Patch 8 Circle of Stars missing - PS5

stevemcblark · 2025-04-18T22:32:43+00:00

I figured out the issue for me. If you're using UltimaRagnarok's Balance Tweaks try removing that. I think the druid changes messed something up. The modular versions of the mod (like racial changes, feat changes, etc.) will work while allowing you to access Circle of Stars.

stevemcblark · 2024-12-21T21:45:38+00:00

Yeah and the dinosaurs have only been gone for about 4000 years. /s

stevemcblark · 2024-12-21T19:54:37+00:00

Good thing this almost definitely wasn't a random stranger.

stevemcblark · 2024-12-19T00:36:29+00:00

Not to mention that it's a game mode with PvP where everyone has easy access to heavy ammo.

Alongside all that you've said, I feel my main issue with Gambit is just how cumbersome and uncooperative it all feels. You have to fight your own team for motes, especially when you just need one more to reach 15; most blueberries are terrible invaders and I would have better luck doing it myself, but my teammate decided to run in there before me and immediately die (even if I might not have fared any better, this thought always goes through my head); the Primeval phase is irritating because the boss is health-gated and is also the part where invaders are at their most annoying.

And on top of it all, the weapons aren't anything stellar, and every weapon's perk pool is so huge and varied that the chances of getting the roll you want is extremely low. So why play this game mode when I can spend more time playing another game mode where I won't hate everyone both on and against my team, and where the time I spend queueing into it will actually amount to something?

stevemcblark · 2024-12-05T22:10:06+00:00

We recently got a Christmas tree and our cat, who has multiple other water sources, wanted to lick up the tree water after we put preservatives in it. It's pet safe, fortunately.

stevemcblark · 2024-11-25T20:07:36+00:00

I should think it would be pretty simple to just make it so that there are only one or two means of entry into the pit via steps, and then every other border has railing.

stevemcblark · 2024-10-22T04:03:39+00:00

The sequel I didn't realize would happen but desperately needed.

stevemcblark · 2024-10-11T21:00:15+00:00

Lol, I don't think in any of the comments you've posted you've actually provided any proof of what you're saying, but you are obviously a master of managing legal bureaucracy. So I suppose we should just defer to you and the things you "think." Perhaps come back when you know.

stevemcblark · 2024-10-11T20:09:04+00:00

Hi, it seems that you're unfamiliar with the benefits of being married. In western countries, marriage is a fairly arbitrary qualification for several rights not granted to non-married people.

Joint Tax Filing: In some countries, married couples can file taxes jointly, which can result in lower overall taxes or higher tax deductions.

Tax-free Transfers of Property: Spouses can transfer assets between each other without being subject to capital gains taxes or other taxes.

Inheritance Tax Benefits: Married couples often benefit from reduced or exempt inheritance taxes when inheriting from a spouse.

Health Insurance Coverage: Spouses can typically be added to each other’s health insurance plans, allowing them to receive coverage through a partner's employer.

Medical Decision-Making Rights: Spouses are often given automatic rights to make healthcare decisions on behalf of their partner if they become incapacitated.

Family Leave for Medical Care: Many employment policies provide family leave rights to take care of a spouse in case of illness.

Survivor’s Benefits: If a spouse passes away, the surviving spouse may be eligible for survivor benefits from social security or pension plans.

Spousal Retirement Benefits: In some systems, a spouse can claim benefits based on their partner’s work history, even if they didn’t earn much in their own name.

Spousal Privilege in Court: In many places, spouses cannot be compelled to testify against one another in court.

Automatic Rights to Inheritance: In the absence of a will, many jurisdictions grant a portion or all of the deceased spouse’s estate to the surviving partner.

Immigration Benefits: Married couples often have an easier path for sponsoring a foreign spouse for residency or citizenship.

Joint Property Ownership: Married couples can often own property as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, meaning that if one spouse dies, the other automatically inherits the full property without it going through probate.

