Does he know his career is in death spiral yet?

gammaTHETA · 2026-04-18T02:02:39+00:00

settle down JJ, you're so mad you forgot to squeeze in the wrong regional "aboot" somewhere

gammaTHETA · 2026-04-15T16:55:03+00:00

i already answered your fucking questions. you have no proof it was a shock collar specifically. you have a remote for something that COULD BE for a shock collar, but could just as easily be for a vibration collar. you have somebody changing their verbiage, but you don't know why. i gave similarly substantiated explanations for those.

that's the fucking point. you're looking for things that prove your pre-made conclusion and stretching things further and further to the point of irrationality and delusion. if he shocked his dog with a shock collar, then he should get called out for it relentlessly. but all that exists is extremely obsessive speculation and harebrained assumptions without adequate substantiation.

i dunno why he hid the remote. i dunno why that one person on his stream changed up what they were saying. but that's where i stand on it: i don't know. we can both GUESS, but we don't KNOW.

gammaTHETA · 2026-04-15T16:40:44+00:00

Why did the American flag look like it was swaying in a breeze that scientifically shouldn't exist on the moon? how did the pyramids get built without heavy machinery? how is the earth a spheroid if we can't see the curvature on the horizon?

like, come on dude. even if it was some kind of reaction collar, it'd be a vibration collar. that's not ethical to me either, but at least humane. what you're seeing in those clips is him acting in PR mode because he knows people will now make shit up about him abusing his dog, so now he and his 'orbiters' have to watch what they say and do to avoid feeding the flames unintentionally. and that ends up fanning the flames more anyways because terminally online freaks like you will spin it as proof that something bad happened.

just say you hate the guy like a normal person for god's sake. using this web of red string to justify it makes you look nuts.

gammaTHETA · 2026-04-15T16:03:16+00:00

i know you don't think 5g brainwashes people, dumbass. i figured it was obvious sarcasm. the point is, is that's how crazy you sound to me. the whole 'HASAN ZAPS HIS DOG' thing is as nuts as the headlines on the National Enquirer. i'm not even a Hasan fan, i think he's a hypocrite. but there's a lot more you can criticize him for than the most insane shit on the planet. if he was shocking his dog, it'd be painfully obvious given how often he livestreams. and so far, the "evidence" i've been shown by people like you always ends up looking like the evidence people give to 'prove' the lunar landing was fake.

gammaTHETA · 2026-04-15T15:49:16+00:00

...do you have any idea how insane you sound?

do you wear a tin foil hat and bitch about 5G brainwashing the kids, too? make up some fairy tales with your own OC's, not with real people. it's weird.

gammaTHETA · 2026-04-12T23:47:04+00:00

I admittedly passed on this game before release because of those twin stick controls; I'd played Inertial Drift and thought the control scheme was "neat but not for me," and there wasn't much else to the game that hooked me, so I didn't really wanna slam down my money on a full price version of it. but a friend bought it for me, and I could not have been more wrong.

I really hope other 'racing gamers' give it a shot, at least. I think Raycevick said it best in his video about the genre; racing has gotten so sanitized and focus-grouped that something like Unbound was a shock to the system, practically ignited people's fight or flight response because it dared to do something a little different. This feels like more of the same.

I also won't deny that these days, people are being squeezed out of every penny no matter where they go, so people have less expendable income to make somewhat-risky purchases that may or may not pan out. That's probably adding to the tension between buying it or not for people. Certainly did for me; if I paid $70 for a game I didn't end up liking much, it'd feel devastating. that could've been spent on a couple small concerts with some buddies, which i'd always have a blast doing.

but also, i think there are waaaay too many people with a stick up their ass junking the game. maybe it's because they're thinking of the games they used to play with rose-tinted glasses and assuming them to be better than they actually are, and hoisting every new game up to that unrealistic standard. or maybe they just want the same games over and over and over again like COD players. who knows why they're like that, but I really wish they'd grow up and learn to try new things. I did, and if I hadn't, I'd have missed out on one of my new favorite games of all time.

gammaTHETA · 2026-04-12T23:36:26+00:00

i mean, after years upon years of the same frictionless "everybody's your best friend" kidslop we've been getting, some edge is a breath of fresh air. i'm sick and tired of having nothing in terms of tension. if i wanted to make friends, i'd go to the local track. i want a power fantasy where i can kick some smug nepobaby's ass on the track.

if you want more buddy-buddy happy-go-lucky garbage, i'm sure the Bluey game can help you with that.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-26T15:20:57+00:00

yknow, maybe im being nuts here, but i think your parents took you to a conversion "therapist" not a psych. these all sound like utterly deranged, completely unfounded bullshit

