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I just wanted to say a massive thnks to everyone, I’ve never been a massive destiny fan but have always been a massive fan of gaming with you all. My game arrives on Wednesday but I’ve got a shoot on Thursday and then doing night shoots Friday - Sunday, so probably won’t be able to get on till next week. I’ve even bought a hard drive so I’ve got enough space to put the game on 😄 ❤️ To all of you! I honestly means a lot that you’d think of me, especially as it’s been over a month since I’ve been able to get any videos up 🙈 I love this place and I love you guys ❤️

The Real-World Myths Behind Destiny 2’s Exotics Be it the Goblins and Minotaurs of the Vex or the Phalanxes and Centurions of the Cabal, the Destiny universe is filled to the brim with references to history and mythology. With Bungie’s reveal of new exotic weapons and armor arriving in Destiny 2’s Forsaken expansion, we thought it was time to run through some of the myths behind Destiny 2’s exotics, including two of these new additions. Antaeus Wards Announced yesterday for Destiny 2: Forsaken, the Antaeus Wards are exotic titan boots that reflect projectiles while sliding and are perhaps Destiny 2’s coolest mythology tie-in. According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, in Greek mythology, Antaeus was the son of Poseidon and Gaea (a.k.a. “Mother Earth”). Antaeus would challenge everyone he met to wrestling matches. He was virtually undefeatable because – get this – he was invincible as long as he was touching his mother, the Earth. Bungie, you geniuses. Oh, then Heracles came along, picked Antaeus up off the ground, and crushed him. This was before Bungie nerfed the Grounded modifier, after all. Sleeper Simulant All of the “IKELOS” weapons, including Sleeper Simulant, reference Icelus (pronounced like "Ikelos"), another name for Phobetor, the Greek personification of nightmares. According to Destinypedia, Subroutine IKELOS represents the Warmind Rasputin’s efforts to arm Guardians with special weapons like Sleeper Simulant. This could mean that Guardians (or the weapons Rasputin gave them) are supposed to represent the Darkness’ nightmares. As a bonus mythological nod, the flavor text for IKELOS_HC_v1.0.1, a legendary hand cannon Guardians can acquire through the IKELOS weapon questline, reads “Subroutine IKELOS: Status=reinitiated. APOTHEOSIS: Status=active…” Apotheosis is the term for elevating something to divine status, so Rasputin’s power-hungry tendencies make a lot of sense. The Jade Rabbit The Jade Rabbit (the cultural symbol, not the gun) is a common figure in East Asian myths, as detailed by Shen Yun Performing Arts. One Chinese myth, according to Shen Yun Performing Arts, tells of a time when the Jade Emperor disguised himself as a beggar, and various animals began offering him food. Knowing that grass – the only thing it could gather – was inedible by humans, a rabbit threw itself into the Jade Emperor’s fire to sacrifice its own body to sustain the man. The rabbit didn’t die, however, and the emperor honored the rabbit’s sacrifice by sending it to the moon. There, the rabbit works to create magical elixirs for the moon goddess Chang’e. This is said to explain the dark outline visible on Earth’s moon, which somewhat resembles a rabbit using a mortar and pestle. Destiny’s The Jade Rabbit has some association with the moon, as the original Destiny’s Jade Rabbit emblem was found in a chest there. The Jade Rabbit’s lore description also references the Jade Rabbit myth, as it reads like an advertisement for the fictional “combat elixir,” “Immortalia.” Two-Tailed Fox A new exotic rocket launcher revealed yesterday for Destiny 2: Forsaken, the Two-Tailed Fox fires two rockets at once. The Two-Tailed Fox seems to be another weapon from Daito, the fictional weapon foundry that created The Jade Rabbit. This makes sense, as its name references another East Asian myth: the kitsune, which are shape-shifting Japanese fox spirits. Every 100 years, a kitsune grows an additional tail, according to Mythology.net. This means Destiny’s Two-Tailed Fox is probably just a little tike, at least by kitsune standards. D’aww. Like other mythological foxes, however, kitsune can also be dangerous and tricky, just like two rockets flying at you from one gun. Hallowfire Heart The Hallowfire Heart ornament, Vulcan’s Heart, is awesome for two reasons: First, it looks cool. Second, it’s a mythology reference. Vulcan is the Roman god of fire and fiery things, like volcanoes and forges. In Greek mythology, Hephaestus (Vulcan’s Greek equivalent) forged weapons and armor for the gods and was symbolized by a hammer. All of this fits perfectly with the Sunbreakers’ super abilities, Hammer Of Sol and Burning Maul. Raiden Flux Raijin, also called Raiden, according to Mythology.net, is the Japanese Shinto god of lightning, storms, and thunder. Raiden Flux’s intrinsic perk, Synapse Junctions, extends the Hunter’s Arc Staff super ability with quick, successive attacks, turning the subclass into a veritable lightning god of its own. The exotic’s Thundergod ornament, which resembles futuristic ninja garb, further solidifies the chest piece’s connection to Japanese mythology. Khepri’s Horn The exotic helmet Khepri’s Horn gives your titan a crusty old beetle face, and allows you to shoot a blast of fire forward whenever you deploy your titan’s barricade. This item references Khepri, the “morning form” of the Egyptian sun god, according to Encyclopaedia Britannica. Khepri was associated with the scarab beetle, often depicted with a beetle for a head, and was believed to “roll the disk of the morning sun over the eastern horizon at daybreak” like a scarab rolling a ball of dung. Destiny Game Wiki User SidSixT The Dragon’s Shadow This hunter exotic’s ornament, Tiamat, references the Mesopotamian creation goddess of the same name. Encyclopaedia Britannica says that Tiamat was the goddess of salt water, who mated with Apsu, the “the watery deep beneath the earth,” to create the other gods. Tiamat is often depicted as a dragon like the one on The Dragon’s Shadow. The face on the Tiamat ornament looks more like some kind of lion-creature, but maybe that’s Destiny’s version of Tiamat? Who knows. The thing about myths is that they’re up to interpretation. Prometheus Lens Prometheus is one of the most famous Titans of Greek mythology (not to be confused with Destiny’s titans). He brought fire to humans after Zeus hid it from them, for which Zeus punished him by nailing him to a mountain so that an eagle would eat his liver every day, which would then regrow just in time to be eaten again. The lore of Destiny’s Prometheus Lens has two possibly parallels to the Greek myth: First, it apparently contains a crystal that creates a fiery laser, created by the Cryptarchs for use by Guardians. Here, the Cryptarchs are Prometheus, giving fire to the Guardians. The lore also alludes to Cayde-6’s desire to obtain the weapon, telling one of his hunters, “Get me one. I don't care how you do it.” The Cryptarchs then deny the hunter, shooing them away. In this scenario, the hunter would be Prometheus, Cayde-6 would be humanity, and the Cryptarchs would be...Zeus? But then humanity would never have gotten the fire back... You can only analyze things so much before they stop making sense. Orpheus Rig These hunter boots reference the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, well summarized in this TED-Ed animation. Orpheus, “the greatest of all poets and musicians,” was set to be married to Eurydice, a wood nymph, when she was killed by a snake (hence the snake on the side of the Orpheus Rig’s left thigh). Overwhelmed with grief, Orpheus resolved to go ask Hades, lord of the underworld, to bring Eurydice back to life. Orpheus’ beautiful songs got him past the underworld’s three-headed guard dog and other barriers with ease, and Orpheus convinced Hades and Persephone (Hades’ unwilling wife) to let Eurydice return to life on one condition: If he turned around to see Eurydice before they made it out of the underworld, he would lose her forever. This is a Greek myth, so of course Orpheus turned around. The TED-Ed telling says he did so while both of them were still in the underworld because he was just so worried that she wasn’t actually there. Some tellings, like the one in the Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby podcast say he made it out, then looked back in excitement before Eurydice had a chance to exit. Either way, she was lost, and Orpheus could do nothing to get her back again. As the Orpheus Rig’s item description reads: “Never, ever, look back.”

