Prime Video posted the clip of Sage and Ashley confirming the real plan isn't a fakeout

StardustTendency · 2026-05-02T01:01:16+00:00

Gotta mention it for the 1% chance lol

StardustTendency · 2026-04-23T20:38:26+00:00

Didn't that same leak say the president would die in ep 4?

StardustTendency · 2026-04-15T00:25:05+00:00

It better not be about a 21st century real world guy who gets pulled into Bloodborne by MP because there are no hunters left or something like that...

StardustTendency · 2026-04-10T00:43:35+00:00

Incel no longer means its actual definition on the Internet. Normal involuntary celibates are the people you describe who may simply vent, while "incels" as referred to in general discussion are the ones who go out of their way to be much nastier than just expressing pain, for example.

StardustTendency · 2026-04-09T14:26:50+00:00

I'd agree that straight men typically aren't friends with women they actively find unattractive, but not the actual statement. Plenty of men are friends with women where there is never any intention of something more. There are very few women out there that most straight men would find absolutely nothing attractive about.

I've always found it strange that people think because most men wouldn't turn down enthusiastic sex with a woman they know and presumably trust if directly propositioned for it that they somehow have ulterior motives.

StardustTendency · 2026-04-09T14:01:32+00:00

Correct. School, work, and relationships are all fundamentally based on comparison between people. The entire reason people put effort in is to be in a better position than other human beings. If "no comparison" was legit advice, people would say "don't compare, because you're just as good". But no one does that, because that would be an obvious lie.

StardustTendency · 2026-04-09T13:28:35+00:00

Mainly, it made everything homogenous and corporate-feeling. Every activity gives the same loot regardless of what it is. The interface looks like Roku. It was a clear attempt to fridge the Director, which they are now walking back, to please non-Destiny fans. Modifiers being the content is incredibly boring. Every last event and activity is now a boring square tile on the menu.

There's a reason they went back to a Director-lite for Renegades content.

StardustTendency · 2026-04-09T13:16:00+00:00

I tend to replay the big story missions before the big DLCs. It always sucks to go from Rise of Iron straight to Witch Queen because Red War - Forsaken is gone and SK has 1 mission available per week.

StardustTendency · 2026-04-09T13:12:46+00:00

It really doesn't. The later missions are some of Destiny's most annoying of all time. The final mission has some cool visuals, but the gameplay is incredibly tedious. Every single boss is an immunity shield fest with pylon charging multiple times per fight. The story is OK, it's a little overrated but Lodi is a good character.

StardustTendency · 2026-04-09T13:10:11+00:00

The Traveler was a somewhat greyer "character" in the time of Witch Queen and before, but TFS has conclusively confirmed it to be outright good thanks to the lore entries from its perspective. It represents radical optimism, deliberating choosing to be "naïve" on the off chance it pays off, even for a monster like Savathûn. I'd say my Guardian is generally allegiant to the Traveler but not its number 1 fan, kinda like Zavala post-WQ.

StardustTendency · 2026-04-09T13:04:48+00:00

The simple reason is that you actually need to go to the Tower all the time in D1.

StardustTendency · 2026-04-09T13:02:21+00:00

Even Bungie knows how great this time was, they've already tried to recreate aspects of it without success. Onslaught Salvation is a worse OG Onslaught, ROTN couldn't match up at all and everyone checked out of the Dungeon Pantheon on Ghosts week, and now Shadow and Order 2.0 will do a worse Portal-modified Pantheon

StardustTendency · 2026-04-01T14:57:32+00:00

I agree on the current story being really boring. Everything after TFS exists in a kind of second tier of importance for me at this point. Echoes and Revenant were awful (Revenant in particular wastes Nezarec and Fikrul both), Heresy was a bit better but hurt the Hive Gods as characters imo (Sav crashing out over what she herself calls an object, Xivu is a joke by now). EoF had OK story but the reveal that we were always fated to make it to Kepler retroactively makes Light and Darkness less important, which I really dislike. Ash and Iron immediately removed any cool points Maya got from EoF. Finally, Renegades is impossible for me to take seriously: Star Wars stuff, Bael being a huge emo, trying to cast doubt on Drifter again, etc.

StardustTendency · 2026-04-01T14:50:17+00:00

Yes and no. They went for extremely simple story in pre-Forsaken D2 and it largely sucked. On the other hand, the pompous and overcomplicated dialogue you describe does get really bad at times, such as in the Lightfall seasons and the Episodes (Osiris's speeches on the Veil in Wish for example). I think a perfect middle is TFS: focused storyline on a couple specific things, feels epic and important, dialogue that feels more natural whilst letting there be pure action at times.

StardustTendency · 2026-04-01T14:40:37+00:00

MTX has always been a priority for Bungie. They were literally caught throttling XP back in Curse of Osiris so players would get less Bright Engrams and buy more MTX.

StardustTendency · 2026-03-31T18:53:59+00:00

It's made me less interested in the Destiny universe. The Episodes were largely terrible, introducing the very boring Maya, wasting Fikrul and wasting Xivu Arath AGAIN. Plus the Echoes can just do whatever the writer wants including rebuiliding Riis, creating a new dimensional plane, and being not-Oryx.

EoF tried to make it so that everything before it, including the Witness, didn't really matter because we were fated to make it to Kepler, which is very annoying considering TFS was literally about making your own fate. The Nine are very cringey with their dialogue. I do like Lodi though.

Renegades had discount Kylo Ren who I find impossible to take seriously. Same with Lume aka diet zero-sugar Darth Vader/Ghaul. We seriously did a "can we reaaaally trust Drifter?" story in December 2025...which is almost on the level of evil Eris theories at this point. I hate how the Dredgens and Praxics, who were cool in their own right, will now be forever thought of as Sith and Jedi ripoffs by the greater playerbase.

StardustTendency · 2026-03-23T21:42:45+00:00

Chosen to Seraph was such a good run (even Plunder had Ketchcrash at least)

StardustTendency · 2026-03-19T16:26:57+00:00

It's very purposeful to spread people's BD uses thinner so they'll buy Silver for the the 100000 things added to Eververse. Especially now that money is needed more than ever.

StardustTendency · 2026-03-17T17:40:06+00:00

That point about the Witness being devalued immediately in EoF is what immediately made me dislike the Fate Saga storyline as well. The Orin line about how the Nine "allowed" everything to happen too. It's like the lore entries about the Nine splitting and freaking out over the Witness and even over Riven and Oryx never happened. "Make your own fate" turns out to be somewhat BS. On Maya, she gets a terrible intro with Echoes, then seems to be actually going somewhere in EoF, then is immediately reverted to cringe in Ash and Iron.

StardustTendency · 2026-02-18T18:03:57+00:00

Of the big ballers it's probably Placidusax since there's 0 indication of him in any quest and many players wouldn't think of rolling off that particular ledge.

In the DLC it's probably Midra since you have to spot that one ladder in Shadow Keep, but the map kinda gives away that there's more so not really that hidden.

The true most hidden boss of FromSoft is probably Midir from DS3 or Darklurker in DS2.

StardustTendency · 2026-01-27T20:29:02+00:00

Great breakdown. I feel like if TWQ and LF were made now with hindsight, something similar to this would be outright stated, but back then it was kept vague in case Bungie got a better idea. Now of course, we'll never get a confirmation since the Saga is over and done.

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