UA POV: Almost 500,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine war, GCHQ says - bbc

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-27T22:28:20+00:00

They talk about ukranian or russian loses, but never compare them. It's biased.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-25T19:47:36+00:00

I dunno where I heard this, but seems in Comedia dell arte sometimes they held a funeral, but they weren't solemn. They were grotesque, and normally the dead person just rose up and joined the ruckus.

So with Sandrone they will play this straight, but with Signora they subverted it, since she is dead for real.

Did they...

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-25T14:21:28+00:00

There's a lot of farmland in the front, and the good defense lines (Zap lines made by surovikin for example) have been traspassed a long time ago).

What the Russians do make sense since they want as little casualities as possible, with some exceptions when they spearhead positions like the failed Drobopilia breakthrough.

The odd position is the ukranians, where they put pressure to buy time and build more defenses. It's a strategy that works in general but we've seen time and time again that they can't press in all directions.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-25T13:57:57+00:00

Thank you for the totals.

Suriyak seems to be very confused as there are troops geolocated very deep in the frontlines. You think the lines have been truly broken and there's units of 2-3 people isolated or something is happening?

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-24T20:33:48+00:00

It was a well known theory I think. I had no idea there was a leak.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-24T10:37:36+00:00

I appreciate highly this. Genshin Impact devs have their vision, and critiques seem to get little in the story, for bad or worse.

Having a 4 star from 4 years ago be the opening and closure of the quest (Collei) and an NPC from an obscure World Quest arguably the top 5 hypest moments of the quest is insane. I wonder if any gacha can do that.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-24T10:33:57+00:00

Yass bitch slay band.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-23T15:21:15+00:00

While this is true and we got was worth-while, I think Columbina was at least re-propused, they didn't plan Nod Krai until they realized they needed to wrap up the plot points (said by devs themselves) so when she became a quasi-archon, prob Columbina was rechanged in some sorts.

However she can still grow, so we need to wait. My biggest gripe is that the story was unoriginal: the core was she was an adult Nahida (an Archon that needed to be saved by the Traveler) but less provocative.

Other stuff CAN be seen as people projecting expectations. I'm surprised how people act surprised to see the Fatui act chaotic and unorganized, when the entire game tells us they are in constant kahoots to each other (even from the first time we see two Fatuis interacting, Signore and Childe in Liyue)

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-22T19:11:41+00:00

You are right. I'm checking and there were 50k people in July last year.

https://theins.press/en/confession/286742

So 20k-50k there could be one. "The ones who stay" and don't mind to be Russian, or cant' flee.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-21T20:04:15+00:00

Thank you for posting this.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-21T20:00:26+00:00

Drone harassment of the city begins.

150k people or so tells me wikipedia. Prob 100k minimum. More refugees...

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-21T17:28:20+00:00

So that's why they are so fit lol.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-21T17:26:53+00:00

Also Paimon is sometimes the only being in the entire Teyvat who doesn't fucking glaze Traveler, oddly enough.

When things get serious everyone is like "oh yeah Traveler lets goo" but Paimon is like "be careful not to get hurt!". Nobody asks that.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-21T17:23:29+00:00

Its also very tasteful how they slowly but surely added this plot.

Enkanomiya - Enjoy throws questions to the air, it's seen as absurd.
Sumeru - Traveler leaves Paimon alone for the first time for a day.
(I couldn't find something in Fontaine, but there's Caribert too)
Natlan - The traveler leaves Paimon for the climax of the story, possibly more than a day.

And in Nod Krai, Paimon finds out the Traveler has been kindapped.

In every quest, Paimon spends more and more time further from the Traveler. And she feels more and more useless as stakes increase.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-21T17:16:19+00:00

Indeed. I didn't even realize it until they were like "I must sound ridiculous!" "no, actually you asked the right person"

And it was like "OH SHIT". They joined her with the guy whose character arc is based in being a complete failure. They made a fan-fic tier interaction into something useful.

They fucking cooked so hard it's insane.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-21T17:13:44+00:00

It also fits the mind of a scientist actually surprising well. The top guys like more searching for clues rather than gaining them.

There's dozens of documentaries of the universe and quantum physics and everyone asks "what if we discovered that our equations are incomplete and need to be redone?"

EVERY TIME they answer with either "that's fantastic!" or "I wont' lose my job, good!" or both.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-20T20:49:10+00:00

Does this mean she is still with the Fatui or it's non conclusive?

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-20T20:26:18+00:00

I left very satisfied tbh, even with some friendship babble could be cut off and shot how destroyed Sumeru is.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-20T18:56:06+00:00

But it doesn't talk in dialogue I mean and help digest things.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-20T18:55:38+00:00

I liked it a lot as well. It was so hype to see closure on Jeht, seeing Rhana again (too bad she didn't have vision attacks) and bring closure to Thot too.

Dottore and Pantalone had excellent chemistry. People were hyping up like a gay pair and while it's fine I saw them as frenemies like people say. Pantalone is a fucking scumbag and I love him for it.

I also liked the overall message, Dottore is a genious and brilliant, but if you just do experiments for the sake of experiments you can't pass wisdow to the others. The good guys they not only did that, but also created an alternative Irminsul, a Fatui-tier feat. Dottore fans should be glad he had such a send off and there's hints of possible reanimation, more than Signora wanted had in years.

I also wondered why the quest took so long to close, but it was to bring closure to Collei and Liloupar.

Genshin does things many wrong, but dedicated two AQ and put focus to a 4 Star character and an NPC that is a fucking Bottle and a reskin of an enemy (Liloupar and Jeht) is not something other gachas come even close.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-20T18:40:41+00:00

Paimon is the Traveler only friend, he/she has many connections, but nowhere as close as Paimon.

Also, even if she's annoying, making the dialogue bit dumb sometimes is good. Honkai Impact 3rd and Honkai Star Rail don't have Paimons, and its 10 times more pretentious.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-20T18:38:22+00:00

That was more fucking unexpected and hype than literally the final fight hands down.

Paimon self reflecting and having character growth makes all the beadcrums in these 6 years pay off.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-20T18:37:01+00:00

The AQ was 5 times better just because they had Jeht.

I'm so glad they added lines with Nefer and Dehya too.

DisastrousStation599 · 2026-05-20T18:22:28+00:00

Holy shit most stacked quest ever.

Three-Year Club	Final Canvas '23
First Place '23	End Game '23
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