Bonfireside Chat - A Dark Souls and Bloodborne Podcast (Duckfeed.tv)

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Jeremy Greer talk about Lothric Castle.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Don't Give Up Skeleton
• Dark Souls Haters
• Rob Liefeld
• Anchorman Fight
• I don't want to give Alex Jones clicks. Suffice it to say he's a pus of man
• Dumbo's Feather
• Triple Play

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Irithyll Dungeon and the Profaned Capital.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Pig Masks
• Old Boy Corridor Fight
• Try This
• Million Dollar Baby as a verb

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Archdragon Peak.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Coming soon.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Stewart McGowan read your thoughts and prompts about Bloodborne and the Souls series in general.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight. LINKS OF NOTE: The Order 1886 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FK8dgzW0o8) Neon Struct (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llginnqhMBI) Ladykiller in a Bind (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhQKQ9kUMyw)

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Hyper Light Drifter.

Sekiro is different. Sekiro is hard. Sekiro is here! Listen in for our nascent opinions on the game, based on the first few hours. This episode is free and available for everyone, and if you want other episodes of Bonfireside Chat Rekindled, and want to hear the rest of the Sekiro season as it releases, please consider backing us on Patreon. (http://patreon.com/duckfeedtv).

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Let It Die.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the generalities and first couple areas of Salt & Sanctuary. We don't get very far in this episode, just up through the Village of Smiles. Next week, we go through the Mire of Stench. The third and final episode will cover the rest of the game.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Dave Riley talk about the Ashes of Ariandel DLC for Dark Souls III, and we cover everything up through the Depths of the Painting.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Fast Karate for the Gentleman
• Deadside Girl
• Pico Bundle
• Dave's Review
• Balto
• Silent Hill 3 thing referenced. Spoilers
• Silvia Rivera Law Project

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to the final moments of Dark Souls III. LINKS OF NOTE: Arabic Text in DS3 (https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4htsq7/til_archdragon_peak_contains_arabic_inscriptions/) Greatwolf fight (https://youtu.be/QHuR-CLgUMc?t=54 https://youtu.be/s2NYI36MmOk?t=61) Ben's Son's jam (https://soundcloud.com/arvonator/gwyn-lord-of-cinder-electronic-remix) Wings Challenge (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aUb-KFVFmY) Dark Insight (http://www.darkinsight.net/) Bill and Ted versus Death (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA5ryowAyLk)

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and John Hurst take one final look at Dark Souls. Please stick around for the next episode, which will be the proper conclusion to Bonfireside Chat as a whole.

This episode is a quick announcement to let you know that the way you get Duckfeed's premium content is changing. Patreon now offers individual feeds of all of our backer-only shows. This gives you control over what your podcast player downloads, and what you ultimately listen to. Since Patreon itself has this feature, we will no longer be using the individual show feeds on Fireside for our premium content. Those feeds will no longer be updated. Here's what you need to do: You will now need to subscribe to each show you want to listen to individually through Patreon. The process is very simple, just go to the Membership tab on our Patreon page. I've also created a detailed guide for you in the pinned post on our Patreon page. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/122629571) The delivery of public episodes isn't changing at this time. (So to get both the public and premium episodes of Watch Out for Fireballs!, you will need to subscribe to both the feed provided on Patreon and the public feed on watchoutforfireballs.com. I apologize for this duplication, there just isn't a way to handle it better at the moment). Very little else is changing at the moment. You will still get email notifications about every episode we post, regardless of what shows you subscribe to. If you miss the combined feed of all of our shows, what we called the firehose, we're sorry that it went away. You can recreate the effect either by using an RSS feed combiner service, or using features in the podcast app you already use to group shows together into one list of episodes. This feature is called Stations in Apple Podcasts, Overcast calls it Smart Playlists, Podcast Addict calls it Playlists. Pocketcasts doesn't have an option for this as far as I know. Patreon's multi-show RSS feature is still in testing, and there may be hiccups. This is also just one of many changes Patreon is making to make podcasting on their platform better for everyone, so expect more features in the near future. If you have any feedback about the experience, please write at info@duckfeed.tv. To sweeten the pot if this change makes you want to back us for the first time, or to become a patron again, use the code MULTIFEED (all one word) to get 20% off the first month of a new subscription.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Salt & Sanctuary.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Nick Daniel talk about Hollow Knight, up through the first visit to the City of Tears. Seriously, buy and play this game.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the generalities and Northern area of Hyper Light Drifter. The next episode will cover the remaining three areas and the end-game.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to the Ashes of Ariandel DLC.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight, a 2016 indie game with lots of Souls DNA. LINKS OF NOTE: Cave Story (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXEmc3P2fc) Previous Entries (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxmzBEnSUw&t=1s) Dragonfall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu2hyqDVOhA) Half Coordinated's Speedrun (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXtUwIW7cL8) Sylvia Plath (http://www.sylviaplath.de/) Tinker Knight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WgKPamy0CI) Doom Patrol (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP3jwjnvf4A) Tomie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomie)