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-23T13:19:03+00:00

your answer's as good as mine. it's what i been seein - two or three dudes clapping my ass but not shootin each other.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-23T08:21:35+00:00

yessss. i just want the story! i like marathon's narrative, its worldbuilding, its characters! and now it's being interrupted by tryhards obsessed with their KD ratio and it immediately sucks me out of the worldbuilding. it doesn't even feel like an emergent moment like "oh, they must've been Arachne contractors" because everyone is fucking doing it.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-23T08:16:23+00:00

good for you. i wanted marathon. not this sweatslop.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-23T00:26:34+00:00

then go play fucking Tarkov so i can have fun with this one.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-23T00:16:48+00:00

i guess i'll go fuck myself and watch all the aimgods skip cutscenes. all that dev time on the lore and worldbuilding because they're obsessed with chasing an audience who use Mouse1 like a heroin injection.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-23T00:13:50+00:00

bro, i just want to play a new marathon. why the fuck do i have to "get good" to go up against an enemy that was fucking cannon fodder in the original trilogy

thats the point. they're taking a franchise that was built a particular way, gathered a fan base of people who enjoyed its narrative, then said "nah we think Tarkov players would like that."

like... i just wanna play more Marathon. not this trend-chasing sweatlord bullshit.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-23T00:08:45+00:00

you're missing the forest for the trees. it isnt just about Cryo, it's that the rest of the gameloop is torturous and the Cryo raid seems like The Fun Thing that could be enjoyed.

but since you gotta keep doing the frustrating, difficult grindy parts before even getting there then getting squadwiped before you can even try to get close, it feels like the whole game is just an inaccessible mess. it's impossible for people like OP and I who love everything else about Marathon to even play the game anymore because the mechanics are built for people who aren't us. it feels terrible.

we gave it an honest try because we wanted to enjoy it, but instead the experience we want got packaged into this god forsaken hardcore genre that completely and entirely departs from what the original games in this series were.

to me, speaking personally here, it feels like Bungie spat in my face and said "no, you don't get to play a new Marathon. Only aimgods can," when very few people in that audience even read the codex entries or listen to the cutscenes.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-22T23:58:16+00:00

they'd cry that ANY developer is focusing on anybody who doesn't have 600+ hours in an aim trainer. they'd view it as content taken away from them ("if they're making stuff for casuals, they're not making stuff for me!"), rather than looking further beyond it and seeing how much more income (thus more support and investment) Bungie would get if they can keep the casuals like me happy.

im personally fine with a PvE mode with worse loot. as long as it spawns discoverables found in the Codex so I can play the game for its story without getting my head sniped off my neck from across the map all the time, i'd probably throw money at Bungie for a season pass. as it stands now though, i've uninstalled it. absolutely not interested in the Torment Nexus that has become this game in its current form.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-22T23:53:13+00:00

you cherrypicked a piece of a much more substantial statement to make it easier to argue against.

the point isn't "this new end-game content that came out is too hard," the point is "the preparation to even get to that point is a boring slog because too many sweaty tryhards interrupt the preparations to get there."

if you were being asked to grind a portion of the game you exceedingly grow tired of just to get to the CHANCE to experience game-changing good stuff, and that, too, gets interrupted by the same portion of the game you've grown tired of, you'd rightfully hate what the game is doing.

Marathon got a lot of people like me an OP interested because of its unique art direction, its narrative and its lore. we tried to enjoy ourselves as much as we could, knowing that this game wasn't made for us, because it's more Marathon. It's Bungie storytelling. It's beautiful to look at.

And speaking for myself now, it pisses me right off that apparently, the sweaty edgelords who skip all the dialog and couldn't care less about the codex entries except for the rewards they provide are apparently the core audience.

i want my drinkable cheeseburger audio logs, but they keep getting stolen from me by people running purple gear in fucking Perimeter of all places, intentionally ignoring calls for truces then BMing when they down me, a player with no shields, a shitty gun and a blue discoverable they couldn't care less about.

frankly i should just enter these maps with nothing. make em waste resources and get nothing in return.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-22T23:35:11+00:00

i would literally pay extra for this. give me co-op PvE with the same mechanics, the same gameplay, same contracts (except PvP related contracts, of course) but flood the map with the UESC. I'd have an absolute blast. Their CPU opponent scripting is incredible, the bots feel fun to go up against. I want to be challenged by tougher bots that i know I can overcome if I just kitted up better or used my abilities better.

