Mamoulian War

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…

Unfortunately no. I find such games extremely boring

Goal nr. 11/2024 achieved December 3, 11:45 – And again more of Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate on PS4. Today, I have finished all of the Klassic Towers for canon and non-canon endings of every playable character.

More info directly from GOG https://www.gog.com/en/news/warcraft_12_will_be_delisted_from_gogwhat_does_this_mean_in_regard_to_the_gog_preservation_program

It might be perverse to say it, but this might actually be the case here. Russians with Assad has already shown, how much disdain they have for human life. So in other words, ex Al Qaeda is currently attacking the biggest and richest terrorist organization in the world, with the help of Syrian Kurds, which are probably the single entity in this chaos, who might be, at least with handful of sand, described as the “most-likely good guys”. There is at least a small glimpse of hope, that in future, it would be easier for Syrians to overthrow unafilliated terrorist group than Russian State-Backed Terrorists, which are currently the “official governing body” in Syria

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

As there is no better place (with the exception of one thread defending Assad’s and Russian murderuous spree in Syria), and the current events are unfolding mainly due to someone being to busy to sacrifice hundreds of thousands own people in WW1 style meat grinder, I’ll post it here. Assad has “run” to Moskva, as soon as Syrian rebels has decided to show Russia, how a 3 day Special Military Operation should be properly executed. Aleppo along with more than 50 towns, including strategic airbase at Abu al-Duhur, have been liberated from Russian occupiers overnight.

Looks like you might not be correct even with the IRBM treaty violation statement https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/ss-x-31-rs-26-rubezh/ as Oreshnik is “based” on Rubezh missile…

Not much of a scientific news, but finally worthy AI product

Well how much will it hurt, if you gave an option to someone, who does not understand this kerfuffle, to completely turn it off? First the people have been offended by other people asking for gay romances in games, now are people offended by other people asking for straight romances? Where is the sense in this? The more options you allow in your art, the more people will feel included in it Or you can call all these people bigots and are wondering, why your sales plumetted, or why Trump defeated Harris

Well, some of the guy tweets/blues were not most diplomatic, and I can understand, why it might not only the "hardcore anti-woke", but also the Average Joe, who is a little bit conservative, but some of the games, which he enjoys does not give him an option to pick choices, which would represent a little bit more of his worlds view. Such Average Joe is then very easily convinced, that these "anti-woke activists" can have a point. Which is bull****... But when you are advertising your game as inclusive for all audiences, but in the end you do not offer few simple choices for a significant portion of demographic, and then you point using derogatory terms at everyone, who even in good faith might be asking why is that the case. Well such a game is then everything, but inclusive... This is not black and white issue, some shades of grey might expand your audience and in the end show a middle finger to the "hardcore anti-woke" crowd... In this case, the easiest solution would be to offer a toggle near the pronoun field. Liberal people would be able to choose, whatever would suit their playstyle, the conservative people would be able to turn this feature off. But unfortunately, we live in the world, where everything has to be turned into hyperbole, and then calling the people with different world view either bigots or groomers, with no chance at all to find at least a little bit sane middleground

People here on boards were talking about ICBMs. Media as well... And taking anything that Putin says at face value in current day and time? Seriously? But yeah, if it was IRBM, as currently reported by "untrustworthy western media", they did not break any treaty

With which, if it is true, they have broken another treaty and some people still want to negotiate with them Back to Kursk. It is said, Lieutenant General Solodkov was on site, welcoming the 12 Storm Shadow arrivals. His fate for now is unknown.

Of course the polls are now that way. Even Zelenskyi said in September, he wants to end the war as soon as possible. (note, neither him, nor the polls have explicitly specified what date they are talking about, when using term as soon as possible) Few days ago he even said, that he wants to end it in 2025. No surprise there at all. Still 38% of UA want to fight till the victory. And I guarantee you, that ending war as soon as possible even in the eyes of these 52% of Ukrainians does not mean to surrender to Russia, just to have peace, but “enjoy” the ethnic cleansings, like before, when Stalin was still around…

An answer to a simple question will tell you why this will never work. How the UN mission in large country like DR Congo helped with establishing peace there? and you want the same deal at the zero line with nuclear armed paranoid madman

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…