Mamoulian War

Last Train Home has been released on GOG as well today: https://www.gog.com/en/news/release_last_train_home Czech made game, about Czecho-Slovak Legion trying to return home after WWI during the Soviet Revolution. Now even you can enjoy the Russkiy Mir first hand, without fear of being sent to Gulag! Best to be enjoyed with a cup of tea and open window, to fully absorb the atmosphere of the setting.

Russia shows another evidence, that danger of NATO proximity to Russia was just a bull**** excuse for their planned genocide of Ukrainian people. They are moving S400 air defenses away from fully NATO encircled exclave of Kaliningrad to occupied territories

Well, it's adult as well. In a way

Can you share, what country you live in, if it is not to much of personal question. 4 months is really crazy long time

Goal nr. 10 finished November 25, 21:30 With the defeat of 6-winged Ethereal Queen, and unlocking of last character ending for Emmerson, my PS4 Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness Universe difficulty playthrough has been finished on 100% today. During my way to 100%, I had to unlock 4 ultra rare Trophies, which have been acquired by less than 1% of game owners. One for crafting all recipes, one for finding every single item, one for finding every single enemy, and one for fulfilling the prerequisites for all of the in-game Battle Trophies. The hardest Trophy, as always, was the Battle Trophy one, as it included the infamous one for 1 million hits. To get this one, I had to spent more than 30 hours fighting against Bloodbane over and over, but I left the last hit for this Trophy for the EQ fight :) . The game got a lot of bashing when it was released, mostly due to the Fiore’s dress, but IMHO, it was one of the best JRPGs released in 2016, as it stayed faithful to its Japanese roots without trying to appease western Skyrim audience unlike FFXV.

This year it is much harder than last year, unfortunatelly A lot of work now, and a lot of time, I was able to play only during a weekend. Last two months, I finally had more time, but I have decided to go for a crazy time consuming platinum But still having a lot of fun with the game, and finally have some hard challenge again

I had a lot of work after my vaccation, and got a little bit sick, so I had decided to make a pause in moving forward with the Star Ocean 5 Ex Dungeon for a while and decided to go for that silly 1 million hit battle trophý which I was still missing. After finishing up 6W Gabriel Celeste, I had a little bit over 400k hits recorded. Soo I have searched trophy hunting forums, how to finish it. And I have found out a guide, how to make it unattended, which was a pretty good thing, as I knew, I will have not much time to play next few days. So. I went to one big dragon superboss and started my first attempt. In the meanwhile, I have done some IRL stuff, which had to be done. 3 hours and some minutes later, the party defeated the boss, and went to check the hit count. My oh my, I nded up disappointed… just a little bit over 60k hits was counted by the game… so I spent almost a week, booting up a console right after I wake up, and leaving the game running for few hours a day, while I was doing my work while at home office. Sigh… approx 30 hours later, I ended up at 960k hits. 40k to go… I really can not imagine a single person, who would have time and patience to get this trophy in a legit “legit way”. As much as I like Star Ocean games, they always come up with some silly over the top Battle Trophy, to degrade your enjoyment out of the game. At least compared to SO4, you could leave the console unatended to get this one. Thankfully, this time they added only this one stupid Battle Trophy. All others were pretty ok to get, and more than 90% of them, I could get while playing the game, without need for a grind. Looking back, SO4 battle trophies were just a torture, bacause you had to do all of them without the help of AI /rant_over

Russia has expanded the ranks of their heroes. Putin has pardoned two convicted mass murderers and cannibals as a reward for killing Ukrainians. Such a lovely country, isn’t it? https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/23/7430047/

>>>Insert the obvious announcement of giveaway on GOG here<<< : Styx 2. And first game of the series, if you do not have it and want to have a nice pair, is currently for sale for 1.99EUR and probably same amount in USD

Nope, you have to take them very seriously. They are slowly moving their narrative of Putin’s endgoal for the next decade or so. If the west would not ignore their propaganda against Ukraine last two decades, we would not be where we are today…

Russia is already threatening Finland with tanks

Forever. Why do you think, if Russia does not care about the lives of their soldiers in Ukraine, they would suddenly start to care about some brown or black people freezing to death in Karelia?

