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No, and i had no idea.

That camel is a fucking tank holy shit.

I've heard the unity version is very good if you like old school wandering around doing quests stuff.

I believe so. And they also fixed dungeon generation so they can't spawn impossible to complete

Iirc the procedural generation is different from most modern proceedural game's. The proceedural generation was done by the devs to populate the world, but the overworld agaik is the same for everyone. I don't remember if the dungeons are randomized or jot

ERI'm not familiar with Kvens. Are they an ethnic group in that region?

Whenever Sami people come up I like to stand Adrian Angelico, a Sami man, opera singer, and all around cool dude.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3vw3cDK0wRg

Remember Sami people, too. Indigenous Europeans who have long been subjected to anti-indigenous violence by northern Euros.

This is weird to me because Norway does have a lot of really gorgeous fjords and whatnot.

The far north really is witchy and strange though. Like legitimately. The sun goes sideways around the world at summer soletice and doesn't really rise at all for winter solstice, and above the Arctic circle it stay in the sky or hides for months at a time. There are giant invisible bears that hunt you. There are two different kinds of unicorn fish. The salmon runs are the heartbeat of the world. Some of the only non-tropical rainforests are in the Pacific Northwest. Depending on how you reckon it Denali is the tallest mountain in the world. The auroras are a regular sight in the sky. The magnetic pole wanders around like a drunkard. Orcas are almost certainly watching us and thinking strange dolphin thoughts. The ravens are smart enough to know what days of the week the trash is taken out and will be waiting for it with eager anticipation. More than most places half ton mega fauna is a routine problem that people have grown used to dealing with.

This is all based on my experiences with Alaska, but having more or less grown up in the remote, isolated north (in the "big city" of Anchorage) when I'm in the lower 48 most of it, especially between the Appalachians and the Rockies, looks like a post apocalyptic wasteland. Farmland is dead land, flattened and stripped of all life to be paved over with monocrops, cattle land is dead land, huge chunks of the South East are overrun with invasives, the whole world is a network of flat, endless highways and soulless cloned strip malls and chain stores.

Alaska is a completely different world in ways i cannot adequately describe to someone who hasn't spent extensive time there. It's not magical, it just hasn't been paved flat by industrial capitalism. It still has wild animals in dense populations. Theres still an integration of the "natural" and human worlds where it's just one world that we all live in - the people, the bears, the eagles, the squirrels, the salmon, the halibut, the orcas, the moose, the whales, the ptarmigans. There's no distinctive line between the human and natural world, there's just the world. There's still active geological formation happening with the glaciers and a few volcanos, and there was much more of that i. The 20th century as the slow death of the glaciers really changed parts of the landscape. There's mosquitoes in a way that people down south have never really experienced no matter how bad they think their bugs are. Even before deet the mosquitoes in the lower 48 never dimmed the sun.

Again, it's not magic, it's just very, very different from life in most of the lower forty eight. There really isn't anywhere on the continent as shockingly lush, dense, and green as the Pacific Northwest in the summer. You have to go all the way down to the jungles in the lower Yucatan to find forests like that again. You mostly just don't see bears regularly in the lower forty eight and mostly don't have to teach kids near safety or how to deal with moose.

Compared to Ohio it might as well be Narnia. So, it seems pretty natural to me to exoticize the far north. It really is extremely exotic to most euros, to the point of being pretty alien when you consider the extremes of dark and light or some of the very weird landscapes like the tundra, proper mountains, rainforests, fjords.

They're one of those groups whose whiteness is very conditional. And Sami people aren't white at all, being indigenous and very much treated as indigenous by colonial Sweden and Finland.

I've heard many a psychologist and therapist lament that the actual treatment their patient needs is money for rent.

Well shit. Last I'd heard it was showing effectiveness in about 85% of cases.

I legit think the reason for the decline of observed effectiveness is that as psych treatment has become more widely available they're running in to a much higher number of people whose symptoms are caused by either more severe traumas or more intractable socio economic circumstances than ssris can overcome.

Might fuck around and make brutal Stardew valley, which is just like regular Stardew valley but the soundtrack is lofi covers of E1M1 and for some reason you harvest everything with a chainsaw.

If all you have is a needle, thread, and old sofas then a fop is a good thing to be