Taking Norwegian in uni next semester cause vikings are fuckin cool and METAL

Thanks m8

>How would one design a setting around Norway?

Start by prepping the bull.

Epic blog, reddit-kun!

a shame Veeky Forums doesn't have a myfarog general, it's actually a pretty decent game.

>inb4 b-b-but muh varg so rayciss muh feelings

I was in a great LARP for that game last year. It was a lot of fun, 5 of the 6 players said it was probably the best game they had ever played, and the sixth player was just butthurt desu.

>the sixth player was just butthurt desu.
he was the rape victim then

MYFAROG is garbage, like most Viking fanwank in general. Your beloved Varg just stuck a pile of charts and tables onto his political beliefs and called it a game, ironically making it very similar in design to FATAL, and about as worthwhile. It would have barely registered if it wasn't for the notoriety of the author.

Historically communist government that doesn't actually enforce communist economic measures but still promotes marxist cultural values
economy that's entirely reliant on cooperating with the world's main superpower and selling them oil.
Isolated urban communities
Terrible roadway system
Extremist but laughably irrelevant nationalist subfaction

>Norway is Sweden

>tfw no class for Norwegian at my college
At least Duolingo has Norwegian.

If it has classes for either Swedish or Danish it basically has classes for Norwegian, the difference between those 3 languages are minor at best.

I took the Swedish Duolingo course for a while before they had Norwegian, so I can see the similarities.

Tripped me up when I tried doing both at the same time since they just kind of blend together, and I frequently made simple mistakes like doing "jag är" instead of "jeg er". Decided to focus on Norwegian after that, but ended up drifting out of it a few months later, since I have practically no discipline when I'm not forced to do something.

What is with you Anons feeling the need to spell out the joke for everyone else?

Forget norway, go to Kenya.
Where the giraffes are, and the zebras.
They've got lions and tigers in Kenya.

Actual, non-meme answer?
There's a game for this, it's called Draug, and is about roleplaying in early 1800s Norway. Heavily based on folklore, and not translated.

If only someone could take a deep love and quite solid understanding of norse and anglo-saxon culture and turn that into a substantial and widely known work of fiction with very solid world-building.

A deep and crushing need to be one of the gang, making them shout "I got it! Me too! I'm one of the cool kids!" every chance they get. Someone takes a sip of jenkem cause lolI'msostupid, and they'll down a pint just to belong. And sadly the rest of us have to live with the smell.

But OP doesn't want any of that. He wants LOL VIKINGS and LE EBIN METUHLLLLL XDDDDDDD

Swedish and Norwegian are a lot more similar to one another than Danish is to either, just fyi.

With the exception that written Norwegian is closer to Danish, because that's largely what it's based on.

That's probably true. Neither of them have any sensible letters like å, ä or ö.

>tfw Americans think these are just 'o's and 'a's with accents that can be freely ignored.

Symbaroum already did it. Only they did it with Sweden (AKA better Norway).

is this bait lol?

>Dimmu Borgir
lmao

No no no, that's finland

>funland
>oil

>Historically communist government
>selling them oil to main world superpower
Friendly reminder that /pol/ and /int/ are not adequate replacements for actual learning.

>Sweden (AKA better Norway)
Delet this

>Terrible roadway system
This better not be coming from an American.

It's what you get when you make an unfunny joke that we've all heard before.

Veeky Forums might have given the game a fair chance if Christian hadn't decided to spam his game on the board every week to the point where Veeky Forums made a game about it.

Like, the modern Norway?
Average norwegian is a bit like a really lefty coastal progressive of the U.S, but with better humour, less retardation and the speak a scandi language.
Out in the countryside, they sometimes have guns, but guns (as in handguns) are almost nonexistent in scandinavia except if you're in a gang.

There are a few biker-gangs in Norway.
They make a lot of moonshine, 'cause alcohol is really expensive.
Also, scandinavian generally wear really subdued colors, compared to almost anywhere else.

Norway's leading party is the same that was promoting communism before WW2
that's why it's historically communist

What do you base this on?

Being Swedish, and finding it far, far easier to understand Norwegian than the porridge-speak of the south.

Yes. It was promoting armed revolution... Before the 1920s. Then it reformed and joined with the social-democrats in 1927.
Seriously... Calling them communists is fucking retarded.

The norwegians do enunciate very clearly, compared to danes. Danes try to not do it at all.

Still, as far as spelling and grammar go, norwegian and danish are much more similar.
Danes just really don't like to... pronounce words, I guess.

>we're a socialist vanguard, not communists!

>we're fabian socialists, not communists!

And said party broke with the Communist International when they refused the Moscow Theses, and dropped all mentions of Communism when they merged with the Social Democrats in 1927. It was a changed party for the 1935 government, and a much changed one later, in the post-Gerhardsen period. The modern, Stoltenberg-Labour is a vastly different party.
Calling Labour "historically communist" is about as useful as calling the Republicans "historically prohibitionist".

AP isn't even in government right now, and haven't been for considerable amounts of time since 1990.
That said, I'm willing to bet that you're /pol/ and won't listen to reason.

Yeah, but Danes and Swedes have a much harder time understanding each other than Norwegians do understanding Danish or Swedish. Norwegian, for historical reasons, is strikingly speaking closer to Danish.

>is about as useful as calling the Republicans "historically prohibitionist".

Given that Republicans were in support of both prohibition and war on drugs I would call calling historically prohibitionists perfectly accurate desu senpai.

>moral framing

>calls it 'reason'

Again - this is news to me. I understand Swedish and Norwegian perfectly well, and I've heard the same said in every possible permutation of "X don't understand Z, but Y understands Z and X just fine and blahblahblah"

Icelandic is much closer to the language vikings would have spoken, just sayin'

People in Iceland can still read the old sagas and stuff in the original Old Norse.

>Sweden (AKA Somalian Norway).
FTFY

>learning a language of no international importance spoken by 5 million
>many of who speak (and produce media/music) in English
>you won't achieve anything approaching fluency anyway

Hope your parents aren't paying for this utter waste of time.

>AP isn't even in government right now, and haven't been for considerable amounts of time since 1990.
They should be, the she-pigs in office have been fucking up for far too long.

Don't worry, if he's taking languages his degree probably won't actually be in a worthwhile field.

I had to take language classes and I got a Computer Engineering degree.

Many colleges require pointless courses in useless fields to keep the illusion that they're producing well-rounded graduates.

>Modern Vikings
>just a bunch of dudes putting on make up and making shitty metal
How the fuck have you made it to uni without growing out of Demon Burger

Myfarog.