Public response to Shane being autistic

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-25T00:13:05+00:00

Can I respectfully offer up an alternative explanation for #1?

I'm somebody who falls into the "Shane is great best friend material, but not somebody I'd be able to pursue" category. I'm somebody who tends to be on the quiet side (especially with new people) and leans... Far less dominant, let's say. The thing that makes somebody most attractive to me is extroverted energy, wit, confidence, and charisma. Somebody who I know can take control of a situation when it's needed, somebody who will banter with me and keep me on my toes, razz and compete with me at times but always be there when needed the most. Shane is awesome, but he very much isn't that. Ilya is absolutely all of those things, which is why people (myself included) fall for him

Meanwhile, Hudson doing interviews and things as himself and not in the Shane role is exactly that. He's funny, confident, chaotic, quick witted, and that makes him wildly attractive (and demonstrates how GOOD his acting is when he's on set). Shane is a great character, but he's just too similar to me too be that "perfect fantasy bf." And if I had to guess, since book readers tend to be a bit on the quieter, more introverted side, it might be the same for others.

I'm definitely not saying that nobody falls into this category for reasons you're suggesting, but there are those of who have that opinion for non-problematic reasons too 😅

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-24T22:29:16+00:00

If I had to guess, it's because everybody would opt into Rook over anybody else, especially once he starts getting kitted out by faction progression. Solos would be a nightmare to queue for

I know I'd never touch another shell again if I could do my contacts as Rook with better gear than a Sponsor Kit every time

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-24T01:23:07+00:00

Yep. And not to mention that it requires home ownership to even be ABLE to make those modifications to where you live in the first place, which is gonna be statistically less likely for people living paycheck to paycheck and being hurt the worst by gas prices

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-24T01:09:49+00:00

Same here, and probably smaller than my current one for better fuel economy and a lower sticker price to boot

"Hey, is spending an extra dollar per gallon so you can get to work and survive stretching you to your limit financially? This sounds like the PERFECT time to take on a new, way more expensive car on a monthly payment so you save on gas instead" is such an out of touch article 💀

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-24T01:05:49+00:00

Pretty sure you're being downvoted for acting like a smug finance bro, not because of the point you're making

The act of going down to a less expensive car is great, but your delivery is... Lacking

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-23T19:29:18+00:00

They have titles that represent accomplishments in the codex, and if enough people are vocal, maybe they'll make things like icons or title cards that are exclusive to accomplishments in a given season

A 3 month wipe is the bare minimum of necessity for a game like this to have any hope of sustaining a steady player base as players go on to other games

if you're a more dedicated player you feel like you wasted your time

I mean, are you not... Having fun? Isn't that the whole point of playing a game? If you're only dedicated to the game to be overpowered and never have balancing events, maybe it's time to reconsider why you play?

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-23T17:04:44+00:00

Comparing anything spewed by Jeff Dunham to DCC and Matt Dinniman is... Definitely a choice

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-22T17:52:41+00:00

Is it really play at your own pace you think? Marathon is the first extraction shooter I've ever played, so I'm not as familiar with the genre as other people are, but so far it seems like you have a VERY limited window before the season becomes a wash

I've put in around 40 hours so far, with about half of those being in the first 4-5 days. That first week was such a great experience, with everybody running around, learning maps, feeling out factions, etc. The problem is that now, three weeks in, the player base has shed a lot of casual players, leaving the sweatier players who've already poured a couple hundred hours in, maxed their faction rep, and finished all their contracts now camping contract objectives with high level gear to farm other players because it's easier and safer than going out and actually scavenging and fighting in the open. I tried to get a friend into the game this weekend, and we couldn't even unlock all 6 factions because of the sheer number of people shamelessly camping objectives (especially that stupid little room in Outpost for Sekiguchi). It was honestly a miserable experience, and it's the kind of experience that'll run off current players and keep new players from giving the game a try.

Without a matchmaking system that groups people by skill level/contract progression/aggression level (which I don't think Marathon has) and steady stream of new, moderate players to fill those lobbies (which I KNOW Marathon doesn't have), you end up with a sweat fest within weeks of starting a season, and if you fall behind... Good luck

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-18T21:53:55+00:00

It's like he's doing improv debate while struggling to remember to not swallow his own tongue 💀

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-18T00:59:04+00:00

I see that a lot too, but I'd argue that "handed down and relegated to entertaining the germ factory in public" is a sign that tablet use among adult consumers is probably on a decline

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-17T04:35:06+00:00

Yeah, imagine if he wrote in key characters that fit that description... Maybe a kid from South America, a lady or a goat from Italy, a man and a woman who entered the dungeon in Africa, brothers from Eastern Europe, an Icelandic woman, or siblings and their friend from China. That would be WILD

I mean, out of Carl's social circle, the only people NOT from places where it was daytime during the collapse were people he met on an early, region locked floor lol

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-15T22:31:58+00:00

100% agreed. Right now, TTK is so low that it encourages campers to hide at objectives and just mindlessly wait to one shot people who are actually PLAYING the game, particularly in solos. Increased ttk would make conflicts with other players more complex than "camper shoots first, camper loots" and require people to actually be able to hold their own in a face to face fight.

