Shantesh Patil 🇮🇳 🇨🇿

🎮 Game Designer at @Wargaming

🌎 Travel, life, books, games, and other writing at My other hustle

[Shantesh Patil 🇮🇳 🇨🇿 @shantesh]

As part of a writing challenge last year, I wrote and self-published a little book of poetry. Check out the link to get it for less than a cup of coffee ☕

https://t.co/I6cTs1d8Ar

#poetry

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@Motionfly_co motionfly

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@dioscuri Oh. I will never forget Stumbleupon. So many wonderful memories

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@RishiAlwani The voice acting really does throw off the entire thing. Visually it’s looks decent enough

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@jasonfried Absolutely. A breath of fresh air

[World of Tanks: HEAT @wot_heat]

THE WAIT IS OVER
HEAT is live
Agents, ready. Tanks, armed. The battlefield is open.

PLAY FREE NOW

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@DrHomeostatic I can only speak for where I have been living for in Czechia for 4 years now. I never got a single call

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@jmitch Amazing. Any hint of what these other devices might be😉

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@beingdhiru @MilanBarsopia It was actually renewed for the second season by Netflix but apparently the budget was exceeding what Netfix was agreeing to.

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Like a yardstick calibrated in millimeters, a journal holds both the detail and the scope of life. Our human condition is to live one moment at a time; we’re never given more than that. Of all the gifts journaling gives us, maybe that’s the greatest: The simple practice of making daily marks on paper, like mental push-ups, can strengthen the part of us that tries to rise above the timeline, to see a pattern and bigger picture — and, paradoxically, also strengthen the part of us that can learn to treasure the present moment.

From this wonderful essay about journaling by the Jordan Mechner

https://t.co/pdGRT3esy9

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@plot_twistttt For me the top 3 would be

- gutka/spitting/littering
- zero traffic violation tolerance
- "mera baap kaun hain janta hain" rhetoric

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@marthandavelan I think in present day this is grossly exaggerated or I got lucky. 5 days of travel last year just Paris and didn't once experience this

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@akshitaa98 It's when Jugaad turned into a default way of operating vs something that was an occasionally clever way of solving a real problem

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The truth is that the low cost mindset is so embedded in our psyche that it is hard to change. I remember an Uber driver telling me that the price that you pay for a ride offers razor thin margins to him and customers are not willing to pay him sometimes even Rs 2 extra. Saw it with my own mom. I told her what difference does it make to round up. She was insistent on not paying a rupee more. I understand that they came up through hard times trying to raise us but she and I are in significantly better financials states now but the mindset never changes. And they don't realize who is paying the price.

The cost of a taxi in western countries is probably 3x what I would pay here but the difference is that you have a viable cheaper public transport alternative.

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@thekaipullai It's even worse. You are punished for following the law. Try waiting at a red signal when there is no traffic.

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@vanschneider I loved and miss Rdio. It absolutely nailed light mode

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@sab_maya_hai__ Can’t speak for the other things but I went to Machu Picchu more than 12 years and the joy has never faded. Brings me immense pleasure thinking even now of that trip

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@TheCinesthetic Oldboy, Incendies and The Sixth Sense

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@a_sajo This is me when I used to stay in Pune. My eternal fear was getting read ended while stopping at the signal because literally no one other than me was stopping.

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@kepano @obsdmd Is there an option to not open a link in reader mode by default because it messes up stuff like an instagram link etc