After doing some crafting, I was able to defeat 6-winged Gabriel Celeste. On 2nd attempt. During first attempt, I became to comfortable with a fight and I have, after 15 minutes of almost flawless figh, dropped a guard. I have forgotten to get my healers at the edge of arena, so when I was performing Rush attack, he casted his uber AoE, and wiped floor with my whole party

I have to correct myself, I have just found out that, Beth made actually 5 Terminator games I have forgotten about Rampage, and I never knew they made a Terminator game based on first movie as well

Bethesda did actually three Terminator games. Out of which the Future Shock and Skynet are IMHO still the best games ever released from the Terminator franchise. Although the graphics did not aged the best... To bad, they are in copyright limbo, so you can't get them legally anymore

From what I heard, it was not so prone to min maxing as AoD. But I have not played it yet. So can't confirm it from my own experience.

According to Global Rights Compliance human rights group, Putin has been planning to starve out Ukraine with stealing all of their agricultural enterprises and their products and cause another "Holodomor" (which they actually did as one of the first things in the south). They started the preparation for it long before they invaded Ukraine and it is possible this will start another case against Putin and Russia in ICJ... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-grain-theft-ukraine-russia-latest-b2447644.html

4-winged Gabriel Celeste and Ethereal Queen have been defeated in the last two days. Gabriel is a pain, which can wipe you easily, if you do not watch out for your melee team members, and if you forgot to craft Resurrection Mist Queen is just a crazy big damage sponge, where you need either crazy good weapons or a lot of patience. I have all the ultimate weapons now, but I was not able to upgrade them yet, so I need more patience for now . Also defeated the final boss one more time, to get Fiore's ending The way to 6-winged deities has been unlocked. I will probably have to craft some accessories for boosting Rush attacks, as these bosses will have ****load of HP, and I am already at max level, so only way how to boost damage is to upgrade my gear. We'll see.

Goal number 9/2023 complete After defeating the Ethereal Queen for the first time in Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness on my PS4, I have decided to go for full clear of the first floor of the Ex Dungeon again, to obtain more Orichalcum for the crafting trophy. But because I have finished it sooner as expected, I have went to challenge the final boss of the game's storyline as well. As expected, due to trying to get all of the Private Actions, I got again Miki's and Relia's Endings, but it has unlocked one more trophy for me as well. For finishing the game on Universe Difficulty. I have also finished every Battle Trophy in the game, with the exception of 1 million hits on enemies. I am still under 250 thousands, so it will probably take a lot more time .

The Ethereal Queen of Star Ocean 5 has been defeated on Universe Difficulty Before attempting her, I have decided to level up a little bit, and got up to average level 240. The fight was much easier to go through as the previous "Shadow Party". It took more than 20 minutes or so, but after the fight I have double facepalmed. Silly me forgot to replace the XP grinding weapons with the real deal on two characters, so they did not made almost any damage to the boss LOL... Anyway, I was unlucky with her drops again, so I got just one Moonstone from the chest behind her. Which was still enough to create the best weapon for Anne. And luckily, she dropped her feather as well, so I was able to create the best female armour in the game as well. It went to Anne right away, so she is outfitted to the max for now. The next goal will be the Orichalcum farming in respawned first floor to slowly fill out the craft book and then the 4 winged versions of the superbosses.

uff, the game looks interesting, but the streamer killed it for me Was not able to watch it more than 2 minutes... I will definitely put it on my radar and hopefully it will be released on GOG as well. (THQ is the publisher, so this seems realistic).

And again, article based on anonymous sources, which according to some people here should be frown upon, as it is a “symptom of shoddy journalism” But yeah, I bet no one would object their reliability this time I would like to point out again to the fact, that Russia last year dismissed the theory, that Ukraine was the culprit of the sabotage as laughable Said by Putin himself https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/15/putin-calls-ukraine-role-in-nord-stream-blasts-sheer-nonsense

Heh, yeah, maybe in wet Putin dreams. He tried to annex 4 oblasts, and he is not able to hold them back, which made him the first Russian leader after hundreds of years who lost Russian soil. What makes it even more ridiculous is, that he lost it to a much smaller country And if you are thinking the West cannot keep pace with Russia if they start to try, I got a bridge to sell to you as well. Or do you really think, that a country with a pre-war GDP lower than Italy can outperform the whole Western World with 100x bigger economy combined? Of course Putin think so, but that’s why everyone sees him as delusional and deranged dictator. Including China

And here you are doing a big mistake of thinking like westerner and not like easterner or russian. I wanted to make a long post for you again, trying to give you more insight on how different world it is here, and why you are discounting implanted nihilism of the east into this, but I have found today a very good explanation on how russia thinks, which does a pretty good job of explaining it. And yes Putin counts on people like Trump, ex-Berlusconi, Fico, Orban to pave his way into challenging NATO and Article 5 after he has done enough to destabilize the western society through useful idiots like Zuckerberg and Musk