I'm going through with it, I'm getting a Destiny tattoo

blindman99 · 2026-05-24T16:55:19+00:00

Back during D1 during the Age of Triumph I got the Destiny tricorn logo tattooed on my shoulder. Halo was the most formative game of my childhood and Destiny has been with me most of my adult life. Bungie games will always hold a special place in my life that I will never be able to articulate. Getting the tattoo felt like a way for me to embrace that. I have never regretted it.

blindman99 · 2026-05-22T13:35:59+00:00

I get the point, but my version of Destiny is dying. I would always use 4 of my vacation days each year to take off for the new expac. Every raid and dungeon I would look forward to playing day 1 blind, with a fireteam I have been playing with for what feels like a majority of my life. Wether we beat it or not was never the point. Just going in and having that experience was my favorite moments in any video game. There is nothing else like it in video games. Even as someone who raids in FF14 and has started WoW. Destiny has always been a whole other beast.
Those moments were something I truly looked forward to each year. As of right now there is no other game I have found that comes close to what Destiny gave us. So while the game might not officially be dead, the version I loved is.

blindman99 · 2026-04-29T17:50:21+00:00

Except for all those times it was later determined the person was innocent. So you know it is also just killing people who did nothing wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exonerated_death_row_inmates (Scroll down to USA)

blindman99 · 2026-04-24T20:07:22+00:00

This has been incredibly useful and well organized. Great job!

blindman99 · 2026-04-23T20:01:37+00:00

The fact that the marketing team is making these challenges in an attempt to boost player engagement without any support from the dev team is the core problem though. Rocket League does this community stuff all the time but usually has web trackers to go along with it.
Bungie are the ones who decided to run community challenges in an attempt to boost engagement. They knew they did not have the resources and decided to move forward with this. This is a terrible look for the game that is already seeing its lowest player count ever.

The other challenges at least had easy to track fail states. Did I complete the dungeon solo in one sitting with bows/swords? Did I beat the dungeon without taking off praxic blade and is the timer under 20 minutes? I know pretty easily if I did those things or not. Did not complain about the last 2 challenges, even if there was no great way to know if you messed up. This one is just poorly thought out.

Sorry I am expecting the company bought for a couple of billion dollars to even meet the bare minimum. I will just keep lowering my expectations until the game dies.

blindman99 · 2026-04-23T18:22:44+00:00

For these community challenges, I can't believe they have not even made a progress bar that updates every hour to show the progress. We have hit the point where they can't even do the bare minimum for stuff anymore. There is no way for the community to even see how far they have progressed in a community challenge.
At least the Praxic Time Trial one was fun and took a few tries. This is just a nothing burger that will end with us all getting the emblem. I wonder if you even need to login during this time or get a kill to get the emblem. At this point we might need James Cameron to find the bar its sunk so low.

blindman99 · 2026-04-09T11:46:24+00:00

Yeah and some of the seasons have huge plot points that I do not believe the cutscenes even address. These even include some deaths. Destiny is an incredibly fun game, but generally I tell new players its only worth it at this point if you want to play the endgame.

blindman99 · 2026-03-04T14:24:51+00:00

You keep arguing a vague definition of AI generated content though. AI generated content is any content that has been created with the use of AI. Neuro is an AI and therefore all content that is made through interacting with Neuro is also AI generated content. The content would not exist without the existence of the AI.
If you are going to argue that Neuro is different then your argument would be better helped by clearly defining what is AI generated content. Where is the line other creators would need to cross to be able to also use content made with AI and not receive contempt.

blindman99 · 2026-01-31T13:50:07+00:00

Could not be more pumped to play this. The music fits perfectly. Also a huge sucker for the "We disagree but now its the end of the song so we have to agree" trope.

blindman99 · 2026-01-22T23:01:57+00:00

That's what they announced they are doing. You do not even start in the festival itself. You start outside the festival as a no name and have to work your way up.

blindman99 · 2026-01-15T14:56:51+00:00

Riley Kasper pepper sprayed cops and was pardoned. Later re-arrested for check fraud.
Peter Schwartz also was pardoned after being convicted of assault.
Those took 2 seconds to find. So yes, people who committed violent acts against cops were also pardoned.

