I really enjoyed the special investigation quest, might have to play a Witcher game at some point.... but monsters like Extremoth and Ancient Leshen i think i'll keep holding off on until i've run out of other things to do. Still haven't slayed the investigation Behemoth!!

But yeah, the AT monsters have been a solid experience for me once i've realised 1) i do better at them solo, and 2) making an armor set revolving around each elder dragon is a Good Idea. As i've mentioned before, World is the first MonHun i've played far into, and i'm still learning how to adapt to lategame play. I missed the AT Kirin cycle last week, but this week i've now gotten all the AT Vaal Hazak tickets i'll need.

Speaking of, if they plan on cycling through each AT monster again before unleashing AT Nergi, then we're looking at April 25th for it (and possibly this year's Spring Blossom Festival? they did confirm that they're yearly, right??)

also also, yesterday was monster hunter's 15th birthday! the US site lets you download a wallpaper with the flagship monster of each game, while the JP site has a lot of neat stuff on it.

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i'm actually a bit curious about how much defense boost and extra health is optimal given X amount of slots, but i haven't really tried looking up the multipliers or really any sort of hard data taken from the game

for AT Van Halen i've been using this, actually. the three Vaal pieces for effluvia resist + super recovery, swap out my usual vitality mantle for a health booster to counteract heavy effluvia, and the rest's basically my usual getup. down a mega armorskin at the start, get defense up L at the canteen, and damage isn't too much of an issue for me. (i do plan on getting health regen as my next weapon augment) i've also not been making weapons for different monsters yet either, just mostly relying on dragon to be decent against most anything

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Originally posted by Delpolo

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Iunno what they're gonna do for the AT schedule when there's stuff like AT Kulve Taroth and Extreme Behemoth and Ancient Leshen that may or may not count

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so my estimate was counting Tarot as an AT, but not extremoth or ancient leshen (Taroth is listed in the AT masterpost on the site, but not extremoth or leshen; AT Taroth was also already in the schedule for this week, with Teostra for next week)


with that said, extreme behemoth is on the event list for two weeks from now, though suspiciously it's one of only two listed for it (the other being Chew The Fat). maybe they'll announce AT Nergi for that week soon.......?

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North: London, England
East: Rome, Italy
South: Marathon, Florida
West: Stevensville, Montana (hoping to push that an ocean farther in the coming year or two)

it's crazy to me that the UK is farther north than the canadian border

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as someone who has only succesfully gotten obed (another windows marathon editor) working twice and weland working zero times, i'm definitely looking forward to this

also i noticed you're in the marathon speedrunning discord but not the general marathon discord, nor the pathways discord

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here.

this site also preserves stuff like the event distro roms, from when i looked around a couple weeks ago

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i definitely like the SP's clicky buttons over everything the Advance has, makes the dpad feel more precise to me. also rechargeable batteries are great!!

on the games side of things, i think i'm finally starting to appreciate the hoenn pokemon games. the overworld art is like they gave gen 2 some more colour depth, the story's not so bad after all (though "oops who would have guessed an ancient pokemon buried in the earth would be super powerful??? guess i ended up a bad guy??? sorry!" isn't that great a resolution for the teams) and for all the teasing the soundtrack gets for its instrument selection, it's well composed for sure. coming fresh off the GBC's chiptunes and playing Ruby in 2003 certainly impressed me, anyhow.

besides, if there's a game i'm gonna complain about bad instrumentation and odd art style it'll be Metroid: Zero Mission. great game, my fav in the series, but just.... oof.

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hi it's me again

spring fest starts in two week, and even is bringing back the AT jagras and lavasioth for a week each! afterwards the AT cycle will continue where it left off with AT Xeno.

PC side of things has been exciting, they got a free HD texture dlc earlier in the week and they get AT Kulve next week! AC collab starts may 3rd, Witcher collab May 9th. they're just about caught up!

with AT Xeno ending on May 26th, you think that's when they're gonna finally drop AT Nergi? at that point, it's not gonna be much longer until Iceborne drops! or at least hopefully get some news for E3!

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with the second Blossom Festival going strong, i've finished up all the stuff that requires Teostra and Lunastra tickets, leaving me with only needing Kirin and Xeno tickets (and some of the AT Kulve crystals)

.......though i still need to complete He Taketh It With His Eyes, as well as extremoth and ancient leshen (i've had some good runs of the latter so far though, up to the third area of the fight). behemoth and AT Xeno seem very hard to do solo without knowing the meta for it, so i'll prolly hold off on those until my friends are available to help - kirin and leshen are next on my list, though (i keep surprising myself whenever i finally try an AT beast solo and kill it without any carts)

also..... i'm really loving the look of the guild cross armor

(sorry if that breaks anything, for some reason max-width didn't want to work so)
i think once i finish up all the AT tickets i'll be working on getting more crowns...

console versions now have a complete DLC pack (sans the Deluxe Kit items) for $40, and the PC version is currently on sale for $40! PC is also getting the Witcher quests on the ninth!

has anyone else still been playing?

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i'm hoping with my next paycheck i can get a breadboard and some simple electronics to mess around with

longer term, outside of some video games... a supergun and maybe TGM, and an SC-3000? until new game consoles are unveiled i think i'm in an okay spot for the time being...

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i still check the forum daily but

not much activity that i feel relevant to reply to, i guess


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friend asked me to do a cover of a song i had never heard of before

so naturally, i obliged:



"look a ghost" by unwound

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thanks! this song in particular reminds me of like, a mellow Tool song, checked out the rest of the album and hmm
it's not bad, it might grow on me more after some time like a lot of the Queens of the Stone Age songs. Really really like this song though

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the Shining series has a whopping six titles on the Saturn, but if rpgs aren't your thing, Street Fighter Zero Three is probably my favourite fighting game ever.. I often hear people recommend NiGHTS into dreams, but imo it's not a terribly great game at its core, more of a "hey look at the saturn doing 3D". in that vein i'm not sure if there's any great racing games on it either, at least in comparison to, say, wipeout on the ps1. i do like to plug Tomb Raider and Resident Evil though, since TR was a timed exclusive and RE has exclusive content to it, despite both being known as strong PS1 titles. dreamcast gets a lot more spotty for me, i really only use it for JSR and sonic adventure (and occasionally JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Heritage for the Future).
i also have little to no experience with shmups, of which the Saturn does seem to have a lot of decent ones, so

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i don't claim to be an expert on lightning, but:

it strikes the cross and not the taller metal lightpole nearby
going frame by frame, the bolt hits the cross for a few frames, dissappears for a couple frames, reappears, then as it fades over the next few frames you can see every frame shows the bolt in a different position. this isn't now lightning behaves naturally, if you look up slomo videos, they form a shape as they grow towards their destination, and then once it reaches a suitable ground, it may vary in intensity as it discharges but the position doesn't change.
and then it strikes the mic of the reporter who's standing directly under a tree as shown in the zoomout to show him getting struck?

i'd call it fake without much hesitation

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