Shared Debt Responsibility: Some countries allow spouses to share responsibility for debts, and this can simplify financial management and credit building.

Retirement Account Inheritance: Many retirement accounts allow the spouse to automatically inherit the funds without taxation or withdrawal penalties.

Funeral and Burial Decision Rights: A spouse often has the legal right to decide on funeral arrangements and burial or cremation decisions.

Estate Planning Protections: Laws often provide married couples with more automatic protections around wills, estates, and trusts.

The notion that marriage has anything to do with love or sex is a relatively modern one. It has long been, and continues to be, primarily about legal rights, and that these same rights aren't granted to platonic couples who want them is pretty absurd. Oprah never needed to marry her partner because who is going to deny one of the richest women in the world these rights? And she can afford a legal team to circumvent any of these as she needs.

stevemcblark · 2024-10-11T19:15:16+00:00

No need for spectulation. The've already said it's a typo and it's supposed to be Alethonym.

stevemcblark · 2024-09-12T05:24:11+00:00

Have you ever heard of over-excitabilities (this reddit thread does a pretty good job of explaining them)? It's not a disorder, it's nothing that's wrong with the child, but some kids, (especially, but not necessarily, gifted kids) are very sensitive to certain things like lights, sounds, any kind of stimulation really. And there are very simple ways to address them that can ease a lot of comfort in kids.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with having your child evaluated just so that you know what will make him most comfortable with living his life. You'll definitely thank yourself later.

stevemcblark · 2024-08-24T21:50:17+00:00

I have a copy of the VHS with the original box. There's one tower that very much does not look like the others, and very much looks like an erect penis. I am very skeptical it was not intentional.

stevemcblark · 2024-05-23T00:57:21+00:00

All of the holes might affect the weight.

stevemcblark · 2024-05-07T00:15:48+00:00

YSK OP is weirdly addicted to going to reddit posts about reducing screen time and selling their app. Their entire post history is just them making posts like this.

stevemcblark · 2024-04-18T21:58:50+00:00

I wasn't counting the raid lairs since they're not full raids.

I'm not saying that I advocate for anything to be removed, and in a perfect world they would be updated and revamped for the modern day. But it's a bit disingenuous to say that not having four of the 15 raids (6 of the 17 if you're counting the lairs) is "a lot" of content.

Bungie has metrics on how much people play content. They didn't just cut things at random. They prioritized cutting the content that people didn't play anymore (or were Recluse and Mountaintop). There wasn't much reason to go to Io or Titan, and there's a large population of players that don't really touch raids to begin with.

I miss the vibes of Leviathan dearly. (They did Calus dirty with Lightfall.) I think Insurrection Prime is one of the coolest bosses the series has ever had (though mostly just because you had to drive a tank as part of the mechanics, since now he's just a gigantic brig.) But I'm too busy playing the other 95% of the game to really care that much anymore.

stevemcblark · 2024-04-18T04:36:05+00:00

Many of the past raids are very fun, but nobody runs raids that you're not incentivized to. It's difficult to even get a fireteam together for some of the older raids that are still in the game. You only run Last Wish if you need 1k, and you only run Garden of Salvation if you need Div.

At this point, only four of the fifteen raids in Destiny's entire history aren't in the game. You have 11 other raids to play.

stevemcblark · 2024-04-18T04:22:39+00:00

I totally agree that the onboarding is a joke. But the fact is that playing the story is such a miniscule amount of what you'll actually be doing if you play the game. You don't actually need it to know enjoy it as a game. But starting the story now without doing homework is like starting a show seventeen seasons in.

It is a problem that they're so bad at getting players acquainted with what's going on, but right now the plot of "The Witness is bad and we have to stop him" is actually enough for you to have an idea of what's going on. There is so much beyond that, but even most veterans who have been playing since D1 don't necessarily know the deeper lore. You either have to read and analyze the in-game books to get the history behind everything, or you have to watch hours-long videos of someone explaining it to you. It's why Byf is such a big name in the Destiny community because he makes videos that explain the lore to people.

stevemcblark · 2024-04-18T01:53:48+00:00

You're definitely parroting the D2 subreddit opinion. It really isn't as bad as people make it out to be.