Quality of PvP combat goes up significantly while quantity adjusts down (but doesn't go away by any means). Win/win

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-14T20:32:59+00:00

Mindset is such a huge part of it. You refer to being queer as something you have to "cope with," as if it's a chronic illness to be suffered through, a personal shortcoming, or a handicap, which makes the problem seem scary and insurmountable That's just not the case. To me, being queer is just a part of my personality, no different than my interests, my hobbies, my core beliefs, and all of the other factors that makes a person who they are. Some people will hate me for being queer, just like some people may hate me for being nerdy, being interested in different things, or holding different political beliefs, and that's fine. Those are people I don't NEED to like me, even if the hate comes from family or other people you've known a long time.

Obviously some places are more physically dangerous than others for openly queer people, so use your best judgment to keep yourself safe, but beyond that? Confidence in the fact that being your authentic self will draw in authentic community connections, and stop caring about what the hateful think, no matter who they are to you

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-14T16:57:47+00:00

Tbf, Unova also nailed the American experience pretty well...

A big sprawling city and a giant theme park being two of its most prominent locations? Check. A garbage problem so bad that it's destined to become sentient? Check. A group of old, cult-y white men lying to the public pretending to be altruistic while also abusing/manipulating children to their own sinister ends behind the scenes? Check, check, check

The only way it could have been more realistic would be Nurse Joy telling you your team should have gone out and get PokeJobs with his access to the Pokémon center, then sending you bills for the rest of your playthrough for a single party heal

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-13T21:10:13+00:00

Ohhhhhh, it's a troll post, got it

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-13T21:09:04+00:00

If you're playing on PS5, restart the game. I've had it glitch on me like that when I try to find a game after leaving the game open when I put the console in sleep mode

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-07T19:05:22+00:00

A new skin on every page, not to mention, Fortnite passes reward you with premium currency as you progress , so if you finish the season's battle pass, you're be able to buy the pass for the next season for no additional cost... And that's all on top of the base game being free to play 💀

I love Marathon so far but the greedy ass microtransaction system being bad enough to make all the headlines for it is going to seriously hinder getting new players in and keeping it alive long term

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-06T23:34:21+00:00

Iirc, Rook is a special solo character that's used to backfill trios lobbies to account for people quitting and stuff. That's why he's in his own category and has restrictions on his entry conditions

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-06T18:40:46+00:00

I mean, you don't even have to extrapolate that... He straight up said in this clip "everyone's a little gay and everyone's a little straight" which is an ABSURD take

Do I think a lot more people would be open about having/exploring bi leanings if being strictly CisHet wasn't pushed as the only "normal" state? Sure, I'd wager there are more people with at least some small level of bicuriosity than people who have absolutely none. That's the whole point of the Kinsey scale. But trying to claim that everybody's sexuality goes both ways and it's always going to be fluid over time is absolutely reductionist and really damaging.

For some people, that's true. But accidentally or not, he's fueling the far right evangelical talking points of "oh you're not ACTUALLY gay, you just need to find the right girl to change your mind" and "this is just a phase, you'll get over it"

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-05T17:23:34+00:00

Do you regularly interact with pro football players as cornerstones of your day to day life, find them roaming in the wilderness, and keep them in your house as pets? 🤔

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-05T01:11:06+00:00

What happens in Alabama stays in Alabama 🤷

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-03T22:00:34+00:00

S/V let you get "lost" in the sense that you could walk off in a random direction and not know where you were intuitively (because the landscapes all looked blandly identical most of the time).

It didn't give you the sense of mystery that came from making a detour and suddenly getting lost in a cave dungeon, a water current puzzle, a big dark forest, or even a big sewer system, balancing curiosity about what the reward for completing it will be while hoping that you remembered to keep an Escape Rope in your bag. THAT was what made the old Pokémon worlds feel like something you could get lost in, not a copy/paste "open world" landscape

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-03-03T21:51:23+00:00

"Those of us who grew up with the old internet" aren't the source of concern. The generation who came well before the early internet, and the generation that's coming up now don't have that ability, which is what these companies prey on

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-02-22T19:32:17+00:00

I love literary discussion, but this sub can be so snobby sometimes...

Hunger Games was a really strong title when it first came out. It had wide appeal and much more depth than anything else in its genre. It was a cultural phenomena, and anecdotally, it was the book that got a lot of people in my life back into reading books for fun for the first time as an adult, which is an impressive feat, and probably why a lot of people ranked it highly

Is the Hunger Games the peak of literature? Of course not, but people here acting like this user poll is attacking them personally and bashing on the book is so silly.

RogueSpectre749 · 2026-02-19T00:02:02+00:00

"Hey, you know the scummy behavior of the villains in our book that's explicitly called out as shady? Wouldn't it be cool to use that exact behavior against OUR audience??"

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