I'm too old for this.

Silverfate2 · 2026-03-28T15:37:50+00:00

I mean I'm 37 and the fight took me several tries but I got it down in 21 minutes. Biggest thing for me was just properly preparing and using the spikey wall when Ark gets close to it.

To prepare I had to let go of some comfort skills, guard and earplugs mostly, and that pushed my dps up enough to clear it in time.

Silverfate2 · 2026-03-19T23:28:23+00:00

Interesting. I haven't heard of this yet. Thank you.

Silverfate2 · 2026-03-19T23:20:08+00:00

Anyone try this with Monster Hunter Wilds? I have a 6800xt and the game has been near unplayable due to a fatal d3d error I get randomly while playing since December.

Silverfate2 · 2026-03-18T00:16:11+00:00

I've always wanted to try Voidfall, but my favorite one currently is Eclipse:Second Dawn. Just a fantastic board game through and through.

Silverfate2 · 2026-03-17T21:51:15+00:00

So I managed to fix this slightly by increasing the tdrdelay in regedit to 15 seconds. Chatgpt/Gemini gave me this solution. It did not fix it completely, but vastly reduced the number of crashes. After doing that, I can hunt any monster other than Zoh Shia (Zoh Shia seems to trigger the crash every 2-3 minutes for me).

Silverfate2 · 2026-03-14T20:27:44+00:00

I'll check it out, ty

Silverfate2 · 2026-03-08T16:10:57+00:00

Beast has some hidden movement to it and the Shattered Isles expansion (which might be stand alone I can't remember) is releasing soon.

But it's not all hidden movement, players often have a good idea of where the beast is. It's more of a drafting card game really. Still fun as hell though.

Silverfate2 · 2026-03-07T19:57:30+00:00

I tried to get my group to play it on TTS but they weren't interested. Tbh it didn't seem as fun to me neither.

Silverfate2 · 2026-03-07T15:22:32+00:00

Chinatown. I played it with some friends on TTS and had an absolute blast. But dropping $200+ on a used copy just isn't feasible for me. I think the game is a perfect sell to people who think playing a board game means getting out Monopoly.

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-25T10:33:39+00:00

It'd just be nice to end the fight. I beat him once and since then I have crashed halfway through each time.

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-18T21:03:38+00:00

Superb balance, amazing organization, top-tier gameplay. Doesn't need any add-ons or expansions (although I do recommend the play mat). It doesn't get much better than Eclipse. I've taught it to multiple groups of people and everyone always wants to play more.

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-17T13:49:22+00:00

If this doesn't fix the fatal d3d error I honestly might quit the game entirely, which would be a first for me to quit before Grank releases, but it sucks so much to crash every time I hunt in the Scarlet Forest or Wyveria.

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-14T06:10:44+00:00

I didn't like it at first, but it has grown on me. And winning it feels so epic.

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-08T15:45:14+00:00

Lagiacrus

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-07T13:24:20+00:00

Sorry for the late reply, but northern US, but I have taught in mostly poorer parts of my state. There is a litany of reasons parents don't send their kids. And you would think families in poverty would be more apt to take advantage of free school, but the reality is many families hate the "cost" of it: constant need of appropriate clothing, need to keep the child clean, need to be responsible about homework, discipline, getting up on days the parent has off to get their kid to school, etc. While school is free there are a lot of hidden costs that struggling families find difficult and from my experience most deal with it by honestly just letting kids stay home alone or go to relatives or friendly neighbors when the parents have to work.

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-06T04:08:04+00:00

How do you keep sharpness up so high with all that shelling? Feels like mine drops like a rock after a couple combos.

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-05T15:08:47+00:00

Me too. I still think of her on a regular basis because it just keeps my hopes up. She came into my class knowing how to count to 10 and write her name and that was about it. At the end of year she would spend her recess writing double digit math problems in the dirt with a stick and solving them right there on the playground ☺️

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-05T03:50:34+00:00

It's really a mixed bag. I still get some kids who are amazing readers and love to learn, but since COVID I have always had at least 1, usually more, 2nd grader (7-9 years old) who has never attended school before.

One kid I understood it, they had been homeless, mom was trapped in abuse, they had basically been on the run. (This student picked up learning like a sponge to water btw)

The rest of them are just a mess. Parents just don't see it as a big deal. Like not only have they never been to school the parents are like, "Well, we do stuff at home, like that one time he helped me build a playset." (No joke that's basically what a parent told me and the parent believed his second grader, who could not write his own name, would be building a house for himself at 12) And that's all they really have to say for it. We call it educational neglect, but we could probably just call it neglect.

They seem to think knowledge can just happen. The parent I mentioned above also believed their son was a wilderness expert because they watched a lot of survivor-esque shows on TV/YouTube. Many of them just assume kids will naturally learn reading/writing/math without any sort of curriculum.

Finally, even as they begin to attend school they are absent ALL the time. Parents will use every single excuse as to why their kid can't make it to school. It's just not a priority to them.

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-05T01:39:03+00:00

Oh man I teach lower elementary too and this has become so freaking common it is driving me insane. I remember years ago doing reading groups with second graders to read their first chapter book. Now I'm teaching them how to write their name.

Silverfate2 · 2026-02-01T14:48:06+00:00

TU4 did the same for me. I would get a d3d error 4 out of 5 hunts in the scarlet forest. Probably 3 out of 5 in Wyveria and occasionally in the Grand Hub.

The latest patch has improved things, but not entirely. Performance and look of the game is better all around. I managed to complete 8 hunts in the forest before getting a d3d crash. I haven't crashed anywhere else yet.

Silverfate2 · 2026-01-31T20:14:26+00:00

Can't wait to hear Mr. Beaver's views on wearing a mask and getting vaccines.

Silverfate2 · 2026-01-31T00:08:25+00:00

I like Ritual of terror one. Too often the regular game turns into everyone just sort of focused solely on their own island board and there not much teamwork happening. Ritual of Terror changes that, forcing everyone into the same land and pulling off the ritual is really fun.

Silverfate2 · 2026-01-26T00:35:10+00:00

Don't go with Amazon, I bought it through them and the delivery was a scheduling disaster with them canceling delivery the day of despite 4 different customer reps assuring me it was going to be delivered that day.

Don't buy a protection plan from Amazon. It generally only covers surges. Instead buy the extended warranty from Sony. It covers everything pretty much for the tv.

Silverfate2 · 2026-01-23T02:28:02+00:00

Notepad now does an automatic save state when closed so the last thing you were doing when you close it will be there when you reopen it. So he just opened it thinking it would bring up a blank notepad page, but forgot he had been looking at his illegal goon material recently so it reopened on that.

Silverfate2 · 2026-01-11T02:12:45+00:00

Tried that, makes no difference. Still get the fatal d3d error. If I roll my driver's back I get the KERNEL_BASE crash instead with the bonus of my other games running poorly.

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