Bloodborne was just last year . <| sep |> When I used to foster several cats at a time , I used the Tupperware totes that slide under your bed . Two of those for 4 cats worked out really well . They had plenty of room in each one , it was easier to clean two large ones than several smaller ones , I kept them together in my basement out of the way , and it cost less to buy those two than to buy a bunch of actual litter boxes . <| sep |> I work in retail and am using that as an excuse to avoid my entire family for various reasons . Instead , I will be driving right by their house to have dinner with my SO ' s family . I can take the politics , I just won ' t take the constant personal criticism anymore . <| sep |> Okay , guess I ' ll start off by talking about one of The Taken King ' s missed opportunities . Namely , the Taken themselves . Now I understand that the Taken are just a clever way of reusing existing assets by spicing up existing enemies with new animations and behaviors . But really there was a huge missed opportunity here , at least as far as the campaign enemies go . Oryx chooses two powerful enemies to serve as his ' Hands ', his champions , effectively . Baxx , the Gravekeeper and Primus Ta ' aun . I like the idea of a Taken Cabal Primus , because the lore makes it clear that the Taken do retain a semblance of their former selves , so if you ' took ' an enemy commander , that cunning and strategic prowess would remain . But sadly that just didn ' t come across in gameplay . Baxx and Ta ' aun unlike the rest of the Taken , don ' t display any new behaviour . Ta ' aun is a scaled up and reskinned Collosus , just like Valus Ta ' aurc was , and Baxx is just an Ogre , neither have ' new ' behaviour , abillities or anything that sets them apart . What ' s the missed opportunity then ? Simple . Oryx has ' taken ' thousands of worlds in his reign as the Taken King . And well . I gotta ask . Where are they all ? ! Remember , the ending cutscene of The Coming War The introductory mission of the Taken King story that one Hive Knight from the Sword quest saysTheir Leaders belong to you . The rest await extermination . To which Oryx rebukes him by saying No . Gather them . I will Take them all . So simply put , what this cutscene is implying is that Oryx typically just cherrypicks his enemy ' s high command to create powerful champions for himself , then these champions lead his Hive armies into battle in his name . But this time he decides to start ' Taking ' en masse , snatching up whatever he can get his claws on to build an invasion force in a hurry . So I have to address the big ol ' elephant in the room . Where are the Taken who existed before we came along ? Oryx has conquered a lot of worlds , and turned potentially thousands of enemy combatants into his minions . You ' d think Oryx would already HAVE loyal bodyguards that have proven their mettle time and time again in past conquests , and would be champions that he Took from past campaigns . Not Baxx and Ta ' aun , who are just the first two random Ultra enemies he came across . Why are there no Taken from OUTSIDE of the Solar System ? Seriously , this was a huge blank check to do anything you can think of . I was even hoping for this when we went into the Raid . But no , instead the bosses are a big Acolyte , a big Ogre , some Big Wizards and Oryx . With the exception of the big guy himself , all of these are just things we ' ve seen already , and the Taken horde being comprised solely of enemies from the sol system doesn ' t help that . I know I ' m asking for too much , the Taken King was just an expansion and lord knows we ' ll definitely have to wait for Destiny 2 to see anything new . But god , it stings me thinking about what could have been , as we could ' ve walked into a Raid fight and come face to face with some Taken abomination so alien and beyond what we ' re used to that it ' d be really striking and memorable . But no . same old formula , ' thing , but y ' know , bigger . ' Even Malok is just a giant goddamn Thrall , in gameplay AND lore .