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What's In Your Wallet, Sony?

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  We need to have an incredibly serious, direct, and timely conversation about the advent of the swathe of self appointed “professional business advisors” that have cropped up over the last few years. Y’all might not know this, I am a contract small business developer, my job is to either: analyze business plans at inception and strategize launch, or scale an already established business. I mention this with the explicit purpose of saying that I am, at the very least, vastly more informed on Biz Ops than the majority of the aforementioned “business advisors”. The fact of the matter is that, more often than not, you are probably engaging with an idiot when it comes to these “steam chart” conversations. I don’t mean to be blunt or crude, but there is no better way to describe the phenomenon of the completely uneducated parsing noncontextualized financial (or performance) data and presenting it as complete fact. This is less about Bungie specifically and more about the industry as a w...
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Glitch: A Disruptor In Battle, And Fashion.

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  Glitch’s design in Marathon presents a vision of futurism rooted less in speculative technology and more in contemporary fashion language. Their form, palette, and motifs reflect ongoing trends in modern minimalism, streetwear, and post-internet fashion culture. Instead of dressing a character for combat, the design treats the body as a site of composition, identity, and cultural reference. Glitch’s silhouette is immediately legible because it doesn't try to impress with bulk. There is no heroic exaggeration here, no chest-forward dominance, no armor pretending to be anatomy. Instead, their body is long, narrow, and strangely restrained. The eye is pulled vertically, not outward. This is a minimalist body; built to weave through spaces rather than occupy them. The white crewneck layer is doing a lot of work here; It hangs off the back with a softness that feels subversive in a genre notably obsessed with hardness. It behaves like a coat, not a uniform. It flutters, it trails, and...
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Did You Try Turning It MarathOn and Off Again?

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  Good afternoon and Happy New Year, Get the eye rolling over with. Yes, this is yet another Marathon blogpost, I have nothing else I want to talk about. I’m very excited about this game and I have word vomit to expel regarding it in lieu of its newly announced release date in 6 weeks, March 5th 2026. This one is a followup to a post I wrote out a few months ago regarding what I thought, at the time, Bungie needed to accomplish leading up to the title’s release. I want to go over what changes Bungie has made with respect to what I suggested, what I didn’t suggest, and what new advice I have for them for Day 0 and post-launch content. We’re going to split this into sections: Changes I wanted to see months ago, changes I did not consider but have been made by Bungie, and things that Bungie should consider for post-launch support. Disclaimer: I have been involved in a number of NDA protected playtests and therefore will avoid topics that could infringe on that confidentiality in their...
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