Joe
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Joe
@RealJoeKennedy
Global E-Comm Manager, Father of @Evan_Kennedy26, Husband, Founder/Owner @KingsGambitCo https://t.co/ej4Vsl7m5l
United States Katılım Nisan 2012
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Ignore this if you are just gonna reply dead game lol
But I am curious to discuss with people why yall think Marathon is still losing players. I truly believe it was going to stablize.
Is it too hardcore or are players just bored of the gameplay loop?
If you have fallen off Marathon I want to hear from you!

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@ArcRaidersNow Vaporizer is too OP, in 15 mins I've just killed 2 and would not want to see them in regular matches at all.
-it destroys entire Wolfpack and Seeker grenade
-takes about 60 shots from T4 Anvil
-the laser sets area it touches on fire
-it drops only 1 Vaporizer Regulator, 0 stack

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@Alpha_Prime__ Yeah, I've been passing out and sleeping 10+ past few weeks every couple nights. I think it's safe to say I'm burnt out.
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HOW MUCH SLEEP YOU NEED (BY AGE):
1. Newborn (0–3 months) – 14–17 hours/day
2. Infant (4–12 months) – 12–16 hours/day
3. Toddler (1–2 years) – 11–14 hours/day
4. Preschool (3–5 years) – 10–13 hours/day
5. School age (6–12) – 9–12 hours/day
6. Teen (13–17) – 8–10 hours/day
7. Adult (18–64) – 7–9 hours/day
8. Older adult (65+) – 7–8 hours/day
9. Deep sleep – 1.5–2 hours/night
10. REM sleep – 20–25% of total sleep
Sleep is not laziness. It’s recovery, growth, and power.
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My company rolled out AI tools 11 months ago. Since then, every task I do takes longer.
I am not allowed to say this out loud.
Not because there is a policy. There is no policy. There is something worse than a policy. There is enthusiasm.
There is a Slack channel called #ai-wins where people post screenshots of AI outputs with captions like "this just saved me an hour." There is a VP who opens every all-hands with "the companies that adopt fastest win." There is a Director who renamed his team from Operations to Intelligent Operations. There is a peer review question that now asks: "How have you leveraged AI tools to enhance your workflow this quarter?"
If the answer is "I haven't, because I was faster before," that is a career decision.
So I leverage.
Emails.
Before the tools, I wrote emails. This took the amount of time it takes to write an email. I did not measure it. Nobody measured it. The email got written and sent and it was fine.
Now I write the email. Then I highlight the text and click "Enhance with AI." The AI rewrites my email. It replaces "Can we meet Thursday?" with "I'd love to explore the possibility of finding a mutually convenient time to align on this." I read the rewrite. I delete the rewrite. I send my original email.
This takes 4 minutes instead of 2. The 2 extra minutes are the enhancement. I do this 11 times a day. That is 22 minutes I spend each day rejecting improvements to sentences that were already finished.
In #ai-wins I posted a screenshot of the rewrite. I did not post the part where I deleted it. 23 people reacted with the rocket emoji.
That is adoption.
Meetings.
We have an AI notetaker in every meeting now. It joins automatically. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. After each meeting I receive a 3-paragraph summary of the meeting I just attended.
I read the summary. This takes 3 minutes. I was in the meeting. I know what happened. I am reading a machine's account of something I experienced firsthand. Sometimes the account is wrong. Last Tuesday it attributed a comment about Q3 revenue to me. My manager made that comment. I spent 4 minutes correcting the transcript.
Before the notetaker, I did not spend 7 minutes after each meeting correcting a robot's memory of something I personally witnessed. I attend 11 meetings a week. That is 77 minutes per week supervising a transcription nobody requested.
I mentioned this once. My manager said "think about the people who weren't in the meeting." The people who weren't in the meeting do not read the summaries. I checked. The read receipts show single-digit opens. The summaries exist not because they are useful but because they are there. I read them for the same reason.
Documents.
I write a weekly status update. Before the tools, this took 10 minutes. I typed what happened. I sent it. My manager skimmed it. The system worked.
Now I open the AI writing assistant. I give it my bullet points. It produces a draft. The draft says "Significant progress was achieved across multiple workstreams." I did not achieve significant progress across multiple workstreams. I updated a spreadsheet and sent 4 emails.
I rewrite the draft to say what actually happened. Then I run my rewrite through the grammar tool. It suggests I change "done" to "completed" and "next week" to "in the forthcoming period." I click Ignore 9 times. Then I send the version I would have written in 10 minutes. The process now takes 30.
