You know what I was thinking? What? I was thinking with, I can sometimes, not all the time, but with all of the neck kissing and the history of Bollywood cinema, why aren't there more hickies? It's just kissing, not sucking. Start sucking, people.   You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter for more juicy content. Thank you to Erduse for some Patreon, follow us through the accounts, subscribe, like, button. Yeah, and welcome to Spooky Month. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Scared? If you don't know in America, at least. October Spooky Month. Yep. Most people, a lot of people at least, like to watch spooky, scary-ish style movies for the sake of October Halloween. Yeah, we know it's not really a thing in India. But we like to do it. Very much. And so the first one we got to, we got to a little lake, because obviously we were at the Indian Film Festival, we had other stuff we wanted to get to, but trying to get to some of the kind of spooky-style films that we haven't got to yet. You can go see our previous ones. We've seen quite a few. Quite a few. This one was one that has been recommended a lot, and it's from the 2002 film, Roz. Sorry, movie review. It's all right, they know, we know. I just like going, the drama horror musical, which I would describe Rocky Horror. I was just gonna say the same thing, yeah. But it's different in India. Yes. But it's directed in, oh, sorry. You were gonna say written by, but it's not. It's directed by Vikram Bhatt, written and produced by Mukesh Bhatt. Mukesh, I know, is Aliya's father. Vikram, I'm assuming is- The writer is Mahesh Bhatt. What did I say? Oh, no, it's not, just throw me off here. That's all right, geez. Understandable. Okay, so. It looks like the exact same name. Three bots. For the price of one. Okay, so, I know it's- Hold on, they look similar. Okay, I don't know if Mahesh or Mukesh is her father. Are they twins? They look kinda similar. They look kinda similar, and the name is similar. I think her father is Mukesh. They look similar, are they twin brothers? Regardless. It'd be great if they weren't related at all. Yeah, exactly. It's directed by Vikram Bhatt, written by Mukesh Bhatt, and produced by Mukesh Bhatt. And I don't believe Aliya's in it at all. Was she even alive? Was it, it was 2020? Yeah, she was definitely alive. Just wanted to make sure. Starring these three. Say the name for me. Yes, Dino Morea, Bipasha Basu, and Malini Sharma. Thank you. But obviously this came out in 2002, so it's gonna be 100% spoiler review. Correct. So if you haven't seen it, please go watch it. I don't know where it's available in India. They have availability's different other places than we have them. But with a supporting role, we will bring up as well of Ashutosh. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. But anyways, so if you haven't watched it, please go watch it, come back, it's gonna be 100% spoiler review. Rick, your initial thoughts of the 2002 horror film, Raaz. Raaz is dreadful in all of the right ways. I went from liking the movie because it was so campy and reminded me of like 1970s horror movies here in Hollywood that just was like, okay, I'm in, it's so bad and so many great ways. And then the second half, I have so much good to talk about this movie. I loved Raaz. Oh, really? Yeah, I loved it. Where would it fall for you in your horror, India specific? Yeah, well, it's for me, it's gonna be in my list of horror movies period that I recommend. I've been making some recommendations on my Instagram that kind of got interrupted with some things that are happening globally. I don't know if you've heard about them. And I'm intending to recommend this week before it gets too late and we're too close to Halloween, at least 10 different films that I would recommend. This is right up there for me of my favorite horror films that have hit Indian cinema for us. And all cinema for me, this is like classic, campy, you're gonna groan because some things are so bad but they're endearing because you know the effort at the time was as intentional to be as good as possible. It's just, I love a lot of things about, I particularly love the sexiness of this movie. I'll talk a lot about that and talk about our two ladies. What'd you think? I enjoyed it. I thought, especially for the time, I know this actually inspired, there was a little obviously horror before this, just sprinkled in through Bollywood. But after this, this has about 10,000 sequels. Does it? Yes. And then I heard it was the second biggest film of the year in Indian cinema. But it definitely inspired a lot more horror genre in Bollywood after 2002. Good. That's a classic. It does have a bunch of that. And I thought there was some really, really good stuff in terms of some performances. Also, I thought the production quality and the kind of tone of the film, I really enjoyed that also goes into production. I thought it was really nice. There's some moments, especially at the end. Yeah. And I'm like, it goes off the rails. No way. I love it. Because a lot of those are specific for the time of for India specifically, of why they do certain things and blah, blah, blah. And I'll get into that more. Overall, I actually thought it was very good. Especially for in India, like I said, it wasn't scary. But I thought in terms of a lot. It had some good jump scares with sound. But in terms of like a imagery, I thought it was very good in terms of, it'd be up there with the Indian horrors of Bhut and other ones that I really enjoyed. And I thought for Indian horror, it did a very good, especially for it being basically at this time, kind of the one that was leading the way for the new versions of Bollywood horror. Yeah. And