Mamoulian War

Merry Christmas and Heppy New Year, or the equivalents, you are celebrating/enjoying during these times.

Started to play Menace Gauntlets in Final Fantasy XV post game. Three cleared already and finished airborne Regalia. Flying around is fun. Landing not so much, especially if your last save is more than 1 and half hours in the past

There is continuation of the story. He was apparently wounded somseriously, that the doctors in Rostov could not make a surgery. He was scheduled to be transfered to Moscow, but the weather conditions are as bad as his medical condition, so the transfer was postponed. (Courtesy of Russian media).

The issue with that mission was, that there were Kilrathi ships in that minefield, which you needed to destroy, and I was not able to find a way, how to do that, before getting blown up myself I do not even remeber anymore, which mission exactly it was, but it was definitelly SM1 mission pack

For me the "gamebreaker" was the expansion for WC (Secret Missions 1 IIRC). There was one mission with loads of mines floating around, so I am stuck there since 2004

I am having same issues with Firefox as with Safari

There are two more versions of this ad. If you enlist, you can afford to buy your daughter new mobile phone, and one for elderly, if you convince your son to enlist, you will be able to afford to buy new Lada from his enlistment bonus (not to be confused this one with the Lada meme).

Looks like issue is on Safari as well. On Safari realoading the page helps to solve it.

Yes, I understand that fully, but as far as I understand it, it is more about possible corruption in these ties? Unfortunately, we do not live in Utopia, and sometimes, there have to be done some ugly compromises. And I am one of the people, who would like to see the responsible people pay for Yemen atrocities. Anyway, If someone has undermined or neglected the security of EU for his own financial gains, like the EU MP, which is currently in custody, he should be responsible for it.

An interesting interview from Germany, about the need of investigation of its ties to Russia. https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/security-expert-we-need-an-international-investigation-of-germanys-russia-ties-li.296074

Balls stronger than Adamantium-Vibranium alloy... Zelenskiy visits Bakhmut to award soldiers defending the city... https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-president-visits-frontline-city-bakhmut-2022-12-20/

A joint investigation by Easter European investigative journalists, prosaically called The Firehose of Falsehood. All you need to know about Russian Propaganda in the EU, especially in Eastern block. Surprise-surprise, they talking about Zerohedge portal as well @Darkpriest https://www-icjk-sk.translate.goog/215/Tok-klamstiev-Ekosystem-prokremelskych-konspiracnych-a-radikalnych-pravicovych-dezinformacii-v-strednej-a-vychodnej-Europe-Kto-diriguje-protizapadnu-symfoniu?_x_tr_sl=sk&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Unfortunately I was not able to find English version, so I hope, Google translate does not offend.

One more backlog goal in 2022 finished (nr.30) December 20, 13:00 – After finishing all PS4 trophies in Episode Ignis, I have decided to relax a little bit and run around in the main game to finish some sidequests. During that, I have found a meal in an restaurant in Lestallum, with Equalizer buff, which boosts your attack by 2% for each level between your level and the level of the monster you are fighting against. So I have decided to take advantage of it, and went straight to finish the quest involving Melusine superboss, which were added to main game as a free update/DLC. I have defeated her on a second attempt, although she gave me some hard beating when she was under 3% of HP, and almost obliterated my entourage. Thankfully the game offered me invocation of a summon and then, Shiva took care of the rest of her HP pool . After reporting the quest at the Hunter HQ, I have received the trophy, and with that, Final Fantasy XV – July 2017 Update is 100% complete.

If you have time to read 5k+ words long analysis of the state of Russian forces as seen from Russian perspective. This is very rare sight in the informational space surrounding this war, as it is not spoiled by Russian propaganda. TL;DR. Russia is not prepared against Ukrainian winter offensive.

Russian language was never penalized when used by common people. Period. You are critisizing all year long, how the media is not trustworthy, because they spin their wording to reflect their narative, and you are now trying to counter first hand experience by Russian speaking Ukrainians, who have run away in hundred thousands to Eastern Europe, by linking to news 360, who even though is trying to “offer views from all sides” is in this case just parroting Russian propaganda… LOL But of course, you probably consider the Russian speaking Ukrainians who fled the war and are now sharing their experiences, as a tools of Western Propaganda as well Now be so kind, and answer the question. How you feel about Russian state treating Ukrainian language.

About an hour ago, my goal nr. 29 for this year has been completed December 18, 16:30 – After 1 hour and 6 attempts, the Friendly Match challenge versus Noctis in Final Fantasy XV – Episode Ignis DLC has been won, and with it, the last PS4 trophy of this DLC is mine. The final attempt took me 10 minutes and 54 seconds, which surprised me a lot, because most of the guides to this fight, that I have watched, lasted more than 15 minutes. With the rumours floating around, that this fight is the hardest fight in Final Fantasy XV, I was postponing the playthrough of this DLC for 10 days, and then for another two days, to start this challenge. I just wanted to have as good mood as possible, and feel well rested, before attempting it . Now, that it is behind me, I have to say, I had more trouble to defeat Cor in Episode Gladiolus. I think, it might be due to both Cor and Noctis having similar patterns in a lot of their attacks, so I already knew when was the best time to press dodge, to avoid damage. But the most crucial thing to be able to win against him, was to execute almost flawlessly the counterattacks, which healed Ignis, and have caused big damage to Noctis. Thankfully, because of the animation of Noctis’ attacks, it was a little bit easier to perform them, than against common enemies or Ardyn, so even the old slowpoke as me, was able to successfully perform them in more than 90% of cases . But even with that, I had to use all of the consumables, with the exception of 1 Phoenix Down, which the game gave me at the start of the fight. Another crucial thing was, to save your High Jump special move, when Noctis unleashed his Armiger Chain, which needed crazy fast reactions as well. And as expected, I have missed it few times even in my final attempt . I feel now as much adrenaline and satisfaction, as when I have beaten False King Allant in the Demon’s Souls, for the first time My goal of getting 100% trophies before the end of the year, seems little bit more realistic than before. And thankfully because of these DLC challenges, I am starting to enjoy the game more, than when I have started to play it. So my current rating for the game have raised from 2/5 to 4/5. We'll see how long it will last, when I start again to play little bit more the main game to finish the rest of the trophies

Goal number 28/2022 finished Yesterday, I have reached alternate ending in Final Fantasy XV – Episode Ignis DLC on my PS4. It was just a short session, but I had more fun, than in the rest of DLC. Probably because Ignis was overpowered by the effects of Ring of Lucii from the beginning of the final battle, so this overshadowed the need for better reflexes, which I lack .

The front is more stabilized due to the lakes of mud, than the big number of mobiks. According to Zaluzhny, Ukraine has currently 1 million of mobilized soldiers as well, with tens of thousands having professional trainings all around Europe and Canada. Russians on the other hand, have proper training for 10-20k IIRC, mobiks in Belarus (someone correct me please, if I remeber wrong the number). Most of the other training grounds deep in Russia are in very bad condition. According to mobik wifes, they are shooting maximum two or three days in a week, and then are doing nothing. According to their wifes, more than 2/3 of them are suffering with various type of breath apparatus illness. From easy cold, through COVID, to serious pneumonia, and are facing lack of medicine to get treated. All of that, while “camping” in temperatures bellow -30 degrees Celaius

The most tossed around date for the full deployment of fresh mobiks is February 2023.

I am wondering, how would you consider the actions of Russians on the occupied territories, which they are taking towards Ukrainian speaking population, if you are so much triggered by using the word “profane” connected to the use of Russian language in Ukraine

Goal number 27 achieved After a few days of chilling in the main game, I have started and finished the storyline of Final Fantasy XV – Episode Ignis DLC on my PS4. This DLC was so far the weakest from the three character DLCs. It took me 4 hours, but I wished few times, that it would end sooner. The combat mechanics felt lackluster, and for the counterattacking, you need even better reflexes, than for Gladiolus. Which sucks for an old guy with slow reflexes. I am not looking forward to the DLC challenges at all.

I had some chilling time with running around in FFXV and finishing the quests, which I did not finished before the endo of the game, and in the meanwhie, I had finally enough time to put on youtube my fight with Cor in FFXV: Episode Gladiolus

King of Seas as a second freebee on GOG winter sale https://www.gog.com/en/game/king_of_seas

Not gonna edit it further, but we have experienced also for tankies and vatniks surely very strange things with refugees. In Slovakia, only very few people actually speak Ukrainian language. So the communications with refugees was handled exclusively in Russian language. The only complaints about this, which I have noticed in the last 9 months, were suggestions voiced by Russian speaking Ukrainians, which kindly asked our volunteers to rather rewrite all the Russian language signs and notices to Ukrainian language. And surprise surprise, they submitted this suggestion in Russian language. Surely that was also a sign of how very oppressed they were at home…

That is absolute bull**** Russian propaganda. Russian language was never penalized. Zelenskyi is Russian speaking Ukrainian, he started to speak Ukrainian only after he has become Ukrainian president. I have never met a single Russian speaking Ukrainian, which has in any way prohibited to speak Russian language... I had also taken care of two Russian speaking Ukrainian teenagers, who started to speak Ukrainian only after the start of the war, and up until this day they speak more often Russian than Ukrainian, I have Ukrainian colleagues from Kharkiv, who was also never forced to speak Ukrainian. It might be probably surprise to you, but neither of them are now speaking how the evil West is at fault for all the **** happening in their country, as you do... Hell even my country has more strict laws for speaking Hungarian/Polish/Ukrainian at the municipality or state level than Ukraine has about Russian language... Banning any church, which is openly collaborating with a country which is occupying you, is reasonably enough. EDIT: The Russian speaking teenage girl I was taking care of with my wife, has run away from Doneck Oblast. Her city was no bombarded at the time, but guess what. All of her Russian speaking family, including pro-soviet grandparents evacuated to Krivyi Rih. To the "evil" Ukraine, which "oppressed" them their whole life... They did not think for a second, that they would ever voluntarily escape to Russia...