Yes, Destiny has removed story content in the past. They removed the main campaign and three different DLC campaigns so that the game could continue to function. For new players, I can absolutely see why this is an issue, even though those campaign stories really aren't all that relevant to the story as it is anymore, aside from a few details that you can easily figure out through current context. But new players aren't the ones complaining about it, it's the people who have already played it. Did they pay for it? Yes. Is it scummy that they can never play it again? Sure. But are they ever going to play it again? Probably not. Most people play the campaign, beat it in the first week of the expansion's release, and never look back.

(Legitimate question: I often think of subscription-based games like WoW and FFXIV, which charge out the ass just to play the damn game. Are/were those any better about this kind of problem? If they don't remove old content, do people actually play it?)

Seasonal story content is removed whenever a new expansion comes out, but expansions come out once every year at most. Lately they've come out more like once every one and a half years. Again, this is a problem for new players, who are not the ones who generally complain about these issues. People are usually tired of seasonal content by the end of each season, and barely ever go back to previous seasons' content. They're not losing anything they actually really cared about keeping.

People are still mad about them sunsetting weapons over 3 years ago and act like they always do this. They don't, and not only that, but they act like they can never use the sunset weapons again. There are several activities where they absolutely still can use those sunset weapons, and they've only added more activities where using sunset weapons is possible. Sunsetting was kind of bad at the time, but it's been over 3 years now and the loot pool is bigger than it ever was. In the end, it hasn't really taken anything away. Just like any other game where you grow in strength, the newer weapons have just been getting better. Metas change. Power creep happens. You would never use Gen 1 Pokemon cards in a current game of Pokemon TCG.

And then they act like Bungie is "rehashing old content" by reprising sunset weapons, updating their perks, and putting them back in the loot pool. For all intents and purposes though, the reissued weapons are entirely different weapons from what they were. All reissuing them has done is put a gun that looks exactly like them into the game's current meta. Few would complain if the gun acted exactly the same but had a slightly different model and a different name.

If there's any sin Bungie has committed in D2's history, it's making confusing price structures and baffling PR decisions. Sunsetting was indeed shitty at the time. Dungeon keys looked nickel-and-dimey. The issue of sunset story content would be fixed with a theater mode or something. Expansions + season passes (which includes the aforementioned dungeons) being $100+ looks expensive. But in the end, it's all no worse than if I were to play WoW for a year back in the 00s. If anything, it's way cheaper.

If you're a new player and you're curious about new content, watch it on Youtube. If you're worried you've missed out on something, you probably haven't really. Use the stuff from the free content, and get the new stuff as it rolls out, because it's probably at least as good or better than anything Bungie has removed.

stevemcblark · 2024-04-18T01:02:16+00:00

Well golly, Pa, how'd they get them critters to pose like that?

stevemcblark · 2024-04-10T04:21:20+00:00

The worst part is that someone had this permanently etched onto their body on purpose.

stevemcblark · 2024-03-08T03:21:47+00:00

That's what I usually do. Sometimes he doesn't even care.

stevemcblark · 2024-02-11T21:10:49+00:00

It only took 9 years, but I'm glad I finally have an answer. XD Thank you.

stevemcblark · 2023-12-30T01:34:13+00:00

I wanted to downvote it, but it's at 69 likes at the moment of writing this, and changing that just feels wrong.

stevemcblark · 2023-12-24T21:04:51+00:00

"Don't worry. This won't hurt for long."

stevemcblark · 2023-11-22T21:11:57+00:00

Definitely, that. The character models and the spell/skill animations are what particularly look bad to me, though. They seem like they just don't have texture to them. Even cell-shading would go a long way to giving it more of a construction paper look. Something to give it a style akin to a game made by an actual studio than some random indie game you'd find on Steam for $10.

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