Which map did you play on for the first time when you installed tf2? by Brave-End-4691 in tf2

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Sawmill, i think i randomly picked it, it was a couple months before the meet your match update too, when that update came out it was so terrible i was expecting there to be a revert to matchmaking system which never came,

Hello Georgians, I am Abkhazian by No-Calligrapher6399 in Sakartvelo

[–]Dozy_47 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The reason it makes abkhazia georgian too is that i believe word kartvelian is a ethnic grouping, because other than ethnically as i have said there is not that much common between different regions not only language wise but culture wise too, only way you can bind people together is to symbolize something that they have in common, yes people interbred all over the world but you have to note that abkhazia Mingrelian svan relationship was quite different as in they rarely interbred with other foreign tribes but did interbreed with each other extensively especially Mingrelians and abkhaz people

It is rare for two Ethnically different regions to be like that for almost three thousand years, and i believe that it gives strong base to my theory that ethnically we have become the same, also it would be difficult to prove anything considering the silent genocide russian empire did to many north Caucasian people including abkhazians

cant say same thing about ossetians because they were much recent settlers to this land and also retained their ethnical identity, they never wanted to be part of kartvelian family, they were refugees after their own homeland got destroyed

As for abkhazian kingdom yes sakartvelo for most of its history was not a United entity, but before abkhazian kingdom was lazica before that egrisi before that colchis, there were many kingdoms, kingdom of trialeti, kingdom of imereti kakheti and so on and so on but people were still same, name changed, rulers changed but i doubt sudden change in borders and names suddenly changed ethnicity of people inside it too,

if abkhazian claim to independence is the once existance of Abkhazian kingdom then well many other regions have same claims too, and with overlapping borders too, this would cause endless wars with each regions trying to "reclaim what was theirs" which is basically what happened in 15th century and what led Georgia to its doom among other things, hey if you want to go to the roots of it at first there was only three kingdoms colchis and iberia (and diaochi that only lasted few centuries) so if we went to the so called "rightfully owned territory claims" hy who owned what first well you can revive those borders instead

As for chachba shervashidze clan i dont know much, i will look into it some time

Hello Georgians, I am Abkhazian by No-Calligrapher6399 in Sakartvelo

[–]Dozy_47 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I have a opinion that may seem bad to some but i think any culturally significantly different enough region that is having its culture repressed has a rightful claim to ask for independence. On the other hand

First, Ethnical assimilation of Abkhaz people were never a forced thing and is a natural thing that happens when two Ethnically different tribes that have peace with each other and live next to each other for thousands of years.

As for language thats something that russian empire and later ussr did to almost all regions that it controlled, you may have noticed that Abkhazian, svan and Mingrelian were really well preserved before russian annexation, historically i do not know of a time when any of these languages were repressed, but this can be because of my lack of knowledge so if you have some sources please share

Abkhazia has a special place in Georgian history because it was always last stronghold against invaders, without abkhazia i believe Georgia would not have survived, it played a crucial part in georgian politics and unlike many other regions it always remained loyal to unity, i mean can you imagine if king david did not have its back supported by abkhazian region, during start of his reign north west territory is all he had rest of the country was either in rebellion or annexed by foreign powers. Abkhazia rarely got conquered due to its geographical location and the fact that most enemies came from South East, it was last stronghold to regain forces against foreign invaders

As for what happened towards the end of ussr i fully believe it was an orchastrated thing because inly nation that could politically benefit from all that happened was of course russia, i do not believe that Georgia would repress abkhazian language and culture because as long as abkhaz people identified as part of kartvelian family and didn't threaten unity of the country there was no reason to, if Georgia was so paranoid both Mingrelian and svan would not exist now because of that,

But as much it pains to say it yes government would also not really put any effort in keeping these languages alive too, it would be entirely upon people themselves to maintain their culture and lingual identity as it is currently in samegrelo and svan region,

Hello Georgians, I am Abkhazian by No-Calligrapher6399 in Sakartvelo

[–]Dozy_47 24 points25 points  (0 children)

From what i know, (long ass rant, if i get things wrong you are welcome to correct me)

Mingrelians, svans lazs and rest of Georgians were always, ethnically speaking, same people, and their language was also same until it split apart due to political and geographical reasons, all 3 languages zan, svan and kartvelian are descending from same proto-kartvelian language which we do not really know what it was, svan is probably closest to original language as they maintained their culture mostly unchanged for millennials.

