Mamoulian War

Assetto Corsa Competizione will have new US DLC at the end of the month.

I went back to Assetto Corsa on PS4 to try out again few of the Special Events and Races, which were to hard for me when I stopped playing two years ago. And it looks like, I probably am faster now, after some racing on PC I finished the GT3 and GT3Extreme series (8 laps and 1 hour endurance races with a crappy McLaren MP4 GT3 Car) And so far one of the hardest AC Special Events, Flight Simulator Hot Lap with Pagani Huayra on Nurburgring GP. When I quit the game, two years ago, I was 3 seconds slower, than the time required for Gold Medal, and I thought, I will never cut these second of my time. In the end it took me more than two hours over two days, to tame that beast, and achieve the crazy time required for the gold. A day later, I tried another Event, which I thought, will be similarly hard, but to my surprise, as soon, as I found good setup for the Lotus Exos 125, I managed to beat the required time in 15 minutes or so Unfortunately after 2 weeks of intense racing, my brand new Racing Wheel died... And I am now waiting on support... An email came back with approximate waiting time of 1 week... I am sooo sad and pissed now

Looks like we are higher than I've anticipated

Hungary is something like a small Russia within EU, Slovakia was last 12 years corrupt as ****, with our ex-PM now being under charges of being a leader of organized crime group So we are definitely more corrupt than Czech, probably little bit more than Poland, and on par with Romania and Bulgaria... Oh and our current Minister of Finance, who started as a PM, but was sacked, is probably not corrupt, but with his incompetency, he did as much damage to our economy than the previous thieving scumbag...

Now a little bit of war rumours. It is said, that UA army is in their counteroffensive approx 10km away from Izyum. And they were able to trick RU army near Kherson and to the SW of the city, which means they are closing to the infamous Chornobaivka airport and to other smaller towns to the SW and N of the Kherson... IMHO, this news are in the category of to good to be true, but I will be awaiting evening reports with great deal of curiosity today...

It is just a candidate status, the full integration will take 10 years minimum, if the war stops tomorrow. We were in the same category, years ago, corrupt as ****, and the change of the government helped to get us into the EU. Th government at UA has already changed for a little bit better, but the corruption will need to be rooted out a lot. And to be honest, having the Slovak and Hungarian ancestors... If Slovakia and Hungary can stay in EU, so can UA...

The issue with Minsk was, that the Russia itself was never interested in that deal, due to it being against their imperial interests... The war with Putin acting as a Peter the Great of 21th century, the war would happen sooner or later. The later it would happen, the more would be Ukraine destroyed, due to Putin had more chance to modernize their army with NordStream 2 profits... The report on Russia says exactly the same doom and gloom for them, as soon as Russians get back home after the summer vacations, and will be hit with the ****ty reality at home

Yakuza is the bestest OPEN WARLD EVAH!!! Despite taking place just in one single city quarter.

And Another Giveaway on GOG today. Shantae and the Pirate's Curse. https://www.gog.com/en/news/claim_your_copy_of_shantae_and_the_pirates_curse

In a report by Czech volunteers fighting in Ukraine, they have decided after two months to talk about what they seen... Under the guise of humanitarian aid in Borodianka, a village close to Bucha, Russian army organized a gathering of people. After "enough" of them gathered, they started to throw grenades towards them... Kadyrovites did even worse atrocities to patients in Mental Health Hospitals... And then we are wondering, why some of the people have opinion, that Russia needs to be bombed back to the Stone Age...

Well, still no Bruce, if the dev has an issue at making 1 small area in Maryland not boring, I have my doubts, that they will be able to deliver us nonboring 1000 planets

I do not believe that this is enough of an excuse to not put an excess amount of monetization into it... you know all of the pesky e-sporters have all of that money from their sponsors, which needs to be taken advantage of On more serious note, there are already a lot of e-sport games, which have excessive monetization, like Clash of Clans.

