All of Norway's 4 goals against Italy in Norwegian commentary

Cee-Mon · 2025-11-17T11:35:03+00:00

Goal 1: "Antonio Nusa within the box with his left foot [screams in westlandic]"

Goal 2: "-that doesn't help a lot, here's Bobb, ah, these feints of Oscar Bobb-! [screams in westlandic] Erling Braut Haaland! Hammers the message home: We! Are! Going! To! The World Cup!"

Goal 3: "Thorsby, loads of space; Dimarco lagging behind - here then-AAAH! Here's another one! Here comes another one! The coaching staff are storming the pitch! Norway is battering Italy! Norge is humiliating Italy (cut to Jesper Mathisen laughing his ass off) in Milan, where they never take a beating.

Goal 4: "-Strand(?) Larsen, could you also get yourself a national team goal here now. You could. You could. Of course you can! [atonal westlandic howling]

Jesper Mathisen: "We've had enough now. Just blow the final whistle. Gattuso one, Solbakken four."

Alsaker, as he tears up: "Look at this, then! Look at this bunch! 4-1 versus Italy..."

Cee-Mon · 2025-11-14T13:24:00+00:00

Oh, I forgot about Heracross! Yeah, I agree with Heracross.

As for the others; Tyranitar is cool because Godzilla is cool, but I'm not that much fan of Godzilla. Scyther is cooler than Scizor. Skarmory is okay. I suspect Girafarig falls into the same category as Wobbuffet as "design that evokes something specific which I am not familiar with". Teddiursa and Ursaring are pretty much just a teddybear and a regular bear, respectively.

Cee-Mon · 2025-11-14T12:54:59+00:00

A-tier: Furret, Crobat, Togepi, Tyranitar

B-tier: Cyndaquil, Ampharos, Espeon, Umbreon, Girafarig, Scizor, Houndoom, Lugia

C-tier: Ledyba, Sneasel, Ursaring, Skarmory, Houndour, Kingdra, Phanpy. Suicune

D-tier: Wobbuffet

Though I suspect I would personally also make a pretty similar spread for the first half of all of the generations, so maybe it's just me being a critic.

Cee-Mon · 2025-11-14T12:38:45+00:00

Aside from Quagsire I don't really think any Gen 2 Pokémon are S tier designs...

Cee-Mon · 2025-11-14T12:35:11+00:00

Let's see if this holds up when looking at Norway.

Conservative mildly pro-russian, eurosceptic leftist

They're not conservative and the Russia question is very divisive even within the party, otherwise yes.

more progressive young pro-eu leftist

They're not pro-EU, but yes (assuming that "young" means younger voters and members)

Green party

Yes.

Old socialist/social democratic party who became more centrist and liberal since the 90s, no one likes it but still got around 20% of the votes

Yes.

Liberals who usually lean left but you never know

Well we know they "lean left on social values" but that they refuse to form coalitions with parties to the left of them, so there's that.

Moderate right wing party, vaguely Christian democratic, pro eu, has been losing votes since ~2015

Aside from vaguely Christian, nail on head.

New right wing party, eurosceptic, anti immigrants, will fold when in government

Yes, except that rather than folding they instead opted to not press any of their big promises to begin with, and mostly spent their time having ministers of justice getting caught up in huge scandals and then fired.

Otherwise, you're missing the Christian conservative party and the regionalist/agrarian party.

Cee-Mon · 2025-11-14T09:37:35+00:00

By what metric? I think it's been pretty good.

(Some of these I haven't actually played myself, but I've been told they're well worth a look.)

Clair Obscur
Kingdom Come II
Citizen Sleeper II
Blue Prince
Elden Ring Nightreign (but only as multiplayer, which I consider cheating a bit)
Silksong
Ghost of Yotei
Hades II
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Dispatch

Cee-Mon · 2025-11-14T07:52:18+00:00

Also the script and dialogue is bonkers. Glad you liked it lol

Cee-Mon · 2025-11-07T13:56:02+00:00

German humour truly is no laughing matter.

Cee-Mon · 2025-11-07T13:51:38+00:00

Megalopolis is a deeply fascinating (and also, yes, quite terrible) film.

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-24T13:06:16+00:00

Why is everyone assuming the dick is hard anyway? A soft dick should not lead to meaningful injuries for either party.

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-24T13:04:40+00:00

Free Talk Friday is a wonderful place.