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Vaati talk about the Consumed King's Garden and the Untended Graves.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Vaatividya
• Portamento
• Cut Oceiros sounds. Very hard to listen to, be warned
• Seether
• Elaine Dance

Rise, Tarnished, and attend the first episode about Elden Ring! There's no way to describe the great unclenching that happened when we realized that Elden Ring is, in fact, good. Whether that bears out over the course of the entire game remains to be seen, but we have high hopes. This episode covers our first impressions after about a week of having the game, and we also lay out our current reckon on how the season will shape up. If this is your first time here, we're Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross, a duo of hosts who make Bonfireside Chat. Since 2013 we've talked about Souls games in high detail, in addition to talking about FromSoft's earlier games, their influences, and the whole galaxy of Soulslikes that spun off of Dark Souls' popularity. This show comes out every other Sunday, and it's normally available only to our Patrons (http://patreon.com/duckfeedtv). If you back at the $5 tier you gain access to every Premium episode of Bonfireside Chat (https://www.bonfireside.chat/tags/premium), you can listen to hundreds of hours of patron-exclusive content. If you decide to back us, you can check out how to get your content by looking at this post. (https://www.patreon.com/posts/how-to-redeem-63283880) This episode and the next episode, covering the game's general mechanics and its opening, will be free for all. We really appreciate you listening.

This morning saw the release of the first trailer for the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC expansion for Elden Ring, and we think it looks pretty neat. So we recorded a little reaction episode and are making it available for everyone to share in the excitement. In this episode we also discuss our tentative plans for covering the DLC. Since it's releasing on June 21, 2024 and we need to play it before we can structure the season, don't expect in-depth coverage until sometime in July. We will likely put up a first impressions episode shortly after release to tide you over, though. Bonfireside Chat will return for what appears to be a lengthy season, based on all of the stuff shown in the trailer. The format of the show will likely remain unchanged, and Real Lich Hours will continue its normal release schedule as well. We're excited to have you along for the ride. Now let's go touch that arm!

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Mai Sinclair whirl through the broad strokes of Nioh. This is a very cursory glance at a very huge and complicated game. We extend a great deal of thanks to Mai for letting us borrow her expertise!

This is an unlocked, free-for-everyone version of our second episode about Stormveil Castle. Want more? Check out our Patreon (patreon.com/duckfeedtv). Happy Elden Ring Anniversary and DLC Announcement! We've been in the shadow of Stormveil Castle for the entire game, learning of Godrick's misdeeds... and it's time to make him pay. This episode picks up at the courtyard of Stormveil Castle and goes through the Godrick the Grafted boss fight, and we also talk about activating his Great Rune at the tower.

Having broken a Great Rune somewhere in the Shadow Realm, we now head south toward the Cerulean Coast, a beautiful region littered with gigantic stone coffin ships. But the path leading there is anything but obvious.