Third playthrough of Journey on my PS3 is behind me. The plan was to find as much companions as possible and to get last symbol for the golden trophy. Well, I found 4 companions, but clumsy me missed the symbol again At least, I was able to finish the game with one of these companions, and got at least one trophy for that

Well, Diablo Immortal should give a hint

Oh, and Russian Army destroyed approx 300 thousands tons of Wheat in Mykolaiv silos few days ago. This means, that even if Ukraine would be able to get all of the wheat out of the country today, there will be not enough of wheat to feed all of the Africa and Asia. Russian trolls are already working hard on narrative to blame Ukraine for this. Some insights on this tactics by Timothy Snyder.

Some bad news and some good news... Let's start with the bad... On some places Russians were able to cross Siverskyi Donets, which will make defense on some places much harder for Ukraine. And Sievierodonetsk is still a ****ing mess. But As I have mentioned few days ago, Ukraine is allegedly defending exactly as I have predicted. (from a source which has been marked as credible, by a journalist, whom I know as a very trustworthy person.) Zelenskyi have officially release number of Ukrainian casualties during since the start of the war. It is now approximately 10 thousands, with 100-200 soldiers dieing per day in Donbas (IMHO this daily number is probably over inflated and used to get more weapons to UA as soon as possible. Who knows...) Even if these numbers are real, they are still lower than the casualties of Russian Army around Sievierodonetsk. According to Luhansk Oblast Head of military administration, Russia was forced to withdraw Buryat units, due to extremely high casualties. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/06/9/7351558/ Now for some good ones: In Zaporizhia Oblast, the frontline was pushed 5-7kms to the south. The exact width of this counter-attack has not been revealed, but it has definitely happened south of Zaporizhia City. - Source Mayor of Melitopol. It seems, that UA started counteroffensive at the whole front in Kherson Oblast. General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine today confirmed so far 1 village liberated, and three stormed by their army, but according to the above "WarMonitor", UA today liberated approx 20 villages, and are attacking in three directions. He summarized some data from open and closed sources and made some maps to illustrate the counteroffensive. I am really curious about the official information from UA General Staff. The most interesting info, that I have found on many Ukrainian official and unofficial sources is, but no official General Staff report released yet. The UA artillery destroyed the "hive" of Wagner PMC at Stakhanov (Kadiivka) Stadium deep in "Luhansk People's Republic" south of Lysychanks and east of Bakhmut. Casualties are approximately between 250-300. (Kadiivka is for some reason romanized name of Стаханов (Stakhanov). Pro-Ukrainian source: Pro-Russian source:

Now wonder, that it has such an "overwhelming" user scores everywhere

Oh noes, someone beat me with the link to GOG Giveaway

Same here With occasional click on Niche Gamer now and then

Well even a hive of stupid Orcs can defeat bunch of trained and disciplined Marines with not enough ammo

Oh noes, looks like Keyrock has been abducted by SonicMage, and he started to spam trailers with his account!

Official media take on the last of my tweets: https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-compares-ukraine-war-to-peter-the-great-conquests/31891916.html

This one is interesting, but I have found no way for confirming it yet. Also, Russian Duma has got law about abolition of recognition of Lithuania. And Putler is talking in interview, about historical justification for attacking Ukraine, how they "rightfully" seized what was theirs before, despite world recognizing it as Sweden (Estonia in this case).

@Darkpriest Found this one yesterday, and I have noticed, that we all are forgetting, while posting doom and gloom, about the impact of high food prices on relationship between Russia and China. Looks like the biggest exporter of wheat to China was actually Ukraine, and the soaring prices of food in China are much much higher domestic security problem, than soaring prices in the West. And this might force China to make some unexpected move. So the attrition war planned by Putin, might completely destroy his cooperative relationship with China, before affecting the West to much.

Now I have seen, that even countries which are not cut-off from Russia have dramatically lowered their consumption of gas. And this started to happen even before the start of the war. E.g. Czech Industry have lowered their consumption by 10% alone. So I would presume, that Peskov is as always lying through it's teeth, because Russia probably already knows, that cutting off even more of their gas to EU, would lead to closing down some of their digs, which could be in some circumstances irreversible, or burning even more gas in Siberia. From what I heard, they already burned approx. 5% of mined gas before the war, due to them trying to lower the gas supplies to EU. And there is this funny fact, that Yamal pipeline flows only to EU and nowhere else. Which is approximately 50-70% of all of Russian gas export...