Kelly Locke

Writer, editor at tcgplayer

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

@MacticsG1 Gotta be the (former) Shadow & Order Exotic Mission reward right?

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

@DestinyTheGame I'm going to miss this game so much, but I'm ready to send it out with a bang.

[Destiny 2 @DestinyTheGame]

Build your Monument of Triumph.

Play new and updated content including Pantheon, Sparrow Racing League, Distortions, and new Triumph pursuits celebrating your Guardian’s journey across Destiny 2.

New challenges, abilities, and rewards arrive for all Guardians on June 9, 2026.

⚪ https://t.co/Punb9TAsCe

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

@JackiJing @honkaistarrail I'm super late to this, but you were amazing in the last patch! Fulwish is one of the best villains in HSR so far and you did such a great job bringing her to life.

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

@D0ugdot @SycKnight Euphony already has a hidden Hatchling perk (a single precision kill or multikills will spawn a threading)

Maybe Slice over Tear?

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

Five words to send the entire D2 community into a frenzy:

[dmg04 @A_dmg04]

Guardians make their own fate

[Ruble @JoshRuble]

The room we kept

There is a room I have kept for ten years
that does not exist
in any house I have lived in.
It has six chairs.
It has a low hum underneath everything, six people breathing.
It has a door that never quite closes,
and a light by that door
that none of us remember turning on,
that none of us have ever thought to turn off.

We come in on Tuesdays, mostly.
Sometimes Fridays.
Sometimes a Sunday afternoon
when the week has been the kind of week
that needs somewhere to go.
We do not knock.
We do not say hello.
One of us says you ready?
and the rest of us, wherever we are
in our kitchens, our cars, our small rented lives,
say yeah, I’m ready,
and the room fills up
the way a quiet house fills up when
everyone gets home.

I could not tell you half their last names.
I could tell you how each of them breathes
in the half-second before a jump.
I could tell you whose dog is barking in the background tonight,
whose kid just wandered in to say goodnight,
whose marriage is good this month
and whose is quieter than usual.
I could tell you the exact pitch of the laugh
that comes when I die first,
which I do, often, and on purpose sometimes,
because the laugh is worth more than the clear.

One of them got married last spring.
I was not there.
He sent me a clip from the dance floor anyway.
The DJ had stumbled into the song
we used to play on raid-clear nights,
and for half a second, in a rented tuxedo,
he thought of me,
and then he went back to his wife,
which was exactly right,
which was the whole point of all of it,
the way the best things we build
are the things that let us go
back to the rest of our lives,
lighter.

There was a week I could not find any words.
I logged on with nothing in my chest.
One of them, I won’t say which,
did not ask, did not push, did not try to fix.
He just said “patrol?”
and we walked nowhere for an hour and a half,
shooting nothing that mattered,
chasing small lights across a small moon,
and somewhere between the silence and the stars
I remembered I was a person
who knew how to start a sentence.
He never mentioned it again.
That, too, was the whole point.

The years did what years do.
Babies arrived. Jobs ended.
Parents got sick. Some of them got better.
Some of them did not.
We moved cities.
We moved countries.
We moved on, and then we moved back,
the way people do,
and whole seasons disappeared between resets,
whole lives happened in the gap
between one expansion and the next,
and then one night, without warning,
the mic would click on again
and nobody would ask where you had been.
They would just save you a spot in the fireteam.
The lobby music would hum the same low hum.
Your callout would arrive
the same half-second late it always did,
and I would know that voice
the way I know my own name,
the way I know the ceiling above my bed,
the way I know the shape of my mother’s hands.

It was never the loot,
though we lied and said it was.
It was never the lore,
though we argued about it until two in the morning.
It was never the perfect clear,
though we chased it for months and never got it clean,
or the title, or the gilded seal,
or the gun we farmed for a hundred hours
and put down two weeks later.
It was the room.
It was the door.
It was the light by the door.
It was the standing invitation,
the chair pulled out,
the small unspoken understanding
that whenever you could make it back,
for as long as you needed,
there was somewhere
you already belonged.

Across a galaxy.
Across a continent.
Across a life
none of us ever quite figured out how to live.

Maybe that is the secret
no one printed on the box.
Maybe what we were really building
all those Tuesdays,
all those wipes,
all those countdowns into the dark,
was not a Guardian, or a clear, or a kill count,
but a habit.
A simple, stubborn habit
of showing up for each other,
again,
in a world that does not always make that easy.
A standing Tuesday.
A standing promise.
A standing love
that never needed a name
to know what it was.

