David Hostler

For whatever reason, Bluesky decided to show the first post, skip this one and show ellipses instead, and then display the other two.

So here's the second post, which has some fun lens flair pictures.

The kid’s cardboard helmet, as a side profile shot. It is cardboard painted silver with blue flames on the side.

The kid’s cardboard helmet, as seen from the back. It is cardboard painted silver with blue flames on the back.

If anyone is curious, my wife is amazing. We found some plans for this helmet on Etsy and she made it out of cardboard from an IKEA box. Then, per the kid’s request, she then painted it silver and painted some blue flames on it. He absolutely loves it and has been playing with it all month.

Me dressed as Luigi, with a green long sleeve t shirt, denim overalls, and a green ball cap. I’m holding a Switch 2 with the Super Mario Galaxy title screen displayed.

Me dressed as Luigi, with a green long sleeve t shirt, denim overalls, and a green ball cap. I’m holding a Switch 2 with the Pokemon Legends Z-A title screen displayed.

Unfortunately, it was rainy tonight, so he went Trick or Treating sans helmet and in a poncho.

I changed into my Luigi costume to hand out candy, since my dev “costume” didn’t make sense out of context. I took the Mario Galaxy picture…then remembered that’s better docked and played Pokemon instead.

My kid dressed as a Destiny Warlock. He has a royal blue coat with tails, blue and black gloves with what looks like a wrist computer, a black spikey Warlock Bond (arm band), and a silver helmet with blue flames painted on it. A visor has been edited on to obscure his face. He is holding a nerf gun as a hand cannon. Next to him is my wife wearing a white sheet type ghost costume with a jack o lantern style face on the chest. She is holding the Destiny Ghost plush over his shoulder.

My kid dressed as a Destiny Warlock. He has a royal blue coat with tails, blue and black gloves with what looks like a wrist computer, a black spikey Warlock Bond (arm band), and a silver helmet with blue flames painted on it. A visor has been edited on to obscure his face. He is holding a nerf gun as a hand cannon. Next to him is my wife wearing a white sheet type ghost costume with a jack o lantern style face on the chest. She is holding a flashlight to create a giant lens flare effect behind the kid.

My kid dressed as a Destiny Warlock. He has a royal blue coat with tails, blue and black gloves with what looks like a wrist computer, a black spikey Warlock Bond (arm band), and a silver helmet with blue flames painted on it. A visor has been edited on to obscure his face. He is holding a nerf gun as an auto rifle. Next to him is my wife wearing a white sheet type ghost costume with a jack o lantern style face on the chest. She is holding a flashlight to create a giant lens flare effect behind the kid.

My kid dressed as a Destiny Warlock. He has a royal blue coat with tails, blue and black gloves with what looks like a wrist computer, a black spikey Warlock Bond (arm band), and a silver helmet with blue flames painted on it. A visor has been edited on to obscure his face. He is holding a nerf gun as a hand cannon. Next to him is me, wearing jeans and a black t shirt with the Bungie text logo across the chest. I am also wearing a black Mozilla hat.

At some point, my wife said “Wouldn’t it be funny if I was his Ghost…but dressed as the wrong kind of ghost?” Then we asked “But what should David be?” The kid was like “What if you wear a dev shirt and be a Destiny dev?” The dev team shirts are pretty subtle, so I wore a Bungie logo shirt instead.

Literally all year, the kid has been saying “I want to be Destiny Warlock for Halloween!” We assumed he would change his mind at some point, but he was consistent!

So Happy Festival of the Lost from your friendly neighborhood Warlock, his mom as his Ghost, and a random Bungie dev for a dad!

Continuing with this theme, the kid brought this home yesterday. His class made Halloween cards at school and he drew this.

So Happy Festival of the Lost!

That's way outside my area. I just keep the databases happy and healthy. 😅

That said, the community team keeps tabs on Reddit, so it's likely they've already seen this and passed along the feedback.

But these past six years have been incredible. I’m so thankful for the opportunities I’ve had here and for how much I’ve learned in that time. I can’t wait to be playing Renegades and Marathon with you all!

Here’s to the next six years! (And next year will be the Bungie number!)

(4/4)

It still boggles my mind that I’m here doing this. If you went back in time seven years and told me that I’d be an Engineering Lead at Bungie, I’d have laughed and wouldn’t have believed you. The imposter syndrome is still real, even after all these years!

