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So I'm pretty active on the b.net forums (I know, I'm a sad person), but I'm curious to what my fellow huddlers are experiencing in Destiny. 1. Do you end up grouping with folks either via MM or LFG that are offensive jerk-faces? 2. Do you have a LOT of people who skip out on strikes or go AFK for entire strikes? 3. In the Crucible, do you end up with a lot of people who quit early or really play that stupidly on objectives? I see a lot of 3 when I do play. I have a few AFKers, but I've not had any really terrible human beings through MM or LFG.

Good grief, you sound like the bungie forums! There are several of us who still enjoy the game. It's not a game for everyone. Personally, I'm looking forward to "trying" the match made weekly heroic. When I get that done, I'll have enough coins for buy two things from Xur (if he has anything good). I'm not hardcore at all... I had a funny thought though while driving to work. What if he sold the Ruin Wings and Ghorn again...personally I'd be thrilled =) But imagine the out cry from the forums and internet about it! =)

If it comes down to listening to folk complain about value versus getting the best guy to become our starting LT, which choice do you make? 10/10, I take the starting LT. I don't want to wait until someone picks him up mid round two. The Cowboys "over drafted" that C from Wisconson (Fredricks), got blasted early on, but have what is considered on of the best OLines in the NFL. Everyone's an expert, but if you love a prospect and you think he can slot right in day 1 as a starter, do you gamble and wait? Or do you pull the trigger? Good thing I'm not a GM, but I think you take the best player who makes your team better.

I really doubt it. When push comes to shove, Cam is going to get a huge contract. Gettleman may hate it, but Cam gives us the best chance to win a superbowl. You have to pay your Franchise QB. Otherwise, you're back to square one. Who wants to break in another rookie QB in a year or two? Nope, Cam's going to stay a Panther. It's going to be a huge number, but that's the way the NFL works. The Panthers and Cam are going to see what Seattle and Indy do for their QBs and work from there. This is all just dancing right now. (Now that I say that, Cam's contract with the Panthers will be announced in 10 minutes...)

Does he use Mayock's or Kiper's ratings to determine BPA? I think we get caught up in what determines the "Best" player available. The reality of the situation is that every team creates it's big board based on what they need. If Mariota or Winston fell to 25, would they be at the top of our draft board as the BPA? Nope. In the 4th round? Why not! Every year this kind of stuff get's people worked up into thinking that for some reason Gettleman would draft someone who would not fit in the team at all. He won't. It's his job and reputation to build the best team. Do you bring the best team together by drafting 3 QBs in a row because they are the BPA? No, let's not be silly. If a team looks at getting the best football players at every pick, they are going to get better. There will be misses here and there, but you can make plans to get your best guys on the field regardless.

Yes, this can't be stated enough. To me it's also where things got a lot more flexible regarding time/rewards as well. Up to 20 you're just trying to get 20. Once you're there, it's like a new game (sort of). You have to play with others a lot more in order to get the better gear. I just ground out my gear doing the daily story, public events, and the occasional strike. That got me to 28 on the old vendor gear pretty quickly and easily. Now I really enjoy hitting the Roc list for 2-3 strikes at a time. I just did my first weekly heroic (sad right? Thanks x1stMexicianx!), and attempted CE for the first time (we got carried by a 32, but was a really good learning experience!). I look forward to the next time I can go take a crack at the raid. I might try to LFG it this afternoon after I get out of this workshop! As I've said before, Destiny really plays to a specific audience. If you are into investment games, then you'll love this game. You get new toys, you level them, then you fight harder stuff, get more new toys, ect. Then it peters out, you play something else for a while, then the next content drops and you do it again. SOJA said it best when it was like Gambling! Like with Xur's engrams when he has them... I still love playing. As soon as I get my 25 Strikes for Bad Juju done, I hope I can get my Thorn PVP stuff done as well.

I'd happily take Ted Ginn back! I would think that so long as he still has the wheels to be a return guy, and catch 30 balls a year, we'd all be thrilled! He had a great year for us, maybe he could do it again? Lighting in a bottle?

It's been a decade since that stuff happened. Fox and Hurney were willing to put up with the drama to go with the production and were rewarded. Gettleman and Rivera have a different perspective. For all the folks crying foul with the owner, he has input, but the reason he has a GM is to make the final call. Considering the climate between now and then, domestic violence is a MUCH BIGGER issue than beating up a teammate. Don't we still celebrate when a football player hits another football player really hard? Don't we love to watch these guys get in training camp fights about competitiveness. When was the last time we celebrated a big man hitting a woman? What a lot of people here fail to see is the Grey Area. This is still very uncharted water for everyone. Everyone is treated differently. Sucks but it's true. Fans might love to see Hardy come back from a better team scenario, but the NFL is much bigger than the teams. It's ingrained as part of American Culture, and they have to answer to the court of public opinion more so than we did 10 years ago.

