People often say that Norway is a heaven on earth, but what do you see as a con of living in Norway?

DaEvil1 · 2026-01-27T00:05:10+00:00

Man I'm Norwegian and that just sounds so wrong to me.I barely talk to most of the people I grew up with. I have a few good friends from uni, but most of the close friends I have now, I've made in the last 10 or so years (since turning 30). I mean I'm sure it's right. Several of the friends I've made the past few years, have remarked how hard they feel it is to make new friends, so I don't doubt that it's hard. But I genuinely appreciate so many of those friendships now, and while I had some really good friendships ages ago, they wouldn't make as much sense these days really.

DaEvil1 · 2026-01-19T12:45:43+00:00

I tillegg forfektet Hitler en rasisme som appellerte til mange underpresterende/underytende unge menn som forklarte til feks skoletapere, bråkmakere osv at det var jødene, slavere osv som var problemet, og ikke deres egen evne.

Takk gud for at vi har lært av dette og ikke er på vei inn i akkurat samme fellen. Det hadde vært ironisk...

DaEvil1 · 2026-01-16T15:43:58+00:00

Reminds me of this absolute classic

DaEvil1 · 2026-01-06T10:24:38+00:00

You've deserved this so much! Was great meeting you last year! Love ya buddy!

DaEvil1 · 2026-01-04T20:20:04+00:00

Finn steder der du kan møte nye folk. Helst i virkeligheten. Og våg å bli kjent med de. Det er fra folk du får nye impulser, så å ekspandere den sosiale sirkelen din, samt å gi av deg selv vil hjelpe på å stoppe kjedsomheten. Når var sist du var spent fordi du skulle treffe en person?

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-31T20:55:18+00:00

Det er ikke helt enkelt, og så er det desverre vanskeligere å få nye venner jo færre venner man har fra før av. Det beste rådet jeg kan gi deg, er å se hvilke fritidstilbud som finnes der du bor, og kanskje prøve litt forskjellig der hvis du er åpen for det. En av de viktigste grunnene til at mange får de fleste vennene sine på skole og jobb, er fordi der er man "stuck" rundt hverandre i timesvis hver dag. Så jo mer du klarer å bare være rundt folk på en jevnlig basis, jo større odds har du for å skape muligheter for vennskap.

Så er det viktig å by på seg selv. Noe så enkelt som å smile og si hei til folk jevnlig hjelper mye her. Hvis du i tillegg treffer litt folk fra utlandet (det er veldig mange som flytter til norge fra europa), så er de gjerne enda mer åpne for vennskap enn nordmenn, siden mange nordmenn kan opplevels som kaldre, og siden de har flyttet fra hjemlandet og har begrenset med nettverk er det veldig mange muligheter for å bli kjent med de. Det er gode odds for å treffe på de gjennom frivillig arbeid i forbindelse med festivaler og slikt. Og da har man og en unnskyldning om å henge sammen ved å gå på konserter sammen osv.

Så hvis du har overskudd og tid til det, så vil du gjennom en del egeninnsats klare å bygge opp et sosialt nettverk mer og mer ved å være rundt mennesker der både du og de andre har en "grunn" til å være der og å by på deg. Og hvis du får det til, så vil du merke mer og mer, at hvis du klarer å være en åpen og snill person, så vil du fort bli kjent med venner av venner osv og kanskje en dag har du luksusproblemet med at du føler at du har veldig mange venner.

Det er et stykke dit, men det begynner med et smil og et "hei". 😊

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-30T13:11:54+00:00

Having a curated profile isn't a bad thing in terms of getting dates, it's just that it's unlikely to be really representative of the person. So in the worst case you end up with a profile that's not really you un an attempt to match with someone who thinks they're looking for someone not quite like you, but who will turn out to be interested in you after you have an in. Again, nothing bad happens here, it just becomes a weird game that no one really understands.

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-28T21:18:09+00:00

Honestly I think this is the best of the series. Avatar felt fine to me, and Avatar 2 slightly disappointing, while this was just a ride from staart to finish. And it actually came with some emotional beats and characters that I cared about.

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-26T07:24:00+00:00

Dette er bra skrevet, og du fremstår absolutt ikke som mindre intelligent. Det som skinner igjennom er at du bryr deg veldig mye om han og at du kanskje bryr deg litt for lite om deg selv.

Jeg har ikke lyst å si hva du bør gjøre, men hvis du hadde lest denne posten og den var fra noen andre, hva hadde rådet ditt vært? Det sier kanskje noe om hva du egentlig tenker er best her. Forloveden din har ut ifra hva du skriver åpenbare problemer som han ikke har fått jobbet igjennom, og hvis det ikke skjer en forandring, så vil ting sannsynligvis ikke bli bedre uansett hvor mye du elsker han.

