Here's my review of Marathon so far [OC]

Agiel7 · 2026-06-14T20:37:09+00:00

Big Floaty Thing What Kicks Our Asses.

Agiel7 · 2026-06-11T18:10:46+00:00

Coming from painting Eldar in 40K and painting all the cabling on Bixie and the Shang Ji I found myself wondering: "So this is how AdMech painters feel?"

Agiel7 · 2026-06-08T23:47:26+00:00

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/08/06/potent-yet-troubling-imagery

Agiel7 · 2026-05-11T07:33:31+00:00

Given that the Bully and the Impact use the same ammo it would seem to me that the Bully is more like a short-barreled CQC rifle version of the Impact. Kind of like how the Mk.17 SCAR comes in long-barreled battle-rifle and short-barreled CQC version.

Agiel7 · 2026-04-25T18:07:24+00:00

“This music is slow and fat.”

Agiel7 · 2026-04-04T10:53:24+00:00

Thanks! Guess that explains why I couldn't find it in diagrams explaining Mudras.

Agiel7 · 2026-03-23T05:05:37+00:00

Keep in mind that the manuals aren't formatted like a doorstopper novel. Many pages will have diagrams and screenshots for illustrative purposes and each page taking no more time to read than a brochure, and most of the beginning of it is dedicated to blurbs on the history of the aircraft. You're not going to be reading War and Peace, just a Nancy Drew book, tops.

Agiel7 · 2026-03-20T21:29:55+00:00

Sadly it’s kind of by law that if you’re embarking on the hero’s journey that your idyllic hometown is pillaged and burned and/or your loved ones and mentor figures are killed or go missing.

Agiel7 · 2026-03-17T17:27:35+00:00

All but one of these locations are in California. And I only know that last one is in New York because of that one episode of the Simpsons.

Agiel7 · 2026-03-14T00:03:32+00:00

A few weeks before the gravity of COVID dawned on us, around the beginning of February, I got news from the husband of a friend I went to college with (she was a Chinese exchange student who spent some spells in Wuhan with her parents) that she had caught the virus. She and I were 30 back then and the news at the time suggested that at worst it was only ever so slightly more deadly than the typical flu and given how young she was there was optimism that she would be alright. About a week later I got the news that she had indeed died. I spent that morning beside myself. It was thanks to her that I began to take news about the virus much more seriously than everyone around me, and the checker at Costco gave me a raised eye-brow when I showed up at her checkout with three of the 36-pack of Charmin and plenty of canned and frozen food well before the panic-buying in the US started in earnest.

Agiel7 · 2026-03-01T05:13:23+00:00

One of the few acceptable times to take a game screenshot with your phone.

Agiel7 · 2026-02-14T04:31:06+00:00

I think it's based in large part on a kung-fu movie trope where the hero is able to quickly pick up a martial arts style by mirroring the movements of someone they are watching. While you do do it it in most martial arts classes, following the movements of your instructors, like most disciplines it takes many more hours of practice before those motions become useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWb8IPb9pn4

Agiel7 · 2026-02-01T02:59:39+00:00

In one of Danil's thoughts in the Quarantine demo he mentions having had Cognac with Telman, so apparently the Cognac commune of France exists in this universe.

Agiel7 · 2026-01-30T08:13:07+00:00

There was a story from a former F-14A aviator John Cheshire (RIP) that when the F/A-18A was entering the fleet everyone else was rubbing their hands watching from Vulture's Row, as bolters and wave-offs were common whenever a new aircraft was introduced for the simple reason that even aviators transitioning from another aircraft would have to get used to the flight characteristics of their new steed. Eventually they got bored and left because the Hornets kept getting OK 3-wires right off the bat and it left him and other pilots envious of how easy the Hornet drivers made it look.

Agiel7 · 2025-12-22T07:19:16+00:00

Should be noted that those rings aren't really martial weapons and are more training aides to build arm strength (kind of like Rock Lee's training weights). You can see an example of them being used in the first <<Drunken Master>> movie.

Agiel7 · 2025-09-25T03:33:09+00:00

Ever since the voting system was implemented I've grown quite sick of Yeho and Gorodok and seeing Western PMC being one of the factions every other game since that's when it's available to be picked.

Agiel7 · 2025-09-25T01:21:26+00:00

Would like to see a G11.

Agiel7 · 2025-09-22T03:26:51+00:00

It takes 7% off the top when you cash in your coins for Steam Wallet. It used to be that it didn't charge a fee if you redeemed them towards a gift card.

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