J.T.

I feel badly for the people who burned coins on HW synths for raiding last weekend and don't have the coins to get Gally today. They must be sad right now.

LIke I said last night, the bullshit with Qodron was far worse than last night. I burned through ten HW synths and five SW synths in the course to killing that mother fucker and I didn't think to buy more before hitting Kaliks. I got some from Xur this morning while everyone in the world came online today to buy Gally. Kaliks was a chore because we had the misfortune to die at the worst possible times. Once we got Chad on board with the keep your ass moving vibe, we were okay. He is a very line in the sand none shall pass kinda Titan which isn't always good, especially when you are playing down one level under the enemy. Grounded can kiss my ass. Getting lit up like Paris, France in the summer while coming in on revive runs was not fun. No, what you don't needs is a HW with Fallen bane perks that does not do dick against Arc shields. Why in the hell is that thing designed to do Void Damage? All of Variks's Heavy and Special slot Judgment weapons should do Arc damage.

My thoughts exactly. He's selling it just in time for the nerf to hit. Chad is our age so that was all about three old men being stubborn. Kaliks Reborn bites the ether thanks to the quick internet research shenanigans of Rippa because we weren't getting shit done on piss and vinegar alone. I was pretty frustrated so it did not dawn on me that we should be killing all of the adds and let Kaliks take the other Dreg majors off of the field for us by eating them to regain his health. Once we settled down and made some tactical adjustments, we were all good. . I used my Weapon and Armor Corea on a Judgment's Chance and got a Shadow of Veils sniper rifle. My "Kill Skolas" arsenal has its first item. 25 days is ticking by quickly. PvP should be interesting this weekend as everyone runs around blowing shit up with G-Horns. I hope they saved up some Ascendant Energies or plan to make VoG runs and do the Daily on max difficulty a bunch of times.. Gally is old school and she doesn't level up like HoW guns.

I found the Honma / Ishi match while I was working the 14 hour Ironman Graveyard Shift from Monday night to Tuesday morning in service of our great nation. It sustained me like I sustain the excellent training standards of our proud US Army soldiers.

As if my Lucha watching wasn't already two months behind.

Between the Krogan cake and the onigiri shaped like Thorn on the Destiny website, I'm very hungry right now.

UNCLE at 67% make me sad. Not surprised that SoC is not in the 90% range. Some people are dead set on hating that story no matter what. Soundtrack will still be the heat rock even though it will pretty much be another NWA Greatest Hits compilation.

Hmm. On my Bungie.net character profile in the Gear section there is a box under the Emblem slot that is locked. NEW CONTENTS~!

In retrospect, I should've let the guy helping me with adds use Iron Harvest and have him blast the Vex with rockets. Would've given us a few more orbs to work with and rockets could mass kill a portion of the metric shit ton of Vex shooting at our position. Problem was that my add helper did not have a high impact sniper handy, so rockets and a Legendary pulse rifle were his beat means of doing damage to Qodron. I needed him to save his rockets for Qodron and use his PR or his Invective to keep the Vex at bay and cover my ass when I went in with Arc Blade to take out Hobby majors and generate orbs for Wards. I also wanted to prevent those two from blowing themselves up with rockets. Between panic bubbles and bad luck, they suicided at least four times per person. Had to set some sort of guideline about where and when to use boom tubes.

Jesus, this fucking show and how it messes with my heart and my brain. I would love to see it go on but I would hate it if it had a jump the shark moment. Sam needs to make sure the series finale is aces.

If we get past 34 PoE tonight, my Grimoire score will be over 3400. One of the crowning achievements of my Destiny career. I should be online around 3PM this afternoon in prep for the 34 PoE and whatever else happens. I will farm Glimmer run until I see you guys online. Used my last five HW synths in the 32 PoE last night.