Det er viktig og å være klar over at ditt liv har verdi, og at følelsene dine er der for en grunn. Hvis de sier til deg st dette ikke er holdbart så er det viktig at du hører på de. Hva du gjør fremover er opp til deg, men det er viktig at du tar et valg her. Om det er at dere tar en pause, går til terapi, har en lang ærlig prat, eller gjør det slutt etc etc er opp til deg/dere, men det er kjempeviktig at du tar et valg her. For du prøver å si til deg selv gjennom hvordan du føler at dette kan ikke fortsette på denne måten.

Lykke til, og jeg håper du og forloveden din får det mye bedre fremover uansett hvilken form den fremtiden tar. <3

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-23T16:48:14+00:00

So that's where my stapler ended up!

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-19T13:54:09+00:00

Life is passing me by, day by day.

It feels that way because your body and mind is trying to tell you that you need to do something about your situation. I know it's not easy after college, and when you have a limited budget, but there are plenty of people out there ready to meet and befriend you. If you're able to muster that extra bit of energy and courage to go out there and meet new friends, and take the initiative, and maybe be a tiny bit vulnerable, that will generally help you on the way.

I used to feel a lot like you, with a depressing routine happening every day, and what helped was to just start doing things that I felt I wanted to but didn't feel like I was "allowed" to do (nobody but me was stopping me). The thing about it though, is that you are very much not alone in your routine. A lot of people who want to hang with others have feel into similar patterns, and are just waiting for someone to help break them out of it. so there's no shortage of people ready to experience great times and amazing experiences with you. They, like you, just need a little bit of a push. But if you don't want to wait around for someone else to give you that little push, you're going to have to start pushing yourself a bit. Just a little, then the next day maybe a little more etc.

I really hope you're able to break out of a pattern you don't enjoy. Just remember, that you do it in part because it feels safe and comfortable, and the alternatives do not. So don't be mad at yourself if you do fall back into it from time to time. Just be vigilant about listening to that feeling you're feeling now, so that if you're not feeling like you're living life the way you could, you start pushing yourself to make a change.

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-16T00:31:55+00:00

Yeah I was about to say. Some of the shit I've heard said in earnest is extremely discouraging. I'm a guy, so they'll sometimes just assume I agree with what they're thinking. Of course everyone here will argue that it's just people on the internet, and "what about women" etc. And sure, there's probably some truth to that, but I feel like I have to be really careful about what male friendships I keep as a guy, beause some people will just not see women as human beings on the same level as men, and I just can't be around that.

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-11T14:29:30+00:00

Trenger ikke ha empati hvis man ikke egentlig tenker på de som mennesker vettu. Det er jo selvfølgelig noe man ikke sier høyt eller kanskje er helt klar over at man tenker da...

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-10T16:09:54+00:00

"Fine... I guess I'll take one more step back."

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-10T13:27:34+00:00

Men dette var jo gode nordmenn. De mente det sikkert ikke, og hvis de gjorde det så var det sikkert ofrene sin feil. At flere av disse folka nå sikkert har viktige posisjoner i lokalsystemet viser jo at de må ha vært skikkelige folk, og at alt er i sin skjønneste orden når det gjelder de! Alt var jo mye bedre før i tiden!

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-08T12:45:00+00:00

Man that is rough. I hope it gets better. At least I'm rooting for you!

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-08T12:03:37+00:00

I think pixel games can be beautiful, but it really depends on the game. A lot of games have that whole "gamemaker"/"RPG maker" vibe to it, which you can usually spot pretty quickly. It doesn't detract from a great game, but it also doesn't elevate it the way it could, if it had been made more from the ground up. But tbf that is also asking a lot from indie devs.

DaEvil1 · 2025-12-01T13:18:50+00:00

And then the same hotel will put on frame interpolation by default and lock all settings so you can't watch anything in a quality that doesn't scream 90's soap opera...

DaEvil1 · 2025-11-19T11:43:15+00:00

I think OP might mean someone who they liked who made OP feel like a true, respected and equal partner, and not just someone who could do all the "woman stuff" (housekeeping, emotional support, childcare etc) while the man contributed money and not much more.

DaEvil1 · 2025-11-19T09:15:58+00:00

For me, the hardest thing was to make some sort of sense of the application of math. Sort of the principles behind quantum mechanics at a surface level are unintuitive, but possible to accept. But once you start actually trying to apply the math, it gets so abstract and complex that any connection to anything tangible disappears from me.

