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brontios-helm · 1 year

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Destiny 2: Cayde-6, Farm Rafters

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 gif #cayde 6 #cayde 6 gif #exo hunter #hunter vanguard #the farm #destiny 2 the farm #earth #destiny 2 earth #bungie #destiny 2 ps4 #i have discovered how to crop

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thefirstknife · 6 months

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New article with more details (from Jason Schreier who first broke the story). If you can't see it, I'll copy the whole text under read more.

About 100 employees were laid off in total (8%) and one of the main reasons listed is "underperformance," "sharp drop in popularity" and "poor reception of Lightfall."

So you know when for the last year and a half content creators have been shitting and pissing on the game as a full-time job and the amount of negativity and ragebait content became the only thing to make content about for them? Well they certainly won't take the blame, but I will let it be known. These people either don't understand the influence they have or they do and they're doing it on purpose, and I don't know which of these two options is worse, but I am 100% confident that their campaign of rage and hate contributed to this.

You don't base your entire community around constantly hating everything about the only game you play (despite clearly not enjoying it anymore) and somehow avoid galvanising thousands and thousands of people into perceiving the game negatively. Imagine being employees who have barely worked there for 2 years and the only community reception they've seen is 24/7 hate train for their work and then they get fired because of "poor reception" and "drop in popularity." How can they not take that personally? I am absolutely devastated for these people who delievered a banger product and who were met with an unrelenting barrage of toxic gamer children which ended up having more sway over their boss than them.

Which brings me to the next bit and that's FUCK THE CEO. He is now my mortal enemy #1. I am projecting psychic blasts directly into his brain. What an absolute spineless coward who is more willing to bow down to fucking gamers than to protect his own employees. This is absolutely rage inducing because this has happened before. From the article from 2021 about the toxic culture at Bungie:

Reading this shit from the new article absolutely fucking sent me into blind rage because I immediately remembered this. Another instance of employees suffering because of comments on reddit. And because of toxic players. And proof that leadership is not protecting employees and is instead siding with players.

Match made in heaven. Asshole gamer content creators and asshole CEOs, all of whom sit at home on piles of money made from someone else's labour. I hope they all explode. None of the people that worked on this game deserve this.

Another article with an infuriating comment from the CEO:

In an internal town hall meeting addressing a Monday round of layoffs that impacted multiple departments, Bungie CEO Pete Parsons allegedly told remaining employees that the company had kept “the right people” to continue work on Destiny 2.

"Kept the right people." Really. Veteran composers weren't the right people? Die!

Bloomberg article in full:

Bungie’s decision to cut an estimated 100 jobs from its staff of about 1,200 followed dire management warnings earlier this month of a sharp drop in the popularity of its flagship video game Destiny 2. Just two weeks ago, executives at the Sony-owned game developer told employees that revenue was running 45% below projections for the year, according to people who attended the meeting. Chief Executive Officer Pete Parsons pinned the big miss on weak player retention for Destiny 2, which has faced a poor reception since the release of its latest expansion, Lightfall. The next expansion, The Final Shape, was getting good — not great feedback — and management told those present that they planned to push back the release to June 2024 from February, according the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The additional time would give developers a chance to improve the product. In the meantime, Parsons told staff Bungie would be cutting costs, such as for travel, as well as implementing salary and hiring freezes, the people said. Everyone would have to work together to weather the storm, he said, leaving employees feeling determined to do whatever was needed to get revenue back up. But on Monday morning the news got worse: Dozens of staffers woke up to mysterious 15-minute meetings that had been placed on their calendars, which they soon learned were part of a mass layoff. Bungie laid off around 8% of its employees, according to documentation reviewed by Bloomberg. Bungie didn’t respond to requests for comment. Employees who were let go will receive at least three months of severance and three months of Bungie-paid COBRA health insurance, although other benefits, such as expense reimbursements, ended Monday, sending some staff racing to submit their receipts. Laid-off staffers will also receive prorated bonuses, although those who were on a vesting schedule following Sony Group Corp.’s acquisition of Bungie in January 2022 will lose any shares that weren’t vested as of next month. The layoffs are part of a larger money-saving initiative at Sony’s PlayStation unit, which has also cut employees at studios such as Naughty Dog, Media Molecule and its San Mateo office. TD Cowen analyst Doug Creutz wrote in a report Monday that “events over the last few days lead us to believe that PlayStation is undergoing a restructuring.” PlayStation president Jim Ryan announced last month that he plans to resign. Many of the layoffs at Bungie affected the company’s support departments, such as community management and publishing. Remaining Bungie staff were informed that some of those areas will be outsourced moving forward.