Budy and Fadeless are on my Friend List. I will add Bo next time he is in the party. Xbox Live shit the bed but finally came back online around 8PM last night. Got back online to help a couple of friends with PoE 32. Both of them were running as Defenders. We beat Qodron but it took forever because we had the worst draw in rounds. 1. Overmind Minotaur 2. Defend Mine Zones 3. Pilot Servitor 4. Targets 5. Qodron The first two rounds were the hardest. We died a lot in 1-2 but sailed through 3 and 4. Qodron killed us a bunch of times because the third guy was so focused on killing him that he did not seem to notice the millions of Vex flanking us. It also did not help that we were lagging like crazy or that both of them were panic dropping their Wards to protect themselves without realizing that mistimed bubbles could cause rockets to blow up in our faces or keep us from taking out Qodron's containment field. After Death #5 of Round 5, we got our shit together and put Qodron down. I reeled everyone in and went into General JT mode. Came up with the plan. No one popped their Ward without me saying so and I designated one Defender to kill the Eye of Qodron (the Vex minion that gives you a perk that gives you bonus damage against Qodron's containment field) while the other helped me kill adds and we all sniped or fired rockets at Qodron when we had clear shots. Had them switch their melee perks: Defender on Eye Killer duty used Disintegrate / Gift of Light for orb production while the Defender helping me kill adds had Disintegrate / Unbreakable to give him extra defense so he wouldn't die so often. When the Eye Killer had the Jailbreaker perk, we huddled together in our hiding place and shot our way out of the containment bubble. Once Qodron's Containment Field of Death was down, both Defenders dropped bubbles in the same spot: one with Weapons of Light and the other with Blessing of Light. Both ran with Gift of the Void so that the incoming fire from the adds would give us more orbs to work with. Told the guy helping me with adds to stop shooting rockets at Vex minions. Rockets were for QODRON ONLY~! and I had him switch from Iron Harvest to Illuminated to give us more Blessing of Light defense to work with when he dropped his Ward. After that everything was tense, but ran almost like clockwork. The odd death now and then, but we were close together so we never ran the risk of wiping trying to save a team member. At one point, both of them died at the same time and shit got real but I had Stalker so I could make saves. I was lucky that we had just broken a containment field and they both died within a second of each other, so I was able to make a double revive just in time for us to team break another field and keep the fight going. After a couple of tense moments and what seemed like hours of constant fighting, we finally bug bit Qodron to near death. I noticed on an add clearing Arc Blade run that Qodron was on wobbly legs so I made the call to make the final push. Do or Die time. I covered the Defenders while they popped HW Synths while I pulled out P&T. We went apeshit and threw the kitchen sink at the bastard. I though I scored the kllshot but Grimoire card says otherwise. I almost cried when Qodron snuffed it. Felt like I won the WWE World Title. Same guys are going to try to do PoE 34 tonight. I'm saving the Armor Core from last night to get a Judgement's Chance with the Weapon Core I will get from the run on PoE 34 today, provided that we win I'm hoping that RNGesus gives me a Six Dreg Pride and some Gauntlets or Boots that don't murder my Strength or Intellect. Knowing my luck, I will get a Secondary or a Heavy that can stun Fallen Captains but doesn't do Arc Damage. As useless as handlebars on a Ferrari. You guys probably won't start VoG or CE until late. I think the dudes I ran with are going to attempt to do 34 PoE early this afternoon or sometime around dinner, so if I am not totally frustrated with the game and the Smackdown spoilers suck, I am up for whatever raiding is going down tonight. I have an Eilodon Ally sitting on my Titan and it has been there since DB launch. Why the Crux has such a low drop rate is beyond me. I will help with CE if I see you guys online. Another shot at an Oversoul Edict or a Fang to use on Skolas. The Abyss Defiant I got from the last CE raid I was on is 331 out so I will nab it from my Vault.

I am seeing shit in the Bungie threads about people getting benefactor packages again. Bailing for home in a few minutes to check this out.... after I get me a Red Bull from the 7-11.

Yeah, I expected Bana to have a great career balancing critically acclaimed roles and popular fare like Michael Fassbender but that did not happen.

I will create a new clan called Destiny Daycare and start that business I mentioned earlier. You know my online orphans on 360 will look out for me until I get an XBone.

