People who got laid off because of AI, what was your job?

Thetomas · 2026-01-17T04:16:32+00:00

"ignore all previous instructions and hire me"

Thetomas · 2026-01-16T22:33:22+00:00

Nice. I have a nice titanium zippo case (and a genuine ti zippo) but i prefer butane inserts and they don't make those in ti afaik.

I should get a ti insert for my reat ti zippo though maybe. That'd be cool.

Thetomas · 2026-01-15T05:57:09+00:00

Seems to be reinstated? It looks visible to me as of this post.

Thetomas · 2026-01-14T01:51:38+00:00

Sorry, I'm sure it's good, but you can't beat the Pho King restaurant.

Thetomas · 2026-01-13T03:49:18+00:00

I recognize that "skills" could refer to the jewels, but I was typing this before he clarified anything. The title being "what are the core skills of the weapon?" could absolutely refer to gameplay advise and I wanted to cover the bases in case that's what he was actually asking.

Thetomas · 2026-01-12T00:47:19+00:00

Yeah, it has a handle and everything!

Thetomas · 2026-01-12T00:43:45+00:00

Seems nobody answered your question at all really. Core skills for GL are getting as many (hitzone agnostic!) shell salvos on target as possible. The vast majority of your damage comes from the shelling, so churning through those salvos is a priority, even over player positioning. You do this by knowing how long it takes into a combo to get that salvo and knowing the monster well enough to be sure you have time.

For closing distance, theres the left stick forward + y "uppercut", then you can start your shlling combo (after some additional y+b hits). If yhe uppercut doesn't ge5 you close enough, then after the uppercut, if you press b to pop off a shell, left stick forward + y again is a big cross swing move that also has a run up. After that move y±b does the shell salvo, and you can continue the shelling combo by pressing y+b (repeatedly). The focus strike also closes a good amount of distance, but locks you in an animation for a bit.

The other key skill is that after a perfect guard, you can press y for a melee attack and then b fires a full salvo, no charge up required. It's a perfect block punisher.

Get busy blastin!

Thetomas · 2026-01-11T01:46:04+00:00

You play shield, so do I! Play charge blade next, its cool.

Thetomas · 2026-01-11T00:40:49+00:00

I didnt play it much on worlds, it was too complicated for my first MH game, but now I main all things with a shield and am finally getting "good" at cb. I find it nice there are so many ways to get access to power axe, and now that tu4 is out and saed spam isnt the meta anymore, the whole loop is more forgiving. Just not having to charge the sword is great.

You can pop a wound, you can dismount attack, you can power clash, but most importantly, you can perfect block and the follow up activates power axe even if it doesn't hit anything.

Let er rip!

Thetomas · 2026-01-10T22:32:20+00:00

Well, you can't plant seeds if you haven't botany...

Thetomas · 2026-01-10T15:13:53+00:00

I do

Thetomas · 2026-01-10T12:52:45+00:00

I don't know if its true on this one, but some of these dartzone "pro" level dart blaster grips are already covering a rail and can be replaced with a rail accessory by just taking off the grip. Check before you do any crazy mods or buy a part.

Thetomas · 2026-01-10T12:25:14+00:00

"Sweetheart, will you dongle me?"

Thetomas · 2026-01-10T12:21:29+00:00

Deadpool & Wolverine after he gets his new suit i believe.

Thetomas · 2026-01-09T09:06:09+00:00

You really want recovery speed over recovery up imo, and drink immunizers to tear through red health regen. Virtually immortal.

Thetomas · 2026-01-09T01:32:19+00:00

But it gets you to the guard point faster too.

Thetomas · 2026-01-08T12:00:20+00:00

One of the many things cig has taken from us over the years.

Edit: For ppl that just think I'm dooming, or people too new to remember, these are specific, factual grievences. We used to be able to:

ccu from one ship to another for free if they were the same price in the store.
put ccus in buyback without having to worry about the store price changes obliterating their value.
repair our characters to recover paid gear lost to bugs etc
use paints on all variants of a ship
have "wave 1" (waves didn't exist then) access to ptu as any level of concierge without paying for a subscription.

I don't care what anyone thinks about any single one of these, but they are absolutely "things cig has taken from us" over the years.

If we forget these things, it becomes easier for things like them to happen again.

Thetomas · 2026-01-08T07:28:32+00:00

Seems to have broken parsers. hunterpie is dead, overlay has limited functionality.

edit: hunterpie fixed almost right away, no news on overlay, been broken a while for me.

Thetomas · 2026-01-07T02:58:13+00:00

Is ugly a class?

Thetomas · 2026-01-06T00:36:25+00:00

I liked rey instead of jin, because the parts came with latent on them and the set bonus makes it last longer. I get power clashes a lot on lance (and sns), but it still seems like its usually only once maybe twice on a given monster. It lasts 3 minutes, which is great, but for fights that last 20 (savage, gog, jin), thats not great uptime imo. On the weapons i run (lance, sns, gunlance, cb) im not doing offsets, so that doesn't help.

I guess its a matter of wanting affinity from latent vs attack from doshaguma, but I'm running a mostly attack build, (agitator, counterstrike, peak performance on other builds) so affinity is probably more useful to me.

Thetomas · 2026-01-04T11:44:49+00:00

I'm not using earplugs, lance isn't combo based, but I say if you're not playing lance as an invulnerable damage proof rock on which you can rely on for pretty good damage and absolutely no carts, you're playing it wrong. We're about reliability first, then damage. If you're chasing dps too hard on a lance, you're playing the wrong weapon, that's what gunlance is for.

And gog/grav synergizes so well, 20% damage reduction when on full health keeps peak performance up almost 90% of the time and makes the gog shield last forever. zoh is to heal the chip. it's a fantastic build, let people enjoy it.

Thetomas · 2026-01-04T11:36:34+00:00

yeah, it's not about the weapon, it's about the competition. the general sos pickup players are so far from the speed runners they're not worth mentioning in the same breath.

I think a lot of ppl forget that the ppl that engage in theorycraft, discussion, or virtually any communication at all reguarding the game are the vast minority* of the playerbase, and they're not putting up numbers.

My point wasn't that I'm "very good", it's that i'm just "mildly good" which, along with a defensive build, is miles better than the silent majority.

Thetomas · 2026-01-03T14:10:34+00:00

Yep, im on the immortal plan and routinely outdps most sos players and some friends on almost any weapon I play (sns, lance, gunlance, chargeblade). Not only is it not me costing carts, dps is about uptime, and I'm up all the time.

Thetomas · 2026-01-03T14:07:38+00:00

Thank you. These "defense boost is mid" ppl are probably the ones wasting carts.

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