Mamoulian War

Finally I was able to find all hidden owls in Tales of Arise 😄 Got an Artifact as a reward 😄 The culprit was hidden behind one very powerful Gigant Zeugle, so I had to skip him for a veeeeery long time. Even today, the boss completely obliterated my party in the last phase of the fight, but I was able to finish his remaining 16k HPs with last Law standing, and thankfully I was able to outdodge his attacks and finally defeated him. The reward was last owl and last missing recipe in my cookbook 😛

Bought two Stalkers, which I was still missing in my collection, hopefully I will not be disappointed, when I get to play it in 2073 🤷‍♂️

12 is very strange game IMHO. When I played it for the first time, I hated it. On second playthrough, I really enjoyed it and had a lot of fun with it. Not in top 5 FF, but still fine. And on Zodiac Age playthrough, I had good time as well, but it felt less fun than the second time 😆

Booted up Tales of Arise after 3 months of break due to work and Assetto Corsa league. Before I will be able to start the post-game content, I have to finish some loose ends for which I was low level before defeating the last boss. One of them was Grand Gnome super boss, which have been defeated today

Another "hidden" giveaway 😛 Beholder 2 https://www.gog.com/game/beholder_2

Interesting analysis, theorycrafting and a little bit of speculation about the consequences of Prigozhin’s insurgency.

Pretty long and busy day today 🤷‍♂️ But allow me to remedy myself 😁 Ancient Enemy giveaway on GOG started today! This one is again needed to put into the cart and “pay” 0.00 of currency to acquire it 😋 https://www.gog.com/game/ancient_enemy?source=news

Are you really surprised about the outcome? You know, there was already someone who received safety guarantees from Russia not long ago, and we can see how it all turned out 🤷‍♂️

Oh yeah, that’s why the Russian officials tried to do such a show, that the shells did not fly from Russian occupied territories but from Ukraine, but just before the impact, it did 180, to falsely frame them, right? https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-official-tells-inspectors-rocket-uturned-before-hitting-ukraine-plant-2022-9?op=1

How much time has passed since the IAEA made their observation?

4 of 6 ZNPP power units are reportedly mined. According to UA intelligence

FF franchise died with SE merger. Unfortunately. For me the best is and always will be FFIX. That game is pretty much exactly what I imagined at that time as the game about fantasy should look like and play. Despite some flaws, for me, up to this day, only very few games have beaten or get on par with the presentation of "real" fantasy world. I have played and finished every single FF game, with the exception of FFIII, which I never finished due to circumstances, and up until i played FFXV, I was sure, nothing can beat FFII in terms of haw bad that game was. Unfortunately I was wrong. FFXV is pretty much 100+ GB of mediocrity on a HDD, with pres X button to win "action" mechanics and sub-par story-line. The only exceptions are last few Chapters and the DLC challenges. In all honesty, the only reason, why I have played the game so long and wanted stubbornly, to get all of the trophies was, that I was so stupid, and spent more than 170EUR on collector's and royal editions, before I knew, how bad this game turned out. Yes I had my share of fun, while finishing it. Was it worth the money? Definitely not. Especially, when I started to feel the joy of playing the game for the first time somewhere around the 50 hours mark, when I arrived at Chapter 9 or 10 🤷‍♂️ After finishing it, and seeing that it took SE 10 years to make this game, I am 100% convinced, that SE is unable to make a good FF game anymore, and I'll be skipping FFXVI unless they start selling it under 10EUR and release it for PS4 as well. For me new FF game, was always the reason to buy next-gen console. Not anymore. /end-of-rant

Now that we are talking about PMCs, IIRC, around that time it was said, that even Shoigu has founded army of his own. around the fall of Soledar, there was also reported a feud between Wagner and another PMC (I think Wolves).

Gazprom created his private army around the time of fall of Soledar. Or more like first leaks about it emerged around that time.

And this os the reason, why many people/analysts think, that this deal significantky weakend both Putin and Prigozhin, and that there might be a possibility of similar events in the neare/mid future. @Gorth I have not read all the stuff around current situation yet, but from what I understand, that only Prigozhin is going to Belarus, and most if not all Wagnerites have to sign contract with Russian MoD, as it was planned before the rebellion. But there is definitelly something brewing in Belarus, as Kaustas Kalinovski Battalion had a long speech yesterday targeted to Belarusian army, to not meddle into Russian in-fighting, and that the people should wait for some kind of signal. edit: one of the sources on the deal: On the other hand 3-4 hours ago have some Russian Telegrams reported, that the airports at Milerovo and Rostov on Don are still fully under Wagner control 🤷‍♂️

And during the chaos, two noteworthy things happened. Belarusian rebels want to use this opportunity as well, now that the Russian army is to busy. And Russian army started to solve this issue the typical Russian way. Blowing up random civilians...

You are forgetting, that this already happened at least once. And we are still here 🤷‍♂️

In the meanwhile, Commander of the Ukrainian drone fleet on the front.

@Lexx anyway, when looking at the information from Russia it is always required to be sceptical at least. In the end, considering the Russian history, this still could be a perverse Ukraine Exit Strategy, during which, every officer, politician and oligarch joining Wagner will be sooner or later eliminated, then after few months Prigozhin “flees” to Africa, and then Putin victoriously announces another “free and democratic” presidential elections 🤷‍♂️

There is something in between Putin and Prigozhin. Both of them still refrain to name their counterparts in their speeches. Putin was talking only about betrayal, not about Prigozhin.

Prigozhin claims to have two Airfields under full control. Milerovo and Rostov on Don. At Voronezh 300 Russian border guards allegedly surrendered to Wagner. Putin has spoken in Russian TV, speaking that he will not allow 1917 to repeat 🤷‍♂️

In the meanwhile, Russian MoD released this statement about situation in Bakhmut.

From the videos from Rostov, it looks like a lot of local soldiers joined him and there was almost no resistance against him, while taking over. Allegedly, some helicopters destroyed some vehicles in the column on their way to Voronezh (more than 70 counted in the column) and Wagners shot down two helicopters. FSB is raiding Wagner’s HQ in St. Peterburg and Moscow has implemented anti-terrorist measures. Rostov city is allegedly fully under Prigozhin’s control now.

In the next hours/days, we will see more lies than ever coming out of Russia, although statements like this give it some kind of weight In the meanwhile a lot of Prigozhin channels have been blocked on some Russian social medias, and his former ally General Surovikin was making an appeal to him, while holding the automatic weapon, to stop. Girkin is talking about coup already, Lukashenko allegedly have left at midnight Minsk by plane. All that is missing now, is Kadyrov 🤷‍♂️