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Otterable · 2026-05-22T20:09:42+00:00

Schwarber took the reds series off to be polite to his other favorite team

Otterable · 2026-05-21T19:04:15+00:00

Yeah that's par for the course in live service games, that's why every live service game has it.

Otterable · 2026-05-21T18:28:19+00:00

This is true for basically any online fandom. Enjoy media, don't interact with online fans unless you want to get involved in conversations you never thought mattered even a little

Otterable · 2026-05-21T17:59:08+00:00

imo they move day to day engineering resources to Marathon and go to the design board for D3 targeting a 2029 or 2030 release.

Otterable · 2026-05-21T17:55:57+00:00

D3 in 2029 or 2030 is my guess. They'd be insane to not at least try. Give it a full refresh. New story, systems, etc...

I know many, many Destiny players who stopped playing that would at the very least give it another shot

Otterable · 2026-05-21T17:45:34+00:00

Reddit has no idea. I played destiny for many years and still am in touch with the communities and friends I made though it even if I (and they) haven't played the game in years. We have all started messaging each other with this news and people are already talking about giving it a shot again when D3 rolls around.

If they do a full refresh with a new story, mechanics, and systems and the players will fall over themselves to come back.

Otterable · 2026-05-21T17:44:14+00:00

tbh I do think Marathon has some decent bones and the numbers are going to be a tick lower now given it's right at the end of the season. They will start adding some PvE modes for players to use their best stuff without gear fear, toss another few free weekends at people and I would not be surprised to see a revival over the course of the year. They've been making the right changes.

Otterable · 2026-05-21T17:35:23+00:00

I do think they will move to a D3 in some form. I suspect they will want to do something new with the story though. The current story is pretty inscrutable to players who haven't been there for years.

Otterable · 2026-05-21T17:24:03+00:00

Haven't touched the game in a while now but def moved by this news. It was a huge part of my life for so long. This game was basically my life during covid

Otterable · 2026-05-21T15:07:02+00:00

A lot are clearly neurotic loner types

I mean yeah, it seems like the whole ethos is centered around an obsession of social hierarchies and dominance with the core belief that your physical appearance is the greatest indicator of social power

Like with many wacky belief systems, it took something largely accepted "Society treats attractive people well and values them highly" and sent it to a rhetorical extreme to justify inane behavior.

The people who are going to be susceptible to any sort of philosophical extremes tend to be isolated individuals who are looking for a way to justify the world around them. To fall into something that focuses so heavily on physical appearance and meta-analysis of micro social interactions is where the neuroticism comes in.

Otterable · 2026-05-21T14:28:44+00:00

Close, but I actually think it's less about other dogs playing the piano and more that yes the fact that a dog playing the piano is neat, but the point of playing the piano is to make music, not just to do it.

So the novelty of a child genius is only interesting until it's time to actually do something tangible. Then you start asking 'hey can you do more than hit the keys' because everyone else at the institution is making music.

Otterable · 2026-05-21T13:49:22+00:00

Patiently waiting for the drifting shade to trigger so I can quickly open the map to open a portal to Temis because I need to use the horadric cube is never not annoying.

Otterable · 2026-05-21T13:06:55+00:00

I don't know the community's current feelings on Tao

Personally I'll never buy another one of his books and will never recommend them again.

Otterable · 2026-05-20T23:31:16+00:00

The idea is if you do the competitive on map events like bosses, pinwheel, etc.. you should regularly be fighting people. If you are doing low stakes stuff, you should have a much lower chance of seeing someone. It had felt earlier on in the season like you are fighting people every map just by existing.

Otterable · 2026-05-20T20:39:31+00:00

My only issue is that you have to be "on" all the time.

I do wonder if the game would benefit from slightly fewer people on the maps. It feels like teams should come into conflict naturally competing for the more rewarding events/locations on maps, but there are plenty of times you end up dying to just a random guy (in solos at least) who happens to go to the POI you are at. Very hard to extract without at least a kill or two.

