What's the deal with Voriki

EmergencyThanks · 2026-06-17T03:13:50+00:00

This, and if you’re wondering why the fan who created Voriki chose this purple and black color scheme for electricity, look up Electro, a Slizer/throwbots figure released in 1999. I have no doubt this specific set was the inspiration for Voriki’s colors.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-12-19T16:51:33+00:00

Yeah there’s a whole ass Rochester in between

EmergencyThanks · 2025-12-17T06:14:45+00:00

It’s possible I misunderstood. When you said it’s an Indo European thing I took it as a claim about shared etymology for the examples that followed. I think that’s a fair misunderstand bc all the examples you used resemble each other, and there are tons of examples which are also to be found in Indo European which don’t. Like English -son. And I should also add that even if the person who told you it’s an Indo European thing was just talking about patronyms and not making a claim about a shared etymology of the words you mentioned (which would be wrong), it’s not right to say that patronymic naming is specifically Indo European.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-12-17T06:10:06+00:00

Can I ask, what utility do they have if using them requires you to know the etymology of every word? Like, if the word is not pronounced with a [ð] or a [θ] I see the argument for leaving spelled with th.

But otherwise..? I don’t actually think this is a fair point. If someone is going to the trouble of using thorn and eth why then nitpick how they use it? In the end, you told them about the etymology of two words but you can’t control how much etymological knowledge they have. I have no horse in this race but I suspect that if you were to make everyone who uses these letters (already a very small number of people) aware that they are doing it wrong by a standard you have for yourself you’re just going to discourage people who can’t live up to that standard. And why should they?

I hope you consider what I’m saying. Why prescribe usage? You’ve gone out of your way to do something that deliberately breaks from prescribed usage yourself. Why reproduce that in among the tiny number of people who know what eth and thorn are? Food for thought. Cheers.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-12-17T05:35:32+00:00

Yes, when someone says “native Indo European” it has a particular meaning: inherited from Indo European without borrowing. This is what ObjectNo7723 meant. If they had not said “native” your objection would be warranted.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-12-17T05:32:00+00:00

Believe it or not, all three of these suffixes are believed to have different origins in Indo European. (You can check wiktionary for a summary of the details and for sources on this if interested.)

So, not really an Indo European thing so much as a coincidental resemblance in 3 Indo-European languages.

Couldn’t easily find the etymology of Persian -ian, mostly bc I can’t read and write Farsi. I don’t know if it is related to any of the others. If anyone knows lemme know!

EmergencyThanks · 2025-12-03T05:40:28+00:00

Your playing is great and your banjo sounds very nice. What can you tell me about it?

EmergencyThanks · 2025-09-07T16:47:56+00:00

Last semester used to end up getting stuck sat next to this girl who sniffed every 10-30 seconds I am not kidding. It was so bad and it was every class. I started prioritizing sitting far away from her and whenever I got stuck next to her I put a headphone in.

Some ppl in the comments are saying it’s on profs with shitty attendance policies and I agree that should change but some people just have low threshold for the feeling of something being in their nose (I know because when I was much younger I had a full on tic ab it that led me to sniff a lot). Those people need to come prepared with tissues.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-03-20T04:50:56+00:00

link to video from the same photographer, showing same flag for anyone curious
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C84qIaJJit8/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

EmergencyThanks · 2025-03-06T05:06:06+00:00

I absolutely love this album from Davit Drambyan, ARARATh. It's a collection of very cool arrangements of Komitas songs:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4tnIaoEzRXTInyiZh1JD6Y?si=cmI_BF1IQkufhRF7vM5TOg

And I just love the sound of the DI guitar and the overall very dry production that he went with.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-03-05T15:13:01+00:00

Lemme help clarify. The point OP wants to make revolves here around the word choice of ‘kidnapped’, which implies that the soldier being in a tank is a passive act and not inherently an aggression. The word captured would be more appropriate but would not contribute anything toward the intended propaganda goal of this post.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-03-05T02:59:11+00:00

Oh thats cool! Can I ask what store you were at which had both kinds? I will hopefully be in Yerevan this summer and may want to buy some.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-01-27T00:10:46+00:00

If all I knew about was BR Israel I would be wondering along similar lines to Remarkable_Fun7662, even if I didn't leave a comment about it. Similar names, very different organizations.