#destiny 2 #bungie #long post #and like i don't care what's anyone's opinion on lightfall. it doesn't matter #the expansion is fine. there's some bad shit in there as there is in every expansion #literally nothing on this earth was so bad to deserve the amount of vitriol that lightfall got #it was purely motivated by hate and rage from people who have clearly lost their interest in the game a long time ago #no one else normal enough would respond even to a weaker expansion this way. and lightfall wasn't even weaker #literally nothing ever released in destiny deserves to have comments bad enough to end up affecting employees #there's been some bad expansions/dlcs/seasons. whatever. none of them were like... gollum level. not even close #people genuinely treated lightfall like it personally killed their dog. it was insane. the reaction to it was insane.#it stemmed from people who should have stopped playing a long time ago and stopped being content creators for one game #i can't even properly explain just how long and tireless the ragebait content campaign for destiny has been #opening youtube and seeing 10 videos in a row of just complaining and bitching #opening twitter and seeing thousands upon thousands of posts and comments dedicated solely to hating the game #imagine being an employee trying to maintain some communication with the community #hippy was relentlessly bullied by people I've seen suddenly lamenting that she was fired. you caused this #they will never accept even a miniscule portion of the blame for this ofc. they will just keep claiming they don't have that influence #but they do. it's been proven years ago. in the same way #community comments DO reach devs and community comments DO influence what happens to them and the game #'the event is bad' 'meta is bad' 'pvp is bad' 'raid is bad' 'story is bad' stop playing. no longer asking.#it's a video game. if you hate it stop playing. you don't have to justify it to hundreds of thousands of people and take them with you #especially when it leads to employees taking the fall #so to all content creators who are appalled and baffled after spending 2 years hating the game: you did this.#and to the ceo even more: explode into dust and be forgotten

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lavenderarts · 2 months

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Feeling pretty much back to normal so I finished off these refs for Amara I've had in the drafts for a hot minute!! Really dig this style of ref layout

Good evening to evil women only

#art #ocs #amara #shadow of earth #calus #emperor calus #destiny 2 #destiny the game #destiny warlock #destiny human #destiny ghost #spider destiny

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else-cut · 4 days

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https://jamie-289.ludgu.top/u/v0AoOYl

#yandere #cyberpunk 2077 #earth #leggings #zodiac #wrestling #punk aesthetic #pakistan #fnaf movie #destiny 2 #colorful moodboard #nu metal #thick and juicy #loving

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brighan · 1 year

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I've finally completed the prologue of my Destiny 2 fanmade comic, Völuspá!

This took me waay longer than I initially intended, but unfortunately, life and commissions have taken a lot of time from me ;< If you enjoyed this, please consider supporting me on Patreon! I will leave some links below for updates, support and behind the scenes.

Thank you so much for reading!

Patreon (behind the scenes, early access and/or general support) Ko-Fi (early access and general support) Tapas (notifications on new pages) Twitter (follow my work + updates)

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aangarchy · 2 years

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One thing i have to appreciate abt crossroads of destiny despite the heartbreak i experience every time i watch that episode, is how well done the last fight is.

The effortless teamwork between Aang and Katara, bc at this point they've been in enough battles together they don't even need to glance at each other. How quickly everything happened after Zuko's entrance. How Zuko's focus shifts from Azula to Aang, and Aang immediately notices something is up, he gasps bc he knows what's about to come. Zuko fires at Aang and Aang immediately reacts because he connected the dots that quick. Azula not even hesitating and instantly focusing on Katara while Zuko unleashes his anger onto Aang.

Idk that particular sequence is just the crème de la crème of unspoken dialogue and storytelling go argue with the wall.

#avatar the last airbender #atla #avatar #aang #avatar aang #zuko #prince zuko #katara #azula #princess azula #crossroads of destiny #the crossroads of destiny #book 2 earth

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heavenlyeros · 1 year

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the witness but it is the prettiest Flower in the Garden . . .

obsessed with how wax-like its skin looks. it is like an extinguished candle, the light put out but still smoking . . . wonder if there’s any embers smouldering in there [still].

