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I would be fine if they were direct about the reason for the change. Along the lines of "Atheon is proving to be a bit easier than intended, so we're raising the challenge by teleporting three players at random...". Certainly people would disagree with the change, but they would be disagreeing with the change, not the reasons for it.

I've been trying to picture the scenario where the design lead told the programmers "I want him to teleport three random people", and instead of making it random, they wrote code that calculated player distance in 3D, sorted the results, and teleported the farthest three. This is despite that this is harder to program than just RNG.

I mean, maybe their programmers are that sloppy (Destiny already has its fair share of bugs, exploits, and unremoved legacy code). The alternative is that they're being...disingenuous, to say the least. Calling a deliberate design change to increase difficulty a "bug" in insulting to the player base. It's like if on UPF, they announced "There's a bug where too many people are posting, so we're increasing the chat cooldown from 15 to 30 seconds."

That's been my problem as well. Maybe I'm overexposed (I'd say 99% of the people I follow who weighed in on GG would be considered "anti-GG"), but the constant condescension and snarkiness I've seen from a few otherwise respectful and funny individuals has become annoying, and made me more likely to side with GG (broadly!) as a Devil's Advocate.

It's like if, in reaction to a bully beating someone up, the popular kids make fun of the bully (and any of their friends) for being fat or ugly. Obviously, the bully is doing the most actual harm and requires punishment or corrective action, but just insulting them does little to resolve the conflict. Same with those on either side of the political spectrum making cheap redneck or hippie jokes about those on the other side. As someone else mentioned, this makes it more likely for those in the middle to "radicalize", or at least pick a side out of self-defense.

The sad part is that some anti-GG jokes are done, at least subconsciously, from the same motivation as GG itself: to get attention. Getting retweets, reblogs, karma, views, followers, etc. There are some people who seem to now spend all day tweeting or retweeting anti-GG jokes, and while I can understand the idea of "have a laugh instead of spreading hate", at a certain point it can feel like you're laughing at people, which is more likely to make the problem worse.

I'll pick this up...if my existing 3DS breaks or is lost.

With the amount of handheld games I buy relative to PC and consoles, it's hard to justify simply upgrading. I still want to get a Wii U at some point, upgrade my PC, and a PS4 (if I get a lot more money, somehow), so a new 3DS is pretty low on my list right now.

I'm not a bureaucrat (though I'd like to be one again...the job market has been tough for the past few years), but I'm definitely a Duder in Ottawa.

I suppose we could choose from one of the dozens hundreds of pubs downtown, but for some game-related places (neither of which I've actually been to; just going off their websites and word of mouth):

• House of Targ (the new pinball/arcade venue), but the machines only seem to be open when there's a concert going on (so, it would be noisy, and people would have to pay the cover to get in).
• Monopolatte (the board game cafe on Somerset). It also has a $5 cover, but should be a quieter venue. You can also book a table ahead in case the place is full.

Also, I can't wait until I get a new GB shirt the next time I renew my subscription. I've only got the regular logo one, but I rarely wear it: since I live in Centretown, wearing a shirt with a big "GIANT BOMB" on it can feel a bit awkward.

Dave Lang has weighed in on the matter:

So, is there actually going to be a prize?

Nintendo is publishing (funding?) Bayonetta 2 with Platinum Games

Will never come out on 360/PS3/Next-Gen.

Jesus wept.