Drani, before I watched it, because she's seen it, all she told me beforehand was, you're gonna like it. And I was messaging her because she was away, she was in Northern California for a day at a wedding and we were texting each other as I was watching it. And she just replied, because I was texting her nonstop. And she said, I told you, you're gonna like it. So yeah. And actually, let's talk about the performances first. All of them, I believe this was their first, actually. Yeah, it was not Bapasha's first film, it was her first leading role. Okay, gotcha. But regardless, a lot of the three specifically were very new in what they were doing. And you saw that at times in terms of like, especially when there was any kind of like heightened emotion, you saw them like kind of reaching. But talk about screenqueen. Oh yeah. And she had exhausting. I mean, it's really difficult for any actor, let alone someone who came from modeling, and this is your first leading role, to spend Bapasha, to spend 65% of your time on set. Be scared. Yeah. Be more scared. Yeah. And I thought like, she has great screen presence. Great eyes. She's one of the most beautiful women we've seen on film as far as I'm concerned. I found her to be absolutely gorgeous. I thought she did a really good job. All of them had their moments of when it was, they needed to show a little more emotion that I'm like, you could see their newness. As a new terminology for me that I wanna talk, I would love to talk to more about from Raul Bose. The pitch they were at. And the different pitches they hit. As new actors, you don't know that. You're just like, you take, or you give what you think and do what the director tells you to do. But overall, especially when it was just like, just, she did a lot of just staring, right? Yeah. She was very, having to react at things that she's not seeing obviously. Very green screen for the day, you know? Yeah. I thought she did a very good job. I did too. Other leading lady. Yes, Malini Sharma. Malini Sharma who played the evil spirit. Once again, this is under reason to early came out 20 years ago. Yeah. Yeah, if you haven't seen it, go see it. I then come back and watch. I thought she did a very good job. So I really enjoyed her performance. So did I. The ladies were the killers for me, man. They're the reason to watch it. No offense to the guys, because the guys were good. But the ladies were the ones leading the way on this thing. Yeah, she did a very good job. One playing. It's a great story too.  But also giving off extreme sexy vibes and. Both ladies. They both had really, really nice screen presence on screen. I enjoyed both their performances. The definitely the stand out. Yeah. The notes I wrote down, particularly about Bapasha. The moment when he comes home and she's got Malini inside of her and she's possessed in that moment. She reaches her hand out to him in the bedroom and he's like, what's going on? I'm gonna read a quote that she says. But I wrote down and I texted my wife. I said, there hasn't been a sexier possessed woman on screen since Sigourney Weaver and Ghostbusters, right? When I was a kid and I watched Ghostbusters, I saw Sigourney Weaver and Mike Ghostbusters.  I was like, Bill Murray, what are you doing? That's what I call my demands. Here you go, you ready? Evil spirit. Evil spirit. Here's a quote that she sang to him and then he doesn't take her up on it. More on it. I screamed at my screen.  She says, for ages, this dry, parched earth hasn't had a drop of water. Yeah, I remember this. Tonight, however, it will see a storm. Don't say anything. Just listen to me. Let the fires rage. Let me be charred. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding? Even when her face changes and he gets scared, I don't care. Stay right there. Yeah, yeah. My goodness, that was great. Yeah, she was great. A lot of sex, especially for 2002, right? Well, we noted and it lived up to the expectation. We watched that music number from it where she licks the water on his chin. Very sexy. It's like if the rest of the movies got that and it did, very sexy movie. That's one of my favorite things about it is how sexy the movie is. For sure. I thought the guy did well. You could once again see his newness with some of the scenes for sure. He wasn't as strong as the females, but I thought he did well. I couldn't separate whether or not I disliked him because he wasn't as strong as they were, though he was fine or just the character himself from the get-go. Not a likable character. Not a likable guy. And just continually proves it throughout. And then at the end, when she's taking the high moral ground as it were to save him, I was thinking to myself, Yeah, why? Why? Yeah. That is- Why? Let him go be with the woman he had an affair with and who cares? That was my biggest gripe with you. Yeah, I didn't like that. Was the ending? Because once again, what I said at the beginning, it's very Bollywood for the time. Somebody needs a redemption arc, even if they absolutely shouldn't. And also the random ass clapping for the girl that they had no idea what she even did, but they were clapping down the hallway. It's so bad. I'm like, why are you clapping for her? I know. You don't know what she did. It's so bad. But here's the thing.  Right? Like- Oh, the crash? Yeah. That was like, they just killed him. And I was like, this is great. I love this. It was 200 feet on the rocks. I'm pretty sure the car doesn't have airbags. And then you see him in the hospital. Not a scratch on him. Actually, he did have a light scratch. Well, she had a horrible wreck at the beginning with nothing happening to her. I think that was Malini taking care of the situation. But she didn't fall 200 feet on the rocks. With probably no airbags.  