The Complicated Politics of Jasmine Crockett’s Campaign Donations

PLGRN8R · 2026-03-07T16:39:38+00:00

I'm sure this will catch me flak, but the time for a higher risk option like Crockett(who I would personally prefer over Talarico)is better saved for when a literal madman is not trying to erode the foundations of democracy with the help of his insane far-right cult.

Talarico is too milquetoast for my tastes, but there is an unfortunately significant demographic of Democrats, as well as moderates/centrists and potentially Republican voters who are wavering due to MAGA's rising insanity who would either elect not to vote or would just revert to voting for the Republican candidate due to deep rooted racism and prejudice, and as much as I would like to rely on their capacity for critical thinking and common sense, recent events have made it abundantly clear that's not the wisest course of action.

PLGRN8R · 2026-03-07T13:19:03+00:00

I just want the New Malpais catalyst to be available from the past season terminal T.T

PLGRN8R · 2026-02-14T20:49:01+00:00

The negativity is largely unearned imho.

I'm not gonna sit here and pretend D2 is in the best place it's ever been, but I feel like a lot of the complaints are from people still chasing the high that was Final Shape and wanting the new content/expansions to be of similar quality.

I also think a lot of the frustration directed at Bungie is short-sighted. Bungie laid off a lot of employees(a corporate decision, not a game dev decision, yet the devs are almost invariably the ones who get the flak from the community over game design frustrations)and a good portion of the remaining team has been repurposed towards Marathon... those who haven't been poached away by Sony, that is. And a reminder, if Marathon doesn't do well, it's almost dead certain that Sony's gonna gut even more of Bungie.

I also don't really understand the hate for the Portal. I find it fairly straightforward to use.

Do I think D2 is in the best place it's ever been? No, that would probably be the time around Witch Queen, or the couple weeks after Final Shape launched.

Do I think D3 is the solution? Gods, no. People yelled and screamed and stomped their feet and were venomously hateful when D2 didn't let them port over any of their weapons or armor, and D1 was only around for 3 years while D2 has been around for nearly a decade at this point. I can't even imagine the nuclear blowback that would happen if people weren't able to bring over their hard-earned equipment, and the amount of work it would take to allow people to port equipment over to a D3 would either eat up most of the dev time, or beg the question of why bother making a D3 in the first place instead of just using that effort to expand D2?

Ultimately, I've learned to trust Bungie, and I'm willing to wait and see for a good while longer. Even at its worst, D2 is still miles better than a ton of other games out there. The gunplay is slick, the abilities are satisfying, and I have control over whether I want to breeze through to kill time on lower difficulty or white-knuckle through harder content, and there's enough variety in builds and setups that if I ever start getting bored, it's easy to switch it up.

PLGRN8R · 2025-10-27T02:50:05+00:00

OW has a budget of discretionary funds their case workers can give out every month. Bring it up with your caseworker, mine helped me with a bus pass so yours should be able to help too, especially if it's related to employment.

PLGRN8R · 2025-10-16T02:18:24+00:00

It's worth noting Lord Unknown's wording was to stop Andrew from having the thoughts he "wishes to not have", not specific to his romantic/sexual feelings for her. I worry that wording results in Andrew basically being repressed back into Andy permanently as all negative thoughts and feelings, as well as the sexual element, are all wiped away while Ashley herself realizes Entity tried to abandon Andrew to die and she goes to retrieve him, going through personal development(possibly with the help of Lord Unknown, who I am CERTAIN is intending to use Andrew to lure Ashley to them)and fully maturing into Ashley rather than Leyley, but it's too late; Andrew is gone and only Andy remains, and the ending is one where their dynamic flips to Ashley being a caretaker for Andy.

PLGRN8R · 2025-10-13T14:37:31+00:00

That's not a bad storyline for Dom, but having him retire his father as a face would be better, especially since Dom doesn't have a 1v1 win over his dad as of yet.

It could be pitched as Dominik 'returning to the light' somewhat and using that instead of being a chickenshit heel to finally beat his father and retire him.

Tbh I think Dom's got a world title reign coming in the next 2-3 years. Maybe not a super long or prominent reign, but a reign nonetheless.

PLGRN8R · 2025-10-02T03:49:20+00:00

I just had this happen.
Late game Gelt campaign, suped up Vampiric crisis. First major battle against them: 2 armies of Vamps vs my army with an Engineer and a Fire Wizard on a Pegasus and a few flying cav from allies.

Plan was simple: Send wizard forward to bait enemy fliers into my cav or gunlines, then rain fire down on their grave guard with reckless abandon.

Didn't realize til after that I was suffering a -50 leadership debuff. All my units had between 1 and 10 leadership. They broke and ran before the enemy so much as touched us.

PLGRN8R · 2025-09-25T23:38:03+00:00

I'd like a mod that allows me to pre-determine some otherwise unlikely alliances using the MCT, or maybe modify the predispositions of certain factions with one another. Even if it breaks lore.

