So, most of you might've heard that President Barack Obama is currently in Norway, receiving the Nobels Peace Prize, for something he's yet to do. Which to me seems a little odd, and is possibly mostly contributed to Thorbjørn Jagland, head of the Nobel Committee, trying to soak up some of Obama's glory for himself after somewhat failing as our Prime Minister.

But anyway, while Obama getting a prize for something he hasn't done yet strikes me as odd, what strikes me as downright pathetic is all the American Christian demonstrators who assembled outside the Royal Palace this morning when Obama was going to meet King Harald in person. Bearing signs going "Homo Sex is Sin!" and "Hitler was wrong killing the Jews! You are wrong for supporting abortion!".

One of the Americans went ahead and said:
"Is this Germany? Is this Nazism? Is this Iraq, or Iran? You guys don't have free speech, and one of the reasons for it is because you're all neutered. Where's the backbone? Why are noone fighting against this? It's incredible!"
- Ruben Israel, Demonstrator

Here's the video from ABC News: [link]
The demonstrators appear at 00:45

I can't help but think of this as a far smaller (luckily) version of the Washington 9/12 "Tea Party": [link]

Why are so many Americans against better healthcare, abortion and gay rights, and so much else? While ironically having a preconception towards Weapons of Mass Destruction...

For your interest, yes, we do have free speech in Norway - It's just that most Norwegians (at least all the ones I know over here) are modern and intellectual enough people to understand that Abortion isn't wrong, and that gays aren't evil, and by saying so, you're more likely to be met with laughter; for supporting primitive and narrow ideaologies meant to scare small-minded people.
In fact, I dare say Norway as well as other well-to-do countries in Europe, such as the Netherlands, are far more free countries than the US is, or ever has been. At least it seems that Norwegians are more content with what we have than the Americans at what they have.

(This, however, should not be taken offensively by Americans who aren't on terms with these things, so my apologies if they're taken as such, this is only against those who for some reason believe abortion is evil and gays are the "advocates of the devil"...)

/endrant



PS: I might do a kiriban for view nr. 10.000! If anyone anyone catches it, do note or comment with a screenshot! :3

(That most of you won't have to care the least about, btw, just need to vent cause I'm childish and tired! 8D; )

First, the important stuff first, tomorrow I'll have my first day o' work for the coming months till I start at school in January to retake the courses I failed in High School XD; (Yeah, I know, shut it nao >:U )



The rant? Is about PC-gaming, so most of you prolly want to stop reading at this point.. XD

Infinity Ward and their newest title. What happened to you, IW? You used to come out with the non-shitty CoD titles unlike... Treyarch, which basically fucked you over. Now you're screwing yourselves over by "console-ising" the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 to a ridiculous level of a watered down port, as well as making the single player, what, 4-6 hours long? Even VALVe's Half-Life 2 episodes are that length (One by one!)

Kinda surprising it's -that- short considering how the trailers show: Terrorists in a civilian airport (here, lulz at Australia), a hectic scenario climbing a cliffside during a blizzard, a fast-paced snowmobile chase, a underwater scene with military SCUBA divers, and of course the prettyful scenes showing Washington DC itself under attack by Ultra-Nationalist Russians (I.e wanna-be Soviets). To me that sounds like it should get into a average game-length of 10-12 hours or longer, but then again, story-telling in games seem to decline these days.

I'd love to see this short campaign for myself, but it's the slaughter of the multi-player that makes me rage inside. I myself wasn't that hyped for this (I am rarely hyped by games these days anyway), so it's not about the game itself, it's about the principle and what this will do for PC-gaming as a whole. They removed the menu console, mods, the dedicated servers, the server-browsing, and made it so it's only max 9v9 players (Not that I care for clans one bit, but I do prefer large heated battles online, not a pissy skirmish). In short, they removed everything that makes PC-multiplayer superior to console-multiplayer.

EDIT: The point being that seeing how Modern Warfare 2 has hit the record of having the most pre-order sales to date, more developers might get hit by the Stupid-flu and do the -exact- same things... To console players and -especially- the morons who bought the PC version of MW2, thanks for putting a fatal dent in PC gaming!

Sadly, yes, I'm a PC-elitist. I'm not saying I look down on console-players, not at all. But, the difference is, like a guy wrote a few days ago and I'd consider him a saint for saying it that way: "Consoles are merely separate past-times, while the PC is a way of life"...

Sorry for being completely shitty and ranty, just had to say it -somewhere- : |

I'm gonna work on art nao, k? <3

...who've invaded my cash! >: U

Anyway, lack of updates the last month can conclude in this journal; I'm joining my five siblings to London, and we'll be there from the 10th to the 14th. :3

Further on this happy note, we'll be meeting =Dozaloz and ~Beenz0 on Sunday in the Britland capital!

*Excitement abounds, as well as the cataclysmic event which will dwarf the Great Fire of London and leave nothing but a scorched, smoking crater in its former place!*
8D

I'm back from Oslo, where I went last Thursday to see a handful of awesome friends again, because we were supposed to go to a reunion thing on the Saturday, but about in the evening on the Friday, we heard it was moved to the Friday and that we were already late... so we just basically said "Screw it, we'll have our reunion perfectly well without 98% of the students!".. Over the last week I think we've seen about 20 DVD's or not far off that number. XD

On a related sidenote, about last weekend I can actually say I was drunk (at least semi-so) and had a hangover for the first and only time in my life... It was interesting! Though the headache that resulted from that was something I could've gone without... Stupid alchohol.. : <

All my DA messages are dated to having been posted "Moments ago".. What's up with that? : o
Also wtf is up with MSN!? Work damn you! WORK!
Maybe I should download the new version! I will go do that, brb!

So, my birthday was a few days ago, on the 3rd xP
It was okay, I don't usually do much on my birthday. As long as noone is being obnoxious and I make myself some fries (<3) I'm happy, really xD
I slept for quite some time due to sleeping in from the LAN-party this last weekend

I tend to treat it like any other day, honestly : / Except, of course, I get congratulated and monay xD Not so much on the gift department, as for... the last five years or so I've been nearly unable to name one single thing I actually want.. xD
I seem to struggle with that : P

Thanks to everyone who remembered, and also to those who didn't. :3
Love you guys <3