I didn't want them to have it. I think it would have been amazing. This is the ending. And once again, I know it's for the time. I get it, but I still hate it.  He dies.  I want to get Malini. I still want to get her for killing and taking my husband. I want to get revenge. I prefer the purity of her getting Malini and burning her. It is absolutely to love your enemy, forgive your enemy is the high platform to take. But I very much was in the position of, my goodness, what he's done to her. Not just what he did to her, but what he did to both these women was abominable. He's a terrible guy. And I loved, I really enjoyed the performance of, I mentioned him at the very beginning, of Ashutosh, Ronam, he was as Agni. He was funny because he was either really good or he was insanely up here. Somebody was just whispering over here and he was like, I exactly, he was so great. And then I loved the contacts, his eyes, when they changed after the electric, Lassu choked him and he became possessed and he's chasing him. And then I loved how it just went off the fricking rails.  I know, that's great. That part of the ending I really enjoyed. And the imagery of the forest as well was great. It was great, and the consistency of the scream. This had some of the scariest imagery we've seen in Indian cinema. I loved her head turn in the car. Yeah, head turn, also the blood coming from the chandelier was great. In terms of like horror imagery, this one had some of the best we've seen from Indian horror. Yes. Like I said, that's a different bar than obviously Hollywood horror. We've been doing it a lot longer. We've kind of perfected that same way India's perfected like romance. Yeah, and I think it's comparable when you look at the fact that Indian cinema and Hollywood cinema is only two to three years apart when they started. American cinema started in like 1910 and India started in 1913. So they started at the same time. But the evolution of particular genres and styles of cinema are very different. And obviously Hollywood had a big money as well. Had a much earlier start. I think for its history and its timeframe, this is absolutely the kind of horror film you would expect 20 years ago. Absolutely. It's what our horror films were like 40 years ago. 70s and 80s. Yeah, absolutely. It's basically where this would be for, except for the Bollywood version of it, obviously the songs and which were great. Actually, I really enjoyed the songs and the happy ending for the, because if this was Hollywood, he would not have a redemption arc. No. He would have been murdered or brutally cut apart or possessed. It would be a dark ending of some kind. Which is what I prefer, but obviously they needed, I'm sure the producers are like, the audience wants her to save her husband. For sure, for sure. And for him to have a redemption, for some weird reason. I still don't like that. And also we want them to clap on the hallway for this girl that they have no idea why she did. That was the funniest thing, because I was like, you do not know what she just did. Doesn't matter. You don't even know her. I don't know why this, hold on. Oh, that light shouldn't be on. Yeah. Sorry. But the imagery, that's one of my favorite parts. I loved all the songs, they were great. This is a great album by... Oh yeah, beautiful music. Who is it? Some of it was just campy. Some of it was really complex. There's a moment where she's running through the forest and there's this piano piece going on underneath that's really fast and rapid that I thought, I hope no one misses that, because that's great composition under all this action. I think this would... And I struggle because we've seen some good ones, right? In terms of horror. And I don't include like Amos, because even though it's not like, I wouldn't consider that horror. It's just a creepy story, right? Yeah. It's more drama than it is. Yeah. It's more drama that has some creepy elements to it, right? It's kind of like, you didn't see the platform bid you from Spain? No. Yeah, it's kind of like the platform. The platform's disgusting, but it's drama, thriller, psychological. I'm more like something that's spooky, right? In terms of spooky horror. This would be up there. Yeah, because that doesn't include ghosts. No. Super natural. Like, boot would be probably still at the top. I love Perry. I thought Perry was great. I did too. But this would be in there. What else? Bull bull. Oh yeah, bull bull. Even though that one, like I said, not story. Street is comedy horror. Comedy horror. That's a different genre. I still include it for me. It's a Halloween movie for me. But it's the same kind of film as like a young Frankenstein for me. It's more on the comedy side. Bollywood, they do actually comedy horror, I think, quite well. Yeah, they do. In terms of, and I think that's what they prefer. And obviously, Tombad. Yes, we've seen Tombad. Oh, that would, yeah, Tombad would be probably number one. Wait. That's, that one's kind of in a league of its own. Yeah. And that one's still more drama folk horror. Yeah, it is. But the ending. Oh yeah, that, well, everything. When you're going in there, I mean, you don't, it's got the suspense and the tension when you're going in and seeing that. If you, well, you haven't seen it, maybe. So go see it. That Marathi one was phenomenal. Yeah, that was great too. We can see, I want to remember the title of that one. The one we're in the field. I'm gonna make a list, because that's one of the things in my recommendations of horror films I've been making, films that I've been watching here, they're not all Hollywood films. Some of them are French, some of them are Korean. There's