If you're into wholesome, sappy stories, read on. If you're not? Well. Then I guess you're totally allowed to have your own taste in reading material.
Tl;dr, I have nerve damage in both of my hands that makes playing Destiny fairly difficult these days. Even more so, it makes finding a clan that'll put up with a guy who has to take extended breaks from the game and/or needs help to clear more challenging content every now and then near impossible. A group of friends of mine have stuck with me as we tried to find a great clan to stick with, but most of the time it ended in me needing to go and my bros coming with so we could try and find something else together. D2 was pretty bleak for me for a while, especially the first few months after my hands started to go downhill.
Ultimately we ended up finding this clan--a smaller group of very talented folks called Sexy Noobs or Whatever [SNOW]. I'm prepared, like I always am, to get the 'oof, yeah we need you to be on more often to join' or 'we shouldn't have to carry you' lines. I've got thick skin and it's all part of dealing with what I have now, so it's usually always water off a duck's back to me. These guys, though. Day one, I'm up front. I tell them about my condition and what it means for my ability to play and not a single one of them cared. They've been endlessly patient with me, kind, supportive, inclusive. Knowing full well that I have about enough hand stamina to make it through maybe half a raid before I start moving like a Tim Burton stop animation character, I still get asked every time if I'd like to go. When they know I'm trying to work on something (this season's seal, for example. Saint-14 is my fave), they always offer to help. It's incredible, and I'm beyond thankful to have found them.
I know that what they're doing is basic human kindness, but it's honestly hard to find that sometimes. My experience with clans was pretty rotten before [SNOW], so to be even a distant cousin three times removed in a wholesome gaming family like theirs is a real treat.
Anyway, just wanted to give them props for being a great clan and an awesome group of human beings. I hope everyone else out there gets an opportunity to roll with folks like them.
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