whatever, jollibee Calyx

Marathon players are a lot like Destiny 2 players in the sense that when one them starts soapboxing about Thing, the rest of them all begin to soapbox about Thing. Everyone has to say their two cents about Thing, and that's not unusual, but it's odd that they often start from a conclusion.

Speedrunners when they figure out that they can wrong warp at the start of the game and roll credits thus satisfying conditions to be eligible on speedrun.gamer leaderboards: yippee yahoo by jove we did it! Speedrunners when I disguise the "Credits" option on the main menu as "Speedrun Mode": 💢😡💢

>ask the game dev if their game is actually cosy or just has resource gathering

In Arknights if you're at 6/7 clues and your clue cache is full, when you give someone the clue that makes them 7/7, the bonus clue you get in return should be the one that makes you 7/7 too. Been needing clue 5 for seven years at this point.

Rough idea of how they solve the "marathon implants all look the same and you have to hover over them to see what stats they give and take." Iconography for the stats, + & - on the icons that you gain or lose by swapping out implants. I just used emoji here but obv they'd have their own symbols.

This has never been my realm but I wanted to learn more about F/NAF, so I pulled up an old four hour video talking about it. I'll specify which one at in the thread later but I wanted to point out one part of it where the YouTuber really dropped the ball.

Guy who has to point out when every common phrase that shows up in the EN localization of Final Fantasy XIV is also found in some other media voice: Omg just like Endwalker!

My dream endgame zone for Marathon has PvE that is so relentless and numerous, and the map is so sprawling, that the two main methods of approach are "ally with the first rival team you make contact with, or treat it like a heist and be as stealthy as possible."

Watching people play Marathon will drive me mad because medium~high skilled players will make extremely punishable positioning choices when they heal, but they'll be fighting unaggressive players, and it's like "if that were me and I healed there, I'd be rushed down instantly."

Players who like ADS: "Oh this game doesn't have ADS? That's cool." Players who don't like ADS: "ADS is suck-ass awful and I hate it!!!!"

Cool things I've heard about Crimson Desert: -Kliff McDuff Uncool things I've heard about Crimson Desert: -Everything else

I only like watching Marathon when people are doing solo runs.

I always have to remember what "icl" means when I see it, because we already have "ngl" and I think icl isn't simply another way to say "I am emphasizing that what I'm about to say is not a fabrication to underline how true I believe the following statement to be."

Function of bsky i don't like: i can only choose to block an account or tell the system "show me less of this." Picking either removes the target post from my sight, but doesn't let me also pick the other option.

Animal assignments to people I've played Marathon with based on their playstyle: Rosarie - Orca Wheels - Alligator Claire - Hedgehog Lily - Falcon I will not elaborate.

I remember one time in Destiny 2 there was an encounter was a 4-phase fight [unusual but novel] and people said "this should be 3 phases" [like all the other fights in the game] and they acquiesced... Wish I could remember which encounter it was.

This year's "post I never thought I'd ever read until I did" was "people misappropriating first-person text as something They Specifically did/said/thought." I fear that it, like a rise in a certain kind of typo (and the lack of any corrections in comments) speaks to a decline in critical capacity.

I love when you find game critique online and it's just someone saying "I played this game nonstop for 3 weeks without sleeping. I hit max level. Why isn't there anything to do anymore that's new. They need to reconsider this"

Guy who doesn't like slay the spire voice: man i picked a bad time to watch some streamers.

Not surprised to hear pans on Mario Film 2. I watched Sonic Films 1 & 2 and watched Mario Film 1 years ago and found the latter lacked substance. It wasn't even bad just... it was product. I wonder if it got sanded down by focus groups and committees.

Seggs is the most disgusting online slang. It's used with this weird shame, like the chat filters convinced them they shouldn't say sex. If you're going to have "seggs" with me, you better be laying eggs inside me with an ovipositor otherwise I'm throwing you out a window

Durandal talked to Rose & Lily but never talked to me which means one of three things: 1. he's straight 2. he hates men 3. a secret third thing you can infer with sacred knowledge and context clues

My Schema Empire. Top to bottom it's V99 Channel Rifle, Outland, Solid Stance V3, Flechette Grenade, Special Offer Sponsored Kit. This is from 1 delivery drone and 1 gold lockbox using the key from said drone.

