Be Sincere, not Serious | Engineering & Product (ex-Amazon, CVS, Tech Consulting) | Building in Public from $260K W2 to $50k/month Cleaning Biz | Twitch Partner
"If I can see it, I can be it"
Companies that truly champion diversity & inclusion like
@Bungie
& allies that celebrate such events make visible representation possible.
Honored & grateful to have this platform, privilege & support to represent the many communities I'm part of.
I re-installed Destiny after 9 months at noon today..
Played only Crucible. 80% of the time I was contacting servers. Got kicked off the game 4x.
As I head to bed, I uninstalled. Game has changed, for the worse, for PvP players at least.
Feels like such wasted potential.
😞
If I, a washed, 30 year old “gamer girl”, ran YOU, a “competitive D2 PvP player” over with double primary and blue sunset weapons, you should be mad at YOURSELF, not me.
Destiny 2 anime pfp ego’s are truly something else.
😐🙏
Giving away a
#Destiny2
Collector's Edition Savathûn, The
#WitchQueen
Statue😈
THANK YOU for the insane support on all platforms that makes stuff like this possible🙏❤️
Rules:
-Like, RT & tag a homie
-Follow
@GamerGirlGrey
-Optional: Sub to my YT ()
I successfully cleared DSC and VoG on day 1, as a PvP main, both times with most people’s nightmare:
😅 New group with no previous chemistry 😅
Here are ✨SECRETS ✨that ALL successful AND happy Day 1 raid teams have in common 🧵
😭🙏
Thank you
@Bungie
@Cozmo23
@A_dmg04
. I don't have words to describe the emotions I felt watching this as the DSC lullaby plays in the background..
"Grit. GRATITUDE. Greatness". It all comes together.
I can finally share these with my community!! 🥹😅♥️
I’m giving away ✨3 SCIENTIA ILLUMINATA EMBLEMS✨
To enter:
🔔Follow
@GamerGirlGrey
♻️RT this tweet
Optional: Reply with your best funny meme/pic, let’s see what ya got 🤓
Winner pulled on: Oct 24 (Diwali 🪔 Festival!)
[Sound on] I TOLD YOU the Proving Ground GM rocks are "special rocks"..
They DO NOT GIVE A FUCK.
Miniboss: We're a unit...
Rock: Yeah bro?😂😂😂
#Destiny2
RT's ♥️🙏
You know what???
THAT'S IT ! Omnioculus came out AFTER Dragon's Shadow and still got 2 good, new ornaments😭
I am hereby starting the "daily tweet" tradition asking
@Bungie
@A_dmg04
@Cozmo23
for a new DS ornament in WQ.
Day 1
❤️🙏
#Destiny2
You did a hard thing the “legit” way?
GREAT! You had fun, enjoy the rewards!
You did a hard thing the “cheese” way?
GREAT! You had fun, you should enjoy the rewards!
🙂
It’s a fricking VIDEO GAME!
If you value something, value it regardless of how others value/devalue it.
I’m crying rn, this is such a huge personal milestone for me. THANK YOU
@Bungie
for the opportunity.
@MrsQueenBartley
you’re a rockstar, you slayed it! Thank you so much for placing your faith in me and my community.
“Grit.Gratitude.Greatness”
🙏♥️
You know what’s even worse than D2 PvP right now??
The “PvP main” crowd vibes on Twitter 🫠
PvE mains: *make up their own challenges when content is dry, running the same shit 700 times to shave 2 secs off*
PvP mains: *needless drama every damn season on the same 4 things*
😐
WE DID IT! YOU made this happen!
😭🙏♥️
THANK YOU to those who really believe in me & my vision, to those who show up & come through every damn time, to my team. This is YOUR win, thank you again🙏♥️
To the haters, I ain’t stopping here. Ya better be ready to hate some more 😈
When I say I miss Destiny it’s not the current game, it’s the game it was, the game I could lose hours upon hours in with friends or alone alike..
I miss Destiny man..I wish for even a fraction of the old glory days back now.
😔
2 very EZ wins for Bungie could be:
a) Make contest mode a permanently available option. PvE gamers happy!
b) Make comp an actually competitive, ranked mode with some cosmetic rewards. PvP gamers happy!
I often wonder what their challenges behind making these 2 happen are.
😅
Been a day & night I’ll never forget, still for all the right reasons in the long run but it’s given me much food for thought & introspection.
I left behind my entire family & my whole damn country to have a chance to be UNAPOLOGETICALLY myself at 26. I’ll be damned (1/4)
PvP community: “We want communication and transparency”
*Bungie folks publish a short novella on what’s next given what you’ve asked for*
Twitter warriors: “This sucks. We want do. No say. Only do. NOW.”