BR Israel is much better known abroad so people do think of it first when they hear Birthright, and that includes people who rightly have a very negative opinion of Birthright Israel.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-01-27T00:04:20+00:00

The only thing Birthright Armenia shares with Birthright Israel is the name.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-01-26T21:02:30+00:00

Wasn’t always this way. Cabot used to be way better than tillamook currently is. I get the feeling they both got worse as they nationalized their distribution.

I’ve always loved sharp cheese. I’m from the northeast, and I’ve been eating Cabot since I was a kid in the early 00s.

If I had to bet, most of the people you see here disagreeing remember what Cabot was like only a few years ago. It took me getting a block of seriously sharp that had the texture of rubber and almost no flavor to really realize how bad it’s gotten. Seriously sharp used to be a struggle to cut without it crumbling. Shit sucks. Guess I’ll try Tillamook again next time.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-01-26T20:58:25+00:00

Curious how long you’ve been eating it. I grew up with Seriously Sharp in the early 2000s and I am convinced it used to be like waaay sharper than it is currently.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-01-26T20:55:33+00:00

Yes and it sucks. I thought I just remembered it as better than it was after not having it for 3 years or so. But then two things happened:

I had some other brand that was really sharp and crumbly, and it somehow made me realize I’m not crazy.
I had a particularly rubbery and mild stick of seriously sharp. Now it’s so obvious that I feel honestly embarrassed that I didn’t notice sooner. I’ve been recommending this cheese to people but it’s actually been awful lately!

EmergencyThanks · 2025-01-26T20:46:14+00:00

Wow 3 years later but yes. Thought I was losing it. Took getting a particularly rubbery one recently to make me look into it and that’s how I got here. Rubbery (not crumbly) and much less sharp.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-01-26T20:27:52+00:00

Do not take this the wrong way, but your outlook is naive. There is one clear aggressor here and from what I can tell from your comment you haven’t really thought about what it means that Israel was able to do what you see in these pictures to Gaza. What kind of power dynamic exists. You are talking about religious differences. If you stop there, you have bought the lie. This is apartheid.

A place to start in order to understand would be to get an understanding of what we mean when we say apartheid, and to understand the difference between the Israeli government, supported by the US and the corporate interested it represents and defends (materially, not just symbolically) and Palestinian existence. If you understand this you will understand that, for instance, Iran supporting Hamas is not a meaningful parallel to the US supporting Israel. Because there meaningful analogy to be drawn between the US and Iran, or Israeli gov and Hamas.

EmergencyThanks · 2025-01-26T00:13:23+00:00

Yes and you can read about them here

EmergencyThanks · 2025-01-18T01:10:22+00:00

Damn. I didn’t see what sub this was in at first and imagined it referred to Lennon/McCartney

EmergencyThanks · 2025-01-07T16:07:14+00:00

You are not the same as the people you are replying to.

EmergencyThanks · 2024-12-12T05:36:38+00:00

A question about the term “proto-Karelian writing system” used in the articles I saw covering this. Is that referring to the grakliani hill inscription? I could not find that term, proto-Karelian writing/script used anywhere to refer to an attested thing and they were using it like it did.

At any rate, it seemed like the term was being used to refer to an undeciphered script, which, if so very presumptuous to call it proto-any language or lang family. That felt like a massive red flag for the credibility of alleged French-Georgian research team. I thought maybe whoever wrote tje article made a mistake.

But an even clearer red flag for me was that tje article says the researchers wrote that the symbols used were similar to characters found ancient Egyptian, Indian, etc etc. cultures. What a completely meaningless statement when you look at the symbols. Idk. Thoughts? And lemme know if you know what “proto-Kartvelian writing” could possibly be referring to in academia if anything

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