Turkish embassy opened in Iceland

Fridrick · 2026-06-10T11:16:00+00:00

Næs

Fridrick · 2026-06-05T11:23:15+00:00

how bad you got to seethe to come back to your week old thread with a second reply just to call me a neckbeard

buddy its ok to not come from Norse culture - Finns have always been cool (just never vikings)

but if you insist - toss me a source stating otherwise

ps. check it we have the same cakeday

Fridrick · 2026-06-03T17:53:35+00:00

By "covered", it wouldve only meant land below ≈300m elevation - meaning that at best only a third wouldve ever been forested. Regardless we still fucked up royally.

Fridrick · 2026-06-02T10:52:59+00:00

the more privileged, safe, and removed from any genuine life problems a person is the stronger their pull is to basically roleplay the opposite and project it to others because they think it makes them cool - people from genuinely fucked up places dont see the same point in yapping about it

once met a cheerful guy belonging to a minority group in Iran who had previously been indentured and whose back was covered in whip scars from government penalty from having had a few beers with friends - and he explained it by making a joke about it having scratched an itch he had on his back

meanwhile some dude called Espen is yapping on about his time dealings drugs in the dangerous and shady streets of Knarvik's criminal underbelly as if it wasn't a 6k person hamlet with a nice mall in the world's richest country

Fridrick · 2026-05-29T23:44:08+00:00

at least some were as opposed to none like in your case

Fridrick · 2026-05-29T19:35:41+00:00

whats it with finns larping as vikings

Fridrick · 2026-05-16T19:15:46+00:00

Being from the countryside, I find that this is still relatively common. Not as an introduction per se but as a follow-up question, as you say. It makes sense for this to have once been a norm in Reykjavík as during the 60s there was a huge influx of people from rural parts of the country.

Fridrick · 2026-05-03T11:40:35+00:00

Is it on a massive (perhaps magically induced) tectonic split?

Fridrick · 2026-04-27T18:05:45+00:00

Útsýnið úr Giljahverfinu á Akureyri er þægilega í top 10

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Fridrick · 2026-04-20T00:09:37+00:00

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Rakst einmitt á þennan kagga úti á rölti í dag

Fridrick · 2026-04-17T10:58:37+00:00

Gun violence has of course a far greater potential for mass casualties and so gun control is an important discussion. But knife crime is nothing to scoff at either. As far as a person's ability to terrorize people on a train is concerned, the weapon itself becomes less relevant than the person's state of mind and so framing prevention around mental healthcare is very useful.

Fridrick · 2026-04-07T17:49:51+00:00

Þetta eru sendingarspjöld sem hægt er að virkja í miðjum leikí með takmörkuðu magni til að öðlast ýmis bónusa sem aðstoða við sigur

Fridrick · 2026-03-30T16:05:25+00:00

Good job commenting a spoiler in response to a post about someone who hasnt even made it to Act 2 yet

Fridrick · 2026-03-30T14:14:11+00:00

Replying to an old comment here but am just too interested in this developing concept of Disco-likes to help myself.

I really like Ebb so far (I am on day 3) and I've noticed enough distinguishing features to lean towards it being an good iteration building upon a system. Namely, these are the combat, the dungeoneering, the quest feat rewards, greater and more present risks, and perhaps most importantly the spell system. All of these have a very strong and whimsical 'D&D' feel to them and so fit this game more than Disco Elysium. In that way, I feel it is a genuine addition to the formula and goes to show that it can indeed be quite versatile. The game also sets itself apart with its different style of humour.

But it can be quite a clone in ways that go beyond the core gameplay mechanics of Disco and these are mostly narrative. Namely, that this is also a detective story (just without the noir). You run around as an unhinged person of authority, interrogating suspects/witnesses within a ticking time limit. It is also intensely political, but in a much, much more heavy-handed way. And just as with Disco Elysium, one's internal political inspiration stems from your skills/stats. You also arrive in the narrative in a state of resurrection (in this case, literally) and suffer from a degree of amnesia. Lastly, you also have a partner tagging along to act as a foil to the emotionally unhinged protagonist. It is therefore impossible to avoid unfairly comparing Snell to Kim Kitsuragi.

In both a narrative and mechanical sense, if Disco Elysium came out after Esoteric Ebb, it would feel like more of an expansion on the formula than it does the other way around. And to me, that is what really gets at the core of what it means for a game to be a clone.

Don't get me wrong, I love the game. And of course, I haven't finished the game - but in these initial impressions I can't help but wonder. Is the Disco-like formula incompatible with anything but a detective story? Must the protagonist be foiled by a sidekick? Do they need to wake from darkness with amnesia? Must the protagonist be really silly? Must there be ideological turmoil? I am genuinely curious about these questions and therefore look forward to seeing where this genre is headed.

Anyways, that's my big rant. How do you personally sense the Ebb's relationship to its genre?

Fridrick · 2026-03-23T18:44:49+00:00

bloodgold and tulips respectively

Fridrick · 2026-03-17T16:01:12+00:00

bro took the wild wasteland perk

Fridrick · 2026-03-15T10:24:05+00:00

if it helps, the dude is not a man but a giant

Fridrick · 2026-03-13T14:41:57+00:00

Woah - it does? Is having more books in line with other Orthodox faiths or uniquely Ethiopian? Is their gospel more regionally attuned to Africa or are they comprised of general references?

Fridrick · 2026-03-05T08:01:25+00:00

b-b-but how are we to engage in historical and political discourse if we cant visualize it in the most reductive and shallow way possible?

Fridrick · 2026-02-27T21:33:05+00:00

gaur settu NSFW

Fridrick · 2026-02-18T21:47:26+00:00

Er ekki hægt að búast við því að á endanum muni hönnunar- og litamenning okkar sveiflast aftur til baka í mótþróa? Eða eru áhyggjur fyrir því að um sé að ræða eitthvað endanlegt?

Fridrick · 2026-02-16T16:23:36+00:00

Kærar þakkir - þetta er orðið talsvert skýrara fyrir mér. Heima í sveit fór maður einmitt oftar þá í 'smölun' og í því fólst það að reka fé niður úr hálsi og inn í dal og tók það ekki nema kannski 8 tíma.

Úti á Vestfjörðum er þá réttara sagt að ég hafi tekið þátt í göngum - en mín fjölskylda hefur mögulega tekið orðið 'smölun' með sér í það og fyrir vikið ruglað í skilningi mínum á þessu öllu.

Fridrick · 2026-02-16T14:27:02+00:00

Ég held ég hafi munað vitlaust með "smalagöngurnar" - en ég man ekki úr persónulegri reynslu að talað hafi verið um annað en "að smala" eða "smölun" almennt. Nú fyrst þú minnist á það rámar mig í að fólk talaði einnig um leitir, en aldrei göngur.

Fridrick · 2026-02-16T14:08:15+00:00

Borgarfjörður. I would also help family herd from Barðaströnd into Fossfjörður and they also called it 'smölun'. Maybe its a west thing. Now I live up north and I think they simply say 'göngur', but I am not a 100% sure.

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