I know how much we all love Peter King around here, but I still do find myself reading MMQB. Here's what he said about the Hardy and how the league is going to be watching his trial: From: http://mmqb.si.com/2015/02/09/tom-brady-super-bowl-49-nfl/5/ I think it's pretty spot on. The real trepidation is the likelihood of the problems surfacing again. Greg has a history of questionable behavior from his days at Ole Miss, to the motocycle wreck, and he did take a picture of his speedometer doing 100 in his Bently... On their own, it looks like a young guy making dumb young guy mistakes from which he will learn and grow. Then add in the domestic violence charges and conviction... Considering his very off kilter personality, then teams have plenty of reason to pause in their pursuit of Hardy.

Has anyone talked about why anyone would pay $10+ million a year for a guy who sat out a year? Or is that no longer an issue in 2015? I'd think in such a physical position, I'd be very wary of someone who has had that much time out of football.

The Josh Gordan situation is going to really affect how teams think of him. It's all up to the background and psych evaluations. If he's on our radar, and he passes the numerous non-football tests, and he's at the right place...Why not? We are going to have to trust Gettleman. He's done well for us, and hopefully he continues to do so. If Gettleman feels like DGB is the best pick for us at whatever spot, we take him, then we have to trust that he's passed the test. I don't think Gettleman is going to take a bad gamble. The combo of him and KB is super enticing, but it has to work together.

If you like Shooters with RPG elements, and you don't mind scraping weapons and armor about every three months, then Destiny is a great game. Destiny is a GRINDER game though. You'll be doing things over and over, but I still enjoy the crap out of it. I love the moment to moment. The PVP is fun to me, even though I am TERRIBLE. Shooting the heads of enemies is so much fun. Heck, last night I actually had a few minutes to play so I hopped on and did the daily story, a higher level version of a mission you do much earlier. It seems in the 8 days or so that I hadn't played, I forgot how to aim. I died several times because I was aiming and shooting at the ground and rocks! But it was still fun. Hilarious when a Thrall would sneak up on me! I was so sloppy but I managed it! Oh, and I would skip the Bungie.net forums. They are mostly a cespool (where I post too much!) of negativity...I need to stay way but I can't!

Would it be great to have 2013 Greg Hardy back? Absolutely! Hardy didn't play but one game, and has basically been on his own. In 2015, will Hardy be the best he has been? Or will all that time away from the game hurt him? The article is click bait to me. Hardy has no intention of giving any money back to the Panthers. He put our team in the conversation about domestic violence, and JR doesn't want that kind of attention brought to his team. Hardy can say one thing, but he will easily do what's best for him. Football is a business, and he'd be foolish to settle on a home-team discount. He wasn't formally suspended or punished by the league, that was the team. That was their call while they waited for his day in court. He has nothing to gain by giving money back other than some fan goodwill. If Hardy goes out (for whichever team) and gets 10+ sacks and makes some plays, then that's all the goodwill most fans require. Hardy is going to probably have to do one more rental year for someone, but he's going to have to really produce at a high level in order to get the contract he would have gotten this off season. I don't think the Panthers need him as much as some fans. Does he make our team better? If he's in shape. Is it worth it for one more year only to have him snapped up by someone with tons of cap room next season? Yeah, not sure if that money wouldn't be better spent elsewhere. I don't see Gettleman doing that again unless Hardy takes a one million dollar deal or something. I don't see Greg doing that.

Ivan, get the one where your friends go and that had the games you want. I want halo and for a so my choice is pretty easy. While ps4 can do a bit more work, both systems are great machines that will bring you hours of enjoyment. Just make sure you have friends. Most games are becoming very social compared to last gen.

Sweet! Nice haul there! I haven't done VoG yet. My main problem has been time, which is something I continue to fight. If this weeks weeklies weren't Omnigul, I'd be down for them. Frankly, I kind of hate that strike. It's fun the first time, but when it pops up 3/5 strike runs....yeah...not a fan. I need a break there. It's not that hard, but it's a long strike.

Ivan, I have it for 360, though I mostly play on my xbox one. My gt is dionysusfiend. I still enjoy the game. I'm struggling with the thorn bounty myself. I've never been good at pvp, except titanfall... So that's kicking my butt! Oh and to demonstrate how casual I am, I JUST hit 30...yeah...

That's very impressive! I'd love to see a guy like that returning kicks for us! I'd love to see us have someone who can generate big return yards on kicks. Those kind of plays can change a game.

Indeed! I haven't done the raid yet nor even a nightfall, but I still enjoy the game. Pvp is fun, even if I suck (alas no exotics yet!). I even enjoy the semi random events. I like doing strikes. The game is still fun Bungie is updating the game continually. It's not the grand scope but it's still a fun game.