(3/4)

This means I’m now more involved with big picture planning and organization, in addition to the technical work I’ve been doing. While we all still support everything, I’m also now more focused on Shared Services and Marathon while another teammate focuses on Destiny and studio tools.

(2/4)

Six years ago today, I started at @bungie.net . I won’t summarize everything like I did last year, but a lot has changed in the past year. The biggest thing, for me at least, is that I have a new role. As of July, I’m now the Engineering Lead for the Data Reliability Engineering team!

(1/4)

Festival of the Lost begins today! We have one quick update regarding rewards before our spooky event kicks off. Last week, we noted that players could earn up to two bonus Eerie Engrams per day from Portal Activities. To get more treats in your hands, we're increasing the cap.

I did get a music minor, but I had to change instruments due to scheduling conflicts.

My main instrument was percussion (specifically marimba), but Percussion Ensemble was the only ensemble that qualified for that and they rehearsed during a class required for my major. So I had to switch to voice.

And yes, I know I’m slacking at only 243 power. Between being super busy in my personal life and at work, I’ve had very little time to play Destiny lately. I’ve also famously hated power grinding, going back to 2019/2020ish. I’ll run portal stuff to hang out with friends, but not just for power.

A drawing my kid made of my Warlock. It has a white and black jacket, flaming black gloves, and a white helmet with a dark V shaped visor and more flames coming out the top.

The character select screen of Destiny 2 showing my Warlock. He is wearing white robes with a black bird shaped filigree on the chest. He is holding a white rocket assisted pulse rifle and a ball of fire. His gauntlets and shins have decorative flames. His helmet is white with a dark V shaped visor and flames coming out of the top.

When I pick the kid up from after school care, he usually shows me stuff he’s drawn while there. Lately it’s been a lot of K Pop Demon Hunters stuff.

On Wednesday, he showed me this. He was trying to draw my Starfire Protocol Warlock from memory! And he did a remarkably good job too!

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Our wedding rings sitting in between pages of an open Bible. The shadows of our rings form hearts.

My wife’s wedding bouquet. It also has her engagement ring and our wedding bands between the petals.

An alternate photo from the above picture from today. My wife and I holding our black cat, Felwinter, but in this one, he is stretched really far upwards looking down past the camera.

My wife and I today, without Felwinter.

A few more pictures from ten years ago and from today.

My wife and I snuggling our yorkie, Abby, on our wedding day. We are sitting on the steps in the church. My wife is wearing a flowy, white wedding dress and I’m in a black tux. Abby was an all brown yorkie. She is laying on her back on our laps, smiling with her tongue out.

My wife and I holding Felwinter. We’re wearing casual clothes and I have a black Mozilla Foundation hat on. Felwinter is a black cat and he has a very surprised looking expression on his face.

Ten years ago today, I married my best friend! We did some math earlier. We’ve been…
- parents for seven years
- married for ten
- together for 13
- friends for 18

Also, we asked Felwinter to do his best Abby impression to recreate our wedding photo. This is what he came up with.

I wasn't expecting @destinythememe.bsky.social to make a post about me!

#BornToNovaBomb #ForcedToWell

Me, in a navy suit and sunglasses. Mitch in a black suit and sunglasses.

Oh I also have a picture of me and @moltenslowa.bsky.social !

Also, hopefully this is the only time you’ll ever have to see me not wearing a t shirt and ball cap. 😅

Me and Leopard standing in front of the Math Class “10 years of gamer bullshit” backdrop. I’m wearing a navy suit and Lep is wearing a black tux. The backdrop shows the Math Class logo and the words “Math Class”. Across the center are the words “10 years of gamer bullshit”.

I’m also realizing that I took very few pictures while there - most were on other people’s phones. Here’s me and @leopardstealth.com , though! Let’s just say I look up to him haha.

Me, in a navy suit, white shirt, and navy tie. My head is shaved and I have a freshly trimmed beard. I’m standing in front of some gold tassels.

Math Class 10th Anniversary magnets. Each shows a brown owl holding an iconic Destiny weapon: the Fatebringer legendary hand cannon with a cowboy hat, Dark Drinker exotic sword, and Outbreak Prime.

I’ve discovered that I’m horrible at social media. I often think of something I want to post, but then write it, rewrite it, and edit it for so long that I either just forget to post it and/or it’s no longer relevant.

So anyway, I had a blast at the Math Class 10th Anniversary event last weekend!

. @bsky.app has decided to give a blue checkmark to some of the Bungie social media accounts.

Thanks @bsky.app!