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There wasn’t such a thing as ‘Northern Russia’ back when.

Back then it was Rus’ with the capital in Kyiv, and its rullers called knyaz’ - or prince.

And rigth now I feel hurt and mad at the same time because once again, people are making up russian-propaganga-filled nonsence and erasing Ukrainian history completely.

This is how cultural apropriation looks like and the big western companies gladly buy it. 

My mother's first home was a refugee camp. Her mother was sold on a Nazi slave market.

I have dead relatives on Ukrainian battlefields. We can't get them back because russia has colonised the regions.

One relative was taken hostage by the bastard russians and tortured for 2.5 years.

The word "slave" actually means "Slavic person". The word "genocide" was invented in Lviv.

An Amnesty International guy chased my mother through a shopping mall, yelling at her that she was a "stupid white woman who wouldn't know what a refugee is".

Ukrainians aren't allowed to talk about the racism we get every single fucking day because we're "too white".

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”

Baldur’s Gate (fan trailer)

I made this a long time ago, but I’m reposting directly to Tumblr because apparently YouTube has been giving people regional viewing issues.  Enjoy.

Есть целая серия таких видяшек с разными животными

Calling this “extrovert timeshare”

Fun Crafts With Dirt!!!

First, make a small hill:

Make sure it's high enough to see all of your neighbors!

Now dig a circular ditch around an area in front of your hill:

Don't forget to use that extra dirt from the ditch to make an embankment:

If you're feeling especially funky and creative you can sharpen some logs and put them on top of that embankment for a palisade:

CONGRATULATIONS! You have now made your own Motte (not the apple sauce brand, that's Mott) and Bailey castle!

Proceed to exercise your feudal authority over your neighbors at your leisure.

Microsoft Office XP assistants

Кстати, Лорд Витинари, верховный правитель Анк-Морпорка, очень любил музыку.

Людям страшно хотелось узнать, какая именно музыка могла привлечь такого человека. Заформализованная камерная музыка, может быть? Или громомечущие оперы?

На самом же деле он предпочитал стиль, исключающий исполнение. Любое исполнение, полагал он, подвергает музыку издевательствам, заключая её в высушенные шкуры, останки дохлых кошек и куски металла, расплющивает её в проволоку и трубки. Она должна оставаться на бумаге, в виде рядов маленьких точек и крючков, аккуратно сидящих на линейке. Только в таком виде она чиста. Она начинает гнить сразу же как только люди дотрагиваются до неё.

Куда лучше спокойно сидеть в комнате и читать ноты — ничто не встаёт между тобой и замыслом композитора, кроме росчерков пера. Слушать её в исполнении потных жирных мужиков, у которых из ушей растут волосы, а с гобоев капает слюна… сама мысль об этом вызывала у него содрогание. Хотя и не очень сильное, поскольку он никогда и ничего не доводил до крайности.

(«Ро ́ковая музыка», Терри Пратчетт)

Besides, Lord Vetinari, the supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, rather liked music.

People wondered what sort of music would appeal to such a man. Highly formalized chamber music, possibly, or thunder-and-lightning opera scores.

In fact the kind of music he really liked was the kind that never got played. It ruined music, in his opinion, to torment it by involving it on dried skins, bits of dead cat, and lumps of metal hammered into wires and tubes. It ought to stay written down, on the page, in rows of little dots and crotchets all neatly caught between lines. Only there was it pure. It was when people started doing things with it that the rot set in. Much better to sit quietly in a room and read the sheets, with nothing between yourself and the mind of the composer but a scribble of ink. Having it played by sweaty fat men and people with hair in their ears and spit dribbling out of the end of their oboe… well, the idea made him shudder. Although not much, because he never did anything to extremes.

-Soul Music, Terry Pratchett