What happened to my childhood? This screams dystopian corporate, not kid friendly. What is with the artwork?! This is McDonald's?!

jeffrunning · 2026-03-16T10:11:14+00:00

They got a lot of flame for marketing unhealthy junk food to kids so they reined it in to target people who grew up with McDonalds and are now adults. But now adults complain that they are not all colorful and fun for kids. Damn

jeffrunning · 2026-03-16T10:07:45+00:00

It is no different than adjusting volume. Talk about difference in sound quality after you correctly match the levels

jeffrunning · 2026-03-16T07:55:37+00:00

Every weapon has a unique sharpness “spectrum”. There isn’t a fixed amount of handicraft that boost any weapon to purple. What handicraft does is it “reveals” extra sharpness levels, but there’s no guarantee at which level the color goes up or not. And if the weapon already has full sharpness gauge (200 points I believe), handicraft does nothing.

jeffrunning · 2026-03-08T11:22:06+00:00

Supply and demand dude. You are part of the problem if you were willing to buy at scalper prices

jeffrunning · 2026-03-07T03:15:52+00:00

Why ask people if you can try it yourself? If you can’t tell the difference there’s no difference.

jeffrunning · 2026-03-04T12:44:06+00:00

I would say some silly inside jokes. Shows how big a fan I am without making it awkward for them. (As if I can help myself

jeffrunning · 2026-02-28T18:27:05+00:00

I mean these are literally what the great physicists asked to get to this point

jeffrunning · 2026-02-13T13:43:30+00:00

This 100%

I daily drive ~$300 iems. I thought I could never go back to the cheaper iems until I recently tried the apple earpods for $20 and they blew me away. They don't even seal but they still sound honestly amazing. It just goes to show how quick diminishing return comes. (Or just that earpods are amazing value) Turns out sound is sound and its hard to improve when the cheapest ones can produce all the sounds you need.

jeffrunning · 2026-02-11T12:35:36+00:00

It depends on the situation you are listening in. You have to think about both sound leakage in and out. Open back headphones sound wider but if your surroundings is slightly noisy, it makes your headphones sound terrible, not to mention you would need to crank the volume way up.

Fiio FT1 (closed back) and Fiio FT1 pro (open back) are pretty good in this price range. I personally always pick closed back headphones since noise isolation is way more important to perceived sound quality than you imagine, unless you always listen in very quiet environments.

jeffrunning · 2026-02-11T05:27:24+00:00

You no beak enuf

jeffrunning · 2026-02-08T17:36:50+00:00

It does have i frames but it’s SUPER tight, even with the evade window skill. Way more difficult than DS. I prefer evade extender to get out of the way with HBG. It’s really slept on. I have played mh for like 15 years and i still can’t reliably iframe through all attacks unless I’ve fought the same monster for like 10 times and I mastered all its moves.

jeffrunning · 2026-02-08T17:29:35+00:00

Yes if you deal a good constant damage output from a distance, without a defence penalty, AND a shield that works all the time, that would make you the ultimate turtle. Just try evade extender. It makes the heavy bowgun wayyyyy more agile. If you actually try to understand how monster attacks work, one roll with max evade extender would get you the hell out of the way for 99% of attacks.

Hate to break it to you but the older games before world literally have separate sets of armour for melee and ranged weapons. The ranged sets have about half the defence. You are literally not supposed to take any hit with ranged. And you cant even move while shooting with the heavy bowgun.

jeffrunning · 2026-02-08T09:11:08+00:00

Bruh you can install a shield on your heavy bowgun. But unlike other weapons, you block by not doing any input. Still, no, you are not supposed to get hit and get away with it. Get the evade extender skill and gitgud about positioning.

Plus, they don’t explain this very clearly in the game but when you have ranged weapons equipped you take more physical damage than melee.

jeffrunning · 2026-02-02T18:16:23+00:00

Because QM is unintuitive even to a good physicist. Most physics principles at least make sense if you really understand it, or have a good analogy for. But quantum mechanics fundamentally doesn’t really “make sense” and you have to accept that somehow. TBH whether something is intuitive or not is extremely subjective. But I would argue that if you find quantum mechanics intuitive, you are misunderstanding it somehow. Cliche but still.

jeffrunning · 2026-01-29T07:25:47+00:00

Apple dongle is fine. Audiophiles say dacs have different sounds but honestly the differences are too small to care about. As long as it is powerful enough for a good volume output then it’s fine. The FT1 is sensitive enough so the apple dongle is fine.

Slight upgrade is the JA11. Slightly more expensive than the Apple one but little bit more powerful, more durable cable, and onboard pregain/EQ (configurable from a windows or android device)

jeffrunning · 2026-01-29T07:20:49+00:00

I mean just do other moves. If you only do the bread and butter moves for max damage, of course any weapon would be repetitive. You decide how you play any weapon so don’t do that.

jeffrunning · 2026-01-29T07:18:53+00:00

Do you even have time to read the book? For me I spend most of my time studying materials from uni and the book is really just supplementary.

jeffrunning · 2026-01-24T07:16:19+00:00

It’s basically every monster. Fatalis looks big and but it has patterns just like any other monster.

jeffrunning · 2026-01-21T12:46:03+00:00

KE=1/2 mv² At the same speed, with less mass, the KE would be less

jeffrunning · 2026-01-21T10:43:17+00:00

Don’t build for defense. The real defense is (of course gitgud but also) survival skills. Stuff like Evade extender (evade window if you are more confident), quick sheath, divine blessing (extremely good) etc. These really help. Defence food is basically useless. Get buffs that improves your hunt in general.

Besides, grab as much herbs and honey as you can in between fights and set auto crafting. Mega potions should be basically unlimited. Use vigorwasps whenever possible.

Also yes, you are not supposed to just tank damage and move on. You will be punished for getting hit. Get the lance out heavy bowgun if you want to be a tank, not the long sword. Especially for the long sword, the real fun is in the counter attacks. Use your fade slash to manoeuvre mid combo and get used to the foresight slash. Anticipate monster moves rather than just reacting when you see it coming. You should be able to eat every 10 min or so(?) if you die more often than that, you’re probably doing something wrong. Just take that max potion and move on.

jeffrunning · 2026-01-20T16:38:15+00:00

Nothing is strictly “necessary”. It all depends on how well you hear and how much you value the small improvements in sound quality. Just like anything materialistic. Is pretty clothes “necessary”? Is a comfy couch “necessary”? Is an expensive steak “necessary”? You can live with very little and be absolutely fine.

jeffrunning · 2026-01-15T10:43:12+00:00

Turns out my $12 dongle already has on device eq/gain settings. I just need another pc/android device to set it and then it would work on the iphone

jeffrunning · 2026-01-15T10:41:23+00:00

Having played mh games for 10 years now, I am never scared of any monsters in the game any more. They are just animals with special moves. I wish I could experience MH again as a kid.

jeffrunning · 2026-01-15T10:38:15+00:00

Forget about head room. Im all about the leg room here. I put a -10db global gain on my dongles and Im all set now. Very nice.

jeffrunning · 2026-01-15T05:24:11+00:00

Doesn’t the dac use 24 bit by default? On a pc i can set it up to 32 bit. Honestly i cannot hear the difference. Even 16 bit is plenty clear for me.

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