It's such a minor thing but the way Gaijin's icon bounces now whenever he speaks is really pleasing

Calling this the Monster Hunter dad podcast went from a joke to a statement of fact, and I'm loving it, lol

As a teacher from a developing country, thank you Gaijin

Can we give a second to appreciate how patient ruri was this episode. He got talked over a bunch at the start but just stayed quiet and patient

The wind blows.... Gaijin: Here's another thing about Sony....

Started out watching Shep play MonHun before I actually played the game then started watching Gaijin then Rurikhan and now Im watching them together. It's literally Monster Hunter Generations in one pod

Unexpected but not unwanted. I love getting to hear about all kinds of people in the MH community

Been following Shepard for a few months, his stream is quite entertaining. Love this podcast more!

I laughed so hard when I realized almost 40% of the podcast is gaijin's therapy session for his Playstation sleep paralysis demon. It was a bit a shame that Stories 2 was not discussed a bit more, in which I would say it's understandable as there is only demo content to discuss now and going nostalgic on the first game would kind of left Ruri out of loop. I personally cannot wait till Ruri plays the entirety of Stories 2 so that you get the whole experience of Stories and discusses it.

Holy shit, Shepard from Socialdissonance!? I loved the Monster Hunter Video Podcast back in the day! I still get a giggle remembering how you discovered what Jho does to people trying to hide in the water.

THIS IS WHAT WE WAITED FOR HECK YEAS Great to see an old school content creator and Mh podcast veteran on this

This is the best guest so far imo. He really reacts well to the conversation with you guys and is quick witted and funny. I didnt know him til now and will search his vids.

29:28 "There are still Vita games coming out!" Really funny to hear this while doing QA and final programming tweaks for what'll probably be one of the last PS Vita games! Next week is the final deadline for devs/publishers and the last PS Vita games are coming out on PSN late July. So just couple weeks off from the Vita being officially retro!

Can't wait for Rise to have a collab with Dragon's Dogma!

This was SUCH an entertaining podcast! Thanks for moderating and fueling such a great conversation Ruri! So many great points of interest were brought up here. 1) Vibing with Gaijin's Sony tirade; completely agree! They're totally dropping the ball. And as someone who was once never interested in xbox, I'm loving their current renaissance! 2) The comment from Capcom regarding all the MHR DLC is extremely disappointing. Regardless of how it was intended to be read, it doesn't change how pathetic the event quests are (now and roadmap) vs the landslide of paid DLC. 3) Talking Gaijin Palico is a WIN! 3) Please bring Shepard back soon, absolutely LOVE hearing all three of you!

Shepard’s Portable 3rd videos were one of my first introductions to this series. Glad he’s still making MH content to this day

I don't remember Gaijin's picture being like this! The simple change of the palico mouth moving and the little bounce is sooo good! 👍 Teachers deserve better. 👏

As a solo player, the only thing I dont want in iceborne is that there are stuffs you cant get because the quest is virtually impossible to solo.

Gaijin finally becoming a Felyne Vtuber/Persona with that animations haha

45:45 "respects its players" i couldnt agree more.

Hearing gaijin rant and complain so much is honestly kinda refreshing

These podcasts get better every time. Anyone else agree?

As a PlayStation fan, Gaijin’s rant was hilarious

Ahh yesss, Dragon's Dogma and Monster Hunter Rise. Thank you to all three of you.

Love this pod! Ruri mentioned a couple of times to stay on Monster Hunter and while that's probably the reason most of us are here, it is entertaining to hear your guys' thoughts on everything else too. You guys aren't just Monster Hunter creators, you're internet personalities. Looking forward to next week!

Started playing Monster Hunter with Freedom Unite, and I remember waiting week to week or month to month for new Monster Hunter Podcasts, and 10 years later seeing Shepherd on the Third Fleet really made my heart happy.

Gaijin's Sony rant reminds me of when Egoraptor expressed his... strong feelings on Subway.

I cannot do math. I struggled my entire life, no matter how hard I tried, even though I stayed after school for tutoring with my teacher. They gave me the minimum passing grade bc they pitied me and I had perfect attendance and did homework. But I failed EVERY test. I have dyscalculia and numbers/formulas get all jumbled in my brain 🤯. Even after being diagnosed with ADHD, they never got me extra time for test taking like they said, but tbh it wouldn't help for math.

First monster that showed me the ropes back on MHFU was Tigrex. It was my first monster hunter game I ever played. I was using long sword. But I got wrecked by tigrex. Nothing I could do helped me win. The lesson I learned from that fight is, not all weapons are good vs all monsters. Once I built a gunlance, and I could block tigrex’s attacks, I finally got my win. Which started my long love affair with gunlance!

