Mamoulian War

Back from vacations Cleared two more bosses in the third floor of the Ex Dungeon. Boy-oh-boy, the difficulty spiked up after the second floor. I got nearly wiped out few times by the thrash mobs, but I am slowly leveling up and getting more powerful. The first boss (Bloodthirsty Fiend) was crazy hard, and I was fighting him for more than half an hour, and used up almost all of the Fresh Sages I had to control my healers most of the time, to overheal his damage to my party. The next boss (Transmogrified Alma) was a pushover and all I needed to do, was to fill up my "limit" gauge and use the ultimate move with Emerson on 200%... I got my first Moonstone as well, and now I am thinking what kind of weapon should I synthesize with it. Probably weapon for Emerson, as I have found out, that he is sometimes very useful in fights against the bosses to control, and he can deal that way enormous damage, if he can stay alive. And I have a chance to get the best weapon for MC from the next boss. We'll see 😛

I am happy to see this. So hopefully we might see PoE3 before my retirement (or at least before Star Citizen release). 🤷‍♂️

Colony Ship just got out of Early Access. https://www.gog.com/en/news/release_colony_ship_a_postearth_role_playing_game_with_a_25_launch_discount

Nope, not with Trump around, he had already a lot of negative remarks about what happens (or more like what will not happen) when Russia hits Baltics. And do you really think, that the Russia would change the scorched earth tactics, when attacking Eastern Europe? How many towns would be razed to the ground before first Wave of defense would be created? Putin needs a war for survival of his regime. And from Russia’s political point of view, they are already in war with NATO, because they want to end the current world order. Only some politicians and people in the west are still living in the lie, that this is not affecting their future because it is only Ukraine’s war. 🤷‍♂️ Russian army might be currently a big ****show, but Russian way of conquest is scorching everything to the ground to make everyone else life as miserable as their own, and then rule over the smoking pile of rubble… And for that you need only some fresh mindless meat willing do get grinded for his overlord. And Russia has enough of it. Putin started destabilizing Europe long time ago, first he creates millions of refugees by bombing Syria to oblivion, and then he start funneling billions of dollars to fund populist anti-immigration parties in EU. If you think, that current incompetent army stops him from pursuing his goals as soon as people like Trump stop funding the defense of Ukraine, I got pretty big bridge to sell you…

And again, I help myself with the video of the Danish guy. Although he is from the West and not East, he is spot on, what is really going on in Eastern Europe, and how the rational people are seeing the conflict here.

@xzar_monty I have found another article describing the state of attrition warfare in the conflict. And if it is plausible, it does not look overly bright for Russia. https://www.wsj.com/world/russia-turns-to-longtime-arms-customers-to-boost-war-arsenal-5111bac4?page=1

It might be laughable to you, and it might be over the top, but Ukraine is also defending my country, from getting even deeper under Russian influence. I would say, the same goes for Baltics, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Georgia. And I am very grateful to them, as I do not want to go through same pro-russian secret police harassment as my family ever again…

Not to mention, that 81% of Ukrainian citizens, according to the latest polls, agree that it is not a good time to hold elections right now. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/10/30/7426321/

So an Anthem “killer” in ME universe? Another DoA live service in the making? 🙈

Well of course West nor Russia were prepared for such a war, which is currently at play in UA. Why else would be Putin begging Kim for artillery shells, and why would still be West struggling to fulfill the promised number of shells to supply UA? Also, most of the drones currently supplied to the battlefield are made in UA and not in the West. Only thing which the west can provide enough to fulfill the needs is the mentioned GMLRS, which the UA started to use as a counter battery weapons for few months, and USA still have them enough for few years to use it that way.