😂
Ain’t no “taking the small wins” with this crowd 🥲
I don’t know what’s deteriorating faster as I get older as a
#Destiny2
PvP player:
My reflexes
or
My tolerance for bs & “cheese”
or
The amount of time I’m willing to spend on “getting gud”..
Can any other older gamers relate or am I alone here??
🥲
Coming from a programming background, I think most people’s understanding of how game code & bug fixes work are insanely simplistic.
For a game as huge/complex as Destiny, there are LITERALLY hundreds of factors involved in “fixing” bugs.
Not fixing a known bug fast /= Lazy
😐
@Ms5000Watts
Savathun's "death" cutscene, where she talks to the Traveler like an old friend, DEEPLY moved me and showed how complex/layered the character is.
I actually felt sad for the deception she went through and how it shaped her entire story. Bungie nailed this story arc..
Wife: “I wanna go shopping later on Friday”
Me: “I don’t know babe, I’ll be playing Trials with the boys 😌”
*Twilight gap*
Me: “So what’s on that shopping list? I wanna go to IKEA too 🙏🥴”
Today I wanna take a moment to publicly announce that...
I'M GAY!!!
✨Scheduled, quarterly reminder for any closeted homophobes who accidentally followed me & thought they could enjoy only parts of my personality/life they agree with✨
😃👋🏳️🌈
THANK YOU for an ABSOLUTE BANGER of a
#BungieBounty
stream🤝🙏
All credit goes to my mods who kept the chaos under control, to
@Bungie
@Cozmo23
@A_dmg04
for honoring me with this opportunity of a lifetime & my fantastic community! GG's gamers!
So, so grateful & blessed!
♥️🙏♥️
PSA for
#Destiny
PvP "casuals":
Its okay if you're not "good or a god" at the game.
It's okay if you "don't take winning or losing that seriously".
But it's not okay to knock down those who do. "Fun" is subjective.
Respect other's "objective" the way you defend yours.
🙂
“Call out your lurkers!!”
“Keep viewer list open!!”
“Raid streamers you want to get raided by!!”
🙄
🚨STOP! DO NOT do ANY of these!🚨
If YOU wanna succeed on
@Twitch
& build an actual community, here are tips that helped ME build a PARTNERED Twitch community I’m proud of🧵
Funny how the actually decent players are popping off now and the cheating, 3-peeking, super/sword crutching gamers are struggle-bussing..
Oh how the turns have tabled..
🙃😈
*New guns, activities, locations added in
#Destiny2
season*
Community: This is awful, I hate it!! Gimme my old stuff back! 😡
*Old favorites are brought back by popular demand*
Community: Great, more recycled content!
#Bungie
do better !! 😡
Literally can’t please ya’ll 😂🙏
@traveldanielle
Another part unaffected people don’t realize is that a lot of, if not most, big companies in ALL INDUSTRIES, are STILL like that. The fact that there is coverage & exposure to these malpractices in itself is a sign that Bungie is ahead of the curve in attempting to be better.
"I want to stream but I don't have XYZ"
This clip is from when I had just started streaming. My community called it "Minecraft Destiny Stream". I still don't know why they showed up to watch THIS😅
But they did & I'm here because of them ♥️
JUST START. It'll all come together.
I’ll never make ALL the right decisions that make EVERYONE happy. I’m learning as I grow.
Community Focus will remain one of the best experiences of my life, thanks to
@bungie
& the people who’ve supported me over time & come to bat for me.
Only gratitude, still & always.
🙏♥️
Every time
@Bungie
employees speak up, they START & promote trends that ALL industries could learn from, the most recent being transparency about pay scales.
Ya’ll the literally EXEMPLARY. This is SO CRUCIAL for eliminating gender based pay inequality & much more. Kudos!
🙏♥️
Controversial take:
Bungie doesn’t even need to be as communicative as they are, they don’t NEED to do TWAB’s! We take all that for granted.
“D2 PvP CM” is a job I won’t wish even on my enemies knowing what they deal with.
Maybe start with treating the CM’s we DO have better?
One of the Devs confirmed that Twilight Garrison wouldn't be coming back on twitter & got death threats
I'm not sayin I don't want udpates. But we've bitten the hand that feeds us too hard, too often. Anyone agreeing to this would be openly donning a huge, weekly, bullseye
💯%
Having met
@DirtyEffinHippy
in person, she is even more humble, caring, kind, always going out of her way to help make new connections, cool & genuine than her online persona.
She lives & breathes player empathy. Can’t wait for her to be picked by an equally deserving org.
I really don't understand the "Everyone should be able to get all end-game level rewards without putting in much effort" mindset wrt Trials.
It's like saying "Everyone should be a millionaire without grinding hard because not everyone will/can bust ass to succeed"
(1/2)
I wouldn’t have thought in my wildest dreams of doing what my community has helped me do in just 1 year.
THANK YOU!
I want to do more with my platform. I’m hungry for more positive impact, more representation..
