Mamoulian War

Yes, it has been proposed many times before, because there are still a lot of people at high state positions in various countries, who can’t do basic math properly Edit: and if by any chance, Trump is one of the people, or has around him some people, who can do the simple math properly, he will throw Putin under a bus sooner, than he blinks with an eye. Explanation in the video above as well. Hint: it was part of the peace plan, which Zelenskyi proposed to Trump himself.

I have found a video, which is linking to the source of this information. According to the info, a member of Republican party, had an interview in Kyiv 24, and he explained, that Trump has backed Biden’s decision to allow ATACMS strikes in Russia, as he believes in projecting peace through power.

Not plausible, at all, as the contact line (including Belarus and Transnistria) is approximately more than 1800kms (1100 miles). If the buffer zone would look be anything like buffer zone between DPRK and RoK, it would require more European soldiers, than all european countries currently have combined. And it would cost EU more, than they are currently providing as weapons and humanitarian assistance. If by any miracle, they would be able to accumulate Million EU troops on ground in UA, just in salaries it would be costing EU 5 billion EUR a month. Minimum. Without the cost of equipment, food and lodging.

That would be terrible indeed. Everybody knows, that most hateful number is 7, because 7-8-9… I’ll see myself out now

It’s from someone from Virginia, who was citing the ADL report, which has said that 0,08% of all emotes on Steam are of hateful character… The most ridiculous about this report is, that half of the emotes, which they pointed to, were Pepe Frogs…

During last week destruction of few hundred of mechanized units in Kursk, UA has captured loads and loads of DPRK weapons out of the wreckages. No captured/killed soldiers yet shown, that’s true, but even if we hop on the western media hate bandwagon for providing “fake news”, the South Korean agencies and government , which have been very reluctant to report about anything similar in the last 2 and half years, confirming this information, makes this information pretty plausible…

Looks like the retraction was preliminary here as well. Today UA hit Kursk HQ with allegedly DPRK officers on board with 12 SCALPS/Storm Shadows over the course of less than 60 seconds. Must have been very high value target, if they decide to spend more than 30 millions on a single strike, while still having shortage of these weapons…

The Kursk only restrictions were inaccurate reporting, as the first ATACMS hit Bryansk Oblast edit: now I have noticed, that you already reported the info about Bryansk

Today in Kyiv 24 TV has been broadcasted, that Biden has told Trump during their latest meeting, that he will approve ATACMS strike deep in Russia. Trump has not protested against this idea.

I am inclined here to agree with Zoraptor again. The statement, that “We do not review bad games” does not hold water IMHO. As I can say, that I have played few games, which have been absolutely terrible/boring snorefest, which has got the rating of 7/10 or even above. They do review bad games, but they are afraid to give it proper evaluation. Newest Dragon Age is prime example of that IGN and Gamespot gave it 9/10 and Eurogamer even 10/10 FFS… If this does not show the current state of quality of game reviews, than I do not know what

For me watching the game awards is completely useless. Precisely because you almost never get review under 7/10. Which made the game reviews absolutely useless and irrelevant in my eyes. Because it is sometimes more entertaining to watch a 5/10 movie than play a 8/10 game. Unless they fix this widespread issue, they will lack the credibility they are craving for so much as mentioned by Zoraptor.

Half-Life 2 free to keep on Steam, for few more hours/days. If there is still anyone beside me, who never owned it

Another giveaway, this time specifically tailored for Volourn! https://www.gog.com/en/news/16th_anniversary_special_claim_the_giveaway_of_diggles_the_myth_of_fenris

I really love this board. Almost every day, I learn something new. Today, I have learned, that Bethesda has employees, who test their games for bugs. Who would have thought, that this is reality in this Universe

Indeed

Ukraine has eliminated in Crimea war criminal, who has ordered a cruise missile attack on Vinnytsia city center, killing 29 civilians (https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/07/14/7358046/). He was also responsible for periodical attacks on Ukrainian cities by cruise missiles launched from Black Sea. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/13/7484248/

So, my wife ended up at work again, so I have booted the Dark Souls 2 DLC again, hoping, that the Iron Passage will suck less in NG+. Nope it does not. This level is designed, so it sucks all the joy out of you before the fog gate, and then you bored and annoyed to the max, will get smacked over the head with Smelter Demons magic Ultra Great Sword, even if you do not wipe while traversing the passage... At least the Demon is gone now...

Uff, I just spent 34 attempts on Fume Knight in DS2 NG+ (about two and half hours) He went down, but it was a pain. So far, definitely the hardest boss of Souls Franchise, which I played so far. Skill based encounter, which punishes players for the smallest of mistakes, and my oh my, I have made a lot of them when getting him to phase two. But his moves could be learned and predicted even by a slowpoke old fart like me, soooo GJ Fromsoft. I am completely exhausted now Going to sleep

There was never a possibility of UA joining NATO in the first place. This is just a RU propaganda scapegoat to excuse their landgrab. The common populace was so much against it (in 2013 it was less than 20%), that the UA parliament would probably never approve it, even if they talked about this option. People wanted to be neutral. Even after Crimea was annexed the support for NATO did not jump above 50%. Only after the full scale war, the NATO "popularity" has risen to 80% and risen since then to 90.

It's so lovely to have always online for single player games, isn't it?

I play like 99% of time male characters, and I prefer lean and slim character model over the ultra-buffed stereotype, which we get like 99% of time from western devs. I always pick gear and cosmetics, which are to me aesthetically most pleasing, and do not break the immersion. JRPG fem-boys looks are better choice for male characters than the Mountain type characters (although it would be vice versa IRL ), and for female characters, I do not have an issue with any amount of skin shown, but I always prefer elegant dress over bikini swimsuit. For male characters, I like the most "business suits" even if it does not 100% fit the world :P. Unfortunatelly with the exception of Like a Dragon games, there is a very limited number of games, which offer this option of fashion to play with

Can you give some info about why the first game was not as much enjoyable as you have thought? It was on my radar for a long time, but for now, I have skipped it due to my extremely big backlog

Have you seen latest releases of Mortal Kombat by the chance? Because this is a most obvious example of "game for modern audiences" where what you describe is in complete reversal Jacked up males in maximum revealing outfits, and extremely unattractive (words of my wife) female characters covered from head to toe . So it seems, the current western developers are unable to create content, which you just described. They are capable of creating only extremes on whichever side they think the "morale pendulum" just swung

And it looks like UA will not need the western long range weapons anymore in close future. They just hit missile ships in Caspian Sea (1500km away) which were launching missiles against UA cities. This also made at least one airport in similar range from UA, to stop operations. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/11/6/7483198/

Looks like Elerond’s gloom and doom has not fully fulfilled. Pro-European Maia Sandu has won presidentship again. Looking at it after yesterday, we live in a very strange world when ex-soviet satellites with strong pro Russian sentiment among population, are better at fight against the Russian influence operations than the USA and Germany