Mamoulian War

The wait time on alleged Russian speech has a very interesting side effect https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/20/7368367/ Top google searches today in Russia were “how to leave Russia”, and “How to defer military service”.

Just a week or so befor Kharkiv counter-offensive Putin has said in Vladivostok forums, that Russia has lost nothing during this special military operation

We'll see what happens. Crimea is "part of Russia" according to Kremlin, and their whole navy, including submarines was kicked out of Sevastopol by systematic attack on Crimea, and all the Kremlin did as an answer to this, was losing 90% of Kharkiv Oblast General mobilization will not end well for Russia, if it would, Putin would already done that... And USA has already threatened few days ago, that using nuclear or chemical weapons in UA will lead to direct NATO involvement.

Few of these smoking incidents already happened all around occupied regions in last few weeks. And there's no indication, that the occupiers will stop smoking anytime soon...

Well, Russian Duma passed a law today, that for refusing participation in the combat, desertion and surrendering as POW! you can be charged up to 10 years in prison

Although in the wake of current war efforts, in the case of Russians, especially behind the Ural, starting Mandarin classes would be considered as a highly rational act

It was jab at som people, who still do not believe, that Russia is capable of shelling Nuclear PPs, including ZNPP, despite dozens of satellite and on-site images, from where you can easily find out, where from the projectiles arrived

After finishing the original Atelier Arland Trilogy, I have started the PS4 sequel Atelier Lulua... So far, a little bit mixed feeling about it. It is completely different game from the Trilogy. Some areas were improved, some were not. What I liked the most (smaller areas) have been changed to "open-world-like" design. A lot of these small areas look gorgeous in PS4, and their design is kept intact, with few cosmetic improvements added, but it takes much, much more to explore these areas now, including the harvesting. Because of this, I am spending much more time running around the world aimlessly, compared to previous games, which is the biggest downturn for me. The other downturn was, that the game kind of started to long, to move little bit forward with the story, but that might be the side effect of the "open-world-like" design, and my disdain to it. The synthesis system is also different to original trilogy, but it is on par with Atelier Meruru system. The humour is still the same as in previous games. What I like about the game the most, is the Riddle System for acquiring most of your new recipes. Game gives you few clues, and you have to find correct locations, materials, monsters or synthesis to move forward. Again, the downside is, that it might take to long to get some of the answers, due to area design So far 6/10. Hopefully it gets better further in the game

But what about the Alexander’s invasion of Persia!

Russia has shelled another Nuclear Power Plant at Pivdenno-Ukrainska industrial zone of the powerpoant. Missiles landed 300m away from reactor. 135km away from frontlines. https://t.me/energoatom_ua/9682

I have probably missed that, can you please give some details?

A testimony from medic abducted in Mariupol, about the behaviour of their captors... https://www.ta3.com/clanok/246021/zajatci-tyzdne-kricali-od-bolesti-v-naruci-jej-zomrel-chlapec-ukrajinska-zdravotnicka-popisala-mucenie-v-ruskom-zajati Google translate: The captives screamed in pain for weeks, a boy died in her arms. Ukrainian nurse described torture in Russian captivity 15/09/2022 19:11 The captives screamed in pain for weeks, a boy died in her arms. Ukrainian nurse described torture in Russian captivity Ukrainian volunteer Yuliya Pajevská, who was captured by the Russians in Mariupol in March, testified on Thursday at a hearing before a committee in the US Congress about the torture of Ukrainians in Russian captivity. Pajevská, who is known in Ukraine as Tajra, was released after three months. She told members of the American Helsinki Committee that the Russians regularly tortured her and other prisoners, many of whom did not survive. According to AP, this is her most open testimony yet about what she experienced at the hands of the Russians. "Do you know why we are doing this to you?" a Russian asked her. "Because you can," Pajevská answered him, according to her statement. The American Helsinki Committee is a government agency established by Congress in 1975 to promote respect for human rights. It is attended by members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as representatives of American ministries. Pajevská described that a seven-year-old boy died in her arms because she did not have the necessary equipment to help him. She further claimed that the captives had to undress before being tortured. Many screamed in pain for weeks before dying. "In such agony, the only thing they knew before death was violence and new pain," she said. She described hell According to the Ukrainian agency Ukrinform, Pajevska saved the lives of soldiers and civilians in Donbass for eight years. This year, she handed over to the AP agency the records made when she and her group helped Ukrainians and wounded Russians during the current war. AP wrote that Pajevská is one of those who ended up in Russian captivity. The mayor of Mariupol said that 10,000 people disappeared during the Russian siege of the city. The Russians captured Mariupol in April at the cost of a destroyed city and countless dead. Maryland Senator Ben Cardin said after Pajevska's speech that the Geneva Conventions require unconditional protection for both civilian and military health workers. He called what the Ukrainian woman described a violation of international law. Republican Joe Wilson from South Carolina called Russian President Vladimir Putin a war criminal. Until now, Pajevská has refused to describe her captivity to journalists in more detail, she only talked about it in general, that it was hell. "It's very uncomfortable to talk about what happened there," she told the committee.

