Mamoulian War

Seems like the UA numbers about the RU casualties are pretty accurate. Mayor of Moscow admitted to cameras, that there are currently 600k soldiers attending medical rehabilitation . Excerpt of his speech is somewhere after 3 minute mark of the video below. Also Russia shot down another civilian airliner, and and ther “chinese” ship cut another cable.

I have finally decided to continue my DS2 NG+ playthrough, which I have postponed for a month or so, because I have the most annoying parts of DLCs in front of me. So my plan for today was Sir Alonne. A lot of people have said, that this one is even harder than Fume Knight. For my surprise, I have downed him in 7 or 8 tries. First time, without summons. Shield helped in this encounter a lot. My damage was pretty low though. Even after I have went for a two attempt kill of Twin Pursuers, which dropped my new Ring of Blades+2. Thankfuly Alonne’s moveset was easy to learn and predictable. All I needed to do, was to be patient enough to hit him only once during his openings. Because whenever I tried two hits, he always punished me with his follow up. Next eithe Gank Squad or King’s Pets. We’ll see. Not very happy to go through their gauntlets again

After 20 years, and numerous cancelled attempts, Tales of Rebirth finally got english translation. Courtesy by Life Bottle Productions fan translation group.

Another Giveaway on GOG. Seems fun and relaxing game https://www.gog.com/en/game/chicken_assassin_reloaded

So you are missing Heavy Duty DLC as well

That is definitely not the case for Witcher 3. As the crazy big spike of sales happened when Netflix introduced the Witcher series. So a lot of the tens of millions of sales of W3 happened in the last three years. But yeah, the Gen Alpha with their 30 second TikTok conditioned attention span might have issue remembering that as well

Do you have also both DLCs installed? I have Underrail on my backlog, but missing the latest DLC yet.

Very good video PPT about why it happened so fast. If you have 1 hour to spare, I can only recommend it. I have listened to it today while driving during my business trip, and I have found out about things, which I never heard before. Like Assad being head of “drug cartel”, which provided synthetic drugs to the whole middle east (responsible for about 80% of worldwide production).

Another war criminal met his demise in Moscow. One of the most influential Generals. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/12/17/7489424/ This time the guy responsible for supplying chemical weapons to Assad, and their usage in Ukraine. He was also responsible for nuclear forces of Russia. So whoever is behind it, saved the world from few weeks of nuclear blackmail rhetorics.

This one jumped at me on my YT feed

Spending to much time on Mortal Komabt 11 in Towers of Time. I am to bad at playing it, but it still is fun enough to me to spend a lot of time. Had 5 hour long session in Twitch Rivals Premier Towers, to get new purplish skins for most of the characters, before they expired.

I am surprised no one linked this yet

You are not alone on this. The algorithms are really terrible at offering decent content. You have to search for good content yourself, and even after that you are offered trash content. The best example from me would be Dragon Age: Veilguard. I am “progressive”, but for the very same reasons, as Zorraptor mentioned few posts above, to not be trapped into my own bubble, I am following 2 or 3 “conservative” youtubers, which I consider to be as objective as possible from the perspective of my worldview. So on the date of the release of the Veilguard, I have of course watched a video made by one of the. Up until today, Youtube algorithm offers me probably the worst “incel” **** about games… And I can’t get rid of it as well. And after that episode, it almost never offers me “woke” content, in which I was and still am interested

If you start to wonder for whatever reason, that Russia really cannot be so ****ed up country, as people say, you find this

If anyone is still wondering why Syrian people prefer ex-terrorists over Assad and Russia

Assad has become Russia’s puppet the day, they bombarded first hospital. This led to displacement of more than 12 million people while killing another million. All with the blessing of Kremlin, as destabilization of Europe woth refugees to allow rise of pro-Kremlin far right in Europe, was Putin’s plan since day 1

“We must ensure western voices dominate this anti imperialist discussion. The idea that Syrians themselves may have decided that ISIS is better than Kremlin cos it doesn't have an air force must be suppressed. It might lead to very awkward questions about us.” Darth Putin - December 9, 2024

Tens of thousands of refugees are already on their way home from Turkey and Lebanon. This will lead definitely to more stable situation in Lebanon as well, as there have been allegedly more than 1.5 million of them sheltered from Assad regime. Seems like even ex-Alqaeda and ex-ISIS guys are for them considered a better option than Russia was

Oh yeah, how we could forget Taliban, who is despised by their own people being business partner to Russia after they knocked out USA: Good. Possible HTS, who has been welcomed by their own people, and who for now promised to not exectute revenge on the rest of the Assad supporters, showing interest to talk with the West after they kicked out Russia: BAD!!!

Russia will implode to itself, before my service as a drone pilot would be needed during the mobilization though

The details of 400k casualties (not KIA) from Zelenskyi’s speech. “Zelensky: Since the start of the full-scale war, Ukraine has lost 43,000 soldiers killed in battle and provided assistance to 370,000 wounded. Around 50% of wounded soldiers return to duty. Russian casualties exceed 750,000, including 198,000 killed and over 550,000 wounded.”

And Trump wearing suit in Ukrainian colors, few Russians and their trolls had a heartstroke after seeing this picture

I very well understand what you are talking, but do remember the millions of refugees, with which Assad and Putin flooded Türkiye and Europe to destabilize it. Weaker Russia means safer world in the future. Today even Christians of Damascus are celebrating HTS liberation, that’s how ****ed up was the Assad Putin duo in Syria… https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3lcrsdx6cx22y I just hope it will last them for a long time. And yes, I am playing naive here. And the Kurds, with the exception of the city of Manbij, all of the territories under their “rule” are behind Euphrates river, so unless the HTS and Türkiye starts to use aviation against them, they should be “safe”. And yes, again I am trying to see a little bit brighter picture here than you. Nothing out of it might happen, and Syria can turn into mess again, but hopefully the rebels are also feeling tired from decade long civil war, and their brain will tell them, that more destruction in the country will not be to their benefits. But after today, the global world is a little bit safer again, as Russia has been dealt significant reputation blow, and they will soon loose their gateway port through which they exploit Africa… Edit: for now even Kurdish SDF command is looking forward to what happened to Assads’s regime. For now.

One of two planes leaving Damascus yesterday was either shot or landed near Homs, the second one landed in UAE. My guess would be, he was on plane to Dubai. Unless the pilot of the first one decided to hand over Assad to rebels

Hmm, hard to imagine greater evil than Snow ISIS and butcher of Damascus collaborating at Sednayah Prison. The remaining SAA troops at Damascus allegedly struck a deal with Rebels. Which pretty much means Damascus has surrendered. Seems like ComradeYellow’s prediction aged faster than a bottle of milk during the hottest summer day in Kuwaiti’s desert