Catching up on old episodes now that I’ve finished MHS2 (it was great). Loved this episode; probably my favorite of the bunch up until this point. Everyone in the room is an expert and knows what they’re talking about, and with such a breath of topics too. So fun to hear all the banter on movies and other games. I just bought Dragon’s Dogma for $9 on my PS5. Ready to boot it up later tonight. Also sourcing a PSVita for soul sacrifice (seen all the content on Gaijun’s channel). Very excited about that too. Thanks again!

I knew it, had a hunch when I saw that spiral that it was Shep, good to see you guys finally getting him on, cant wait to dive into this one cheers!

Rise Ultimate is definitely gonna be DLC that will have it's own subtitle, like Iceborne. You can also buy MHR with the expansion bundled with (though it will probably be separate download due to cartridge size limit). Rise with DLC will be sold for the normal game price, Rise alone will get 25-40% price cut and DLC will be 29-39 bones separately. And it will include whatever they wanna call G rank in this gen.

For me math in monster hunter IS relatively simple. The problem is, there is only specific situations where I'd actually need that stuff. And it's really easy to end up in a rabbit hole with all the buffs the game has and how to optimize damage that it CAN start to feel overwhelming. I like to keep things quite simple. Not even considering motion values or anything overly complex. Generally I do fine with knowing monster hitzones, my true raw/element and how many hits a sharpness I have. Some interesting things are things like counting hits to break parts, cause paralysis or poison, but anything beyond those it gets a bit too much. Motion value isn't something that's truly necessary outside of knowing your main combo either.

I'm a teacher in Seoul and I sympathise with what Gaijin is saying. Seating lottery is just a cop-out that takes the responsibility off the teacher. That being said... You absolutely, 100%, can not just "put the problem kids at the back and put the kids who want to learn at the front". That is *one* step away from saying "This 12 year old has different learning needs to my daughter, so prioritise her." Not cool, and most definitely not the move. No 12 year old child is equipped to decide whether or not they "want to learn", nor is it our job to make that distinction.

This, and the last podast with Herny, were my absolute 2 favorites so far (followed by #4). Shephard was such a nice and fitting guest, and the vibe you 3 had was awesome! Keep up the good work!

2:57:50 I'm pretty sure Rurikhan's talking about the mod that turns Nergigante into Neptune from the Hyperdimension Neptune series. It's creepy as all hell, and it even comes with Neptune's voice to make it even creepier.

as a first fleeter seeing Shepard brings back good memories

I'm glad someone is aware that there are those of us who still have to hear the normal Behemoth music in astera c': I don't have PS+ so I have to solo Behemoth, and even with master rank gear I was struggling. Haven't tried again in a long time...

Thank you for these podcasts to fill the time between stories 2 and idk how often you get this but I really enjoy the content from your effort put into finding the time to record and edit and set up and coordinating the time to do it all. Fun stories this time!

Timmy, what's your favourite episode of the Third Fleet Podcast? It's the one where gaijin rants about Sony for a reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally long time.

I've known about Shepard since the Teamwork Cast was running, I was super excited to see this happening!

It’s so lovely listening to the dads talk about their kids education it’s adorable

Holy hell this is the ultimate meeting of the minds!!! Just when you think this podcast couldn’t get any better, y’all continue to consistently top yourselves in terms of quality content. What an amazing ride this is to see the podcast grow and develop into something truly special. Thanks for everything you do guys.

I am simple man. I see Dragon’s Dogma. I click.

Gajin I had almost the exact same experience with Sony, except I've also been hacked 3 times even with 2 factor and I had enough. I deleted my account and went to Series X this generation could not be happier. Thanks for what you said about teachers, I'm a teacher myself and some days I really feel under-appreciated.

As a math teacher, I find the start of this episode really interesting. I think the thing with Math is that it's not really about being able to calculate the numbers. I think it's much more important to understand what the numbers mean, so you don't even need to calculate anything to see which weapon is better for example (unless the difference is minor) I think a good example is the misconception that crit is better on weapons that hit more often, because you crit more often (In the absolute sense; %-wise there's no difference of course). However, this only applies if you monster dies is less than 20 hits or so and even then it only means your damage variates less; (on average the damage is the same). Large monsters take way more than 20 hits though.

As a child of two teachers and three generations of teachers I can attest they are definitely underpaid and under appreciated for how much they do and everything they have to deal with

Oh bejeebus. 3 hours? We eating today folks.

