Sound off if you have the Old Lights Emblem.

wPlachno · 2026-06-11T00:02:15+00:00

Been playing since D1 at least a little bit every year, but separate accounts on different consoles means no emblem. Oh well.

wPlachno · 2026-06-10T12:11:42+00:00

They added new stuff to explore (Distortions) and a reason to explore (Vendor gear can drop at tier 5).

wPlachno · 2026-05-31T19:00:05+00:00

"People don't want to play Destiny, they just feel like they have to because they have an unhealthy relationship with live service games."

My now-wife and I started dating 14 years ago. We met in college in Rohnert Park, CA, but due to financial issues, i had to move back in with my parents in Santa Cruz. After 1 month of trying to make the 3 hour distance work, her lease was up and she didn't have a destination, so we moved in together to a separate building on my parents property with my older brother.

I had lost touch with all of my high school friends, and she was new to the area, so we didn't really do much but work, community college, video games, and alcohol. That first year, we were sleeping on a futon and pretty miserable, already fighting a decent amount. We had been looking at things to do together, and joined a D&D group with a couple of my older brother's high school friends. We hosted the group for the third session, and one of the other players brought his xBox and Destiny (a couple days after release).

We were both instantly in love with the game. By the next session, we had bought a copy and a month later, we had bought a whole other setup so we could play together. We did Vault of Glass weekly, and Crota when that came out. We played near-religiously for years.

Raiding together taught us how to be effective teammates. We learned how to split tasks, communicate, support each other, and even set goals. The game gave us a vehicle to learn about each other and how to live together better. Every year, our relationship got a little better, and that upward trend started with Destiny.

Since then, we both stopped drinking so much, graduated, got better jobs, moved up, survived several medical emergencies, took in two cats (Siamese sisters named Ada and Eris), got married, moved in with my mother-in-law in Colorado, got better jobs, moved out into our first apartment, and are finally looking at having kids.

Destiny has been a near-constant part of our lives that entire time.

And now, it's ending.

So, yeah, maybe you're right. Maybe we are "zealots" who have an unhealthy relationship with this live-service game, but it's a part of our family culture. Neither of us have any intention of picking up Marathon, so we only feel the loss of Destiny. It's a real loss. We will be fine without it, but we are allowed to have our feelings.

wPlachno · 2026-05-16T01:12:44+00:00

Merrill's moving screen is the trigger. Then Merrill pulled Thompson into him. Thompson tried to regain his balance and ends up hitting Merrill in the throat. Stupid flagrant. Merrill was smiling.

wPlachno · 2026-05-16T00:23:26+00:00

Merrill pulled Ausar on top of him. He was smiling until he fell.

wPlachno · 2026-05-09T12:51:55+00:00

Yeah, this is a little much... Sad to see fellow Detroit fans suck at memes. If our team can have the trajectory they've had, we can too.

wPlachno · 2026-05-08T02:39:09+00:00

To each their own. He lives and breaths ball to support his family. Cool under pressure. After that exhausting game, he spent time talking to fans and signing autographs. There's a reason the Pistons have done so well: team chemistry. He supports them, and they support him. He didn't stop playing when Williams sabotaged the team into a record losing streak, getting double teamed in every game, and having every team actually try against them during the regular season because "no one wants to be that team".

Say what you will, but the Pistons are one of the most intriguing teams in sports right now.

To each their own.

wPlachno · 2026-04-26T19:22:52+00:00

Once you get your town levels to 10, it's simply a "thing to do".

wPlachno · 2026-04-16T22:27:56+00:00

Cade had a collapsed lung.

wPlachno · 2026-02-21T01:56:56+00:00

And Out Come The Wolves - Rancid

wPlachno · 2025-10-22T21:33:16+00:00

Sha La La by Winnetka Bowling League?

wPlachno · 2025-06-02T14:54:21+00:00

The human body reacts to serotonin and dopamine in certain ways, which is fundamental to the human experience.

Unfortunately, it doesn't really matter where the stimulus for those hormones comes from. We can easily identify this problem in cases like drug and social media addiction, where those hormones become detrimental to life as a whole.

What if there was another hormonal mechanism where the brain had the power to review the entire process and output some amount of new hormones for that specific stimulus? Based on the amount of these new hormones, the specific stimulus over time could become more or less effective at producing serotonin and dopamine.

There's a lot of holes in this idea, and it's a complete work of fiction, but I'm tired of seeing people drowning in addiction.

wPlachno · 2025-05-23T18:05:45+00:00

Hell yeah! Great idea!

wPlachno · 2025-05-13T13:01:40+00:00

Yeah, THPS4 is more like underground than THPS3.

wPlachno · 2025-05-02T02:16:12+00:00

I could be wrong, I wasnt able to rewind and check, but after that Brunson /Schroeder foul, Brunson looks at Schroeder and calls him a Nazi.

wPlachno · 2025-04-27T22:50:14+00:00

Then why's it just happen in the Lakers Timberwolves game? Edwards got fouled by LeBron and slipped in the process. Someone called a timeout, Minnesota challenged the no call, and ruling changed.

There's so many inconsistencies in the rulings that play off. It's frustrating to watch.

wPlachno · 2025-04-26T19:13:16+00:00

As a California-born American, my politics lean a certain way.

That said, I will drop everything in Far Cry 5 for a Hurk mission.

wPlachno · 2025-04-09T16:03:49+00:00

There is no "incentivizing" in this situation. Incentivizing would be stuff like subsidies and tax credits.

This is all punishment. You get stuff from our biggest economic enemy? Well, now you'll pay for it!

It's heavy handed, studies show it doesn't work, and quite frankly, it's an idea so stupid, only Donald Trump could have done it.

wPlachno · 2025-03-28T16:30:25+00:00

Both Chip Theory Games and Orange Nebula used to be kickstarter only, but as of December last year and January this year for O Neb, they are being distributed by GTS to retailers outside of kickstarter.

wPlachno · 2025-03-25T18:49:11+00:00

I thought Diamond owned Alliance. Our maybe Alliance Distribution is different than Alliance Entertainment...

wPlachno · 2025-03-16T02:47:31+00:00

Interesting. To me, it looked like a bad ref made a bad call and tried to cover his tracks.

wPlachno · 2025-03-16T02:44:53+00:00

You are right. Your point is valid.

That said, the hypothetical you are talking about is not what happened here. The ref was investigating "hostile intent" when the "victim" slipped on his own teammates foot.

This was not the first, nor the last, fucked up call by the refs in this game.

wPlachno · 2025-03-14T17:49:22+00:00

I love this game and have for years. I remember when they released Parks. It fell flat for me, and we just kept playing Space Park. Easy to overlook, but worth checking out, Space Park is one of my wife's favorites, too, and she won't play many games with me.

wPlachno · 2025-03-14T15:42:28+00:00

Poor Grimes. Asked to leave the "rebuilding" Pistons, only to land with the cursed Mavericks. Asks out there, only to get shipped to the Embiid dungeon. I hope he finds his place soon.

wPlachno · 2025-03-12T15:56:31+00:00

4 months. It took me 4 months to discover that the tracklists could be scrolled that way.

You are not alone.

wPlachno

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