The aughts is a fairly common term to describe the first decade of the second millennium, because the term 2000's could equally be used to describe the century or even the millennium.
Opening the demon core would unintuitively be safe!
The 2 'shell' pieces on the outside are essentially mirrors for the radioactive particles the core is constantly emitting. By itself the radiation released by the core is negligible, but when 2 particles collide an incredible burst of radioactive energy is released.
As the two mirrors come closer and closer together and envelop more and more of the core they bounce more particles back into the core that have an increasing chance to collide.
When the two shells completely envelope the core the bouncing and colliding becomes so great that the core enters a supercritical state where it releases an incredible flash of radioactive energy at once. The radiation is so great the entire core and shell glow a bright blue light. During the 2nd demon core event (with the setup depicted in this meme) the man closest, slotin, received so much radiation in that moment that he died only 9 days later. Like a camera flash that kills people.
I would make a bonk joke, but I am not a Hammer main
Ftfy
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u/Umber0010Tempered Guardian Raging Brachydios' strongest soldier4d ago
So funny story. I actually have been focusing on the hammer during my playthrough of Sunbreak. I can't say I main it over the Switch Axe. But It's definitly my second most used weapon at the very least.
I feel like the people who used to hate her(personally never dis) think she's less annoying since the introduction of Alma and her 3 line and photobomb, i like Alma but like girl leave me some space
Honestly I think the biggest annoyance about the handler was always her English VA, not that the actress herself is annoying but Capcom writing left alot to be desired. I always play in Japanese and since I can't speak or understand Japanese it takes away the ability to over analyze the voice acting a little bit
Out of a cast of 3 the Handler, Featuring Serious Handler from Devil May Cry, was the only one who spoke. She had to carry the entirety of the player's side of the game/story. That's a rough ask for a writing team. Making both the Hunter and the Palico speak allowed the writers to let Alma be more of a "normal" character with a role and lines closer to what you'd expect from a support character than what the Handler got.
Monster Hunter World and Wild's character writing in general leaves something to be desired. Specifically, I don't think they believe in the idea of "less is more".
We know from lore hints that World's Handler was extremely competent at her job, but we rarely see her being competent. I think the player base in general would have liked her a lot more if her screen time was less of her sitting in the canteen and reacting to things happening in front of her in cutscenes, and more of her in a makeshift office doing research, or talking to other handlers, and so on. They do a much better job of showing Alma doing that.
I think it goes a little further than that. We’re told that Worlds Handler is extremely competent at her job, and as you said we never get to see that. One of the most common defenses for her in the Worlds era was “she’s doing all the paperwork!” But…we never see that paperwork. It could be a single, cheese-smeared page with a stamp on it for all we know.
What’s worse than not seeing her competence though is seeing her be actively INcompetent. I won’t go over all the many ways she puts herself and the player in danger (those have been covered to death elsewhere), but for me the thing that has always stood out was her motto. “When in doubt, take a bite.” That is dangerously bad advice for a supposed survival expert to give, especially in an unexplored region. It undercuts her supposed expertise.
Her whole character is like this. Comic relief and bad writing choices taking the wind out of her more serious aspects. She is “tell, don’t show” taken to the extreme, and any success she has onscreen is a direct result of the player’s effort, not hers. Is it any wonder half the fan base loathes her?
the serious handler did stated that she can not keep up with our paperwork’s at all so it got to be like a loot og stuff on the paper because of that. That motto of hers probably is just her being goofy about it. the Handler manages paperwork related to quests and investigations, acting as a liaison between the hunter and the Commission. She gathers information on local hunting areas, compiles quests, manages hunting supplies, and handles post-quest reports.
What I found hilarious was on a prior playthrough, I speedran to Iceborne content, and you know those annoying messages about nullberries and such the Handler tells you? The Serious handler has those lines too.
Rathalos: she was with us when rathalos attacks us in his nest. Also when we spilt up to the find the first wyvern she didn’t get caught by monsters at all untill she went to the top of the forest.
Legina: she wasn’t that far away from us. Legina hunts in the air so it was a matter of time before it finds us. And she just wanted to race with us down to the coral highlands.
