To start off, most hunts will take at minimum 20 minutes and are designed to flow as Post Quest > Manage Item/Equipment Loadouts > Track Monster > Hunt Monster > Return to Base/Camp.

Been on the fence about MH:W for a while because I would likely just be a solo player. Glad to hear it holds up well! I may jump on it the next time it’s on sale. :)

Finally got hands-on with the beta for XBox and Tigrex soundly kicked my ass many times, with me going “If I ONLY had my regen augmented Horns you’d be TOAST.” :)

Revenge of the Monsters

I recently read Ursula Le Guin’s essay “The Carrier Bag Theory Of Fiction” and related that to how “Resistance” deals with the Shard and other moments just jumped out at me like “OOOOOOHHHHHHH.”

I was absolutely pleased with the entire thing. All I’ve yet to watch is “The Crystal Calls” because if Henson’s work was awesome on its own, going behind the scenes was even better.

And that they could do a puppet show WITHIN a puppet show is truly astounding.

Noted drunk asshole Orson Welle’s burns are downright PRESCIENT.

Yeah that’s the real takeaway here. Celebrity worship culture is weeeeeird.

“Not a good start, Boris.”

Aymann Ismail, host of a Slate podcast called Man Up,

He is an absolute gorram treasure.

I prefer to think of myself as part of the ninja generation.

Just re-watched Robocop again since HBO has it and can concur.

I’m guessing because the Twitter commentariat has already risen to meet that demand.

Same, I just feel for the professor for having to continually own Stephens. I’m certain he has far better things to do.

“First of all, we don’t do gay weddings or mixed race, because of our Christian race—I mean our Christian belief,”

Even if Brexit ultimately relaxes some regulations, it still results in having to manage and show compliance to 27 times as many regulations and that alone will cost more than complying to a more stringent regulation. Even at face value, the “regulatory nightmare” just doesn’t make sense.