Aggressive, Paranoid, & A Little Melodramatic.

Lore nerd and sometimes podcast host. You've got Destiny questions, I've got excruciatingly detailed answers. This is live; this is real; this is not a simulation.

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

TIR (Today I Realized).

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cliff notes version

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TIR (Today I Realized).

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what if Highlander: The Series but they all used RWBY weapons

[animusrox]

X-Men (2000) dir. Bryan Singer X-Men '97 S01E09 "Tolerance Is Extinction, Pt. 2"

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hey there kids want to read the truest description of X-Men ever given

THE IDEOLOGICAL LATCH-KEY CHILDREN OF CHARLES AND ERIK'S CATASTROPHIC DIVORCE I'M FUCKING DYING

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Clovis Bray I playing Cookie Clicker

[cunked]

some of the soldiers you kidnap recruit for msf say the funniest things in their little dialogue boxes but my favourites are the guys who try to shoot their shot with big boss. “you look prettier every time i see you” excuse me who is this king

[bigmonsteras]

same.

here’s a few examples and some of my faves

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

"I cut my bangs too short" from the guy with the buzzcut

[aacedust]

hey sorry to break it to you but your boyfriend blew himself up with a rocket during dps. no we don’t have anymore tokens. yes that’s a wipe. no he can’t be the div guy he doesn’t have the quest yet. i’m so sorry.

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

Hey so it's been a few months since Lightfall and I'm starting to realize...guys, they still have not explained poukas at all.

When did poukas show up? Were they created or did they arise spontaneously? Did they have a purpose? When did they develop their psychic abilities? We thought they were companions or drones in Neomuna, but they're not - they're almost like birds or cats, except more gregarious. Many seem to live feral and they can apparently reproduce on their own, living in family groupings. Some people adopt them, but it doesn't seem like a permanent thing - like if the pouka ever wants to leave, it'll just leave. Neomuni know about their empathy and ability to evoke emotions and memory, but they don't specifically make use of it. Poukas have no official role. They're just........around. And given the presence of the Veil and their ties to the psyche, I don't think that's an accident.

I think the Veil isn't just an object. I don't think an artifact can be tied to a universal web of consciousness and not be at least a little bit alive. I think part of why we were suddenly able to tap into Strand on Neptune isn't just that the Veil is there, but that the Veil wanted us to. It wanted to give us the power to defend the city - or it expressed the will of the Neomuni to give us that power. I think the poukas are another expression of its effects, like nanite colonies got hit with coils of Strand and spun themselves into new little entities. And if their psychic abilities arise from a link to the Veil, what else can they do?

All I'm saying is, I think we're not done with the magical space fishies.

[ieee-official]

Once you get to a certain level of advanced maths, you basically become a wizard.

[yoneda-emma]

this is what a page of my wizards spellbook looks like

[maladaptations]

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

look at this loser can't even explain 95% of the universe

[ceritanirkala]

[effemimaniac]

unknown target making eye contact. engage casual stranger greeting protocol. enable white person smile, intensity 30%. processing options... hit em with the bro nod. signal sent... nod response received, time=431ms. encounter successful.

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek cicada epithets

ἀναιμόσαρκος (anaimosarkos), with bloodless flesh

ἡλιομανής (hēliomanēs), sun-mad, mad for love of the sun

μελεσίπτερος (melesipteros), singing with its wings

ἠχέτης (ēchetēs), clear-sounding, musical, shrill; chirping

λακέτας (laketas), chirper

λιγυπτέρυγος (ligupterugos), chirping with the wings

μεσημβρινός (mesēmbrinos), belonging to noon

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yet for all of nezarec’s might, he proved no match for the wiles of the witch-queen

[telestoapologist]

thank god-

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

glad to hear that poukas may be tuned to emotional connections that touch the deepest parts of the psyche but they're still dumb enough to get their heads stuck in a tin can

[thefirstknife]

Really good raid developer insights video dropped from Bungie!

I want to talk about one specific thing because it's a confirmation of the planets in the planet room. At 2 minutes 13 seconds, the dev confirms that one of the central planets is Titan:

During the third encounter, in Root of Nightmares, if you actually look up, there's Io and Titan...

This is what they show:

Obviously, Io is super recognisable and was instantly clear to me the moment I first saw it. We tried finding Mercury and Titan but it wasn't very clear to me. On my other clear, I got closer and took screenshots. The left planet is 100% Mercury because when you stand on Io and zoom in, you can see the Vex geometry on it. Incredibly cool detail:

I zoomed in on the other one as well, considering it might be Titan given the three missing planets and three planets being here and two being confirmed. But the colour doesn't match Titan as we've seen it in the game. This is the closeup on the planet meant to be Titan from the 3rd encounter:

But the Titan in the game as we had it was green-ish:

For extra confusion, the real Titan has a "golden hazy atmosphere" according to NASA. It's not blue or green. The green is when the moon is seen through infrared

The planet that's supposed to be Titan in the 3rd encounter does not resemble either of these pictures, nor does it resemble the Titan as it was depicted in Destiny 2. It might've been severely altered by the Darkness? Are we going to see Titan with a different orbit screen? Or is this simply an artistic choice to make the planets more distinct? Titan is for sure not coloured correctly in Destiny 2 for some reason, though they can always just pull the technological influence from the Golden Age as an explanation.

But this one in the 3rd encounter in the raid? Truly wild. A dark deep blue might be significant in some way or it's simply just something to make the colour more obviously different from Io and Mercury. Still strange to make the Titan in 3rd encounter so different to what we had, given that they went through the trouble of adding the Vex geometric structures on Mercury which is a detail that can only be seen if you start climbing planets and zooming in with your weapon.

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I have a big post sitting in my drafts talking about Titan and I really ought to finish it...but yeah. I've been complaining about Titan from an astronomical perspective for a while, because not only does its environment make zero sense, it's not even consistent in-game. I'm fairly certain the third planet in the Macrocosm is Titan, since while the Titan on the Director screen is a hazy blue-green likely taken from IR photos, and the Titan fly-in animation shows a similar fuzzy ball with an orange surface and thin greenish atmosphere, Titan's orbit screen is much more blue:

(from Mark Goldsworthy's Artstation)

Down on the surface in the patrol zone proper it looks like they were going for an "ocean world" look. The sea's blue and there's no sign of the solid, rugged orange surface still visible on the Director-Titan. Perhaps the royal-blue orbit screen was to differentiate it from Nessus' greenish atmosphere? And now maybe they're setting up Titan for Season of the Deep to be the creepy deep-ocean environment - possibly picking up content that was going to happen in Neomuna, because looking through the new concept art we've gotten I think early Neomuna had a much more undersea-Atlantis vibe and that's probably why it's on Neptune in the first place - so they're officially establishing Titan as a full-on water world.

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crap I just realized it's the Ides of March and I should have put up a card for a Kingsfall run crap crap crap