Join a clan? Nearly all of them are recruiting right now, you get free loot for other folks hard work, and you have up to 100 new built-in Destiny buddies.

When you talk to Hawthorne (at least on the Farm - I haven’t paid attention in the Tower), her falcon’s head glitches a bit and shakes. It’s really one of the few bugs I’ve seen and it’s kind of distractingly funny.

I’m sure I’ll regret pulling your comment out of the grays, but what does Destiny being Japanese or not have to do with it being written about on an American video game website?

Ha! Is that what we’re calling Hawthorne’s shakey falcon?

No time for breaks - have to be raid ready by Wednesday!

All Destiny 2, all the time, for the next three years.

I dunno if he should chat with the doc or with the other guy(s) who are clearly sleeping with his wife.

Roll Tide.

One other fun touch for Xbox folks - if you view your achievements in the Xbox app, one of the leaderboard stats it tracks is “Actual Character Age” - it’s fun to see which of your friends has been around since the beginning and still using the same toons.

The mighty Weekly Reset waits for no Guardian.  

Legendary Shards.

The weapon selection is less diverse?

Tonight we are all Chiefs fans.

This is a classic slippery slope fallacy. DLC/micro transactions/ additional content have been going on for over a decade now and the sky hasn’t fallen.

That’s due to currency fluctuations - not inflation. The Canadian dollar isn’t worth as much as the American dollar.

I’d really love to know what the “reused assets” are. The enemies are the same in name only - they’ve been redesigned and most of them even move differently than they did in the first game. The game environments are clearly redone - the level of detail in the first game is not what it is in D2. It’s great to shout…

Except you also earn them through leveling up past 20. So it’s not all REAL MONEY (omgtheskyisfallingz1111!!!)...

Vandals got super sneaky quick...

Agreed. Although I will say that Suez had effectively great “trench” warfare caused by the dunes on the map. I can’t count how many times I’ve crept along the dune edges near Alpha or Charlie and thought I was being soooo careful about poking my head up only to have it taken off by a sniper.

Tangentially related to the article and Dan Carlin - after you’re done with the WWI series, go back and listen to his series on the Eastern Front in WWII. He goes into great detail on Stalingrad and if the conditions of the “industrial meat grinder” in WWI are bad, the Eastern Front of WWII make places like the Somme…