riseuppikmin [he/him]

Already aware but thanks! Recommend it to anyone looking to go back to Freedom Unite as well.

Recently “beat” Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and am headed back to Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. Outside of that I’ve been replaying Hades 1 (trying to finish up some of the dialogue I didn’t complete to let Hades 2 bake for a bit longer before I play it). Also casually playing some Team Fortress 2 whenever I can’t mentally commit to anything.

Favorite genre is easily the 4 player “hunting” games (Monster Hunter franchise, Wild Hearts, Phantasy Star Online BB/Universe). I wish more studios would attempt games here because I feel like the genre’s popularity is underserved currently.

The closest thing to a live service game I play is Team Fortress 2 and I don’t think updating your game to being 64 bit really qualifies in any meaningful way.

There’s going to come a day where China releases some statement along the lines of “The United States continues to agitate against our development, but at what cost?” and it’s going to be the happiest day of my life.

Is Longvinter still available?

Wildest plan I’ve ever seen respect to the instance operators

I haven’t used it since the 1.16.5 days but it worked perfectly fine for vanilla back then and I’m sure it probably does now too.

If you have more questions after you read a bit more about it feel free to drop them here.

If you/the kids are playing vanilla look into Geyser as it allows Bedrock and Java players to play on the same server.

Learning the basics of rocket jumping will be incredibly helpful and enable you to move around the map/get into favorable positions much faster.

Soldier, like demoman, also has a lot of area denial capability that lots of players don’t take advantage of. If you’re aware of an enemy team around a corner, try to get splash damage on that position to make the enemy team softer when they eventually push for your teammates. You have plenty of ammo- use it!

Combining this with rocket jumping, learn what sections of the map you can get advantageous angles on blenemies by rocket jumping. Lots of buildings in TF2 don’t have invisible walls above them, so rocket jumps can get you angles up above the buildings to take distant shots at engineer nests.

On engineer nests, don’t just pelt the sentry in a 1:1 scenario with the engineer healing if he has a dispenser behind it. Try to get splash damage on the dispenser and the engineer before the sentry (this changes if you have team support). The direct hit is an amazing weapon at taking out sentries so make a loadout with it.

Personal thing, but I find the original much easier to use than the stock launcher when it comes to placing shots, so give it a chance if you haven’t and see which ones feels better to you.

If you have specific questions feel free to ask and I’m glad to weigh in.

If it’s early release it’s a warehouse leak most likely that then gets dumped from a modded console (xci format). Some users convert xci to nsp for reasons unknown to me. Might be that switch cartridges have extra padding at the beginning/end that can be stripped to reduce file size.

Otherwise it’s just a standard dump from a modded console in either eShop (nsp) or physical (xci) format

As someone who used to write extensive notes in the margins of books digital notetaking has forever replaced physical books for me.

E-ink all the way

I say at the end that we’d probably immediately use those powers to revert back to better working conditions (WFH).

I can’t see any scenario where this doesn’t happen immediately and was mostly just riffing at the absurdity of thinking companies would implement these things (outside of maybe free lunches) in order to empower labor (to the company’s shareholders’ detriment) willingly.

Some things that would make me consider it:

• Free high quality lunches every day
• Transportation compensation in the form of both work time (if the office is poorly located) and monetary compensation for transportation expenses
• Management improvement plan with actions they’re taking/implementing to reduce the time they’re wasting of laborers on a day-to-day basis
• Alteration of the company structure to force a large percentage (simple majority) of ownership to workers to push back against reactionary and profit-driven anti-labor whims of shareholders
• Services/compensation that complete tasks that previously I could do during downtime at home
• Yearly inflation-pegged CoL raises that apply to every laborer in the company before salary raises are made
• Massive investment in in-office employee training programs in the form of role-based training that is chosen by laborers in that particular role/function

If every single one of these things were implemented I would then still probably leave the place for another WFH job if we didn’t use our new ownership powers to revert back to WFH immediately.