It's been a week since Elden Ring's expasion, Shadow of the Erdtree, released to everyone. We've been hard at work finishing the game and planning out the next season of Bonfireside Chat, and we wanted to take this opportunity to give you our impressions after we both finished our first playthrough. It's good! We have a lot to talk about. This episode doesn't contain story spoilers, but please take caution if you're extremely sensitive to knowing anything about these games before you play them. We can't talk about the game without talking about the game. Additionally, this episode is free for everyone! Please consider backing our Patreon so you can get not only the upcoming Shadow of the Erdtree episodes, but a huge backlog of our other work. If you already back us, please spread this around to anyone you know who might be interested! We will have news about when the season will debut soon. Thank you so much for your support!

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the final moments of Dark Souls III, and offer up some concluding thoughts on the game as a whole. LINKS OF NOTE: Skink (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VdsGHK0EHo) Dr. Strange (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSzx-zryEgM) Swiss Army Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrK1f4TsQfM) Bioshock boss (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9unY7dknck)

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Joshua Garrity talk about the Grand Archives.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Cane and Rinse
• Sound of Play
• Josh on Twitter
• Don't Take the Boy

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to the Ringed City DLC, and discuss the future of Bonfireside Chat.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Nioh.

In this special special appendix, Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your PVP stories from Dark Souls III.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Puzzletheory
• Action Half Life

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Nick Daniel continue their discussion of Hollow Knight.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross conclude their discussion of Salt & Sanctuary. This episode runs from the Dome of the Forgotten to the very end of the game.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Richard Pillbeam talk about the Ringed City portion of Dark Souls III's final DLC. Please tune in to the Appendix next week for important announcements about the future of the show.

Gary Butterifeld and Kole Ross read your responses to the Grand Archives.

Links of Note:

• Lore idea from appendix
• Hagia Sophia
• Fantastic Art of Beksinski

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to Hollow Knight.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Randy Walker return to Drangleic to say goodbye to Dark Souls II.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Randy Walker read your responses, prompts, and other musings on the Souls series.

This is a special announcement about a few important policy things, and a few big changes to our Patreon campaign. It's all good stuff. Please direct your attention to the public post on Patreon for the full text of the announcement, and pose all of your questions as comments on that post. Thanks!

This is an unlocked, free-for-everyone version of our first episode about Stormveil Castle. Episode 2 will come out next week. Want more? Check out our Patreon (patreon.com/duckfeedtv). Happy Elden Ring Anniversary and DLC Announcement! It's time we finally show that horny bastard Margit what we're made of, so we storm Stormveil Castle and find the horrors inside. This is part one of two, covering the Margit fight, the insides of the castle walls, Sorcerer Rogier, and the grisly grafting kitchens. Next week's episode will take us up through the Godrick fight.

On this first big episode of the Elden Ring series, we go over Elden Ring's mechanics and generalities in broad strokes. What's returning from previous From games? What's been improved? What's brand new? We talk about as many systems and aesthetics as we can, in order to establish a basic understanding before we dive into more lore-heavy parts of the game. In two weeks, we will talk about the Limgrave West portion of Elden Ring's world. This episode will be the first available exclusively at our Patreon page. (http://patreon.com/duckfeedtv)

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Brad Gallaway do a whistle stop tour of Let It Die. This is the first of a pair of episodes that will take a cursory look at some notable Big Deal Soulslikes. We extend a huge thanks to Brad for letting us borrow some of his expertise.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Richard Pillbeam talk about the Dreg Heap... the first part of the Ringed City DLC. Here we are, the beginning of the end. Next week will be an extra-long episode about the Ringed City proper.

Since we re-launched this show, people have asked us where to find the episodes about Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Though we explained it in a few places, it cannot hurt to do so once more here. Bonfireside Chat Rekindled is a show that's exclusive to our Patreon campaign (http://patreon.com/duckfeedtv). Main episodes come out every other week, and we will begin doing off-week episodes again shortly. For $5 per month you get a lot in addition to Bonfireside Chat, and we encourage you to check out our network's other offerings. So go become a Patron today to hear us talk about Sekiro, other soulslikes, and other FromSoft games!

