Mamoulian War

Investigation of alleged war crime in Makiivka by Ukrainian soldiers, has started in Ukraine. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/22/7377474/

New ammunition for HIMARS and M270 launchers are production ready. Range 150km. https://www.saab.com/products/ground-launched-small-diameter-bomb-glsdb

According to locals, there was a lot of stench during occupation period coming from that location…

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NATO Parliamentary Assembly Designates Russia Terrorist Regime https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/21/7151071/ anyone know, how much weight this has in the international “waters”? Especially with the fact that no one voted against, nor abstained.

This one is hell of an interesting translation 🤔

Started to do a playthrough of Comrades Multiplayer DLC for FFXV for Trophies, on older patch, because SE did removed the DLC from the game woth 1.27 patch… Another excellent example how live services ****s with paying customers… At least it is possible to play it with AI now. anyway one positive, the atrocios magic system from main game is gone, and replaced with less atrocious system of weapon crafting. It still sucks. But at least, if you happen to be lucky with monster drops, and are able to create good weapon, you can have much more fun with magic, than in main game. This is kind of positive for the DLC. Everything else is just a plain negative, enemies are just walking HP pools, so it feels like another festival of slowness. 🤷‍♂️ At least I was lucky, than in 6 hours I got the most annoying RNG trophy in the game. Some people have been complaining to spent tens of hours after finishing all other trophies, without being able to trigger the right trigger for this trophy. So in 12 hours or so, I have already 3 easiest trophies and 1 extremely annoying trophy in my collection. 6 more to go, which needs more or less grinding to get them. We’ll see how fast I get bored with unlpcking new missions to level up and grind more monster drops to proceed 😁

In yesterdays report of ISW, there is an analysis of the Makiivka “surrender incident”. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-20

And that is the issue. Spending bloated budget on VA or photorealistic graphics. No one asked for it from them. A lot of japanese developers are producing a lot of AA games, and they have no issue staying afloat and be profitable. It’s just the western obsession to have all the useless bells and whistles, instead of better story or gameplay, which always killed the smaller studios, not the lack of sales. You still have similar profit if your budget is 1 million and sell 100k units, as if your budget is 20 million and you sell 500k copies. 🤷‍♂️

Well this might have been successful for keeping power, but now, when their army/country is in crisis, most people are as always lethargic, and do not care about anything “political” including war. Very hard to get people rallying to support anything.

Sighs, I see AAA, my expectations became low 😞 looks like All that talks that MS buying all these smaller studios to offer more variety with AA games, were just wishful thinking…

Here is a statement on that incident of Yuri Butusov, a Ukrainian war reporter, who has been critical to some general staff actions in the past, and even pointed at some growing tensions in high command after the fall of Lysychansk. To the contrary of some beliefs, there is at least one case of war crimes committed by Ukrainian soldier/s, which have been already prosecuted and jailed by Ukrainians courts.

18 – October 18, 20:30 – I have finished the main storyline of Final Fantasy XV on PS4. It is still mixed bag for me. Chapters 1-9 were pretty bland and boring, due to the mostly empty open world, and everything taking so long. The exceptions was dungeon crawling. On the other hand in chapters 10-14, I had pretty solid fun. Almost 86 hours spent means, that I enjoyed the game enough, to not throw it out of the window, as I was planning to do, after playing the Platinum Demo . Still it seems to me, that this game was failed live service, which did not achieve to hold enough interest for keeping player going back to the game. Having full story put in between movie, anime, DLCs, novels and audio dramas, did not help either. For Royal Edition, which wanted to bring the users back to the game, even the newly added mandatory storyline trophy has been unlocked by less than 6% of the owners. Which probably caused 3 more planned DLCs cancelled.

Looks like alienating long time fans of the series was not the best marketing strategy

We’ll see how this will go through. I have no clue how big support for this resolution is. There are some MPs on Russian paylist, like Uhrik, and there are a lot “business first” MPs as well. Fingers crossed …

Report from the infamous Chornobaivka Airport

Judgment according the MH17 downing in Ukraine few years ago, has been made.

Czechia’s Lower Senate (not sure if correct translation) has voted for recognizing Russia as Terrorist state. Not sure what else needs to be passed, to make it official. Maybe @Chilloutmancould explain? that would be state nr. 5

Some polish news are reporting, that based on pictures, it might be Kh-101 missile as well. The article in the link bellow is also speaking that the other option is UA AD. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/11/16/7376552/

Out of 90 missiles launched yesterday, 70 were shot down though. Still passed enough, to make a lot of damage to civilian infrastructure…

In other news, here is, what Wagnerites are thinking about the missile strikes. TLDR they are useless, as they do not target any military infrastructure 🤷‍♂️ They have finally admitted publicly, what I was saying few months ago already 🤷‍♂️

The target was most likely the TPP very close to the borders, and AD was working.

We’ll se, so far the most probable outcome which is currently talked about is invocation of Article 4.

Couldn’t resist 🙈

Russian planes did already shoot their missile at Ukrainian targets from Belarus airspace though.