You forget to add that the fantastic social welfare state and monopolistic agricultural protection has left us as the highest cost country in the world. Effectively killing off just about all industry and production besides oil, pushing us towards a horrendous fall when the income from oil and gas subsides.

On top of this our socialist governments have led a catastrophic immigration policy, mostly importing people from africa, the middle east and asia with no schooling. Calculated by the government to have a net cost of $700.000 each, this also because of the magnificent welfare state. Mohammed is now the most common name in Oslo, the capital.

Yes, you can fool a lot of people into thinking your policies are good and the governement efficient, when you can throw basically unlimited amounts of money at any issue. The problem arises when there is no money left and all production has moved to lower cost countries.

You're wrong about privatization, the governement holds most stocks in a partly privatized company (Statoil), but its income mainly comes from taxing the production of oil and gas, something that could be done regardless of state ownership, which is ridiculous.

I could go on about how the welfare state as we know it today was largely just a continuation of the policies forced on us by Nazi rule during WW2 (e.g. child support was their idea), but this should be enough to dispell the faery tale you have been told.

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Quoting: Segata Sanshiro

Quoting: fleskProbably not on the top of your list but Norway is starting to get noticed on the indie scene lately with popular games like Teslagrad, Among the Sleep and Savant-Ascent out and Dreamfall: Chapters, Earthlock: Festival of Magic and Shiftlings in production. The company behind Shiftlings is also making Oliver & Spike: Dimension Jumpers, which looks awesome, but it's primarily intended for consoles and there hasn't been any word on Linux support yet.

Norway is a very good idea! Lots of games and a very interesting country as well. That will be top of the list for now, but remains the only country on the list so more ideas welcome!

It is also the worlds most expensive country in every way, I'd steer clear.
Unless you have huge amounts of money to waste that is.
Expect to pay as much for a beer as for a full dinner including drinks in other countries.

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Quoting: Segata SanshiroTrying to decide whether to play this, Book of Unwritten Tales or The Raven next. Any suggestions?

I'd say The Raven.

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To those who think POL "ports" anything, you should take a look at the code base.
Its a unholy mix of shells-scripts and python that uses some helper scripts to install the program in its own WINEPREFIX, add some dlls etc.
I tried to hack it once, but ended up writing my own cli-program in pure python that basically did the same. It was just to much work to try to understand, and it made no sense why it had all that horrid shell code in there.

They do have a nice repository of precompiled wine-versions though.

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Quoting: nlla

Quoting: GoCorinthianshttp://i.imgur.com/TqEzCdg.gif

What a horrible gif. :dizzy:

No. It is hilarious.

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Quoting: DrMcCoyYes, because racism is a-okay, right?

Fuck you, chrisq.

Except that it is NOT racism to JOKE about racial stereotypes.
Just like it is not hatred fueling jokes about stuttering, women, men, thin people, fat people, drinking alcohol, or basically any joke that involves some kind of play on personal characteristics of someone. I would say that kind of joke is a part of 100% of stand-ups or comedy shows I have ever seen.

I would normally return the FU, but in this case you're basically F'ing yourself, so I'll let it be with that: Have fun being furious at the world after watching any piece of comedy, it must be a shit life.

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Quoting: SpeedsterAssuming this review [External Link] is not just a figment of the author's imagination, it's a good thing I didn't rush out and buy this for my Monkey-island-loving family, they would hate the story just like the reviewer...

Actually that review only made me want to play it more. :D

People that are horrified by sexual/racial stereotypes are hilarious to me.
"L's swapped with R's"... Oh the horror! My girlfriend is asian and her english, just like the english of most asians that are not close to native level english is like that. Cry me a river. <3

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Also there are graphics packs that makes it a lot better looking and more inviting to newcomers.
search for dwarf fortress mayday on googles image search and check it out.

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Quoting: KelsMan, Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme [External Link] goes out of its way to be some offensive trash, doesn't it? I guess deviantART members need games too. That one's on my "Not If You Freakin' Paid Me" list.

I don't see how this is offensive unless you're a religious nutcase or insecure in your own sexuality.

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