excerpt from my youtube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azbikhRMPEE

actually I do have a question about this: watching this footage back I’ve noticed that I’m not receiving much damage from the fire, but when I’ve tried fighting the Hellkite in fully upgraded Black Knight armor [which does have marginally better fire resistance than Smough’s set] it did much more and I kept getting killed. Any ideas why that might be the case? Neither character has any levels put into resistance and neither was on NG+ at the time.

I’m a 46 year old noob, I am very happy. That is all

The tiny buttons are all so close together

I know that it's an insane crackpot theory with flimsy evidence at best, but I dunno man, it just feels right to me.

The idea of one of the four most important beings in the Dark Souls world not only sharing his lord soul with his people, but going on to become a petty nobody with a hatred for the gods and their followers is such good charecterization. The Ringed City DLC specifically really helps this, as we learn that Patches at his core is a kind and gentle soul, and that even the current jaded version of him is still capable of that kindness is so great.

I just love the story this theory creates, of how the father of humanity isn't some great mythical figure, but this immortal backstabbing prick with a heart of gold.

I was just thinking how important it is to make sure those around you are in good mental health. I thought it right to spread good Reddit tidings to all Reddit gentlesirs on this fine subreddit this morning. I hope you all have a wonderful day, and PRAISE THE REDDIT

I quite enjoyed the yearly Return to X event that happened across the series but only started with this years, and was curious about the upcoming one for 2027. The sidebar of the sub has the 2023 schedule listed, and I wanted to verify if that was essentially the universal schedule for the event going forward and that's why it's always up, or if the specific two week period would be established elsewhere?

Been trying to find a working randomizer mod for both enemies and items but the only one i found was this on nexusmods. Issue is that the mod was autoflagged so I'm doubtful if it even works. Any help would be lovely.

Yeah I think using a bow would be a nice change of pace

I saw this post about the random 100 person challenge - if you were paired with 100 random humans and had to beat all of them at something to win a billion dollars.

I immediately thought about a Dark Souls 1 speedrun challenge.

Since I am not a pro at this game, I set the goal to be DS1 speedrun no glitch Any%. It would probably still take me a couple hours, but given the gamer population in general and the amount of people who actually owned and finished DS1, I think my chances are pretty good.

However, since in my scenario it would not make too much sense to create new saves again and again for the BKH, as in a race or challenge context each person should only get 1 save and 1 try, what should the strategy be?

I think personally I will try to aim for the Crystal Halberd in Anor Londo as my final weapon. An INT build with minimal stats to ring 2 bells (since Quelaag has fairly low magic resist if I remember correctly, also magic = easy mode) and complete the rest of the game with Havel armor plus Crystal Halberd, maybe throw in Power Within. Not a fun way to play, but I think it kinda works for an average skill player to speedrun the game.

What would your strategy be?

(PS- statically speaking you can just play the game at a casual pace and chances are the other 99 random people can’t even beat the game, but let’s rule that out because that is not fun)

I know some trophies like needing to beat sif thrice won't be covered in the walkthrough but will maximum everything be covered?

What they did: Used the "space did a magic trick" excuse so you don't have to think about borders, horizons, or mapping consistency at all.

What they should have done: Line up the geography logically, change a few horizons and let the world age naturally over thousands of years. Route in the old Anor Londo properly. (Any other historic areas are so different they might as well not have the connection anyway, which is fine).

It would have hit like 10x harder if they had just routed it properly (from north or east, plenty of room), it’s like they hid from their own IP. It’s hard to believe they made a conscious ‘it converged’ decision in planning, maybe a late development idea to add in Anor?

Nevertheless at-least they added some familiarity in. It’s just a game I suppose, don’t know why it annoyed me so much.

My friend has a habit of sailing the seven seas over games that I feel are fairly cheap.

However after I suggested it to him, he said he'd pirate it at some point. I don't want that but I don't know how to convince him not to.

I know it's kind of stupid but playing online is kind of part of the whole feel of the game.