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Weekend Guardians is a podcast for Gamers focusing on the video game Destiny 2. We talk all things Destiny, give tips and advice on leveling and content. And we hope to develop a community.
In this WGP Episode 35 “Josh and Nate Game” with no TWAB to “breakdown” the only thing the pair has is to talk about the state of Destiny. What better way to do this than to actually play the game together. This happens to only be the 2nd time the pair has gamed together and it went pretty well. Listen to them banter through 2 strikes and a game of Eternity. Also, pay attention for the Heckin special guest throughout the episode.
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This Week at Bungie December 16, 2021
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In this WGP ep 34.5 Happy Holidays! Nate decides to jump on Destiny and play the new 6 player match made activity for the first time live on the podcast. A 15 minute gaming session is edited down to less than 8 minutes but you get raw reactions to what is going on in the game. Unfortunately Josh was unable to partake this week because of Holiday plans.
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This Week at Bungie December 16, 2021
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In this WGP Ep 34 “Boldly, to the Stars” Nate and Josh discuss the ever growing and important issue with Mental Health and their relationship to video games. Unfortunately Josh is tired so the conversation isnt as full of Banter as it usually is. Let us know if you would like the Ask a Guardian section to be back in the show, also let us know if you would like to join us for Twitch Streams potentially.
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This Week at Bungie December 16, 2021
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In this WGP Ep 33 “Bungie 30th Anniversary” Nate and Josh discuss the return of the Gjallarhorn and all of its raid boss one phase glory, as well as the coming of winter in the Tower. We know that the holidays are tough on everyone for different reason, and we appreciate you continuing to listen to the rantings of madmen. P.S. Josh goes on a rant this time.
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This Week at Bungie December 2, 2021
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In this WGP Ep 31 “Guardians Giving” Nate and Josh have a quick chat about the short TWAB, a few opinions are thrown around and Nate still finds something to go on a mini rant about. We hope you enjoy the ranting of crazed Guardians. Have a great Guardians Giving everyone!
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This Week at Bungie December 2, 2021
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In this WGP Ep 31 “Guardians Giving” Nate and Josh have a quick chat about the short TWAB, a few opinions are thrown around and Nate still finds something to go on a mini rant about. We hope you enjoy the ranting of crazed Guardians. Have a great Guardians Giving everyone!
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This Week at Bungie November 24, 2021
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In this Episode of the Weekend Guardians “Abilities Overhaul!”, Nate and Josh discuss the massive (again) Abilities Overhaul TWAB that was put out by Bungie. Join us as we discuss our opinions on the nerfs, buffs and “tuning” that were done to the classes in the game. Major nerfs to super casting abilities. No more 1 hit charged melee abilities for ANYONE. Can you believe it?
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This Week at Bungie November 18, 2021
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In this Episode of the Weekend Guardians “Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes”, Nate and Josh go over a massive weapons based TWAB and discuss some delicious food in Eugene Oregon. Conversations about butt flaps, capes and bonds get things a bit heated and if you’ve ever had a discussion about how to pronounce Gif, we’re here for that as well.
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This Week at Bungie November 11, 2021
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In this Episode of the Weekend Guardians “My Internet Sucks”, Nate and Josh discuss jumping puzzles, the psychology of eating, PVP builds, TWAB, Strikes and demoralizing weapons to be killed by. We appreciate our listeners, even the ones that dont ASK US A QUESTION! Love you guys, enjoy the coming Holidays.
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This Week at Bungie November 4, 2021
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In this Episode of the Weekend Guardians, Nate and Josh are back and they have a heated discussion about Witch Queen which results in Josh folding to Nate’s opinion. We hope this topic gets you riled up and you dont just agree with Nate to get him to shut up. Also, TWAB, more TWAB and not enough questions!
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This Week at Bungie October 28, 2021
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In this Episode of the Weekend Guardians, Nate returns solo to lead the TWAB and LWAB reading with a new sound board to play with and some new software. Short TWAB for this week and shorter episode due to missing half of the team. We’ll try and be back next week at full strength again.
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This Week at Bungie October 21, 2021
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In this Episode of the Weekend Guardians, Nate and Josh make their triumphant return, introducing a new song made for the show by a friend of the show. As well as some news and reasons why the pair were missing the previous week. This is a shorter episode of the podcast for reasons that will be made more obvious when you listen.
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This Week at Bungie October 14, 2021
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This Week at Bungie May 27, 2021
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In this episode of The Weekend Guardians, Nate and Josh discuss a recent VoG run with the Relax Guardians Podcast as well as another update to Trials. Pay attention to future TWABs and the Destiny social media platforms because the fashion show is back on. Dont forget to don your best duds and post a screenshot on social media, tagging bungie and using the hashtag. #ThreadsOfLight #Destiny2 #Destinythegame #TheWeekendGuardians #WeekendGuardians #videogames #gamers.