Just dropping by to support my boy shepard, he's such a genuine and entertaining guy

Still wear the drachen layered armor to this day on world/iceborne. I remember helping people with Extremoth. I found it really fun.

Referring to the Math topic, I'm thirty and I've only just started to grasp algebra, currently taking a general introductory chemistry class. Wasn't a great student but I'm a much more enthusiastic student now I'm older.

GH and Shepard, both of my original teachers for MH! Nice. On the topic of math: I've gotten over it by now, but up until I was 23 or so I had an actual mental block as soon as I saw formulas written out. Like actual mind = blank moments. I actually almost failed one of my classes because of it around that time. Why? Because my math education was absolutely horrible. I always needed to start cramming months in advance for tests, I had to take private lessons, and I still only barely scraped by. My middle school math teacher was an abusive piece of shit that would bully people that weren't up to par. So everything with numbers became a blur. It wasn't until I got deeper into games like competitive Pokemon and Monster Hunter that this mental block was lifted. The moment I learned I could actually apply math in a field I enjoyed to get better, that was the moment I snapped out of it. With World and Rise it's not as big of a deal, but before damage numbers were a thing, knowing where to strike with what motion based on the numbers presented to me was a big deal. So yeah, if anyone in school wants to overcome their math hate, maybe start with Monster Hunter calculation. That stuff is something you like, so it may just act like a gateway drug. And trust me - once I overcame my most hated subject, my school life became quite a bit better too - lessening learning-related stress can do wonders. By the way: I HATED the teaching profession for most of my life. Nowadays I'm just very critical of it because teachers can make or break a kid mentally VERY easily. As a result, I loved my great teachers (I had... 3... great ones throughout my entire education) but loathed the bad ones. People who are great at it, I look at like I look at Monster Hunter speedrunners - it's a tough job and now I know it and I could never do it properly.

I don't know who Shepard is, but a friend of rurikhan and gaijin is a friend of mine to.

The chemistry and dynamics between these 3 people is breathtaking

I laughed way to hard with this podcast, it was a hilarious trip and it was great seeing Shepard here. Thanks guys!

1:59:00 of this vid is the very 1st time i laughed out loud in weeks. thankyou so much guys

I just wanna say that I noticed the Gaijin icon upgrade

Monster Hunter Podcast reunites Portugal // USA // Japan for 3 hours ! That's cool, right ? ^____^

Totally enjoyed the first 30 mins of the podcast that was more free form and almost totally unrelated to Monster Hunter... y’all have really interesting perspectives and it’s interesting to hear you guys talk about anything basically. Maybe I’m a fanboy but that’s my two cents!

What a wonderful surprise to see the local speedgamer Shepard join the podcast! This is gonna be a fun time.

I only started getting good at maths when I started DMing for D&D when i could visually and physically see the math layed infront of me with the dice. I had terrible teachers for maths and even when i worked as a baker I struggled despite having decent teachers (maths is a huge part of bread making and if you get stuck you can loose your job). But it's interesting when you do maths in something you are interested in you're more likely to pick it up and get better with it but maths isn't the easiest subject to teach students who are visual kestheic learners and untill that changes problems learning it are always going to be present.

Whoa is the cat talking new? This is actually a very nice aesthetic change!

What a great episode. I don't usually watch Shepard's content all that much but he was the best guest appearance i've seen on the podcast, hands down.

Shoutout to Shepard! I saw him here for the first time and he seems very sympathetic und charismatic to me. (Also he expressed a lot of stuff that i feel the exact same way xD) This podcast gave me the feeling that longer talking-videos and podcasts suit him very well ^^

God damn in the last podcast I was thinking to myself, I wonder if Shepard is going to come on sometime.

Best podcast. We need a part two ;)

Gaijin: her class is 30 students Everyone: WOAH Me, a publicly educated Spaniard: sounds about right

Glad to see Shephard aboard ! I was listening to his monster hunter tri podcasts back then it was the only MH related podcasts. And his content is clean and easy to digest nowdays.

Shepard helped bring me to MH. I’ve listened to every episode of his old podcast too, so this episode is a real treat.

There was so much to love about this episode. Best one yet.

banabra is resistant to both slash and pierce damage meaning he is only weak to blunt

This was great, as always. I love this podcast tangents, rants, dad jokes, and all. I laughed so hard at the end of Gaijin's Sony segment.

Please, have Shepard on again!

Last podcast I really though it would be cool to have Shepard on since they mentioned him. Here it is bois!

