Sitting at Arlanda airport. Can confirm that WiFi is indeed free.

While talking about airports. I got to reserve a seat on row 13, which is a first for me.

It's basically not a reserved seat, you get to choose seat when you book your flight.

The fact that row 13 still does not exist on some planes makes it embarrassing to be human.

I'm so fresh you can...

Not gonna go there.

Translation by bearhug: Least street in Scandinavia

With approval from the sleeping guy, the video is now back in public, with over 300k views.

I'm probably open during easter, but I'm not sure if I have the budget to pay for flights and accomodation. All my summerjob money went into rent and the trip to Sweden.

I also have to factor in that I rarely ever get to see my family, and might end up doing that during easter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

For having world-leading music producers and superior comedians?

*Loads gun*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_(production_team)

http://www.businessinsider.com/norway-has-more-money-than-it-knows-what-to-do-with-2013-9

http://i.imgur.com/PMzNacI.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/tAC0vpe.jpg

In terms of internet success, I don't see how screaming about foxes is any worse than screaming at Happy Wheels...

It was supposed to be 3 minutes of filler content for their talkshow (they've been doing comedy in Norway for like 13 years). It ended up about where it is now: 21 million views, number 29 on Billboard. The show sometimes comes with some funny interviews, but I watch it for the videos they do. Like today, their interviews weren't that interesting, but they did a moderately funny prank video where they trapped people in an IKEA exhibition: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSUkG7wXzEw

I like to think that people who lose more, rage more. The video also seems to make no difference between teamwork and not raging. A player doesn't necessarily play well with the rest of the team just because he's not an asshole.

That said, raging not helping your game has been known way before LoL even existed, probably before computers existed as well. Pretty much any sport/game, team or not, raging will always detract from your chances of winning. This is even the case in sports where "anger" is quite normal (fighting sports comes to mind).

Then again, rage is something that can happen to anyone, like me when playing volleyball with people who suck at it.

This is amazing!

So I got into the Strife beta recently, and have played a few games. For those of you who don't know what Strife is, it's the new Dota-style (A.S.S.F.A.G.G.O.T.S) game from S2 (the guys behind Heroes of Newerth). The game is focused on casual play and they seem to be focusing on keeping "toxicity" to a minimum.

The toxicity thing is a big thing for this game. You can't see how many times your allies have died and all-chat is disabled until the game is over. There's also a lot of simplifying done to this game. Players near each other share gold from last-hits, everyone has their own courier, there's out-of-combat regen (both HP and MP) and the item system is greatly simplified.

The gameplay is OK. It's not slow, there's definitely stuff going on all the time and because of the regen and a small map, you don't have much downtime. What I find annoying is that characters with movement abilities, seem to be far better than characters without something similar. There's also this weird progression system that I find really awkward. You can level up a pet to make it better which is fine, but then you get this "crafting" system where you can change the base stats of a recipe item and add extra bonuses. I don't get how this works yet.

Okay so after having played this game a bit more, I can tell that I really don't like the progression system. That said, I'm a person who prefers there to be no progression system at all. The game should be fun enough on its own to not need any forced external goals.

I'll use the crafting system as an example. The crafting system allows you to spend ores (one of three currencies gained after each fight or through spending money) to change the recipe of an item to get different base stats on that item, or keep it the same. Why would you keep it the same? because no matter if you change it or not, you will still get up to three different bonuses for that item (one common, one rare, and one legendary). You can use elixirs (a different currency) to enchant these items, improving the items bonuses or getting a bonus of a higher tier if you've upgraded the lower one to max. From what I've seen so far, all of these bonuses simply boost some stats of the item by either a flat amount or a percentage, in some cases you just get a new stat tacked onto your item. What's really annoying with this system is that the custom items expire after about 2 weeks (the amount of time varies).

Now I can see what they want with this, they want to make sure that no resource is basically worthless after having played the game for a long while. Again, I think the gameplay itself should be the reason for playing a game, not trying to upkeep slightly upgraded items. Even though I dislike it, pointless progression is a thing some people want in games, and who am I to argue with that. What annoys me with this system, is that it forces the player into a hero role by making it really time-consuming to get to a point where you can play all roles optimally. The runes and masteries in LoL do the same thing, but what S2 has done here is make that system infinite. If you decide to go for a month of vacation, you will come back to a severely weakened profile.

There is of course the argument that F2P games need these kinds of things to earn money. Dota 2 shows that you don't need it, and Path of Exile shows that you don't need to be a big developer to accomplish it.

And WE'RE BACK!

This time we hit /r/ireland

http://www.reddit.com/r/ireland/comments/2gy1me/norwegian_choir_sings_the_rocky_road_to_dublin/

Some people I play with on teamspeak may have noticed that I play a lot of Binding of Isaac, and that I've started racing this game. There's a weekly tournament being hosted called Balls of Steel, and this weekend I'm in it! Would be super cool if any of you guys felt like watching me go fast as sanic. Races start 4AM EDT, will update with more information whenever I get it.

This is what happens when I'm in a hurry.

The tournament is this weekend. starting on saturday. There will be races on both saturday and sunday, I've currently not gotten any info about the schedule or brackets.

Check out ballsofsteel.tv for general information about the tournament and twitch.tv/bostv for the actual stream when the time comes.

Clumsily fought my way through the first round. Will be back for quarterfinals tomorrow.

So I got invited to the beta. Wondering if anyone else got in, so I don't have to be lonely when I play the shit out of it throughout the weekend.