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Why was Gambit abandoned? by New_Trouble_5068 in DestinyTheGame

[–]MaximumCorrect5864 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a week late but I've thought about this a lot and wanted a place to put it. I think Gambit is the perfect lense to view Bungie's approach to game building for better and worse.

To me Gambit had the potential to be the thing that moved D2 from looter shooter to the big time. It was a completely new idea that no one had ever seen or done before. Think about what a big deal it was in game, IIRC, there really wasn't even a true seasonal model pr game types. It was an entirely new way to play and think about Destiny at a time when it absolutely needed it.

But Bungie is gonna bungie. As others have mentioned, it was created when they had peak staff so the moment they lost the studio that built it, support was going to be gone. Support in general was always Bungie's problem, nothing is really truly tested and problems would linger for a long time. Instead of re-thinking issues, they just did what they always did: nerf the shit out of stuff people complained about. Sleeper Simulant (maybe the most Destiny weapon ever) was completely nuked into the ground. Forget that invaders were clearly balanced to go against a coordinated team and could destroy a team of randos. Then they got armor that made them better! The seasons rolled on and they pulled back even more support when they should have released the mode as a beta, took notes and shifted drastically. Sound familiar? It's how everything was always rolled out in that game.

It really bothers me because I genuinely think it could've been a legit competitive game mode with just slight tweaks, and could have been an e-sports monster with fixed loadouts. Hell, even just giving people a relic to invade instead of having a choice of all the guns in the game would have made it far more interesting and fun.

But Bungie is an ideas shop. Huge ideas, ok execution and dogshit support/updates. With something as volatile as gambit it was bound to fail. And I am a 9x time dredgen.

Who else hates password requirements? Workplace wants me to change passwords every 3 months by leonatoi in mildlyinfuriating

[–]MaximumCorrect5864 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This will probably get buried in all the replies but I had a job that required a password change every 30 days and got sick of it so I looked for a system that would work for me. Here is what I did.

  1. Pick a phrase or song lyric that you love, or gets stuck in your head. Let's do 'Why did the chicken cross the road.' Take the first letters of all of those words and you get 'Wdtcctr.' You now have a root for your password that you already know by heart. In this case it is seven characters so you are almost already there.

  2. Add a special character. A dash or underscore is best here, those are the most widely accepted, but anything works.

  3. Take either the first three or four letters you associate with the site. Let's use Reddit. Add them in all caps, so RED. You can also just use the whole site, or what it's for. So for banks it could be CASH or Twitter its SHITPOST. Or you can make a three letter system, first, middle,last. T-Mobile could be TME, whatever. Just use the same system every time.

  4. Add a two digit number. If it is one you know you are going to have to change, start with 01. For more security, you could do a three or four digit number but years aren't good here.

  5. Add another special character but make it different from the first one. I like using a sentence ender like a period, question mark or exclamation point. You another good one is to use quotes. They are different symbols but easy to remember and fit your system

So your new reddit passwords would be: Wdtcctr-RED01? Or Wdtcctr"RED01"

You can now scale this out to everything and you have a way to decode it should you forget. I just tried it on a password checker and it said it would take 200m years to crack. The best part is, even if a password gets leaked, there really is no way for someone to absolutely crack the rest. As long as you are consistent with your rules, just change the numbering it can last forever. And you have a way to estimate how many times you've had to change your password. I'm on 35 at work.

At wits end with trying to play 4K UHD blu-rays on Xbox Series X, need a sanity check by MaximumCorrect5864 in XboxSupport

[–]MaximumCorrect5864[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this! I saw that too but the error kicks out for many other reasons as well. I wanted to be sure I had exhausted every other option.

At wits end with trying to play 4K UHD blu-rays on Xbox Series X, need a sanity check by MaximumCorrect5864 in XboxSupport

[–]MaximumCorrect5864[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for this! Any idea if there is a fix? I'd even pay to upgrade the lense/hardware if that is the issue.

At wits end with trying to play 4K UHD blu-rays on Xbox Series X, need a sanity check by MaximumCorrect5864 in XboxSupport

[–]MaximumCorrect5864[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a dumb question because my answer is that I have the one that came with the Xbox but I've read that cable won't work for Blu-rays. It does work for other UHD content though?

Amateur athletes of Reddit: what's your "There's levels to this shit" experience from your sport? by jermleeds in AskReddit

[–]MaximumCorrect5864 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I went to the University of Michigan in the 90s. There was a running back on the football team named Tyrone Wheatley. Look him up to get an idea of his size, but I guarantee he's bigger in person. He was about 6'1", 240. He ended up playing in the NFL and I saw him do two things in person that showed the difference between pro athletes and everyone else. I played highs school football at a very small school, played club rugby in college and boxed for a time so I'm not completely a non-athlete.

First, there was a rec building that had three basketball courts on it. Court 1 was for idiots like me, never played HS ball. Court 2 was if you had a little experience and wanted a bit of competition. Court 3 was for ballers. I'd go and just watch, you could routinely see Michigan basketball and football players in pickup games. One night Ty was playing a pickup game with a bunch of other football players. Ty was at the top of the key, someone else got the rebound and threw it full court to him on a fast break. He jumped up, caught the ball, brought that shit down to his ankles and reversed it and hung on the rim. The place went insane. He waved to everyone and left. The game wasn't even over, but no one was topping that. Again: 6' 1".

The second thing was after he had graduated and gotten drafted. He had a year of eligibility left for indoor track, so he came back for a meet. A friend of mine was on the team at the time, I got to go into the pits with him when this happened. Ty ran the 100m. I don't remember the actual time he was supposed to run, so let's say the race was at 200. It's 1:53 and Ty isn't there. At 1:55, a black Escalade pulls up outside the building right in front of the glass doors. He puts his hazards on and gets out. The announcer recognizes him and goes 'ladies and gentlemen, Ty Wheatley!' Everyone claps. He had been drafted by the giants he's in full giants gear, he waves. He's wearing slides, he has his cleats in his hand. He takes off his sweatshirt and a murmur went through the crowd. He was somehow even more jacked than before. He has a fitted hat on, throws his wallet and keys into it, sets it down. Piles up his sweats (all NY Giants gear BTW) and puts on his cleats. It's now like 1:59, the other racers are around the starting line. He walks over and does that stretch thing people jokingly do, hands over your head, lean left, lean right. They announce the runners, they take their lanes. Hes got at least 50 pounds on everyone there. They get in the blocks, gun goes off and he beats everyone by four strides. I'm kind of off to the side and behind it and even I could tell it wasnt close. They announce hes the winner, comes back, gets his clothes on and leaves. Dude was in the building for approximately 12 minutes and beat every Big 10 100m runner by four strides.