Should anyone choose to download HayDay on their mobile device, it is a free gaming to puts around on while your on the can (in the Lou?) or riding the train to and from work. Check it out. Once you hit a certain level you can create a neighborhood. I just created a Forever Gaming neighborhood. @GazzaGarratt @LordBaguette @tronic44 @Amnotright @ChaosGladiator @crispymorgan

I should really. It was really taking off when I quit.

Dude wanted Duty instead of booty!?

Fuck me, I'd only dump her once I'd ruined her snatch to the point of it being like a runway at Heathrow. That said, that Youtuber is an irritating cunt. He probably wouldn't need the sunglasses indoors if he didn't cover himself in fucking fairy lights. Twat.

They've confirmed they won't bring back the Jellyhorn. However, The Colony is right up your street you fine looking troll, you.

I need it but wouldn’t be able to try it until next Monday morning then again the next weekend

Yeah thanks for the run today. Eater of Worlds was really fun. That was a fun boss fight. Damn Rocco @Rico and myself in Calus fight,with the supers was funny. Hope we can get a run in again this week

Ace night. Managed to finally nail Calus for Dave @Davidgraves30 and Nev @DarkArch3typ3 for the first time. Top help given by Nolan @L_C_Scipio, Chris @TigerBurge and Rocco 😂 @Rico. We then went on to do Eater of World (Raid Lair 1) and managed to put down Argos for Chris@TigerBurge and Nev's @DarkArch3typ3 first takedown. Chad @SensaiNemesis and Rob @reaper-2201 coming to in help get it done - Whisper is a beast against him! 5 people in the last week completing their first Calus in FG. 2 people also getting their first Argos competions too. Awesome week and long may the helping of each other continue. Thanks for all for helping out and hopefully we can start filling up next week's Raids for other people to pop their cherry and try some raid lairs soon! GGFG!

Y u no tag me Matt? Is this the beginning of the end for us? Is it me?

I'll get a bit more past match analysis on here, but just thought I'd get the thread started. London Spitfire have won the very first OW championship this evening by beating Philidelphia Fusion 2-0 in the best of 3 series. Nice to see the "local" boys bring it home!!

