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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Forgot to finish my thought here, drone could be balanced better by being quieter definitely. Most people shouldn’t notice drone hitting you until it’s taken something from you IMO. Red light on it is well balanced. I like thief grapple onto another Thief’s drone, but not claymores on drones

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I really appreciate the devs and the time and care you’re putting into the game. I’m LOVING Marathon. Not a pro by any means but just sharing what I think could be easily balanced out/improved. can’t wait to see the other twists and wrinkles you’ll cook up. Thank you!

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Won’t let me change the option in my settings. Finally, pressing left stick to toggle zoom also procs sprinting, so if you’re in cover sniping and want to change zoom, you expose yourself and stand up at the same time you toggle zoom. Again, not sure if anyone will read this.

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

New note: Console/controller is bugged, or it desperately needs additional button customization support. Whenever I activate Thief visor or Triage EMP, it also drops a ping. Ping is mapped to a totally different button for me. I also still can’t tap to broadcast prox chat.

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Perhaps make quieter, make reel in slower, but auto take the item instead? Or knock the item further off the target?

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I think the drone’s duration/durability is well balanced, it shouldn’t be hard to shoot down. It’s overbalanced too weak though in that it knocks items off enemies and doesn’t reel them in until you hit the item itself a second time, assuming the target doesn’t pick it up.

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

It sucks when you go to hack a target, then one steps in front of the other, and they both aggro/see you. It takes too long to hack any target reliably. Also, the most viable use of the drone is as a tool for destroyed wing entry on outpost. It’s too noticeable

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Vandal being able to move other people with the disrupt cannon is probably the most powerful tactical option in the game. I think Thief will become left behind moving forward. Visor doesn’t show invisible and/or smoked players reliably. Hack should lock on to enemies when you have a visual.

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Not sure if this account is monitored at all but some feedback: I think Thief was being massively overused because of the movement exploit, and I think people are sleeping on Recon’s shieldbreak tracking and ping recognition. I know the heat drone and Ult needs tweaked on Recon though.

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Not sure if anyone’s monitoring this @thegooddotstore.bsky.social but I’m having issue with tracking an order I placed December 2nd. Reached out to support late yesterday when I finally realized my order was late but now I’m worried it won’t arrive before Christmas

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Not Epic’s fault Xbox won’t auto-update even with the setting turned off, but my friends and I won’t be playing Fortnite for the next 2 weeks and are now looking for another 4 person game. Would’ve been nice to have some kind of in game notice like “Hey OG will be turned off tomorrow” last night

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Epic not communicating clearly that OG would get blocked for 2 weeks post update is crazy. 3 buddies and I only play OG every Saturday. 2 hours waiting for an update to play 3 games of standard zero build ending in getting melted right out of the gate by people who didn’t miss a shot.

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

@hankgreen.bsky.social Hello Hank im drunk eating fajitas over my stove but I love watching you play connections and do indeed care about so please do not stop doing it thank you good night

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/01/2025

"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings." www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...

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We're getting the social media crisis wrong

The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Fantasy fan: Khalil Shakir scored 2 more points on my bench than Terry McLaurin and Jayden Reed scored combined in my fantasy championship

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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

If I get to 100k followers on here I’ll post @samreich.bsky.social ’s phone number

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Thanks to whoever went to the trouble of morphing me into a dromedary so I could finally fulfill my potential as "Mar🐫". 🙏 ❤️ 👍

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/12/2024

President Biden is a good man. This image isn’t new. It was taken in 2018 when he thought no one was looking, and it’s who Joe Biden really is. This example of humanity and decency is what we’ll be losing in favor of an example of heartlessness and narcissism. Nice work, America!

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The heart of the issue isn’t being politically correct, it was making that the focal point. Need to meet people where they are at. We can also take care of the emotional needs of our friends while bolstering our economy with policy if we can get people to believe in said policy first

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Thank you for posting this. I think this is the first time I’ve seen written out in succinct detail what it is actually gone wrong with the Democratic party, that actually makes sense to me.. It’s so simple that it should have been obvious.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

WATCH: “I believe they did that because what we’re doing is having an effect… They're being petty. But that's not going to stop us. Amazon warehouse in Queens, NY gushes water out onto the striking workers' picket line in below freezing temperatures. (H/T @btnewsroom.bsky.social )

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Xavier Worthy hasn't materialized as the deep threat people envisioned this offseason, but KC has found a role for him. He's averaging nearly 10 yds/catch on short throws, which ranks 13th league-wide.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/12/2024

#ICYMI: ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies. One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student. Read more: propub.li/4iNVpxl

Text: The story of one Mississippi county shows how private schools are exacerbating segregation. Image: Nighttime views of two Amite County, Mississippi high school football fields in close proximity.

