Ashen44
@Ashen44@lemmy.ca
World’s biggest Monster Hunter fan
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 15th 5 hours ago:
Absolutely! And did you notice the canynes actually have different features based on which element they are! I love seeing little details like that.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 15th 7 hours ago:
Monster Hunter Stories 3 just released and it’s insanely good. As usual it’s way too expensive as all AAA games are now, but I’m a sucker for Monster Hunter so I was going to pay no matter what. It’s a lot more open than the previous games, which makes it feel a lot more interesting and the new gameplay sytems really play into that in a good way. It’s also a lot of fun as a Monster Hunter fan seeing all the monsters they chose for the game. Some of their picks are very surprising!
I also picked up Dragon Quest Builders as it was recently on sale and I need to satisfy my extremely intense desire for Pokopia while not supporting Nintendo. I played through the second game a long time ago but I never played the first one until now. It’s fun but you can definitely feel that this was their first attempt at this kind of thing. I’ll probably replay the second game when I’m done with this one.
- Comment on At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevance to my life. 3 weeks ago:
Toys “R” Us is a chain of toy stores which went bankrupt and shut down all US locations in 2018, although it has recently returned to the US as of 2022.
R is a statistics focused programming language which sees wide use in the field of data science.
The meme features characters from the cartoon “The Regular Show”. In the first panel, all the characters are together, interestingly one character for each letter in Toys R Us. In the second panel, only the character representing the R remains, indicating the transition from childhood (toys) to adulthood (statistics). The science part of the meme is mostly just the statistical analysis reference.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - PC Announce Trailer (March 19) 4 weeks ago:
That’s certainly an interesting take. I loved the first game but DS2 blows it out of the water. It’s pretty much a direct improvement in almost every way in my opinion. The only downgrade I think is the difficulty, but death stranding 1 had abysmal combat so I can easily forgive the game becoming easier while also becoming more fun.
- Comment on Not impressed 3 months ago:
Animals are one group or “kingdom” of life. Plants (such as trees) and fungi (such as mushrooms) each have their own kingdoms, and so do bacteria and a few other forms of life. They’re organized this way to represent how closely related they are. Every single living thing in the animal kingdom is more closely related to every single other thing in the animal kingdom than to anything in any other kingdom.
As an example, chimpanzees, starfish, and earthworms are more closely related to each other than to a sunflower, so we call chimpanzees, starfish, and earthworms animals but not sunflowers. This is called “taxonomy” and there’s a ton of different levels of how related things are, ranging from very distantly related to so closely related you can barely tell them apart. Kingdom isn’t even the most broad!
You might have also heard that fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants, but that doesn’t mean that fungi are animals, just that the lifeform that branched into fungi and animals did so a lot later than the one that branched into plants. In the end they’re still distinct enough that we call them different kingdoms!
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 months ago:
Oh dang, the tested video made it sound like they were making it. Good to know, and honestly even better that they’re supporting a preexisting project!
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 months ago:
Even better: they’re developing a new translation layer in the style of proton for x86 to ARM called FEX, so theoretically most x86 games will run on the frame. Naturally it’s also compatible with proton so you can go windows game -> x86 linux -> ARM Linux. We’ll have to see how that runs but it’s certainly exciting to think about.
- Comment on Anon puts himself out there 6 months ago:
stigma love and compassion into this relationship lmao gottem
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 7 months ago:
Going by favourite as “Left the most lasting impression on me” it would have to be:
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Monster Hunter World
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Crosscode
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Outer Wilds
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- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 7 months ago:
crosscode mentioned, hell yeah!
- Comment on Wisdom 8 months ago:
- Comment on Caption this. 9 months ago:
intrusive thoughts
- Comment on Over a hundred thousand Dune Awakening players got swallowed by the sandworm | Massively Overpowered 9 months ago:
massively overpowered is the name of the website lol
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 10 months ago:
I’ve had a nebula subscription for a couple years, and honestly I don’t think the lifetime subscription is worth it. If you can find a deal on a year plan it’s crazy cheap, and I don’t think nebula is big enough to be certain it’ll still be relevant by the time a lifetime plan would pay itself off. Maybe if it got more popular, but its place as a more specialized type of video platform, and especially a subscription based one, makes me a bit doubtful that it’ll grow significantly any time soon.
