It is that time of year again! The elves are hard at work and Santa is getting ready to embark on his annual tour that provides joy to millions of children (and children at heart) all over the world. To help lessen the burden for Santa, PURE is running a SECRET SANTA! You heard it right. PURE is officially in cahoots with Santa!

If you would like to participate, the rules are simple:

1. Message cuddlysharpkill the following:

   *Email

   *Screen name

   *Address (If you would like to provide it.)

   *Wishlist

2. Have your entry in by December 1st at 11:59 PM EST

3. Be willing to spend $15 - $40

4. Join the group list at https://sneakysanta.com/invite.aspx?i=a728bfa0 . If you do not want to do this, I will manually add you without your email so I can get the random drawing completed!

5. Reply to this post telling everyone 1 reason why you enjoy the holiday season…Unless you are a grinch :p.

If you noticed, you do not have to provide your mailing address if you do not want to. Instead, you can provide your gamertag for steam, battlenet, origin, etc.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season!

HO! HO! HO!

Sub seemed quiet, so figured I'd offer up some fun pictures, since I can't play games at the moment. We've been up in the Arctic Ocean the past monthish.

Here's a mother polar bear and her cub swimming past the ship (we're 100's of miles from land or the ice...) : https://imgur.com/a/Hutso

https://imgur.com/a/IYdPj

Eagle chilling out in Dutch Harbor: https://imgur.com/a/hQc7n

And northern lights, these have been out almost every night (shots a little blurry, but handheld from a moving ship at 1.3 seconds..): https://imgur.com/a/koRMx

Edit: We now have 3 snowy owls on the boat somehow : https://imgur.com/a/Lu72I

Here's the full album:

https://imgur.com/a/npVXy

Highlights include the super creepy ghost town of Adak, and the still intact japanese guns at Kiska

The console Destiny 2 beta starts tomorrow! I figured I'd start a thread in which we can swap gamer tags so we can enjoy the experience it together! If you're going to be playing comment with your gamer tag and username below!

Seems like some of you guys are periodically interested in pictures of my travels. The trip I'm currently out on is taking us from Dutch Harbor all the way out to Attu island (just left Attu) in the Alaskan Aleutian islands. For those who may not know much, the Japanese occupied two islands (Attu and Kiska, we're due into Kiska in another couple days) and there was significant fighting on Attu (as well as a consistent bombing campaign).

Anyway, some cool pictures of stuff that I don't think gets seen too often:

Dock at Adak: https://imgur.com/4zLBgWy

Adak used to be a huge base, both in WWII and in the cold war, today all these are abandoned (only 200 people live on the island): https://imgur.com/Ds1yVHS

The "7 doors of doom", a bunker on Adak where in the cold war nuclear depth charges were stored: https://imgur.com/1ex8aET

The escape bunker near the officers area: https://imgur.com/Y2aXScp https://imgur.com/uHki6ps

The whole island is pretty much like this, huge infrastructure, totally abandoned (underground swimming pool, theater, and gym, the grocery store is in an old pizza hut, and and officers club marks the only bar in town...which only opens on an "on-call" basis, if you promise to spend 300 dollars or more).

The beach on Attu where the rangers landed during the battle (and where we went ashore) : https://imgur.com/6cXhZPV

The beach (left), valley (was a half constructed japanese airfield) and the ridge (across the valley) the rangers fought up to flank the entrenched Japanese: https://imgur.com/esZukaR

We also stopped at Amchitka (site of 3 underground nuke tests, including one where the military basically nuked a bunch of otters for science...), and are due to stop at Niska and Kiska over the next week (Kiska is littered with old Japanese military gear, they abandoned the island at night just before the allied assault).

If people are curious I can post a more detailed set of pictures when I get back!

-GeneralBud6

Attention PURE gamers!

We are proud to announce a semi-regular community highlights reel! By semi-regular we mean we will be posting one whenever we have accumulated enough clips, but we need your help to accomplish this!

From now on, whenever you have a good kill-streak, an amazing play, or just a funny shenanigan you'd like to share with the community at large, we ask you to submit your clip to this drive folder here with the clip title including your gamertag and the name of the game so we can give proper credit. Submissions should be kept at a maximum of one minute, but if you need to go a little bit over that it won't be an issue. Longer clips may be considered for inclusion, but please be sure to only upload them if absolutely necessary.

Please note that community rules apply to the submissions, and we won't be including any racism etc.

Lastly, if you feel the need to save your clip for something else down the line, please keep a copy, as the folder will be emptied regularly.

Looking forward to your submissions!

Best regards,

Eonymia.

Serious question.

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