Mamoulian War

Now it starts to be interesting, the guy whot shot the PM, has written a “novel” full of hate speech against gypsies, and in the past was associated with pro-russian paramilitary group Slovenskí Branci. It starts to smell more and more as a Russian infulence operation.

He was a writer. Nothing else is known so far. No nutjob for sure. More like absolute frustration. Smer has destroyed lives of many people. I was expecting to see something like this sooner or later, with the rhetorics of his political party, and with them ruining a lot of people in the past, especially in the construction sector. I am just absolutely surprised, that the guy decided to go so high in the “food chain”. He travelled aprox 80 kms to meet him. Oh and I forgot to mention in my first post, that the PM is alive for now, but in critical condition.

An assassination on our pro-russian Prime minister has been performed. People are talking about Karma biting him back, as he was during the last 4 year doing his best to divide the people here and demonized journalists, liberals, LGBT communities, progresives, immigrants, intelectuals, etc... It is said, he was shot 4 times in chest and stomach. He is currently being hospitalized in one of the hospitals, which has been "robbed" out of Euro funds by his party people and friends. The shooter was 71-year old man. A primary target audience of his party.

Now that the information speculations have settled down a little bit and more details have been revealed, The most interesting thing in this Grand Reshuffle is the “Sacking” of above mentioned Patrushev. He was once considered as a successor to Putin, and now, he has been appointed as Putin’s aide. Shoigu, unlike his lapdogs (two more of them has been reportedly arrested), has been moved to similarily powerful position, but Patrushev’s new position is considered as a big demotion. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-appoints-patrushev-dyumin-kremlin-aides-2024-05-14/

Looks like we start to have first partially good news from Kharkiv front. Russian milbloggers are starting to complain about badly trained units on this front, who lack even basic knowledge of proper formations to have a chance to avoid drone strikes. So it looks like, all the experienced and battle-hardened units are at different fronts, or already dead 🤷‍♂️ https://t.me/philologist_zov/965

Whenever is someone in Russia charged by corruption, it means, that he had dared to steal from a booty of someone above him 🤷‍♂️

Another Shoigu’s lap dog has been arrested. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/14/7455684/

StarCrawlers 2 out of early access. I had a lot of fun with the first game, so I can only recommend it. They are only a few people, and the lead guy has been talking to me whenever I have reported a bug in the first game to him, even few years after it's release. And of course, he fixed it in a timely manner. https://www.gog.com/en/news/out_of_early_access_starcrawlers_chimera

While they are cutting off results of ****ty decisions, they should get rid of the focus on NFT nonsense as well 🤷‍♂️

Has anyone noticed or followed this Kickstarter? Do you have anu impressions of it already?

According to various sources, RU has accumulated aprox 32000 men around Kharkiv. Looking back at 2022, when they had probably same number of men and the advantage of surprise, and less armed and trained UA army, and were not able to encircle the city for more than half year. Do you think they might have a better chance now? Especially when you consider, that they lost more than 17000 men trying to surround Avdiivka. edit: General staff of UA has also posted a new record from yesterday: https://www.facebook.com/GeneralStaff.ua/posts/pfbid02AG84aiQvdw761cD5wYf4EFXti2JaqUViGkyhPFhHixwXtitp9GSGVa9itPdzPvFul

Looks like Shoigu not attending the inauguration had really deeper background in the end. Putin has “recommended” new minister of defense to take Shoigu’s place. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/12/7455460/

Well we already had a lot of rumours about deaths of some high russian officials and their “health” issues. About Lukashenko as well. I was just simply curious, what we will “know” for sure in the next few days . Shoigu being at the parade just bursted the bubble of anticipation I had . As much as I would like to see him at the next Tea Party, It is just interesting to watch how the wishful thinking spreads fast in the west as well 🤷‍♂️

Looks like there might be a lot of rumours emerging in the next few weeks. After jailing Shoigu’s thieving right hand, Shoigu was not seen at Putin’s “inauguration”. Let’s see, if he will be around the Red Square during today’s parade 😁

Heroes of Might and Magic 6 comes to me immediately as a first example, of what they are talking about 🤷‍♂️

Not sure, if anyone here likes racing much, but this week, I got one of the most intense races in a long time. Very balanced field, where between 7th and my 21st position in qualification was less than 1 second difference 😲 Start was pretty solid, gained a little bit, but made a big mistake at the end of the first lap and dropped down to 26th place. After that I have started my slow progress to get up to 11th position, where I have experienced few "near-miss" situations, where the car right in front of me or right behind me was taken out. At the end, I got to position 10, as the guy right in front of me, has been penalized after the race by stewards 🥳 I watched it today again and could not believe how lucky I got few times, but still crazy good race that was

Filming of small rotation of 2 x 4 UA soldiers and 2 journalists in the middle of hell at the zero line.

Cameron has officialy green lit the usage of Uk weapons on Russia’s soil. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/3/7454055/

Well, I would not say it was much different from other Beth games. Same engine, same bugs, just in space 🤷‍♂️ They should have put it into Starship Troopers universe, at least the bugs would fit into the lore 🤷‍♂️

Finaly Ukraine received western weapons, with which, they can hit targets inside Russia. https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/interview/2024/05/2/7185053/

Yes, then Soviet Union decided to "liberate" them, and annexed Moldova from Romania. The results were tens of thousands executed and deported Romanians to Siberia.

Yes, I am looking at it with a pinch of skepticism as well, but I am glad, that at least someone opened this topic, and I am pretty sure at least Poland, Baltics and probably Romania joins this initiative soon. I am pretty sure, this notion might have something to do with the danger in Moldova as well. Some time ago, Romania planned to change their law, which should give them right to send some kind of direct military help as well. Moldova has now Romanian language as official state language.

Macron had another speech, and he delivered even stronger wording about the French intervention in Ukraine. He has now officialy put it on same level as past French interventions in Africa to counter terrorism. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/05/2/7453964/

Ukrainian Command says that the news about removal of Abrams from frontlines is not based on true information. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/27/7453276/

Well, this depends on what it really means to be underbudgeted. IMHO PoE2 could fit into the definition of underbudgeted, or to have a more fresh example, look on Steam for Vivat Slovakia game. It has full VO, despite being absolutely unoptimised mess, despite it having a big potential for our domestic audience. after 5 years in development it hit Early Access now. Therefore for me, full VO in indie/AA games seems more like a type of mismanagement, as I do not see much difference betweem having it or not if your target audience is very niche in the first place. Which means it is almost impossible case to attract the mythical “wider audience” 🤷‍♂️