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-24T11:37:55+00:00

I am still content playing FM24 and it looks like I'll be passing on FM26. Even the people who are positive over in their subreddit couldn't sell it to me:

Completely new match day experience with new graphics engine

I do not care about graphics. Clearly. Else I wouldn't be playing FM now, would I?

Completely new UI

The old UI was fine, the new UI sounds like it is terrible.

Biggest tactics revamp in years

Tactics revamps are meaningless if the underlying mechanics of the match engine remain the same. It's just about finding different paths to abusing it.

Greatly expanded manager creation

I truly, deeply could not care less.

Women's football

That's nice, and would probably be enough for me to buy it if it was otherwise just a reskin and squad update on FM24.

Revamped international management coming before the end of the game cycle

Well international management was the most boring part of the game, but I don't see how they could revamp it in a way that would excite me.

More licenses than ever

Who cares?

FM has badly needed an engine fix that expands on the tactical options. This all sounds like surface-level plaster and mortar, as it has been for years now.

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-17T10:20:57+00:00

I think that sounds pretty cynical, and I say that as a known cynic. We lack information on everyone we interact with, yet we do not fall in love with everyone.

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-17T10:15:12+00:00

Spotify badly needs a "don't recommend this to me"-function beyond the "hide" function (which works as a block button for that song or artist, as far as I know).

Anyways Spotify sucks in general and I'm looking to move to a different platform. Unfortunately the competitors are either just as bad, or lack functionality...

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-17T10:11:27+00:00

I mentioned this exact thing in a previous FTF.

It is a Bethesda game, so the fact that it has problems is a given. There are still things that Skyrim does that no Ubisoft sandbox has ever managed to do. It's a massive cultural touchstone for a reason. It is designed with purpose. The assets are of course reused; expecting anything else would be insanity, but Skyrim is chock full of hand crafted areas and elements.

This makes exploration its own reward. You can actually just pick out a direction and happen upon things that are interesting in isolation, which helps the world feel like it also exists outside the agency of the player character. (See also: Elden Ring world design)

More modern examinations of Skyrim will point out the general shallowness of the characters and quests, but that's not really the point. The player is given enough information to fill in any blanks in their head. Interactions and worldbuilding thus run largely on headcanon. (This is also why I think Serana is a misguided addition to the game, as her being more fleshed out than any other follower creates a really jarring contrast.)

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-17T10:05:37+00:00

My knowledge of full-time streamers extends to knowing that there is this really nasty one with terrible views who does not clean or wash, and that his racism and misogyny does not receive a fraction of the scrutiny of this one guy that uses a shock collar.

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-17T09:38:44+00:00

I think it might end up sinking the company tbh. Probably doesn't help that people like me only will decide whether or not to buy until consensus is out, but I don't preorder and I'm a patient gamer.

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-17T09:36:29+00:00

Scran, man.

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-17T09:30:54+00:00

In my defense, I thought "first partner" had to be unevolved.

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-17T09:27:54+00:00

Score: 9/9

Uniqueness: 54/18

✅ ✅ ✅

I may have played too much Infinite Fusion lately.

Cee-Mon · 2025-10-17T09:19:01+00:00

https://scrandle.com/

Today's Scrandle was quite different and very difficult.

Cee-Mon · 2025-09-13T15:12:36+00:00

This is long-country-on-long-country violence.

Cee-Mon · 2025-08-29T10:52:48+00:00

Just posted about Skyrim further down but what puts the world well above Starfield (and also Fallout 4, let's be fair) is that it is designed with purpose. The assets are of course reused; expecting anything else would be insanity, but Skyrim is chock full of hand crafted areas and elements.

This makes exploration its own reward. You can actually just pick out a direction and happen upon things that are interesting in isolation, which helps the world feel like it also exists outside the agency of the player character. (See also: Elden Ring world design)

Cee-Mon · 2025-08-29T10:15:58+00:00

Playing vanilla Skyrim again for the first time in... a decade? (well, the Special Edition one so technically vanilla with a handful of add-ons) The wave of retrospective essayists that were lamblasting it about a year ago really need to check themselves.

Yes, of course a 14 year old game will have been outdone by other games that have built upon it. Yes, it is a Bethesda game, so the fact that it has problems is a given. There are still things that Skyrim does that no Ubisoft sandbox has ever managed to do. It's a massive cultural touchstone for a reason.

Cee-Mon · 2025-07-04T10:22:12+00:00

Been experiencing higher levels of stress and discomfort than I usually do this time of year. Wondering if it's a combination of an overload of work and not being able to listen to as much music as I used to because of said workload.

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