Mamoulian War

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).

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 😄