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This Week at Bungie September 23, 2021
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This episode of The Weekend Guardians features a returning guest Joe-Donuts. The three have a nice conversation about Trials and the improvements Bungie has made to that game mode. They also discuss the future of gambit as well as some features Bungie could implement to the game to make Crossplay even more streamlined. Also, still trying to figure out why Josh plays Destiny using a controller on his PC. Sounds like a handicap to Nate.
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This Week at Bungie September 16, 2021
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In this episode Nate brings his wife Jenna on as a cohost/guest to get a female take on the game while Josh is on Vacation. The pair talk about the TWAB, gaming together and the struggles of one person being better at the game than the other. Obviously Jenna is better than Nate.
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This Week at Bungie September 9, 2021
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In this episode Nate and Josh go over the TWAB from the prior week after the colab episode with the Relax Guardians went live. They also discussed the Witch Queen, the new season and the new TWAB.
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This Week at Bungie August 26, 2021
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This Week at Bungie May 27, 2021
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In Episode 18 “Eyes Up Guardians” Nate and Josh gripe about the multiple nerfs bungie did to exotics. A deep dive on the multiple changes to all legendary weapons as well as not so nerfs to other exotic weapons. Everyone, please remember to show respect for the deceased when we offer that 3 seconds of silence. RIP Anarchy.
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This Week at Bungie August 19, 2021
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In Episode 17 “Worlds on Fire” Nate and Josh discuss the future of Destiny, changes to exotics and break down the TWAB. Nate got his Mass Effect Legendary Cache and Josh beat Resident Evil with the aid of his wife. Cowardice or trick to get her to spend more time with him? Nate also inserts his foot in his mouth on a topic involving his wife.
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This Week at Bungie August 12, 2021
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In Episode 16 “Everything Changes” Nate and Josh talk about some major overhauls that Bungie is doing with abilities and subclasses in Destiny. As two Titan mains, we both had opinions on everything, including making sure everyone knew we were happy about a few of the nerfs they did for Warlocks. Listen for our opinions on the Bubble and Well nerfs, you probably wont be surprised but you might be. The only way to know is to listen!
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This Week at Bungie August 5, 2021
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In this episode Nate and Josh go over the TWAB which includes an extensive breakdown of cross-play, giddiness ensues followed by a serious note in the show. They also talk about people being overworked in the gaming industry and in general. Wow WoW players seem to be quitting again. What is your guardian’s name?
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This Week at Bungie July 29, 2021
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Nate is alone again this week. Short breakdown of the TWAB as well as a rant/ramble about “Time”. Hope ya’ll enjoy and we should be back to our regularly scheduled programming soon.
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This Week at Bungie July 22, 2021
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In this Episode, Nate and Josh join forces again to put a stop to the forces of… Wait. Wrong synopsis.. We’re back! Sorry for the Hiatus, life happens and you get back on the saddle and keep going. We discuss this weeks TWAB and last weeks TWAB as well as Josh’s obsession with “Getting a Deal” on Steam.
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This Week at Bungie July 15, 2021
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Josh is on Hiatus right now, spending time with his budding Guardian. Short episode where Nate breaks down the TWAB.
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This Week at Bungie June 24, 2021
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In this episode we have a special guest by the name of Joe. He is a big Destiny fan, experienced player, husband and all around good guy. We ask him all of the pertinent (for now) Destiny/gaming questions and get his take on the TWAB and Days Gone! Also, Murder, Screw, Kill: Zavala, Drifter, Crow
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This Week at Bungie June, 17 2021
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In this Episode, Nate and Josh discuss the TWAB as usual, gaming with spouses and summer game releases. They also touch on weapons, subclasses and Sevs vs Agnikai.
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This Week at Bungie May 27, 2021
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In this Episode, Nate and Josh discuss the TWAB as usual, they also give real talk advice to a listener and friend of the show, if you’re tired of the grind, take break. It’s ok to do so. Leveling issues and discussions of future episodes bring the heat a little, as much as two easy going guardians can bring heat.
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This Week at Bungie June 3, 2021
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In this Episode, Nate and Josh discuss their experiences running Vault of Glass, give a VoG Review and go over some Destiny 2 PvP Crucible updates regarding Stasis.
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In this Episode, Nate and Josh discuss Vault of Glass Worlds First stipulations, Warmind Cells, Artifact Mods and Sparrows Oh My! Need some tips on anything Destiny? Please check out our social media links below. Join our Ask a Guardian Section by DMing us on Instagram, posting your question to the public on our instagram or posting a comment on our website. We are here to help enlighten the community on any topics or questions anyone has.
