why can't i stop laughing

no

stp

only i'm suppod to find my dumb jokes funny

this is not how its supposed to work

(Actually being serious now, for the moment. Thanks. :) Glad you enjoyed the post. The secret is having a crushing amount self awareness, and just a HINT of Marathon'n classic Jim Carrey movies. To which might I add, holy shit Cameron Diaz. That's just not fair.)

I think as time goes on I'm getting your style more <3

Side Effects Include:

• A Minor Addiction to Pudding.
  
• Encreased use of Archaic Terminology.
  
• A Major Addiction to making dumb posts
  
• Did someone say Pudding? O_O
  
• Mockery by Rocks.
  
• Laughing at your own jokes.
  
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• Music is the Jam to the Toast of Life
  
• Suck at idioms.
  
• Need to use idioms.
  
• Linking to things that may or may not be relevant to the post.
  
• Heavy use of gifs in lieu of of words. OMG SO MANY GIFS PLEASE SEND HE-
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• Laughing at the crushing possible irrelevance of the universe.
  
• Committing to quality, even if it's stupid.
  
• Are Stupid.

... and that's it, surprisingly. I could have sworn there was more. In fact, there probably is. Eh. Well for now it looks like it's not so bad after all, as you only meet three of the fourteen criteria (as the sub-criteria doesn't count).

You be careful out there! ;D

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A) You didn't have a choice
B) They were 'turned in' automatically
C) There were only 3 per day per location.

You wouldn't be Rank 100, I know that much. None of us would.

I play plenty of games that do the things I talked about in that post. Doesn’t mean those things wouldn’t also be cool in Destiny.

Seasons should further the story with a fun arc and have a unique event. Keep the core gameplay loop going and give us a fun story to unpack.

What if they had brought back sparrow racing? That would have been pretty cool right? It would last a season and we wouldn't get tired of it. That's the kind of stuff Destiny needs. That was when I thought Bungie had finally justified their model, but now...

The bunkers are fun, the first few times you do them. They are awful on the 50th time. Why do we do them 50 times? Bounties that we need to do to unlock all the tiers etc. Less is more.

I long to see a version of Destiny where that’s not true. Let Hunters actually be fast, agile, and sneaky. Let Titans be tanks that soak up damage and hit harder than they take. Let Warlocks . . . floof around and read books or whatever nerdy shit they do. (I kid! Let them be the definitive class for crazy space magic—buffs, heals, area of effect damage.) What if picking a class was actually meaningful and not just flavor.

Why not just play Overwatch?

So, I agree with you. Those specialized mods based on class would be amazing. The issue is that I don’t think it would work all that week. The cheaters don’t actually play that differently from each other. That’s intentional, I know, but even the fact that it’s the case means the whole premise of which class is best is just uninteresting. No class is best explicitly by design. ...

A solid point on "how long" such fun would last. But, to rebuff, it's already baked in. Each class has its own "something". And I like that it's all so... lite enough that there is room to play beyond some pre-established archetype. Yet, (and this repeats the rest of what you said) it would have been nice to DIG in and change how things play.

That exploration is fun! Laser week (which was a glitch), the Glass Canon Glitch in the Dungeons, double loot nightfall (also a glitch... hmm a pattern), all fun because it changed how things played for a time.

I just wish it wasn't a glitch, and someone actually knew what they were doing.

I long to see a version of Destiny where that’s not true. Let Hunters actually be fast, agile, and sneaky. Let Titans be tanks that soak up damage and hit harder than they take. Let Warlocks . . . floof around and read books or whatever nerdy shit they do. (I kid! Let them be the definitive class for crazy space magic—buffs, heals, area of effect damage.) What if picking a class was actually meaningful and not just flavor.

Destiny has never really claimed to be truly classed based, so I can’t fault the game for not being so, but damnit all if I don’t love dreaming.

So here it is out front; I am beyond disappointed, angry even (a little bit), but I am not surprised. In fact, I expected it, which honestly pisses me off a little too. This is all part of the established pattern. It was so in D1, and seems to be so for D2 as well. With the big refreshes, the new ideas, new spaces to play, exotic gear or new perks to mix up the play; Destiny is fun. But as time goes on they just... squeeze that foodnipple DRY! It's almost tongue-in-cheek, "SO THAT'S where powdered milk comes from".

There is... SOOOOO MUCH potential with this idea. Perhaps that's why it "hurts" so much, at this point it's always had it. Potential! Ohhh Ahhh potential! FUCK! I'm so exasperated from Bungie just SQUANDERING this franchise! Sure do wish y'all get on with it already!! I would LOVE to see some spaces that really DIGGED into the characters "style". Here, for fun, behold some examples!

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TITANS! Ya'll get a Horde Mode or something of a like where your job is to make sure NO FOE CROSSES "this" line or something. Titans are the WALL? SHOW ME! BE THE WALL WITH YOUR TITAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS! SHOULDER WALL to SHOULDER WALL!

(Admittedly this seasons Rasputin Public Events are already like that, it just doesn't care about character. It's just... "stuff to do".)

HUNTERS! Shit, ya'll could have some stealth game play, or some type of sabotage thing. In fact, lets really make this interesting, the results of this effects the Titans somehow. Cloak, jump, evade and get it done under the threat of a timetable.

