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    Dark Souls I just got to Quelaag and someone before the fog door put Amazing Chest Ahead. You can imagine my facepalm in her intro sequence.

    August 13, 2020

    Dark Souls I just got to Quelaag and someone before the fog door put Amazing Chest Ahead. You can imagine my facepalm in her intro sequence.

    I just got to Quelaag and someone before the fog door put Amazing Chest Ahead. You can imagine my facepalm in her intro sequence.

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 05:46 PM PDT

    Legendary.

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    DR. DARK SOULS or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Brain

    Posted: 13 Aug 2020 01:38 AM PDT

    I originally posted this on /r/ADHD, but I wanted to share it with you guys as well.

    I play a lot of video games, but I'm in no way a "hardcore" gamer. I generally play on Normal difficulty because I assume that's how the developers intended the game to be played and have no drive to "challenge" myself. I'm easily frustrated and generally play games to relax.

    I bought Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition in May, 2014 largely due to the many people in my circle telling me that I was missing out by not playing it. I immediately threw myself at it with gusto, because if a game gives me a character creator I'm generally more forgiving of any of the perceived issues it has. It's a notoriously difficult game, I knew that going in, but more and more I started feeling like there was a maliciousness in the design. I perceived a mean-spiritedness in the way the game would throw something at you simply to shout "GOTCHA!" in its ominous, red-lettered YOU DIED screen. But I made progress, inching my way forward, grinding my teeth the whole way.

    But 12 hours later, I was well and truly stuck. I had finally conquered the Roof Gargoyles and rung the first bell. The next step was to make my way into the Depths, which meant facing the Capra Demon, considered by many to be the most unfair mini-boss encounter. You need to navigate an incredibly tight space, while dodging two vicious dogs and a 3 meter tall monstrosity wielding swords the size of my character. Over and over I died to those damn dogs, often before I could get a swing in. I was so angry. I looked up the fight online, waded through the ever-helpful "Git Gud" comments and found people who were giving good advice that my hands just wouldn't follow.

    Eventually, somehow, after hours of banging my head against the problem, I did it. I don't even remember how, but I got past it. And after that fight, the next few encounters seemed like a breeze. Until I stepped into a hole and fell into a pit full of Basilisks.

    If you're not aware, the Basilisks are googly-eyed frog fellas that emit a gas that causes the CURSE status effect. If your CURSE meter fills up, you die immediately, regardless of how much health you have. And when you revive, your maximum health is cut in half, with only a few very out-of-the-way methods of ridding yourself of the curse.

    After dying to this Basilisk trap, with my already meager health in tatters, I quit and uninstalled the game. This game isn't fun, I said to myself. I'm miserable. I hate myself. I hate this game. I hate everyone that told me to play this. This is just another stupid gate-keeping thing gamer-bros use to make themselves feel better about being losers.

    A few year later, I got my ADHD-C (Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder – Combined type) diagnosis. And suddenly so much of my life started making sense. I started learning coping mechanisms to help with the emotional issues I was experiencing. I also found medication that worked for me, it was like taking gauze off of my eyes and seeing the world clearly for the first time.

    Part of learning about ADHD was also finding out certain "quirks" of mine were normal, documented aspects of the disorder. My lack of awareness when it came to time, or losing things I had in my hand two minutes ago, not being able to understand what people were saying when there was a lot of stimulation going on in the room. And finding out about RSD has literally changed how I understand myself and my interactions.

    Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) is an aspect of ADHD that isn't commonly discussed. We all know about ADHD people being easily distracted or acting abnormally. But what isn't often brought up is how much the RSD aspect of ADHD is as much, if not more of a problem as all the other symptoms combined. None of the professionals I spoke to about my ADHD brought up RSD, I found out about it with my own research into my disorder. And ADHD materials often skip over it completely.

    People have often told me that I take things far too personally, or that I'm really hard on myself. I don't take compliments on-board and I hold myself to an impossible standard. I always thought it was just because I was depressed, or because I craved acknowledgment from a parental figure that I lacked as a child. But RSD means that I do not process rejection or failure normally.
    My wife, who does not have ADHD, will drop in a glass and be a little annoyed, I drop a glass and it will literally ruin my day. I will spend the entire day using that broken glass as proof of my stupidity.
    I also can't watch cringe-comedy, Michael Scott literally makes me run out of the room. I can't stand it, everything in my body wants me to get away from the uncomfortable social situation. RSD made me into an anxious wreck of a person.

