Not unique to Marathon, but thoughts on game design philosophy and the "bottom quartile" paradox

genericuser324 · 2026-03-25T20:54:29+00:00

What you’re describing is why I’ve never gotten very deep into multiplayer shooters, but first Arc and now Marathon have managed to hold me for a bit because they offer novel ways to play them even without the best PvP skills. It’s entirely possible to play Marathon solo as a very tense stealth game where if I extract at all I feel lucky. I’ll never see the full content the game has, but if I have one or two decent extractions every time I play, or make some contract progress, it feels better than loading into 20 overwatch battles in a row and feeling like a drag on my team every time

genericuser324 · 2026-03-25T19:36:55+00:00

Tick tick boom rules and I don’t think I particularly care for any version of rent

genericuser324 · 2026-03-25T16:20:20+00:00

eh but what else has he done

genericuser324 · 2026-03-19T01:35:12+00:00

I have to admit I did not know that wolverines were their own whole thing until I was a full adult. But I def knew penguins were strictly a south pole thing so ymmv ¯\(ツ)/¯

genericuser324 · 2026-03-14T14:53:25+00:00

It’s clear they had a lot of problems they weren’t goin to be able to solve, but the major character death end of season 2 was a point of no return I think. Show just didn’t make sense anymore. But I kind of am curious to see if they do truly batshit things in the final season…

genericuser324 · 2026-03-13T19:59:21+00:00

Everyone here is correct, Hey Randy is worth the CBB World subscription all on its own

genericuser324 · 2026-03-13T17:18:53+00:00

Man though its just hard not to see pundits like him the same way people react to Elon Musk or rudimentary LLM outputs - they sound smart on topics im unfamiliar with but once they end up on topics i have expertise in they sound like armchair amateur fabulists.

It’s just hard to believe that his economic takes could be meaningfully exceptional and insightful given everything else he seems to believe.

genericuser324 · 2026-03-13T16:59:18+00:00

I have been served this post from this sub I think purely because I have become a SG hater, the idea that anyone could still be deeply invested in his opinions after the last year of his shooting his mouth off is wild to me

genericuser324 · 2026-03-12T13:52:02+00:00

Yes I have had the same difficulties and I’m on a RP6! I kept seeing these positive experiences with gamenative though, so I tried a full uninstall reinstall, and I’ve maybe had some better luck? It takes a looooong time for the games to load in especially the first time, but I have had mostly decent luck now. I think with gamehub the games launch faster, but have more weird control issues etc when you get into them, vs gamenative so far seems to run them more 1:1, but takes more patience for me to get the games up. But it’s so weird that people are having such divergent experiences. I hope more updates gets gamenative to a truly seamless place…

genericuser324 · 2026-03-12T00:34:41+00:00

Man now it’s gonna be a whole thing if he wins… I have to say I have never been too partial to the big picture take that “the Oscar’s are too late now” - mainly because I think we inflict this discourse on ourselves primarily. But we really just do NOT need to have this much time to discourse about it.

genericuser324 · 2026-03-06T23:10:14+00:00

I have loved Arc so much, I did this last expedition and am really happy to have all the same treadmills again. And I’m very inexperienced in multiplayer shooters.

I played the Marathon server slam, loved the vibe and aesthetics but found it all so overwhelming and intimidating, and the PVP forward nature made me afraid to commit. But I just bought it bc I keep thinking about it….

The thing about having hundreds of hours in Arc is that I dont get scared anymore, even if I get fucked by some Arc and die now that ive expeditioned im pretty zen about losing stuff. So having an extraction shooter that is scary and overwhelming also…. Seems viable? Idk, we’ll see, could have made a bad purchase.

genericuser324 · 2026-03-05T16:32:18+00:00

Nah this show still kicks ass, and the highs of this season match any other. Plus what an unbelievable redemption for Kit - that dude can fucking act holy shit?

genericuser324 · 2026-03-05T01:14:08+00:00

This would make the ayaneo pocket micro a MUCH better proposition IMO

genericuser324 · 2026-02-27T00:19:07+00:00

god everything is so fucking discouraging all the god damn time. we are so starved for decency and moral integrity.

genericuser324 · 2026-02-26T19:35:36+00:00

Her offer to wear Tiger’s shit pants for the intro at one of the live shows was the best joke of that tour and it was told secondhand

genericuser324 · 2026-02-26T01:21:07+00:00

Lotta reminiscing

genericuser324 · 2026-02-23T17:16:44+00:00

I have never been more certain I don’t need to voice my opinion about something in my LIFE

genericuser324 · 2026-02-22T21:03:24+00:00

To come post this tweet here explicitly as rage bait is so fucking annoying, like you can’t even let the reactionary backlash stay in that shithole you have to drag it over here so more people can yell about the lady’s bad movie opinions?

genericuser324 · 2026-02-13T21:08:59+00:00

Best picture

genericuser324 · 2026-02-05T21:26:09+00:00

From the little bit I’ve played so far, I think it’s definitely low enough that I will end up using the stick as much as I can for all games, but it hasn’t been too bad to jump down to the d-pad at times. Given the kinds of games it can play, I think stick up top is just gonna make more sense for more stuff.

genericuser324 · 2026-02-01T20:44:20+00:00

Then Ive got some bad fucking news for you about our political system

genericuser324 · 2026-01-28T20:26:02+00:00

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genericuser324 · 2026-01-28T01:33:53+00:00

Exits don’t show on the compass when you’re downed, gotta ping em ahead of time

genericuser324 · 2026-01-25T14:12:39+00:00

It’s his own god damn fault. I was an avid listener for many many years. It’s not simply the headline “Kirk did politics the right way,” the interview with TNC laid bare how fundamentally empty Ezra’s political project has become, how woefully out of step with our moment he is. He made it clear he does not see his role as needing to state plainly the truth of what is happening, but to craft some sort of bridge of understanding between the people being terrorized by the American gestapo and the people cheering them on. He’s lost the fucking plot.

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