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I mean, we can all agree that Bloodborne's healing system is awful still, right? They're right that most suggestions Nick gets are just ways to mitigate that awfulness. I'd be fine with skipping to Dark Souls 3 again.

I finished my 100% playthrough of Hollow Knight the other day. I started saying it was my favorite game of the decade as a joke, but it might actually be true now that I think about it. It ranks highly in pretty much all the rankings I care about (art, music, combat/playforming gameplay, lore) and aside from a couple glitches it was really well put together for a very small team. I've been successfully pushing it on other since then and have yet to hear a bad word about it.

I'm glad my prediction of Nick's Bloodborne experience turned out to be correct. Also, it's totally possible to appreciate lore content on the first playthrough. Nick's just always on hyperdrive (and is sometimes drunk,) both of which make it far more difficult. Streaming also probably makes it much harder to stop and contemplate what's going on.

Nick's just taking some time to farm vials in preparation for the rest of the game.

All true, though I probably need to be less trigger-happy on the golems myself. It's just so satisfying to stun everyone and hear the sound effect...

This is my entire ranked adventure so far. I've had a lot of success just telling the rest of my team that I'll buy all the wards and trying to get people to not pick the greediest team comps ever, so we'll see if that lasts. Warlock feels a lot stronger with the introduction of shrines than he used to, since they provide the mana that I used to lack a lot in my cross-map support adventures. I'm glad they added them.

I'm convinced that normal All Pick is a trap for fools. Random Draft has had better results for me, but still not great.

That makes sense. I didn't realize the average MMR was so low when the upper ranges are up around 8k. I guess I have to revise my recommendation to being at my specific bracket. Don't bother if you're better or worse than me. That said, playing Warlock has pretty much been carrying me to success.

It'd be great if this game turned out well, but I find it difficult to get over my DA:I / ME3-based skepticism. I guess nothing I've seen yet has really suggested it's going to be a change in direction. I guess the countless 10 hours streams will offer some insight into that.

I started playing ranked last week, and I have to say it's been a pretty positive experience so far. It might just be because I'm not very highly ranked (3k-4k bracket) or because DOTA's reputation for toxicity is kind of overblown (it is,) but either way it's kind of relaxing. None of the getting matched with 4 other people on Discord type stuff, people generally knowing what they're doing, with only the occasional bout of nonsense. Would recommend.

It read to me as though you can only stream to one community at a time, but that it was relatively easy to switch between them? Someone would need to test it out I guess.

https://blog.twitch.tv/communities-93de2c1a2e4d#.cx46pcbab This is something that's probably relevant to everyone here. Communities are basically just open teams it seems like? You don't need to be a partner to set one up either.

3 star units seem pretty useless once you start getting units to about level 20. Wouldn't recommend putting time into them if you can avoid it, even if you can upgrade them later.

It's interesting that Nick came away from all the streams thinking that people's "favorite boss" picks are based on mechanics. It might just be who I talk to about this stuff, but I've generally found the lore, music, character design, etc. to be much more important factors in people's picks. I wonder if this is chat's fault.

I feel like Nick continues to overstate my aggravation. The times I was being helpful and supportive just got lost in the increasingly fast paced chat. I am not an angry person at heart. It's a tragedy.

Sounds like a classic case of chat leading Nick astray. What dastardly malcontents.

Can you give me a rundown? I'll watch the VOD when I find the time, but it might be a while.

I'm enjoying the Dark Moon event a lot too, got to wave 15 for the first time today, but died horribly about halfway through the boss' enormous health bar. I've read that you basically need a techies stacking bombs for two waves to kill it in a reasonable time frame. Other than that, Medusa + Sniper + Pit Lord seem pretty mandatory to get very far. Tiny is basically useless even after getting Aghs, and Disrupter is entirely ineffective the entire game. On the topic of 7.00 though, I started out not really liking the patch, but I've changed my mind a bit. I still don't like most of the geographical changes though, since you can pull waves with pretty much every radiant camp it feels like and there's way too much diversity in high and low ground. The skill tree thing has proven to be interesting in some cases, especially when I'm playing as support and need that bonus XP/gold to not hate myself. If any of you want someone to queue with, I'm a pretty decent position 4/5 (and sometimes 1.)

I've gotta say, I found Mouth Moods to be pretty far behind the cutting edge of mashups. If there's less then 20 different samples in one song I can't really endorse it. That's mostly a joke, but I still found the choices to be kind of uninspired on the whole compared to some of the other stuff floating around online. The actual combination was probably better-executed for the most part though.

Some of these are duplicates I'm sure. I left a bunch of not so great ones out. DS2: https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/GentleWalrusUnSane https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/CuriousEagleDeExcite https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ShinyLobsterTheRinger https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/WrongWolverineBigBrother https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/WildSquirrelPraiseIt https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/PowerfulSquirrelKevinTurtle https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/HomelyStinkbugMikeHogu https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/UninterestedChoughRitzMitz https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/UnusualMuleVoHiYo https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/HelplessAnteaterNinjaTroll https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/UgliestGaurRalpherZ https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/HandsomeGrasshopperNotLikeThis https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/WildHerdKappaPride https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ClumsySkunkKeepo https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/UninterestedCaterpillarEagleEye https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/BreakableGaurUnSane https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ZanyWolverineBrokeBack DS1: https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ZanyTermitePanicVis https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/BetterRuffRaccAttack https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/GiftedGerbilGingerPower https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/GentleManateeFUNgineer https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ElegantElkCmonBruh https://clips.twitch.tv/idlethumbs/ColorfulVultureOMGScoots

I think the only time I even remotely enjoyed Kvothe as a character was during some of his interactions with Devi (especially the ones where he is humiliated.)

I've never been more ready to see the return of NO GLOVES NO PANTS ONLY STRENGTH (the character formally known as the Explorer, formally formally known as Similar Face.) Don't forget you can respec again if you find yourself regretting previous decisions.

I've got to be honest, this game really just isn't grabbing me in the same way as other From titles have. It's not like I'm not having fun or anything, but I can already tell I'm not really interested in delving very deep into it. On that note, where on earth am I supposed to go after beating Rom?

I find that the best way to read these books is just as a series of short stories. The contents of some of them aren't great, others are more interesting. Just can't let the disappointment of the bad ones ruin the better ones.

Not Another Needle Game (on the 13th) is a good watch for anyone who likes precision platformers. It's not my absolute favorite IWBTG fangame, but it ranks pretty highly and Stinky's an entertaining guy.