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

@Linkiscool115 @StarWarsDaily_ I like her lightsaber design!

[Scott "HowlingMines" Mines @HowlingMines]

If you'd like to learn more about the Zyggy Starlight list I played on camera against @CardsWithM at World Premiere: Prague, I wrote a whole article about it!

Thanks to @SilverContrails for helping with the quick turnaround on this one 💜

#fabtcg

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

So that's at least two major publishers and an independent Bungie that looked at Destiny 3 and said "No thanks"

I want more Destiny soooo bad, but I think the best shot is probably a spinoff like 'Payback', which was canceled in 2024. Small scope, big replayability.

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

Microsoft could have been Bungie's publisher for Destiny, and Activision could have demanded a Destiny 3. Both let Bungie go.

Independent Bungie could have done D3. They stuck with Destiny 2.

Sony bought Bungie knowing D3 wasn't happening. Didn't greenlight it either.

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

By far my most played game of the last decade. It's finally over.

[Destiny 2 @DestinyTheGame]

Read the full blog at https://t.co/1PmLuyR3aD

For almost twelve years, we have had the joy and honor to explore the Destiny universe with you all. Through all the ups and downs, surprises and triumphs, building Destiny alongside our players has been a monumental privilege. While our love for Destiny 2 has not changed, it has become clear that after The Final Shape, we have reached the time for our shared worlds, and Destiny, to live beyond Destiny 2.

As our focus turns towards a new beginning for Bungie, we will begin work incubating our next games. To that end, on June 9, 2026, we will release the final live-service content update for Destiny 2 to begin that new journey as a studio.

Though active development may be concluding, we will ensure that Destiny 2 remains playable, just as the original Destiny is today. Many changes in this final update will aim to ensure that Destiny 2 is a welcoming place for players to return to.

We’re proud of Destiny 2, the places it took us, and the legacy it has created. Because of you all, our universe is vast, built on years of shared stories, adventures, and victories. From the Cosmodrome to the Pale Heart to the Lawless Frontier, we have forged life-long memories and friendships with you all.

We are incredibly grateful to everyone who made that journey with us.

From the deepest part of our hearts, thank you, and we'll see you in the stars.

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

@bluhm_breno @hasanthehun I think it's the same poll. The GE match ups only came out this morning, but the primary poll is the one from a couple of days ago.

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

Metamorphosis and Premature Burial are off the Forbidden List for the first time since September 07 and 08 respectively.

Both cards were barely pointed in Genesys, and Metamorphosis is already Semi-Limited in the OCG.

[Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG @YuGiOh_TCG]

⚠️ Attention Duelists! ⚠️ Here are the upcoming updates to the #YuGiOhTCG Forbidden & Limited List, effective May 18, 2026.

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

@EricMGarcia I'm so curious to know how McMorrow is doing in the internal polls. Schumer and company have gotta be making daily phone calls to her at this point.

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

@PeepsYGO I stop writing for a couple of months and look what happens.

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

I'm closing out a chapter following 14 years of writing for tcgplayer professionally, and four years before that writing casually.

1000s of articles later: I'm now full time at tcgplayer! I won't be doing as much writing, but I'm involved with more content than ever before.

[Kelly Locke @SilverContrails]

@dzeeff @KillerKeeWee Yup I've been there before. It's especially hard to avoid during the first round of the event.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Our daughter, Rachel Corrie, was killed in 2003 in Gaza, while trying to protect a Palestinian home facing illegal destruction by the Israeli military. She was 23 years old. The massive, armored Caterpillar D-9 bulldozer that crushed her was operated by two Israeli soldiers and manufactured in the United States. It was the same type of militarized bulldozer that US presidents from George W. Bush through to Donald Trump have delivered to Israel.
Today, as the destruction of Palestinian homes has only become more commonplace, not to mention the horror of Israel’s genocide, Senator Bernie Sanders will force a vote in the Senate to try to end this cycle of death by banning the transfer of D-9 bulldozers to Israel. We hope he will not take this stand alone.
No policy can bring back those taken from us by these actions—children and other loved ones. But the Senate now has an opportunity to honor the memories of our daughter, other Americans, and thousands of Palestinian civilians killed, and to show that their deaths, and all the destruction, will no longer be condoned and funded. We hope those elected to represent us, the American people, understand the message that voting to block these D-9 bulldozers will send. This will not be a symbolic gesture, but a concrete step toward the protection of human life.

https://t.co/KvwjbIsMDX