Other forums
Posted: 23 Apr 2015, 16:07
First of all,
Hi.
I feel like I've been away for far too long. Until a couple of days ago I haven't even checked on the forum, never mind posted on it, for what seems like an eternity. Whether anyone noticed/is bothered is neither here nor there, I'm back baby!
Anyhoo, the reason for my not-so-notable abscence, the blame for why I have abandoned you all rests squarely with one game.
Destiny.
I mentioned it in one of my last posts, around the time I had a nine hour day of it (interspersed with cups of tea and sexual shenanigans). Little did I realise how much it would have affected me.
The more you play this game the more you level up, and seeing the progression my characters have made (yes, I have more than one!) has left me "just needing to do that little bit more". Which isn't a little bit more, it never is. There's always something else to do, some other weapon to obtain or piece of armour to upgrade. But knowing all I have to do to obtain or upgrade these things is to play the game some more, I stick at it. I've had more than one night this week where I've gone to bed after midnight, only to be woken up by the dog at 0600.
Then I discovered there's a Destiny app.
In this app you can check on all your stats, move stuff around your characters, prepare yourself for tonight's mission once the kids are in bed, all from the comfort of the toilet seat or wherever you happen to be with your smartphone at the time, without even needing your console to be turned on.
Now this is all well and good, but in the app is a link.
A link to another world.
A Destiny forum!
At first, I just went on for a look, to see if I could glean any information about the game, upcoming updates, hints, tips and tricks. I basically went onto it expecting a video game version of Tankslap.
Good holy crap, how wrong I was!
The amount of vitriolic bile spewing from the threads was shocking. I could not believe it.
Innocent threads asking innocent questions quickly descend into unhelpful immature garbage.
Arguments, name-calling, questioning of parentage, monumentally poor grammar and spelling, all the things you come to expect at a playground, not a forum where everyone is there with the same interest. Certainly not decent forum such as TS, anyway!
And yet I couldn't tear myself away. Every day, every couple of hours I'd find myself going back to see what the kids are fighting about next! I'd tell myself that I was just going on too try and find out some details about a cetain thing. After a trawl, I'd eventually find the details I wanted but couldn't bring myself to put my phone in my pocket. I'd be trawling through the latest "If you use this weapon in multiplayer you're a noob" thread, feeling exasperated and bemused in the same stroke.
At least I'm not posting on there. I don't think handle the popular responses on there if I did.
"Get good scrub" which seems to mean "Sir, I do not think you are very proficient at playing this game, I suggest you try and improve your skill level"
And has recently been dumbed down even further to "git gud skrub".
"Your mom should have swallowed"
"STFU".
Which brings me onto my question, which I could have asked without the long-wind, mildly irrelevant backstory...
What other forums do you frequent? Are they small and friendly, or are they huge and corrosive? Do you post or just lurk?
And how the hell is everbody? I've missed you all!
Hi.
I feel like I've been away for far too long. Until a couple of days ago I haven't even checked on the forum, never mind posted on it, for what seems like an eternity. Whether anyone noticed/is bothered is neither here nor there, I'm back baby!
Anyhoo, the reason for my not-so-notable abscence, the blame for why I have abandoned you all rests squarely with one game.
Destiny.
I mentioned it in one of my last posts, around the time I had a nine hour day of it (interspersed with cups of tea and sexual shenanigans). Little did I realise how much it would have affected me.
The more you play this game the more you level up, and seeing the progression my characters have made (yes, I have more than one!) has left me "just needing to do that little bit more". Which isn't a little bit more, it never is. There's always something else to do, some other weapon to obtain or piece of armour to upgrade. But knowing all I have to do to obtain or upgrade these things is to play the game some more, I stick at it. I've had more than one night this week where I've gone to bed after midnight, only to be woken up by the dog at 0600.
Then I discovered there's a Destiny app.
In this app you can check on all your stats, move stuff around your characters, prepare yourself for tonight's mission once the kids are in bed, all from the comfort of the toilet seat or wherever you happen to be with your smartphone at the time, without even needing your console to be turned on.
Now this is all well and good, but in the app is a link.
A link to another world.
A Destiny forum!
At first, I just went on for a look, to see if I could glean any information about the game, upcoming updates, hints, tips and tricks. I basically went onto it expecting a video game version of Tankslap.
Good holy crap, how wrong I was!
The amount of vitriolic bile spewing from the threads was shocking. I could not believe it.
Innocent threads asking innocent questions quickly descend into unhelpful immature garbage.
Arguments, name-calling, questioning of parentage, monumentally poor grammar and spelling, all the things you come to expect at a playground, not a forum where everyone is there with the same interest. Certainly not decent forum such as TS, anyway!
And yet I couldn't tear myself away. Every day, every couple of hours I'd find myself going back to see what the kids are fighting about next! I'd tell myself that I was just going on too try and find out some details about a cetain thing. After a trawl, I'd eventually find the details I wanted but couldn't bring myself to put my phone in my pocket. I'd be trawling through the latest "If you use this weapon in multiplayer you're a noob" thread, feeling exasperated and bemused in the same stroke.
At least I'm not posting on there. I don't think handle the popular responses on there if I did.
"Get good scrub" which seems to mean "Sir, I do not think you are very proficient at playing this game, I suggest you try and improve your skill level"
And has recently been dumbed down even further to "git gud skrub".
"Your mom should have swallowed"
"STFU".
Which brings me onto my question, which I could have asked without the long-wind, mildly irrelevant backstory...
What other forums do you frequent? Are they small and friendly, or are they huge and corrosive? Do you post or just lurk?
And how the hell is everbody? I've missed you all!
