#tubishvat

[eretzyisrael]

Happy Tree Day! Tu BeShvat 2023 (The New Year of the Trees) began Sunday evening February 5 and ends this evening February 6.

Dry Bones

[bestmessage]

Tu Bishvat Messages, Wishes and Greeting

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[like-egor]

☘️🌳🌿Сегодня Егор посадил в Детском Садике своё первое дерево в Израиле и привёз его домой. Какой же этому был повод? Потому что с вечера 5-го февраля до вечера 6-го февраля в Израиле большой праздник, и называется он "Ту би-Шват". Его также называют «Рош ха-Шана ла’Иланот» (ивр. ‏ראש השנה לאילנות‏‎), буквально «Новый Год деревьев». В этот день у израильтян много традиций, ведь праздник уходит корнями в столетия! Одна из традиций - это как раз посадка деревьев. #LikeEgorBlog #ЛайкЕгорБлог #ТуБиШват #TuBishvat (at Kiryat Motzkin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoZ3BBoICET/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[linandara]

Happy Tu BiShvat, New Year of the Trees. I am planting this digital tree in celebration, hoping it would amuse or cheery up someone. It grew mostly out of the collective subconscious, I only trimmed and decorated it a little. People need people for different reasons. Some can't go on holidays or eat in a restaurant alone. I certainly could. But I can't create for myself. I need someone who needs what I do creatively. But I so often feel I don't know if anyone really does. And this kind of creative uncertainty feels like a curse. Maybe I am a tree which is not ready to produce its fruit yet, maybe I am trying to produce the wrong fruit altogether (but I tried a lot of different things). What happens if I go silent, at least for a while? Would anybody notice? I do play my harmonica by the river, where nobody can hear me, but I do have a hope that I will be good enough to share that sound one day. When I imagine myself on an uninhabited island without any chance to get out, I can't see myself making artwork which nobody ever sees. What's the point? But maybe there already is no point. It's funny that it is the same word, "retreat" as in battle and "retreat" as a place of relaxing or meditating. #doubt #creativity #tree #TuBiShvat #illustration #fantasy #aiart #clouds #roots #linandara #isitreal #curiosities #dreamscape #artcollection #escape #innerwork #adventurethatislife #portal #digitalart #layersofexistence #feeltheforce #mystery #snow #AI #mood #calendar #February #livingmeaningfully #vintage #celebrations (at Newtown, Powys) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVI6H5LUZn/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jewishfan-chronicle]

Tu BiShvat the New Year of the trees

Tu BiShvat - New Year of the Trees is tomorrow, February 5, 2023. Ancient Jewish holiday for Israelis has become a celebration of the land that is tightly tied to national identity. I'm glad that on this day more and more people appreciate nature and the land of Israel, G-d's given land to the Jews.

[iloveabunchofgames]

2/12/23 - Week In Review

#JakeReviewsItch Week In Review Archives

This week's reviews:

🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 a new life. 🧡🤍🤍🤍🤍 A NIGHTMARE'S TRIP 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 A Normal Lost Phone 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 A Planet of Mine 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 A Short Hike 🧡🧡🧡🤍🤍 A Sketchbook About Her Sun 🧡🧡🧡🧡🤍 A Snake's Tale Later in this post, we're going deep Nintendo news and capitalism:

The return of the Touch Generation

Freshly Announced Zelda's Pricey Rupeeland

The relative value of old games But first...

Game of the Week:

Without a doubt, this is the strongest week so far. There's a clear winner in this batch (as well as a clear loser), but the runners-up have been on my mind a lot over the last few days.

The above screenshot comes from the early moments of this week's best game, a new life. Although May, on the verge of admitting she has a crush on August, is referring to the vulnerability of emotional intimacy, I snapped this image because I wasn't sure yet where this story was going. Friends, the most embarrassing about this game might be that I myself out of giving it a 5/5 rating. My review's harshest criticism was that there weren't enough opportunities to connect to the characters and their tiny world. While I don't think changing scores is in the spirit of this project, having now had time to reflect, the story a new life. tells is bigger than its fictional narrative. A recommendation carries more weight when it's back up with details, but I'm asking you to take my word on this one. On that subject, this week's review of A Normal Lost Phone (currently the second-best reviewed game in the ranking) is largely about the frustration of recommending games that are best played cold. Look, I would love to talk freely about the content of these games, but if you've played them, you already know what I'm talking about, and if you haven't, please do. Finally, while I can't recommend A Sketchbook for Her Sun, I will be forever grateful to it for introducing me the Red Ribbon. I can't very well name an indie musician "Game of the Week," but it's been a Red Ribbon party in this house for several days already, and the party won't stop until somebody calls the cops.

