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

same.

here’s a few examples and some of my faves

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

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.

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

this is what a page of my wizards spellbook looks like

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

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.

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

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

thank god-

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

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:

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.

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.

My name is Helga Sinclair. I’m acting on behalf of my employer, who has a most intriguing proposition for you. Are you interested?

ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE (2001)

She was peak character design, no one has done better since

the animation in this movie was so fantastic and it does not get the respect it deserves

Dream of a Thousand Cats

Elephants have learned highway robbery