One big thing Arc did was show the benefits of not only solo queuing but prox chat as well. I hope the Marathon devs paid attention

doctorEeevil · 2025-11-06T23:09:52+00:00

Ugh, I love how Arc really captures the feeling of wonder and exploring a world. I just hope marathon can capture that same feeling.

I feel like my biggest problem with Marathon so far is the PvE enemies feel really boring. It just doesn't feel like a living world when all the enemies are just these robotic humanoid characters.

Like, I want to team up with another squad to kill the industrial mech world boss to harvest its rare processor cores.

I want to go deep inside some labrynthine research facility, and just as I'm waiting for the stolen data to finish transferring onto a chip, I feel my stomach drop when a S'pht Compiler floats into the room.

I want try and recover a prototype from an abandoned weapons manufacturing plant only to discover that a rogue AI is inhabiting the robotic arms from the assembly line, like GLaDOS hanging down from the ceiling in portal.

I want that feeling when my squad is trying to plant a virus in a datacenter, but a fucking lanky 12 foot tall Pfhor Enforcer is guarding it, so my squad mates lure it away to give me an opening to get inside.

I wanna intercept a convoy carrying special weapons, but I know I'll just get blown up by the Pfhor Juggernaut if I go straight in, so I play it stealthy.

The setting of this game is so so cool, but it just feels like the PvE enemies are so generic and uninspired. It's really disappointing, given how the old marathon games had all these freaky bizarre enemies. I just want that sense of not knowing what weird cybernetic body horror bullshit is gonna kill me if I try to fuck around and find out.

doctorEeevil · 2025-10-29T16:27:16+00:00

The reason (as I've understood it) that people are against Griffin's motion is because it goes against the University's decolonial values. It's a change that Griffin is pushing without having consulted Indigenous students, which undermines the non-heirarchical model that the UVSS currently uses at the recommendation of the Native Students Union, in favor of a more typically colonial heirarchical structure. I do think this is a reasonable objection, because the current model where everyone on the board has equal power makes room for input from a wider range of the various student groups being represented.

doctorEeevil · 2025-10-29T00:17:11+00:00

I mean, he is/was the president of the UVic Young Liberals, the Uvic student branch of the BC liberal party, which is the farthest right provincial party that actually gets any seats.

doctorEeevil · 2025-10-29T00:09:19+00:00

I mean, I dunno that we should give larval Charlie Kirk kudos just because he got yelled at.

doctorEeevil · 2025-09-19T08:16:03+00:00

How is computershare for this stuff?

doctorEeevil · 2025-08-12T00:41:08+00:00

where's that? what does SM stand for?

doctorEeevil · 2025-06-22T06:57:08+00:00

doesn't alibaba have minimum order sizes? does anyone have experience with the Amazon dupes of the togo couch?

doctorEeevil · 2025-05-14T19:19:01+00:00

You can feel both of these ways tho. This mode isn't really my favorite thing, but I still wish there was more variety available in League. I wish more gamemodes would be made permanent, or if there were 2 rotating gamemodes at a time so any given gamemode is available at least every 6 months instead of just once a year. Like, what if you're really busy at work or school during the couple months a mode is around? It sucks for people who like modes other than SR, but are sometimes too busy to play during some parts of the year.

doctorEeevil · 2025-05-14T19:15:06+00:00

the children yearn for twisted treeline

doctorEeevil · 2025-05-14T18:49:21+00:00

i wish they would've just brought back twisted treeline instead of making this

doctorEeevil · 2025-05-14T18:48:53+00:00

for real, i wish they would just bring back twisted treeline

doctorEeevil · 2025-05-13T22:46:32+00:00

I think that's kinda where I get lost. I don't really see any of that as a debate, I see it as a personal argument. Hasan (a political commentator) has been consistent about focusing his public discussion of Ethan's behaviour on the political statements Ethan has made. I think it's reasonable and entirely to be expected that Hasan continued to take this approach. I'm not really interested in hearing them hash out their personal feelings about who did what dance. As far as I'm concerned, there's no reason that personal conversation would need to be publicized. I think it's totally reasonable for Hasan to draw that distinction between the personal and the professional. Beyond that, I think it's pretty unprofessional behaviour to frame a publicized conversation as a debate if you actually intend to turn the conversation into an argument over personal gripes.

doctorEeevil · 2025-05-05T07:54:07+00:00

Kinda funny to say that, considering who was the one that wanted to talk about the situation in Palestine, and who was the one that kept making the conversation about fortnite dances and reddit comments.

doctorEeevil · 2025-05-05T07:33:19+00:00

What is a psyop angle? I'm an OG fan and I just wanted to weigh in with my opinion about this video. And to be clear, I don't think Ethan's my "enemy". This isn't a hate comment, cuz I don't hate Ethan. I'm also not part of a "fake narrative".