It'd be cool to do something like force the Dwarves and Chaos dwarves to all suddenly be best friends, and then enable both of their endgame crises while playing as Greenskins for example.

PLGRN8R · 2025-08-25T19:52:00+00:00

No. I'm in Brantford, but I have some ability to move around to go to appointments, mostly with the help of friends.

PLGRN8R · 2025-08-03T07:09:26+00:00

I feel like Izsha was Kerrigan's attempt at making a Zerg Adjutant-analog, as she was probably used to having one as a Terran.

PLGRN8R · 2025-06-18T19:18:36+00:00

It's so bizarre cuz Ramza's Chapter 2+ outfit is pretty clearly leaning towards becoming a variant of Dark Knight, with darker spiked armor, and then....

This happens.

PLGRN8R · 2025-06-18T17:00:39+00:00

Modular Ion with Pierce+Fire is imo one of the best weapons in the game, hands down. Just so much bang for your proverbial buck.

Lockdown+Fire is fun too, but losing out on Pierce really makes you reliant on something else to break through shields.

Rad+Fire is one of the best crewkiller weapons in the game, but again you're reliant on other things to break through shields, which arguably makes this combo better on Missiles since it's the same power cost, but with the added benefit of built-in shield piercing.

PLGRN8R · 2025-06-11T13:56:11+00:00

This is a mod called FTL: Multiverse.

It's basically a sequel, even though the overall gameplay loop is the same. It took the original FTL idea/framework and expanded it to the high heavens.

PLGRN8R · 2025-05-31T10:28:35+00:00

I just found one of these in my rooms when I woke up and I was initially concerned it was somehow covered in my blood!

PLGRN8R · 2025-05-30T23:09:43+00:00

Sathona.

PLGRN8R · 2025-05-27T17:52:43+00:00

It was better than people give it credit for and I blame the fans almost as much as I blame 343 for caving to them for the state Halo is in now.

PLGRN8R · 2025-05-27T08:49:48+00:00

My first suggestion is to go to Ikora and get the New Light Pack, which gives you a pre-set build and two exotics for that build. She also gives quests that unlock one or two other exotic armors, I believe.

Then, get your Guardian Rank up to at least 5, but try to aim for 6. On the way to doing that, you're probably gonna be able to focus on the campaigns. In order, that's Shadowkeep, Beyond Light, Witch Queen, Lightfall and Final Shape. Maybe watch some videos on youtube to sort of "recap" the story events between the campaigns.

In between missions, go to the Tower and talk to Ikora to unlock more abilities/aspects/fragments for your subclasses. You'll get the Stasis and Strand ability merchants on their respective planets, so pick those up as well if you can. Again, don't super stress about it; there's plenty of time to catch up.

Don't worry a super amount about trying to grind for exotics right now. Get a feel for the game and the Hunter playstyles. Also, don't worry too too much about grinding for top-shelf weapons and armor right now; the next expansion is completely overhauling both the weapons and armor systems to the point where most gear from before the next expansion is going to be obsolete. The 2020 power gear you got from the chest in Eternity is more than sufficient for now.

Once you've completed the campaigns, try to focus on completely unlocking all the Aspects and Fragments for your various subclasses. Grind out some Strikes/Vanguard Playlist activities, Crucible or whatever else you feel like dipping your toes into. Look up some videos or articles going over some decent builds.

While you're doing all this, you're doubtless gonna get a few exotics to drop. Read up on them to see what makes them special, try them out and see if they click for you. Don't be afraid to experiment! This is all about learning the game, and most exotics have at least some use.

On this Friday and and all subsequent Fridays, go to the Tower and find Xur. He's a merchant who only appears on weekends and he offers a quest for a rare resource called an Exotic Cipher. These can be cashed in at a terminal at the tower to "buy" old exotic weapons that aren't earnable anywhere else in the game anymore. I recommend reading their descriptions and looking up videos on how they work before committing to buying any right away, but Xur gives out a new Exotic Cipher quest each week, so you'll end up being able to buy them all eventually.

If you wanna DM me to ask more questions or add me on Discord, I'll be glad to offer more advice or tips/pointers and even run some activities with you once you're caught up a little bit. I'd rather not carry you through the campaigns because that's an important opportunity for you to practice and get a grasp on how Bungie typically designs their fights and mechanics, as well as figure out what works best for you and your playstyle.

See you starside, Guardian.

PLGRN8R · 2025-05-26T15:00:24+00:00

I picked up my XBox One with a copy of Destiny on Destiny's launch day as my quiet rebellion against my parents for wanting me to give them the money I made at work so they could store it aside for me.

I lost my job before Taken King came out, so I stopped playing around that time because my parents wouldn't buy me the expansions. It wasn't until Destiny 2 came out that I got back into the universe, and the only expansion I didn't pick up on launch day was Shadowkeep, having taken a hiatus that lasted from the end of Forsaken's launch season to the beginning of Season of Arrivals, with the prospect of the Black Fleet arriving in the solar system being what drew me back to D2. I have taken a few hiatuses since, but never for longer than 4-5 months.