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Rob Hatch-Miller @robhatchmiller.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

my memory of Rickey Henderson is that he was kind and signed autographs for everybody at Cactus League spring training while Canseco and McGwire were rolling the car window up on kids’ fingers and laughing

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The Bowhead Whale. This sounds cold

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Bill Barnwell @billbarnwell.com · 20/12/2024

Herbert's INT. This is no-huddle out of a sneak for a first down so Chargers had this play called in advance and probably had a strong feeling they were getting Cover-4 in a no-huddle situation. Deep post is the right decision, but Herbert's throw gives Abrams-Draine an angle to make a great play.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 20/12/2024

Usually each Harvard Law class has 50-70 Black students. This year it’s 19, which is the lowest number since *1965*. Struggling to articulate how sad and angry this makes me (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...

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Black Student Enrollment at Harvard Law Drops by More Than Half (Gift Article)

After a Supreme Court decision ended race-based admissions, some law schools saw a decline in Black and Hispanic students entering this fall. Harvard appeared to have the steepest drop.

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Jabari A Davis @jabariadavis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Some day, I aspire to do ANYTHING as well as Prince played that MF guitar.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/12/2024

NYPD perfectly illustrates in a single day that they only exist to protect the oligarchy.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 20/12/2024

I have waited my entire life for this moment.

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I.G.Y. Azalea @steelydad.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I would have housed that Costco dog, built different I guess

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

Don’t make me tap the sign. Strikes are supposed to be disruptive

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Not sure the police could have made him look more heroic if they’d tried. You’d think with all the PR ppl the NYPD (and our tax $) employ, someone would have realized that the optics of this are just begging to make him more of an anti-establishment folk hero than he already was.

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

i get why folks like to rate and rank game changer episodes, but for what it's worth, i don't like thinking about the series that way!! i like thinking about it a ~portfolio~ of evidence that will one day lead to my arrest

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

of all the nice press about dropout this ranks among the most meaningful 🥰 www.slashfilm.com/1739679/dro...

A screenshot of an article from SlashFilm entitled "Dropout was the best streaming service of 2024, and it's not even close." The snippet from the article reads: Meanwhile, Dropout's audience has continued to grow, clips of its shows go viral on social media every day, and its flagship show — and I cannot stress this enough — sold out Madison Square f***ing Garden(!!!), something that the current president-elect failed to do. And they did it all by staying true to their vision of making art that reflects the future we all deserve. One that rewards intelligence and kind-natured fun, stresses the importance of community building, and understands the life-altering power of a good sense of humor. Dropout is inclusive and innovative, the phoenix has triumphantly risen from the ashes of CollegeHumor ... and it's only $5.99 a month."

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Put on Bengals Titans a while ago and for no reason at all here’s the T’Vondre Sweat fumble recovery and stuff arm set to music in slow motion

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

"Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass & metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools HAVE to. That’s the question that needs to be asked”

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The opportunity costs of “let’s debate vaccines!” Is going to be massive and emblematic of the “we’ll settle this on Joe Rogan” mode of politics. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-opport...

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The Opportunity Costs of Having a Big Debate

Relitigating every expert consensus is going to be exhausting.

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Robert Mays @robertmays.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Watch the left tackle on this play.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Good lord. Just cursed with awful injury luck this year.

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Steve Dine @thedinerisopen.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It goes back to the root problem of Dems relying on what is basically tradition and norms. then believing when norms were challenged they would be upheld by the other entities that upheld them and now legacy media is normalizing Trump and the GOP being assholes. Dems didn’t evolve w the times

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

"More people died from homelessness than homicide in Nashville this year.” A friend shared this photo from yesterday's memorial at Riverfront Park.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

New pic of a drone over New Jersey.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 15/12/2024

we've had dozens of frightened thumbsuckers about The Left endorsing violence but bernie sanders didn't take luigi to the army navy game

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

i've been called a narcissist and a sociopath because i don't follow back everyone who follows me, and they're absolutely right. i will now attain selflessness and empathy by tapping a button on an app 224,000 times. if i can do that 100 times a minute without breaks i will be done in 37 hours

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