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to the Consumed King's Garden and the Untended Graves.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Brandon Bird
• Uncle Deadly
• Our buddy Illusory Wall spawning vagrants

Hello, listeners and patrons alike. We come to you with some exciting news: We are changing the Patreon around! (http://patreon.com/duckfeedtv) It feels like we just did this, but the last major change was back toward the beginning of 2017. We’re trying to constantly observe what’s happening with the network and learn what to do better. That means making changes like this from time to time. We’re also aiming to never shake things up in a way that is too disruptive to you, the listener. We want to give more (or at least focus up and give better). So we put a lot of thought and consideration into making sure these changes either solve problems or help us achieve goals. Here’s the summary of what we’re planning, and you can find the details below. In order to grow the network, give patrons more, and cover rising costs, we plan to: Bring back Bonfireside Chat as a Patreon show. Give Patrons a whole episode of Watch Out for Fireballs! Move from theme months to covering big-name games more frequently. Change WOFF! Listener Response episodes to WOFF! Dispatch, make it more interactive, and have broader topic discussions. Make Adaptation Decay a monthly show. We are getting rid of the content store, and making premium episodes available on Patreon in perpetuity. We are phasing out the promise of physical goods, and sending out an “I’m Sorry!” package to people who never got theirs. In general, we are simplifying the Patreon drastically, while offering more at each tier. So without further preamble, let’s get into more detail. We want to grow. We want to grow in both listenership, patronage, and income. We are proud of the work that we do, and never want to stagnate in any of the aforementioned areas. Growth requires change. We want to give patrons more. The best way to keep listeners and members around is to always try to give more (or give better). This is also the best way to bring new people in. We are grateful to our patrons, past and present, and we want to make sure we’re giving them stuff they want. We want to meet rising costs. There are costs associated with doing this at the professional level. Traveling to live shows is expensive. Hosting, web services, applications, and equipment are expensive. Being self-employed is expensive (both Gary and I do this full time and need to cover things like health insurance). And since we’re covering more new games, we’re spending more on games! This is not a hobby for us, we’re committed to doing this full time as our main means of support, and this means keeping up with costs. People want Bonfireside Chat. And we want to give it to them. We also want to play to our strengths as a network whose bread and butter is games club content. We put Bonfireside Chat to bed when it felt like it was the right thing to do. We stuck with our guns for a long time. But with Sekiro on the horizon, and some damn-fine Soulslikes already here, it feels right to take the show out of cold storage. So we are bringing back Bonfireside Chat as a Patreon show, with a slightly different format. Listen to Bonfireside Chat 2.0 Episode 0 on the feed to learn more. Our first game is the Soulslike shooter Immortal Unchained! We want to value WOFF! appropriately. Watch Out for Fireballs! is the network’s flagship show. It also takes a lot of time to produce. We play through the entire game (whether it’s 1 hour or 100), research the games, write outlines that total in the thousands of words, record for hours, and edit. In looking at how to make this tenable in the long run, we have decided to make one episode of WOFF! per month premium. This does two things: It makes the Patreon more valuable for our members, and it incentivizes more membership. But don’t panic! When