#the angriest porcelain doll kitten #destiny the game #destiny 2 #destiny the witness #witness #the witness #destiny #lightfall #destiny lightfall #these tags are for me. i never remember things. need all of them. i'm sorry #why am i on this earth if not to give you gibson girlesque cosmic horror entity flipping you off?

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blmpff · 8 months

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I'm obsessed with Earth's obsession with grabbing Bank's nape/head

My man is hungry, new series with proper plot when

#so sane and normal #noticed it back in destiny seeker as well #thank you for your service #my universe the series #marry go round the series #my universe: marry go round #earth chitsanupong #bank nuttawatt #earthbank #episode 1 #episode 2 #blmpff

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brontios-helm · 1 month

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Destiny 2: Torches And Vendors

#destiny 2 #the tower #destiny 2 the tower #guardian games 2024 #destiny 2 guardian games #earth #destiny 2 earth #yes i only did nightfalls #just nightfalls #bungie #destiny 2 pc

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thefirstknife · 11 months

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I am LAUGHING at the people upset about Bungie's pride flare and saying they'll quit D2 over it. D2, the game with so many completely normalized queer characters of many flavors you're practically tripping over them, that had an on-screen gay kiss and has a they/them nonbinary as a major expansion characters and destination vendor? What game have they been playing all this time??

It's so cringe. You can see in the comments that everyone who's shitting on Bungie has been poisoned by the recent conservative anti-trans and anti-LGBT+ propaganda that strives to take away primarily trans rights but also LGBT+ rights in general. Don't look at the comments though, for your own sake. They're particularly nasty this time around, because of the propaganda they're all slurping from their fave right-wing youtubers. I'm glad Bungie isn't backing away from this and that they continue to support us, especially at this time.

And yeah, it's really ridiculous how little attention they pay. Destiny is basically led by LGBT+ characters. From the very start. Even when they were not really allowed to have open rep, they still did it. Maya and Chioma have been canonically wives since vanilla D1. We've come from some minor lines in lore tabs that weren't even in the game to having an on screen kiss between two gay men and a major non-binary character! And not just that, but so much more. And none of it hidden away on a website.

Also people tend to either not know or purposefully ignore it, especially when they try the usual "corporations just want your money and don't care about gay people" cinicism but: Bungie has been supportive of the LGBT+ community for way longer than people think. They've been participating in and sponsoring Seattle Pride Parade from at least 2018. Their first LGBT+ pin was released in 2019. As I've noted, there have been LGBT+ characters since vanilla which released in 2014 which means that Bungie has been writing LGBT+ Destiny stuff since the early '10s.

Absolutely incredible that these gamers haven't noticed any of that. They're so good at poking around every single detail about Bungie, but somehow they didn't notice just how much Bungie has always been supportive of the LGBT+ community. My dudes, if you're bothered by this, I'm sorry to say but you've been playing a gay ass game and giving money to gay ass developers for nearly 10 years now.

#destiny 2 #bungie #ask #seriously so weird that they're acting like this is new #bungie has been blocking assholes on the tweet all day #society if these people got ostracised by every company on earth until they wither and die

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fandom-official · 4 months

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How many of these do you remember playing for the first time back in 2014? 🥹

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stardust948 · 5 months

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~*~

“We have to go!” he yelled.

Katara tried to pick Aang back up but was shaking too hard. The world dipped and spun as her breath became shallow and scent of burnt flesh filled her nose.

No. Not now.

Please not now!

“Katara? Stay with me!”

~*~

The unfortunate sequel to this scene.

#please ignore the weird position i couldn't find a good reference 😭#atla #zutara #zutara au #katara #aang #zuko #the voice inside sings a different song (Earth)#atla book 2 #crossroads of destiny #colored sketch #star's art #tw panic attack #tw death

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tacticalgrandma · 11 months

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As we lay Defiance to rest would like to share my last shower thought what-could-have-been: Mara, who sacrificed literal immortality so that the Awoken would return to the material plane and help the rest of humanity, shares any reaction or thoughts on Neptune, which actively chose to hide from the rest of humanity.

#caiatl’s ‘your sympathies meant nothing to earth’s collapse’ was so good #idk man just hope neptune isn’t a throne world dealy of expansion w new world w massive implications & potential!!!#& now to not go there again #destiny 2 #orig

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catboyazem · 2 years

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