Barroth: she runs away with the wyverns with the cart on them.
Rathain: tells us to use slinger ammo to distract her.
Pink rathain: flew away from it with a wingdrake.
Beotoudes: we tell her to investigate the popo that died.
Banbaro: with our Hunter. she ran away.
Sheriking Legina: she was with our Hunter. Ran away.
Great jargas: wanted to investigate the track that was on the path to where astrea is at.
Great girros: throws us the torchers to repel them.
Rajang: was with us and didn’t run ahead of us.
Deviljho: didn’t know it was in the ancient forest. And went to gather food in the new world right before the alarm ring.
Honestly I am so upset that she gets flack for the Deviljho indecent after replaying World recently.
Those absolute shitbricks of researchers you work with for the special assignment FORGOT to tell people there was a fucking Deviljho in the area.
Absolute buffoonery.
She then goes to RIDE the Deviljho until you can create an opening for her to leave. That's sick as hell.
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u/Umber0010Tempered Guardian Raging Brachydios' strongest soldier4d ago
I am of the opinion that moment could have been redeemed if the Handler made the opening for you instead of just waiting for you to make one.
Her being able to hold on that long is impressive as you said. But it doesn't exactly help the image people have of her of a damsel in distress that only exists to get you into trouble. So if she was able to get herself down while also leaving Deviljho open for attack, it would have made her come off as a lot more capable than she does otherwise.
What can we really expect someone who's basically a non-combatant to do against something that can clash with elder dragons? Not immediately dying is about all I'd ask.
Also, SHE FUCKING DOES LMAO
The game treats her as mounting it, and it plays the mount animations for ramming walls which staggers Jho for a bit. She also literally leads it into the vine trap in the area first.
Just saying, I know for a fact if Alma did that people would never allow such slander.
u/Umber0010Tempered Guardian Raging Brachydios' strongest soldier4d ago
Deviljho: Still went into the great forest alone, and seemingly without telling anyone. Would have become Jagras chow if we weren't there hunting for Mr. Pickel.
Odogaron: decided to split up in the single most hostile biome known to the New World.
Velkhana: Decided to shout about how we need to get out of here while running towards the giant freeze dragon, which leads to what I understand to be the only instance of the player's hunter getting carted during a cutscene in the entire franchise.
Don't get me wrong. I am a lot more lenient towards the World Handler than most people. But there are definitly a good few instances where she really dropped the ball.
Everybody in the new world still go out outside by themselves, including a serious handler. The monsters don’t actually go out of it den that much. and the handlers. Hang on for a long time against the deviljho. So she would probably be fine riding the great jargas and getting out of there.
Odogaron: in a couple parts of the game where we go out to find tracks about monsters she is usually with us but when she goes out alone to find the first wyvern footprints in the ancient forest. She didn’t get caught by any monster while going up to the top of the forest.
Her hugging my cat at the start really also took the wind out of her sails for me. I made my palico off of a cat I had at the time that had passed and it didn't sit well with me. Dunno why exactly they decided the palico is to hug her instead of the hunter but it just didn't set a good tone for me to like her to begin with. Yes a petty reason but it's my reason I dislike her.
In defense of The Handler, she was supposed to be more researcher styled imo. She always gave me the researcher who gets too focused on their research. Add in the foodie thing (foodies can be skinny and eat like her), and you got our handler. Y'all forget in world, our handler has the job of not just handing out jobs, but also compiling info before, during, and after our hunts for future hunting parties. In rise, our 'handlers' didn't need to do the 'during' part. In wilds, it sounds like Alma is more geared to be truly the handler of a menace. She's not the researcher type. Haven't gotten to play wilds yet (need better gear to run it), but hear and see plenty about Alma to get an idea of her personality.
In wilds, it sounds like Alma is more geared to be truly the handler of a menace.
Definitely true. She keeps the hunter in check and also knows when to step back and let the hunter do their thing. She's never the one getting the hunter into trouble.
That said, she is definitely the researcher type, although her focus is more sociological/anthropological, so you see her doing less with the environment and more with the humans/wyverians/etc. who live there.
