It’s helpful to stop playing Marathon after a good run.

Today I had a very good run: I did a quest for NuCal that wanted you to go to Complex and then Quarantine and each time you did the thing on the computer they would lock the room and send in bots to fight you.

The second time, a Destroyer crept into the room where I had been locked. But I was ready for him: took him down with an energy SMG and stole my first purple backpack. And a Longshot.

Sorry, dude, you could have left me alone.

The best screen on my phone. Thanks to everyone who stood firm and refused to upgrade to iOS 26.

The red mist is starting to fade from my eyes RE: Marathon. I still love the game, but I’m going up against teenage cyborg assassins and it’s tough. Is this what it’s like to be sweaty? I do always make sure to end on a win so I can sleep happy.

I took down two of the rival crew super fast, then managed to down the third while he was confused. Then I ran up and knifed all three of them. Incredibly satisfying. Brought my team back and we exfil'd.

I earned a piece of the Zonewarden title with that: Trinary Star. Defeat 3 Runners as the only surviving member of your crew.

The background, sadly, is kinda gross.

Two incredible runs in #Marathon today as part of a full crew. Both involved trouble at Overflow in Perimeter.

In the first, we got into a huge firefight with at least two other crews. We took out one and a half teams, but got overrun by a third.

In the second, we found ourselves fighting a Warden. But another team came on our back and took out both my partners. I hid in a ditch for a bit, peeked out, and saw them congregating on their bags. I tossed a frag and started blasting.

Two successful Rook exfils and one Assassin in #marathon. So fun.

In my first Rook exfil I snuck in with a crew at the Hauler who were distracted fighting bots. I didn’t know the exfil makes a bubble around the circle as you leave. Super cool to sneak in there. Second Rook one, I met another Rook attempting a guarded exfil. I distracted the robots and we both made it out, circling the beacon.

As the Assassin I did another guarded exfil, warning away a Recon with some warning shots to the head.

Met a good crew on Discord tonight and had two amazing Marathon runs in Dire Marsh. On the first we didn’t meet a single crew. Got some decent loot and left.

The second run had us fighting a crew in an open air warehouse and beating them. Apparently no one looks up - get the high ground! We had a standoff with another crew in the middle of a UESC battle. We left and managed to exfil from a guarded spot. My teammates got downed but we recovered and made it out. What a rush.

> Nightreign had the sauce. So does Marathon.

Yes.

Another one of my people. I'm very happy for the positive press this great game is getting post release.
https://kotaku.com/marathon-multiplayer-bungie-roguelike-elden-ring-nightreign-2000677183

Marathon demands a lot of you. But the feeling of a successful exfil is triumphant joy.
https://www.polygon.com/marathon-is-the-scariest-horror-game-of-2026/

I’m playing a bunch of Marathon and it’s so good. Well, all of it except the skins and the battle pass stuff. Typical scummy Bungie behavior, welcome back launch Destiny 2 shaders.

But the other problem is that every base skin looks like a nonsense mashup of colors and symbols. So making the colors different doesn’t change much. They’re all always different.

Music rocks though.

https://music.apple.com/us/album/marathon-vol-i-somewhere-in-the-heavens-original-game/1877959843

@imdavidpierce The price of true utility and security for a carried phone is indeed fashion death. But it is better.
https://www.simple.be/answer/500

I preordered Marathon. It’s very exciting to see these seasonal notes. Hopefully I’ll even be able to make it up to the Cryo Archive by the end of this season.
https://www.bungie.net/7/en/News/Article/introducing_seasons_marathon

Marathon is way more unforgiving than ARC Raiders. You’re really supposed to use sponsored shells unless you’re in a tight-knit team.

I find myself biting my tongue to not curse up a storm every time I get one-shot by another runner.

Being a Bungie story, it doesn’t take much imagination to guess what “escape will make me god” refers to. Is it a malevolent AI?

I played a couple of rounds of Marathon today. Really liked it! The world is beautiful, the UI is insane in a good way, gunplay feels good. The aesthetic might be the whole selling point, but I’m sold.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3065800/Marathon/

Matt Levine, national treasure, as always.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF4vZxbSmjo

The first item in this list makes me laugh. We do want a budget MacBook. We also wanted a budget iPhone. How, uh, how do people like the iPhone 16e?
https://www.macworld.com/article/3023806/apple-mac-features-oled-budget-touchscreen-5g.html

If anyone can write this, it’s Yoko Taro.
https://www.polygon.com/new-evangelion-anime-yoko-taro-hideaki-anno-writer/