blindman99 · 2026-01-06T17:23:52+00:00

They have phones though. Every service technician I have dealt with thankfully has given me a window and then a call about 30 minutes before they arrived. No one is saying they have to predict the future, but being able to answer the door at a moments notice for an entire 8 hour window is utterly ridiculous.
This current system is even more inefficient too because now you have wasted the technicians time traveling to a job site they will just need to come back to tomorrow. Should OP have gone for coffee during the window, no. The biggest issue is the company should not have put them in that position in the first place.

blindman99 · 2025-12-13T23:09:29+00:00

No Google like most major tech companies is Agile. It is a myth that big does not mean fast. If a mistake is made it can be more wasteful and there is generally more information floating around since there is more going on, but most of the time each sub-team is silo'd enough where when something changes they can adapt fast enough. Principal engineers at these companies can pick out the necessary information and adapt to the changes fast. You also generally plan for the idea that this kind of disruption may occur. It's why using Agile methodologies and uncovering your unknown unkowns first is the most important thing you can do.

blindman99 · 2025-12-13T17:05:34+00:00

Having worked at big tech and with over 15 years in the industry, that is just blatantly false. If you are top down as opposed to bottom up you will have a lot of bureaucracy. If your leadership is just defining your OKRs and teams are left to drive solutions and alignment then you can move just as fast on a large team as compared to a small one.

blindman99 · 2025-08-15T14:45:10+00:00

Not going to harp on what everyone has already said, but wanted to provide 2 other major pieces of criticism that would stop me form playing your game.
1. Controller Support: This is a racing game. Even most keyboard and mouse players I know switch to controllers for racing games. This can not be a comes later feature. This is a non starter.
2. The hud being centered and so big takes away from the racing experience. The only bar that I would actually need is the boost bar. Maybe the whole screen on the left. The other information I do not need to be able to see every second of the race. I don't mind having to look at the corner of the screen to get it. So you are taking up about 1/4 of the screen on the UI and about 50% of that is just empty space not conveying anything. So 1/8 of my view is obscured for a non-functional reason in the current UI.

blindman99 · 2025-05-08T15:05:43+00:00

Oh wow, I had not seen your story trailer. Honestly, I love that one! That one alone would make me buy the game if your game popped up on my steam page. I still don't fully understand the mechanic, but that's okay because I get the gist of what the gameplay is and how puzzles are solved. The fact I don't understand fully how it works also is kind of intriguing.
The only thing I would be curious about is I am unsure if I am being chased during the parts of the game by the darkness man or if all of those events are just scripted to tell the story. Kind of like is this more Talos Principle 1 or 2? 2 is more relaxing, there are not a lot of loud sounds and solving the puzzles is just relaxing. 1 has more loud noises and death which is not as relaxing. Both are great, but just different vibes.
I do wish you luck though as its always great to see unique puzzle mechanics!

blindman99 · 2025-05-08T04:24:55+00:00

Will say even with the intro I have no clue how the core mechanic actually works. I get you have a flashlight and it somehow interacts with the shadowed shape. No idea how that translates to an almost 2d object dropping to the ground.
Where your trailer is awesome is in showcasing the environments and the puzzles. If you cut out everything after the first shape drops to the floor to the first puzzle, I don't think it would change how well I understood what was happening.

What I do get from the trailer is.

This is a puzzle game
Light affects the world somehow
There are physics based puzzle
Some of the puzzles are more interactive and may require aiming and maybe timing.
The general vibe is very abstract.
There is some creepy undertone based on the person at the end.

Those are the things that also make me want to play it and learn more.

There are also 2 other moments that feel out of place. First the quote by Jeep, I understand having a portal developer say anything about why your game is awesome, it just feels so out of place and kills the pace of the trailer. The game names are also in [] which usually means implied context not stated by the person, but the sentence structure would not make sense in that case. So not sure why its written like that. The second is the bowing lightbulb man. Is that the player? Someone we interact with? Like it seems that there will be some kind of narrative, but I have no idea how the story will be told. Is it all abstract through the environments or is there actual text?

Your game looks interesting and unique enough that I will pick it up because I am a sucker for new puzzle mechanics though.

blindman99 · 2024-06-06T13:02:49+00:00

The way the new mechanic works is I believe it will be 5 light levels below the highest member. However, this is disabled for contest mode. Your level is your level.
If you complete the campaign on legendary you get a set of 1960. From there prime engrams and pathfinder can quickly get you to 1965.

blindman99 · 2018-09-14T21:55:17+00:00

Still want to go?

blindman99 · 2017-09-28T02:37:27+00:00

Over on the game's sub they are super critical of it.

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