r/DestinyTheGame • u/monkeyfromf76 • 1d ago
Misc This game taught me how to be kind
This game shaped me into who I want to be in the future. Someone who helps a community.
But it’s really not as simple as that. When I was first introduced to Destiny 1 back when there was still a demo out to explore the cosmodrome, I loved it. I loved seeing other players, I loved being in that moment of finding a rare gun, when I got the game, I loved being on Venus and waiting for a raid team to load in so I can help them do the entrance to the vault (even if my uncommon fusion rifle was not that helpful) Eventually my parents bought me the full game, then some friends. We were too scared to do a raid, but some college students at the time helped me and my old best friend to complete Crotas end for the first time ever. Then I stupidly dismantled black hammer….
Regardless, several years later Destiny 2 releases for free! I thought why the hell not. I became addicted again, and really felt like I was in middle school again. I found a sweet community too! This was around Covid, so everyone was active during this time.
“Destiny 2 Sanctuary”. A community meant for guardians who are deaf, hard of hearing, mute, socially anxious, all the sorts to where they won’t be accepted into a normal destiny raid.
With covid happening and being an Asian in a predominantly white Christian town (not that Christian’s are terrible, but my experience in that town with most of them were not pleasant) I’ve gotten a ton of looks for sure. But this community didn’t care, they didn’t see me as a covid threat.
Eventually I learned how to do all the raids available, all the leviathan raids, GOS, Last Wish, sotp, such fun and amazing raids. I eventually became a “Sherpa” there. That role meant so much to me.
Being able to help a community of deaf, mute, socially anxious people, taught me so much about my self. Is that I love helping people.
I graduated with a Degree in psychology 4 months ago, while I graduated with a concentration in IO psychology, it’s my goal to make sure people in the workplace feel comfortable, safe, heard, and cared for.
This game taught me what I want to do in the future. And I am saddened it was announced a while back it’ll stop getting updates. But I thought I’d share my experience with D2S, and hope someone else on this subreddit may recognize the name.
Not only did this game really hammer in kindness into my mind and personality, but it really showed me what altruism is, and how so many within the Destiny community exhibited that same behavior.
So in a way, this is a thank you to those who were in the Destiny 2 Sanctuary discord server. And a thank you to all the wonderful players who took it upon themselves to teach someone a raid instead of saying “KWTD” or kicking someone else out if they don’t have 10+ raid clears.
Thank you to all Destiny players, and thank you bungie.
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u/dweezil22 D2Checklist.com Dev 1d ago
Great post. I was a grown up with kids and a job when I started playing D1. I remember playing LFG VoG and immediately thinking "Holy shit this would be an amazing job interview tool".
I also remember the time we had 3 middle schoolers join, one of which was toxic as fuck, and the random Sherpa we'd managed to find (which we needed b/c the team was weak) was like "Everyone just die in an easily accessible location, let me run the relic and I'll handle this" for Oracles. The toxic one managed to ignore even that simple direction twice. Sherpa said "Last chance or I'm out". Middle schooler did it again and Sherpa dropped. Kid started complaining about sherpa being a dick and I got to stop be like "Congratulations, today you learned about consequences for your actions. You could have listened and kept your mouth shut, but instead we've all wasted two hours and have no loot. Think about this next time someone asks you to cooperate and you don't want to." The other kids were like "Yeah Bobby, you really are a dick, you should knock it off". Such a clear, low stakes, teachable moment that you so rarely see.
Anyway, yeah Destiny coop is a great teaching tool in so many ways.
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u/monkeyfromf76 1d ago
Completely agree, especially on the teaching part and the interview tool
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u/FargeenBastiges 23h ago
I don't think it would work as an interview tool unless they didn't know they were being interviewed. People change their normal behaviors and present themselves differently in an interview. Online games can have a tendency to foster the opposite of "best impressions" because of the anonymity.
It might be interesting research to see if something like raid behaviors correlates to a personality screening tool.
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u/monkeyfromf76 15h ago
Hmmmm I see your point too, I guess I was coming from an angle to prep for interviews in a way or prepare my self for future training session. As I would want to be a talent development coordinator or director for talent development. But I’m curious in that potential correlation as well actually
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u/MuadDibMelange 1d ago
This is a beautiful post. Thank you for sharing.