I agree with you, with some reservations. My sister lives in Melbourne now and she tells me that Dāja is still extremely common in Punjabi communities even though they are from rather rich households. It’s kinda the same with Bengalis as well, though as I said, material goods are preferred to money. So I would say its…

Hmm, I like what I read, but you seemed to have skipped over the most important component of the Mirror’s Edge experience: the music! Is there anything as iconic as Still Alive in the game? How is the ambient music? How is the composition? Is Solar Fields still the God amongst humans that they were?

Dang, that is far more socially important work than the vast majority of people. Good on you!

The money thing is weird. Even well off people expect that the spouse’s family will provide material goods as dowry: things like a new bed or an almirah or a car, now that asking for straight cash is considered crass. It’s something of a generation gap or, even more dangerously, a religious gap.

Its kinda sad that they know of only one arranged marriage couple working out. That is a quite an indictment of the culture. Also, anecdotally speaking, I find too many South Indian marriages are gotra based, especially Tamil ones. I’m Bengali and in my experience income level is far more important cut off.

Alright so there’s no way all the screenshots are CGI, right? Some of those have to be live-action! The first pic of Lunafrena and Crowe Altius look realer than real. This is absolutely incredible!

The most not-the-Onion article from this week was surely this one:

So I found this from the io9 sidebar and I don’t comment on Jezebel much but seeing as I am a computer scientist, maybe I can take a stab at it.

Man I stood at the Eden Gardens on Sunday and screamed my throat hoarse. You could clearly tell that the home support leaned towards the Windies quite heavily. A couple of English rugby lads sitting just below the club house got mocked relentlessly - though we took them out for lunch yesterday morning and they took it…

I may be slightly biased but mum’s the best mum ever!

My mum was about as devoted to Princess Di as one can ever be. She met her when the Princess visited the Missionaries of Charity to meet to Mother Theresa and it’s still dinner table conversation 20 years later.

It’s strange how many different deaths and disasters Black Friday represents. If you ask me, Black Friday is 12th March, 1993 when Dawood Ibrahim exploded a series of bombs in Bombay, killing my great-uncle who was there for medical treatment. It was the ultimate grisly conclusion to the Babri Masjid riots that killed…

Wait there are even more shows (or continuities)? It’s kinda incredible ... I’ll certainly look them up since, obscure ending notwithstanding, the underpinning philosophy of Evangelion was fascinating. Uniquely oriental.

Thank you! I finally found the show on Crunchyroll (funny name for a website) ...

Well I have only watched a handful of shows and that too back in college with a bunch of nerdy folks. I liked many of them but some were just a bit too gruesome for my tastes.

Ooh thanks for the explanation. I couldn’t understand why everything into pictures of text and repeating questions and all that. The sudden left turn into cinéma vérité was rather strange.

I’ll look up if the show is streaming anywhere then. The Holi festival weekend is coming up and I need something watchable to survive that 48 hour hibernation ^_^

Huh. I remember watching this show till I came to a part where they kill off a little girl plus her dog and I noped out immediately. I felt horrible and never went back.

Take a look at LumberYard license agreement, located at http://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ . Section 57.10 in particular seems very interesting:

Hey Nathan, remember covering a similar game called “The Mandate” a long time ago? It was supposed to be a Tsarist space RPG, with ship-to-ship battles and Xcom style tactical boarding fights, with the concept reading like BSG crossed with Civ-lite emergent storylines. I think that would have been a worthy Firefly…