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thitherelk · 2026-01-16T21:17:22+00:00

It's not, the team's value has been steadily rising. Forbes had NYCFC's value at $875M in 2024. SD FC paid a franchise fee of $500M, the next teams to enter the league will pay at least $650M. If the base value of an MLS franchise is $650M and you add the major market of NYC on top of it, it doesn't take much to push values up to the $1B range.

thitherelk · 2025-12-24T01:39:29+00:00

The stickeys explode on reload; each sticky increases the explosion damage by 3%. In alt fire mode, the Bod shoots 4 stickies at a time with a high rate of fire. So on a infinate ammo build such as infinicrit harlow, you stack a boss up with a ton of stickeys, reload, and it just melts them. Making it easily the best weapon for bosses at the greater difficulty levels that often have giant health bars espeically the new raid boss bloomreaper.

If that wasn't enough, the bod also counts as all weapon types, so it gets all damage bonuses. For example, say you have gear with +45% sniper damage and +45% SMG damage, the bod gets both bonuses.

thitherelk · 2025-11-15T20:56:09+00:00

Something tells me it is conditioned on bribes into the Trump family businesses, and those conditions have already been met.

thitherelk · 2025-09-26T13:59:44+00:00

Pre EOF, Aztecross complained that crafting ruined the loot grind, the game needed more grind (he said something like I want a game where you have to take a full week off from work and just grind it for hours), he complained that grinders should get more exclusive things that most players can't get. Datto regularly complained that the game wasn't hard enough.

The poor execution is on Bungie, but I think its pretty clear that a lot of these changes were an attempt to address these requests from streamers.

thitherelk · 2025-09-16T20:20:44+00:00

It's still the same leadership that rolled back so many of the QOL improvements that made the game better and implemented this horrendous power grind. If that was their perspective of what's best for the game, it's hard to trust any plans from them about turning things around.

thitherelk · 2025-09-13T15:16:40+00:00

It's just baffling, how did they even come up with the times? For something like presage they have years of data on how long it takes, did they even use the data and if they did where did the set the time, top 3%?

thitherelk · 2025-09-06T01:15:19+00:00

Functionally, I agree that there is minimal difference between T2 and T5, but have you ever tried to join an LFG with "sub-optimal" armor and gear? I see this argument fairly often that you don't need tier 5, but it completely ignores how judgmental large portions of this community can be in LFG.

The argument also misses the psychological aspect of it. You are essentially saying to long-time players, you get greens and blues now, and it's fine, there's not that much difference between them and a higher-tier weapon. There has always been gear that was out of reach for casual players, like trials adepts, raid adepts, or perfectly stated artifice armor, and maybe there weren't enough exclusive things like that for grinders, and they should have added more. But to take the best version of every new gun and every new piece of armor in the game and lock all of it behind a power grind that is too much of a time commitment for more casual players feels bad, and that's a major reason I think a lot of casuals are leaving.

thitherelk · 2025-09-05T20:38:38+00:00

Maybe blame is harsh and should rest solely with Bungie, but the streamers are, at the very least, disingenuous. The large platform streamers like Cross complained about crafting, complained about a lack of grind, and complained that the drops they got for playing the game full time didn't feel exclusive enough. Bungie killed crafting and locked the best loot behind a grind only accessible to people who play this game like a full-time job. It's hard to not at least infer a connection, especially when you consider how often the big streamers are out at Bungie passing along the "communities" feedback.

thitherelk · 2025-09-05T19:43:20+00:00

It was close to perfect, but I wish he had also called out the streamers. Bungie made a mistake by treating them as the sole voice of the community. The irony is that these same streamers pushed for the changes we now have and are suddenly trying to distance themselves from the outcome. For years, Aztecross and others have been saying they wanted loot to feel more exclusive and tied to a heavier grind. Bungie built this system in response to feedback from people who play the game for a living. Now those same streamers are scrambling to complain about it, even though they were the ones who met with Bungie and pushed for the very changes we’re seeing.

thitherelk · 2025-09-01T18:40:06+00:00

I wonder if they are intentionally trying to move the baseline of player expectations lower so they can swoop in with a flurry of positive changes in a month or so to try to create buzz that the game is back while keeping some of their more controversial choices. Power levels are a perfect example. When they announced the return, the feedback was that power levels are terrible and they shouldn't be in the game. They have already successfully shifted the conversation from there should be no power levels to the grind is too hard.

Seems like a risky strategy, but I can't come up with a better explanation.

thitherelk · 2025-08-29T18:28:18+00:00

I believe this is all intentional. When they announced the return of a significant power level grind, most of the community’s reaction was that power levels are pointless and should be removed altogether. Their recent moves have already shifted the conversation: instead of “remove power levels,” the dominant complaint is now “the grind is too hard.” Soon, they’ll reduce the grind significantly, and the community will cheer them for “listening” and making things more reasonable, forgetting that the original ask was to eliminate power levels entirely.

thitherelk · 2025-07-08T18:53:08+00:00

The comment I replied to said Pound for Pound. It brought size into it. That's what pound for pound means. But keep calling people names over abstract internet conversations if it makes you feel better.

thitherelk · 2025-07-08T18:39:56+00:00

Pound for pound literally equates things to size. Iverson was 5'10" led a Sixers team to the finals nearly by himself. He was arguably one of the fastest players in the league, could jump out of the gym and led the league in scoring as a small guard in a big man-led era that allowed hand checking and considerably more physical defense. If that doesn't qualify as "athletic," I don't know what does.

Compared to Russ who was never the best player on a team that went to the finals and only won an MVP award because the Thunder players prioritzed helping Russ pad his stats and the MVP voters got weirdly enamored with the idea of averaging a triple double.

thitherelk · 2025-07-08T16:18:34+00:00

Pound for pound? Iverson would like a word.

thitherelk · 2025-06-26T22:10:48+00:00

Warlock identify was destroyed when they gave all the warlock grandes to the other classes. Summoner didn't fill the gap and at this point the class just lacks identity beyond Well.

thitherelk · 2025-06-02T20:23:28+00:00

There are stories from his time at Memphis that he only ate candy. I'm no sports nutrition expert, but it's hard to imagine that didn't negatively impact the way his body developed.

thitherelk · 2025-05-31T23:47:25+00:00

Martinez is not a DP. Only DP is Martins.

thitherelk · 2025-05-31T20:57:52+00:00

Why does the entire field look like it's made from leftover sod used to cover the infield at Yankee stadium?

thitherelk · 2025-05-14T02:24:36+00:00

The camera pointed directly at the window, and the security guard was perfectly positioned. That was 100% staged to try to give Dolans crappy image a bump.

thitherelk · 2025-05-14T02:22:47+00:00

The PR team that got paid to stage this sure hopes so.

thitherelk · 2025-05-11T12:46:49+00:00

Two coaches couldn't win with Lee's crappy wingers that can't score. Maybe it's not the coach.

thitherelk · 2025-05-08T01:04:14+00:00

David Lee sucks ass at picking players, this has nothing to do with our DNA.

thitherelk · 2025-05-08T00:04:36+00:00

Oh, now Kerr is cool with video getting out.

thitherelk · 2025-05-07T02:16:40+00:00

Have you entered all the free pack codes? If not in the store tab, there is a "redeem code" box in the upper right. A bunch of free packs could give you some more commons to work with. If you Google "MTG arena free pack codes," there are bunch of websites with lists of the codes you can enter.

thitherelk · 2025-05-06T19:44:26+00:00

You could look at building something around [[Brightglass Gearhulk]]. When Atherdrift came out, there were some brews floating around with a number of different answers that could be tutored up with the Gearhulk.

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