The same 10 minute walk around the schoolyard is burned into my mind permanently, it was almost the only thing I did during the recess for almost 2 years (friendless)

At age 13, sitting at the dinner table late one afternoon with my older sibling explaining socialism and subsuquently starting my journey to become a communist

Quite young, probably 7 or so. On a little gravel shore by a lake, my family were fishing, but I was too busy setting sticks as ladders up against a flat rockface, recreating the opening scene with the roman invasion of Astrix & Obelix in Britain

Crete, having walked way too far with my grandma, I was probably 9 or so, drinking out of an ice-filled bottle in probably 30C heat, getting ready to turn around and go back to the hotel

A specific angle from my first childhood bed, room only lit up by the glow of my lamp, I see my closet and a box of toys, probably one of my first core memories

Earthbound can be a real piece of shit, everybody knows the clunky and limited inventory is a pain in the ass, and it is completely true. Furthermore, the story, while good, lacks a lot of personality building for the main cast of characters, which is funny cause every npc has amazing dialouge. While the lack of character building doesn’t harm the ending overall, it certainly does not hit as hard as Mother 1 or 3’s endings, due to them actually taking a few moments to flesh out the main cast of heroes at several points.

Total War: Empire, a buggy mess that likes to crash in the late game. Unfinished, AI is illogical in both diplomacy and a lot of battle tactics (Which makes the few times they pull a clever maneuver incredibly surprising) and nearly requires modding to be playable, either through script edits or from installing overhauls.

EU4: Now this is one I haven’t thought of much, but there certainly are many flaws to find in this one. First off, 93% of the gameplay is just finding buttons to press with the right timing, that’s it. The DLC’s have mostly been focused around adding more buttons to press. Powercreep has been a real issue, like how Spain will have colonized most of Oregon and Alaska before a Russia player can even hope to have gotten to East Siberia. Many intended paths require RNGesus to smile upon you, and whose alternative requirements can be very difficult to achieve in comparison. (So many MP games of my friends grumbling over many such cases.) And, despite being an 11 year old game, some regions are still not very fleshed out. India and parts of the Americas lack flavour and content. And of course, the UI can be a bit inscrutable at times, with a few features hidden away or poorly explained, like the macrobuilder diplo screen. And yeah yeah, the DLC policy is terrible as it locks out critical features behind a paywall, which has only been partially fixed with updates and working older DLC into the base game.

Yelled at a liberal today.

I hate libs.

Scenario, friend playing through Ran’s story in UDoALG

Me: “Blame Toby Fox for this.”

Friend: *angrily* “I just might.”

This game stinks!

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

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.

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:

Well, if I were to guess, it has to do with Nintendo’s entire “securing the brand” thing back in the late aughts to late 10’s. You know, when every single mario game was basically just New Super Mario Bros? When Paper Mario started to really blow? And the party games forgot their entire gameplay loop? I dunno why, but for over a decade Nintendo played everything super safe with the Mario series, there were like 3 new enemy types each game. People like Scott the Woz and Arlo put it much better than I ever could (simply watch 7 hours of Wii U reminiscing), but the point is. Nintendo is scared of a console or franchise doing bad, and they often come to the wrong conclusions as to why their projects fail. The Gamecube wasn’t out competed by the PS2 or XBOX cause it was a bad console, but because it didn’t offer the conveniences such as dvd playing or catering to the teenage-male-dominated market Nintendo helped to grow the previous two decades. (Talk about getting hoisted.) Nintendo went on to make a more convenient and popular console, sure, but their conclusion was also to play it waaaaaay safer with the Mario brand. Aside from the Galaxy games (all 2 of them), the Mario games lost a lot of their personality. Just look at the travesty that is PM: Sticker Star , or the blandness of NSMB U and NSMB 2. So a lot of their previous decade’s catalougue was very lacking in both old “off-brand” characters and new fun ones. And probably for the same weird reasons, Nintendo has an aversion to GC era characters, cause it was one of the worst revenue-wise for Nintendo aside from the Wii U (Which was also created from the same unnecessary caution, wacky, eh?)

Geh, enough ranting, I gotta go get back to playing Mountain of Faith on the Windows PC! (Why don’t we have any Reggie Fils-Aíme emotes)