Mamoulian War

Just tell me, if you sign some agreement with someone, and this someone pisses over your agreement and laughs into your face, would you still be heeding to your part of agreement, like nothing ever happened?

The reason for this, is that China has stated very loudly, that any state using Nuclear weapons for attacking, would face dire consequences. After this statement by Xi, The Kremlin did 180 with the daily usage of nuclear threats.

Yes, they should. That does not mean that West being ****, does justify Russia being bigger ****

As in case of Ukraine, Putin would just probably count, that the West would collectively piss on Baltics with Article 5, as much as he did piss on Armenia with CSTO defense pact Putin definitely has miscalculated the western response to his attack on Ukraine. And now he just reaps, what he has sewn If Ukraine would fall in the first week, how he has calculated, I would bet my underwear, that Baltics would be attacked in the next decade.

Well, says the person, who did cheat on Ukraine in the first place when in 2014, he shat all over the Budapest treaty, where Russia agreed to be a guarantor of Ukrainian territorial integrity

IIRC I had with sorceress mixed fire/ice build, so this might have helped. But Paladin had some issues with that Fist of Heaven build, as it was Lightning damage as well. But I think, it was not pure Lightning, as I was able to defeat the three barbarians as well with him. With a lot of kiting, but still. The only other class which I played outside of Normal was Necromancer, but with him, I have never gone for Hell either

Unfortunatelly for Yemen, they are not seen as a Fortress against Mordor with nuclear arsenal. Like it or not, This really helps Ukraine a lot. All the Eastern European countries, with the exception of Hungary, will gladly throw as much money at reconstruction and defense of Ukraine as possible, just to keep the Orcs as far away from them as possible. Is it fair? No. Do I like that some countries have bigger value than others? Not really. But on the other hand. If Ukraine manages to win some day, rebuilding it with my taxpayer money, will make my family lives safer for decades to come (not only from military perspective, but also Neonazis here will lose their funding from Kremlin, and with it, their political power). Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for rebuilding Yemen, Iraq, nor Afghanistan. And yes… It sucks a lot…

Hmm, I was able to finish D2 plus expansion on Hell with Sorceress and Paladin without grinding. Of course it was not Hardcore characters. The Paladin has even a silly Fist of Heaven build to mock all my “powergamer try-hard” friends The only issue I had, was the council at the act III which had on hell many members with lightning immunities.

And another smoking incident in Russia, about 1000km far from Ukraine. And this is another example, how Russia takes care of their mobilised soldiers.

There is a pretty big probability, that some longer range missiles have entered the “game” in Ukraine, and might bring some change to the shape of battlefield, as hitting the Wagner HQ Melitopol with HIMARS would be considered very risky move. Two candidates so far, either Vilkha-M newest UA made missile, or some Turkish missile, which name has eluded me.

D2 Duping was even easier in SP though IIRC We did it all the time, we played SP for few days, and went to local gaming café for few hours to exchange loot, with backed up characters of course that was like our most used reason to start MP game ever

Has anyone here played Encased or Atom RPG? How long are these games, and which one would you recommend more, and why?

GOG winter sale has just begun, with Ghost of a Tale giveaway.

Nah, different era is just an excuse to expand the MP crowd for more milking. Good quality SP games still sell like hot cakes in millions. It’s just less profitable for the stockholders

In that case, It might be different country by country, all people which I know, have been playing D2 day and night due to awesome possibilities of SP, I spent few hundred hours on it as well, and played maybe 1 hour of MP

Nah, they just cut the part of the game, which did not brought any income after initial purchase

@BruceVC not wanting do derail it any further, but because you asked, New Caledonia is a prime example of what you are asking. Indigenous Kanak(?) people want independence from France, but they will probably never get it, due to French and other Caucasians have majority there.

I think, Japan might be second example as well. There were few attempts at self-reflection after ww2 in eastern europe as well, but they were all crushed by Soviet occupation.

Current mood about Russia in Kazakhstan.

Indian PM Modi has refused to meet with Putin, and cancelled the annual bilateral meeting. Allegedly due to Putin’s nuclear threats. edit: In Slovakia, Greiner would have a chance to get up to 15 years for weed samples. It is bull****, I support decriminalisation as well, but if anyone plans to go here on a weed trip, because weed here is pretty cheap, he is ****ing idiot, and deserves what happens to him. Also I have no sympathy for any sportsman/woman, who goes to Russia, because of money. Especially, if he/she is from a country, which is on the official Russian enemy list. All of them are morons, who sooner or later ends up as Putin’s blackmail goods. 100-200k Euro extra yearly income for being in Russia is not enough money to outweigh all the risks involved…

Yes, Activision currently owns Arcanum IP https://www.gog.com/en/game/arcanum_of_steamworks_and_magick_obscura

Arcanum

A little bit more down to earth analysis of kaboom at Engels airport