> How, one should rightly ask, could a khrafstar like the snake possibly be associated with good fortune?
For a while a running joke in Persian Wikipedia community was to call software "bugs", _khrafstar_s.
sfRattan 8 hours ago [-]
The use of "bug" for engineering defect (a use that predates software by around a century) shares Middle English etymology with bugbear and bugaboo, both of which relate to evil spirits/creatures and annoyances. Khrafstar is not unreasonable as a translation.
georgefrowny 3 hours ago [-]
Just another reminder of the absolutely massive public benefit that the Internet Archive represents.
Just wish they'd make the metadata crowd-sourced, maybe a tie-up with Wikidata.
Razengan 9 hours ago [-]
I wish there were more games based on Persian lore.
Like how Al-Qadim was an Arabian-themed setting for D&D.
pazimzadeh 8 hours ago [-]
Or just more movies about the Persians, where they’re not evil etc..
brunorsini 7 hours ago [-]
Go straight to the source, Iranian cinema is awesome and widely available.
An easy starter is last year's "It Was Just an Accident", which was nominated for a couple of Oscars. It goes from being hilarious to offering a deep reflection on vengeance vs reparation.
Kiarostami and Farhadi are also two great directors to explore.
mohsen1 2 hours ago [-]
wow i totally missed "It Was Just an Accident". Have to watch asap.
aa-jv 5 hours ago [-]
This is excellent advice - do you have any more recommendations? I'd really love to dig deeper into this branch of cinema, it seems an opportunity for quite some cultural enlightenment.
For a while a running joke in Persian Wikipedia community was to call software "bugs", _khrafstar_s.
Just wish they'd make the metadata crowd-sourced, maybe a tie-up with Wikidata.
Like how Al-Qadim was an Arabian-themed setting for D&D.
An easy starter is last year's "It Was Just an Accident", which was nominated for a couple of Oscars. It goes from being hilarious to offering a deep reflection on vengeance vs reparation.
Kiarostami and Farhadi are also two great directors to explore.
Also "A girl walks home alone at night" - (Farsi language but produced in the US) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Girl_Walks_Home_Alone_at_Nig...