# Ep83: Does troon-coded extraction shooter Marathon (2026) provide the key to escaping the Right's cultural doldrums?

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Podcast: [The Conundrum Cluster Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-conundrum-cluster-podcast-6809890)
Published: 2026-05-17T16:42:44+00:00
Episode link: https://www.theconundrumcluster.com/p/ep83-does-troon-coded-extraction
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Duration seconds: 3656

## Resource

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Marathon (2026) and the future Stuff I mention in the episode: Interview: World-Making, Architecture, and Game Design in Marathon. With Art Director: Joseph Cross! Aleph One: Play the original Marathon games for free Rhythm of Writhing Constellations - Cryo Exfil music Most recent podcast episodes: Ep82: Should we kill you if you liked Project Hail Reddit (2026)? (Paid) Ep81: Beloved Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is woke trash and so are you if you liked it (Paid) Ep80: Wuthering Heights (2026) review (Paid) Ep79: Should you watch 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple? Are you a normie now? Idiot. (Paid) Ep78: Genius furry epic Avatar 3 shows that white genocide films are EVOLVING (Paid) Ep77: Thoughts on Black Christmas (1974), Christmas movies, the Retard Right, and what makes the holidays so special (Paid) Ep76: Does this videogame where you accidentally shoot 10 million Chinese people prove that Michael Mann’s film Heat (1995) is actually bad? (Paid) Ep75: Does this secret book about WW2 (Jews, Holocaust, Israel) provide the key to winning America’s impending CIVIL WAR? (Paid) Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep14: Emergency surprise free Christmas review of the Prometheus Engineer chronicles (2012) ( Free) Ep15: “A Disease in the Public Mind” is the most important book to read about the Civil War and America today ( Free) Ep16: Someone finally made a good Afghanistan War movie and nobody noticed (Paid) Ep17: If you don’t watch this new movie in theaters, you are betraying me and yourself (Paid) Ep18: Michael Mann’s Ferrari is the death-song of Esoteric Boomerism (Heat is overrated btw) ( Paid) Ep19: This for…

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