I have been doing this every week for 11 months. I have added 20 minutes to a task that did not need 20 more minutes. I call this efficiency. I have been calling it efficiency for 11 months. That is what efficiency means now. It means the additional time you spend to arrive at the same outcome through a longer process. Nobody has questioned this definition. I have not offered it for review.
I kept a log once. 2 weeks. Every task, timed. Before-AI and after-AI. The after number was larger in every case. Every single one. Not by a little. The range was 40 to 200 percent.
I deleted the log.
I deleted it because it was a document that said, in plain numbers, that the AI tools make me slower. And a document like that has no place in a company where AI adoption is a strategic priority. I could not send it to my manager. He championed the rollout. I could not post it in #ai-wins. I could not raise it in a meeting because the notetaker would transcribe it and the summary would read "[Name] expressed concerns about AI tool efficacy" and that summary would be the first one anyone actually reads.
So I do what everyone does.
I use the tools. I spend the extra time. I post in #ai-wins. I write "leveraged AI to streamline weekly reporting" in my review and my manager gives me a 4 out of 5 for innovation. I have innovated nothing. I have added steps to processes that were already finished. I have made simple things longer and labeled the difference with words that used to mean something.
Every week in #ai-wins someone posts a screenshot. And 20 people react with the rocket emoji. And nobody posts the part where they deleted the output and did the task themselves. Nobody posts the revert. Nobody posts the before-and-after timer. Nobody will. Because "I was better at my job before the AI tools" is a sentence that cannot be said out loud in any company that has decided AI is the future.
Every company has decided AI is the future.
So we leverage. Quietly. Adding steps. Calling them optimization. Getting slightly less done, slightly more slowly, with slightly more steps, and reporting it as progress.
My yearly review is next month. There is a new section this year. "AI Impact Assessment." It asks me to quantify the hours saved by AI tools per week.
I will write a number. The number will be positive. It will not be true.
But the AI writing assistant will help me phrase it convincingly. That is the one thing it does well.
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@JohnTitorVT Magnum, and then I become John Wick. Thing slaps up close.
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Criminally underrated along with the magnum and the stryder, dead serious.
Rook@isolatedrook
How do you feel about the Hardline? Any fans?
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Bungie's Marathon will be a test to see whether Sony still gives a shit.
It's a franchise worth investing in at a time when PlayStation has been cutting its losses.
kotaku.com/sony-is-at-a-c…
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@CharlesSJLewis @RyGilliam Yup. Looks awesome and love the game but we maybe get 2hr stints to game.
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@RyGilliam Yeah… Been really enjoying the game, but there is no scenario in which my friends and I can take 12 hours out of a weekend to play this. We’re dads with kids and our playing typically happens after 10pm. Not a skill issue - just a time issue. Feels quite tone deaf.
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I've been thinking about this all day
I can't wait to play more. I'm going to kill the Compiler this season if it kills me
But I keep thinking "who is Cryo Archive for?"
Streamers? Raiders? Hardcore PvPers? People who can play 10, 20, or 40 hours a week? What's the goal?
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Smojii@SmojiiTTV
While I really like the difficulty I do think some things need to be toned down a bit for the sake of normal people playing the game lol.
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@PaulTassi Maybe it helps prevent one group running away and becoming overpowered against those during week limited with time. Still a brave and odd approach.
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@MarathonMedia01 This could have been a banger of a PVE as well. Still loving the game loop. I just really suck at the PVP lol
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Alright everyone we're going a bit rogue here. We have a bit of an experimental feature that's in development we want to test and we'd love for you to help. As of Wednesday morning 3/18 at 10am PT, we'll be enabling a limited time duos queue on Perimeter only to test how the game plays with crews of 2 at a wider scale. Important things to note:
-- It will be on Perimeter only for now.
-- The test will last about 2 weeks (but we might cut it off early or elongate it depending on what's going on).
-- You can only enter duos with a premade group of you and another friend. (no matchmaking solo into duos).
-- You will be matched with other duos only.
-- You can select "Perimeter - Duo" from the zone select screen to access it. (not the final intended ux flow right now)
-- Some things will be a bit jank.
Just a note: this is a bit of an experimental feature so we expect to learn some things along the way and make changes to future versions of this. This likely won't be the final implementation of how it would look and flow in the game, but for now it was easiest way for us to get it to you all to help us test.
We're excited to run this experiment with you all. Pending what we learn, we're hoping to expand duos as a queue in the future and we wanted to take this first step sooner than later so we could understand how it affects our game better before investing a lot more time in fleshing out the feature.
Additionally, this is unlikely to be the last experiment we run, so look forward to more as we continue to evolve Marathon. FOR SCIENCE!
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@HazelSoSlay Dumb question. Is there a way to strip mods on a gun fast?
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