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Friends with benefits🤨❓

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by 上里 空良@Kamisato__Sora

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Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

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i can fix her i can fix her i can fix her i can fix her

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Goat Lolita

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Boba break aftermath 🧋

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by dethmaid@dethmaid

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NO PEEKIN'!

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Leaked from Suletta's secret folder

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Things I want to eat in the dungeon:

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Jett.mp4

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whenever people talk about working in an office i never even consider what their office does. they work at Business doing Business Things. have Meetings and Drink Coffee. you are a cartoon character to me

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by としのしん@toshinoshin00

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by andrewcockroach@andrewcockroach

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EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS: HELP OUT WITH HOSPITAL BILLS

Hello I'm opening commissions to help out my partner's dad and his family pay for their hospital bills.

I'm opening portrait/headshot commissions in the style below for just $20. All proceeds will directly go to my partner's family. I accept payments through paypal and wise transfer

If you cant spare any funds, sharing would be a great help as well!

Feel free to DM me here or through Discord (eena_23) for any inquries. Thank you!

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From the Training Grounds to the pool

Wielding my weapon, I take a deep breath and aim. It misses again. Quickly replacing my frustration with determination, I take another arrow and charge my shot. 

I stare towards the olympic-sized pool, breathless after my 10th attempt at freestyle, and my 30th time of drinking pool water. I shake my head, determined to get this right, and take a dive again.

One of the appeals of Monster Hunter is its semi-simulated feel for the controls and gameplay. Each weapon requires a different kind of training and mindset, as well as different areas of focus from where you draw your strength from. You feel your mindset change as you get accustomed to the weapon’s moveset, timing and speed. It’s almost as if I can relate it to a real-life athletic activity, where you have to give time to train and master the form so you can move with optimized use of energy and time. 

Yes, anyone can wield a weapon. Yes anyone can run. But it takes a learned hunter who dedicated time to understand their weapon of choice to fell a monster with such mastery. It takes learning about proper form for someone to lift weights, swim across the pool, and run, with minimal injury and ease of movement. 

This is where I realized that a big source of my frustration comes from me just “winging” it both realms of “athletic pursuit.” As long as I can shoot arrows, I’ll be able to defeat the monster right? As long as I can paddle, I can reach the end of the pool?

Well, yes and no. My past experiences from different hunts and different sports finally led me to believe that while it is possible for me to achieve this, I wouldn’t get anywhere to the next level without making an effort to have an in-depth learning of each weapon; of each sport. 

I used to be content with just wielding a hammer, swing my way around until I manage to defeat the monster. But the beauty of the game is that its difficulty is designed for you to eventually reach a wall where you are pushed to learn other skillsets to aid you in your hunt and to think creatively to outsmart your target. Where I eventually have to listen to other hunters who have gone before me and take tips (in regulation, for I still want to grow as a hunter from my own experiences). 

It’s quite similar with undertaking new kinds of sports. With running, you need to learn the proper form to avoid knee and foot injury, and be able to travel greater distances. In weight training, you need to do beginner warmups and work your way to the heavier weights, keeping in mind your breathing, form and gravitational pull. With swimming, you need to practice breathing, streamlining your body and timing of your strokes to get the most out of your energy and reach the other side successfully and smoothly. 

And that’s why I love Monster Hunter’s feel for the real. I can make comparisons like these and it makes these endeavors more enjoyable despite the pain of training. I can visualize carrying a hammer while I practice deadlifts, applying the techniques that we’re taught to me while envisioning my hunter doing the same thing with her weapon.  There is a sense of fulfillment in discovering what body part you needed to move in order to finally do the form correctly—and the same excitement goes for when you finally execute the combo, all because you took your time to read and practice the correct sequence of the buttons.

In both aspects of training, there is a sense of accomplishment in witnessing and achieving greater progress by taking your time to learn, rather than just “winging” it and see what happens. 

Having these in mind, I was able to swim across the pool and breathe a little more, drinking a little less. This is because I watched a few videos and listened to some experienced swimmers (aka my parents) that I learned about looking behind me when I raise my body slightly to gain some air from my mouth. I also applied what I watched from a video about using my hips as the pivot to turn my body sideways and keep it streamlined—use the core, not the upper body.  I was able to deal significant damage using my bow, executing the combo I wanted to learn. This was due to me poring through the pages of the bow’s basic and advanced controls, looking at the combos UI, and practicing them… Again and again. 

All I did was take my time in learning the correct way to do these things. Moreover, another similarity between the hunts and the sports was having a goal.  Personally, I haven’t defeated the Fatalis yet. As a hunter, I have only heard of myths and legends who have faced the formidable black dragon and lived to tell the tale. Additionally, I have dared to dream of finishing an Ironman race. Even just the half Ironman would do for me.  These seem unattainable in my current skill on each field, but that is why I have to stop waving my weapon aimlessly and start taking aim.

  Ready. Aim. Swim. 

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Rough first pass done