an episode goes premium, we will include a good portion of it on the public feed (up through the Generalities). So you still get something each week, it’s just that the play-by-play goes to members. NOTE 1: This won’t go into effect for January. We already announced those games, and we don’t want to revoke access to something anyone was excited for. NOTE 2: We will still have multi-part episodes, but we will never put a whole episode (Part 2, 3, or 4) behind a paywall. Only single episodes will get this treatment. WOFF! Theme Months are going away. This was a very fun idea. But it was also hell to plan for, in addition to other WOFF-based pattern incentives. So we feel like it has run its course. We want to exercise more control over the games we pick for WOFF! so we can pace out the year and cover exciting stuff. Anyone who has paid for a WOFF Theme Month will still get their topics covered, but after that hopper is exhausted the theme months will go away. We want the WOFF! Listener Response episodes to be more interesting. Right now, not a lot of folks listen to the letters episodes on WOFF. Additionally, not a lot of people listen to the behind-the-scenes episodes of DuckTRAX, and we don’t get very many prompts/responses. SO! We’re getting rid of DuckTRAX and changing the listener response episodes to WOFF! Dispatch. So the last episode of WOFF! for each month will contain responses about the games from that month, prompts and questions from the Patrons, and a segment that is a longer-form discussion about a particular topic. These will be fun experiments, and we hope you’re down for them. We want to do more Adaptation Decay Adaptation Decay is our premium show about how video games are adapted into other media, and it’s a fun show to do. Right now we have it on a very strange “8 times a year” rhythm. With DuckTRAX going away, we are taking Adaptation Decay monthly! The content store is complicated, and having content time-gated on Patreon is confusing and dissatisfying. So we’re not going to fuck with that anymore. If you back at $10 per month, you’ll get access to the firehose of content. Every premium WOFF, Bonfireside Chat Exquisite Suffering, Adaptation Decay, DuckTRAX, Try This… and whatever other one-off Duckfeed Presents stuff we make for you. We appreciate people who support us, and we want you to get your money’s worth, both in terms of the backlog and future value. We really biffed the physical goods. Under the old scheme, we offered physical goods packs and a DuckZine. We failed to deliver those, because we overestimated our ability to meet that logistical challenge. So the new scheme has no physical rewards. To say sorry for our past neglect of this promise, we will be sending out one large package to everyone who was qualified for those rewards (you should have already received an email about this). We are sorry that we disappointed you on this front, and there’s really no excuse. We hope the I’m Sorry package helps. We’re honoring our previous commitments. People who paid for theme months will get those theme months covered. If you have a WOFF! game demand or Abject Suffering demand in the hopper, that’s still there. The current Patreon scheme is complicated and we want to simplify it. We have a lot of reward tiers and stretch goals. Some of the reward tiers require backing for several months, which is confusing. In general, we let the Patreon grow tangled and weird, and we want to prune it down so it’s easier for you to pick the right tier. So, we’ve got less of everything, but what remains should be even more valuable. We are reducing the number of new shows on the horizon, because we are already stretched pretty thin. But there’s still stuff to aim for, and we hope this makes the Patreon much more valuable and friendly.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Jeremy Greer read your responses to Lothric Castle.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Gymkata

