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Edited by The Legend Himself: GONZO:
8/22/2025 8:21:28 PM
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Remember when video games were fun?
I don’t know where we lost our way. It probably has its roots in the early days of social media where people started to yearn for clout and attention. This crowd of “git gud” and “you have to ‘earn’ it” gate-keeping basement dwellers who need strangers on the internet to validate their self-worth and individual accomplishments are ruining this game (and everything else, for that matter).
Video games should be about fun and stress relief. Not a second job or a means to show off to strangers. Please Bungie, stop listening to streamers and no-lifers and/or corporate a-holes who only care about further fattening their already fat pockets. Listen to the vast majority of us who play this game for fun and/or community.
At the end of the day, we just want to shoot aliens in the face with cool guns, wield powerful space magic, and horde the cool loot we have collected over the years in our various adventures across the Solar System. We don’t want to be vault managers, number chasers, or sweat lords. We want to have fun in the video game that we’ve come to love for well over a decade.
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This old tortoise remembers when two corporate types, stated, in a news report - ‘this isn’t about Timmy playing a game too much in his bedroom anymore…it’s become a multi-billion dollar industry!’ Or something along those lines. Being a ‘gamer’ is in my blood…hardwired in my DNA…way before consoles or PCs were even heard of; it all started on those Bally machines! I got into D1 via HALO - as my (then) young son’s wingman. A favourite game of ours was Quake4. After the Sunset debacle, I bounced over to WarFrame (MR24) and had a ‘whale’ of a time. A flood of nostalgia, after watching some old D1 vids we made, I returned to Destiny’s shores once more…only, this time, my engagement with the game would be very different. No more chasing anything…just keeping it simple…vanilla everything when possible…just pootle about the place and take my fun wherever I could find it. I know the game…the environments…it’s all very familiar…and for this old tortoise, it’s a better place to be than surfing the spider Web - where one is but 2x clicks away from places best unseen! TLDR: I like Destiny. I don’t like what BHQ have done to it. That stuff has been going on since D1. I’m happy enough to stick around in the hope that things change for the better, though I have no doubt that they may not?! If stuff gets too silly - I simply don’t do it. When it’s time to bounce (again), I will. I’m okay with that. Let’s see if things change for the better under BHQs new leader, JT. It might take some time to ‘course correct’ this ship…and I’m happy to give it a chance. Rome wasn’t built in a day. That is all. Murphy, my ghost, agrees! 👻 Ease Springs! 🫡
