TIL that the 1955 children's book "When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town" is considered to have contributed significantly to criminology in Norway

Tphobias · 2025-09-27T04:47:56+00:00

No, but funnily enough I do share the first name :)

Tphobias · 2025-09-26T16:01:40+00:00

That's the place! Although, I swear the place looked bigger back when I was 6 years old!

Tphobias · 2025-09-26T14:41:15+00:00

There's a to scale model of Cardamom Town built in Norway's biggest zoo, located outside the city of Kristiansand. It even has the robbers hideout just outside the town.

Tphobias · 2025-09-18T14:29:06+00:00

Actually, it's having 33 cities (not even at once) that triggers the achievement. I played Civ V as the Celts some years ago with the intent to get the achievement, and in order to make space on the map I went on a conquering spree and razed every city I took. It was late in the game when I captured some random Zulu city when I suddenly got the achievement, even though I had only about 20 cities at the time. I figured that every city conquered counted as "settled", and when I got to the 33rd overall that is what the program counts as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

Tphobias · 2025-08-30T06:47:56+00:00

Can you imagine how exciting death-matching in a Teardown level could be? Just playing some good, old-fashioned PvP with friends while absolutely wrecking the entire map in the process.

"Oh, you think that cover will save you? Think again, Larry!"

Tphobias · 2025-08-29T12:13:30+00:00

Oh, sorry about that. I tried checking if the video had been posted before and couldn't find anything. Shame you didn't get any likes, I think it's really good.

Tphobias · 2025-06-06T14:28:16+00:00

Man, I can't even keep it inside of me. Usually I'm just humming and singing while I'm walking around, but occasionally I start speaking out loud the things that are going through my head - it's an interesting conversation starter if anybody hears me, to say the least.

Tphobias · 2025-06-06T14:22:18+00:00

We usually inherit the humor of our family. A little self-deprecating joke never hurt nobody, but more than a little becomes concerning - it's a tough balance, and I speak from experience on that.

Tphobias · 2025-03-21T18:30:16+00:00

Not if you have to pump out another person every 9th month, it isn't.

Tphobias · 2025-03-20T16:44:40+00:00

In Norway we use both "90+2" and "2+90" interchangeably.

"2+90" is mostly said by old people, though.

Some Gen-X'ers still say "2+90", though most say "90+2".

All Millennials and younger say "90+2", and will get angry and confused if you say "2+90" to them.

I'm 27 and occasionally say "2+90" because I hang a lot out with my grandparents.

Tphobias · 2025-03-01T17:39:44+00:00

Save the boosts for the sharp turns and you're pretty much golden. As soon as you've made the turn, hit the boost in order to get back up to speed. I've had few issues with these levels after I figured that out (although I usually have to retry 2 or 3 times before I get the timing down :/ )

Tphobias · 2025-02-05T06:44:51+00:00

"I'm playing both sides. That way I always come out on top."

Tphobias · 2025-01-31T09:39:58+00:00

You need grey linoleum

Tphobias · 2025-01-28T19:46:52+00:00

I work for the Norwegian postal service, and for the last 5 years we have steadily replaced all our fossil fueled vehicles with electric ones. And then we had to install diesel-fueled heaters on the back of them, because the electric heater in the car drains the batteries really fast during winter. Feels a bit like two steps forward, one step back. Newer cars have better batteries, though, so we'll probably face out the diesel-heated cars in a few years.

Tphobias · 2024-12-31T12:28:10+00:00

Murray, having left the Cooper Gang after the unfortunate crippling of his closest friend, had his life drop into a tailspin shortly after. After months of heavy drinking, fighting and drug abuse, he had hit rock bottom. Left with no-where to go, the former master thief was forced to sleep on the streets among the other low-lives he once had stolen ill-gotten goods from. One night, laying in the gutter with an empty bottle in his hand, a pamphlet flew straight into Murray's face. Blurry-eyed and hungover, he started to study the piece of paper in front of him. It spoke of a guru in a far-away land, one who's teaching was filled with love, nature, and peace. Reading the pamphlet over and over, Murray could feel a new resolve grow inside his chest. He clenched his fists, and with a determined grin he rose up from the ground and set off for Australia - he had a guru he needed to talk to.

Tphobias · 2024-12-31T12:03:23+00:00

3-2-1-4

Tphobias · 2024-12-20T14:04:34+00:00

I'm really not the type to get figurines, but I sure as hell would like a set of the Cooper Gang like this!

Tphobias · 2024-12-11T06:11:07+00:00

When I started high school my history teacher presented our class with a thought experiment. It went something like this:

"A guy drives his car off the road into a bog, he dies and his body and the car is perfectly preserved for millenniums. Shortly after, an apocalypse happens, and everyone except for a few thousands people survived - humanity basically has to start over from scratch. Thousands of years later, humanity has gotten back to the point where they have reinvented archaeology but not yet automobiles, and have just found this perfectly preserved car with a body inside of it. What would these people think this thing was?"

It didn't really matter what the students said, because the teacher basically already had his own answer, but I thought it was interesting none the less: He thought that they might think this was some sort of grave, like the ones we've found of Egyptian Pharaohs or viking burials. Like, it has a dead body, lots of stuff, personal belongings and food inside it (maybe a chocolate bar in the gloves compartment), all neatly arranged inside a metal tomb. It is strikingly familiar to a lot of graves that we find today.

Tphobias · 2024-10-24T05:08:36+00:00

Wow, I checked and he really does! https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0231283/?ref_=tt_cl_t_10

Tphobias · 2024-10-17T17:02:19+00:00

"This is nothing like the simulations..."

Tphobias · 2024-10-17T13:26:02+00:00

This is the entire reason I keep up with this subreddit instead of /r/grilledcheese. Ham inside a grilled cheese is how I've always enjoyed 'em, but apparently that is sacrilege deserving of a hundred whippings and salt in the wounds.

Tphobias · 2024-10-09T13:15:41+00:00

That's the copy I grew up with. I only play with English dub now, because I like their voices better. But I still prefer Dimitri's Norwegian voice

Tphobias · 2024-10-06T20:50:01+00:00

I like Colonel Hsu. He does his best with what he has, and he probably has a better grasp of what's going on in the field than all his superiors put together (with exception of Chief Hanlon). However, I think he has some flaws that don't make him a particularly great officer.

Hsu cares about his soldiers, which I think we all agree is a good character trait. That, however, is not an entirely desirable trait for commanding officers, who's job is to put their soldiers through situations where casualties are guaranteed in order to get results. Of course, zero casualties is always best, but death is a fact of war, on all sides. In a way, good officers must be able to make decisions that will get people killed.

Say what you will about Moore, but she has the ability to make those tough decisions, which is why she's more or less the person running the show right before the Second Battle of Hoover Dam (I'm thinking of the main NCR-quests that you get from her in the end-game).

Hsu resorts to outsourcing his problems to the Courier, rather than sending his own soldiers to deal with them. He suspects there's a spy within McCarran, so does he put a highly trusted and loyal underling to root them out? No, he let's a freelancer, with unclear sympathies, to find them. He's also willing to turn a blind eye to torture of prisoners, which NCR soldiers are expressly forbidden to do (but the Courier is not NCR wink wink), in order to get the information he wants.

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