patriots ponderings

I Hate What Destiny 2 Has Become, It’s Time For An Extended Break

April 13, 2020 // 2 Comments

This is going to be a lengthy read, but it comes from someone with about six thousand hours invested in the Destiny franchise, with a little over two thousand of that in Destiny 2. Since September 2014, Destiny has been my main game. I’ve been hooked on it since the Alpha in June. While I’ve played and beaten other games since then, they have [...]

If You Play Destiny 2 On Console Get An SSD

July 19, 2019 // 1 Comment

Fellow console Guardians, we’ve long heard the recommendation to get an SSD for your PS4 or Xbox One to speed up your load times and make the menu time a little more bearable. Today, I finally took that advice. And like everyone always says, I really wish I would’ve done it sooner. Destiny 2 is a fairly big game. Right now, on PS4, [...]

Should Bungie Separate PvE & PvP In Destiny 3?

April 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

There have been rumors floating around that Destiny 3 could see the removal of traditional PvP, via the Crucible, from the game. This has been talked about on Fireteam Chat, Paul Tassi wrote an article about it on Forbes, and one of my favorite YouTuber’s (particularly when it comes to Destiny’s Crucible) Aztecross did a video about it [...]

Borderlands 3 Trailer Is Just What We Wanted

March 30, 2019 // 1 Comment

On the day Borderlands 3 was revealed, Ben Kuchera took to Polygon to bash it by writing a piece titled “Borderlands 3 Trailer is a disappointment” and asking the question, “are you sure I haven’t bought this game before?” Thankfully, I limit my exposure to Polygon to once a week, so I didn’t see this drivel [...]

Ditching Google, Hello Brave and Bing

March 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally cut Google (well mostly, there’s no good alternative to YouTube) out of my life. I had been using the Chrome browser since it was first released. I’m not going to lie, it has been a great browser and still is. I just wanted to get out of the Google ecosystem, for no other [...]

Dead or Alive 6 Review Breakdown (Eurogamer SJW)

March 1, 2019 // 4 Comments

Editor’s Note: This is NOT a review of Dead or Alive 6. I haven’t played it, and I’m not a fan of fighting games. This is instead a new thing we’re gonna do when we feel it warranted to do so, breaking down a review written by a Social Justice Warrior that can’t help but think their retarded ideals must be adhered to [...]

SJW’s Attack THQ Nordic Over AMA

February 28, 2019 // 0 Comments

February ends just like any other day, with the professionally offended and morally superior Social Justice Warriors crying, planning boycotts, and showing how tolerant the “progressive” mob is. This time, the target of their hateful mob justice is video game publisher THQ Nordic. What crime did THQ Nordic commit to warrant the reeeing [...]

Give Respawn Their Virtue Points, Apex Legends Is Diverse

February 8, 2019 // 2 Comments

Respawn Entertainment and EA announced and released free-to-play FPS battle-royale Apex Legends on PC, PS4, and Xbox One as a surprise on Monday. To their credit, and to EA’s relief (at least temporarily), the game has been a massive hit in its first few days. Over 10 million people have played the game, it surpassed the 1 million concurrent [...]

Attention Developers: Embrace the Alt Right For Success Says SJW

March 3, 2018 // 2 Comments

It’s current day in current year, that means there’s an SJW crying somewhere. This time it’s Nathan Grayson writing for Kotaku’s Steamed. The title of his article on Kingdom Come Deliverance is pretty telling when coupled with the first paragraph: Kingdom Come Owes Its Popularity To ‘Realism’ And Conservative [...]

Destiny 2’s Nightfall Change Shows Need For Weapon System Rework

February 28, 2018 // 0 Comments

Yesterday, Destiny 2 received update 1.1.3 which was headlined by the new Nightfall Strike Scoring system. The hard time limit is now gone from the Nightfall, and with it any modifiers are gone from the normal or prestige mode nightfall. To enable modifiers, in prestige mode only, you’ll need a Nightfall Challenge Card which drops from a [...]