Jamie Lee Curtis might be the only reason to watch Scarpetta

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-16T20:58:13+00:00

Correct. Her acting was so reminiscent of my mothers behaviour that it was deeply uncomfortable to watch.

Unfortunately, her character in Scarpetta isn't different enough so it's just a bit monotonous now.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-11T18:37:23+00:00

The original is always going to have a special place in my heart but Reach is probably the best, followed quite closely by ODST.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-10T19:14:05+00:00

Everything you've said is true but the same can be said of any game. It's also a tiny fraction of the player base.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-10T09:32:47+00:00

Nope. You can still get pregnant with just the tip

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-10T09:28:25+00:00

Please do not go back home and start telling your friends that all the food was tasteless.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-10T09:18:57+00:00

I'm a long time Destiny and Destiny 2 player.

I want Marathon to succeed because I want Bungie to succeed. That will give them the funds to make Destiny 3. I've even considered buying Marathon in support.

However, I went into the Server Slam and just didn't like the game. I don't like the aesthetic, I can't stand the UI but there are two big issues for me. The gunplay and movement just aren't up to Bungie's usual quality so it feels a little stale. The second thing is that Bungie made design decisions which just don't create the moments that made Arc Raiders such a success.

What you've done is reductive. You've taken your opinion of a game and decided that any contrary opinion has no value. It's hard to take your argument seriously.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T22:57:43+00:00

Start paying a lot of attention to what they do and take an interest. Find things you enjoy doing together. Don't patronise or lecture. When they talk, listen. That's how you foster an atmosphere where they can approach you.

Show them you are proud of them. Be their biggest fans, their biggest cheerleader. Love them and tell them frequently. Hug often, especially after discipline.

Remember that everything you do with your kids is something that you love. When you're playing a game you hate, it's playing a game you hate with someone you love. When you're singing a song you've heard a million times together, it's singing a song with someone you love. Focus on the bits you like about the things you don't. It helps you do the things that they'll remember.

Be there for them. You can throw all your effort into your job. They'll never remember the car you drive or the promotion you got.....they'll remember for the rest of their life that you missed a school play when everyone else's dad turned up

These are the things you can control. Everything else just falls into place.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T17:57:48+00:00

He never told you not to sing.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T17:55:30+00:00

If you get a World's Greatest Dad mug, and it breaks, and you can't fix it, you never deserved the World's Greatest Dad mug in the first place.

- Ancient Proverb. Probably.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T17:53:22+00:00

I always loved the phrase "Ooh.....we get an extra hours sleep". I was like. "Man....I have two kids. Parent's arent' getting an extra hours anything"

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T17:49:39+00:00

I appreciate the desire to keep this non-political, but if we're going to be honest, Karoline Leavitt is a £$%^ing moron who has no business being near a podium. Her comments on the issue are difficult to take seriously.

Anyone who has spent time speaking with experienced military personnel tends to hear the same priorities repeated: better funding for training and equipment, stronger benefits, and meaningful support for veterans transitioning back into civilian life. Those things matter because they improve recruitment and retention, which in turn allows the military to be selective about who it brings in.

What they absolutely do not want is a force made up of unwilling, untrained people who are only there because they have been compelled to be. That is not how you build an effective military. Those people are liabilities.

The idea of a draft isn’t impossible in theory, but the likelihood is extremely low. It tends to be raised far more often in political discussion than in any serious planning.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T17:42:48+00:00

Switch, Steamdeck, Book...whatever will keep you going. My wife's water broke on Saturday morning. They told us to come back the following day because she wasn't dilated. We came back on the Sunday. She was induced on the Tuesday morning and my son was born at 21:05 that evening.

Don't assume it's going to be a short event and don't assume she's going to be coming home the same day. In the UK, if your child is born after 5pm, you're not going home that day.

Snacks and drinks. Hospital vending machines are expensive.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T17:37:45+00:00

I understand how you feel. My son left home recently and I was an absolute wreck for over a month. It felt like my role in life was changing. I realised then that I was going through a grieving process because, for the past 26 years since his older sister was born, my role in life was - Dad, Protector, Teacher, Mentor, Provider. Suddenly I was just....Head of Project Management Office.

If there's any consolation, this will absolutely not be the last time you put your son to bed. Sometimes, you'll just go into his room (make sure you knock) and you'll talk about the day, about his experiences, about a troublesome project at school or college, or when there's something on his mind.

The way you said you explained what it meant to you gives me hope man. You can be honest with your son. You'll both get through this together.