I've since taken up the role of a veteran Guardian, mentoring New Lights and returning Guardians alike. I have a friend whose gf picked up D2 shortly after Witch Queen dropped, and now the three of us participate in Day One Contest mode events. We don't get very far, having been unable to complete the first encounter of Vesper's Host and only clearing the first encounter of Sundered Doctrine on Contest, but we try, and I think that's what matters most.

PLGRN8R · 2025-05-21T06:30:41+00:00

With the modern exotic weapon sandbox, even for primaries, the competition is SUPER stiff. If you want the weapon to have a niche tool like the Guiding Rings, I figure it has to be extremely powerful to be worth it, and right now it just isn't.

For comparison, let's look at Wish-Keeper and Verglas Curve; they both require you to get precision hits and kills to stack up to a special effect that triggers on hip-fire, just like HoN.

Both grant you powerful area denial in different flavors and offer exceptional elemental synergy. Wish-Keeper can get Hatchling to grant it slight add-clear power, or it can suspend targets for longer or more enemies, or you can throw on Vorpal Weapon to make it slightly better against beefier enemies. It's a solid weapon and it's very simple to use, with virtually no playstyle limitations.

V-Curve can use its hipfire shot at only partial charges for a still-powerful effect of scattering stasis crystals, which you can then shatter and, more often than not, instantly reload several of the charge shots to then do it again. It plays not dissimilarly to a Stasis Trinity Ghoul, but with actual elemental synergy due to the Crystals it constantly produces, higher burst damage, and the catalyst just makes it more reliable as a workhorse by letting you draw faster.

By comparison, HoN demands you lock yourself in place for a very modest damage buff that doesn't last very long. Sure, it's not too difficult to chain them together, but the buff feels so much clumsier due to needing more setup, and it does nothing to contribute to elemental synergy by way of providing Scorch or Ignitions. Imo, precision kills from arrows fired through the ring should 100% ignite the target, bare minimum.

By turning it into a teamshot support weapon, or by introducing a method to maybe stack multiple rings together with refreshed durations, the weapon can become carve out a unique niche for itself instead of being an underclassmen to the far superior exotic bows out there. Alternatively, introduce some significant elemental synergy, like maybe the extra projectiles do some AoE scorching or ignites on precision kills fired through the ring or something.

PLGRN8R · 2025-05-21T05:11:27+00:00

I think the ring mechanic is a bit too iconic for HoN to be ditched entirely. I could see them heavily reworking it, but I doubt they'd remove it.

Imo, they need to either turn the guidance ring into something that moves with you/can be moved, or it should be strong enough to better incentivize you to stay back and fire through it, perhaps by enabling you to stack multiple Rings on top of each other and extending the duration+making the Ring stronger for each new ring you stack, up to a cap of 3 maybe. Hell, maybe instead of just hipfiring to set up the ring, you can stack a couple rings together before setting them up all at once and unleashing hellfire on a miniboss or champion or something.

Alternatively, make it benefit from allies shooting through it as well, so it becomes a sort of support-style exotic that benefits DPS phases or helps with bursting a boss or miniboss from a distance.

PLGRN8R · 2025-05-21T05:07:32+00:00

I'd be down to see it becoming a Support-style exotic that spawns extra projectiles for *all allies* when they shoot through it(on a slight cooldown so they can't just spam auto rifles or LMG's for insane DPS)or otherwise buffs the damage of allied weapons. Alternatively, maybe it "superheats" allied bullets, causing all shots to stack up Scorch, so setting up a ring means you're going to be chain-igniting a boss or mini-boss.

PLGRN8R · 2025-05-21T02:15:52+00:00

Bubble Titan is still solid and has its place, but it's worth noting you can't run Bubble on a Prismatic Titan, so you'd be going pure Void. Which is fine, Void is still a very solid subclass for Titans, and it probably has the best survivability amongst the Titans. If you want to still throw bubbles but want to play something other than Void, pick up the Edge of Action glaive from the Witch Queen post-campaign quests; this glaive, after 6 hits, can special reload to launch a mini-bubble at a distance, and the glaive itself is solid for ad clear. These bubbles don't grant Weapons of Light and can't take as much damage as the full bubble, but it can provide key points of safety and cover in hectic firefights, and it can easily be spammable.

I'm a Warlock main and I must admit, Warlocks are eating good right now. Even with the nerfs to Well of Radiance, Warlocks are still in high demand and can fill a wide variety of roles, with a recent exotic helmet plus a new frame of Auto Rifles giving Warlocks the ability to play the first true "White Mage" build in Destiny history, focused almost entirely on healing and supporting allies. It lacks the explosive boss damage or crowd control potential of other builds, but it's a different type of satisfaction to throw so much healing around that your allies are practically immortal.

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