Mamoulian War

Today, I had a roadblock day in Dark Souls Remastered. With the defeat of Nito today, Ihave finished all base game bosses and moved to DLC again. This time, it was Manus time again. Aand I got owned badly… needed around 20 attempts to defeat him. It was my typical scenario. First attempt getting to 10%, and then doing something clumsy, and then getting asskicked next half hour… anyway. For some reason, Manus spammed a lot more spells than in NG (is that his typical NG+ behaviour?) so whenever I was cheering, that I will defeat him, he cast two or three spells in a row, and I got destroyed. So after a hour or so, I needed psycho hygiene, so I went for a few minutes to grind for souls at Painted World, until, I had enough for two more levels in Attunement, and then I have fully upgraded Paladin’s Armor, and finally replaced Ornstein’s one, which I have used for almost 100 hours. The Paladin one is a little bit heavier, but has much bigger Physical and Magical Resistances, which came in handy against Manus. And again. First try was almost perfect, but he cast two spells in a row again Then I had to die few more times in silly situations, before he went down. The only boss missing except Gwyn is Kalameet. Which I want to see without his tail again. I have never achieved this in NG+, so this is my ultimate goal I will be most likely stuck there for few days, because of that

It misses flying laser sharks and gatling dinosaurs though!

What the **** did I just see

Ukrainian army lost 18 Su bombers since the start of the war. Most of them before receiving StormShadow/SCALP missiles. Which is more, then they had in 2021. Despite that, they still have more of them than in 2021, as they have mastered the survivability of the equipment on ground, during the RU missile/drone barrages. The biggest issue is, slowly depleting pile of long range ammunition usable by them. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/02/22/its-official-despite-losses-ukraines-sole-bomber-brigade-is-bigger-now-than-it-was-before-the-war/

One of the most prominent Russian war blogger, nationalist Murz, who have been organizing a lot of successful fundraisers for Russian army (especially drones), and probably the only Russian, who did not steel from the donations, has allegedly committed suicide, after reporting on his Telegram, that 16k Russian soldiers has fallen and 300 of their vehicles has been “dismantled” at Avdiivka. According to some Ukrainian sources, this is considered a crucial loss for fighting capabilities of several units on the frontline, especially the FPV operators, due to his well organized fundraising and supply of these units, which is now gone. Meanwhile, Solovyov is doing his best to smear as much dirt on this guy as possible.

Czech Republic found 800k - 1m combined NATO and Soviet shells, which can be transported right away. Canada already pledge to finance part of the transport.

I think F-16s have enough long range ammunition type, to be able to hit military structures around Rostov, without leaving the Ukrainian airspace. Although I bet, that the first targets would be in Bilhorod People’s Republic. in other news, German Bundestag has voted in favour of providing long range weaponry, to be able to hit targets deep behind the front line. Some people say, that the wording of the bill can be interpreted that even Taurus could be provided to Ukraine. But I bet SPD will find few more reasons, why not to https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/22/7443158/

@xzar_monty looks like first step to hit army infrastructure in Russian territory by western weapons has been approved. UA will be free to hit whatever they deem necessary with F16s. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/22/7443032/ first pilots should finish the complete training around summer.

Official UA statement on that article. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/21/7442943/ It is not the first article by NYT, which is heavily disputed.

After some break, I was able to get back into Dark Souls Remastered, and decided to challenge Artorias again. I have found out, that Lifehunt Scythe+5 with maxed out Pyromancy Flame and Chaos Fireball and classic Fireball is a very good combination to break his buffing pose. I have much less tries this time as in NG, and Inhad also a feeling, that the arena lagged less than in first cycle, which made me avoiding his attacks much easier. After that, I have run and saved Sif in the Oolacile Dungeon, and went to challenge him right away for his alternate cutscene. This time, I was able to defeat him on first try, despite using wrong rings. The last boss today, was Dark Sun Gwyndolin. And again for alternate cutscene, as I have not defeated the Gwynevere this time. After that, I have done few more upgrades from new souls, and maxed out Fire Weapon for one more Trophy.

