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GamesRadar+ @gamesradarplus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Destiny 2 devs repeatedly pitched a dating sim, Bungie veterans say, "but leadership was very Hard No that nobody wanted romance or silliness" www.gamesradar.com/games/destin...

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Destiny 2 devs repeatedly pitched a dating sim, Bungie veterans say, "but leadership was very Hard No that nobody wanted romance or silliness"

"It was never a full-fledged project," though

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Jenny Drac Paranormal Instigator @kingriptor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Bungie is run by dumb people? I'm shocked

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Scary!! 👻🎃 @kobayashimaruu.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

lol I LIVE for silly stuff in otherwise serious games

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Evil @evilauthor.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I promise we want romance and silliness. We can do without leadership that goes to HR because they hate money.

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Haaazzzl @hazzle.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

they forgot their roots. johnson and an elite hugging as the world explodes.

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silvoom @silvergallium.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

More proof that as Marathon developed, there was no real plan to expand Destiny's brand long-term. Leadership wanted to finally cash out after the Sony sale, and the company as a whole wanted off the damaged Destiny brand.

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vittmaddy.bsky.social @vittmaddy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

LET ME SMOOCH SHAXX, GODDAMMIT

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DB Koopa @dbkoopa166.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If you were to romance a male Cabal, I would love some joke about his pouch just as a bad pick up line option. To me that should be as big of a thing in Destiny as male Krogans having 4 balls in Mass Effect.

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Michael Scally @fizzvstheworld.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Yes, looter shooter players clearly have no hunger for silly romances...

Skirting The Issues (He/Him) @skirtingtheissues.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

*stares at shaxx and saint 13*

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D W the Gutless @dwoboyle.com · 23/06/2026

Frankly, anyone in a leadership position does not understand what people want at all when it comes to an artform.

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WallowingDad @wallowingdad.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

They couldn’t possibly have even played the game. People have been giggling about hope for the future on the jukebox in a lost sector for years. Focus group brain will tell you all kinds of nonsense if you don’t have any vision or perspective.

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Fan of Buff Coach Dan Campbell Team @motowncatscrown.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

And like, I'm positive the devs had all kinds of internal metrics showing how rabid the fanbase was for stuff like Mara/Eido, Zavala/Caiatl, Eris/Drifter, Saint/Osiris, etc. and the C-Suite just had no interest in a cheap effective spin-off because it wouldn't help them cook the books at all.

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pool bot at the haunted mansion 🤖🎃👻🍬🦇💀⏾⋆.˚ @coddiwomplin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“nobody wants this” and it’s like five lame ass dudes in suits who hate fun.

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Ho'ko @ho-ko.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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Guillotine Execution Device Against Sky

ALT: Guillotine Execution Device Against Sky

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Breonnick______ Reformating. @breonnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Seeing how every one is dressed like prudes in destiny. That tracks.

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BlackBerryHoppity @blackberryhoppity.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

BUNGIE LET ME DATE CAYDE-6 AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!!

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Fish Hitting Floor

ALT: Fish Hitting Floor

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Elsiemonster @elsiemon.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We need to stop letting misanthropic men who also hate themselves run everything

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Haere @haere.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

look pete parsons had cars to collect and cars to drive OK?? no time for kissing or frolicking his mind palace is entirely behind the wheel. hatching schemes, going vroooooom

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Baconrath @baconrath.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Exec cancelling Police Squad! after only 6 episodes because he didn't think people would "get it"-type beat ;_;

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depression haver 🪼 @probablymarin.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

silliness was so much of the appeal of Destiny 1 lore entry of the Cabal questioning why Guardians are always dancing and doing incredibly dangerous sparrow stunts on Mars the "please stop jumping off the Tower you're scaring the hoes" announcement "days since last accident" counter in the hangar

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Greater Key (Vgen comms open!) @greaterkeytattoos.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

BUNGIE! LET ME DATE MARA SOV AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

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megalonyx @ehrenwessel.com · 23/06/2026

@saylum.bsky.social

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Bryn on the Streets; Bryn in the Sheets, too 🏳️‍⚧️ @brynstone.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Baldur's Gate 3 let people fuck a bear and it was GOTY, what are we even talking about?