- Comment on Data speaks for itself 10 months ago:
there’s actually no fucking way
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 27th 10 months ago:
Recently started up a new terraria world, this time I’m doing the eternity mode from the Fargo’s Souls mod. It’s damn hard…
- Comment on *aliens* 10 months ago:
bad sun event. must be the 24th.
- Comment on need advice, how to get good at monster hunter 10 months ago:
As others have said, the old monster hunter games are best played as a turn based battle. Take the fights slow. Stay safe and watch exactly what the monster does. Only go in for an attack when you know it’s safe. You might time out on a few monsters the first time, but every hunt you will get faster, as you figure out both the monster and your own moveset. The caveat though is you need to make sure you’re paying attention! Just going by feel will get you wrecked and you won’t learn anything doing it. Always be watching and analyzing. You can spend 10 hours throwing yourself at the monster and get 10% better, or you can spend 1 hour learning the monster and get 50% better.
Another thing to be aware of is that these games are capital S Slow. Fights are going to take forever, and that’s only going to get worse when you get into the guild quests, which are intended to be played with 4 person parties. Singleplayer health scaling was not added until World. If you’ve been wailing on a monster and it’s just not going down, don’t get discouraged. As long as you’re doing damage and not getting hit, you’ve got 50 whole minutes to kill the monster. You’ll get it eventually, I promise. Just keep at it and at some point you’ll break through, and the thrill of having conquered what once seemed so impossible will bring you a rush like no other! Good luck, and happy hunting.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 will let you clear bosses without actually defeating them 11 months ago:
If you mean chapter 14, post Edge Knot City
When you’re taking Lou to the incinerator
You’re right at the end, there’s no more bosses. It’s just a bit of hiking and then a bunch of cutscenes. Then you’re in the epilogue and time rewinds so you can keep playing. Might be a bit of a weird place to start playing again though, as you just boot up the game after so many years just to watch a cutscene or two and then credits roll lol.
If you mean chapter 6, before reaching Edge Knot City
When Deadman takes the baby to recalibrate it
As you can probably guess by the chapter numbers, you are nowhere near the end of the game, sorry. There IS a bossfight, but you only have to do the first section alone, then you reunite and do the actual main fight together.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 will let you clear bosses without actually defeating them 11 months ago:
Definitely set some time aside to do the final segment. I’m not sure exactly where you are before the end segment, but assuming you’re right before edge knot city you’ve probably got about 4-5 hours left for the main story, if you take your time with it. There’s probably like an hour or two of cutscenes there though and you can absolutely rush the gameplay sections so if you really don’t care about the story you can probably shave that down to under 2 hours. It’s still a commitment though that’s for sure.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 will let you clear bosses without actually defeating them 11 months ago:
I 100% agree. Games are about what’s fun, and that differs for everybody. Difficulty selection exists for a reason. My mom LOVES the playstation first party games (god of war, horizon, etc) but she always plays them on story mode. It’s not because she can’t handle any higher difficulties (she’s been gaming since before I was born), she simply doesn’t care about the challenge and just wants to experience the story.
Games are for us to enjoy, and short of cheating in a multiplayer game I don’t really think there’s a wrong eay to enjoy them. Opening up more avenues for more people to enjoy them is just a net positive in my opinion.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 will let you clear bosses without actually defeating them 11 months ago:
As a diehard(man) Death Stranding fan, I gotta say the boss fights were easily the worst part of the game. I always turn the difficulty up to maximum when I’m doing a new playthrough because the game just feels more impactful and fun when there’s an actual sense of danger, but it goes straight down to easy mode whenever a boss comes out cause I am not dealing with that lol
While I’ll definitely be doing the bossfights the first time around in DS2 this feature will probably save my future playthroughs. It’s just always nice to see more options for letting players engage with the game in the ways they want to.
- Comment on Banaynays 11 months ago:
According to the wikipedia page for isoamyl acetate, it is both responsible for the banana smell and is the chemical honey bees use to tell other bees to sting, so at least the logic for the post is sound.