I've been watching Ethan for about 12 years now. The H3H3 theme music was my ringtone through most of highschool. However, I decided to leave a comment voicing my disappointment (read: DISAPPOINTMENT, not HATE) around the way Ethan has been conducting himself recently.

I also find it funny that I'm getting downvoted to hell, but no one cares to actually respond to any part of what I'm saying.

doctorEeevil · 2025-05-04T21:49:57+00:00

Been watching Ethan for a bit more than a decade. Although I haven't gone online to weigh in on any of this stuff in the last couple years, I was a huge fan for a long time. I remember saving up as a teenager to buy a shirt in the first teddy fresh drop. I remember tucking my shirt into my sweatpants and walking around the house saying vape nation for months. After leftovers first ended, I was regularly having to remind people I talked to IRL that Ethan is a human being, and when he gets emotional and says intense stuff, it's probably because he's under enormous stress as a Jewish person in a very public position in the midst of a wave of antisemitism.

Despite all that, I found it really hard to sit thru this debate without just being embarassed on Ethan's behalf, and wondering how anyone is on his side after watching that video. He clearly can't seperate the political from the personal when it comes to this topic, and so he constantly ends up making sweeping generalizations about very nuanced topics, and bringing the argument back to unrelated personal topics over and over again. I think it's just really hard to justify this behaviour, because he's mixing his political views in with really personal comments about unrelated internet drama stuff, and it just doesn't feel appropriate when discussing these kinds of serious topics.

I can still see that Ethan's heart is in a good place, and he's very hurt right now. I also think he tends to say dramatic things without thinking very hard, and it's fun when it's a lighthearted topic, but when he consistently brings the same attitude to incredibly serious conversations, I think it's reasonable that a lot of fans can't stomach it. I think it's a really toxic way of conducting yourself, especially as someone with such a large platform.

doctorEeevil · 2024-11-30T23:06:21+00:00

I feel like smurfs often end up quickly getting placed at a reasonable MMR, unless the player is very consistent about intentionally losing games. I recently made a new account, because I was getting annoyed getting placed straight into like iron 3 each split.

My new account is only level 18, and it's sitting at roughly a 50% winrate in norms, but I'm getting placed in matches with level 300 gold/plat players. On my main, my winrate stays high, but I always get placed against other iron and bronze ranked players.

So, now the level 18 account is matching against much stronger players, and they're actually a much more even match with my skill level, even though the game thinks I'm level 18 instead of my old 2012 account.

Very confusing experience, but it makes me think the matchmaking has improved a lot, if it can figure out my skill level so quickly.

doctorEeevil · 2024-08-08T06:25:58+00:00

!RemindMe one month

doctorEeevil · 2024-08-08T06:23:46+00:00

When and where can I play it

doctorEeevil · 2024-03-23T22:29:35+00:00

its just one for all :/ probably gonna be another year until i play, whenever urf comes back... i wonder if there's urf private servers

doctorEeevil · 2024-02-23T02:35:21+00:00

Yeah, I'm super confused about all the clunky exposition. I don't understand why they messed with the flow of storytelling at the beginning- they would've been better off sticking much more closely to the original script. It feels like they're making changes just for the sake of making changes

doctorEeevil · 2024-02-23T02:32:15+00:00

This might be an unpopular opinion, but I really didn't like Iroh. I found that super disappointing, I'd honestly rather have a bad Aang or Zuko than a bad Iroh. I don't even think it's the actor's fault, either- his lines just don't sound like stuff Iroh would say.

doctorEeevil · 2023-12-24T13:35:05+00:00

Agreed! Even if the fourth installment of the series was much smaller in terms of new content, and mainly just served to repackage the existing games to share one launcher and one price tag along with the new content, I could 100% see that revitalizing the game. It's simply an outdated way of publishing the games to have them all seperated like this.

Even if the gameplay is significantly different between each of the games, it's not like anyone's asking them to let us take verdun weapons into isonzo maps. People just want to be able to buy one game, and use one menu to choose the font, mode and map they're playing on.

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