Mamoulian War

Is that real? I already see it as their new DRM, which will “punch” you in the guts, every time it makes a false positive

Good read https://www.salon.com/2023/07/29/how-russian-colonialism-took-the-western-anti-imperialist-left-for-a-ride/

After I thought I have lost a video of my Druidstone gameplay during my PC upgrade, after almost two years I have finally found it It is a guide and walkthrough of Speedrunner achievement on Hard Difficulty. This is the only video of this achievement on Hard on YT, so it might be possible, that no one else so far, has bothered to get it this way The preparation of tactics for this took me more than two hours and then another half hour to have a luck with RNG on book spawn to be able to perform it correctly

After some longer break from the game due to my busy work schedule, I have finally acquired Platinum Trophy in Tales of Arise on my PS4 today. This game has one of the most balanced roads to Platinum Trophy, I have ever achieved. I had no need for any kind of excessive grinding. Just now and there going back to some easy to get material for weapon crafting or few minutes of fishing. Even the post game was one straightforward way to level 100 while clearing all new content. Both post game quests have been fun and challenging, and I had not feel burned out from for a single minute during whole 111 hours of gameplay. That's what I call quality game design!

And they are offering it only to countries, which have Wagner or strong pro-Russian presence in them

Romania is willing to use their air force to help with Ukrainian grain transit over Danube river. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/07/28/7413257/

Open season for SEGA games continues Like a Dragon 7 released on GOG few minutes ago with all DLCs as well https://www.gog.com/en/news/yakuza_like_a_dragon_its_hero_edition_and_dlcs_out_now_with_50_discounts

Of course, not enough grain for producing pork lead always to times of trouble in China

LOL this one is perfectly suited for facepalm emote as well

It already happened though https://www.techspot.com/news/92761-ubisoft-connect-user-account-deleted-inactivity-comply-gdpr.html

And two more hours spent with Tales of Arise. I was able to clear all Solo Ultimate Training Grounds challenges with all partymembers. The two which made me most troubles were Rinwell a d Dohalim. Rinwell, because I kind of sucked at avoiding poison from the big mob, which then ran over me, and with Dohalim I had just wrong spells assigned to him. As soon as I was able to avod the poison, and equip the correct Staff Strike spell, I went through these challenges like a breeze In the meanwhile, I was also able to clear the Group Ultimate Training Ground challenge, with which, I have unlocked one more trophy. Unfortunatelly, I have missed the target time by 36 seconds, so I did not get the extra reward, but it is definitely doable, as I am only level 96 and got KOd to many times with Alphen. We’ll see how it goes. Need to finish only the last and hardest quest now.

Looks like Solovyov and Simonyan might be in trouble as well

After the Kerch bridge accident, While the Russians are destroying grain, wheat, barley and the oldest cathedral in Odessa, Ukraine destroyed two of the largest Russian ammo warehouses behind the front, thus hampering supply of frontlines, which already caused notable reduction of activity of RU artillery on Zaporizhzhia front.

So I have run a long Tales of Arise marathon with breaks after each hour played, and I was able to clear all of the Rifts and some Ultimate colosseum solo fights. 4th rift was the reminiscence of Tales of Zestiria, on top of the mountain, where one big dragon was living. Fifth was homage to Takes of Berseria, also on top of the mountain, where Magilou has said final good bye to her teacher. The last rift was for some reason called Vesper Rift, but it was part of the Tales of Xillia 2. Namely the last battle arena in the Land of Canaan, where you have fought final boss. The hardest battles for me were Abyss and Berseria, but I was able to successfuly defeat all of them and I have finished all but one quest. The game is 89% complete. Although to 100% the game, there is needed part of the New Game + to get some items. We’ll see if I ever go for that. The goal for now, is Platinum Trophy

Yup, you can’t pick the shape of your pubic hair on premade character

Finished first three of the “Otherworld” cameo areas in Tales of Arise and defeated their bosses. The Spirit Forest from Tales of Symphonia really resembles the look in the original game. Unfortunately I can’t remember the Oracle Snowcap from Tales of the Abyss area at all It should be somwhere close to the end of the game, but my memory is failing on this one. The first area was from Tales of Destiny. Still waiting for the game to get full english fantranslation for DC version, to play it for the first time. So I have no clue where from the Caverns of Fate are as well

Well, the Girkin situation is pretty interesting, as he openly condemned Prigozhin’s mutiny and voiced support of Shoygu and Gerasimov. And despite that, it is him, who ended up arrested. This might trigger some “russian patriots”. Oh, And the Article on which he was arrested is used a lot to get down political opponents. I am curious how this turns out.

The Purge intensifies.

Xenonauts 2 early access has been released on GOG. https://www.gog.com/en/game/xenonauts_2

Russia made the same statement day before.

International Human Rights Court has struck a case against Ukraine about oppresion of Russian language speakers. And blaming Ukraine for destruction of MH17. Russia ignored all requests by the court for “clarifications”, so the court “dismissed” it. I do not speak lawyerish, but this looks to me more as technical verdict, although with it, it has dismissed cases, which are not covered by other applications. Although, it is also written, that the court found no grounds relating to respect of human rights, to pursue in further examination of the case. https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf/?library=ECHR&id=003-7706301-10639634&filename=Russia v. Ukraine - struck out of Court's list of cases.pdf

Aftermath of Kerch Kaboom in Russian security forces.

Kerch Bridge attacked and damaged again. https://t.me/bazabazon/19608

Have you by any chance tried ou Xenonauts? Also Xenonauts 2 are very close to release. First game is closest game I’ve played to first two X-Coms by Microprose.

Girkin’s take on current status at battlefield. Very similar, to what ChrisO_wiki presented in his assessment, which I posted sooner.