My bewildering return to Destiny 2, after a one-year live-service break

Plus: Nintendo vs. Nietnedo (Guess who won.)

Destiny 2. Screenshot: Bungie, captured by Game File

Live-service games are designed to consume your life, which makes enjoying one a precarious situation.

The average person—and I do not purport to be anything more than average—might have other things on their daily agenda that compete for their time: a job, school, kids, doomscrolling, bathing, etc.

They might even want to spend some time playing other video games.

However: Live service games don’t slow down for you to chew your food, nor for you to take your kid to urgent care for his broken hand. Their developers have content to add, and you, the poor sap who enjoys a live service game but also enjoys at least three other things in life, are destined to fall behind.

All of which is to say, for better or worse, I am afflicted with liking Destiny 2, Bungie’s futuristic live service first person shooter about undying super-soldiers fighting aliens in Russia, on the moon and sometimes even on Mars 

I have liked it for years, but I took the last year off from playing it, then decided last week to try to catch up on what I’d missed.

So far, I’m having a bewildering, excellent, ridiculous time.