So fun story, I ran my first strike today! Was a rando group for the winters lair on Venus and from the strike list. One dude dropped after the initial lair, so the 2nd guy and I tried to do the rest. He had to rez me a bunch alas! I was running as a defender but my fly leveled. We got to the boss, which was us trading aggro and taking adds as we could. We got the boss down to 30% but we just got over run. But it was a lot of fun! Hopefully I can finish one soon!

I'm not personally worried...I've been to busy with work and finishing the campaign to even get started on strikes....LOL =) I'm a new 20! Looking at the content, they need to add 2-3 new strikes every few months honestly. The "story" missions are all kind of the same, but the strikes are where the more interesting things happen. I feel like if Destiny had 3 more different style strikes, then it would be a lot better. Say instead of simply attacking boss mobs, how about we have to go somewhere and defend a point from waves of enemies, and each time the enemies damage the defense point to a certain degree, we get debuffed, or new challenges pop up. We'll get one new "expansion" in December, which will give another raid and another strike or two. That aught to help a little bit. I think most players would like to see the story addressed better. It would be nice if the story for the expansion was at least logical and coherent. I don't expect the main story to ever be over hauled unfortunately...

Sweet =) Maybe one day when I can retire I'll look into the classic games of the early 21st century =) I'll check it out at some point =)

You're not alone in that sentiment. I'm still 18 because i have no time to play, but I still enjoy it even through the story is pathetic and the missions are repetitive. I love going through areas and finding new ways to attack groups of enemies. I'm learning the various weapons like the scout rifle (which I never used). One of these days I'll hit up the Crucible...and one day Strikes! LOL For folks that power game for hours on end, then it's going to get extremely boring and repetitive unless your friends are really funny. This game should be played with friends. I look forward to doing heroic missions with fireteams for no reason other than to push as hard as we can. Also, for me, the melee attacks really make the game for me =) I love punching enemies in the face =) And mowing down the hive with an auto rifle or pulse rifle is very rewarding. As is a good missile shot... Yeah, it's not a game for everyone, but for "sheep" like me, it's a blast =) Oh, and I look forward to Borderlands as well =) I enjoyed 2, didn't play the first. I love the humor, and that it doesn't take itself seriously (cough cough Bungie!).

So I've been thinking about the story, the general fun of actually playing the game, and the social aspect as I've weighed my DLC/Expansion purchase... While the story is a complete mess in about every possible way, it is possible to fix it. A few cut scenes and dialogue changes should be enough to do that. As players we need something more than "I don't have time to tell you I don't have time..." I think just a little something that tells us why we're going to the other places. I mean, the objectives aren't terrible, you just have to give a better carrot than "OH, this is new on the director!" I still haven't played with friends yet (because I have so few xbl friends, and I'm never on when they are anymore), I can totally see how much fun this game is with other people. Soon, I hope to run some strikes and stuff with at least some randos to get a feel for them. This is the meat that Bungie needs to build the game from. That includes the strike and crucible chat systems, and I heard that there might be cross tower chat! We need more avenues to get to know people. While we do need to show Bungie and Activision our dissatisfaction with the story and repetitive game play with our wallets, I think I'm going to give them a chance to see what they do having learned from and listened to the large amount of feedback and data they collect. I hope they can fix some of the bigger issues! I really love punching aliens in the face!

So this popped up on the bungie forums yesterday: http://www.bungie.net/en/Forum/Post/70895980/0/0 Depending on how true this is, it kind of makes me sick. I really love the controls, the art, and the possibilities of the shared world idea. If there was a MUCH BETTER STORY lined up, and it got gutted in the process...I just hate it. Now with all anonymous AMAs, there's a certain grain of salt that one has to accept. But it reads really true. Personally, I'm now really on the fence if I want to buy the expansions. On one hand, there is still the potential the clean up the narrative, and I do enjoy punching aliens in the face repeatedly. I'd love to see Bungie and Destiny have their 10 year run. On the flip side, buying the expansions sends money to Activision and tells them that it's OK to ship this broken of a story with this many issues (Loot, PVP, repetition, etc..). It kind of pulled the bandage of my silly enjoyment off to remind me of the very real faults of the game. What about y'all?

http://www.bungie.net/7_102-Patch-Preview/en/News/News?aid=12202 And Bungie is also going to whip the cryptarch into shape as well as add more high end engrams to the strike missions. So while there won't be easy loot caving, the rewards are to more certain. Purple Engrams and Legendary Engrams are going to be giving exotic and legendary loot, no more blues! Though I'm just getting started with my blue gear (level 15...). I for one and glad for the changes. I've also noticed the past few missions I've done, I've had a veritable landslide of items, including my first two blues. I go and buy a sweet Shengin uncommon rifle, and then I get two more uncommon rifles just doing the Gate Lord quest! Plus some sweet arms! And he's my n00b guardian with my terrible stats! http://www.bungie.net/en/Legend/1/4611686018429685651/2305843009216030947#gear