- Comment on To Kill a Dragon: Video Games and Addiction 11 months ago:
It’s hilarious that you say that because I literally just finished 100%ing Control the other day haha! I found it to be the perfect game for stopping and staring because of all the thought put into everything, and how many cool little details and experiences you can have by taking things slowly! I do 100% agree with you though, I wish they were way less aggressive with the enemies spawning. Thankfully when you get tired of it you can just turn on god mode and blast through them, but it’s certainly not an ideal solution.
Unfortunately, it’s an intentional design choice. You can see it in many, many other games too. Fact of the matter is, most players need constant stimulation or they drop off quick, so game designers specifically design their games so you never go without a new event for more than 5 minutes. You can see it especially well in games like Tears of the Kingdom, another game I love that has a godawful encounter system where you can’t go five steps without another enemy ambushing you!
It’s sadly something you aren’t going to escape from as long as you’re playing big budget games, which is doubly sad because big budget game worlds are usually extra fun to explore because they can afford to really flesh out their worlds! That’s why I appreciate games like Monster Hunter (specifically World and Wilds) which solve the issue by giving you those constanr encounters (back to back quests, running into monsters constantly out in the maps) but make it incredibly easy to just not engage and completely ignore them (most monsters not being instantly aggressive, ghillie mantle and skills that make monsters ignore you completely). This at least gives me hope that we can compromise between the stimulation bombardment and the tranquil admiration.
- Comment on To Kill a Dragon: Video Games and Addiction 11 months ago:
The author talks a lot about the addictiveness of the flow state, and how most players try to achieve thjs state to just stop thinking for a while. I found it interesting what the author said about the teacher trying to get their students to recognize the feeling of games, because that’s exactly what I’ve been trying to do lately to counteract that state of not really taking things in and just passing through the game.
There’s a youtuber named “Any Austin” who really opened my eyes up to this. Now instead of doing the quests and advancing the game, I take my time with games. I actively get annoyed when games don’t give me some quiet time to not play the game, and I really appreciate the beauty of games beyind the gameplay.
I highly recommend everyone to try this out: pick your favourite game, preferably one with an actual game world you can move around in, rather than just a board like balatro, and just sit. Don’t play the game, just find something interesting and stare at it. Think about how it was made, and what purpose does it serve in the game. Keep doing this, just walk around your world and try to appreciate its existence. Stare at the skybox, the grass, the buildings, the mountains.
This has given me both a new appreciation for games, and a way to break free from the endless treadmill of going from one experience to the next, with no thought put into the inbetween. It’s a sort of mindfulness in a way, and something I feel has actively improved my real life rather than just distracted me from it. Now I find myself able to appreciate these small beauties and curiosities everywhere I go.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach - Pre-Order Trailer 1 year ago:
good god I am so hyped for this game. The story looks so good, the music is on point (hello woodkid?), and I’m loving the new environments we’re being shown! Ironically, the action is the part I’m least interested in since that was my least favourite part of the first game, so I’m worried that they showed so much of it, but hopefully they’ve improved it between games.
It’s kinda funny seeing that sandstorm after Monster Hunter Wilds just released. Where’s my Rey Dau BT? (wait a Monster Hunter - Death Stranding crossover would be peak)
- Comment on 11 Best Indie Games of All Time 1 year ago:
While I agree with the criticisms of this list, it does have 2 of my favourite games of all time (Tunic and Crosscode) so I dub it based as hell.
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 1 year ago:
Oh my god, this brought back memories!
I had a book as a small child about various weird plants. Pitcher plants, water lilies, stuff like that. I remember reading about a plant with no chlorophyll called the ghost plant or something and thinking it was the coolest thing ever, but I could never find that book again. This was also before I knew how to use the internet so I had no way of looking up the plant, thanks for reminding me of it!
- Comment on Testing how unique you are online (web fingerprinting) 1 year ago:
… Apparently I am almost fully unique by my language settings alone. 0.00% of people have canadian english and japanese as their phone language. Of course this is just from their dataset but still, this was definitely very enlightening!
- Comment on I'm thinking taffy. 1 year ago:
Conclusion: mineral water is lava