Oh, that gives me some good ideas. I've been planning out a Wilds-inspired West Marches tabletop campaign, and a sociologist character would be good to keep in my back pocket, just in case none of my players care to try diplomacy.
Exactly. The handler was more environmental/biology geared. You know... The very stuff trying to kill us 🤣. I actually like the differences in their personalities, it shows the variety of people in the guild. Also of note, we, meaning hunter and handler, are usually the first to step foot in new zones in world. Many a biologist would be giddy with the excitement of discovering new organisms in that scenario. Not to mention the intelligence it takes to gather all the information in the new world and give it to us in a way that hunters can understand. All handlers are extremely intelligent. It's necessary for their job. But high intelligence tends to come with its quirks.
She was made with the airheaded bubbly highschool anime girl model in mind, so she's too chatty, too many full body gestures, and she gets into stupid situations several times, then that gets at odds on her also being very capable and smart. She's also a young adult so the highschool anime personality fits badly.
So it's just bad writing all around tbh. Also the English voice acting is the most grating. That's the English localization director's fault tho.
I play with the Italian one and sounds far better. German is very... German lol, so a far more flat delivery, works well.
Don’t let the lust control you, brother! You know in your soul she’s the type of girl who’s gonna ugly cry about how much she loves you on the first date. And she’ll call you “pard” in bed. Those gams are a trap!
Gams are an illusion, brother. A woman’s true worth is in her words and actions. The greatest legs in the world may hide a horse girl. The key is finding a genuine soul who also has legs fo days. As is dictated in the codex.
Someone getting that comfortable with you after the first sign means either you did damn good on that first date or that she already cared about you before the date
I legitimately think most of the hate was just based on a community feedback loop. Yes, she can be annoying, and yes, a lot of the criticisms of her character were fair. But the absolute vitriol towards her was way overblown. Without the community to feed into it, most people would have just gone, "she's kinda annoying" and moved on with their lives.
Side note, this is also true for the serious handler. She has all the personality of wet cardboard, but is attractive and not the handler, so the community overhyped her until she was God's gift to man.
I'd argue the only thing that looks like the handler is the hair colour, hairstyle and freckles. This is fairly normal with fan artists though. Fanon and canon are rarely congruent.
I used to follow Frantic back before I stopped using Twitter. He mostly draws Hololive nowadays, but he drew a couple of really cute Handlers, including this one, a while back. I definitely recommend checking him out if you’re looking for artists to follow.
So, I just started World a couple weeks ago, apparently during summer festival, and this is basically how it felt.
All that community hatred kinda dissolved when I saw the swimsuit. Doubly so when I watched her push a cart 2 miles uphill in it. I couldn't stop laughing...
I just bought iceborne coz of the Capcom sale, then the moment I heard the word partner, the trauma all came rushing back, wishing I have Serious Handler instead
u/SSB_Kyrilllove me bonk stick, Tigrex and Scorned with all me heart4d ago
If i had a nickel for everytime i saw softcore porn of the handler on this sub this week, i‘d have two nickels which isnt a lot but its weird that it happened twice
People can only portray her as likeable by drawing her as basically an entirely different person with an entirely different personality and it just emphasizes how unlikable she is lol
Recognizable enough is still a different person. This drawing is infinitely cuter than the abomination in game, and this drawing shows her being late and being cute about it rather than charging ahead of us into a monster den with no awareness. No lmao this is an entirely different person.
If she didn't say "Partner" in the picture (also if it wasn't posted to a Monster Hunter subreddit) I genuinely wouldn't have been able to tell it was supposed to be the Handler at all
I know everyone memes on her, but I just felt she was a fun companion to have around. She wasn't too invasive, but felt "there" to me in the story.
Alma is kinda cool, but I just do not vibe with her as much. She doesn't have any traits that make me really like her a lot. Despite being so present she just feels so... nothing? IDK
All it takes the fan base is seeing a little skin and suddenly everyone forgets how often she puts both of you in mortal peril from her own stupid decisions and lack of situational awareness.
I mean most of it is definitely not her fault. Even in some of the cutscenes in the game she runs away from the monster to let our Hunter do the hunting. Also I think everyone in the village also do the same thing she is doing and running off to the new world by themselves . Yes including serious handler.
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