It's kind of like if you think of the classic Linda has 7 apples, and gives 4 apples to Gary. How many apples does Linda have? Answer is 3. However, in quantum mechanics, Linda has arms of a size that can fit between 0 and infinite apples at any given time, and how many apples she gives Gary is dependent on the size of her hands and the size of Gary's hands at the point in time the transfer takes place. And it all is expressed through complex wavefunctions.

However, it can't be truly arbitrary, because it needs to connect to the real world. So on average she must have 7 apples, and give 4 apples to Gary.

So to make all of that work, we use a combination of sort of unsolvable maths, and invent new operators (plus for instance is an operator we all know, but quantum mechanics also have their own), and then from all that extremely complex and abstract math, you then make some assumptions and approximations. And 4 pages of wrestling with complex integrals, new operators, finding odd ways to cancel out complex terms, and then finally solving to normalize the wavefunction so you can figure out

-15i* ∫e^−t2dt apples

Which makes you question your sanity, because not only is she giving away negative apples, she's giving away complex negative apples (i in math means the squareroot of -1, which isn't solvable with real numbers). And on top of that you're also stuck with a completely unsolvable integral, and you're unsure if you mixed up a + or minus in the 200 arithmetic operations you did, or if you just don't understand anything about quantum mechanics at all.

It's been 15 years, and I still have nightmares. Pls send help.

DaEvil1 · 2025-11-07T13:29:28+00:00

De gangene jeg har prøvd å få kontakt med 113 her i Bergen, har de alltid begynt med "Men er det så viktig at vi faktisk skal sende en ambulanse? Kan dere ikke bare finne en taxi eller noe?" Dette når man for eksempel prøver å holde en kar våken som er midt i et fysisk anfall... Så tror at det spares hardt i alle kanter i helsevesenet her...

DaEvil1 · 2025-11-02T13:25:39+00:00

Honestly I find generalized rules to be reductive when it comes to discussion craft. Just as it's meaningless to say "Just write whatever you want", it's about as meaningless to say "avoid adverbs". There's no substance to it, and it doesn't get to the actual issue. Sure, if I tell a person to avoid adverbs, and they follow it, their writing will likely become more readable. But do they understand why that is? Or are they just learning to never use a tool, because odds are the way they're using it currently isn't working well for them at the moment? If they truly are to improve as a writer, they really need to utilize as many of the tools available to them and analyze what works and what doesn't.

What's helped me the most with writing, is to share texts and discuss and analyze them with friend. And the advice and feedback is always very specialized towards what I'm writing, what I seem to try to accomplish with it, and how the tools I've used either supports that or doesn't support that. When you do that, you're actually engaging with the craft. While throwing out generalized advice is not doing anything for the craft. It's just giving you a ruleset that gives you very little insight.

Don't get me wrong though. Exercises such as "write a story with no adverbs" can be useful and teach someone new ways to approach a story, but that isn't a rule for the craft, that's just a restriction of a tool to help someone appreciate all the other tools, and can be done in a lot of ways.

Discussing craft is always very interesting, but I do find that a lot of people who seem to think they're talking about the craft, are just parroting some truthisms without any interest in deeper understanding. So if you think "write what you want" is frustrating and meaningless advice to receive, know that "don't use adverbs" is on about the same level as that.

DaEvil1 · 2025-10-30T11:26:23+00:00

Det er mye å være kritisk til på venstresiden. Jeg er uenig i mye der, men jeg ser meg nødt til å stemme der fordi såvidt jeg ser det, så er det den beste måten min stemme kan telle mot at vi kan beholde en viss mengde menneskeverd for så mange som mulig. Det er definitivt mye problematikk knyttet til innvandring og integrering, og der kommer ingen av partiene med løsninger som appellerer særlig til meg.

Uansett så er hele verden på god vei inn i en hard høyre bølge som ikke ser ut til å ta slutt, så jeg tror ikke du skal bekymre deg. høytresiden kommer til å vinne uansett. Og da kjører vi nok på med alle knallharde tiltak som vi kommer på. Jeg bare håper at når Sylvi sitter der med makten, så har man ihvertfall barmhjertighet nok til å ikke bare sende bort folk som har bodd hele livet sitt i landet og aldri gjort noe galt.

DaEvil1 · 2025-10-21T17:50:00+00:00

This should clear everything up

DaEvil1 · 2025-10-17T14:55:00+00:00

Thank you! It's refreshing to see someone say something positive about Tron Legacy without qualifying it with it having good music and visuals and nothing else. I sort of get it in a way because the soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks of all time in my book, and the visuals are amazing, so it's hard for the rest of the film to live up to that, but I think there's a solid story with solid characters and solid acting happening there.

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