the great gilded elder

Kieran, 22, he/him butch dyke, TERFS fuck off and die, dirty little commie, i love my wife, MH3U enjoyer, dont follow me if you came from my house post

[goldbeard-ceadeus]

Can't believe I haven't Ceadeus posted at all but man, Ceadeus is one of my absolute favourite monsters. The design, music, and regard Moga Village has for it. It is a creature from a different age, an age of an ancient civilization that was sunken through some great calamity (likely Dire Miralis attempting to baptize the world in fire, since it can fire huge meteors out of its back, it stands to reason a consistent assault from it would sink a city. There is also a theory that this is the castle you fought Lao in FU). And its design supports this, it's white, glowing, almost like a ghost. Its horns constantly growing until they blind the beast. Similarly to how Hunter Hubs grow endlessly until they are blinded by their own progress. The theme being called "Moonquake" also makes sense, as it is similarly coloured to the moon, and is likely large enough to affect the tides in its immediate surrounding. Or, it's simply a reference to a possible belief held by the people of Moga.

"We ask of the meaning of life

We ask of the image of life

Now, let us give birth to a new song

The sound of the sea is the chain of life

Resonating with life, hailing the earth

The liberty of life, the harmony of the sun

It is the song that connects us all

This voice of the sea is the melody of life

The tune of life, the beat of the earth

The breath of life, the harmony of the sun

It is the song that we all sing

All will chant

Wishing for will and heart

All will raise their instruments

Imagination, desire, and thought

A new song, birthed within us."

I also think the lyrics lend credence to the idea that Ceadeus is a deity to the people of Moga, the voice of the sea. Which makes sense, because when the quakes happen, they describe hearing this groaning, thumping sound from the depths. This creature is a god, an Elder Dragon, and it demands respect.

It just is such good, subtle writing. Monster Hunter always has some pretty barebones and honestly, poorly written storytelling when it's NOT subtextual, but man, when it is, it's great. The developers really have a strength for leaving small hints that contribute to the greater whole.

And Ceadeus is so interesting to me because he isn't even the final boss, but he is treated like a king in both song and environment. The Ruins are his "castle". His horns, his crown.

Just. GAH. I love MH3U

[ba1laur]

i kept going while you stopped growing

[goldbeard-ceadeus]

@thelilyofeire

[damnwyverngems]

15 years ago, December 10th, is the release date of Monster Hunter 3G!

Flagship monster, Brachydios!

[goldbeard-ceadeus]

Transmisogyny truly is so normalized that people don't even think about trans women before they say shit like "women have it better than men online!" (Which is also false lol) and it's so like. you do not even realize that you're saying trans women aren't women by saying that in the first place. Because you have never seen them as women

[goldbeard-ceadeus]

i guess ive been in the bathroom for too long because my girlfriend just unlocked the door (from the outside), poked her head in and went WOOOAAUUUUGHH because the stench was so intense

Which was then followed up by "SHITTING HARD OR HARDLY SHITTING?"

[chloebangbang]

as much as I think kris is transfem because of the mancountry stuff and because I want any transfem nonbinary characters and because I think the body spray gag is 1000x more funny if the body spray was kris's before they came out, I do think the biggest thing to me is the the thematic thing that makes me read them as transfem to me is how the community has misgendered them constantly and how that hits way harder if they are transfem. male is always seen as the default for ambiguous characters, to the point where I have not seen one single person she/her kris by default, and I do think that's an important thing if this game is doing anything with themes of gender, that they're even being subjected to transmisogyny outside the game

[dogpuppy]

[goldbeard-ceadeus]

@nichicheeya

[sonbunny]

the leftism leaving people's bodies when you tell them fat people are human and actually it's fucked up to say that your worst nightmare is to look like us

[normalmammal]

I’m so pro abortion I feel insane hearing any other take on it

[normalmammal]

Even lefties I know will eventually concede to some situation where they think it’s right to force someone to carry a child against their will as if that’s not one of the most inhumane and cruel situations to put someone in regardless of any other factors

[orcboxer]

it's meee I'm your guardian angel hiiiiii 😇 okay🙏 so. in about six months, you're gonna die of starvation. 🥺 and if I don't protect you, I will get: #fired! 🫢 and that is No Good 🙅‍♀️ hahaaa So. 🙏 I looked into causes of starvation, and it turns out: Your death is totally preventable! 😯 Uh oh! 😆 There's more than enough food to sustain you without interfering with anyone else's survival, but you're not allowed to have it! 🤨 Whaaat? 🤷‍♀️ Apparently, your death is premeditated by thousands of things called "shareholders." So. 🙏 I've been killing people,

[goldbeard-ceadeus]

saw a video of a very smooth woman going "that's so cool!" in response to an older sapphic person telling her about the Pink Panthers and I just. What? What is cool about being beaten/abused/raped so frequently that your people need to be there to physically protect you? I should be allowed to hit you with a bus

[goldbeard-ceadeus]

oh my god i just found out tannis isn't in bl4 what is even the fucking point.....

[official-keyes]

Three Poisonous Berries approach You

thank you @smeemos for creating new berries :3

[smeemos]

we can be so berries together.

[whatacartouchebag]

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge with wild abandon.

[goldbeard-ceadeus]

@nichicheeya

[jennamoran]

this is going to be a controversial one but I think the optimal number of cats for facilitating making the bed is not, in fact, "every cat in the house" but perhaps even ... zero

[rickybabyboy]

dangerous misinformation

[willabee]

good news!!!! (floor vent warm)

[goldbeard-ceadeus]

sad posting canceled wife pet my head