Japanese. I would like to make one post that'll have at least 10. And I think I could get 10 that are Indian. My favorite Indian horror films of all time. I think I... I'm gonna do that. So you could go to my Instagram and you could see my list. I think I posted something on Twitter of my, I'm just trying to remember what I put as my... A good list of favorites. This is what are your top Indian scary style movies, mine, at least at the time. When was this? Like a week ago. Oh, okay. Recently. Stree, Boot, Bulbul, Tombad, Perry. It's called Lapa-choppy. That's the Marathi one. Yeah. And I know there's others. What about, where do you place... I interchange the titles because I think the titles are similar. So, Boot is the Rekha one. Yes. What's the name of the film that is just Manoj Bajpayee? Gaon. Thank you. Gaon. Gaon is another one for me that I include in classic Indian horror. Yeah. I wouldn't be my top five, but it'd be... Oh, also another one that I... Did you put Bulbul? Yes. Okay. Another one I really enjoyed was 1920. Oh. Yeah, it's a beautiful one. It's very similar in terms of style. It's more, it's funny. It doesn't immediately come to mind because it's so much more romance for me. But it is a beautiful... Thank you for reminding me of that one. I forgot about that one. Dang, I gotta go back and check my list. There's also kind of the Malayalam one we saw last year was a newer. I would also include the Malayalam one we saw this year. Actually, I just forgot about that with the Ouija board. Oh yeah. Because I really enjoyed that one. But that's like comedy horror style again. And what was the one with Radhika that had the intruder that she's hallucinating and not sure? Oh yeah. She was one... The reason to watch that is Radhika Opte's performance. Oh yeah, for sure. What was it called? See, we've seen quite a few. I'm actually surprised when we understood very early on that this is not a really popular genre in terms of what producers make. Yeah. The percentage of good films that we've seen that fall into the genre is really, really high. Yeah. Really high. The Malayalam one we saw was Boothika with... This year. ...Kumbalanjina. No. That's one of the... Suven is what that... Oh yeah, yeah, I'm sorry. That's right. That's right. Which I actually probably would include because I really enjoyed that one. But the one last year... Did you put Death and the Gunge as a horror film? No. Okay. No, I wouldn't. The one last year with the kid from Kumbalanjina. They're in the house and it's kind of haunted. Did I like it? Is that why I did? We both really enjoyed the movie. I'm sure if I saw the film. Anyway, we digress. Yeah, but this one, for what it did for the genre in Bollywood and also just overall, I thought it was really nice even though there's some just stuff I really didn't like in the end. Not the end part, like there's some of the parts of the end part I really, really enjoyed. Like the forest parts. But the redemption for the husband and him just falling and not dying 200 feet on the rocks. Like that was like... I was like, no, do not let him survive that. Do not let him survive that. And I think the story is so good that it could be modernized. And... Well, I think it has been. It not only could be modernized, it is a universal story. This story could be told anywhere at any time in any culture. And it has the potential if it was remade in the right way. The story is so good that I think this could be extraordinary if it was done in a new way with the visual effects capacities we have and things of that nature. The story is fantastic. I know there's at least Roz two, Roz three. And like I said, I don't know. I've not heard. I don't think I've heard anything that was like great about them. Yeah, I know Andrani didn't say a thing about them. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I think it's like all the new saws. And yes, for anybody who's wondering because you know my wife is Bengali, she was born in Delhi, I believe, but she was raised in Bengal, Bipasha. So my, in fact, right in and around Andrani told me she was grew up in and around where Andrani grew up. Yeah, same part of Kolkata. There's a one that's directed and written by Vikram Bhatt called Roz Reboot and it's starring Imran Hashmi, which is cool. So yeah, I don't know anything about it. Is that worthy? Is it what I just said, a modernization of the stories, man. You guys let us know, obviously, let us know what other horror films that we should watch. Yeah. Obviously for this month, I would like to get to some, we're gonna get to go stories. Obviously don't, do not worry. Because we told that we didn't do it right after we saw. Right. I was like, we should wait for Spooky Month. Yeah. It's ghosts. Yeah. It'd be good. It would be good. But like what else from the genre? I don't know if any are gonna be like watch along worthy, but obviously we don't do just watch along. Obviously we're still doing reviews. Just so you guys know, even though I know you guys love the watch alongs, but I need to, when we do watch alongs, I like to make sure there's stuff that a bunch of people will enjoy for watch alongs. Cause they take a lot of time. They, it's what? It's three hours of filming. Hours and hours of editing. It's at least 10 times as long as us just watching and reviewing. Exactly. For Corbin to put that work into minimum. Yeah. So I like to make sure the films we do for watch alongs will appeal to more people. Absolutely. And for reviews, it could be anything. Yeah. Much more likely we could get something. Absolutely. That's just whatever. But yeah, let us know what other horror from Hindi or other languages as well. Please. And what you think of Raaz down below.


Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name's Cam Williams and Netflix have finally released a trailer for the new Tennis documentary coming out next year Just before the Australian Open, it's called Breakpoint, so it's actually got a name as well, which is nice to see Part one's actually coming out at the start of next year Let's go have a look at who's actually featured in the documentary and who's gonna be a part of it So here are the players that are actually gonna be a part of the Breakpoint series And who Netflix followed around this season We have Felix Ojaliaseem, who actually had a really good season, a breakout season So we get to see his journey along the way They followed Pearl Abedosa, who unfortunately didn't have a great year, but still It'd be interesting to watch her journey Matteo Berettini, who had an injury plague season in the middle of the season So that'd be interesting to see how he handles that Taylor Fritz, who also had a breakout season like Ojaliaseem Onstabur, who's very entertaining and also had a very big season 2 Grand Slam Finals Nick Kirios, also gonna be featured, I think he'll be the main man in this show Tanasi Kokinakis also gonna be a part of it, I guess through his doubles matches with Nick Kirios Kasparud, very much like Onstabur, 2 Grand Slam Finals Interested to see how his journey is behind the scenes Irina Sabalenka is also gonna be a part of it Maria Sackery, Sloane Stevens, which is an interesting one Because she's probably the lowest ranked player in the documentary series on the lady side, especially Of course, Egish Fiontex, so good to see her in this documentary series After historic runs and winning 2 Grand Slams Francis Tiafo, interested to see how his US Open is captured in this series Ayla Tomanovic, also a part of the series And Stefano Siddi Pass, also in this series So let's go to the other side of things and talk about who is not gonna be featured Some massive names So Denil Mevedev already said that he's not gonna be a part of this documentary series Which is fair enough Novak Djokovic's name is not there, which is interesting I wonder if they're gonna show much of his Grand Slam journey Carlos Elgres also not on the list, which is interesting to see I wonder if they're gonna follow his US Open victory And Rafa Nadal, he is not a part of this either according to reports So all the Grand Slam champions on the men's side are not gonna be a part of this Also Ash Bhati had a great start to the year, of course, retired But she's not apparently not part of this either Alina Rabakina, she isn't a part of this the Wimbledon champion Also Caroline Garcia, she had such a great journey So I hope she is featured in this at some point But from what we're hearing, she's not gonna be a part of it that much And also Coco Goff is not on this list Which I think is a shame because it would have been great to see her journey Going through the French Open, getting to the final as an 18 year old Making the top 10 and also doing really well in doubles So some big names there are not gonna be participating in this documentary series So there you have it, they are the players that are gonna be a part of it And it's called Breakpoint, it comes out on the 13th of January So about three or four days before the Australian Open So I guess to get people excited for the Australian Open And it's part one, so I'm gonna guess that they're gonna do a part series Over the next maybe 12 months So maybe before every major event they're gonna bring out a new part That'd be awesome if it was a six part series But let me know down in the comments below, what do you think about this? Are you excited about this documentary series? Are you disappointed that we're not gonna get some of the biggest names Some of the grand slam champions of last year? I'm a little disappointed, I'm not surprised though Because the Formula One version of this didn't have Lewis Hamilton in season one And at the time Lewis Hamilton was winning everything So I'm not surprised we don't see Rafa and Nole But I'm a little bit surprised we don't get someone like Goff or Elkaraz One of some of the younger players not getting involved in this or not Being a part of this, let me know down in the comments below Are you excited about this Netflix documentary series?