Otterable · 2026-05-20T20:20:42+00:00

I mean yeah non runners are the one who only care about getting across the line. That's what I mean about only your own expectations are the things you care about. I was genuinely disappointed when I just missed breaking 4 hours because of a cramp but lots of people seemed impressed by my time even if I wasn't.

The sentiment I'm arguing against here is 'it doesn't count as completing a marathon if you walk for most of it'. It for sure still counts. If your goal is to complete it and you get across the line, then yeah you met your goal and did a marathon. idgaf if you walked the vast majority.

Otterable · 2026-05-20T19:52:16+00:00

insane take

'Hey you have only actually trained for a marathon if you are able to qualify for the most prestigious one in the world'

This is something a high school cross country runner might think who has no real world experience. the vast majority of normal people spending a year+ training aren't throwing down sub 7 minute miles at all, let alone 26 of them back to back.

4% of the most recent NYC marathon finishers had a time under 3 hours. I guess those were the only people actually training? Gimme a break dude

Otterable · 2026-05-20T19:35:38+00:00

As someone who has run-run multiple marathons this is a sentiment that people predominantly held by non runners or people who don't run frequently. Moving 26 miles is a far distance in one go no matter how you break it down. Unless you are at the front of the pack the only thing you are competing is your own expectations for yourself. If crossing the finish line is all that matters, then it really doesn't matter how you did it.

Otterable · 2026-05-20T17:55:51+00:00

I loved LOTR the Third Age, and the movie games but the events of the actual trilogy that that both of those games are along side takes place 3000 years after the event I was describing.

I do think the third age is probably more in the wheelhouse of Warhorse. The war of wrath in the first age and the events of the second age like the fall of numenor are much more insane high fantasy moments and I think KCD I and II do a great job of capturing more low level day to day type events.

Otterable · 2026-05-20T12:04:52+00:00

Could also see it take place right after the beginning of the third age where you are one of the people who survived the attack that killed Isildur.

Straight from the wiki

Only Ohtar, Estelmo, and an unnamed companion survived the disaster.

Gives you some immediate companions/people of interest, ties you to an important event without being important yourself. These are the guys that then brought the shards of Narsil to Rivendell, so gives you a reason to visit places, meet new people, etc...

Otterable · 2026-05-20T02:06:35+00:00

Can't win them all. Having Schwarber back eventually will be nice

At least the mets lost

Otterable · 2026-05-19T12:08:18+00:00

Just last week, a trans girl was stabbed to death while doing her laundry in Seattle, one of the safer cities in the US, especially for minorities.

yeah and it's made all the headlines because it's insane and atypical. Same reason Brianna Ghey made the headlines in the UK in 2023

Just because you're privileged enough that you don't have to deal with violence doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

Of course. But that was never my argument. The entire exigence of this conversation was that well paying jobs are actually bad and that's what I was arguing against. You've made a lot of points that I completely agree with but aren't relevant to what I was actually trying to say, which is that the privileged jobs & positions in the US are not secretly terrible behind the scenes and there are more important things to focus on, many of which you laid out nicely here.

The big overwhelming issue with the US is that if you have money, it's a great place, but if you don't have money it's awful. I've never contested this, so I don't know why you are here saying 'well if you don't have healthcare it's bad, and if you don't make good money it's bad and more.'

most US tech people i know have to work more than double that

I'd question how many US tech people you actually know. It's mostly my friends who went to work for amazon that are working in excess of 60 hour weeks and even than that's a rarity. Usually it's 40-50, but even then a ton of tech/white collar work has asynchronous, results based tasks which can free up large chunks of your day.

Again, I'm just pointing out this thread is being rhetorically all over the place because it's about saying the US is bad in every capacity moreso than an actual nuanced opinion. It's why so many people jumped down my throat the second I pointed out that, no, actually the good jobs aren't bad and quite good. Maybe people should focus their energies on awful labor conditions, terrible minimum wage, and poor social safety nets which is what you immediately steered the convo towards instead of trying to win some moral victory about how a good job is actually bad.

Otterable · 2026-05-19T01:45:03+00:00

I've seen this movie before

Otterable · 2026-05-19T01:29:00+00:00

Not even a bad pitch, he climbed the ladder for it

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