What Keeps ElNarez Alive?

state of marathon right now:

-the new map is really a high roller's table, UESC *will* expose you, you can get third partied and owned REAL EASY, I need a better ante
-community puzzle

The second CyAc quest has ONI tell you that every once in a while they'll just seize all your belongings to pay back the debt

I need to make it clear once more that Tom Brevoort is the worst editor working at Marvel, the worst editor currently alive, and possibly the worst editor in comics history

had a few bad runs in a row on Marathon so I've been trying to learn Recon; also I had a good rook run; however crew fill on Dire Marsh is a fucking cesspool

hey you know that thing people like about the x-men, that they're an infinite superteam that can be reconfigured in an infinity of ways, yeah, what my approach to the x-men presupposes is what if we never did that ever again

the thing about X-Men solo books is that no one likes them and no one wants them so it's the only thing Brevoort does

STOP! LAUNCHING! X-MEN! SOLOS!

a man entirely bereft of principles would flail around like Macron, gesturing at the idea of an international rules-based order while saying nothing of substance about the crime that has been committed; Keir Starmer is a true fucking believer in McSweeneyism

#THETENX5 DAY THIRTY-ONE

Bastille
"Pompeii" (2013)
Bad Blood (2013)
No bonus

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whoever at Bungie was like "and we're gonna name your point of contact with MIDA after the protagonist of a satirical novel about a power-hungry guy who becomes a minister and fucks his way into all kinds of trouble"

say what you will about extraction shooters, but they do demand a level of craft and mechanical engagement that is at least more deliberate than fucking cracking open virtual card packets

no but seriously if you think Marathon is cynical please watch footage of any 2K sports game

When they make a film about the 2010s this is the song they'll use; an anthemic chant-along about living on the brink of total collapse, which cleverly ramps up its percussions like the rumble of the earth; this is our "I Melt With You"

#THETENX5 DAY THIRTY-ONE

Bastille
"Pompeii" (2013)
Bad Blood (2013)
No bonus

comments to follow

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F90C...

another thing about Marathon: I'm yet to be punished for ding-dong-ditching every supply drop I see; I call these fuckers and no one ever comes to punish me

actually you know what saturation is off on this screenshot gotta change my settings huh

I think the fact that I was catching up to my six hours of server slam helped, I was just kinda hyper

true marathon story me and @lisafuriosa.bsky.social saw a group doing exfil, they popped a bubble, and I think the red mist came over me because I ran into that shit knife out and got dematerialized (which is good because I had done a supply drop earlier and I was ballooned with fucking mods)

this dumb motherfucker was trying to box me in with the Jeunet, tried calling me out on Amelie with the skip, got hit with the fucking Delicatessen kill shot I'M A CINE2NERDLE THUG

it's gonna rule when the product doesn't improve in any god damn way

why the heck do marathon streamers pack six whole stacks of light ammo, you barely use half of it, you don't have room for your loot, what the heck

just had the thought right now that christopher nolan isn't out there making "comic book movies" he's just making "movies"

somewhere in my armchair i am waiting (mom is watching another ep of animal kingdom)

if it's any help that's a mida logo on it

if america isn't overrun by woke why did noem get fired

as I kept telling people: once you hear about the drinkable cheeseburger, the game has its hooks in you; that's the hit, that's what you do Marathon for

if you don't have amazon prime don't worry you'll be able to watch season 5 of the boys in the montages on the official white house x account

I feel like it's also an after-effect of the ram stuff stretching this console generation by a couple of years; pc ports make sense if you can get running on new hardware soon, and there's not gonna be a soon for a while

the good thing is you can actually wish for the death penalty on software

I would argue that the institutional failure of MeToo and TimesUp, that it couldn't actually achieve anything, is part of why some parts of the culture felt they had to take matters into their own hands and go to extreme rejection of all things sexual; there's an aspect of self-defense to it