Tears of the Wallet

The latest Nintendo infomercial was met with a mixed reception. Those who tune in for ultra-modern blockbusters from the biggest franchises were disappointed. (I guess I get that. As pumped as I am for a new Pikmin and a new Zelda, I'm already sold on both, so those trailers don't count, in some weird way.) As a fan of the kind of experimental, unmarketable B-games that have largely gone out of fashion in the last decade, this was a monumental advertisement. Samba de Amigo, Professor Layton, Fashion Dreamer (yes, this is a Style Savvy sequel), Ghost Trick, Fantasy Life, and the freaking GBC adaptation of Alone In the Dark: The New Nightmare??? I don't know why a multi-billion dollar put together a 45-minute commercial aimed specifically at me, but I'm not complaining.

I am complaining about the news that The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom will have a higher-than-expected MSRP. I rarely pay full price for games, but I've been scrimping and saving in anticipation of this one. Money is tight, and that extra $10 stinks. In more financially stable times, I paid $60 for Zelda's Wild Breath, though, and I felt like I got my money's worth. Then I paid, what was it? Another $20 for the mildly disappointing DLC? Remember the "Everyone is here!" trailer line for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate—the game that was called Ultimate because there's nowhere to go after you get everyone. I purchased the full DLC subscription, the contents of which were still unannounced, because you guys, everyone. And then they announced a second DLC pack, and dozens of costume microtransactions, and I said no, I have put enough money into this game. I Tears of the Kingdom is a bigger, better Breath of the Wild, I don't think charging a little more is unreasonable, just like I don't think it's unreasonable that LABO, Ring Fit Adventure, and Mario Kart: Home Circuit cost more than $60. Value and profit margin should be factors in pricing. (That goes the other way, too—more on that in this post's final topic.) If I'm paying a higher base price, though, I don't want to be asked for more money later. Go the the eShop and sort by price. Look how many games get away with charging $100 just because they tack "+ DLC bundle" to the end of their titles. It's sick, and we should be worried by anything and everything that conditions us to feel like maybe everything should be more expensive. No one is forcing big corporations (not just games; this is everywhere) to charge more for less. Video games are already too expensive for me, and I do not want them to get more expensive. I do not need them to get more expensive. Let games be small and freaky!

One, Two Remakes Stand Before You

Metroid Prime (Left) and Metroid Prime Remastered (Right). Official screenshots from Nintendo, hosted on ModyGames.

Metroid Prime is a masterpiece. This is not a unanimous opinion, but it's not a controversial statement, either. I don't know how many times I've replayed it, and it still fills me with the same sense of awe I felt twenty years ago. I've not played Metroid Prime Remastered, but by all accounts, it is even better. Some information about the remaster was leaked months ago, so its official announcement and release this week didn't come as a big surprise, and yet I was taken off guard by just how much work went into making it look modern. Now I'm looking back at Metroid Prime, a game that's always been beautiful in my eyes, and it's so...old. The remaster is priced at $40, which seems fair, given the apparent development effort behind it. (Super gross that Nintendo doesn't share my appreciation for hard work.) Fair, but more than I'm willing to spend on what is essentially a game I've already bought twice. (Hey, Metroid Prime Trilogy was only $20 on Wii U, and I didn't own Metroid Prime 2.) You know what I did buy this week?

WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS isn't a remake, per se. I can't point to one entry in the long-running Power Pros series and say, "See? They brought it back!" but that's only because they're all basically remakes. Although the series hasn't been a global concern for several console generation, Konami put out one or two of these every year in Japan from 1994-2016—not counting spin-offs, which came out at a comparable rate—before switching to an every-other-year schedule. They're all remakes. Clearly, releasing the same game over and over again with minor tweaks is a viable business strategy. Like, Konami has the game, and suckers are willing to buy it again each time they slap a new number on the title. It's the dream of every greedy publisher! And that's why I have to rave about the new Power Pros.

I don't care about baseball in the slightest. I've played an obscene amount of Bases Loaded on NES, and I'm always up for some Wii Sports baseball, but I can't think of one other baseball video game that's left any impression. WBSC eBASEBALL™: POWER PROS is no exception. It's more complicated and demanding than the cartoon characters imply, and attempting to manage a team's lineup makes my head spin. I'm not going to give up until I manage to get at least one run. Hopefully I'll get a feel for it and start having fun. For now, I stink, and I don't like it. Here's the thing, though: This game, the first Power Pros game released outside of Japan in years, the latest in a long-running line of shameless cash grabs costs...