    So when Dark Souls proclaimed YOU DIED across the screen, I felt a physical fight-or-flight response as well as a torrent of thoughts in line with "God you're so fucking stupid, you're useless, this game sucks, you suck even more because you can't even play this game right, you should just kill yourself". It's like having a forum full of edgy 13 year olds in your brain at all times. It's not great.

    But finding out that this is what I have, that it's abnormal and not a universal experience… it's changed my life and how I interact with the world. When I feel that chorus of voices go off in my head, I step back and look at all the steps I took to get to that point. I'm more willing to try and to fail, because knowing the hurt is coming and that it's not real, it makes it so much easier to bear.

    It took me 69 hours to beat Dark Souls for the first time this year. That was after I had to restart from the beginning after I reached the infamous Ornstein and Smough, as I realized that my frustration was originating from a poor character build. I sighed and tried again, beat them on my second try with the new build.

    The second time took me just under 40 hours to beat the whole game. I'm now halfway through Dark Souls 3, a new convert to the series and to Souls-like games in general.

    Dark Souls isn't bad, it isn't unfair, and it isn't all the things I said to myself. I'm not stupid or useless, my brain is just wired differently. And understanding that wiring has helped me overcome this hurdle and enjoy a truly memorable experience.

    Thank you for reading, I hope this helps someone finish their Dark Souls equivalent.

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    Dark Sign in real life.

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 04:04 PM PDT

    Dark Sign Galaxy

    Found this in my news feed and couldn't help but think maybe Hidetaka Miyazaki was actually an alien, warning us about his dying world.

    (No I'm not serious about that, but still. Pretty neat)

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    My Praise the sun tattoo

    Posted: 13 Aug 2020 12:40 AM PDT

    https://imgur.com/gallery/OMLgmIF

    As you can see my arm praised the sun recently lol

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    Just got the 100% platinum in Dark Souls II SOTFS (already got the platinum in the original version years ago). I now have the platinum in every "Souls" game, including Bloodborne and Sekiro... So... Um... Now what?

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:29 PM PDT

    Really want to have sex with Lonesome Gavlan

    Posted: 13 Aug 2020 03:14 AM PDT

    Well guys, I fucked up.

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:05 PM PDT

    I went to Firelink via elevator after beating the Parish and the Burg and instead of that 1 dumbass cleric there were 3 and a lady. Tried talking to them but they were cunts so I talked to the lady, who is also a cunt. I figured meh, probably just need to be human. These guys don't like Undeads apparently. A bit racist but whatevs, away I go to the bonfire. Come back as human and guess what? They're still cunts. So I swung on the halbred dumbass like 5 times.

    You know what happened then, Fam? They rekt my shit. I mean REKT my shit! Over and over and over again until I decided to buy some sorcery from black robe guy. Didn't work, still rekt. Then I tried pyromancy from hobo looking guy to even less effect. Now I've just resigned myself to avoid that area because those cunts are fucking bullies and they just fuck me up everytime I'm in view.

    Bet this kind of thing never happens to GiantDad.

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    I did it!

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:49 PM PDT

    I got down to blighttown and killed the big spider lady on my first try! Holy hell I love this Black Knight Halberd!

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    I finally beat Ornstein and Smough and nothing has ever felt so good

    Posted: 13 Aug 2020 01:47 AM PDT

    After an entire day of trying to figure out how to kill the the Dragonslayer while avoiding those cheap shots he takes while hiding behind his girlfriend Smough, I decided to head all the way down to firelink, grinding up on the way to upgrade my weapon, I even went back to Undead asylum to collect titanite and say what's up to the gang, come back and summon Solaire to distract fat boy and fight Ornstein in peace. So there I was on, my last humanity, no estus flasks, last life bar, one hit left. It was him or me. Too bad he made the mistake of jumping into the air for his hammer slam thingie thinking I wouldn't respond with a simple roll and a running slash to end the discussion. Which I did. No revenge has ever felt so sweet and those 80 000 souls really changed my financial status. But Solaire😔😔 Solaire hath fallen

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    After 10 days of grinding on my spare time and a few punches on the desk: finally got my Platinum Trophy for DS1

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 09:32 PM PDT

    Wow, at last I got it! What a game ladies and gentlemen, what a game. Definitely the best RPG I have played so far, and I'm a BIG fan of RPGs overall (though I arrived a little late for DS). My thoughts on what makes it so great:

    • Numerical attributes for character building
    • Deep lore shown in various abstracts forms
    • Amazing (and beautiful) world design, lots of passages between areas that get the game flowing
    • Great number of possible armor sets, weapons, rings and play-styles
    • Well constructed characters (such as Solaire, Laurentius, Siegmyer) given the scarce dialog and background provided
    • And of course, extremely challenging until you get the hang of it

    During these 10 days I have:

    • Took a serious beating from Gaping Dragon, O&S, Four Kings and specially Manus
    • Killed Vamos too soon on my first run - I put the controller on my lap while I checked online where to find red titanite slabs and accidentally hit R2Then he starts saying something like "My name is Blacksmith Vamos and I ain't your lil bitch" and I was like FUUUUUCK NO! then those little fuckers with the spinning wheels outside went and killed him while I desperately tried do homeward bone out of there.
    • Had to put 20 faith on my build because I simply couldn't manage to be a sunbro to a host who would not kill himself on a boss (I did find one guy though) and I needed to join the covenant.One time I found a player in front of O&S as a sunbro (after at least one hour of waiting, I was so hyped) and we even bowed to each other and shit (I thought "Yeah, this is it, this guy right here") then the minute we entered the boss area he LITERALLY fucking jumped on Smough, got hit, flew 15ft away and died. That's when I stopped my sunbro grinding (can't imagine how it was when the original prerequisite for this covenant was 50 faith)
    • Cut Kalameet's tail and got the Obsidian Sword - probably the most rewarding moment after Knight's Honor trophy popping out
    • Was severely underwhelmed by Gwyn's performance as the last boss. But to think of it, a decrepit old man whose essence has been nearly consumed by the first flame, fighting mindlessly to protect it - it does make sense. And the ambience with the amazing soundtrack (my favorite, Pinwheel's theme is second) and Solaire fucking shooting rays of light from his sword (ok, that breaks the mood a bit) was just on point. Everything seemed to lead to that very moment.
    • Felt like a God when playing through NG+ and basically running over every single boss now that I knew their moves and had stronger weapons/armor - this game has such a great learning curve. It was really fun and overall an extremely different experience! Was expecting something harder, but in almost every way it felt much easier.
    • Felt like a Titan when playing trough NG++ and getting trough all the mandatory bosses before the bell + Sif and rushing through Anor Londo to get to the Giant Blacksmith and make all the boss weapons
    • Got the trophy and melted in pure bliss lol

    I'm gonna take a break for a while to focus on some projects (plus, this was intense), but I'll be fangirling about FromSoftware and Miyazaki for a while now. Got DS2, DS3 and Bloodborne already on hand, can't wait to give them a shot.

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    Am I ready to be the Chosen Undead again....

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 07:30 PM PDT

    about 2 months ago I started my first journey through Lordran as an undead wanderer, with some knight telling me I have to light some bonfire to make s'mores with four fire benders... I bested the Taurus demon and slain the gargoyles to ring the bell of awakening, but it took me going down to yucky blight town and killing some spider lady and ringing the second bell of awakening to wake up some sleepy giant and raise the gates so onion bro could go to Sen's funhouse... I went through the forest and killed some giant butterfly and Artorias' pet doggy Sif that was guarded by these two kitty cats... Then I begrudgingly went through Sen's fortress and watched some guy fall to his death in one hit. Then Some ugly looking bats took me to Anor Londo where I had to battle Pikachu and Snorlax (thankfully sun bro got my back). Then I became Mario and went through a painting (because this IS a good game)... Then I saw an awesome chest that gave me the Lord vessel. I went back to Firelink shrine after what seemed like years and made my way down to the catacombs where I killed the boss in one hit. After that I went down to the New Londo Ruins, drained the swamp and had to fight four old guys... Then some snake dood told me that I was the chosen dark one and have to NOT light the bonfire.... So I had the choice, go with good snake guy and light the bonfire, or side with dark snake guy... I sided with the evil snake because the wiki told me I get cool gear. Then I made my way back to Anor Londo and up the Duke's archives to slay Seathe the naked mole dragon... After going back to Firelink Shrine I decided to go back down and face my demons and fight the Witch of Izalith.... Then my PS4 decided to be a little b*tch and shut down on me, turning on its pulsating blue light of death.

    Good thing is I am able to get it fixed with a new motherboard, bad news is I probably lost all my save data since I don't have PlayStation+ and I get my PS4 back this Friday. So the question is... Am I ready to be the Chosen Undead again, or should I let go of this dream of finishing this fantastic game that I love so dearly.

    I think you already know the answer.

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    Losing my mind getting to the second boss [DS1R].

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:03 PM PDT

    So I'm on what I believe to be the route I'm supposed to take after leaving the prison. I've been fighting zombie soldiers in some cliffside castle town. The soldiers I can take on just fine by now. And I'm capable of making it to the boss room (y'know, the goat dude with the club). But there's no bonfire before the boss room that I can find, and I have no idea how I'm gonna take on the boss itself. So there's two solutions to this problem: Find a bonfire that's close to the boss door. Or two, figure out how I'm supposed to beat the fucker going in to avoid hours upon hours of tedium as I work my way back to the boss room, only to gain next to no information. Any help with either of those by chance?

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    Tips for helping a new player

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 07:27 PM PDT

    I've finally convinced my sister to play dark souls with the agreement that I'll help her in the game.

    I intend to take her on the normal progression path through the gargoyles and down through the depths. I was just wondering if any of you guys have any tips for how I should help her?

    Should I try going pyro for good damage and support? I'm not going to troll her. What's the best way to help assist her and what would be the best build to help her start off.

    She doesn't really play video games and this will be the most challenging game she's played by a long shot so I'm just trying to make the experience smooth for her.

    I've personally already beaten the games several times so don't worry about spoilers

    Also is this the best game to start her off on or should I try another? I personally started with bloodborne and did this game as one of the later play throughs so I don't know if it would be a good place to start.

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    Aww Great

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 09:22 PM PDT

    So I defeated the Gaping Dragon. And now I'm in Blighttown I've gotten to the first bonfire in it. I have the Elite Knight armor and leggings and I think the Shadow Helmet and Shadow Gauntlets, I also have the Uchigatana +5 And I have Havels Ring and the Wolf Ring. And also. I do not like those blowgun people that shoot the toxin darts lol.

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    Do you agree that the challenge in pinwheel is getting to him from those bonewheel skeletons?

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 03:40 PM PDT

    Just finished Dark souls 3

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:37 PM PDT

    Today I finished DS3. This is my second souls game after DS1 remastered. In the beginning I really didn't like DS3 because of the world design and combat were so different from the first but about a quarter way through I started to really like it. I would rate it 8/10 where as DS1 for me was a 10/10. I'm starting DS2 now and I'm hoping it will be more like the experience I had with the first game, I've read a lot of negative reviews but honestly I feel like I cherish different things about these games then most people so we will see. Definitely need to get a play station at some point though cause I'm dying to try Blood Borne. How did you guys like DS2 compared to the other games? Why is it so hated on?

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    I was just reading about the 1% drop rate of the Balder Side Sword, and I just casually got it from a balder bro in the church.

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 10:28 AM PDT

    Just casually strolling there to get to 20,000 souls after the butterfly so I can buy the crest. I was just reading and I was like, yeah no way I'll ever farm for that. I'm going for a 27/40 quality build with my claymore, and it's actually my first play through, but should I toss my claymore and use the side sword because of the rarity?!?

    Edit: I wish I could give it to someone who's wanted it. It's not my style....more of a dragon slaying mid-weight hack and slash kind of player...

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    NG+8 Adventures: I killed all the zombie dragon butts in lost Izilath

    Posted: 13 Aug 2020 04:21 AM PDT

    I got all achievements and so, in looking for more to do, I went thru Izilath and slowly killed all the zombie dragon butts, and of course all the taurus demons in the ruins. Anything else like this I should do for fun?

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    Hardest Boss For You?

    Posted: 12 Aug 2020 08:19 PM PDT

    Which boss gave you the hardest time or which boss gave you the most deaths?

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    When Scooby Doo and the gang decide to take a trip to the Depths

    Posted: 13 Aug 2020 03:42 AM PDT

    Need Help 4 Kings PC SL30 WL 10

    Posted: 13 Aug 2020 03:39 AM PDT

    Assert Dominance in Dark Souls Remastered

    Posted: 13 Aug 2020 03:33 AM PDT

    Hi fellow undead, I run a small YT channel mainly focused on Fromsoft titles in my spare time, and my latest video, a tongue-in-cheek look at various different ways to assert dominance in Dark Souls is up now so if you have a spare 5 minutes then please give it a watch:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEJUSG49CrU

    Don't you dare go hollow!

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