I went on to kill two more players in the nook between station and the eastern side of the Data Wall. I forgot to trace my path but it was S -> NR -> EP -> B -> A1 -> B -> EP. Really funny that I got another player killed by activating the exfil with no intention of taking it.

Pretty good haul from 3 players for a Naked Knife run.

Gonna start throwing bubble shields on exfil beacons before i activate them this is getting ridiculous.

I was watching NL & Dan and then HCJ & Sips play Arc Raiders and they're two strains of psychic damage. The 1st duo were tricking people into thinking they were friendly & shooting them in the back. The 2nd duo were setting a trap in an elevator shaft and waiting 30~40 minutes to Maybe get One Guy.

IMO, one of the worst parts about the Marathon approach to its genre is, and I'm generalizing here as the playerbase has some overlap with D2; the players who thrive in the PvP aspects will be more successful in securing items, but they also won't read any of the codex entries themselves.

SimCity 2000 (1993)

Twitch is slightly unusable in a funny way where whenever I tune into a stream or watch VoDs, it's just full of people saying things which I can intuit are custom emoji, but since I don't use any plugins it's just reams of this: jan: om dan: om lee: om ken: om joy: PeePu7 ted: om may: PeePu7

When I say "I think they're gonna cave and make PvE activities in Marathon" I do not mean "they're going to make PvE lobbies for all the maps." What I mean is they may want to do something in the future where the PvP side of play is disruptive, and removing it allows for more story/puzzle depth.

When I knife someone using Assassin's kit I'm "a rat" and "cheap" but when I do the same thing using Destroyer's kit I'm "the hero of Tau Ceti" and "epic."

Rose (@fatamorgana.bsky.social) reviews Trails Beyond the Horizon, another stellar entry in the long-running series that never stops impressing!

Need to play Rook and blast this on open mic on loop until someone in Dire Marsh comes to silence me. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ToI...

Here's my draft check

Favorite Marathon plays from today: Rose got shot by a third team entering Algae Ponds, I used Riot Barricade to block shots as Lily revived her and we all retreated into a room to regroup and bait them into our killzone. 7~8 body bags in one area.

Lilith (gallowlessdatura.bsky.social) explores the fan-operated revival of Unreal Tournament 2004, and writes about the value of breathing life into dead games, rather than submitting to their executioners!

"[x]enuinely" might be in my top 10 least favorite turns of phrase. Combining "facetious" and "genuinely" to create "facetienuinely" and then saying that the first time anyone speaks it to me like "Facetienuinely? You're so right."

No idea who 🟥🏜️ is for. We may never know.

Gamers were saying the last map was "the best map ever" so which is it.

Something about the border between green and yellow that trips people up

It's so funny seeing people come up with all these insane ways you can fix game dev when the answer would literally be "stop abusing contractor systems so you have to retrain your creatives every 9 months, and fire that guy who's telling you asset reuse is a cardinal sin"

Here's my quick opinions on each shell in Marathon. This is not objective or even fair. Don't expect as much.

A mentality I've never had with cosmetics in games is the one where people equip cosmetics they don't even like or aren't that cool, but "I have it so it's better than the default."

My opinion on extraction shooters after playing one (1) extraction shooter: "No, the getting killed by other players part is fine, enjoyable even: I just think the time limit is too restrictive." <---wishes Battle Royales didn't have shrinking maps so every match became The End fight from MGS3.

The game industry’s obsession with graphics is so funny because every other year there will be some breakout hit called “Stick Figure Mansion” or some shit that outsells 90% of the market and runs on a toaster

I'm going back in time to make Concord a middling success if only so I don't have to see people use it as an epithet against games they don't like or games they think aren't going to be "successful."

..... tides? #ArknightsEndfield #EndfieldCreators #TideRises