My name is Michael Plummel, I work for Illyria, where I'm responsible for a project on intensification of livestock systems. Where feed is a key issue, feed is a key issue in terms of determining livestock productivity, the overall economics of a livestock system. But also how much natural resources are we really using, how much are we affecting the environment in terms of greenhouse gases. So feed is really at the interface of positive and negative effects of livestock. So to me the concluding sessions we had today was very interesting because obviously a lot of work has been conducted in the past on feed resources with an overall very mixed success. And obviously looking at all those very well-sought new approaches in terms of innovation systems, in terms of value chains, which were applied in the effort for the adoption project in three sites, Syria, Vietnam and Ethiopia. We had the potential to really come up with new messages and trying to new insights, trying to understand where can we do better in the future than in the past, what were key errors we committed in the past, how can we remedy them and so on. And a lot of the concluding sessions really was trying to find those kind of key messages in terms of what we can do better in the future. What kind of concepts were developed and proven by those projects. For example, look at feed resources in a wider context. Look at feed resources in terms of systems, look at feed resources in terms of how they help to connect people to markets, how they can improve value chain. I guess that key message came, was really realized and accepted by all the very diverse people in the different groups I was talking to, which is certainly a very promising kind of outcome of that project. Because it used to be different in the past. People were much more technical, much more focused on very limited entry points. So that's certainly a very good outcome of the project and the workshop today. A couple of key issues where people felt we need to do more was trying to understand those kind of feed gaps, feed demand better. Better in a way. Are we looking at current kind of production aims? Are we only satisfying looking more at the kind of subsistence idea of Leicester production? Or are we really committed to something we call Leicester revolution that we know demand for meat and milk will increase tremendously, particularly in developing countries, which gives tremendous opportunities for small holders to produce for those kind of markets. However, to be successful in producing those markets, they need to produce more, they need to produce more from fewer animals, they need to be competitive. And a couple of key issues around those challenges also came out very clear from the workshop and from the kind of computing meeting we had. And one was really trying to understand what is a feed gap, are we defining feed gaps in terms of how much more one farmer to produce more in different scales, a household scale, could be at a country scale. So they were very, very good ideas and insights in terms of how we can improve those kind of feed resource demand and predictions. And of course, mitigation strategies coming from it in the future. A couple of interesting discussions in terms of are we focusing too much on the positive side of feeds, feed supporting higher milk, higher meat production, higher income, and other neglecting so-called trade-off effects. What do we need to produce the feed? We obviously need land, increasingly we need water, water is an issue, water scarcity is an issue. So there were serious discussions about do we need to do much more in terms of balancing positive and negative effects. It's a very difficult decision and to me it was interesting to see that all the people from, or most of the people from all the sites and from very different groups, be it research, be it extension, very down the value chain, they seem to agree that we should focus on transition, trying to move people out of poverty by increasing productivity, by increasing their production for the markets and believing that once they can move out of agriculture by education, by higher income or what so ever, that we are essentially looking at a new system in a couple of years down the line. Perhaps less focus on very small holdings like 0.5 hectares, 1 hectares, which is the case in Vietnam and in Ethiopia, just because people haven't moved out of agriculture in the last couple of years.


Believe it or don't, I hadn't really played Legend of Zelda Minish Cap until recently, or rather I hadn't sunk any meaningful time into it past the first two dungeons, and since I'm enjoying the Game Boy Advance library lately, let's take a look at this one and how it holds up. If you're not familiar with this game, it was developed by Capcom and Flagship, with Nintendo having the final say, so it largely has the same folks behind earlier games in the series like Oracle of Seasons and Ages, for Game Boy Color, and Four Swords, also for Game Boy Advance. Minish Cap was released in January 2005 and the DS had already been out for a couple months at this point, so you'll be forgiven if you're not all that familiar with this one. So, in this particular version of Hyrule, Link and Zelda are childhood friends and they're on their way to a festival celebrating the anniversary of the arrival of these magical little guys called the Picori. The festival features a sword fight, so of course there's some guy there dressed as Magus from Chrono Trigger and he runs through that tournament like crap through a goose, only instead of taking the famed Picori Blade as a prize, he decides to blast it apart in an attempt to open up this chest, but instead he unleashes a bunch of monsters. Whoops. Turns out that Not Magus is a sorcerer after a source of power and Zelda tries to stop him and she gets turned to stone for her efforts, so in order to get her back, you have to take the shattered Picori Blade to the Picori themselves, or the Minish as they prefer to be called, so they can fix it. I've always liked the idea of Hyrule functioning more as a canvas for different kinds of stories and I appreciate Minish Cap for being different. It feels kinda off the beaten path the same way Link's Awakening does. I poke fun at the villain, Vati, but he's okay and it's nice to see someone other than Ganon for once. Every handheld Zelda game has its own gimmick, so to speak, not just with the stories but with the gameplay. It started with the original Zelda handheld, Link's Awakening, where you could combine items to solve puzzles like putting together a bomb and an arrow. Or later on in Link Between Worlds, you can make yourself two dimensional and scale walls and find all sorts of neat stuff. The gimmick in Minish Cap is in fact the cap itself, it shrinks you down to a miniscule size