Mamoulian War
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Today, probably to everyone's surprise Russian MoD denied Wagners claim, that Soledar has fallen... This says much more about the status of internal Kremlin "warfare", than about the status of Soledar warfare Also, there is one news, which I an little bit confused. Gerasimov has been announced as a new High Commandant of the SMO, and Surovikin has been appointed as his deputy. From what I have read, I do not understand, if it is some completely new position for Gerasimov's collection, or Surovikin was just demoted. I think it is the second option, as he was praised a lot by Wagnerites, and the timing of the announcement with the Soledar denial makes it suspicious. But as I said, I am not sure. Has anyone noticed this news as well?
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Situation in Soledar is indeed very complicated. Fall of the city is very possible. UA is not willing to give it up without causing massive casualties to Russia. This will have a lot of "pictures": "Official statement of the Wagners": The above picture/statement has been disputed by a lot of different sources (few of them propagandey): This one looks more like legit one. But as the guy says, the tunnels are 200km long. Here is more or less propagandey look at the situation from UA side: And a statement from 21:00 local time (10.1.2023) by a warreporter Yuri Butusov which is on site. I consider his reporting pretty objective with lack of propaganda, as he is not shy to criticize UA bull****, if needed.
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This was posted yesterday by Yuri Butusov war journalist directly from Soledar. I have absolutely no clue, how realistic is what he posted, as most of the people who I follow suggest two things. Either UA is going to retreat, to minimize casualties, or that there is psyops war going on about Soledar, and everyone lies, on what is really going on there. WarMonitor said few hours ago, there is again informational embargo from UA side on the situation there. Oh and Shoigu wants to introduce AI to the battlefield. Man wonders, what can go wrong with the current Russian track-record https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/01/10/7384232/
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1st goal of 2023 has been finished January 9, 00:15 – After 4 more hours on Easy difficulty, I have finally acquired the last PS4 trophy in Final Fantasy XV – Episode Ardyn DLC. The biggest challenge was to get 350+ combo on a guardian. 30 minutes of failed attempts and reloads, until I was able to get 423 Hits on him. After that, it was just a slow-paced grind to demonify more than 100 enemies, conquer 7 city sectors, spent less than 50 minutes in battles, in which I had to receive less than 15k damage, including final bossfights. After the last one, I was surprised, that I have achieved A+ in all of the required categories for this trophy with total of more than 1.7 million points. All that is needed to 100% this DLC is final battle challenge, which unlike in previous DLCs, does not award the trophy for a victory.
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Thank you
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But they have very solid offering of Adventure Paths. And yes, you are correct, they are slow, but this might be maybe due to their fear what would happen with OGL. And looks like, they might have been correct, as Hasbro decided to revamp it, due to their opinion that D&D is undermonetized 🤮
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Or they could ask Paizo. 🤷♂️
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I see. Blame my english, for missing your point 😁 IMHO, based on what I have read from some Russian sources, army and economy, there is a big chance, his death could stop the war. But even in these theoretical circumstances, The question, if this would change things for better, especially in the longterm, is valid, and impossible to answer.
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Story about how daily "life" looks like in Bakhmut from the Ukrainian soldiers perspective. It looks like that the battle for Bakhmut is culminating, both sides are running out of artillery ammo, although Russian keeps sending waves upon waves upon waves of cannon fodder towards the city, which means, that UA side suffers high casualty rate as well. Despite of this, the situation is currently more in favour of Ukraine again, as in mid-December, some time around Zelenskiy's visit to the frontline, the Bakhmut was almost lost, as Russians have almost taken under control the most crucial access road to the city. Thankfully, UA managed to execute successful counterattack, which cleared the area of the Russian presence. https://kyivindependent.com/national/as-battle-of-bakhmut-nears-culmination-ukraines-artillery-gasps-for-more-ammo
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There is one alternative, which would cost only one lost live. But for that, there would need to be found someone, who has at least half as big balls as Iranian women have and further follow up of Makiivka incident.
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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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And I cannot post normally again. Reseting cookies did not work this time
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
