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A friend got me into Monster Hunter and now I have nearly 5000 hours split across various games, the bastard. I guess I won't be doing cocaine or gunpla or toy car collecting anytime soon! XD

It's a really great experience, I often say good MH games (that is, MH games in general: bad games are a rarity in this franchise) bring out my three preferred Ms: music, monsters and marvels, the latter one meaning the landscapes, the maps, the exploration. You haven't experienced what kind of comfy immersion can game developers go for until you wander about the Sandy Plains at night to bbq up some Aptonoths and Rhenoplos into steak, and you watch the shooting stars in the night sky. ~~And then you get distracted from the bbq serial griller and you end up with 2x Burnt Meat instead...~~

Started out with 3U. Underwater is great btw, don't listen to people who say it shouldn't return. The first time I tried the game I just Didn't Get It and thought it was not for me.... but man the music was so cool (the Sandy Plains battle music!) and the monster designs (Barioth!) insisted that I should make another try. Grabbed it back after a long break, followed the instructions this time, found a weapon that was to my liking (switchaxe, or as we call it, the Swag Axe), and haven't really stopped much since then. I take good care to backup my saves often as well, juuuuust in case I don't really like to grind hundreds of hours for the most random rewards on the double. By this point the only gen I have not played is Gen1, I've played Dos, FU, Tri, P3rd, 3U (1400 hrs), 4U, XX, Gen, GU (1200 hrs), Rise, Sunbreak and Stories 2 (800 hrs). Nowadays I can sometimes be found on the LanPlay network on MHGU and MHRS, and I'm waiting to get a better computer so I can try Frontier and maybe Iceborne.

Now, everyone has an opinion and so do I, so I'm clear on a number of things. Starting with World the game has casualized so much. Some casualization is fine, as a treat, and I like some QoL such as the tree view for weapon upgrades as much as the next person. But sometimes a game can be casualized to the extreme, to the point even TDS and NCH have taken jabs at it at points, like getting you infinite Ancient Potions, or the loss of most technical inventory management or environment management in Rise. It'd be nice to see Monster Hunter come back to form, with a properly numbered game (Monster Hunter 5, maybe call it "Quinto" or smth!) and fights that are more about besting a monster in its own turf rather than simply hiding under a beast's legs (or far away at a ledge) and spamming X or R (hey, gunners!) to win.

But the music... oh, the music! And the ambience SFX. Now that has never faltered. Despite its many mishaps, World has some of the best and comfiest music in the series.

I've never said Telegram is better. I'm just saying Matrix is also bad.

XMPP is the future.

Isn't matrix like an absolute non for privacy?

I mean, you are not entitled to people being soldiers in your war against Big Tech. Like, I'd be totally for it, but some other time, nowadays I'm resting and being creative. Speaking of, not everyone here laps the crotch of Spotify et al. I'm a proud (but modest) pirate.

But the right solution is inconstitutional and anti-corporate! Even socialist and maybe even "woke"! So, this is the option TPTB are leaving us with.

Don't like it? The second most useful thing to do compared to this is to ready your guillotine. That is the language they understand.

Oh yeah that should be cheap considering Cuba is right around the corner, for example.

Pros: you get to be your own boss.

Cons: you get to be your own employee.

I plan to keep using my current 2015-ish phone to watch my media at home, so it's likely I'll keep off of AV1 until phones are made somehow hardware upgradable (Fairphone?). Plus, in a general sense, in order to reacquire new media in a better codec you have to at least keep the old media around until you have finished verifying the new, otherwise you run the risk of ending up with no good copy.

By being moved to the main Wordpress branch, where everything has been known to be hackable since 1999, rather than staying in Tumbr's however-modified branch where probably some exploits don't work or have unexpected results.

Oh fair point.

Feel free to hire the admins then!

~~Wait, that might have come out wrong...~~

Changing the source code of the browser, unfortunately. I don't know what Tor Browser does or how, but basically you'd have to do about the same as they do.

Oh boy my tumblr will be now 518% more hackable!