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Look at you, hacker, a pathetic creature of meat and bone; panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect immortal machine? Please don't suck, please don't suck.

Funny that you mention Soledar, where Wagner have claimed capture of the city, then RU MoD claimed that it is not true, then RU MoD claimed the capture of the city, then UA MoD, denied the claim, and then there was one more week of fighting reported from city before UA army fully retreated For now, Zelenskyi has released official statement, that the city is not completely captured, and there are still operations performed by UA forces inside the city, although pretty vaguelly So I expect pretty much the same as in Soledar. Few more days of fighting inside the city before UA army either completely retreats, or pushes forward with the encirclement of the city, which they started about a week ago. It would be pretty ridiculous, if they would manage to encircle the city in a month or two, after RU spent 224 days and tens of thousands of meatbags, trying to get the prime example of Pyrhic Victory. Probably it will not happen, but this would definitelly break a lot of necks in Kremlin https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/05/21/7403171/

Was trying to give everything to Vito, he was the PC in Mafia 2.

This is a war of immortals, Russian generals resurrecting last year

https://www.reuters.com/world/g7-signals-long-term-ukraine-support-russia-woos-global-south-2023-05-21/ A really productive and consequential G7 meeting that includes F-16 confirmation, additional sanctions on Russia and additional military and financial support for Ukraine. The West also reaffirmed its continued long-term support for Ukraine Zelensky was there as well and met with leaders of the global south like Modi from India https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/20/asia/zelensky-modi-meet-g7-japan-hiroshima-intl-hnk/index.html

Mafia 3 done, 55 hours or so. Fun game, didn't get the ending I wanted - Burke and Vito each had 4 districts, I guess the game flips a coin.

And some analysis, what might have been hit deep in occupied territory near/at Mariupol Airport with Tochka-U or Storm Shadow last night.

Completely forgot I made this. Glad to see the old gang is still around.

At 6.7 hours played of Showgunners I have gotten the Steam achievements for 50% of lootcrates collected, 50% of autographs signed, and 50% of optional combat arenas completed. I think the 15-20 hours estimated may be on the generous side.

Keeping Company (2021) Whoever wrote this movie has either worked in sales or had a very bad experience with an insurance company. It bills itself as a horror comedy, but for me ended up in more of a satire akin to Don't Look Up but better. It's a solid B movie, not gonna wow anyone but a fun watch for 90 minutes. I tried. Our plane crashed (a big bug was ripping people's tongues out) so we have to walk. We'll probably get there in sixty days or so.

Metro: Last Light Complete Edition is free on Steam (until 25 May). https://store.steampowered.com/app/43160/Metro_Last_Light_Complete_Edition/ DEATH STRANDING is free on EGS (same). https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding

Magical Angel Creamy Mami. Yes, that is the real name of the show; no, I did not pick it; yes, it is supposed to be for little girls. There were four different but very similar magical girl shows made by Studio Pierott all in the mid-80s, and Creamy Mami was the first of them. I've already watched Magical Emi, but there's also Magical Fairy Persia and Pastel Yumi, and though I tried both of those out, neither of them really clicked. Creamy Mami's first episode introduced the "magical girl" element of the show...somewhat differently than the others. An invisible spaceship, which curiously looks like Noah's Ark, descends from the heavens. Mami is the only one that can apparently see said spaceship and decides to approach it. The aliens, who earlier came across a cat and who evidently decided to shapeshift into these strange "cutesy" versions of one, are quite impressed with this and suck her up into the ship. Maybe you thought I was exaggerating, but no, that's literally exactly what happened. Inside the spaceship, she rides a goat into a mass of roaring blue flame and becomes some kind of holy warrior. Sorry about all the little girl underwear in these gifs, but this wacky crap must be seen by at least one other human. After slaying a dragon and getting swallowed by a sea monster, she meets this...thing, the apparent master of the ship. That's an alien. That's a literal space alien. Mami "hugs" the alien a little too tightly with her hands... ...and she is summarily ejected (by way of instant apparition) from the spaceship, and I guess now she's a magical girl thanks to some alien tech she got. She gets home and her mom spanks the hell out of her for being out so late at night. What a great first episode. You know, something about all of this seems ever so slightly less wholesome compared to Sailor Moon...just a little bit. Forget the power of love and friendship, it's literally just aliens! This reminds me that there was a very weird episode in Magical Emi where Emi got lost with another girl that was new to the show, and the other girl kept talking about getting off Earth with no prior hint or explanation at what she could possibly be talking about...and it turns out, she was also a magical girl with her own little alien familiar! The episode ended with Emi getting back home and that other girl never coming back to the show: I can only assume that Studio Pierott was planning some kind of Magical Space Witch Girl cinematic universe that sadly never panned out.