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Caspus / カスパス @pardontherant.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

*stares in Warframe*

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Just some dude being a bro @groyalprime.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Destiny always had the problem to make "fresh" content given how much gun-shooting we did, this is exactly the kind of insane energy the game needed to keep "wow-ing" the playerbase. WDYM there was a timeline where I could have dated the funny rat man!?

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Gambit Prime Drifter

ALT: Gambit Prime Drifter

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Kevin @greenander.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Honestly why not make this? You have the assets, investment would be minimal, just make little fun stuff like this.

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The Warlock @saintrobimus.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

THOSE BASTARDS RUINED EVERYTHING

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Kari, Estradiol Ascendant 🏳️‍⚧️ @transarcana.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"romance has historically been denigrated both outside and inside the library setting, particularly because of its association with women readers and its perception as a frivolous, escapist pursuit” Greenhaus"Sex in the Stacks: Examining the Treatment of Explicit Materials in American Libraries"2023

The invocation of romance novels in this context is
telling. While some of the racier examples in that genre
may plainly qualify as sexually explicit materials, even the
milder offerings make an interesting comparison because
of the ways romance has historically been denigrated both
outside and inside the library setting, particularly because
of its association with women readers and its perception
as a frivolous, escapist pursuit. Yet as scholars such as
Radway (1984) have shown, romance fiction fulfills awide
range of functions for its readers, including plainly
educational ones (61), as well as providing an extremely
meaningful outlet to “replenish the self and attend to
emotional needs” (Radway 1984, 65). And even when the
function is still primarily one of enjoyment and escapism,
it is unclear why that in itself would make any genre
less worthy of inclusion in a public library’s collections,

particularly given the many benefits that readers report
gaining from these texts. Yet both formal research and
informal publications have shown that low opinions of
this genre of fiction prevail among library staff; and even
when staff profess to value the genre, collecting practices
rarely support this.
Adkins et al. (2008) have affirmed the way in which
public libraries that actively and thoughtfully collect
romance “are acknowledging readers … have multiple
purposes for reading, and that reading is as much an
emotional experience as it is an informational one” (66)
and also raised the question of what the underlying issues

might be behind many libraries’ failures to build strong
collections in this area, despite the genre’s popularity with
readers: “As the majority of public librarians are women,
their selection or non-selection of romance novels suggests
lines of inquiry investigating women librarians’ views of
stereotypically women’s genres and of the women who
read these genres” (Adkins et al. 2008, 66). Although the
imagined audience for other forms of sexually explicit
materials is often male, not female, there are provocative
connections between the denigration and neglect of these
materials that are so irrevocably associated with pleasure
and entertainment. There is something about these low,

popular genres that deviates too far from the educational
ideal that libraries wish to embody, and it is no coincidence
that these genres are also associated with the literal,
physical body. The valuation of the mind over the body in
Western philosophy has deep roots and clear connections to
the long cultural history of viewing the library as a temple to
knowledge, reason, and learning. Since the public library
supposedly serves themasses, popular genres like romance
(often derogatively called “porn for women”) and other
sexually explicit materials such as erotica, pornography,
and sexuality-focused nonfiction, might seemlike a natural
fit for their collections. Yet there is evidence, both scholarly
and anecdotal, that public libraries are particularly hesitant,
even loath, to build their collections in these areas.

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Shrimp Siri 🦐 @siritasprite.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Please I just wanted to smooch Misraaks

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Oddash @oddash.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Tell that to my fanfic recs 😤

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Amir R Muntasser @arkmuntasser.com · 23/06/2026

The way this would have sold like gangbusters. Damn near could have saved the game.

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