Mamoulian War

Well. I would agree about this assessment of yours, if Russia had unlimited personel. Which is not true. Currently Ukraine has more troops than Russia can possibly raise, as Putin is affraid to call for total mobilization, as it would made much bigger stain on his “election” as few hundred thousand corpses from Russian colonial provinces no one gives a crap about at home The other reason why I cannot fully agree with your assessment is that Russia helps tremendously to Ukrainians with their “brilliant” tactics, all we need to do is look at all the Russian “glorious offensives at Kyiv, Bilohorovka, Vuhledar and currently at Avdiyivka (etc.). All Ukraine needs to do, is to set their artillery at fixed points and load it as fast as possible as Russia is sending one meat battalion after another. And now Ukraine has cluster bombs which makes their job even easier. As Elerond said, Afghanistan won the war of attrition against Soviet Union, which ended up in collapse of Soviet Union, and Ukraine is playing out for them even worse in that regard. War of attrition is not won i. Two years though… So unfortunatelly for Ukraine, this will be very painful for them as well, but… I recommned you these videos as well for your research on the matter, which analyzes the attrtional warfare:

That’s pretty nice gimmick… I do not remember such feature in any other game… ever

Yes, the Ukrainians should also do what Russia and throw thousands over thousands of soldiers, run them over with their own BMPs while dropping them of, and hope that at least one percent of the soldiers would not get cluster****ed so they could put thier flag in the middle of a destroyed wasteland. That’s how proper offensive looks like, right?

I am the owner of Gold Ticket from the start of the campaign, but I was not logged into my account for more than 5 years

I ended up in final dungeon of Chapter 12 in Star Ocean 5. I have almost finished the storyline, and I need to get down three more bosses including final one. But this walkthrough is my trophy hunting one, so I am slowly getting more and more of materials for various crafts and getting some Battle Trophies as well. These trophies are much easier to stomach than the trophies in SO4, and there are much less of them, but there is on ridiculous one... 1 million hits on enemies... And I have after 100 hours or so, around 180k we'll see how this one will fare...

More details from continuous Avdiyivka human wave attack UA source: RU source:

Russia made another record yesterday. At Avdiivka Again, this is the only media, which I have found and could be posted here…

Probably, they moved to Israel for the very same reason already (including “chief rabbi”, who was threathened because he was not willing to publicly support the war). As Russia is the country with the biggest number of neonazis in population in the World

Looks like Israel has enough of Lavrov being lovey-dovey with HAMAS leaders

Nah, I know very well how that works, I am even willing to doubledip on some games. I get the game on release and GOTY after some time, if they offer a physical edition, and the game is exceptionally good. It's my personal way, how to reward the developers for their effort. I just loathe the Paradox way of DLC production, which Relic is a big fan of Myself I do not play their games, but I like to watch the let's plays. They do not sell it on GOG, so no sell for me. The issue is that most of the games are designed solely from the financial aspect, and they are missing soul. That's why I lately rather play indie games, even if they are flawed, because you can feel the very souls of the team put into some of them. Unlike the Triple A's

well, they are saying exact the same since they got the WH licence, and they are still making these DLCs. And I can understand, that all of the people get sooner or later highly annoyed by this tactics, as DLCs for this game is dirt cheap to produce, and guaranteed sale And I did not read Steam reviews. I have read some articles, and watched a guy, which I know, that he loves them despite these shenanigans, and I trust his reviews of TB content. But yeah, this does not mean, you or other people might not like it.

Everyone is talking about how bad this one is, so maybe this time it might not be much off.

I am moving forward, with Star Ocean 5 on Galaxy difficulty. I am in chapter 10, and I got again access to fast travel. Which makes the game much more fun again. I am trying to create some new items by synthesis, which I have never made before and slowly filling up the list of items, enemies and battle trophies to fulfill the prerequisites for some trophies. I am missing a lot, and I will definitelly need one more playthrough on Chaos difficulty, so I am not wasting to much time with the stuff As I said, I am again having much more fun with the game, and looking forward to finishing it. Mainly because I completely forgot most of the plot after 7 years

Just wow, the Russian offensive near Avdiyivka is such “massive success”, that in Donetsk, they ran out of body bags

@xzar_monty regarding the pipeline and data cable between Estonia and Finland, Stoltenberg made a statement today. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/10/11/7423592/ Do you think, something might happen, or the Finish government might choose the similar approach like Romania and Poland, and use a wording, which will try to deescalate the situation, so the NATO would not need to be involved?

Russians started offensive against Avdiivka stronghold. And it did not went very well. Here is a summary of their losses during this offensive: And the only available video, which does not break the community rules of the boards:

Despite not much time, I got to Chapter 7 of Star Ocean 5. And as before, during my first playthrough, this is the place where the game starts to slog a lot, due to its flawed world and quest building. In some cases the game gives you fetch or hunt quest, to which you have to run around the whole map with no way of fast travel, and this takes sometimes more than 15 minutes. And it does it a lot of time. The fast travel option the game removed in chapter 4 or 5, and reintroduces it back again much later. But the damage to the enjoyment of the game has been already done. Despite that, I still like the game much more than Final Fantasy XV, which was released by Squeenix around the same time. Mostly due to the world map being much smaller and less empty. So you get over the most painful fetchquests much much faster.

As Lexx said, the NATO fear is just a bull**** excuse. If there would be any fear of NATO, Russia would never reduce their personnel and vehicle numbers by 80% after Finland Joined NATO and doubled the length of NATO borders with Russia. This is the best evidence, that Russia always knew very well, that there is absolutely no threat from NATO to them. They just want to have back their vassals, which they lost during Yeltsin's rule.

If you really want to see the thing from the perspective of both sides, here is one more perspective from the Russian PoV, which you are still missing. At the end you have also a google translate link from Russian Media.

Just look how diplomacy with Putin worked out for Prigozhin. Russia plans to fight with NATO for a very long time, to get back their east eauropean colonies back. Ukraine is just the beginning. They spent 20 years of Hybrid Warfare to attack my country aswell with bribing corrupt politicians, which used our state fleet to kidnap Vietnamese businessman from Germany, and have close relations to N’Dranghetta, which have now won elections. When Ukraine falls, in 10 years or less it will be my people dying, and West will be paying much bigger bills for that…

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Another point-and-click giveaway on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/game/truberbrook

Asked the same question when I’ve seen Baten Kaitos remake announced

I do not want to be mean, but you know, mElkAthi sounds pretty suspicious Hmm, 3.0 might be a bottleneck with 5Gbps I don't really know.