Mamoulian War

Aftermath of Makiivka hit. Russian MoD started to blame mobilized themselves, saying, that the attack was due to their usage of mobile phones. According to some milbloggers, the mobile phones of mobiks are confiscated as soon as they get to the front. Relatives of some survivors are also saying, that the Russians are also "taking care" of survivors in various ways, just to cover up this mega ****-up and save their own hides. EDIT: Yestreday Ukrainian General Staff reported another big hit similar to the one in Makiivka, reporting 500 KIA+WIA in village of Western Kherson Oblast. So the numbers of KIA is definitely lower, but the pattern is the same. A big bunch of mobiks/servicemen in one place, being hit by long range artillery. Man would say, that Russians would already learn since the summer, that putting a lot of men together with their equipment is very very bad idea.Instead, they are doing some witchhunts to find someone to blame for it...

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Testing if I can post after reseting cookies on Safari edit: it worked, thank you @majestic edit2: I have finished all Menace Dungeons in FFXV. Learned all food and I am still missing two fishes to complete the Archives. I still need to visit one optional dungeon, to have 100% of datalog full. And I need to defeat Omega and Adamantoise, and finish Episode Ardyn on A+ rating to have 100% of the trophies. So if I’ll be lucky, I might be finished before the end of the week.

Keep in mind, that this was no protest, there were just people walking around, enjoying their NY Eve. Then the OMON came, and started to pick random men on the street.

Well I was unfortunately speaking about the new generation XCOMs I have spent a lot of time with the classics, when I was much more younger Unfortunately, I have never found any fondness for the Apocalypse.

Started yesterday the final Menace Dungeon in Costlemark in Final Fantasy XV. It is pretty challenging, as you are unable to use items, and can save only every 10 floors. The gauntlet has 60 floors. Some floors are easier and some are crazy hard, and I had to spent hour and half on unsuccessful attempts and reload after being Knocked Out. The HP pool regenerates after each encounter, but with each hit, you and your party members are affected by the loss of MAX HP, until the next rest/save. So if you are not cautious enough, you can end up with few hundred HP out of few thousands before reaching the rest/save area. You can counter this for your main character with Healcast: Element magic/grenades, but they are limited and you cannot replenish them in the dungeon, so you need to save them as much as possible. Theoretically it should be possible to heal your companions, if you equip them with spells as well, but due to the way, how the combat system works, they are less likely to be attacked by mobs, so it is better to use the spell-grenades for Noctis only. I ended up on floor 50 yesterday, and today, I'll try to finish up last 10 of them. From the list of enemies, which are awaiting me, it looks like, that the hardest sections and mobs are behind me. Not counting the final boss of course.

Little bit more news about Makiivka incident. There is one russian/separatist milblogger on Telegram, who claims, that he has contacts to Separatist army, which were on site after the explosion, and were documenting the damage and casualties, and also some families of deceased Russian mobiks from Saratov, which were on site during the explosion. He posted on his Telegram, that based on his sources, the number of casualties is indeed 600+. He also mentioned, that according to the relatives of deceased mobiks, some of them have spoken with them few hours before the explosion over the phone, and they have said, that approx 5 hours before the strike, the local command had suspicion about possible attack to their "barracks", so they tried to contact High Command, what to do. As the High Command did not respond, they have decided to do nothing and stayed at the site. We all know, how that decision played out. The source is from this video, he shows screenshots of the Telegram post on his video, and talks few minutes about the history of the blogger and his recent post. Unfortunately I am not on Telegram, so I was not able to doublecheck it. So as always, take it with a little pinch of salt. Also, a video of how New Year was celebrated in Russia in big cities. Allegedly up to 2000 people who celebrated New Year in St. Petersburg, were detained by force and taken away. All of them were men. Allegedly the same happened in Moscow as well.

I've just purchased XCOM2 with all the DLCs in GOG sale for 17EUR. I hope, I have not overpaid it

Yup, according to Ukrainian warreporters, biggest hit so far. I have linked about this hit tonight, few posts above, but unfortunately Safari does not work anymore with Obsidian boards, so unfortunately I was not able to write any context there. Anyway, Russian sources claim 600+ dead service men, and are complaining, about the idiocy of the commander, who put 600+ servicemen on top of ammunition pile during Putin's speech. Ukrainian sources on the other way, would like to see this commandant promoted to General Girkin has already shared his thoughts about the incident as well.

Has there been any character limit introduced since last downtime of the forums? I get Request blocked, when I try to post anything, which is pretty lengthy today And it is definitely shorter, than my list of completed games in 2021, which I posted last year

Since yesterday, my gaming goal number is 31 finished. For now, it is definitive, that I will not finish all content in FFXV and DLCs, before the end of the year, due to some boring prerequisites for last few trophies, which I still miss. Especially the last trophy in Episode Ardyn, which is this time not a trophy for beating the DLC Challenge, but about doing some boring and lengthy stuff on Easy difficulty. Anyway... December 29, 12:00 – I have finished storyline of Final Fantasy XV – Episode Ardyn DLC on my PS4. This one is an interesting mixed bag of an DLC. Ardyn, has definitely most interesting gameplay mechanics of the all DLC characters, but I find the content not much better than Prompto's DLC. Although, it still means, that it's the second best FFXV DLC.

One more GOG giveaway for few days. Daymare 1998 https://www.gog.com/game/daymare_1998

Worms Revolution Gold Edition giveaway on GOG.

Could not agree more with the both statements

There are rumours in Russia, that Rogozin blames “traitors” inside Russia, that they have given intel on his birthday party to Ukrainian side.

The price of Ural is already long time under the price cap. And China and India will definitely not pay more, just because of Putins beautiful eyes

One of the game developers of STALKER franchise (Volodymyr Yezhov), has died defending Bakhmut. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/12/25/7382287/

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).