Scenario, friend playing through Ran's story in UDoALG

Me: "Blame Toby Fox for this."

Friend: *angrily* "I just might."

This game stinks!

No! This is clearly Europa Universalis 4! ( (Or Project Caesar (EU 5 (In development))))

Joel my beloved

Posting from my brand new computer, I wouldn't say it's top of the line, but it is a league better than anything I had before, finally got real storage for my games and films, and 32GB of RAM should make it not crap itself when I try to use Firefox and play a videos jame at the same time

Westfalen...

Bruh, I've probably spent like 2 hours in that place spread over like 3 playthroughs and never even seen that damn sword, absolutely cracked luck you got right there

Oh, quiet you!

What does invalid URL mean??? I'm just tryna post this thingy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-CeXGs6Dnc and the post page just keeps yelling at me

I've been playing Touhou games all week. First off I have been making my way through Touhou 19: Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost (Most normal TH game title btw.), very fun, gotten to the point where I can take my eyes of my character and simply dodge the bullets by looking at their trajectory instead of trying to dodge last second. Currently got stuck fighting Suika as Son Biten, probably gonna try again tomorrow when I'm fully rested and can dodge the two final spellcards without eating dirt.

But the amount of time spent on TH19 is peanuts compared to my sudden addiction to Mystia's Izakaya, guess I had a hidden passion for cafeteria management games. It's been a blast, a little burnt out now tho, but I've barely touched half the DLC for it, so whenever I get the urge to play it again, I got plenty to look forward to.

De er da privatisert, kjører bare på diesel, er for smale, knuger til seg uhorvelige mengder med penger fra passasjerer (Vann koster <30kr per flaske og jeg fikk bare 0.5L "gratis" fordig jeg hadde sovekupee for hele Bodø-Trondheim strekningen.) og det har tatt ørt og snørti år for at de har engang tenkt på å utbygge banen videre nordover. (Jeg bor nordfor Bodø) Så ja, jeg mener at de suger.

The non-Sámi areas should be fine, imo. Wind turbines fit Norway fairly well, and the electricity can be used to electrify the transportation network (Read: cars and bus, cause our railways suck) and cut our reliance on oil. We don't even need oil to stay prosperous, first off because we are shamefully massive beneficiaries of imperialism and neo-colonialism, but also because Norway has plenty of resources outside of oil. See this cool Fredda video, if you haven't already. I get the idea that wind turbines are "Ugly", so maybe keep them off of areas like national parks and cabin destinations, but ultimately extracting emission "free" (manufacturing and construction creates emissions ofc) energy from the land should take priority.

Currently, wind turbines are being used as a justification by the government to invalidate the native land rights of the Sami peoples.

In Fosen, the construction of wind turbines ruined the winter pastures for the local reindeer herders, and while they are being permitted new areas to send their flocks to, it still stands that government backed organizations built on Sami land without proper consultation. This entire ordeal is eerily similar to Alta-saken from the 60's and 80's, where the government built a hydro dam on the Alta river, ruining its ecosystem. Even after extensive protests and disruptive action, the dam itself was built (Although scaled down from the original plans.) The only benefit the Sami people extracted out of it was recognition as a minority with a reexamination of the governments policies towards national minority groups.

All this to say, while I personally believe wind turbines are cool and good to meet Norway and Europe's energy demands, they have now been used to push the Sami off their own land, which leaves a very, very sour taste in my mouth, and I dearly hope future governments do not use green energy as an excuse to strip our national minorities of the few rights they clawed themselves to the past 100 years.

Back to complaining about random life circumstances again! Why?

Well, if you have a very good memory, I was here complaining about a month ago that I got sick just before a b-day party I was invited to happened. Now, it's almost Halloween and the nerd club I am a part of is having a Halloween party, and guess fucking what. The day before, I get that familiar itch in my throat, and today I got a swollen tonsil and a noticeable lack of energy.

My Harry costume... all for naught

Playing Mountain of Faith, and Waterfall of the Nine Heavens is kicking my :butt:

Haven't at all figured out Momiji's bullet pattern yet other than "Don't be on the left side of the screen when she appears" and even if I do make it to Aya, I usually have 0 lives and immediately get trounced before seeing a single spell card, challenging!

I'm talking new gameplay innovations, enemies, level designs, movement techniques! The characters are just what bridges it together, the differences between Mario 64, Galaxy 1&2 and Odyssey are miles apart! The only major thing they have common is the standard Mario cast, everything else is new and different.

Bah, I don't even buy Nintendo products anymore (:pirate-jammin:), so I shouldn't care, but I do, cause I still think they're good and innovative games when they put their best into it.

Yeah, Odyssey was the exception last decade, and so far Nintendo has definitely let their developers and design teams play more fast and loose with their most recent entries. I think if the games see good sales numbers, then they will keep the trend up into the upcoming "Switch 2" era. But, if the sales numbers are deemed to be disappointing by whatever arbitrary metric is used by the company, then we might just see a reverse in course, and doubling down on the restraint-of-wackiness, "reinforcing the brand" once again so they can profit of Mario and Co's recognizable design for merchandise and keep the games only to remind people that Mario is in fact a video game character with all his wacky pals (NOT: Toadsworth, King boo, E. Gadd, Any and all Paper Mario characters, Petey, the Piantas, the Lumas, the Bees, those woodcut fellas from Galaxy 2, anything from Odyssey, and many many more characters that will *never* return! ).

Nintendo: "If its not making us all the money, it might as well be in a 6ft deep grave!" :quark: