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Going to post more as I find them. One of my biggest gripes is Destiny has NO backstory or lore. The need to go elsewhere for it is incredibly dumb and poorly planned.

More Lore stuff. Its a shame that we have to dig the internet for this shit and its not in the actual game. -------------------------------------- Now the First ever mention of the Black Garden within Destiny was actually not from The Exo Stranger. It actually came from Lakshima-2. One of her sayings is "A trillion timelines, and all at war. Like a thousand red flowers growing in a black garden." This is pretty good tie in to the Theme of the Future War Cult and to Vex having the power to Travel through time. The Warlock Pujari of the Pujari Position went to some lengths to try to figure out what was going on in the There. These are his words. I am Pujari. These are the visions I have had of the Black Garden. The Traveler moved across the face of the iron world. It opened the earth and stitched shut the sky. It made life possible. In these things there is always symmetry. Do you understand? This is not the beginning but it is the reason. The Garden grows in both directions. It grows into tomorrow and yesterday. The red flowers bloom forever. There are gardeners now. They came into the garden in vessels of bronze and they move through the groves in rivers of thought. This is the vision I had when I leapt from the Shores of Time and let myself sink: I walked beneath the blossoms. The light came from ahead and the shadows of the flowers were words. They said things but I will not write them here. At the end of the path grew a flower in the shape of a Ghost. I reached out to pluck it and it cut me with a thorn. I bled and the blood was Light. The Ghost said to me: You are a dead thing made by a dead power in the shape of the dead. All you will ever do is kill. You do not belong here. This is a place of life. The Traveler is life, I said. You are a creature of Darkness. You seek to deceive me. But I looked behind me down the long slope where the blossoms tumbled in the warm wind and the great trees wept sap like blood or wine.... and I felt doubt. When my Ghost raised me from the sea there was a thorn-cut in my left hand and it has not healed since. Now lets break this down. Pujari says the Traveler Moved across Mars, which is referred to as an Iron world. Mars red color comes from all of the Iron Oxide in the Atmosphere. The Traveler then began to Terramorph the Geological structures and Created a new atmosphere that could support life. You can even see this in the beginning of Destiny. However, he's careful to point out that "This is not the beginning but it is the reason." The Traveler did not create the Garden, but it's actions may have allowed the Garden to come into existence, because "In these things there is always symmetry." He also points out that The Vex, the bronze gardeners, occupy the area. While on Venus at the Shores of time he drowns himself to let his conscience try get more information. This is actually a known warlock practice of being a Thanatonaut. Trying to get more information while the conscience is in a state of Death. He has some strange visions and has a short conversation with what looks like a ghost. He believes the ghost in the vision is trying to deceive him into thinking Guardians are evil but the experience leaves him with doubt. On Venus Pujari's ghost brings him back to life, but the incident left a mark on his him both physically and I would bet mentally. Many times I have been with my fireteam and before entering a new room I have said "Ok lets kill everybody in the next room but remember, we're the good guys". Now much as there is symmetry to the universe there may also be symmetry in Violence. To have that vision in a place that extends both forward and backward through time is food for thought. Beyond the towering Meridian Bay gate lies the Black Garden, adrift in time and space. And within the Garden dwell the Vex of the Sol Divisive, frozen in rapture. There is precious little insight into the Divisive's behavior. They seem central to Vex actions in the solar system: the Garden is clearly a place of enormous power. Legends and field reports all indicate that the Divisive Vex behave religiously. Why would a hyperintelligent, time-spanning thought mesh exhibit religious behavior? The answer seems as obvious as it is chilling: if the Vex found worship and devotion more effective than any other behavior, they would adopt worship. Whatever the Vex found - or made - in the Garden, it transcends even their power. Now Your told The Black Garden is an actual place and not just some Legend by the Exo Stranger and on your quest the Queen of the Reef gives you information so you can gain access to the Garden. But why was the queen so helpful? She has no issue with the Vex and helping Guardians seems pretty low on her things to do list. Well it turns out she has interest on what lies within the Garden. The Queen has a network of Small black Spy drones covered in sensors that resemble feathers. They are called Crows. The Crows were ordered to mind the Gardens gate and follow anyone who passed through. Guess who that was? Thats right, it was you. She wanted information and you unknowingly got it for her. The Crow reported back that The heart of Darkness had grown stronger, The Vex transformation had begun and that Sol Progengy were stirring. The Queen has an interest on the Shard of Darkness that had layed in the Garden. The same one that you destroyed. The Speaker had said "At last, the Heart of the Garden has been destroyed, its stranglehold on the Traveler released. Our Light brightens. But the power of the Vex is not broken. Look into the Vault, Guardian, for it is said to hold powers the Progeny were meant to bring forth." Now if you watched my Story of Kabr and the Mythoclast your starting to get a good picture of what the Vex plan was. They were going to use what they learned to do in the Vault and use Black Garden to disperse it. The interesting part of this is that the Vex needed the Heart to activate the Progeney. So for this plan to work the Vex need the Darkness shard. So once you have Destroyed the Sol-Progeny, Destroyed the Heart, and beaten the Vault of Glass you have thoroughly set back the plans of the Vex. Lord Shaxx of the Crucible had a good idea. In an area Designation called the Pantheon, fearing that the Minds which live within seek to return, he set up shop here so guardians could master the ins and outs of Vex-controlled landscapes and keep watch should any Vex find a way back. This is an Idea that paid off. The Vex returned. Maya Sunderesh a scientist on Venus of the Ishtar Collective had an interesting theory. He had said “We are starting to believe that time is home to the Vex, and somewhere in those unmappable voids, dwell their undying minds.” Ikora Rey has warned “The Black Garden may not stay among us for long. Something has begun to repair the schism torn by its destruction. Vex now flood the Garden channels to protect it. We must stop the weavers before they seal the Garden and begin to summon back its heart.“ Well guys one of these Weavers has been named. Its known as the Undying Mind.

This is keeping in line with my post about exploration and finding hidden things in game: --------------------------------------------- Variks the loyal is one of the older members of the Aliens Guardians call the Fallen. Something I learned that surprised me is that Variks above all else, cares about his race. The Fallen themselves are not known to be a race that foster and watch out for each other. In this Regard Variks is very different. But don't take Variks caring as weakness. He fought in the Reef wars alongside many of the Fallen Petra Venj and Queen Mora Sov would have you hunt for. Listen to what Variks would tell you: They call me betrayer. They do not think I hear the words. "Bug." "Insect." "Fallen." I hear. House of Judgment always hears. No choice. Has to. To keep Houses together. Had to. First , the Great Machine. Then, sky fell away. Whirlwind ripped away the past. All honor lost, all hope. Judgment not enough. Cannot keep Wolves from Kings, Scar from Winter. Fell to fighting. Fell to hate. Judgment gone. Others slaughtered, slain. Death and docking. "Keep Eliksni together," lost to pride and rage. Traveled with the many houses before Wolves. We move, across the dark. Follow the Light. Advise Kells, worshiped Primes. House Judgment must survive, yes? Found the Light. Too bright in Darkness to hide. House Winter, attack. House Devils, plot. House Kings, plan. House Wolves circle. House Judgment... wait. Now at war. Fight for system, control the belt. Wolves Kell dead, dying. Skolas wins control of House Wolves. Attack, attack, attack. Place of learning, place of healing, put to the burn. Then Siege of Pallas. Year of cruelty. Held the line to rescue butchers, murderers, Servitor. Ends with Wolf fleet scattered. New tactics. Detonations. Blasts in civilian areas. Take the fight to them, he said. Cannot abide the hate. Uprising, they called it. Uprising on Cybele. Reach out to Crows, to Queen. Cybele attack stopped. Skolas captured. Ended House of Wolves with words. Paladins find me hiding, cowering. Nowhere else to go. No one else to be. I become Variks, the Loyal. House Judgement envoy to Queen of Awoken. No choice. House Judgment must survive. Yes? Now there are several details in Variks speech. First he References the Great Machine and the Whirlwind. These are the Eliksni terms for the Traveler, and The Darkness. The Eliksni were once associated with the Traveler just as guardians are now. But Darkness came. Details of this are scarce. I don't think this went down like it did with Earth however. Variks makes it a point to say that they Fell from fighting and fell from hate. I believe that this is the reason we call the Eliksni Fallen. They quite literally fell from the grace and their sins made the Traveler desert them. Much of Variks House of Judgement were killed so the remaining members became advisors for the Kells. This would be smart move since a motive of house Judgement was to keep the "Eliksni together". This was part of a Eliksni pact. Stand next to Variks and he himself will tell you that he was a scribe in the House and had Much Respect. So the Fallen came to our solar system and found the Traveler. They decided to try and take control of the system, but the most resistance came from the Reef and a small city on Earth, The Last City. In the Reef Wars The fallen lost the Kell of Wolves, Virixas. This was a major blow. The remaining members instead of focusing on the Awoken in the Reef, instead focused trying gain the Kells spot. Skolas would become the new Kell of the House of Wolves and had Variks as his advisor. A funny side story is the Staff that Variks holds actually came from a fallen of the House of Devils. He will tell you "I took this staff long ago from devil captain, Vajis. Called Clever-headed. He was not as clever as Variks." After the civil war for power within the Fallen for Skola's new Position, Variks saw this and decided it was time for a new course of action, he contacted the Awoken. He sent message that Skolas would take all his remaining forces and attack. This was known as the Cybelle Uprising. But thanks to Variks the Queen was ready. Once Skolas realized he had been betrayed he asked his trusted Advisor Variks to stand still, and then cut off his arms. Variks paid the price willingly I think because he disagreed with Skolas's tactics and saw the Eliksni killing each other only to try and win a war with the Awoken. The price of more Eliksni lives was to high. Variks became Variks the Loyal, Loyal to Queen Mara Sov. This is when the Events of the House of Wolves occurs. The Nine, not happy with Mara, Proceed to free Skolas. Skolas wants to lay claim to an Old Prophecy. A prophecy of a Long dead Great house, the House Rain. The Prophecy is that a Kell would Rise and become the true Kell of Kells, uniting all of the fallen in Peace. The Queens move to Involve the Guardians worked. With Petra Venj and Variks assistance you are successful in capturing Skolas. Afterwards Variks reflected on the Events of the House of Wolves Story. Variks keeps a ragged piece of armor in his pod. It's human tech, Golden Age. Shattered in some ancient battle, pre-Collapse, and left to drift. He found it and he brought it to his quarters so he could sit on it. It's nothing like a throne. Variks doesn't want a throne. He sits on his ancient shrapnel, unmasked, and whittles at an amethyst with the dead edge of a shock dagger. Music plays (something ancient, pre-Whirlwind, beautiful). The ether in the air is rich and it fills him up with strength. Skolas has been captured, mad Skolas who would have ruined everything. Variks should be happy. He's not. With his little knife and his two arms and his stolen shining thing he feels like a Dreg. He feels ashamed. He betrayed Skolas twice. At Cybele, and again, now. He will betray Skolas' dream ten times more. Variks will never be strong like Skolas, big like Skolas, a leader like Skolas. Variks will work for the Queen, oversee the Prisons, watch his fellow Fallen (they are Fallen, it's a good name now) fight and die as gladiators who want nothing except a chance to hurt Guardians. Even Skolas. He tried to use the Vex, word has it. He tried to use their machines. Has that ever worked for anyone? Maybe one. Maybe a few: the Osiris cultists are Variks' favorite people. Maybe that's how you survive this alien star where dead gods slumber and dead heroes walk. You cozy up to powers you barely understand and make yourself useful, or at least inoffensive. You become a parasite, a scavenger, a servant. That's dreg strength. That's the strength that keeps Variks alive. It's nothing to be ashamed of. Variks Role now is to remain the Warden for the Prison of Elders. His work in the Prison, setting up trial by combat, building an audience and a relationship with the Reef's scavengers and armories, will bring him a little closer towards rebuilding the House of Judgment. Skolas' fury has guttered out. The Fallen may yet accept peaceful, lawful rule. They may yet survive. They'll hang on. "We're very patient, yes?