at these warp points, usually found in boulders or tree stumps, so you can interact with the Minish and find out what you need to do to get this sword fixed up and the hat begrudgingly guides you along the way. I like how Link actually looks annoyed at this guy. The shrinking mechanic is put to good use right away, you can shrink down and wander around the overworld map to places you couldn't otherwise go, and as you could probably imagine, a lot of the game's puzzles revolve around switching between regular size Link and fun size Link. The meat and potatoes of the game are mostly the same tried and true Zelda stuff. You know, sword, shield, heart pieces, widgets, and what-sits, although Minish Cap is unique in that it combines the look of Wind Waker with the top-down perspective and controls of Link to the Past. Of course there are some wrinkles here, the most notable being the roll with the R button, which really comes in handy right away when it comes to getting from point A to point B, but otherwise the combat feels pretty much exactly like every other top-down Zelda game up to this point, with the range and quickness of your sword immediately feeling familiar, the A and B buttons each get assigned an item, and in addition to rolling, the R button also acts as your action button, which can change depending on what you're doing. This is one of the more linear Zelda games, it's about a 12-hour play-through with eight bosses you gotta defeat before you face Vadi, the dungeon design here is just as you'd expect from a Zelda game, like right away in the first dungeon, you get the gust jar, which functions as a vacuum just in case you wanted Link to be more like Kirby, and you use it to clear pathways and define treasure and to whip yourself around dungeons using these mushroom things to use one example. Later on you get a cape that allows you to jump, mulmits that let you dig, the ocarina of wind that allows you to warp around the world map, and the cane of Pocky, which sends a bolt of lightning into an enemy or an object and it flips over. I should mention that these items are only in the Minish Cap and haven't been featured in any other Zelda game to date. There's also a fair share of the usual Zelda items here too, like the lantern and the Pegasus boots. The dungeons make great use of all these items, while also including the shrinking gimmick and overall it's well done. The closest comparison I can come up with is Illusion of Gaia. That's another game that has you switching between two different forms to solve puzzles and access new areas. Minish Cap is just as good, it reuses a lot of the same areas in clever ways and for me personally that's all I'm really looking for in a Zelda game. Puzzles that make you sit there and stare at them for a couple minutes until you get it. Most are straightforward and satisfying though, like carrying this giant seed over here to plant a beanstalk so you can make your way up Mount Cronell, what like Romeo Cronell? Or using these tiles to create multiple links to deflect these projectiles so you can open this door. This dungeon here is laid out kind of similarly to the Skygarden in Illusion of Gaia where you're jumping around on clouds trying to find your way around, and the boss fights hold up there into the bargain too for the most part anyway.  There's also some good old fashioned sword and shield combat too that kinda sorta reminds me of Zelda 2 a little bit. I should mention though that overall Minish Cap is a pretty dang easy playthrough, the challenge in this one is mild except for the final boss. He's tough as hell, but otherwise you should be able to breeze through this one and have a good time doing it. Well, for the most part anyway, this game is not without its flaws. Minish Cap is both very hand-holdy and sometimes not very intuitive at all. It's kinda weird. Nearly every time something happens your hat guide has to tell you all about it, even if it's super obvious, and that can get old after a while. I found myself wishing for a way to turn off the hat or just, I don't know, leave it at home for a while or something. What's really confusing though is that the game has some oddball stuff that doesn't always track like you'd expect it to, like when you first show up at Lanlan Ranch. Okay, I'm supposed to go look for Talon, so where the heck is he? I can't find him, so I get kinda bored and just do some other stuff and it turns out, completing one of the weird little side quests is what gets Talon to appear. There's a couple other instances like that in this game as well, and as a result, this game doesn't feel as polished as you might expect for a Zelda title. Like I mentioned earlier, Minish Cap is mostly a linear, straight ahead playthrough, but the game tries to make up for that by providing two optional collectathons, where you explore all over and pick up random stuff. There's the Kinstones, which are these broken medallions, and you go around asking NPCs if they have the other half. There's a ton of these, and the game does a nice job making it seem somewhat important, and you do get some heart pieces once in a while from completing a Kinstone, but if you collect all of them, you're rewarded with… a trophy. Oh my god. Oh, but there's more. You also have the mysterious shells that you collect so you can trade them for figurines, and if you get all 800 gazillion figurines after God knows how many hours, that allows you to scroll through and listen to the game's soundtrack. Well, it's better than the trophy, I guess. Within the context of when this was released, these collectathons make sense for a handheld game, but generally speaking, they don't add much of anything today. It's the kind of thing that was made for when you were stuck in the backseat of a car for several hours. But ultimately, optional extra stuff like that doesn't really matter, and that's not really what's going to hook you on playing Minish Cap, because there's a ton of classic Zelda stuff right from the beginning of this playthrough, as well as nods to past Zelda games, like bits of music from Ocarina of Time, or seeing some Gorons here and there. Overall, it's a good time. It's just not quite as polished as some of the other Zelda titles, but it's still Zelda, and it's still got some fun puzzles, dungeons, and boss fights, and some items that are unique to this game that are fun to use, and it's available on Nintendo Switch online through the Game Boy Advance Portal. That's how I was able to play this one. This is one of those games that's well worth checking out. Just keep your expectations in check. Personally, I still prefer Link's Awakening, both the original and the remake, as well as Oracle of Ages and Seasons, but Minish Cap is still a really good time. Alright, I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day!


