u/Zantirel

The sheer volume of essays and final projects due this week is giving me insane anxiety. It's already late June, the weather is perfect, and my brain has completely checked out for the summer, making it impossible to focus. Some people in my class are literally talking about hiring professional assignments writers just to get these papers out of the way and finally start their break, but I want to try and finish this on my own. How do you force yourself to beat the mental block and survive the absolute final stretch of the year? Any realistic tips would be amazing right now.

I rage uninstalled this game at least four times. I counted. The first time was when they vaulted the Forsaken campaign without any warning basically, i had just recommended it to my friend who was getting into the game and then boom, gone. I remember being so embarrassed because i spent like 20 minutes hyping up the Tangled Shore and Petra's whole storyline and then had to explain that uh, you cant actually play that anymore. My friend never touched the game again. I did.

The second time was Season of the Haunted when they introduced the resource-capped seasonal currency grind that reset weekly and there was literally no way to catch up if you missed a week. I had a work trip, came back, and my seasonal progression was just capped at a point where i couldnt access the new story mission without grinding the same playlist activity for like 3 hours. I wrote a whole paragraph in the uninstall feedback box. Bungie probably has a folder of my feedback forms at this point. Two months later i was back for the Witch Queen expansion and it was genuinely one of the best FPS campaigns ive ever played and all my anger just kind of evaporated which is insane when i think about it now.

The thing is i dont think any other game has made me feel both this disrespected and this seen at the same time. The gunfeel, the music, the way a nightfall hits different at 1am when everyone on your fireteam finally knows the mechanics - none of that went away even when the systems around it were completely infuriating. I think thats what made it so hard to actually leave. You could hate the battle pass structure and still get completely lost in a strike for 40 minutes. Both things were true at once.

With the game shutting down im not even angry at Bungie right now which feels strange. Just kind of sitting with the fact that something genuinely unique is going away and i wasted probably 200 hours being annoyed at it instead of just playing.