Why do you have to mod the ini file for a brand new game in 2015? That honestly makes no sense to me

Its all good, wife won't budge lol

Wife is watching Rome, she should be doing other things though, and I am trying to kick her off hte PS4

http://www.businessinsider.com/jeremy-clarkson-confirms-new-car-show-with-former-top-gear-mates-2015-6 Jeremy Clarkson confirms he will host a new car show and will be joined by former 'Top Gear' mates

If I am on, grab me!

Agreed Also, check out my PPR, I posted a gif, that I wasn't really sure should be posted elsewhere, but that sums up another portion of the problem

Just saw this as well You're right. It's not. So why bring it up at all? Also, I loved this response on reddit I love DeeJ, but what I'm hearing is "Sooo we know you're pissed, we know exactly what we've done, but our paycheck is basically in the mail already sooo...we'll throw something in for you to shut you up".

yea, its a horrible photoshop, but I love it

My new desktop

So apparently this guy did an interview with EuroGamer the other day where he was just a total ass. The interview created a PR nightmare for Bungie, and is being cited in Forbes and a few other places as things NOT TO DO unless you want to piss off your customers. This is all in response to the the Expansion pricing and "screwing over" of year one players. (For the record, this is pretty much par for the course for MMO's, Pricing, and things that happen to players that start off Day one with a game) Here is the article, it is pretty funny.

Yea, I would imagine Ruin Wings + Gally/ Dragons breath would be fine, For everyone not into punching htings then Ice Breaker, cause purple candy is a PITA to get at times

trying to sort out what the hell I am doing now. I keep attacking goblins at the moment

Watching some footage, apparently all you need is a full Gjally set of rockets, and this thing is over. so bring your Gjallyhorns folks! Dave, I will help you run it when you are able

I call everything crud when I am learning it

Update: You can edit the FPS settings in the INI file Here is a video playthrough, my favorite part is when he calls in the Bat Mobile, also the fact that it is prompting for PS4 buttons on PC (Skip to around 6 minutes)

Sure I need to run it on my new PunchBro, IDK about my old Punchbro though, and I might even skip the warlock so I can sort out this clash of clans crud

working from home again, hit me on Whatsap if you want to run this and need a 3rd!

I am reading that the PC port is totally unoptimized, and it is locked at 30 FPS Any of you guys experiencing this? The reviews are tanking for it all over the place Link to Steam reviews: https://archive.is/0zhU9 Thats Archived, sorry, use this one http://steamcommunity.com/app/208650/reviews/

Ps3, PS4, and PC

Off the top of my head: Water maps bug out, and don't load properly Random Freezes that crash the game Textures not rendering at the beginning of the map / textures not rendering at all Falling through the map on load These were launch issues in the game that persist two years later, and I am hardly alone in this, the BF4 Dice forums, as well as Reddit still get mobbed with people having the same issue. The Naval Strike DLC is all but unplayable Not to mention the campaign, that should be dropped, still doesn't work right. BF4 had a horrible launch and certain problems still create issues in the game. That doesn't mean I dont enjoy it, it is the best current FPS game out there; it just is riddled with issues.

I had a village for a while, but it felt like the only way to get ahead was to spend cash on it

They reported maintenance for 6 hours about 10 hours ago This must be something big