This seems to be interesting, especially the wording used in the proposal. "the supply of additional long-range weapons systems and ammunition needed for Ukraine (...) to be able to carry out targeted strikes under international law on strategically important targets located far into the Russian aggressors’ rear" Germany will vote on this soon. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/20/7442721/

It looks like freshly rotated 3rd Storm Brigade and Azov Brigade are raiding ruins of Avdiivka during night time. It is said, that they have inflicted 1400 casualties on drunken Russian soldiers in last 24 hours. Should be taken with a hefty load of salt, but there are so many videos popping out lately, that the russian casualties will be not minuscule.

well som high officials in some EU states (including Germany) have voiced, that this should be allowed as soon as possible. But I am on with you on this one. Unfortunately. Also speaking about manpower in my previous post, since the jailing of prominent Bashkir activist in Russia, There are numerous reports, that Bashkir commanders are keeping their men away from active fighting. And there is also a lot of reports of Tatar mistreatment at the front, which could lead to similar outcome.

If the 1:7 death ratio is real, the math says, that Russia will run out of manpower sooner than Ukraine, unless Putin borrows DPRK army as well. Not to mention, that Russia could sustain the equipment losses, which they currently have for maximum 2 years. In some equipment it is projected just about 1 year. So less equipment will mean more meat assaults which would mean more favourable KD ratio for Ukraine. But first, the EU and US should finally wake the **** up their factories, and the NATO have to allow strikes in Belgorod, and other bordering areas in Russia, which does not allow UA to perform at full capacity

According to reports, RU lost 47k soldiers since October at Avdiivka front. The most casualties have been incurred on them during first and last month. This averages to 300 casualties per day. According to general staff, the casualty ratio was 1:7 in favour to UA. According to documented OSINT, the equipment destruction was 1:12 - 1:25 ratio in favour of UA. depending on type of equipment- the worst for RU were manpower transporting vehicles, which goes in line with high casualty rate of RU army. Some russian soldiers from this frontlines are saying, that up to 70% of their brigade manpower is gone. Avdiivka had pre war population of 32000 people. As being said above, the biggest issue for the defense were non-existent fortifications behind the initial lines made in 2014. someone made a calculation, that if Russia would like to conquer whole Ukraine, with this casualty rate, they would need 8 billion soldiers

For me the perfect length for informational video is between 12 and 15 minutes. Longer videos I tend to skip more often than not. For LPs, I do not mind to watch two hours videos. And yes, there is a bigger chance, that I watch 10x 10 minutes series over a week, than a single 100 minute long and yes, I ignore shorts as well. They are pest for shortening the attention span…

UA has performed controlled withdrawal from Avdiivka to prepared fortifications. It is said, that last few days there were 8000 UA soldiers defending the city, against 50k RU. Unfortunately during the Zenith retreat few days ago, some of the UA soldiers became POWs, as that retreat was ordered to late.

Budanov gave interview to French newspaper, that they already know, who is behind the assassination attempt on his wife, and that retaliation will follow soon https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/02/16/7442165/

Disco is in copyright dispute for a long time due to allegations of shay malpractices. Unfortunately no other outcome could be expected out of this

They have withdrawn from Zenith, south of Avdiivka (no time to read the whole article now, so if it is mentioned there, forget that I said anything )

That should not be a problem, if I understood it correctly, they have been already paid for, when they were ordered. correct me someone, if I am mistaken about that.

Again few hours of Dark Souls. Second Hydra has been defeated, this time on first try (to my surprise ), and later Sanctuary Guardian as well. Besides that, I have finished my Magic Balder Side Sword for another trophy and finished up few more of the Boss Weapons. Still missing few of them to get all of them. The NG+ so far is much easier than NG. We’ll see if that changes, when I fight again with Artorias and Manus

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Sigh. This is terrible friend. And a reason, why I have completely stopped to play any sports game long time ago, despite enjoying some of them in the past. Anyway. Got some time to play around with DSR yesterday again, and was able to get 3 more bosses and a Chaos Weapon Trophy of the list. Demon Firesage was easy peasy, I just have "decided" to give him some chance, by invoking my typical clumsiness into the play, and got owned few times, losing 80k souls at him Centipede was easy as well, but again, my clumsiness came into the play, and after getting him to 25%, I have rolled inside the lava for a nice party of BBQ The last boss was again Bed of Chaos... And I really hope this one was the last fight against this boss ever! My ass was kicked around the whole arena by its attacks, that I really got frustrated with it. There is no way to learn anything from this encounter over the time to git gud. It just smack you randomly with random skills and if you do not cheese him, depending on the dice rolls, it will either kill you in 5 seconds or you kill it. There is practically no middle-ground in between these two states. Or at least, I have never experienced it. Now I have to reconsider, if I should go to Catacombs or to DLC, to save Sif before fighting him again, for a bonus cutscene .

It was definitely built around VC, so no, you do not suck