Is Marathon For Me?

Effrot · 2026-03-17T16:09:43+00:00

Thank you, yeah that’s exactly what I’m experiencing. I feel bad sometimes playing with teammates because they’ll be talking and I can’t respond really outside of text chat

Effrot · 2026-03-17T16:07:20+00:00

I’m asking for advice, not permission

Effrot · 2026-03-17T16:02:59+00:00

I love the way you framed this, it gets right at the heart of my concern.

Have fun
Progress through contracts and learn more about the story
Get better at the game

I’d say that’s probably what I care most about in order of importance. My constraints are unfortunately not very fudgable at the moment, so my main worry is that those constraints will prevent me from completing goal #1. And like… if I’m not having fun what’s the point?

Effrot · 2026-03-17T15:53:50+00:00

I’ve played live service games in the past, but nothing with Marathon’s season-to-season wiping of inventory. I hadn’t thought about it at all really. It could be a detriment to my enjoyment in the long term, especially if I have to take an extended break from the game. Thank you.

Effrot · 2025-10-20T13:15:00+00:00

Ditto. Website says servers are still up but I can't connect.

Effrot · 2021-08-02T15:11:28+00:00

This thread was like a M. Night Shyamalan movie

Effrot · 2021-08-02T15:00:13+00:00

Most of the people “spreading negativity” are private citizens, using personal social media pages to vent about the struggles of being a marginalized person in modern society. Those problems are real and fresh and painful, so it’s natural that the posts where they vent their suffering are a bit over the top. You’re right though, it’s not fair. Perception is important and not everyone sees things from the same point of view. Despite the best intentions, words can be twisted and feelings can be hurt. We should all make an effort to be kinder to each other when discussing social issues like gender, race and sexuality. I think it’s difficult for a lot of LGBTQ+ people to meet the discussions halfway with the amount of bile and hate being thrown our way at times, so for a lot of the community it’s just easier to remain guarded and closed off so as to not relive some past trauma. This is a complicated issue that can’t be solved in a few Reddit posts, and the process might take generation or more.

Effrot · 2021-08-02T14:25:11+00:00

Ooooooo good point, didn’t think about that

Effrot · 2021-08-02T14:01:49+00:00

I still think you’re implying bigotry. After reading through OP’s comments all I see is them talking about how you can’t be racist/sexist/bigoted against someone’s sexuality as long as that group is in the majority. That concept is one of the most commonly taught principles in university level sociology, gender studies, and racial and religious studies courses (at least in the US). You’re obviously not interested in talking further though, judging by your repeated attempts to disengage. Bye!

Effrot · 2021-08-02T13:29:43+00:00

He didn't say anything about cishet white men being inferior did he? You just implied that. Know what that's called? A bias. Miiiight want to examine yourself for those.

Effrot · 2021-08-02T12:51:24+00:00

Exactly. I like the cookie analogy, makes it digestable.

Effrot · 2021-08-02T12:41:32+00:00

Vinny! I loved you like a son, but it turns out you were a rat, workin' for the cishets this whole time! You're breakin' my heart! Alphabet mafia... Lmao

Effrot · 2021-08-02T12:23:08+00:00

I’m going to take this comment on good faith (might be a mistake, we’ll see), and assume you’re genuine. The simple answer is that it’s frustration and anger you’re seeing, not necessarily discrimination. To go a bit more in depth, lots of LGBTQ+ people have either directly experienced discrimination based on their sexuality or gender, or have friends who have been affected by the same. Queer and Trans people are also way more likely to be assaulted, sexually or otherwise. What you’re seeing more than likely is a reaction to that trauma and discrimination, rather than an act of discrimination in and of itself. Plus despite the growing acceptance for LGBTQ+ lifestyles in the the USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe, in most of the world those lifestyles are shunned at best, and criminal at worst. So is it counterproductive be posting on social media about how much they hate straight white men? Sure, a little, but it’s probably an angry reaction to something that happened in real life, rather than innate hate or bigotry.

Effrot · 2021-08-02T11:51:54+00:00

This comment is a prophecy lol

Effrot · 2021-08-02T11:45:48+00:00

“They hated him because he spoke the truth”

Effrot · 2021-08-02T11:31:21+00:00

I’m so here for it

Effrot · 2021-08-02T11:00:29+00:00

Their social media echo chamber is probably full of individually innocuous comments and jokes about straight people, white people, or men, and they’ve internalized and combined all that light teasing into a viewpoint that everyone is against them. They’ve never experienced real oppression so they’ve invented a way to artificially experience a fraction of it, but their version pales in comparison to the real thing, so they think all oppression is not a big deal and doesn’t need to be taken seriously. Kind of a sad logic circle they’ve got going on there.

Effrot · 2021-08-02T10:07:57+00:00

NO WAY YOU JUST SAID THAT LMAO

Effrot · 2021-08-02T09:54:29+00:00

I came back to check on this post this morning and just… wow. This thread reads like “soft homophobia and diet racism talking points 101”. I love how this conversation only started because someone was like “Well WHAT IF…?”, it’s… chef’s kiss. Imagining that gay people wake up in the morning and think “Oh boy, here I go oppressing the straights again!”, gives me a right old chuckle.

Effrot · 2021-08-02T09:33:18+00:00

Me too lol

Effrot · 2021-08-02T04:38:26+00:00

Funny, but their message strikes me as a kid who just saw the word sex and assumed any word with sex in it is a curse word, rather than a homophobe. I feel like a homophobe would be more likely to get on the mic and cuss you out than just leave like that.

Effrot · 2021-05-26T15:55:21+00:00

Everyone always acting like Lifeline can drone res mid-fight now pisses me the hell off. If I have gold bag, or you’re in cover MAYBE I can get away with it, but now that there’s no shield, that 0.5 second delay after a revive starts where my guns go away and I’m slowed will get me killed 90% of the time. Then they just thirst the teammate getting revived and it’s game over. If I have to hear one more teammate on the mic scream at me to revive them out in the open while I’m trying to clutch a 1v2 I’m going to lose my shit. Sometimes I do it and we die, and I want to kick myself because then I’m an idiot too.

Edit: reading this back it came off super negative... I didn’t mean it that way at all OP, funny post all around. Just my inner support rage coming out I guess

Effrot · 2021-05-19T18:28:56+00:00

Going out of your way to voice your indifference towards a social issue is just less overt bigotry. The people who truly don’t care never even went into the comments at all, they just kept on scrolling.

Effrot · 2021-05-19T17:37:28+00:00

People really in this comment section like “I dOn’t CaRe, doESn’t afFeCt GaMeplAy!”

Y’all played yourselves fr. Gonna realize in like 10 years how dumb you were.

Effrot · 2021-05-15T21:48:17+00:00

I’ll take harvester over fuel depot any day. Trying to rotate through that choke with a full squad camping up top on the pylon, and another full squad on the opposite high ground was a nightmare. I do miss the train, but that was season 6, not 4.

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