I always just left trigger spammed to either center the camera or lock onto the monster. The claw always seemed a great way to give yourself some kind of RSI.
Bluetooth doesn't work on my Razr mouse anymore and my brother has also had bad charging issues with his Razr. Thinking of switching to a different brand, so what do you all use?
I love the way logi mice feel, but I've had 3 die on me with a double click issue, I just can't bring myself to give them more money.
I've heard that the Xenics Titan is built well, but has abnormally high click latency, which I'm not a fan of. Right now I'm sticking with an old school Razer Deathadder wireless, but you're not wrong about their software being a cancer.
If we're just talking story than Diablo 4 would be the latest, but I'm not at max level or "endgame" there. The last actual completion was Red Dead 2. I've always struggled to finish single player games and thought I just couldn't do it for the longest time. But, I was recently diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and holy hell have the meds helped a lot. I've started going back and finishing single player games that I loved but for whatever reason just lost interest in part way through. My backlog is immense, which tends to grow even larger since I really enjoy never ending multiplayer titles, but I've actually been able to start completely some in the last year and it's been a pretty nice sense of accomplishment.
As more clearly dedicated hunters trickle into our slice of the fediverse, let's take the opportunity this smaller community gives us to share how Monster Hunter found us.
The first time I played MH was all the way back on PS2 in the early 2000s, one of my best friends growing up had bought it and showed it to me. At the time, the Rathalos was the "endgame" monster that was the most difficult thing in the game. There were more difficult monsters, but you had to have the PS2 online brick that had to be purchased as an accessory to the PS2 and an online subscription, but as children we obviously couldn't afford those. You had to use the right analog stick to attack with, which is something they did away will pretty quickly when they started putting out the PSP games.
I've ended up playing every single MH game to come out, except for Rise. I've been a PC gamer my entire life, but always made an exception to buy whichever consoles had the latest MH on them. But, since the release of world I just can't go back to the console versions. They don't look anywhere near as good and feel a lot more clunky. Even though Rise is available for PC, it just doesn't have the same level of quality that World does, so I will continue to wait for a World 2.
I think the concept you're missing here is that Kbin isn't supposed to be a reddit replacement. To my knowledge (which is minimal as I'm just starting to get into federated services myself), the idea of federation is to try and break away from the model of the internet as we know it today.
Currently, the internet is run by monolith organizations which contain and control their entire product. Twitter, Reddit, Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, etc. The issue is that when corporations make changes to their product that is anti-consumer, you as a user have absolutely no recourse other than to stop using their service completely. This can be seen with most of the services I've mentioned in just the last couple years, and it has been going on much longer than that (like the original exodus from Digg to Reddit).
Federated services, to my knowledge, aim to break this cycle by breaking the biggest instigator of unwanted changes and anti-consumerism; monolith organizations. By taking the power away from these organizations, and having distributed services (ie kbin, lemmy, mastodon) it means that any one organization doesn't have unilateral power over the network. This is then further broken down by being able to have multiple instances of each service.
While I certainly agree that federated services can be confusing, and that improvements could definitely be made by further reducing the friction of service / instance discovery, these federated services are not an attempt to re-create what already exists. Rather, it's a body of work meant to create an entirely new way for services to function while adding features that people have come to enjoy.
The fundamental idea that kbin is a direct replacement for reddit, especially as a response to the recent reddit controversies is flawed. While it has some of the same features, the goal is not just to re-create reddit with new management.
I wouldn't necessarily call it a design flaw, but more a design for a different audience.
There's nothing stopping someone from creating a front end to the federated world and, like you've suggested before, hiding the "different" instance names and references so that the user is completely unaware of where the content is coming from. I also agree that for mass adoption to take hold something along those lines would need to be introduced, as the mass populace just doesn't have the technical knowledge to understand a federated system at a technical level.
I think the circumstance we find ourselves in regarding federated services is akin to the early internet. I remember being fairly young, and having large swaths of the internet being completely unknown due to a complete lack of search engines. Unless you knew the dns address of a website you wanted to visit, and even sometimes the actual public IP address, you could never get to it. Federated services feel very much the same at the moment. I'd bet that there's probably already projects that aim to scrape lists of federated services so that users can find out what's out there, but until it becomes mature enough that federated SEO equivalent data becomes standard, a lot of it will still be dark.
I try to think about the current state of federation networks like an RSS feed (which is also a dying breed, though it seems to be some resurgence recently). There was nothing bundled with your RSS reader that told you where to get content. You had to go out and do the work yourself, and tell you RSS reader "hey, go here and bring back new content that gets posted". Then, and only then, could you curate your feed. Kbin, and other services feel very much like that right now. With time, I think the ability to find new content will be streamlined and with that reduced friction will come more mass adoption. But for now, you've gotta put some work in to make it worth your while.
MSI has launched a new gaming handheld, and there are two things you should know: It's the first to launch with an Intel Core Ultra processor, and for some reason it's called 'Claw' (www.pcgamer.com)
Sounds less like a handheld and more like a Marvel villain, but at least the hardware's intriguing.
Well, my Razr mouse is dying. What gaming mice do you all recommend?
Bluetooth doesn't work on my Razr mouse anymore and my brother has also had bad charging issues with his Razr. Thinking of switching to a different brand, so what do you all use?
Hubble Captures a Light-Bending Galaxy Cluster (www.nasa.gov)
Original Link from NASA...
what was the last game you beat?
Curious what yall are playing and if im the only one who can't complete games :p
Tell your Monster Hunter origin story
As more clearly dedicated hunters trickle into our slice of the fediverse, let's take the opportunity this smaller community gives us to share how Monster Hunter found us.
Are there any scripts to wipe my reddit comments/posts?
I know you can delete your reddit account, but it mentions that it just deletes your association with them and not the actual content....
Can someone please explain federation?
Hello all! I'm one of the original reddit users, and before that a long time Digg user. I want to enjoy and participate in the fediverse....