WARLOCKS! Kind of both jobs. We're not only the Intel that makes sure everyone else knows where to go, but the finishers (or whatever you'd call Osirises efforts). Not sure what method of play this would be, but... in my head the idea would be along the lines of...

...because I mean... DUH!

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"BUT INSANEdrive!..." any one who reads this with an idea of the struggles of game creation might say, "that's all fun and dandy but bringing such an idea to life takes alot of time". And yea, my dear hypothetical, I know I know. Ya got alot on your plate, and no doubt all these bugs haven't helped things either. After all, fixing a bug means less time for other stuff. Plus - since the Darkness is coming, y'all MUST make sure that when THE - THE Foe of Destiny which has silently been "hyped" for over seven years gets here, it's all worth it. Failing that could just... kill the game. Full stop. It's probably not a hard guess to presume the possibility that there will be a raid on one of these ships (or within our very minds).

I am a friend in the cause. I understand. Shoot, just the testing alone! Not just Xbox, but PS4, PC (and all its variables) and state of the art cloud tech! That's some pretty crazy stuff you need to make sure all works best you can!

But Bungie... or shall I say Bungie Leads, from where I sit right now, y'all wasted time. ALOT of time. Precious, golden, never enough... time. Bungie LEADS, What the FUCK is going on!?!?

YOU WASTED YOUR TIME!!!!

Somewhere, 6, 8, a year go, someone said - "HEY! Let's make a completely new event, with new assets to be created (which takes time!), that looks fresh, but is the same shit we've had our players do for the last year! They'll LOVE IT!"

Did ANYONE push back at Bungie!?!? Did anyone say, "Hey - this might not be the best idea to go after right now". That it should be (or say DESERVES to be) fleshed out more? Or was it - sure whatever ya say boss! As long as I can put a payment down on my next lamborghini!

RRAAAAA! The insult here, is that Bungie apparently thought (and this regardless weather they actually do or not), that more of the same gosh-darned slop with a new color was ok. THEY PUBLISHED IT! THEY PUT THEIR NAME ON IT!

I can only give so much benefit of the doubt. Congratu-freek'n-ation Bungie, you found the limit. As seems to be the trend of 2020, you found a way to lower the bar in ways I didn't want to see. Now? Now I'm just sad, which is surprising, as I thought you had squeezed the last bit of emotion out of me in that way too. Guess not. No tears, just straight salt at this point. Shit.

Shame.

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Shame.

Bungie, you were better then this once. Please - someone fire your leads! Demote them! SOMETHING! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE could we get some FUCKING CONSISTENCY out of this franchise that isn't a roller-coaster of PAIN!!?!!! I mean... shit, it's official, this game is Crystal Meth. The HIGHS and the lows. And the side effects.

Fuck you Bungie. ...Leads! ('cept art team. Ya'll kick ass. Have a cookie! :D)

P.S ...and... AND even if EVEN IF something cool/amazing/actually-good happens during this event, unknown to us as I write this - what I have writ stands. You've HAD enough time to LEARN!!! We SHOULD NOT be doing this shit again! Excuses or reasons, I don't care anymore. You should know better by now!

That's my rant. Ugh.

The bounty requirements completely negate the play how you want ethos unless they happen to align with stuff I actually like using.

That’s before even getting into the Artifact and Champion mods forcing a select few play styles.

All of that would be fine as extra flavor and encouragement to try different styles, but the way the game is designed around then basically make those requirements instead of gentle suggestions to move out of the comfort zone.

Modern Destiny the definitive example on how not to handle a live service investment game. I realize that’s not a universal sentiment, but I have a genuinely hard time believing that anyone is actually thrilled about the last few years of Destiny, both from the perspective of the players and the developers.

I just wish Bungie would be straight with us for once. If this is actually what they want to Destiny to be, I wish they would say that so I could cross it off my list forever and move on, rather than the empty promises and hype trailers that do genuinely point to the game finally realizing some sort of hidden potential. It’s like an abusive relationship I just can’t walk away from. And I realize that has as much to do with me as it does with Bungie, but they aren’t blameless.

Because that’s literally all this event is. Do bounties and complete “medals” which are just more bounties disguised as “quests”.

Unlike Bounties, Medals can disappear the day after you complete them if you don’t cash them in.

Fortunately, it’s possibly a bug, since not all of them get deleted (and nothing warns you that it’s a thing). Remember to cash them in once you complete them, though!

And I don’t think it is fair to suggest a clearly subjective stance as objective.

It was fun to see everyone teasing each other and I had a big smile on my face. Then I got to the end and all I could see was Angelina Jolie

I'm sorry but I'm just not seeing it.

Oh, and if you just want that new Exotic LMG? It's an 11 Triumph grind, and each of those Triumphs is a grind on its own, including one where you have to get 25 Super kills in Rumble, where you're lucky to get one Super in a match, and people are quitting as soon as they pop their Super, which makes it harder for you to build your own if you're not one of the first. Well done, Bungalo.

As mentioned, it's only 7 for the machine gun, not 11... but the Rumble triumph is weird.

I've currently got 2/25 on it, and I haven't been in the Rumble playlist in months. I mentioned it to Nevin yesterday, when I was at 1/25, so while it's possible that the first one carried over from something, the second one was earned in the last couple of days. I don't know how.