Mamoulian War

As there is no better place (with the exception of one thread defending Assad’s and Russian murderuous spree in Syria), and the current events are unfolding mainly due to someone being to busy to sacrifice hundreds of thousands own people in WW1 style meat grinder, I’ll post it here. Assad has “run” to Moskva, as soon as Syrian rebels has decided to show Russia, how a 3 day Special Military Operation should be properly executed. Aleppo along with more than 50 towns, including strategic airbase at Abu al-Duhur, have been liberated from Russian occupiers overnight.

Looks like you might not be correct even with the IRBM treaty violation statement 🤷‍♂️ https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/ss-x-31-rs-26-rubezh/ as Oreshnik is “based” on Rubezh missile…

Not much of a scientific news, but finally worthy AI product 🙂

Well how much will it hurt, if you gave an option to someone, who does not understand this kerfuffle, to completely turn it off? First the people have been offended by other people asking for gay romances in games, now are people offended by other people asking for straight romances? Where is the sense in this? The more options you allow in your art, the more people will feel included in it 🤷‍♂️ Or you can call all these people bigots and are wondering, why your sales plumetted, or why Trump defeated Harris 🤷‍♂️

Well, some of the guy tweets/blues were not most diplomatic, and I can understand, why it might not only the "hardcore anti-woke", but also the Average Joe, who is a little bit conservative, but some of the games, which he enjoys does not give him an option to pick choices, which would represent a little bit more of his worlds view. Such Average Joe is then very easily convinced, that these "anti-woke activists" can have a point. Which is bull****... But when you are advertising your game as inclusive for all audiences, but in the end you do not offer few simple choices for a significant portion of demographic, and then you point using derogatory terms at everyone, who even in good faith might be asking why is that the case. Well such a game is then everything, but inclusive... This is not black and white issue, some shades of grey might expand your audience and in the end show a middle finger to the "hardcore anti-woke" crowd... 🤷‍♂️ In this case, the easiest solution would be to offer a toggle near the pronoun field. Liberal people would be able to choose, whatever would suit their playstyle, the conservative people would be able to turn this feature off. But unfortunately, we live in the world, where everything has to be turned into hyperbole, and then calling the people with different world view either bigots or groomers, with no chance at all to find at least a little bit sane middleground 🤷‍♂️

People here on boards were talking about ICBMs. Media as well... And taking anything that Putin says at face value in current day and time? Seriously? But yeah, if it was IRBM, as currently reported by "untrustworthy western media", they did not break any treaty 🤷‍♂️

With which, if it is true, they have broken another treaty 🤷‍♂️ and some people still want to negotiate with them 🤷‍♂️ Back to Kursk. It is said, Lieutenant General Solodkov was on site, welcoming the 12 Storm Shadow arrivals. His fate for now is unknown.

Of course the polls are now that way. Even Zelenskyi said in September, he wants to end the war as soon as possible. (note, neither him, nor the polls have explicitly specified what date they are talking about, when using term as soon as possible) Few days ago he even said, that he wants to end it in 2025. No surprise there at all. Still 38% of UA want to fight till the victory. And I guarantee you, that ending war as soon as possible even in the eyes of these 52% of Ukrainians does not mean to surrender to Russia, just to have peace, but “enjoy” the ethnic cleansings, like before, when Stalin was still around…

An answer to a simple question will tell you why this will never work. How the UN mission in large country like DR Congo helped with establishing peace there? 🤷‍♂️ and you want the same deal at the zero line with nuclear armed paranoid madman 🤷‍♂️

Yes, it has been proposed many times before, because there are still a lot of people at high state positions in various countries, who can’t do basic math properly 🤷‍♂️ Edit: and if by any chance, Trump is one of the people, or has around him some people, who can do the simple math properly, he will throw Putin under a bus sooner, than he blinks with an eye. Explanation in the video above as well. Hint: it was part of the peace plan, which Zelenskyi proposed to Trump himself.

I have found a video, which is linking to the source of this information. According to the info, a member of Republican party, had an interview in Kyiv 24, and he explained, that Trump has backed Biden’s decision to allow ATACMS strikes in Russia, as he believes in projecting peace through power.

Not plausible, at all, as the contact line (including Belarus and Transnistria) is approximately more than 1800kms (1100 miles). If the buffer zone would look be anything like buffer zone between DPRK and RoK, it would require more European soldiers, than all european countries currently have combined. And it would cost EU more, than they are currently providing as weapons and humanitarian assistance. If by any miracle, they would be able to accumulate Million EU troops on ground in UA, just in salaries it would be costing EU 5 billion EUR a month. Minimum. Without the cost of equipment, food and lodging. 🤷‍♂️

That would be terrible indeed. Everybody knows, that most hateful number is 7, because 7-8-9… I’ll see myself out now 🫡

It’s from someone from Virginia, who was citing the ADL report, which has said that 0,08% of all emotes on Steam are of hateful character… The most ridiculous about this report is, that half of the emotes, which they pointed to, were Pepe Frogs… 🙈

During last week destruction of few hundred of mechanized units in Kursk, UA has captured loads and loads of DPRK weapons out of the wreckages. No captured/killed soldiers yet shown, that’s true, but even if we hop on the western media hate bandwagon for providing “fake news”, the South Korean agencies and government , which have been very reluctant to report about anything similar in the last 2 and half years, confirming this information, makes this information pretty plausible…

Looks like the retraction was preliminary here as well. Today UA hit Kursk HQ with allegedly DPRK officers on board with 12 SCALPS/Storm Shadows over the course of less than 60 seconds. Must have been very high value target, if they decide to spend more than 30 millions on a single strike, while still having shortage of these weapons…

The Kursk only restrictions were inaccurate reporting, as the first ATACMS hit Bryansk Oblast 🤷‍♂️ edit: now I have noticed, that you already reported the info about Bryansk 🙂

Today in Kyiv 24 TV has been broadcasted, that Biden has told Trump during their latest meeting, that he will approve ATACMS strike deep in Russia. Trump has not protested against this idea.

I am inclined here to agree with Zoraptor again. The statement, that “We do not review bad games” does not hold water IMHO. As I can say, that I have played few games, which have been absolutely terrible/boring snorefest, which has got the rating of 7/10 or even above. They do review bad games, but they are afraid to give it proper evaluation. Newest Dragon Age is prime example of that 🤷‍♂️ IGN and Gamespot gave it 9/10 and Eurogamer even 10/10 FFS… If this does not show the current state of quality of game reviews, than I do not know what 🤷‍♂️

For me watching the game awards is completely useless. Precisely because you almost never get review under 7/10. Which made the game reviews absolutely useless and irrelevant in my eyes. Because it is sometimes more entertaining to watch a 5/10 movie than play a 8/10 game. Unless they fix this widespread issue, they will lack the credibility they are craving for so much as mentioned by Zoraptor. 🤷‍♂️

Half-Life 2 free to keep on Steam, for few more hours/days. If there is still anyone beside me, who never owned it 😛

Another giveaway, this time specifically tailored for Volourn! https://www.gog.com/en/news/16th_anniversary_special_claim_the_giveaway_of_diggles_the_myth_of_fenris

I really love this board. Almost every day, I learn something new. Today, I have learned, that Bethesda has employees, who test their games for bugs. Who would have thought, that this is reality in this Universe 🤷‍♂️

Indeed

Ukraine has eliminated in Crimea war criminal, who has ordered a cruise missile attack on Vinnytsia city center, killing 29 civilians (https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/07/14/7358046/). He was also responsible for periodical attacks on Ukrainian cities by cruise missiles launched from Black Sea. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/13/7484248/