are jealous of us. They want to drag us down.

We'll never change — we always blame others and want "our" people to be cautious/wary of strangers.

And then we pass on this behaviour to our children ...

#NationalismOrParanoia #PoliticalRhetoric #Politics #Humanity #TheHumanDisease

Sun Tzu said: “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”

With cockroaches, it's: "If you kill one and leave the body out and wait long enough, others will come to take the body away and you can kill them too." 😛

#TheArtOfWar #Cockroaches #AncientWisdomModernTwist

@ronsboy67 @s1m0n4 😛 I don’t think this one’s going to be a typical Hindi serial. Instead of the 16 one hour episodes from the Korean version, the Hindi version had 8 half hour episodes for the first season.

But it did get through about half of the Korean storyline. So, my guess is that it’ll end with the second season …

But of course, they might surprise me 😀

@ronsboy67 @s1m0n4 If you want a better Hindi remake of a #kDrama, then there’s the remake of “Flower of Evil” — “Duranga” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21370880/)

The Hindi version is slightly different as far as some plot points go, and we did enjoy it, but it’s not totally cohesive in terms of plot, unlike the Korean version. Also, the Hindi version is not yet over — season 2 will air soon and theoretically, that should complete the story …

@ronsboy67 @s1m0n4 MY3 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28744259

@s1m0n4 We watched the Hindi remake of it first and hated it, but decided to give the Korean original a try. We enjoyed that one a lot more 🙂

@Rycaut When I started reading, the only language I knew was Sinhalese. So I read a lot of classics like “Lorna Doone”, “Robinson Crusoe”, “Les Miserables”, “The Count of Monte Cristo” and so on (too many to count really) all in Sinhalese …

From the lot, “The Count of Monte Cristo” still remains my favourite even though SF/Fantasy became my preferred genre a few years later and still remains so …

But I don’t think I read that may SF/Fantasy books in Sinhalese though. I don’t think there were that many translations of the genre back then — I do recall several SF originals in Sinhalese that got me on track to become a huge SF fan, but it wasn’t until I started reading in English that I hit the motherlode in terms of SF (and later, fantasy …)

Hey friends, I’m looking for my next role. I like building native iOS apps, and I’ve got experience with SwiftUI, UIKit, TCA, all of the good stuff. Any shares and leads are appreciated

I like Santosh Shoban (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9922589) — each of his movies that I've seen so far has had something different/unique about them.

It looks as if "Prem Kumar" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15340716/?ref_=nm_knf_t_3) is in the same mold in that it doesn't follow the typical Telugu movie storyline.

So far, I’m hooked and I’m curious to see where it goes ...

#Movies #Telugu #PremKumar #SantoshShoban #SomethingDifferent

After looking at AnyType and several other solutions, I decided that none of them have the flexibility that I want for adding data from various sources and being able to define any type of data storage.

So, working on my own solution …

Decided to use the latest in Swift and SwiftUI, and also throw SwiftData in to the mix since this’ll probably be a personal app and not for public release — there are many such solutions out there, but they just don’t have what I want 🙂

Some interesting things to solve to accomplish this — How do you define a data structure which is not predefined in a way that can be used via code? How do you generate a SwiftUI interface dynamically to represent these data structures?

I believe I’ve solved them but the app is very rudimentary at the moment. I’m curious as to things hold when I add in more complexity …

#Swift #SwiftUI #SwiftData #Apple #macOS #iOS #PersonalDataManager

Being multi-lingual sometimes leads to weird situations 😛

In Tamil movies they sometimes pronounce "graphics" in a way that sounds like "gira-piss" and in Sinhalese, "gira" is "parrot" (or rather, parrot-related) and "piss" would of course be English — so parrot pee?

Do parrots even pee? 😀

#Tamil #Sinhalese #Language #Funny #MultiLingualWeirdness

@BobWilliams The first few seasons were utterly brilliant but the last few have gone downhill a lot in terms of quality ….

Still, personally, I feel it’s more entertaining than a lot of stuff out there, but that might be just me. And now that it’s (supposedly) ending, all I can hope for is that they at least give it a good ending, but that might be too much to ask for? 🙂

"Billiions" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4270492) has always been a favourite of mine, but this season has felt very weak.

The dialog is overly talky without getting to the point, and hasn't had as much punch.

Now that the final setup, which I assume was what they were aiming for but were getting lost in the weeds getting to, maybe it'll get better?

#TV #English #Billions

@gaveen Sorry to hear about the health issues — sometimes, it feels as if you are a besieged castle and when the walls are weakened, all the barbarian hordes come in at once …

Sorry to hear about the office politics too. I’ve never liked that since I don’t know how to deal with that kind of thing. I want things to be cut-and-dried and unfortunately, people are anything but 😞

But I’m glad you are in good spirits and hope all of this passes soon.

@AngelaPreston It was definitely useful — sometimes I (and probably others) miss the obvious since it’s been staring us in the face for years 😛

While it is a battle between two behemoths, I can't help but feel like supporting Quest 3 just because of the language used by a lot of reviewers.

Like saying, "there’s almost nothing compelling to do in mixed reality on the Quest 3". And you know that Apple Vision Pro does have compelling experiences? How do you know this?

It's not as if any of these people have used the AVP for longer than half an hour .... So how do you know that AVP will have compelling experiences whenever it launches? Faith in Apple?

Also, will these reviewers actually buy an AVP at 7x times the price of a Quest 3 for themselves? Or is this just hatchet jobs for a paycheck?

I don’t know … but excessive praise for an as yet unreleased product, or damning something that exists for pie in the sky, always makes me uneasy …

#Quest3 #AppleVisionPro #Meta #Apple

@AngelaPreston This actually helped me too 🙂

I don’t like dark mode. I have dark mode on my phone because it possibly helps with battery life, but I rarely use my phone.

I have everything on light mode on my desktop and yet, for some reason I never switched Discord to light mode. And I don’t really like reading Discord 😛

When I read your post, I started Discord, changed to light mode and the reading experience was much better. Thank you!

@samreciter It is a bit gory and there’s generally a lot of blood splatter in every episode, but other than that, the writing is interesting and I like takes on super-heroes like in “The Boys” and “Invincible” way more than I do the Marvel or DC interpretation — I feel it’s more true-to-life 🙂

It almost feels as if every episode of "Gen V" has a theme and you have to discover it 😛

For episode 3 it's — parents (or better yet, family). How parents affect you as a child and the sometimes love-hate relationship you have with them. It's also a tiny bit about trust maybe?

Alliances are made, people begin to trust each other and I'm kind of curious as to how the show will evolve and if the writers will stick to this level of writing …

#TV #English #GenV #Writing