Because they don't see them as issues. Lack of trading and no matchmaking are intentional design decisions. Bungie doesn't see them as problems to be fixed.

It would certainly be nice to remove certain irrelevant and pointless details of a crime scene, like whether or not the black kid was wearing a hoodie when the cops riddled him with bullets.

Do you see the difference?

In all fairness, when a dude just comes strolling out of a hostage situation, you take precautions.

If you want to be a pedantic dick, you need to actually go elsewhere.

Man, DC is fucking aggressive in their attempt to dampen any enthusiasm I may have had for this movie(s).

Shades of Dune

You aren't even having the conversation you think you're having. You're tilting at windmills, my friend, and celebrating like you've won something.

You can't even do condescension well. I feel like I'm boxing a kitten.

Or else you risk damaging your own cause....this is not a difficult concept.

Old enough to be responsible for your actions is old enough to be responsible for your actions. Period.

Sometimes laughing at assholes is just laughing at assholes.

Change the subjects of debate and any one of these "tactics" could just as easily apply to women. What's with the gender-baiting? I'm honestly confused as to how that's supposed to forward the feminist cause.

Nothing in Houston is ever a good idea with the exception of leaving Houston.

That's terrible, but I'll give you credit for trying to punch upwards, anyway.

America: where 17 years old isn't mature enough to be responsible for your own healthcare decisions, but it's plenty mature enough to be held responsible as an adult for murder.

I know you wanted to show off the new word you learned, but you're just coming across as desperate.

Amongst people who actually know what's going on, thirst is already a thing.

Michael Moorcock once referred to the huge catalog of names, places, rings and rulers in J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy texts as "a pernicious confirmation of the values of a morally bankrupt middle class."

I can only shoot at things mindlessly for a few hours before you have to give me some sort of narrative motivation to hang my hat on. This is why I can play a CoD single player campaign to completion (it ends before I require anything more than more bad guys to shoot) and why I quit Destiny at level 15 (it never…