Mamoulian War

Ruins of New Londo together with the Four Kings have been defeated. Still not tried to get into Valley of Drakes, as I needed to farm some souls to get Faith from 12 to 25 for the next requirement in my Platinum checklist. Spent around 1 hour killing Royal Giants at Anor Londo for that. As a side effect, I was able to upgrade my Lighting Spear to +5 and unlock my first weapon trophy.

Another Ropucha class landing ship, allegedly fully loaded with Shaheeds has been promoted to submarine after cooking of whole night at Feodosia. According to Russian MoD, the ship was damaged and all Su jets of Ukraine have been destroyed in retaliation. Again.

It was Polish, and each of them had 10 NATO generals on board

Few days ago, on a TV broadcast by RIA Novosti, Sputnik TV and Russia Today, one of a very poverful figure of Russian Ministry of “Defense” Prilepin, has stated, that the countries, which provide the most work migrants in Russia, should get Annexed. He named as an example Uzbekistan. Shortly afterward, the Uzbekistan president started first steps to derussify the country media space, and powerful Uzbek politicians demanded the arrest of Prilepin. Which Russia of course did not accept. Uzbekistan is thus starting to prepare for another Special Military Operation.

Heh, I have performed probably the lamest Smough and Ornstein kill ever First, I have summoned Solaire. Then I have started to attack Smough. He went down really fast, as Solaire was tanking Ornstein (he almost killed him first ) After entering the second phase, Ornstein finished off Solaire, while I was trying to slowly hit him. The damage was very low, so I was running around more than hitting him . And because I fought him with melee weapon for the first time ever, I had no clue how this fight works . So after a minute or two, I got down from 9 Estus to last one with him still being over 90% HP, then, while I was trying to hide behind a broken pillar, he got stuck casting lightning spells behind another one . So I have finished him with my INT 15 Soul Arrow (weakest spell in game, which I am using only for pulling enemies ) As much as this kill was lame, it was still on first try and the worst feared enemy in the game is done for. After that, I have defeated Pinwheel as well, and now I am slowly starting to prepare for the Ruins of New Anor Londo and Valley of Drakes. My two most hated areas in DS1.

Remember that 3 SU-34 shot down over Kerson Region? It seems like, two more jets have been shot down since then, and one of them deep inside occupied air space ove Mariupol. And with Netherlands and Denmark promising first F-16 deliveries before the end of the year, the big rumours are starting to emerge at various sources (including pro-russian Rybar) that they are already at Ukrainian hands, and these five jets, are first victims of them. Shortly after these “incidents” happened, Russia started to talk again, that they are ready for cease fire talks. OFC, only if they can keep all of the occupied territories. Which fuels the speculations even more

Phantom of Knight Lautrec has been defeated in Anor Londo. On second try, which I still cannot graso hehe. Although the Titanite Demon few rooms away pit the Universe back in balance and wiped the floor with me 4 or 5 times Still I had no balls to go against Smough and Ornstein yet

Well, last proper Bioware game was Dragon Age: Origins, so in that case, they are pretty overdue

A miracle has heppened yesterday, and it’s not even a Christmas Eve I was able to get past two Silver Knight Archers guarding the roofs of Anor Londo on third try, and I got inside the Castle Now my two worst nightmares awaits. First Knight Lautrec with his entourage, and then Smough and Ornstein. And I need Ornstein’s Soul and his ring, which will make the fight even harder

Another look at the Dnipro bridgehead at Krynky. This time from Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/11/29/80-seconds-from-detection-to-destruction-in-krynky-russian-troops-have-just-one-minute-of-safety-from-ukraines-drones/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/12/21/the-battle-for-krynky-is-a-nightmare-for-both-sides-but-its-not-suicide-its-attritional-warfare/

Yeah, and it is rumoured to be stationed near Odessa, which is not far away from occupied Kherson Oblast, so I was just curious how true these rumours might be. Similar stunt was performed with the first Patriot which should have been stationed near Kyiv, but they definitelly moved it in the beginning closer to Russian borders and shot down about 4 helicopters.

SBU claims that they shot three SU-34 above Kherson Area doing sorties towards Krynky. Russian channels so far confirmed one hit. It was presumably performed by Patriot. Does anyone know, hat range have the Patriots provided to Ukraine?