I have 17 hours in the Stories 2 demo now, have completed the Trial in 5 turns and have the Prayer Pot Level maxed out to 10. But I'm going to wait for the full release now to get better eggs.

Man I didnt laugh so much in a while this was one hell of a fun podcast thank you guys loving this stuff

i don't want to start an argument but usually as time goes on and franchises become popular and games are published on more systems, there will always be more sells unless you are completely failing with the game and everyone hates it for some reason if world didnt give you access to your stash in quest or reduced the cost for crafting by 10 times it would still be the best selling monster hunter game because people were hyped for it regardless and it released on pc

I think Rise Ultimate is going to make everyone eat their words. People forget that the last game of every generation has been extremely stacked with content. MHFU had a G-Rank weapon for every path in the game and at least three viable, best in slot type weapons for every weapon archetype, even more for weapons that were elementally viable. MH3U still retains a relatively active community, and what it lacked in pure volume it made up for in innovation across the board, from new weapons, to new moves, to new monsters; entire categories of new monsters. And that isn't to say it lacked in content either. Easily comparable to all of Iceborne, in my opinion. And we haven't even mentioned MHGU. 70 different ways to play across fourteen weapons, almost every monster ever added to the previous generations, not to mention a mass of new ones. I doubt there's anyone on this planet that has done even close to all of the content in GU. If the trend continues, then Rise Ultimate is going to be an absolute banger, and a fitting end to the fifth generation.

Coming from a guy that is at 94% in Rise's achievements they could had really make some fun one than just grind heavy one.

I was just here at work like fuck I need a podcast went on YT and was pleased

loving the animated gaijin!!

I think the way to fix elemental damage is through monster behavior, not trough "increasing elemental damage". I'm fine with certain weapons having stronger DPS through elemental. What I'm not ok with is that element does absolutely nothing for other weapons. Now rise does have the monster specific elemental blights they can get afflicted by, but those are through utside means, not trough your weapon. I think elemental blights and certain monster behaviors like "reaction to ice or fire" should be a thing. Maybe by afflicting a monsters leg with enough ice element it slows doen that part of the monster, or makes it easier to break that part. There are dynamic things you can do with element that would help you as a hunter, but wouldn't maybe effect the "meta chasers" who would still just hit the head doe to being the best hitzone. Now you could say that bows and dual blades would still benefit the most out of this system as they output the most element, not necessarily. Not if the dynamic elemental reactions were tied to another "status bar" similar to exhaust. Exhaust in my opinion is one of the best "hidden behaviors" that monsters have, simply because it can behave in tandem with rage and makes monsters "unpredictable" due to that.

I've fought Ruiner Nergigante so many times with Charge Blade that I didn't even know it was such a big hassle. The shield helped quite a lot, especially against the roar followed by the aerial slam.

This was so damn entertaining! I’d love if you brought Shepard back some time.

I remember that video Gaijin was showing the sounds of Boeing in his PS4. Haha

The association I have with A and B for buttons. A: Accept B: Back I totally get Gaijin's rage with the flipping the buttons though. I can accept when buttons are flipped position-wise between consoles. Though I remember playing Call of Duty Black ops on the Wii. If you were using a classic controller, all the controls were mapped to match the Xbox and PlayStations button positions rather than the labels. Which results in the game telling you to press B to accept things and A to go back. I hated it so much.

So interesting to see Shepard and Gaijin finally interact.

it would have been nice to have some of the dlc layered armour as event quests.

I just finished my first playthrough of the Mass Effect: Legendary Edition so as soon as I saw the name "Shepard" in the title I thought I was hallucinating

that whole business with Japan being obsessed with their own game engines is what made FFXIV 1.0 such a disaster

Super interesting podcast this time. 3rd fleet AHOO!

I wanted to say thank you for the amazing content! I look forward to your videos and podcasts weekly. Keep up the amazing work!

*”Sometimes you just want to triple pound a guy”* Shepard 2021

Holy!!!! It's Shepard!!! Abort any missions and prepare your spreadsheets guys.!!

Jep Rise is great When your favorit weapon is elementel phial charge blade is just so rewarding to play, The Water charge blade is especially great for element phial "jyuratodus charge blade". But will All that you can do more phial dmg on specific monster with fire element, not sure if the monster with a fire element weakness just have better hit zones or just a greater elementel weakness

next podcast will be stories 2 focused right seeing that its going to be super close to release

I have been waiting since episode one for this day!

Has that JAKOB Dos video become infamous within the MH community or something? I think it was interesting and had some valid, compelling points such as regarding Monster Hunter World's narrative.

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SHEPARD!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets gooooo!!!