$0.99

This isn't a sale. It's not an introductory price. And here's the part that sold me: It's the complete game. No DLC. When you've already produced a game, already sold it at a premium price, and already watched watched sales numbers plummet to zero/week, what do you, a game publisher, have left? What is the value of that intellectual property? What good are the code and the art assets when no one's buying? (Besides exploiting your fans with low-value junk?) You can sit on it, hording properties in the hopes that one day they can be rebooted, remastered, or resold in their original condition. You can sell the rights to other publishers. Forgo profits now to (possibly) profit later, or profit now and forgo the ability to (possibly) later. I never would have expected Konami to instead sell a game at an irresistibly low price, but it's absolutely the best move. So what if they only make a couple cents per sale? Low cost + high volume = cha-ching! And public goodwill. And a chance to reach people like me, who would never buy a new baseball game. How many new fans will pay full price for the next generation of Power Pro. Zelda sticker shock is getting headlines right now, and it should, but we should refocus the story, not on games getting more expensive, but on games being priced appropriately.

Let's also remember, this week, that some games are not appropriate for purchase at any price.

Friends don't let friends enable bigots.

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[avi-on-jumblr]

TREES TREES TREES. Btw make sure to buy like a gajillion boxes of dried fruit (I love dates and dried mango personally, they’re gonna make up like half of my food on Tubishvat)

omg i've never had dried mango before, I have a lot of dried strawberries though! might go looking for mango too 👀

TREES TREES TREES

[unganseylike]

its tubishvat but the pomegranate id been saving for occasion went bad :/ someone get me a new pomegranate ASAP . for religious reasons.

[hebrewbyinbal]

/shvat/ is the 5th month in the Jewish / Hebrew calendar. It visits us in the months of January-February, and on its 15th day we celebrate /too be-shvat/ the festival of the trees טו בשבט חג לאילנות.

#tubishvat #shvat #שבט #hebrewmonths #jewishmonths #hebrewcalendar #hebrewcalendarmonth #hebrewyear #jewishyear #israelicalendar #hebrewisraelites #hebrewroots #hebrewletters #hebrewlove #hebrewschool #jewishnewyear #jewishcommunity #jewishpride #hebrewbyinbal #inbalamit #learnhebrew #hebrewwords #watercolorart

[geoparduc]

Happy tu BiShvat!

[sophieakatz]

I jotted down my first notes for this poem while standing under a tree. Happy Tu Bishvat! #writersofinstagram #poetry #trees #tubishvat #tree #poems #poemsofinstagram #poetryofinstagram #nature #naturelovers #leaves #amwriting #poemsofig #poemsofinsta #handwriting #poetryisnotdead #poetryislife #poetryisart #ode #freeversepoetry #freeverse https://www.instagram.com/p/CKkFiOdn_5t/?igshid=8fqmszu38jqd

[eretzyisrael]

Joseph Waks 

Did you know that Israel is 60% desert. But it has over 200 million trees. Israel is one of the only nations in the world that entered the 21st century with more trees than it had 100 years ago. : Yuval Oz

Humans of Judaism

[ronniefein]

Happy tu b’Shevat! Celebrate this delicious holiday with Banana Bread stuffed with dates and figs. Don’t know if anyone out there is a “dunker” but this bread is oh so good with a milk dunk! Recipe in the profile and on my blog. #bananabread #bananabreadrecipe #bananabreadwithdates #bananabreadwithfigs #tubishvat #tubishevat #tubishevat2021 #tubishvat2021 https://www.instagram.com/p/CKjynI3rmOc/?igshid=1tvcxoxal678m

[the-original-bookworm]

In the spirit of my ancestors I will now eat FIVE THOUSAND TONS OF OLIVES. ITS TUBISHVAT, BITCHES

[indicegastronomico-blog]

Les presento mi nuevo proyecto para este 2019. @auguri_trattoria Una propuesta elitista y bondadosa en alta gastronomía italiana a reinventarse día a día hasta su próxima Inauguración en #tubishvat Esta vez en Ciudad de México 🇲🇽 estaremos ofreciendo una inmejorable versión de #hautecuisine #glattkosher con el apoyo de @kosher_kmd Las más exquisitas y delicadas pastas artesanales junto a los más finos cortes de carnes importadas Definitivamente podremos ofrecer una exquisita variedad de la #cocina Avenida Paseo de Las Palmas 340, Lomas de Chapultepec CP11000 México 🇲🇽 #koshermaguendavid #chef #chelife #cooking #italianfood #gourmet #gourmetfood #foodie #truecooks #foodporn #foodlover #foodblogger #maguendavid #kosher #kosherfood #bisteccafiorentina #koshercooking #kosherrecipes #pizza #pasta #steak #steakhouse (at Food Market MX) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrnPGz_hzVn/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zzpq859w0pzx

[jmw87]

When people are doing nice things for #tubishvat, and you’re here drinking wine from a Santa cup… #tubishvat🍎🍊🍋🍒🍇🍉🍓🍑🍈🍌🍐🍍 #judaism #reformjudaism #reformjudaismrocks #reformjewish https://www.instagram.com/jess_mw87/p/CY4IKcJF3JL/?utm_medium=tumblr