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  1. Posted

    Here's a great video on split brain research, as was clumsily referenced in the episode:

    11 minutes ago, Jake said:

    Cheers, I hopefully copped to how clumsily I was alluding to it.

    You did, but it's really fascinating stuff and I felt like sharing it now that science news and discussion is starting to be a thing! :tup:

     

    Edit: Woah, you really did rerecord a bunch for this episode.  Maybe I responded to something that's erased from history.

  4. Posted

    Thanks everyone!  This is massively helpful; everyone else with clips, please post them!  I'll soon start compiling and organizaing them all into a spreadsheet here so that they're all in order and in one place (mostly for myself).  Once that's done, I'll start editing.

     

    P.S. If you don't know how to find your clips, go to clips.twitch.tv

    P.P.S. Let me know who you'd like to be credited as (e.g., eRonin or superhiero); I will default to Twitch names

  7. Posted

    Since the live casts are now two days off of release, could we start getting the discussion threads up ahead of time? There have been times I've wanted to make a post, but forgot or lost interest by the time threads are live, and I assume that's true of others as well.

     

    Also, I still haven't been sent the links for DS1 clips so I can make a compilation.  I won't have nearly as much free time soon, and so it would be preferable that I get them soon unless someone else would rather compile them.

     

    10 hours ago, Latrine said:

    By the way did Nick ever use the Key to the Embedded? I don't think there's much reward for it but it's such a bizarre sequence. 

     

    Edit: Whoops, posted this in the wrong thread. Oh well, minor question so I'll just leave this here.

    He has used it, but I don't remember there being anything interesting about it on stream.

  8. Posted

    With the reduced list for the next stream (or two), I've edited the Order Tiers to be time estimates.  The stream will probably be 4-7 hours long

     

    For the snow area everyone hates, I think you should play it normally until you know why it sucks (probably 1-2 deaths), and then summon all the NPCs for an actually fun time.

    For the Gank Squad and Ancient Dragon, I think it's fair to summon after a few honest tries.

  10. Posted

    I got rid of the hackers and two guards, and then emetic poisoned him so he would go to the bathroom. Instead he went to the trashcan, so I tried improvising by throwing something towards the toilet as he ended vomiting, hoping he might move close enough to drown. Instead, 47 threw the screwdriver at his head and I failed.

     

    Oh, and apparently without communicating it, they decided to allow lethal poison even though it's not an accident. :tdown::tdown::tdown::tdown::tdown::tdown::tdown:

  11. Posted

    5 hours ago, Problem Machine said:

    Darkstalker

    Also you can't get Vendrick's blessing without beating him and getting his soul first, which doesn't seem to be acknowledged.

    Yep, I completely forgot about that covenant even though it's the last thing I did before beating the game!  I didn't realize Vendrick needed to be defeated for his blessing, so I've also added that.  I also agree that the gank squad isn't as bad as people say, but it's still mostly based on tedium and isn't interesting enough to justify it.

  12. Posted

    @Nick Breckon

    I made a checklist for the rest of DS2's optional content so that nothing gets forgotten, and the instructions for finding it are all in one place. I'll be ticking these boxes as they're completed.

     

    If anyone has suggestions for things I forgot, should improve, or otherwise change, let me know via a thread response or a PM.

     

    P.S: I still haven't been sent the clips for the compilation video.

  13. Posted

    Having been passed during the last stream, I resumed playing Dark Souls 2 after four months.  When I got to the Iron Passage, I was too intimidated to try due to the madness of last week, and based on my experience with the first Smelter Demon.  I decided to beat the other two bosses first and complete all other optional Iron King content.  After that, it was time to fight the Smelter Demon.  Knowing that I was likely to be at it for at least an hour, I decided to start listening to Idle Thumbs as I despawned the enemies of both gauntlets over the course of about half an hour.  After clearing them all out, I decided to do a run for the items in the normal path before attempting the boss.  In this item run, I managed to make it to the boss door having only gotten hit once.  It turns out spending all that time to clear the gauntlets wasn't necessary at all.  After crossing the fog barrier, I beat the Smelter Demon in one attempt and it wasn't even close.

     

    As for the video, it probably won't be done by Jan 1st as I'd planned since I still haven't been sent the clips.

  14. Posted

    I forgot about this thread!  For this ET, I just dropped the chandelier on him like every other dull person.

    On 12/4/2016 at 10:20 PM, Cbirdsong said:

    Narratively, is the idea that she asks these soldiers to show her around, which is why she has an armed escort?

    Apparently, she murdered the headmaster and 'discovered' his body.  The soldiers were there to investigate, and to protect her from the killer.

  15. Posted

    14 hours ago, Chris said:

    I'm out of town for the rest of the year so there's no chance of me doing it in that timeframe!

    Cool!  Would any of you with access to the Twitch account mind sending me the clip urls?  You should be able to find essentially all of them here: https://clips.twitch.tv/my-clips/channel

     

    Instead of getting each link manually, you can use this extension to save time: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copy-links/kcpoommnneaebpfgaoejklgemonkmjpc

  16. Posted

    I've been planning to make a compilation of the DS1 clips by the end of the year, but heard on one of the Nick's streams that one of you has considered doing it, @Chris or @Jake.  If that's the case, let me know so I can send some of my clips with less than 10 views (I made a few that I didn't share).  If not, let me know and I'll go ahead and start making it.

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, eot said:

    When did Nick see vagrants? I watched most of his play through but not all :/

    They were both runs to Gwyn in the second to last stream (parts 11 and 12, but I think only 12).  I think the second happened over an hour before he stopped.

    9 hours ago, eot said:

    Good job, skeleton

    Not sure I agree entirely. I think there's only one or two of those places where you might want to come back later.

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    Lost Bastille if you do it right after Pursuer, or Iron Keep if you get there early too.

    Even then they're very doable. Besides, doesn't SotFS gate your progress more with the things (you know what I mean)? I also read that you get the Dull ember super early. It's good to keep the fact that you always have multiple ways to go in the back of your head, I just don't think that every time you make progress you should immediately think to go somewhere else.

    It is an exaggeration as far as pure difficulty goes, but the game has a ridiculous and unenjoyable curve if you don't swap paths for a while.

  22. Posted

    Now that you're somewhat interested in it, Nick, here's a video from Dan Floyd of Extra Credits on the lore of DS1.  I think it's really worth watching for greater contextualization of everything you've experienced over the past two weeks (information starts at 2:39 for those interested enough).

     

     

    There is also one terrible habit you have that will destroy you in Dark Souls 2. You have the tendency to never want to leave an area/boss once you've started it, even if you're not ready or could spend 5 minutes getting better equipment.  Dark Souls 2's structure, essentially, is a hub with four main paths sprouting out, each of which has a few branches to other paths.  It is expected that once you beat a zone, you relocate and make progress in another path before returning.  In Dark Souls 1, it's fine if you move from the Duke's Archives to the Crystal Caves immediately, but those decisions can run you into a wall in Dark Souls 2.

     

    Feeona also ran into more crazy nonsense.

  25. Posted

    Nick was talking about his compulsion to glance at chat so he can thank new subscribers, even though it harms his ability to play.  Have you looked into automatic sub/follow notifications at all?  Feeona got her follow notifications up after one day of streaming, so you could probably ask her for help if needed.

     

    Also, fight that bullshit parking ticket.

     

    Edit: Once again, congrats on becoming a $255+ Dark Lord, Nick!  Now Jake is the only regular cast member who isn't a Lord of some sort.