And another giveaway https://www.gog.com/en/game/caveblazers

Well I do not say this is 100% correct assessment, but from my experience, as much West does not understand the East, East does not understand the West. So from my PoV, the assessment is plausible enough. But all I can say, that after what has been happening with Hungary still vetoing 50 billion EUR help, and MAGAs blocking US contribution, Russia considers us weaker than ever. We had an edge, which has been lost due to stupid decision in the West, and Russia is trying to bank on it as much as possible.

I know, pretty hard to believe that, when a person had no chance to experience Russian mindset. To me, it’s pretty plausible reasoning behind what they are doing. Regaining initiative is just an extra bonus.

It’s hard to not play kill ratio games, when one side is sending one meat wave after another

Note taken, thank you

Of course not, as Russia started to execute their 2026 occupation plan starting near Kupyansk https://www.bild.de/bild-plus/politik/ausland/politik-ausland/mehr-land-das-ist-putins-kriegsplan-fuer-die-naechsten-drei-jahre-86419892.bild.html

Despite that, it looks like correct tactical decision, all I have seen from Russian side for last two months messages like this, but in even more pessimistic and gloomy mood If Russia was not able to supply Kherson through Dnepr, it’s silly to presume, that UA is thinking, that they would be able to sustain supply themselves It’s definitely one big bait, which is working good, as they moved some time ago the best UAV unit’s here (Magyar’s Wings), which are hunting the Russians day and night.

Found the Politico article, it is the same guy as reported by Reuters. https://www.politico.eu/article/ex-russia-wagner-officer-russia-atrocities-ukraine-war-crimes-igor-salikov/

More Dark Souls Remastered in the last two days. I have finally reached Anor Londo, after defeating Quelaag and Iron Golem. I have cheesed him with summoning Tarkus , but Quelaag has surprised me few times, as I was using the Mildred summon, and when I had not seen Quelaag face to face, I was missing her explosion channel, which resulted in me being toasted Today, I have decided to go back to Asylum to visit Stray Demon, and I almost given up the fight after five attempts, where I ended up toasted in less than 10 seconds I have actually never fought him with melee character, so I had not much clue how to perform against him. Luckily, I told myself one more try, where I got asskicked in little bit more than 20 seconds, but I have noticed some interesting patters of his behaviour, when I have reached his back after outrunning his explosions So I went for “one more try before going to bed” The next try was a winning try, but I feel like it took me eternity. I had to outrun each of his attacks, and immediately running back using running attack for 69-88 damage, using lightning spear, which I found in Sen’s Fortress mimic chest. Sometimes I was able to land 2 attacks, sometimes I have missed him to to strange hitbox of his small tail and he had 5250 HPs The bonus of the day was, that immediately after the fight, I have found out, that I had enough titanite to upgrade my spear to +3, which would increase my damage by more than 20% Next goal is getting through the Silver Knight Archers guarding the entrance to the Anor Londo castle, which I was never able to get through without cheesing them with poison arrows, which I currently do not have Will be “fun”

And another one https://www.gog.com/en/game/lost_ruins

As the title says: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-former-soldier-wants-testify-icc-over-war-crimes-witnessed-2023-12-19/ There was in our news today a news about Politico article about Russian officer serving in army for 25 years and ex-wagner mercenary who fled Russia, after he refused an order from superior to execute civilians. I am wondering if it is the same person, as I am not able to find the mentioned Politico article.

Thank you for a recommendation, I have already got few reviews of the movie and unfortunatelly, I already know, I might not share your enthusiasm for this movie I have to admit, the movie does a very good job trying to bring racing to wider audience in general, but for “Petrol Heads” it has so many flaws, which do not match reality with real racing, that when I finally decide to watch it, I will be complaining for a week or two

I hit the brick wall in Dark Souls Remastered for the first time this playthrough. And it was Sif. Before that, I finished off Hydra on first attempt, and got to confident. I got schooled in few tries. The biggest reason is, that I have prepared special route for getting all of the PS trophies, so I have ended up against Sif pretty underleveled. Had to find a right balance of Armour and mobility, for mid-rolls and fast enough reactions. Unfortunatelly Sif’s arena has FPS issues on PS4 Pro, which affected my already slow reaction time But I have slowly and painfully learned how to defeat him using melee attacks in such circumstances, until I have defeated him. Took me 24 tries