I also dabbled in the monster hunter wilds beta. It was what I expected and I'll be happy to play the full version when it's released. I think I bonked every monster available, both large and small. I tried out the weapons I'm likely to use.

Gunlance felt ok, light bow gun was interesting but more complicated than I expected. Bow was mostly the same but with some friendly additions. Switch axe ended up being my favorite of the beta. That thing just hits so quickly and wounds to easily that I don't know if they oops'd the damage on it, or if I was just getting lucky. There were times when I'd break and make wounds in such a way that the monster would be basically stunned for a decently long period of time. If I had been partied up it would have been much too efficient. The other thing about it is the mobility of certain slashes. It took a bit getting used to, but it covers a lot of ground for a heavy blade.

After all that, I discovered the capture net would give both the insects and their essences, so I ran around hunting for endemic life and found a lot of little critters I otherwise would have missed. There's a hornet that was endemic but could also poison you!

And I spent some time fishing. They really changed it up in this one. You need to reel in the line slowly to actually entice the fish to bite. I wasn't completely comfortable with it at the end of the beta, but it also feels like they're going to work on it a bit more.

As for other stuff I played. I continue my usual dedication to a few missions a week in helldivers 2. It's a very fun game made by some very dedicated folks, and I'm down to blast some things every now and then. I finally got my nerve up to continue playing satisfactory. I usually stop right around coal power because it's at that point that you can really automate the world... It's just the amount of math and just waiting on materials to build so you can finally get exponential with your growth. I'm still very much in that stage currently. I need to upscale everything but I'm waiting for materials and to make sure my power situation is handled before I go nuts.

I read this article a couple days ago. It reminded me of this short tale:

https://youtube.com/shorts/GUtBjDYBOhU?si=-hXDUDwelGAWdhtl

Here's a video about it for ya.

And it gets to the point at around 50 minutes.

Ideally, yes.

Realistically for the time being, good god no. It'd be a cyber security nightmare.

I don't. Mostly because this isn't a trick or treat neighborhood.

I probably would though, given the option.

I agree with all points, each of these characters has been fleshed out enough that it's simple enough to know that Kazuma would take one bad death and instantly NEET himself into a hole as fast as possible.. and if anything would somehow get himself in a death softlock where he likely couldn't progress.... but if the story was written in a way where Kazuma was the main protagonist and the various needs to get him moving were placed before him, I believe it'd be many times more enjoyable to watch than the understandably determined Subaru.

If Kazuma wasn't able to hole up and was plot railroaded on like it sometimes seems Subaru is, I think he'd figure out the best (quick/painless) ways to reset himself and generally move things along at a better clip.

More importantly than that though, his understanding of the death system would lead to WAAAAAAY worse checkpoints. He's not the kind of guy to act with any care given to consequences when he knows that death is a quick reset away from whatever he does. The actual timeline for Kazuma would be cursed to the point that his actions assuming no consequences would probably be the thing to get him softlocked in a horrible ending of constant death.

I had this conversation with a friend last weekend about how I'd enjoy the show multitudes more if Kazuma of konosuba and Subaru switched places. Not saying Subaru isn't protagonist material, but saying that growth for him is slow doesn't begin to describe it.

And for all of Kazuma's faults, he's nothing if not a clever schemer.

Deleting old installs.

And upon taking possession of and then deleting them how aggressively the browsers I am using are collecting and maintaining files on me. It shouldn't take 40 minutes to delete browser files from an install that only lasted 2 months.

I haven't noticed too many of them running rampant this year. Though I certainly did have one jump on me yesterday.

This has explained the logic gates to me in a way I'd never understood before.. And for that I'm glad.

Is it a reference I don't get, or do you happen to know someone else in a strikingly similar situation?

It's not satire?