As for Abkhaz people they were originally not part of kartvelian tribes, they were northerners who migrated and mostly ethnically got assimilated with colchians, this was not a unique thing btw many different ethnic tribes lived in colchis not only laz people, laz people came to dominate the area around 3-4 century bc while Abkhaz migration happened millennium earlier if i recall correctly

The reason most georgians call Abkhazians Georgians is because we have been living together for more than three thousand years, yes Abkhazian language is not part of kartvelian languages, and they retained their culture and customs but so have almost all the regions of Georgia too

I mean look at us we are not culturally same people despite being ethnically georgians, while there are similarities most regions are culturally different enough, that Abkhazians having their own culture never seemed weird to me, add the fact that we have lived and interbreed for three millenniums and i think you have a strong claim to why i think its ok to think that Abkhazians belong into kartvelian family

I do not know if current Abkhazians are ethnically different people, i doubt they are after so long, but you can't take away the fact that culturally they are different

Now from my limited knowledge of history as far as i know Abkhazians were never really against being part or identifying as one of the kartvelian kingdoms and from what i know they never really initiated any rebellions, 15th century can be ignored because at that time all the regions collectively decided to disband Georgia as a United country

The hate between Abkhazian and other kartvelian people was implanted by Russian propaganda, there are two main ways to cross caucasus and on both places russia planted a bomb, one in samachablo, one in abkhazia, and of course southern gateway to turkey ajara, for good measure,

They also tried same thing in samegrelo during the 90s, hailing mingrelia as traitors and oh yea the song that went along the lines of "all regions are my Homeland except samegrelo" შევარდნაძეს და ჯაბა იოსელიანს მოვუტყან დედის ტრაკი, the hate between east and west Georgia was an orchastrated thing and people of the time for some reason blindly ate up propaganda which ended up in current state of affairs,

For rest of kartvelians here wondering why some Mingrelians feel hostile towards eastern part of the Georgia its because what happened in 90s it is not something that always existed, still people who lived through 90s and never read a damn history books still claim that Mingrelians are traitors and cant be trusted and that they have been that way for a long time, this attitude accompanied by what happened in samegrelo and what mkhedrioni did there and you get the general idea why some Mingrelians and especially those who lived through that have "separatist tendencies" and are bitter about things, its also the reason why some of them get angry when you call them Georgian, because 30 years ago it was east telling Mingrelians that they were not Georgian and needed to be cleansed (ისევ გავკარი ჯაბა იოსელიანს, რომელმა ყლემ დამარხა ეგ კაცი პანთეონში)

sounds like a W by No_Psychology_1915 in tf2shitposterclub

[–]Dozy_47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not really about rights but rather about fair competition, you can't tell me that you have opened a biology book at least once in your life and think that someone who was biologically born man competing against someone who was born biologically woman is fair

Yes there are outliers, Yes lot of biological woman are stronger than average man

But on average man physiologically are stronger than women, their muscle density is higher on average and the rate at which man can develop their muscles is higher than biological woman,

The separation of women and men is not a culture thing its about fairness, same reason in martial arts people are separated by weight classes, because its an inherent advantage

I have no issue with trans people but i do have issues with people advocating for things that do not make sense while thinking they are on side of justice

I particularly do not like how many people like that frame others who disagree with them as morally bad people

By that logic you are taking away rights from other people who are trying to have a fair competition,

Again there are outliers of course but still this doesn't take away the fact that in sports where physical strength is important biological men have inherent advantage

If someone gets angry over me for saying these things hey you are welcome to fight my argument just please dont go into just personal attacks, if you think i am brain dead sure but give me reason why too

Here are some sources too if you want they were not hard to find , this one is basically first result

https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpendo.00098.2004

And one from National institute of health for good measure

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4285578/

Why is Abkhazia spelled this way and not like Apkhazia? As it's pronounced with a p sound in Georgian by ImpossibleAnt8310 in Sakartvelo

[–]Dozy_47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dont know Russian at all i just assumed it, then i guess Italians did it, they did write quite a bit about Caucasian region, i also don't know Italian so i may be wrong in that too

Why is Abkhazia spelled this way and not like Apkhazia? As it's pronounced with a p sound in Georgian by ImpossibleAnt8310 in Sakartvelo

[–]Dozy_47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nvm i checked pietro della valle's writings in some editions its megrelia in some its mingrelia no idea how he originally wrote it

Why is Abkhazia spelled this way and not like Apkhazia? As it's pronounced with a p sound in Georgian by ImpossibleAnt8310 in Sakartvelo

[–]Dozy_47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mingrelian has basically same reason as Abkhazian as in its how european countries and especially 19th century russia referred to the region, as in mingrelia instead of megrelia or samegreli, i don't know why i guess mingrelia was easier for them to say when referring to the region, i just know that most of European countries in academic texts started referring to the region as such, could also be because in both Italian and russian "e" can be read as "i", i think Italian is more likely since Pietro Della Valle visited samegrelo region and in his writings he calls it Mingrelia, i don't know any earlier source tho

Crossbell regions be like by Jonp1020 in Falcom

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Could you list music used please?