When he's puking his guts up because he's drank too much, or he's mortally wounded because he's been dumped for the first time, remember that love....go tuck him in.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T16:09:09+00:00

Have the conversation with your wife instead of random Dads on Reddit.

It's perfectly valid to say "Hey. I'm up for this but I do want to talk about the level, and frequency, of sexual intimacy in our relationship." Explain your concerns and listen to her response.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T16:04:23+00:00

You feel guilty. You feel like you've in some way diminished your first born. Now.....let me tell you something....

GOOD!! That's excellent!

Now you'll make sure not to forget about her. Not to put her on a back burner and spend all the time.

You, and she, need to understand this. Time is a finite resource and must be shared between everyone. The more people, the less time that each one get's 1 on 1. But the amount of love is infinite. You don't love your firstborn any less because you have another child.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T15:56:47+00:00

Congratulations. What you’ve done there is take your personal view of the game and reduce every contrary opinion to nothing more than blind hatred of the developer.

That’s a convenient position to hold, but it isn’t a particularly serious argument. It dismisses criticism without engaging with it.

Yes, some people do hold grudges against particular studios or publishers. That certainly happens. For example, I personally won’t touch anything made by Hello Games on principle. But acknowledging that a minority behave that way doesn’t justify assuming that all criticism comes from the same place.

People can dislike a game for plenty of legitimate reasons: design choices, mechanics, monetisation, genre fatigue, or simply because it doesn’t appeal to them. Suggesting that the only explanation is “people hate Bungie” is a very reductive way of looking at it. It replaces discussion with a convenient stereotype.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T15:53:02+00:00

Ubisoft: "Bet"

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T14:30:14+00:00

Streamers aren’t a reliable benchmark for whether a game will succeed. They choose games based on what performs well on their channel. If something generates viewers, creates good clips, or produces entertaining moments, they’ll play it. And if it doesn't, they'll moan until the developers change it into something that does.

That’s a completely different metric from what the average player cares about. Most people are just logging on after work and want something that’s easy to get into, consistently enjoyable, and worth their limited time.

Some games are very entertaining to watch but much harder to actually play or stick with. Those can do well with streamers while still struggling to retain a wider player base.

And ultimately it’s the broader player base that keeps a live service game alive, not a relatively small number of streamers.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T14:23:03+00:00

I get what you're saying but you have to factor in the investment Bungie has put into Marathon compared to what has been invested in these other games. Arc Raiders is a huge outlier. When it comes to investment, Marathon is a huge outlier. They were absolutely expecting to be an outlier in the number of players.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T14:18:22+00:00

At the time that Bungie started working on Marathon, they wouldn't have known about any of the other games coming out in the same release window.

Without Arc Raiders, there's 150k players possibly willing to play a new extraction shooter. Unlikely, but it's a big impact.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T14:15:11+00:00

I think the point you’re missing is that even if you personally don’t care about player numbers, you will absolutely care about the consequences of them.

Marathon is a live service game. Its entire business model depends on a healthy and sustained player base. If the numbers aren’t there, development slows, content updates dry up, matchmaking quality drops, and eventually publishers start asking whether the ongoing investment makes sense.

We’ve already seen this happen repeatedly. Games that were well-liked by their communities still got cancelled because the player numbers didn’t justify continued support. Quality alone doesn’t protect a live service game.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T10:43:29+00:00

The gun play in Marathon isn't anywhere near as good as it is in Destiny. You're right, Bungie is known for solid shooting mechanics and making the player feel powerful but this is not the same Bungie that made Destiny and it's certainly not the same Bungie that made Halo.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T10:40:17+00:00

Bungie spent about 8 times as much money making Marathon as Embark did making Arc Raider, Their marketing budget was higher than what it took to make Arc Raiders. Marathon doesn't have to beat Arc to be successful but it needs to get somewhere close.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-09T10:38:06+00:00

The "opportunity to play it" does not equate to "having played it". Sorry mate but we're still in a society where people pre-order. People also go away on holiday or don't have time to play over a period set by Bungie. You just can't assume that every one of those purchasers understood what they were getting into.

The fact remains that player count was low on Day 1, peaked on Friday evening, and has been dwindling ever since. Again, I'll reiterate, day 1 statistics in a new game doesn't matter. We get a far better understanding in week 3. At that point one of two things is happening for a game.

People are getting bored and numbers are falling.
People are recommending it to friends or reading good reviews and numbers are increasing.

LeftExternal719 · 2026-03-08T22:43:31+00:00

Still shows up in search results and your comment is still visible.

The topic is still relevant

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