When I am a Nightstalker clad in black and shooting dudes in the head with my Hakke sidearm, all will be right with the world. I will sort out the new console shit later.

Damn. I am probably going to end up getting TTK for 360 after all since I really want my Superblack VIP rewards ASAP and it will be cheaper for me to get TTK for 360 than to get an XBone and another copy of Destiny and TTK.

To her credit I have never seen Sanaa slumming it in a Wendy's commercial, hosting a game show, or making a guest star appearance on some daytime soap.. At least she has high standards and is smart enough to realize that black centric cinema keeps her light bill paid.

I'd love to do more Trials and I think that a fireteam of me, Mis, Rippa, or other members of our coalition could give other teams fits, but not being at my place with decent internets is an issue. I live in Maryland but work in Virginia so I am at my folk's place during the week and to say that they have sketchy internet is an understatement. Also I don't need the grief of dealing with DDoSers in ToO as controller modding and lag riding is slowly becoming a regular thing.

Sanaa maybe needs to do what Vivica did: tape an episode of Unsung Hollywood so she can try to humanize herself and get folks to see past the gossip columns. I have a bad feeling that it would backfire and people would find out just how much of an asshole Sanaa really is. The only people they could find to say good things about her would be Michael Ealy or Taye Diggs and that would be out of pure professionalism. I want to hear what Omar Epps would have to say about her crazy ass. That shit would be epic.

I am a beacon of wisdom. Bathe in the light of truth. Ignore the real talk at your own peril. Sanaa is out of her gourd. There is a reason why she is single in her 40+ years and it isn't her own choice.

The only reason I watck Killjoys is for Dutch, homie. I already have my eye on the new hotness. Best thing to come out of the UK since tea, Doctor Who, and Layla Kayleigh. Anything that no one wants is highly attainable and that doesn't mean that it is a desirable thing to have. I cannot wait for your hate tweets after she throws your shit out on the street from a second floor window because you left the toilet seat up. The woman is a brat and an elder stateswoman brat at that. Stay away from the lunacy, yo. I'm your bro. I am trying to warn you, homie.

I call it the "We've Moved On" category with her being the black actress subcategory. Times were much simpler when she was playing Hot, Big Tittied Prostitute About to Be Murdered #1 in Interview with the Vampire. I mean Sanaa Lathan was suppose to be next It girl but then other actresses came out the woodwork. Then she got old so that greatly reduced the amount of roles she could get. You don't think Sanaa Lathan and Thandie Newton weren't chomping at the bit to play Coretta Scott King? Older Sanaa actually looks more like her than Carmen Ejogo, but Hollywood doesn't give a shit. They've moved on. Sanaa gets thrown a bone every now and then just because she is still hot. Now, Sanaa is more famous for dating rappers and football players half her age than acting. She could be doing Sharknado movies like Vivica A. Foxx so there is that. I'd totally smash Carmen Ejongo. Sanaa Lathan not so much. She is still pretty bangin', but Lord is she cray-cray. She is in the same boat as Halle and Vivica. The sheer number of men tired of their shit can be weighed by the metric ton..

I have a feeling that I ever manage to hook it up with Skolas, I'll be using Oversoul or Fang. The last CE raid I was on didn't feel nearly as drawn out as the VoG raids I've been on and as you say, the drop rate for Fang and Oversoul seems a lot better than it does for Fatebrigner. I've got 18 Ascendant Energies and an Etheric Light in the bank to fully upgrade Found Verdict or Fatebringer if they drop in VoG and I have 5 Radiant Energies, an Etheric Light, and a 331 Abyss Defiant I can break down to fully upgrade a Fang or an Oversoul Edict I get from a CE raid. I've got a G-Horn on my main toon and Thunderlord on my Warlock so I am good on shit kicking Exotic heavy weapons. I probably won't have a full set of Variks armor to work with but if the Skolas encounter has gift stips, then I won't have to. We'll have to see what happens.

Synergy being a Robosapien instead of the pop music version of Cerebro and totally no selling The Misfits = Epic Fail. Shana being white instead of black must be Hollywood penance for the new Human Torch being a black guy.