Mamoulian War

And playthrough number 4 of Journey on my PS3 is behind me. Again, I was trying to meet some more companions for the Wonder trophy today, while getting the last glyph. This time, I was lucky with the glyph, but unlucky with the companions. Only two of them met today. Two online trophies to go.

I did it this morning, and it did not help this time unfortunately

****, after three days, the wheel is dead again... this time, with completely different issue... I am soooo pissed off now... I'll go play Journey to chill a little bit... why it always happen on Sunday, when there is absolutely no chance to get the hold of the support...

Ok guys, sorry for forcing you to read that garbage, I have finally found the original transcript of the interview. The above "news" completely snippet their words out of context... 🤮 The whole transcript is here: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_196300.htm?selectedLocale=en And these are the sentences, which were ripped apart out of context:

hello Nordic friends @xzar_monty , @Azdeus , @Elerond , @Gorth (did I forget to tag someone? :P) and @kanisatha, have you seen the interview of Stoltenberg with Finish president, which name, I am unable to remember 😄 ? Is what I read in this article legit? https://national-conservative.com/nato-sec-gen-jens-stoltenberg-suggests-ukraine-compromise-and-cede-territory-to-russia/ Or is this some american antibiden outlet? The only transcripts which, I've found was about them discussing Turkiye's security concerns.

I think there was a video from paramedic in Mariupol posted here as well. She has been released few days ago from Russian captivity where she was since mid-March. https://t.me/ukrpravda_news/19237

One guy from simracing community made me a plan for the aluminum DIY simrig in CAD, and I have ordered all required stuff in Motedis. Three weeks later, I have started to build it by myself. Took me two days, in which my wife learned, that I can use a very colourful palette of swearwords 😄

The wheel, which I am currently testing for a possible cooperation on a project with a Driving School, is Fanatec DD1 Formula 1. And Fanatec Clubsport Pedals v3. Berfore that I have used like 6 years Logitech Driving force GT, and 4 years Logitech G29. TMX Pro seems like a solid entry level for start with Simracing "career" if you want to know, if games like ACC will be enough fun to justify little bit more spending to "upgrade your immersion". If you will enjoy ACC enough to be willing to get little bit more out of it, go for the upgrade of your pedals first This is the biggest upgrade you can do and is probably a cheapest one. And this is the only upgrade, which in the end, can make a difference on your speed. Everything else in Simracing is mostly just for the fluff Oh and you should plan your upgrades always in 3-5 years advance 😄😄😄If you decide to upgrade one day, and decide to stay long term in Thrustmater "environment", this is definitely the best upgrade you can get https://www.thrustmaster.com/en-us/products/t-lcm-pedals/ Anyway, as I said, first you need to decide, if it gives you enough fun over games like Forza on gamepad, and if yes, you can send me any questions regarding simracing, you'd have, and I'll be happy to give you an advice As I am slowly building up my own SimRig since 2019 This is my current setup, and it needs probably few more years to finish 😄😄😄 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dOi8K3KER37oekKGu-jya4lqilFuDhz1/view?usp=sharing

@Darkpriest Different view on inflation data and rise of costs of living for EU, than from your sources. ECB has released few days ago a prediction for next 3 years, and the outcome, with all of the **** hitting the fan around with covid and russia, is not that dark, as your sources predict. TLDR: Inflation is projected to decrease to 3.5% in 2023 and 2.1% in 2024. https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/projections/html/ecb.projections202206_eurosystemstaff~2299e41f1e.en.html#toc7

And this has started to happen in Russia, there is growing discontent, a lot of pro-russian "telegramers" with hundreds of thousands of followers are already blaming Putin, and despite his assurance, how Russian economy and ruble is going strong, the people of Russia already know, that it is just a smelling heap of bull****, because they are already experiencing extreme inflation...

They announced, that they ran out of their own pre-war stock of soviet era shells. They still have hefty stock of them from Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Baltics, Romania and Bulgaria. And they are stockpiling on NATO standard ammunition day by day.

Fanatec Support has replied to me, and offered me a guide, where might be an issue with my wheel. And looks like, they were right. Probably during the shipping one of the cables got loose, and it stopped to working. So I am testing the wheel again, and was able to finish one more special event in Assetto Corsa on Gold

Casualties on Russian side are still 3x bigger. And there is slowly anger boiling in Russia. It will be very painful, but it's Ukrainian decision, how long they will fight to defend their country. If they want to do it, and we have means, we should provide help to them. Unless you want to see sooner or later another war in Poland or Baltics to appease the bear's hunger for power...

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.