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:

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)

The last time I can clearly remember the police going armed for an extended time was after the Utøya massacre and terrorist attack on the AP offices, otherwise cops don't have guns other than one locked in the trunks of cruisers.

Personally I prefer Gleeby Glep: Gleeb Zams Nilp over Gleeby Glep: Zeb Bleps Dorbagarp, but both are very Ack Ack Ack

Wow, reading that made my briefly want to rip my eyes out. You never cease to amaze with your tech-bro impressions, Ulysses

I found this at 8 am while browsing this morning. It is now 10:30 and I am not even halfway through. Holy shit death to America and death to Elan what the absolute hell is this. Thank you for sharing this website, I'll make sure to inform others who I know will be interested in this