Mamoulian War

After some small breaks now and there and casually playing Assetto Corsa Competizione on Low Fuel Motorsport portal, I am still playing some Tales of Arise. I think I am already in the final dungeon, but for the first time, I have encountered a small need to do some grinding, wither for money or for XP. As some of the enemies there are little bit to tough for my party. So I am flying between Rena, Dahna, Lenegis and Daeq Fazol, trying to get some more quest finished, visiting training grounds and fishing with Kisara And I am again at my typical bad habit, that as soon as I suspect, the game is closing to the finish, I am avoiding to play it, as I do not want it to end Silly me Anyway, we have Easter holiday soon, so I hope I can move the game little bit further on Friday, and then I'll see what should I play next

I think, this is another message, which is more likely aimed to domestic audience than to international. On 1st April, they started another round of conscription and they want to get as much as 400k more unfortunate Russian to the meatgrinder. And rhetoric as this, is said to boost the patriotism as much as possible from the lethargic people at home, who just want to be left alone so they can get drunk

On April the 1st, the Club of Angry Patriots have been established in RU, here are the leading members and their backgrounds. They hate Prigozhin and are not having nice words about Putin, but they are still saying, they do not plan to overthrow the government (“yet”). Still a man can wonder, why none of them has fallen out of the window yet, despite them openly “Discrediting the Russian Army”. Probably someone very powerful is behind the marionette strings

And this is a reaction after the incident in Russian TV.

A background of this guy, or who he really was

From all the news out there, I am still not 100% convinced, that Dugina was really work of UA. The ultra fast FSB response really raises an eyebrow. But who knows? And this guy? Hard for me to believe that someone from UA can move around so deep into RU territory and put a bomb into a gift/award for him, without being noticed by FSB. And even if it would be UA, and if FSB would really give out to press the real evidence, no one would even pretend to believe them, after their decades long track record

Could not happen to a nicer guy We'll see, if it was Ukraine or not very soon, depending on how fast the FSB will find the "most likely" suspect EDIT: acording to the article, he was also criticising Russian MoD, so who knows? He might lived in an appartment without windows and was not a fan of tea

A big leak about cyber warfare from russian secret service whistleblower angry about war in Ukraine codename “Vulkan Files”. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/30/vulkan-files-leak-reveals-putins-global-and-domestic-cyberwarfare-tactics

Last Spring Sale giveaway on GOG https://www.gog.com/game/deep_sky_derelicts

My guess is as reliable as yours. Although even if by some miracle US gets to busy with UA/Russia mettle, there is still Japan, S. Korea and Australia to hold them in check. For China, this war has been most interesting at the start, just to observe the western reaction how they handle it. Now, I think even Xi knows, that if he would want some new lands, he should go rather for the historical Manchuria than for the Taiwan. He would probably get it without a fight, if he would decide to march in there tonight, as most of the Russian army is around Ukraine

Also it is said, that Putin pissed off Xi with the announcement of supplying of nuclear arsenal to Belarus, as they both signed a document about nuclear “restraint/deescalation” during his visit. Xi learned what Putin’s word means first hand https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-27/putin-s-belarus-nuclear-move-puts-him-at-odds-with-china-pledge#xj4y7vzkg https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-humiliated-china-xi-jingping-nuclear-announcement-snub-belarus-russia-2023-3?op=1

It is really reaaly hard to say, as from what I have noticed, that there are in the list also people, who have been promoted to higher rank, after their previous commander was killed, and they were killed just few days after that promotion.

And another GOG freebie in spring sale. People say it is casual metroidvania https://www.gog.com/game/alwas_awakening

Today is the day, when there has been passed the 2000 mark of confirmed KIA amongst RU officers. In few decades, this operation would be known as Putin’s Great Purge.

To be fair, if they start mass producing T54/T55, they might meet the quota. No western tech needed for that one

I linked here video few months ago which has talked about the same hypothesis, and had some pretty sound reasoning behind it. By the same guy I linked above.

More Tales of Arise. My gametime became very limited since my last update about the game Thankfuly, the breaks are not that big to forget the story, so I am still enjoying it a lot I have landed on Rena today, and my oh my, a lot of surprises in the story since defeating the lord of Mahag Saar exactly one month ago I have defeated one more Renan lord, and learned about the forgotten history of both Renan and Dahnan nations, and big secret behind it The game has much much better pace than FFXV or any previous Tales of Games, which I played, with the exception of Tales of Berseria and Tales of Xillia 1. We'll see how this will look like after few more hours, as the game as a typical JRPG just opened the pre-final boss quest hub in front of me

A theory, why UA has still not pulled out of Bakhmut, despite less favourable K/D ratio than in wintertime.

another GOG spring sale giveaway. https://www.gog.com/game/neurodeck_psychological_deckbuilder

A story about situation in Avdiivka from UA infantrymen POV. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2023/03/20/7394127/

Believe me, if Russia gets into Eastern Yurop, it will cost you much much more

Another mysterious fire deep in Russian territory.

Few days ago. UA and US have definitely confirmed training of some UA pilots on F-16 in US, though.

Ukraine has officially denied it. For the time being.

All is going according to plan