Second playthrough of Atelier Meruru after 8 and half year on my PS3 is behind me. Again, the goal of this playthrough was to get all missing trophies and one new ending. Because I have already spent a lot of time on raising friendship with all characters for these trophies, the obvious choice was the Miss Popular ending. Besides that, I was able to defeat Eternity Goddess and Masked G for the first time. Unfortunately the free DLC boss was to powerful for me, so his demise has to wait a little bit longer.

500 “fresh” civilian graves found in Izyum, together with mass-grave of Ukrainian soldiers. More details in Pravda article. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/09/15/7367673/

Two Yakuza games were never released out of Japan, Ishin, and one which I do not remember anymore. But My wallet is weeping louder, the closer 2023 is

This interview is pretty interesting in the light of newest Central Asian boost of ties with China. Looks like China is using the Putin’s foolishness to weaken his power full-time. According to this interview, even the common Russians after all the years of propaganda, are more afraid of China than of NATO.

I have finally beaten the Atelier Meruru optional superboss Eternity Goddess. I spent few hours on many tries and had to create a lot of new items and a special Elixir which activates automatically under 50% of health, to have at least some chance to beat it, because I do not have crafted any Ultimate Armor yet. There is still one DLC boss, which I've never tried, but so far, this was the hardest boss in Atelier Series so far. At some point, she activated few automatic skills, which were kicking my ass, and every time, she knocked down one of my characters, she healed 3000HP... So to find out the real recipe how to defeat her took me a lot. If anyone is curious about the fight, feel free to watch it on my Youtube channel

This is so hilarious, that one of the guest propagandists is unable to properly hold his laughter at 0:19

Austrian Army have after a long while, published another analysis on RU-UA war.

You are again forgetting one factor to include there. The Russian soldiers and officials on site They’ve shown us already, how “bright” they can be when they are around nuclear site at Chernobyl at the start of the year.

@Zoraptoryes Russians are so ****ing stupid, that they bomb themselves at ZNPP, just go look for some pictures of craters and look at their directions… there is even a video of IAPP being on site and discussing the shell, which came from the south and the Russian clown is trying to convince them that the shell did 180 before the impact. Impact craters are good enough evidence, which even you cannot dispute, even as you try to point it how ridiculous it is… Russian soldiers are ridiculous and ****ing stupid idiots who dig trenches in radioactive soil, defecate where they sleep and bomb their own positions… so no need for you to be as ridiculous with your statements as they are…

From my understanding about what is going on in ZNPP, the big ****up might happen if the backup power generators would stop working and there would be no power available for cooling aggregators? This would release the radioactivity into the air as well. I think it was one case, where it was very close to this situation (august 5, if I am correct). After this, the UA decided to put the NPP to cold shutdown, to minimise the risks. That still does not mean, that there are no risks, if they Russia continue to shell it… But you are correct, the NPP should be safe enough to not go into Chernobyl type reaction, if **** hits the fan. But Chernobyl type event is still on top of the scale of danger, but still you would not not want to see anything to happen even on the lower levels of that hypothetical scale of nuclear disasters… In any case NATO staff has very strongly declared, that any nuclear disaster which would kill/bring harm to people in any NATO country, would be considered as immediate activation of Article 5. Which will hopefully cool of the Russian idiot commanders who are ordering the shellings… summary of “crisis” at ZNPP, whatever is the level of wikipedia’s trustworthiness in this case… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_at_the_Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Plant

As you said, this was on the No-strike list, so it was individual failure of some officer deciding to bomb it. And you have also omitted, that there was immediate ceasefire for all sides of the conflict, including ISIS to repair the damage and clear this **** up, and save the dam from collapsing. On the contrary, Russian continue to shell the NPP, and think, that all of us are completely stupid to eat their bull****, that the Ukrainian missiles are doing 180, just before the impacts, so it looks like their have been shot from the south…

Yes, of course, because US army has been acting like **** in the past, we should not be bothered by Russian flooding villages and endangering half the Europe and Russia with the attacks on Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant, now.