Your support now will go a long way in making this possible.
🙏♥️
Crossed my 200th flawless this week, holding a 1.8 K/D for the season but I’m struggling to find my place in the Trials community.
Guys with similar stats do Trials “help” with WAY better friends but I get dealt with “you’re a 1.2”, “getting carried by her partner” when I win.
I know what a country with no exposure to LGBTQ+ people is like.
You DO NOT want that.
Yes, there's age appropriateness for sexual content.
The problem is when people equate awareness, acceptance & visibility with SEX ED.
NO GAY PERSON WANTS TO TEACH 5YO's HOW GAY SEX WORKS🙂
I see content creators with so much influence over thousands of people, their opinions & lives.
I wish more of ya’ll spoke up on things that actually matter. I wish your fears of “being political” weren’t bigger than the need to “do the right thing”.
Such a travesty fr😔
STOP TELLING PEOPLE “your trauma made you stronger”, pisses me tf off.
Trauma & abuse DID NOT make me stronger. I MADE MYSELF STRONGER.
I needed to feel safe as a child, not “strong". I dragged myself out of that shit & so did everyone who has ever experienced trauma/abuse.
So let me get this right..
People are mad if someone asks for Destiny content to be harder..
and people are equally mad when the new raid is “easy”..
😂😂😂
Make up your mind!
JEEZ! PLEASE STOP ATTACKING my friends & community for voicing their opinions ffs 🙏
I’ve tried everything at this point to explain my stance on ALL aspects of my “PvP sins” but to no avail..
Guess I gotta start promoting NFT’s to help ya’ll MOVE TF ON or limit your bs to me 😭
DUDE WHY IS DESTINY TWITTER ALWAYS ON FIRE WHEN I CHECK IN AFTER A BREAK ???
😭
We really gotta do better with identifying severely problematic behaviors sooner man..If you see something PLEASE SAY SOMETHING ffs
I’m considering walking in the footsteps of Benjy with daily tweets asking for a new Dragons Shadow ornament.
SToMpEEs has like 37 ornaments & we get “Default” & “Even worse than default”🥴
Please
@A_dmg04
..It is time! I’ll wear a yellow beanie for an entire month I stg.
😭🙏
F it, life’s good & I wanna share a bit of joy with ya’ll 🙂
Gifting this beautiful, masterpiece of a game “STRAY” to
✨3 lucky winners✨
Giveaway Rules:
Follow ❤️
Retweet🔄
Tell me what game you’re enjoying the most right now 🎮👀
Closes on 8/1, good luck gamers!
Leadership is harder than most people treat it in the Destiny online circles IMO.
😅
Being a founder/Admin doesn't make you a good leader, the example & code of conduct you set for your people does. Titles don't always translate into maturity or good leadership unfortunately.
“Content creators” are just normal people who’ve put themselves & their lives out there, often solely to entertain you or give you a good hangout space.
PLEASE don’t use it as an invitation to test our boundaries🙏
Some of ya’ll really be exploiting our empathy. Day is ruined..
I’ve had the honor of being part of 2 Bungie VIDOC’s.
You best believe that they know about the hateful minority in this community that’s extremely toxic, homophobic & honestly, just garbage humans.
They do EVERYTHING in their power to protect their people & I’m glad they do.
In my brief time on
@Twitch
I’ve learnt this:
1. People REFUSE to read anything helpful you put up as on-screen text, adjust your expectations.
2. If someone says “free my man xyz he ain’t done nothing wrong”, it’s an alt/friend of xyz & most likely needs to be banned too.
😐
I’m getting medical help today even though it goes against everything my culture & upbringing taught me.
I deserve to be happy.
I WILL stay on depression meds for as long as it takes. The first few months may be rough but I need to do this. I WILL see this through.
I got this.
Bungie: Creates a whole new twitter account for “official Destiny news and stances” so people stop reading into CM’s personal accounts and tweets.
CM: “It's pretty hot today”
HEADLINES & “community”:
“CM’s ARS SUBTWEETING <insert controversy of choice here>!! SMH!
😂🙏
I CAN FINALLY SHARE THESE!
Meeting some of the Bungie team that brings this space magic to life & filming this with such legendary guardians was incredible!
🙏 ♥️😭 THANK YOU!
@DirtyEffinHippy
@TheSamBartley
@Cozmo23
@A_dmg04
Another dream checked off, onto the next 👀🤝
People attending public events AFTER testing positive for COVID are the type of people who won’t tell you if they got bit in a zombie apocalypse
😐
Shameful fr..
Great read for people interested in learning more about the challenges
@Bungie
faces while trying to break away from malpractices built into its core foundations..
I’ll leave you with this..
“What’s better? To be born good or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”
IGN spoke with 26 current and former Bungie employees who told stories of sexism, boys’ club culture, crunch, and more.
