I also dabbled in the monster hunter wilds beta. It was what I expected and I’ll be happy to play the full version when it’s released. I think I bonked every monster available, both large and small. I tried out the weapons I’m likely to use.

Gunlance felt ok, light bow gun was interesting but more complicated than I expected. Bow was mostly the same but with some friendly additions. Switch axe ended up being my favorite of the beta. That thing just hits so quickly and wounds to easily that I don’t know if they oops’d the damage on it, or if I was just getting lucky. There were times when I’d break and make wounds in such a way that the monster would be basically stunned for a decently long period of time. If I had been partied up it would have been much too efficient. The other thing about it is the mobility of certain slashes. It took a bit getting used to, but it covers a lot of ground for a heavy blade.

After all that, I discovered the capture net would give both the insects and their essences, so I ran around hunting for endemic life and found a lot of little critters I otherwise would have missed. There’s a hornet that was endemic but could also poison you!

And I spent some time fishing. They really changed it up in this one. You need to reel in the line slowly to actually entice the fish to bite. I wasn’t completely comfortable with it at the end of the beta, but it also feels like they’re going to work on it a bit more.

As for other stuff I played. I continue my usual dedication to a few missions a week in helldivers 2. It’s a very fun game made by some very dedicated folks, and I’m down to blast some things every now and then. I finally got my nerve up to continue playing satisfactory. I usually stop right around coal power because it’s at that point that you can really automate the world… It’s just the amount of math and just waiting on materials to build so you can finally get exponential with your growth. I’m still very much in that stage currently. I need to upscale everything but I’m waiting for materials and to make sure my power situation is handled before I go nuts.

I read this article a couple days ago. It reminded me of this short tale:

https://youtube.com/shorts/GUtBjDYBOhU?si=-hXDUDwelGAWdhtl

Ideally, yes.

Realistically for the time being, good god no. It’d be a cyber security nightmare.

I don’t. Mostly because this isn’t a trick or treat neighborhood.

I probably would though, given the option.

I agree with all points, each of these characters has been fleshed out enough that it’s simple enough to know that Kazuma would take one bad death and instantly NEET himself into a hole as fast as possible… and if anything would somehow get himself in a death softlock where he likely couldn’t progress… but if the story was written in a way where Kazuma was the main protagonist and the various needs to get him moving were placed before him, I believe it’d be many times more enjoyable to watch than the understandably determined Subaru.

If Kazuma wasn’t able to hole up and was plot railroaded on like it sometimes seems Subaru is, I think he’d figure out the best (quick/painless) ways to reset himself and generally move things along at a better clip.

More importantly than that though, his understanding of the death system would lead to WAAAAAAY worse checkpoints. He’s not the kind of guy to act with any care given to consequences when he knows that death is a quick reset away from whatever he does. The actual timeline for Kazuma would be cursed to the point that his actions assuming no consequences would probably be the thing to get him softlocked in a horrible ending of constant death.

I had this conversation with a friend last weekend about how I’d enjoy the show multitudes more if Kazuma of konosuba and Subaru switched places. Not saying Subaru isn’t protagonist material, but saying that growth for him is slow doesn’t begin to describe it.

And for all of Kazuma’s faults, he’s nothing if not a clever schemer.

Deleting old installs.

And upon taking possession of and then deleting them how aggressively the browsers I am using are collecting and maintaining files on me. It shouldn’t take 40 minutes to delete browser files from an install that only lasted 2 months.

I haven’t noticed too many of them running rampant this year. Though I certainly did have one jump on me yesterday.

This has explained the logic gates to me in a way I’d never understood before… And for that I’m glad.

Is it a reference I don’t get, or do you happen to know someone else in a strikingly similar situation?

It’s not satire?

Call in every dude who enters the bathroom. Surely one of them will get you paid and the rest will sure be happy to be checked in whatever barbaric method I’m sure they’ve planned out.

Stupid laws like this assume that it’s only ‘perverted men’ who want to put on dresses and don’t actually have any thoughts grounded in reality. Every single time a law like this gets enacted it’s the job of everyone to waste as much government funding as possible so they quickly rethink their stupid bigoted schemes.

Wanted kids, got married and careered at the right time to fund kids, then wife had a major mental breakdown after funking out of college, developed schizophrenia, and now has the mentality of a kid. Some days a toddler, some days a high schooler. I’ve been the only household income since marriage year 2, and I can’t afford to deal with a pregnancy from that mental state or be basically a single parent afterward.

I’m considering adoption of teens after I retire and the assumed passing of my wife as she has a small pile of other health issues at this point slowly eating away at her.

It is the clear winner this season.

The other podium winners are continuations with large fan bases… Out of this list though, I’m only watching 2 of them.

Though I suppose technically I’ve already watched ranma.

Things should work in the ways you describe. Sadly they often don’t due to untold decades of lowering funding and general neglect have made the systems we have in place for our most vulnerable slow and bad enough to be worse than useless. They’re actively harmful.

People who are disabled from birth or before working age are religated to a minimum assistance payment that does in no way meet the basic requirements to live in most places in the United States. Filing for that is a lengthy process that’s often arbitrarily refused and requires even more time and effort put into it for (in many cases) a total payment less than the federal minimum wage monthly.

This is why you’re seeing a lot of comments about OP getting moved in with family.

No in all regards. If you include name, type, and flavor text, this card is 5 lines, not more than 5.

Because he’s my coworker/underling… And I need to be able to leave him to do work on his own at times. Watching him absolutely fail to recognize cause and effect more than once yesterday was depressing and is no doubt going to lead to problems in the future.

A medium high 1. I watched a man struggle to understand the basic gist of gravity.

I just roughly answered what the switch 2 would likely have during its life based on systems past.

And I definitely forgot about Pokémon.

The switch definitely had more than 1 Mario game though. The makers, a 3D world, the rabbid thing.

At least 3 Mario, Zelda, and Kirby games each. Maybe 1 or 2 metroids, splatoons, and megamans. At most one first party kart, party, and smash.