u/Wandering_sage1234

I am personally loving the trailer. I think this film will be good, and I want it to succeed. Because it's time for Indian stories to be told to a global audience, and this is a MASSIVE project. As Indians, we should do everything possible to help this film grow. I absolutely welcome the changes they made to the armour and the Sinhalese influence on the face masks; I really, really like it.

But I feel Namit's interviews aren't working because the momentum hasn't been built yet. For me, SDCC should really come after the trailer has generated hype. Let the film grow slowly in Indian circles, THEN do SDCC when it's getting close, and the hype has been building organically.

Let's make this clear: YouTube is 99% of how this film will be viewed. It already generates $3 billion or more, and other social media are important. But you need to reach a TON of influencers from MANY countries. Heck, why not promote this film in African countries? Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Ghana? Indian films used to be broadcast over there, and this WOULD help African filmmakers and viewers as well. Because this film, to me, seems like it could elevate the Global South. Promote it in countries where there's a strong Indian reception or positive reaction to Indian content.

How did RRR grow? It was a deal with Netflix, and suddenly the film became viral with an American audience that had got sick of cumbersome, cookie-cutter Marvel films with weak stories, playing it safe, and a whole universe of Marvel TV shows that had bored everyone. RRR, for all its strengths and flaws, was over the top, but in a way that resembled 60s and 70s Hollywood-style filmmaking; it dared to do things not seen before and to show that India has something unique.

I say now, though: start promoting this film in Thai, Indonesian, and Malaysian social media circles. With their prominent influencers and distribution networks. You would build a fanbase much more quickly. They would tell you more about Ravana than Penelope's weaving. The Odyssey isn't universal across the world; it's universal for the West in general, and the only reason people know about it elsewhere is that European empires went around and colonised the world. This is the reality. South-East Asia is a massive market that Indian cinema has really underused for promotion, and it needs to do a lot of work there now. SEA is not some forgotten place. It is a rich region full of trade and business, and many Indians know this.

I need Japanese dubs, Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysian dubs of the trailer. Yes, the English one was released. But stop promoting to them; focus on these guys. Focus on the people that have more in common with Indian culture than the ones who don't or are too biased. Where's the manga or anime adaptation of this film by other studios in China or Japan? Why not do a deal with Tencent? Why not monitor what OTHER audiences apart from the West are saying about this film? You guys have the reach; you, the filmmakers, the marketing department-you have everything. Start that work. Because currently, plenty of young people will watch this. And their opinions WILL matter on social media far more than just boomers alone.

Why do so many Telugu films release in Japan? Our South Indian cousins figured out that Baahubali, even NTR Junior's films, are massively popular over there. We really need to learn promotion from them. They KNOW how to market. The whole team working on Ramayana dreams of getting praised by famous Hollywood directors, but look at what SS Rajamouli did. He never went chasing recognition; they GAVE it to him.

Because they have the Ramayana ingrained, and I mean really ingrained, in their culture. Look at Thai classical dances. Western audiences understand the Odyssey because it's ingrained in them. Chinese audiences understand it because they've studied it, but I feel many people across Asia wouldn't understand the Odyssey unless their younger generations have studied it at school or university, or encountered it through anime or manga.

If you go through SDCC, it should be after a massive domestic opening. Show up to Comic-Con with fans from around the world, with numbers and organic energy behind you. Currently, it's the opposite. You're building hype with barely a murmur from the most resistant audience in the West.

And believe me, you've had creators like Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic rant about woke casting and how they want original stories from diverse cultures. Well, isn't this film exactly that? Original casting, original diversity, a story told from within its own civilisation. And yet they're silent.

I say the marketing is failing because no one in the West, not even big creators, is talking about this film. Either do something about it, because right now, I don't see Western fans creating a Ramayana subreddit and discussing it the way they do for the Odyssey. I argue it's biased, but what can you do?

They aren't discussing it. But look at Dhurandhar. That film didn't need any Western marketing, and it did fine in India because it was made for Indian audiences. The West didn't even look at it. I'm starting to notice that gaining the attention of the West is increasingly just becoming rage-bait content for hating on India for no particular reason.

RRR accomplished what Indians had been trying to do for a decade but failed to achieve. And it's insulting and, frankly, biased that the Academy didn't give an Oscar to the film itself but to its soundtrack instead. An Indian film winning an Oscar for Best Picture would help India's global cultural standing far more than people realise.

Some mid-tier Western influencer reacted to the Ramayana trailer and said it's "a whole new world because I don't know about it." Sure, buddy, like China's a whole new world for us Indians when we visit, like Japan is, like every country is when you encounter it for the first time. That's not insight; that's just admitting you've never looked beyond your own culture. Meanwhile, Asmongold reacted to Baahubali's animated trailer and hasn't touched this one. That tells you everything about where the interest actually lies.

In this case, just market it as India's Black Myth Wukong. That's the energy plenty of people are already getting from it, and that comparison works: a civilisational epic made with pride and without apology, aimed at the world but rooted completely in its own tradition. The Chinese don't run for validation and look at where they are now compared to us in terms of promoting their own culture to the West.

I used to not play AOEIII much because I never liked the circular map for some time.

After a while, I let my biases go and decided to try it out. I remember how much I liked to play this game.

I wished they'd continue with more story mode campaigns. And the lack of Napoleon in the game is a crime!

Now here are some questions:

1. Do I play with any mods? Any mods that change building sets?

2. I noticed that the Japanese got new unit skins in a patch? So do I play historically accurate building units mod or play with the new unit skins for each civilisations? That's what I'm trying to get at. Does the Napoleonic unit skins - where can I get that and at what age? I am confused.

3. Are the Indians playable if I remember correctly? Would love the Marathas as a civilization or something.

4. Should I try the beta first? It's been such a while I am trying to figure out how to play such a game which seemed simple in my childhood and now is more dense as an adult for some weird reason.

I don't understand it.

I was able to copy images and it would upload fine. Tried chrome, tried firefox

And it says refused to upload.

I tried images of mine on my PC and still this was the same issue.

Has anyone else been facing this issue?

I remember reading that in AC4's new story, that apparently there's some sort of time rifts, that you can access through the Animus or something like that

And they're alternate scenarios of Edward in different scenarios. I don't know if is this true though.

I've always wondered about this. In the show, the Earth Kingdom is portrayed as bureaucratic and, to an extent, militarily strong, but it is weak. Corruption and warlords want to rip it apart and not worry about the weak Emperor.

But was there ever a point in the Earth Kingdom's history that it had a strong Emperor? And I don't mean Chin, I mean there must have been more powerful generals or something to that degree. At what point did the Earth Kingdom threaten the other nations? At what point was it considered the so-called evil?

Because the Fire Nation is in your face, it knows how to be violent. The Earth Kingdom? They wait and watch and plot, and then they unleash their plans. That's the vibe I get. I feel like they're the real danger. I would love to see more ATLA cover this. Because there's so much unwritten lore about the Earth Kingdom that their origins need to be explored. I can't imagine a weak Earth Kingdom Emperor didn't have 2-3 strong Emperors before that.