Well… There’s never enough stuff to not **** up, if you are getting to desperate and your only chance for “decisive” victory is Trump in the office 🤷‍♂️

another look at the Zaluzhny’s assays, which in short blasts the economist and other outlets for shoddy clickbait journalism which took out of a single mention of Stalemate out of his articles to the headlines 🤷‍♂️

TBH not much surprising for us, who got some experience with “Russian World” (read occupation). I always took the word “exhaustion” in connection with Russian army from people like Girkin as “running out of bodies” and not as getting tired in combat in before rotation 🤷‍♂️

@xzar_monty we were discussing some articles about the sustainability of the attrition warfare for the the manpower of both countries, and Yesterday Girkin has posted his view, and what is happening last few monts. And he also stated, that UA has currently manpower advantage. And expects some breakthrough soon, as RU is getting exhausted more and more due to the illogical RU offensives. He praises UA for their ability to hammer the RU deep behind their lines. Most of his predictions were spot on, despite I consider his as to big of a doomsayer. So it would be interesting to see how his predictions will fare this time… https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/7/7427549/

Here is the video of three missiles at final approach to the target.

Second Ex Dungeon superboss defeated. Two-winged Gabriel Celeste. The fight looked pretty easy and straightforward, but around 20-30% of HP, he started to use super AoE, which have few times almost wiped out my whole party. 4 times only one character survived 😄 Thankfully, I had prepared 5 Resurrection Mists from Synthesis for this fight alone, but my oh my, only one left at the end of battle. I will have to prepare up to 20 for next superboss and I have to level up a lot my party as well. I have also finished 100% of quests again, and I will be slowly getting to 100% bestiary, I will need to defeat 5 more superbosses 😓 for that. The hardest Trophy will be the collection of 100% items, because I am unlucky with Orichalcum and Moonstone drops 😒

An interesting analysis of Zaluzhniy’s interview.

I would not be so sure about this. This is not the first case, and in one going about 4 billions USD to UA oil company from Crimea, even Lavrov was very reluctant on not complying with that court order 🤷‍♂️ And from the orders like this, it seems like, if the losing side is not willing to pay, the winning side can enforce the sale of losers assets in other countries as well, and they have to comply. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/06/23/7408149/ And there is another fat arbitration against Russia going on again (not connected to UA). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-01/russia-must-face-60-billion-uk-trial-over-yukos-oil-arbitration-award#xj4y7vzkg

Another victory for Ukraine in arbitration courts.

More Star Ocean 5. I was able to defeat the boss of the first floor (Daril) in Ex Dungeon for the first time ever. I was not able to defeat him in my first playthrough, as I did not knew much about Synthesis and Augmentation. This time, I have prepared some good armour for that fight, and I have finally defeated him, even though I have completely forgot to exchange sucky sword o one of my characters, which I am using for low level farming 😄 He was pretty big pain in the ass, as he had one ultra powerful AoE attack, same as a Limit attack of the main character, but he could use it at random. And he used it few times as hit first attack, which instantly wiped out my whole party 😄 I spent more than a hour to find a working strategy how to survive him, but I had a lot of fun. Unlike when I was trying to synthesize Metal Pipe for 45 minutes of reloading 😛 Two more floors in Ex Dungeon to go to reach the Ethereal Queen for the first time On the second floor, I have finally found enemies for easier XP farming, so it will be a little bit easier from now on to move forward 😛 I still need to get some more recipes for crafting better gear, but I am slowly getting there

New DLC for Underrail has just been released, and it is pretty cheap https://www.gog.com/game/underrail_heavy_duty

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Official reaction to the Time article by the UA government… https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/10/31/7426576/ Although it showed a very interesting thing here. If US “anonymous” sources give “interview”, some people are all over the board, how untrustworthy they are. When UA “anonymous” sources gave “interview” for this article, no similar reaction around here for some reason 🤷‍♂️

More SO 5. I have started to create some powerful armour through Synthesis and Augmentation. And started to unlock secret items through Synthesis as well. Crafting armour is pretty fine and fast, although it needs some save scumming. But the Synthesis mechanics is creation of Hell… Some recipes are easy to create, but today, I’ve spent 40+ minutes to create one specific secret item, without success… So despite defeating 3 out of 5 entry level superbosses in Ex Dungeon, I feel very bad taste in my mouth now… Le sigh…

According to Visegrad news, Yemen declared war on Israel, and already shoot a missile at them. Which hit Jordan.