Australian here, we’re in the shit. A good chunk of our rural voters support the LNP (who are doing everything they can to copy Trump). Universal healthcare has been slashed down to an inch of its life, and employment prospects are terrible for most everyone under 50.

If you’re looking to escape the rise of facism, don’t. Come. Here. We’re lockstepping with the US and unless our upcoming election goes beautifully, we’ll get even worse.

Star Wars. God help you if you actually like The Acolyte or the sequels, they’ll flay you alive while they harass everyone involved in the making of.

Orb.

All This Shit is Weird:

The Dalek_Thal Story

Fuck, I definitely drank too much, how the fuck did it cycle back to 2008?

Seriously mate, you didn’t warn about the TVTropes link? Some of us need to go to bed!

Hey mate, I’m doing a quick response rn and will return at some point to properly write up a lengthier response!

The claw can happen in Frontier if you’re running the default controls - I’ve been playing in Portable mode though, which uses the Tri Classic Controller scheme, although my experience was it’s a pain in the backside to figure out how to change the controls if you’re not used to Freedom Unite’s menus (Frontier was based on Dos)

As for the variety, Frontier boasts something like 188 unique monsters including subspecies, rare species and other variants. Each of these has their weapons (to no one’s surprise). In addition there are two unique weapon classes that haven’t appeared in any other games - the Tonfas which are basically very short dual blades that punch and give air time, unique buffs and a powered-up explosive attack, (think a proto-Insect Glaive), and the Magnet Spike which is the most unbalanced thing I have ever had the pleasure of using in a video game - it simply melts most G Rank monsters. Further, the game has an extra layer of difficulty above G Rank called “Zenith” which includes fifteen unique variants of existing monsters, which has similarities with Deviants from GU. If Frontier does appeal to you, I recommend you track down PewPewDojo’s discord, they can get you set up with a private server.

Can relate to your comments about GU, it’s a massive game and honestly even after playing it for nearly four hundred hours over the span of the last five years I’m still discovering new stuff.

I’ve always been intrigued by Wild Hearts tbh, never had the chance though (it came out during my thesis and just kinda slipped by). I really do need to try it though.

Hello fellow Monster Hunter! Similar experience, but it gets worse as someone who really likes Monster Hunter Frontier - because not even die-hard classic MH players will touch it, because of the perception that it’s “too anime”. It’s sad, because honestly it’s a great time, no other game in the series has Frontier’s level of variety.

Can’t concentrate at work, and so stressed that food doesn’t seem friendly.

But maybe things will work out this evening. Either that, or it’ll get much worse. Definitely feeling at a crossroads.

Yeah, blinked the other day. Now this bloke keeps following me and telling me I’m in Hull.

That was disproven several times - the guy who claimed it even admitted he’d altered Palworld’s assets to show that supposed ‘similarity’

I second this. My life massively improved when I started to set out to leave the world a better place than I found it in - on average, people feel happier when around a friendly person

Afraid that article is only true in the US and Canada - in Australia there’s no sign of Classic Doctor Who anywhere

Nah that makes sense mate. I’m afraid I no longer have reddit - nuked it went I moved here on principle, so we’ll just have to have a bit of patience. Have a good one in any case, I’ll chat with you when you can :)

Chucked it through mate, hopefully it’s working. My instance is Aussie.zone, so should’ve dodged the problem

Will do mate honestly, thanks so much!

Funny thing mate, I’m hoping to create a master collection precisely because I’m the kind of nerd who enjoys the reconstructions - huge fan of the audios and novels, so I absolutely think I’m goimg to follow your suggestions around starting points and go from there. Largely it’s not strictly for a “complete rewatch”, moreso it’s about wanting to be able to read/watch/listen to pretty much everything on my own terms

Indeed! Been buying Big Finish for years as well, so I’ve got a great collection of audios!

Very true, but I’m in the wrong country and VPNs are inconsistent at best with iplayer

FWIW mate, very familiar with the missing episodes - largely have copies of the remaining soundtracks. What I’m looking for is a way to watch everything else. iPlayer could be doable in any case, although I’m aware they have a habit of blocking VPNs, so I’d appreciate a method a little more foolproof