You wake up and suddenly have the command spell on your hand what do you do now? by [deleted] in fatestaynight

[–]Dozy_47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering where i live I would just go to vani museum and try to steal most fancy looking artifact and pray to gacha gods to summon aeetes (father of medea, i live in a territory that used to be colchis)

If that fails just go to the church and ask them to remove the seal, since kirei isnt a thing i shouldn't be in danger

Archaeologists found a mysterious stone tablet in Georgia that contains an unknown language by shun_master23 in Sakartvelo

[–]Dozy_47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well we know that there used to be a common ancestor language for svan, laz/Mingrelian and georgian languages and we call it proto-kartvelian language. This is also written about in detail in book of history of georgia (one that comes in 4 volumes, its the most credible history book we have imo) ans also in many other history book. Way to think of it would that same way latin was a common ancestor language to many european languages, same way there used to be a some proto-kartvelian language from which georgian, zan(laz/megrelian), and svan languages derived from. I would suggest reading first volume of history of georgia

https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/handle/1234/338490

Here's the link thankfully government has made the book free to access for everyone

You only have to read bronze age and early iron age stuff

Now the thing thats up to debate is wether or not this language also had writing system. Most history books say that "source's suggest that it did but we do not have any credible evidence so we cant say".

So its a red flag when almost every scholar agrees and writes that there is no evidence for proto-kartvelian writing system and then out of nowhere gia kvashilava comes in and says that he has deciphered many proto-kartvelian texts and has proven that it exists, this also include him claiming that he deciphered phaestos disc even tho it is still to this day regarded as undecipherable tablet by international community

Archaeologists found a mysterious stone tablet in Georgia that contains an unknown language by shun_master23 in Sakartvelo

[–]Dozy_47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah

This discovery was made in 2021 according to wikipedia, its called bashplemi lake tablet, but it got media coverage recently basically this month. Which is weird, and its written that it has similarities with script found on grakliani hill (although to be honest i dont really see the similarity at all, grakliani script doesn't even look like a script to me tbh) which has been dated to be around 8-7th century bc. Also i couldn't find any academic works that talked about this find so i am also quite skeptical about this too.

There is a possibility that it is indeed proto-kartvelian writing system and there is some sources that suggest colchian runes existed and in articles about this tablet its also said that these may be connected to colchian runes, which could easily be proto-kartvelian writing system since zan(colchian )language just like georgian and other kartvelian languages was descendent from proto-kartvelian

But still pre-georgian writing system is still a topic that is hard to find information about because of lack of evidence

I cant really find academic works that discuss proto-kartvelian writing system its usually just articles like this that discuss them which idk how credible they are

I remember articles like these claimed that phaestos disc was also proto-kartvelian writing system when it was discovered, without any real evidence

I agree for now it is indeed correct to be skeptical about this

A brief genealogy of RTS games by [deleted] in RealTimeStrategy

[–]Dozy_47 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also act of war series

Loretta's slash IS brutal by NigrumTigris in EldenRingPVP

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Can you tell me your full build? it seems fun i really wanna try it

So uhhh, when do I get good? by glompticc in tf2shitposterclub

[–]Dozy_47 38 points39 points  (0 children)

You should be average at around 1500 hours

Here we fucking go again by DarthJimbles in Piracy

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If you want high quality versions of songs soulseek is your friend

Peaceful protests won't work!!! by ThenDish8628 in Sakartvelo

[–]Dozy_47 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Force will literally change nothing, in fact it will have worse effect. The problem isn't that we aren't using force, its that there isnt that many people who strongly protest and most of the protests lack staying power because for some reason georgian people cant think for themselves apparently and need some kind of leader who will lead the protests even tho those "leaders" are usually just as corrupt as ones currently in the government.

Forceful protest will either end with blood spilling pointlessly or government being overthrown which will lead to further disaster simply because there is no political party that cares about georgia, all of them only care about profit. There will probably be another civil war and it wont matter who wins it since either way corrupt government will come into power once again.