Still, some recent employees say Bungie is, slowly but surely, trying to move in a better direction.
Never been into D2 Reddit as such, I didn't even realize this was a thing but OH BOY! The internet is a magical place, truly..
😂🙏
If people behind screens put as much thought into being semi decent people IRL as they put into policing people in game, what a world we'd be in.
Crossplay “glitch” update:
I’m able to join FT again, in the first mission from
#XBOX
with a
#PC
Destiny 2 clan mate.
@JustManda_
is on PC, me and
@xKingAllan
are on Xbox.
@A_dmg04
@Cozmo23
tagging to give you an update, still works for us.
If ALL you take away about me & JUDGE me on is if I stood on some video game circles or not, nothing I say or do will ever truly reach you.
Never giving me/my community a chance & using my race/identity/ color to overshadow the good stuff is what hurts. I’m not perfect.
(3/4)
I often used to find myself disappointed & enraged by my
#Destiny2
Twitter TL:
-Posts from people with TERRIBLE life stances
-Posts & people with 0 connection to anything I've ever liked
Here's how I curated a ✨significantly better Twitter TL✨& how you can do it too🧵
If I let people who don’t even know an ounce about me & my life police how I play a non-competitive video game.
You may not agree with the way I attempt to still enjoy the game or my takes on it & that’s okay with me. Why is the opposite too much to ask for & “toxic”?
(2/4)
I’m emotionally overwhelmed seeing so many Asian LGBTQ folks coming into stream after reading the Community Focus piece.
They’re as shocked as I always am to see that there are so many of us out here, that they aren’t “alone” like they thought. That was the dream & goal..
😭🙏
PLEASE keep my grandma in your prayers this week. There was an accident back home and she suffered major burns from the fire.
I’ve never felt more helpless than these situations about not being able to go home easily. Trying to keep my mind occupied but I’m not doing very well.
Now that the cat's out of the bag, I'm ECSTATIC and HONORED to be the
@Bungie
Bounty🙏❤️
*There's a typo in the TWAB's time per tradition😅*
Time: NOVEMBER 14th, 11:30 *AM* Pacific (console)
Hope to see you in the crucible guardian😈
#BungieBounty
#Destiny2
I can’t believe the opportunities and love I’m given by this community. I will always strive to be worthy of them.
Today has been crazy and monumental. I cried tears of joy. Thank you..thank you so much.
♥️🙏
Geo: I ordered pizza for you, can you go open the door?
Me: Whoa!! Thanks bb, I’m going now!
IT WAS HER! SHE CAME HOME EARLY! WITH THE PIZZA
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I'm a CS engineer, I have two advanced Masters degrees and what would be considered a high IQ..
BUT NOTHING AND I REPEAT NOTHING comes closer to making me feel intelligent than making this mf'ing tool work after learning every damn thing about it from YT tutorials..
IYKYK🙃
BUNGIE BOUNTY STREAM YAYYY!
So damn excited! Hope to see ya’ll there! Vibin’ with good music, good conversations & as always “slightly above average gameplay” 😏😂
Good luck gamers! Bring ya guns, good vibes & leave the toxicity home please 🙏
🔴LIVE:
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
Ya gotta be a special kind of moron to be so damn pressed about AN EMBLEM!!!
This isn’t a zero sum game or some sort of pain Olympics. One community getting some love for once doesn’t take away from another ffs! Stop sending death threats to people..
😒
✅700 kills on Sharuya’s in 12 hours
✅69 win streak for some emblem swag
SMG/Peacekeepers is da wae💯😈
#Destiny2
is fun again for me with my new double SMG loadout☺️
No matter what happens, remember that no one is intentionally jeopardizing the team.
Under stress we tend to start pointing fingers when we fail. The person making mistakes already feels worse than you think they do.
Remember: Be kind. Do unto them what you’d want for yourself.
If you enjoyed the thread, please RT & like. I’m dabbling around with threads and I’d love to know if you find them useful.
If you have your own ✨secret✨ Day 1 raid success mantras, share em here in comments! Let’s get this bread together 😈
Day 1 experience is a marathon, not a sprint:
You start off fueled by excitement/energy that lasts a long time but the real battles are fought beyond the 8+ hour mark, after wiping multiple times on the same encounter.
Prepare for it mentally, ration your energy accordingly.
This app is unreal man. Unreal.
Me: *clearly in a state of distress*
Random person in DM’s:
“Hey, so sorry to hear about the break-in! Do you think you can hop on my account to do Glassway tonight? Saw your post about free help”
😐
Some of ya’ll need help or god or both.
I hope you realize that calling me “gay” isn’t an insult. It’s like me calling you an idiot and an asshat.
It’s only the truth.
The only difference is that I knew I was gay since I was 9. You, on the other hand, haven’t quite comprehended that you’re an idiot and an asshat.
🙃