Hideakikarate

TL:DR-I like the story and gunplay most of all. The social aspects of the game also keep me coming back to help friends and strangers.

Background: I started with vanilla D1, then picked it back up after Taken King and have been playing ever since.

For me, the game has become more about story than actual gameplay, which I still feel is one of the best around. I'm super excited about the 3rd Episode especially, seeing as the Hive still has Xivu to deal, and whatever is going on with Oryx's body.

I still play every week. Once I'm done with my story stuff for the week, I like to help my group get their raid clears and other tasks completed. If they're not on, I sometimes boot up LFG and help blueberries as best I can. I genuinely like to play the game, even if it's helping others.

When story stuff is slow, I actually do like PVP, although, within the past year or so, I've noticed that I've either gotten worse or the average (remaining) player ha gotten better. No longer can I pick up any random weapon (another boon that Destiny offers, IMO. The ability to take a weapon in PVE/PVP and use it ANYWHERE, with varying degrees of success. But where was I?) and do "OK" with it. Everyone uses "easier" weapons or loadouts, and as much as that irks me (it's quick play, FFS), that's their right. Is that contributing to the barren, desolate landscape that is the Crucible? Possibly. I'm not, and never have been, good enough to "carry" in the Crucible, and that goes double for Trials. I tried helping a clan mate recently get the Adept Draw Time mod since it only drops from the Lighthouse. He plays on PC. That session didn't go well.

I got a bit rambling there at the end, but I guess to answer your question, the story and gunplay of the Destiny series are the reasons I like the game. One made friends playing this game. Already been to one wedding, with another coming later this year. Wouldn't have happened if I never decided to try the game.

Gotta love how our summers have become drought-ridden wildfire seasons while the rest of the country floods.

There were certainly parts that were less than stellar ("Help me protect my memory of my family, guardian!"), but that final cutscene before Excision... chills.

I work around chemicals and the thought of the lens fusing to my eye makes me never want to wear contacts. I have some, but rarely use them.

I don't think it's "uncharacteristically". Most of the things I hear about him is kissing up to people he wants to be more like, like dictators, for example.

Having flashbacks to a certain skit in Robot Chicken...

Old game called "Altered Beast". You could transform into a few different beasts. Classic side-scrolling game.

That possibly explains one murder, but what about the other two? Unless they all played a part in the heinous act...

Would you kindly take this golf club.

As the founding fathers intended.

That's a thing for many of these comics. They usually incorporate some (often stereotypical) flavor to the characters, usually writing the text as though they were speaking English but with an accent from their native tongue.