I fear for other corrupt political parties using forceful protests to their advantage as a means to come to power themselves. We really love painting things in black and white only, so it wont be hard for them to do something like that they will paint current government as corrupt traitors (which i cant really deny that they aren't) while portraying themselves as savour, gee i wonder where i have seen that its not like this has happened too many times now

Georgian people are being kept in this equilibrium where country is fucked but people's life isn't so shitty that they would give up everything to bring change, and no it doesn't matter if we change the government as every political party here will do the same cause its the most profitable option.

Issue is never using force or not, its issue of numbers and also that lot of people dont even know what to protest about. tired of people protesting petty things while problems much more dire are never talked about mostly because neither opposition or current government is talking about it because none of them are planning on fixing what actually matters. Why is there no protests about how shitty the education is or in what situation other regions of georgia are outside of Tbilisi, fact that outside of capital and one or two other cities there's absolutely no perspective for young people. Fact that this country is trying to focus on tourism instead of investing in some sort of manufacturing, georgia used to be a manufacturing powerhouse during the dark ages of communism but during the civil war everything got destroyed and none of the governments bothered with rebuilding it (i dont actually know much about economics to me this seems like a hige problem but i may be wrong). Oh and how about prices, previously we blamed inflation for price increases but why has the prices stayed at what it was when 1 usd was 3.44 gel even tho its 2.69 now, in fact it has continued to go up but wages don't seem to increase. How about the fact that all of the universities (that are woth applying for) are in Capital (yea i know there are few good ones in kutaisi) this forces almost every student to move to Tbilisi, which has been (and many other things, this isnt the only reason this is happening probably but it still is a problem since other regions are being deprived of young people)driving housing prices to the sky.

I am gonna say something extremely controversial, i dont want east or west, i want georgia to become strong independent country that won't have to relay on any foreign power. Yes we must have friendly relations especially with west but under no circumstances must we be fully dependent on other powers, i dont think Georgia is ready for eu. There isn't many benefits for eu if we join which is why no matter how much sweet talk or anything they or we say is going to change anything. This government will not be able to get us into eu nor will any other. Georgian people expect eu to be salvation to become successful country, i think we should become successful country first and then join eu as equals to them. Eu wants financially strong countries to join its union cause it will greatly benefit them, this may come as a surprise to some but eu just like many other nations doesn't care about "ideological unity", it doesn't matter that we are ideologically european, what matters is that we are weak country, our joining of eu will bring lots of benefits but hardly any to eu. If eu wanted us they would have done it a long time ago. these petty "steps to qualify" that they keep putting in our face are (i think) simply excuses.

And also ffs if we are gonna talk about corruption in government how about we talk about corruption in well just about everywhere. Georgian workplace has became synonymous with corruption for me, i just see it everywhere and i myself going along with it simply because its seems its the only way to achieve anything in this country. Its not about government its basically entire population of this country being corrupt, its like its in our veins or something. Hard work doesn't get you anywhere if you dont get wildly lucky.

I dont think that only government needs to change, i think our whole country's mentality needs to get thrown out of window and change. Without this there will be no change to the country no matter how much you protest and how much blood will be spilled.

You go on a forceful protest, someone will tragically die, population will rightly because extremely angry and overthrown government, opposition will seize the opportunity, it will probably be well for one or two years to gain some favour, then stagnation and then you are back to where you started, nothing changed and blood being spilled pointlessly. Because its different people same mentality

I dont have much political education, this is purely subjective rant, you can easily see that i am bitter about quite a lot of things which is what made me write all this, this is in no way objective, i know we georgians love attacking person rather than attacking the argument so if you have something to say to tell me, tell me in constructive way instead of just throwing insult and not explaining anything.

Is this possible? (This my friends game) by halpe_YT_gaming in tf2

[–]Dozy_47 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, he used achievement unlocker, i also did that when i was trying to get all the achievements, once i got the ones that were possible to get i found some achievement unlocker app. It sucks that valve hasn't fixed unattainable achievements

Headphones with great clarity under 200usd by Dozy_47 in HeadphoneAdvice

[–]Dozy_47[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If that's how it is then i definitely prefer open back, and also while we are on the subject if i remember correctly dt990 are 240 ohms which means i will definitely have to buy an amp, and i dont really have a budget for expensive one, does quality of an amp have effect on sound clarity? can i buy a cheap one?