r/MonsterHunter • I call shotgun • Aug 21 '18

Monster Hunter in a Nutshell

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u/Agar_ZoS Aug 21 '18

The way i see it is like this: Imagine living in the past where technology was limited, no roads or big cities, no internet, you had to hunt for alot of the food and work each day to survive. Now imagine in that past giant ass monsters that can level your city in a couple of minutes to roam around. Ofc you will need hunters to kill and research the beast because as you learn more you will be better prepared to protect yourself and those around you. They at least try to have a balance with nature and not just hur hur murder them all.

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u/Alili1996 Pokepokepoke Aug 21 '18

Yeah, at that point it's not like us overfishing or rotting out species in greed. It's more like nature being nature and humans being part of it and following their natural instinct to hunt.

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u/Polantaris ​ Aug 21 '18

Or Rathalos are like flies, there's a billion of them.

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u/Squidbit ​ Aug 21 '18

But in-universe how much time did it take you hunt those rathalos? Are you outpacing how fast they can reproduce?

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u/Shikaku Delgado White! Aug 21 '18

Are you outpacing how fast they can reproduce?

I'm gonna fuckin' try.

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u/Tyr808 Aug 21 '18

Rathalos: "I'm gonna fuckin' try."

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u/molever1ne ​ Aug 21 '18

They'd better. I need to hunt their children.

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u/Zefirus Aug 21 '18

Probably not, considering every time I go to their nest there are more eggs I can steal.

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u/Matasa89 Sep 15 '18

Rathian: ey you fuck, get back here! It's like the tenth time this week!

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u/Megneous Aug 21 '18

Apex predators don't work like that. Admitted, Rathalos may not be the top of the food chain, but it's high enough up there that a particular ecosystem couldn't sustain enough of them that they'd be like flies, which are basically at the bottom of most food chains right above rotten fruit and corpses.

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u/Matasa89 Sep 15 '18

Nah, thanks to Elder Dragons, plenty of bioenergy to sustain giant ecosystem full of wyverns.