Mamoulian War

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 🤷‍♂️

Two private jets have left Damascus in the last hour or two. Seems like, they are already preparing to beg to keep their naval base. In the morning they were terrorist, in the evening they are legitimate opposition forces. 🤡 The present changes so quickly, that they do not know, what will happen yesterday 🤷‍♂️

As one of the classics said. Russia is ISIS, but with an air force. No wonder, that Syrians are cheering for radical islamists, as they are convinced, that it will be no worse than under Russian colonial boot.

PSN has free multiplayer weekend now, so I am trying my luck while playing Ko-op and versus matches in Mortal Kombat 11. Got the hardest online trophy yesterday (not because it is very hard to pull it off, it is just hard to find a Ko-op party of three people in the queue for Group Battle 😄 ). To my surprise, the matchmaking is very good, got matched only with one guy who obliterated my old ass, all other guys very pretty much on similar level as me. In previous titles it was pain in the ass to get matched with someone with similar skills. Sooo after a very long time, I actually had fun playing versus players against other people. 🥳

Nope not really, last time I played it was GTA San Andreas or what was the name. I spend probably 10-15 hours on it, and then became bored. Same for many other "open world" games. The tasks keep extremely repetitive and numb after few hours...

This will be my last post about this topic, probably for a long while, because I am tired of it explaining it again and again, and this is not a correct thread as well. You know, I am a member of progressive political party with a seat in municipial office, and our political party has now pretty nice sample, why we lost last two national elections. So I am not talking out of my ass, when I say, when you push to much your ideology, you will start getting more and more resistance within your own moderate electorate, who are in the core your allies, but they simply do not want to be called all different kind of insults, because they also happen to be religious. And all this is for more than a decade fueled by Russian propaganda, which is turning this into extremes. My own parents are religious, and they are always voted for a political parties who support marriage for everyone, despite that, there are people in my party and a lot our supporters, who call even people like them bigots, and this insults me. And as a consequences of these actions, we have lost a lot of center and center right voters, and becuase of that, we are now slowly turning into Belarus 🤷‍♂️ I have very similar experience with my close friends, who changed their voting preferences during the last days, because they either felt insulted by some of our “fans” or they read some russian propaganda piece on Facebook. And all of this happend, because we have pushed in some topics to much, and the same happened in USA, as the mind of the human being is everywhere the same. Thankfuly our party has the data now, and we started to cooperate with more moderate personas, and using more moderate language. This in turn led to our party losing our most hardcore “fans” but the total number of voters have risen in the latest polls. Our political views are still the same, everyone knows it, but the people prefer the “milder” conversation. Some liberal people really loves to live in their bubble, looking down at everyone who is not 100% aligned with their worldvuew, but if they want to change the world for the better, they first have to understand, that they need allies in the conservative spectrum as well, as they will be always in the minority, if staying alone. Else there would never happened things like laws allowing marriage for everyone in extremely religious countries like Spain or Ireland 🤷‍♂️ So yeah, people now have two gamechanging options, either stopping to call their potential allies with all kind of names, when they do not share their worldview (you can see many of such insults even in this thread), or keep acting surprised how the populist and far right movements fuelled by Russian propaganda get more and more popular among general population 🤷‍♂️ And yes, the Russian propaganda works overtime in gaming world as well, because they are very well aware, how big population of the western world has gaming as their most beloved hobby. And many of the “outrage” youtubers are directly paid by them (and maybe to your surprise, they pay them on both sides to further the grow the divide). I will be on my way now as well…