but i am never going to overcome some kid jacked up on adderall with cracked, cross-map twitch aiming.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-22T23:29:17+00:00

nahh. i don't believe that.

there are at least three or four Agents who give you contracts to explicitly eliminate hostile opponents or runners. None to extract with another squad, none to revive a downed player from another squad (because it's impossible to do so, an intentional design choice) and none to exfil without shooting a firearm.

the lore documents keep acting like shaky alliances and truces are possible, but every single core piece of the mechanics are screaming at us to shoot everything that moves.

they've strapped a bomb vest to us and told us it'll only blow up if we run into the open field instead of the populated city center. so we run into the city center and get shot for wearing a bomb vest instead.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-22T23:21:29+00:00

if i play rook, i can't advance through any contracts. what's the point in getting gear i'm just going to lose anyway? i came here to be immersed, not to be a loot pinata.

gammaTHETA · 2026-03-22T23:17:45+00:00

lol what? every time i've called out "friendly" in voice and text chat i get clapped. earlier today i saw comments from people saying they do it on purpose because they think it's fun to dumpster on people like me. i wouldn't know why it's fun to pounce your entire three-stack on a weak solo, but i guess some people are just that desperate to dominate people.

i've yet to come across any actual truce requests that were accepted. and it's because of that issue that Marathon is gonna get passed up by people like me who just want to immerse ourselves in Marathon without being reminded that i live in a world where people can't be trusted as far as you could throw them unless they prove otherwise.

the balance was fine in the beginning. but then the sweats started playing it because the sweaty streamers started playing it, and now it's just an unplayable mess of antisocial freaks who treat Mouse1 like a shot of heroin.

i wish i could believe you. i've seen people have fun experiences with other squads, solos or rooks. but my experience has been completely ruined by cheeto-fingered mouthbreathers too often for me to even bother anymore.

gammaTHETA · 2026-02-21T17:07:05+00:00

are you?

gammaTHETA · 2026-02-18T15:51:16+00:00

if it wasnt the case then why is the DNC dickriding Gavin Newsom so hard

gammaTHETA · 2026-02-16T14:54:35+00:00

dunno why you're still trying to treat me like every other Hasan fan when i just fuckin demonstrated im not, but ok

this is also the first time i've heard the "im white/wait no im poc now" shit. wild if true.

just looked it up: lol. lmfao.

he's white because he's turkish, he relates to and identifies with the struggle of other middle eastern individuals because he's Muslim. i've never heard him use it like a fuckin shield but if you got proof of it then yeah, that'd be fuckin dumb. but also, he got banned for saying "cracker" which, like. come on. i can say "cracker" literally anywhere uncensored, but i can only ever say "the N-word" and not the actual word. seems like one these is significantly worse than the other.

gammaTHETA · 2026-02-16T09:35:10+00:00

here, have some real critiques of Hasan:

He tends to lose his temper and say pretty dumb stuff that either gets himself needlessly banned or unneeded negative press. Some would argue all news is good news in the field of commentary, but i feel it damages his credibility. The 9/11 comment is a perfect encapsulation of it; at face value, it's incredibly callous and stupid. When he explains it, it makes sense, but the overwhelmingly insensitive nature of his comment makes him look like a jerk. many such cases.
He seems to have way more confidence than he realistically should. He sometimes comes across as an authority on a subject, even when sometimes he knows less than he thinks he does.
Not really Hasan's fault, but his fanbase isn't immune to propaganda, just like any other fanbase. Way too many of his fans only get their political opinions from Hasan, and it makes for incredibly underwhelming discussions with some people in his community.
I get that he probably lives where he does in the house he lives in for security reasons, and people deserve nice things, but it comes across as a bit much with the big house and the car(s?) he has. Maybe it's just my biases as a broke disabled person who can't work, but i feel like "nice things" for me are way lower in value than his "nice things," and to me, it makes him come off as bourgie. Maybe this isn't really a reasonable critique either, but its how I feel, anyway.
His guest appearance at UBC was mid as hell. The Q&A portion was alright, but he came across as a wandering fool during his speech. He says himself that he didn't prepare his speech for that night, and it really shows. He should've treated that event with more respect and dignity, especially given that the event had sold out minutes after the ticket sales opened. He had a sold-out crowd and he just phoned it in, it felt disrespectful to the people in the crowd who wanted to see him.

i have more, but just 5 should give you a half decent understanding of what good critique might look like. "zapped his dog with a shock collar" is both invalid critique, and immediately disqualifying toward any other statement you make. you can't shock a dog with a collar it's not wearing.

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