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Social Certification by Talcott-Parson. Social Certification occupies almost peripheral elements in Parson's scheme of social order. Because his understanding regarding the social stratification in modern societies has become as complex as it has lost its significance as a whole. In modern society, social stratification or class system is a challenge for all of us. Same is the case with Talcott-Parson. Because stratification or class system is based on the basis of income, prestige, status, or caste system, religion. Distribution of power. But we see that these things are mixed in a way to differentiate them. Because if someone has a lot of money, it is said that he will automatically get power. How will he get it? Because the rich can influence the decision-making process. The same situation is with Talcott-Parson. The philosophy of social stratification that you have contributed to your views, we feel that there are many challenges. Because he assumes that in modern societies, stratification is thought in terms of the symbolic media through which it works. Those of prestige and influence and of the function that it fulfills, that of integration. Talcott-Parson's philosophy is that those people who have their role are more prestigious and those who can influence the whole procedure or process, they may be considered most honored class. Now, if we look at all these debates, what is the source of communication? We usually get to know through the media which is more influential, which is more prestigious. So, if there is such a situation in the world, we will have to see how we will differentiate this situation that the prestigious people, in the real sense, who are more influential and why are they? Because it represents the ranking of individuals and families on a scale of prestige. Those who occupy roles of greater importance and also hold the higher ranks. Now, those who are more prestigious because their role is more, that's why they are prestigious, then their class will be separated in that society, and they will be considered important. Now, the prestigious, why they are considered prestigious? Did their responsibility make them prestigious? Did the privileges they have and the status they gave them gave them more important statuses? So, in today's world, there are so many questions that are in every society and many questions are unanswered because, moreover, social importance conveys two meanings, a sense that some individuals and groups occupy roles that are crucial to the survival of society and those other occupying groups are compatible with the general societal values. Now, these clear-cut two dimensions which were mainly discussed by Talcott-Parson, one dimension is that the people, those have the crucial roles, why they enjoy the crucial roles because the survival of the society is dependent on them and the other group is that the people, those are actually carrying the societal values. Now, the question is whether the values that they are carrying, they are transferring from one generation to other generation, will they be more important or their role is important for the survival of society? So, this is again a debate that we get in modern societies everywhere. So, the differential distribution of prestige and influence, though which it operates in a position of greatest social importance to mobilize the resources necessary to their operation and hence to the survival of society. Now, here we have to see whether the survival of the society is dependent on them, whether their resources are more, whether the resources of the society are important to the people who occupy the resources, this is why the survival of society is dependent on them or we have to see that the stratification is basically of integrative nature which tries to integrate the society by depending the inevitable discontent and by calling upon the commitments of individual society as a whole. On the other hand, we have to see that the concept of stratification which Parsons has given is that it is integrative nature because if there are different classes in the society and they will integrate back, then the society will grow ahead because no one can do everything. If some people have more resources, then the working class, they will work together with them, then it is beneficial for both of them. Similarly, if someone's role is more important, if someone's status is more important, then the combination of all these that the society has basically, this combination is important for the growth of the society. So, if the stratification is seen negatively, then it will become a hurdle, but if the stratification is seen from an integrative perspective, then it will work as an element for the improvement of the society, for the betterment of the society.