Q587p - 587

"Here, we should also mention the origin of the name "Ukraine. " Of course, this is not a "okraina" [russian] (there is no such word in the Ukrainian language at all - there is "okolytsia"), because in the 12th century, when this name arose, there was not a single state nearby that could call the powerful empire its "okraina" (Moscow, for example, was only founded in 1147). Instead, it is likely that the name "Ukraine" consists of two words: "u" (that is, "in", "inside") and "kraina" (country). This was the designation of the metropolis, or the ethnic lands of the Ruthenians, the owners of the empire of Kievan Rus, without taking into account the colonies. That is, Rus (the empire) minus the colonies equals the U-kraina ("inner lands"). In German, there is also a similar term - Inland (in - in, Land - land, country), which is used as a counterweight to Ausland. The emergence of this name was determined by the then processes of the empire's disintegration and the need for a separate designation of its "non-colonial" territories. But the old name Rus was preserved for Ukraine until the middle of the 15th century, as evidenced by numerous documents and chronicles, and for its separate parts until the 19th (Halychyna) and 20th (Transcarpathia) centuries. And Russia has approximately the same relation to the historical and cultural heritage of Kyivan Rus as its former colony Romania has to the corresponding heritage of the Roman Empire (Roma)..."

(c) Mykhailo Krasuskyi - THE ANTIQUITY OF THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

“Lilith and Eve" by SAYAE Heroika Arts, 2018

A few years later I decided to return to Magic, played Prerelease, decided to buy few bundles of the latest releases – and was very disappointed. The visual guide is the main reason for taking them. I am sad that I did not read the composition before buying, and now I regret the money spent…

Hi! As someone working in a country where English isn’t the primary language ordering an English language bundle and then using the set booklet to help in drafts and sealed at the LGS I found was really useful. What prompted removing them from the Core 2020 set and the upcoming ELD set (if I read the packs and content article right)?

Here’s the story. We constantly do market research on products to make sure we’re including the right components. This means we seek out Bundle buyers and ask them to rate the importance to them of each item that comes with it.

The card guides are much beloved by a small subset, but are generally disregarded by the majority of buyers. We kept the card guide in the set for many years despite the poor showing in the market research, because we personally liked them.

But eventually, the market research caught up. It became hard to justify something that the vast majority said they didn’t care about.

I feel your pain. I too liked the card guides. But I recognize that if enough consumers don’t want something, we need to find things they do want.

That’s the reason.

The greatest video since “The History of Japan”

Clark never felt pain until after he became Superman.

Yeeah, Elon lost it. Pay to read....

consider: teenagers aren’t apathetic about everything they’re just used to you shitting all over whatever they show excitement about

Ukrainians wait for the Declaration of Independence to be pronounced near the Supreme Council building in Kyiv on the 24th of August, 1991

And we have XKCD about this 😅

I understand why alchemists invented, and modern fiction writers use, systems with a few understandable Elements like Earth / Fire / Air / Water / Light / Dark.

I understand why even most nerds don't bother to study the Elements in real life. There's too many of them, and they don't neatly correspond to meaningful aspects of macro-level existence.

But just once I'd like to read a worked magical system where the author has looked up the properties of the real Elements, has put in all the work to build up a system of plausible-sounding correspondences, and the protagonist is a rare dual-element Tellurium-Iodine wizard.