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In this Episode, Nate and Josh talk about the TWAB, the lack of Armor in the Season Pass, Smollen Plushies, Armor mods, the state of Destiny and so much more. Join us for this fun walk through the minds of two Weekend Guardians.
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In this Episode Nate and Josh talk about the TWAB as usual and the new trailer for next season. Excitement and dread abound in equal measures. Listen to Nate call the Well of Radiance "Ward of Dawn" and make a fool of himself a few times.
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In this episode, Nate and Josh talk about last weeks TWAB, Community outrage over Bight Dust and Syntesis, Vault of Glass, Heroic Public Events, Legendary Lost Sectors and much more.
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In this Episode, Nate and Josh talk about the phenomena known as “Ghost Bullets”, Class Abilities, Armor Synthesis, Bungies new model for bringing content, Vault of Glass memories, cross play and LFG post difficulties.
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This is Nate, aka KingBear aka BabyBear2004, I just wanted to make a quick post to talk a bit about myself. I am a 30 something gamer on the west coast. I grew up with a basic computer playing anything from “Reading Rabbit” to “Oregon Trails” depending on the year/my age. My father was also a big gamer, I remember growing up and watching him play Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo. I remember occasionally playing myself as well. From there I went on to other games and other consoles. We eventually upgraded our PC to a Hewlett Packard running on a 14.4 kb modem, eventually upgrading to the 28.8 and then finally DSL. My family wasnt well off, but they seemed to know computers were the future so they did their best to keep getting us technology as we grew up.
There were 3 kids in that house, so you can imagine, the cost of gaming would have been high if they bought us each a PC or Console, so we were lucky to have the “Family Computer” where we sat down at night on occasion and played “Wizardry 8”. When we werent sitting down as a family, I played a game that I can only remember being called “Birthrite”, it was my first introduction to RTS (real time strategy) and world building.
As I grew, and my parents grew apart, my taste in games evolved with the times. I eventually moved onto playing Command and Conquer and Starcraft and Warcraft 3. As you can tell I was a fan of RTS games. We also had an N64 and played A LOT of Goldeneye N64. I’m sure most of you remember this game.
Well, time went on, I continued playing games. My computer got a bit better as well and I evolved into playing First Person Shooters. Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Battlefield 1942 were my main 2 for a while, at least until my computer decided that it didnt want to work for me anymore. That’s when I switched to Console and was introduced to Halo. Fast forward to about 7 years ago, I’m at Gamestop looking for a new game and the guy behind the counter tells me about this new game that was in the middle of Beta Testing and it was made by the same company that made Halo. This piqued my interest, I went home and signed up for the beta, you may have guessed the game by now, just in case though, that game was Destiny. I was hooked.
When the full game was release, I obviously bought it. And as the expansions came out, I bought those too. I was part of the group of players that liked to complain about how we had spent $60ish each time a new expansion came out and the new players were getting the same content as us without the added expense of the previous expansions. To this day though, I still feel like the Vault of Glass raid was one of the best pieces of gaming released, the mechanics were amazing and fun. Hiding from the Gorgons was tense, challenging ourselves to kill as many Gorgons as we could before getting wiped was also a thing we did. Then comes the jumping puzzle. Oh boy that was fun as a Titan "You know, you can just jump across the gap if you do it just right.” “Really? Challenge accepted” and in true titan fashion I leapt without thinking. I died a few times but eventually made it. After that point, I probably had a 90% success rate on that jump and it was fun each and every time. It turned into a race with my buddies, trying to make it to the door before each other. I easily put 1000 hours into my Titan and another 1000+ combined on my other two characters by the time the Crota raid came out.
I played off and on throughout the years before taking a long hiatus due to life getting in the way. About a year or so ago, I got back into Destiny, this time on Destiny 2. In my Destiny days, I was single and young and carefree. I would stay up until 2 or 3am gaming with my buddies while working a job that I didnt care about. My life basically involved playing Destiny and working. Now that I am older, I am a homeowner, have a high stress full-time job that pays much better and I am married. Our house is about 70+ years old and we have a decently sized property. So during the week and on the weekends my wife and I spend quite a bit of time just trying to maintain our property and spend time with each other. And when we’re not doing that, we’re just trying to relax. So ultimately our game time really only boils down to us jumping on Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon/morning. And here we are.
So join Josh and I as we talk about what it’s like to be a “Weekend Guardian”. We will also be talking about the difficulties of raising a family and the communities concerns with the state of the game. We will also do our best to talk about “What should you do with your limited time to make the best of the time you have”. Looking forward to talking to our fans. See you out there Guardians!
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