Yeah man but my TV is 4K innit[emoji41] My CPU clocks in at 4.39mhz and it's about time it had a decent partner. Realistically I only need a 1070 right now but games on PC are getting more and more needy, so I think the 1080ti will be happening...But we'll see, going to wait until Nvidia announce they're new range[emoji106] Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

$280 vs $300 vs $800.

I am asking because my usual gaming time is between 08:00 and 16:00 CST. So that would be prime time for British dwellers.

I no mate it was funny 😂

If you have an Nvidia GPU, you record using Nvidia's Geforce Experience. You can record live or press a key and it will save the last 20 minutes played. I also stream to Twitch this way. In fact, I'll probably make vids from Twitch streams. I've been testing some settings today, to get the best quality. To stream 1080p at 60fps, a bitrate of 4.5 - 6 Mbps is apparently the sweet spot for Twitch, so I have adjusted mine today. I'm still using my Astros solely for the PS4 but I'm thinking of using them on the PC now, just for better quality sound and mic. I've been streaming a little bit of the Call of Chernobyl mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. at lunchtime and I've fallen back in love with the game. I may do some more streaming and then use the footage for a youtube vid. @Diddums you are one of those guys who is a natural and you need to get back to talking over vidya games on YouTube. Srsly. I was watching one of your old DayZ mod vids recently, pure quality

Heads up everyone. You should see that I've added some "support times" on for this weekend to help people go and get the Whisper for themselves. I'll be around one of the nights at least (maybe after GTA Friday too) so please take a chance to get some support this weekend. Equally, if people like @Horrible_Hector can support and help out on those nights so other FGers get their reward I think this is the best way to do it. So: - Go and RSVP to it if you haven't got one yet - comment on the event when you're likely to be around - stick your approx. Power Level up too (so we know what runners may be needed) I hope this solution works for most of you people. Good Luck FG!

Absolutely hilarious as always, love playing with you guys

I would've loved to give this a go but sadly it wasn't to be. I just didn't have enough time this weekend and last night I was fucking knackered after stuffing my face with an epic roast so it wasn't on the cards. I'll definitely give it a go next time it comes around though. I was chatting to @Plumbers Crack about the exotics I want to see returned, there are four of them, Zhalo, Arse Breaker, Jelly and Truth. Some of my funniest moments in D1 were watching those goddamn fucking Truth rockets chase people around corners. I could almost taste their panic, people bumping in to walls n shit, it was hilarious. Oh and I want the Colony. That also looks like it's an absolute cunt in PVP so I need one.

No problem. Glad to help. Next time I’ll let you melee the psions as long as it’s not the dogs 😂

I would like to thank all the lads for taking me through the raid and having the Patient with me thank u all can’t wait to do the raid again thank I all

That's what you think

So most of you Rachel aka Rich aka Video Guru aka @tronic44. Well, he's been a rock for this place making his videos for us all around his mega busy job. He's also solely kept the 7 Days to die server going as well as support every single fun activity we've ever done at FG. @Diddums got talking to Rich about playing Destiny which he said he would if Didds played Raft. Well, as its abit of shift for all the things for Forsaken dropping, I think it was only fair, as a way of saying a big thank you for being the best friend to us all and FGer people could ask for, he'll have the current DLC and Forsaken all ready for him to bust some aliens come September 4th. Thank you for being you Rich, you deserve way more than this and I hope theres some way we can keep showing our thanks for being a top all round FG legend.

Profit had an ace on Tracer that was insane. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They have certainly received some very generous fees though - £142m for Coutinho, £27m for Benteke, £35m for Sterling and £15m on Jordan Ibe for instance. Just shows how crazy the economy is but Klopp has to prove he's spent wisely. The Karius transfer was the most intriguing one though - his fee was an initial £4.7m but he cost Liverpool about £130m in the Champions League Final😎

I got it with all the DLC in a sale recently, on PC though. Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

It's member of the month, not tool of the month. Though I understand the confusion 🤣 Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

Wild lands was really fun. Chip started back playing it the other day

Time to resurrect this bad boy from the grave. I was asked to perform in a show match today to show off the new observer system for Ghost War 4v4. It was Rainbow 6 vs. Ghost Recon and was my first day playing this game and the player vs player. Holy. Cow. This game is the old SOCOM game mode. I cannot do it justice how tense and how tactical this mode is. Here's the video of the match and here are some clips from a person who I was playing with, a former Rainbow 6 pro and current Pro League Caster- Z1ronic. The VOD starts at 00:19:04.

Much obliged Lee! I hope you realized you have created a monster though who WILL spend every race just fucking you lot over in any way possible

Wow! Opening the package yesterday and finding out that it was a gift from FG was an awesome surprise! Definitely an upgrade from my taped together “wireless” headset I was using 😅 I appreciate it a lot! I never would of thought a community I joined ~8 years ago when I was 13 would still be with me today! I’m super glad to have met so many awesome people through here. I’m extremely slack when it comes to posting but I’ve never forgotten this great community and love gaming with you all when our timezones match up - and now everyone should be able to understand the jibberish I speak a lot more clearly now 😁