In this very special public feed episode, we're talking about late game areas with our audience and special guests Austin Walker* and SekiroDubi (*not pictured)!

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the remainder of Hyper Light Drifter.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses to DarkMaus... but there weren't any, so this is a listener mail grab bag.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross continue their discussion of Salt & Sanctuary, covering everything up through the Mire of Stench.

This is it. Thank you so much for everything.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Stewart McGowan remember and say goodbye to Bloodborne. This is the first entry in our "Victory Lap" season, a period of two months when we look back at the Souls series and talk about what worked, what didn't, and why these games were special enough to cover for all of these years.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the 2016 indie soulslike DarkMaus. DarkMaus is available on steam, and you should really play it with a controller. Also, please understand that this is an extremely difficult and unforgiving game.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Mitch Benes read your questions, prompts, and thoughts about Souls in general.

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross buy some time for the offseason by talking about their least favorite bosses from the entire Souls series. Don't throw rocks at us!

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Dave Riley talk about the remainder of the Ashes of Ariandel DLC.

Alex Eich, of the Blighttown Beacon, joins me for a look at our respective top ten bosses. As always for these specials, a hearty thanks goes out to the Souls of Darkness Kickstarter backers. Thank them mightily!

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the first volume of the 2016 Dark Souls comic.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and James Carter talk about Irithyll Dungeon and the Profaned Capital.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Cane and Rinse
• Retrofit
• Big Red Potion
• Richard's Excellent Youtube Series
• Midnight Resistance
• Patrick Moore...omg
• Storm King
• Not mentioned in the show, but here's another take on Seig that Gary likes but disagrees with
• The post where Sean references Seig a lot
• Gary's essay on DS3 NPCs
• King Under the Mountain

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Mitch Benes look back at Demon's Souls and offer their final summation.

The Top Ten (or five) specials are back as Gary talks with CJ and Paddy from the Twin Humanities podcast about their favorite SoulsBorne NPCs.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Aegon of Astora talk about Archdragon Peak.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Coming Soon.

Welcome to Lordran. There's some stuff you should know. This is it, the first episode of a podcast dedicated entirely to Dark Souls, and other Souls games. We encourage you to play along, and this will be a great starting point for Dark Souls veterans and newcomers along. We discuss the history of the game, the basic tennets of survival, and take you on a tour through the Undead Asylum and Firelink Shrine. The next episode will be all about the Undead Burg, up through the Hellkite Drake. Praise the Sun!

Links of Note:

• Slingblade
• Lords of Dogtown
• Gleaming the Cube
• Metal Gear Solid Skating
• The Greek Pantheon
• The Four Fiends
• Kurt Vonnegut
• Dark Souls Wiki
• Dark Souls Wikidot
• Bi-Weekly vs. Semi-Weekly
• "Titannica" - Mr. Show
• Oscar of Astora Dialogue
• Gumption
• "Road to Nowhere" - The Talking Heads
• Norse Mythology
• Resident Evil Save Room Music
• Crestfallen Warrior Dialogue SPOILERS
• Petrus of Thorolund Dialogue SPOILERS
• Watch Out for Fireballs!
• The Level
• Those Damn Ross Kids
• The Pitch
• Dead Idea Valhalla
• Burgin'

If you're playing along, we cover everything from the Aqueduct to the Bridge (you'll know it when you get there, trust me). The next episode will cover the Undead Parish and the Lower Burg. If you hit the sewers, you went too far!

Links of Note:

• Smasara
• Siddhartha
• Alf Pogs
• Breakfast of Champions
• Castlevania 2
• Roll video
• Experts Guide to Parrying
• Minecraft Computer
• Sometimes a Tooth is Just a Tooth
• Large Marge Highway Signs
• Fallout Low Int Dialog
• Miles Dyson Death
• The Sun Sphere
• Gargoyles
• Dove Charney

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your thoughts on the Undead Burg. Also, deleted scenes from the main episode.

Links of Note:

• Chute for Supplicants
• Mimic Survival

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Tyler Crumrine talk about the Undead Parish and the Lower Undead Burg. If you're playing along, we cover everything from the rats in the bridge up til the goat demon with the dogs. The next episode will cover the Darkroot Garden through the Depths. If you hit the area with all the poison, you've gone too far! Note: for the purposes of the show, we are considering "Darkroot Garden" to be the areas from the Prowling Demon up through the Moonlight Butterfly. The Hydra and Sif are reserved for later.

Links of Note:

• Ninjas vs. Podcast
• White Blocks
• Parliament Funkadelic
• Parliament Dunkadelic
• Lisa Frank
• Resident Evil Door Knob
• Haunter>
• Scizor
• Chop Chop Master Onion
• Siegmeyer Dialoge (SPOILERS)
• Faces of Dark Souls
• Andre's Hidden Depths
• Andre's Dialogue
• Slingblade
• Apse
• Dark Souls Map Viewer
• Lautrec Dialogue (Spoilers)
• Revolver Ocelot
• Looney Tunes cut of meat
• Protect your neck
• Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
• Body in a barrel of rum
• [Please do not occupy narrow spaces]

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Tyler Crumrine talk about your experiences in the Undead Parish and Lower Undead Burg. Also, we introduce the new Errata segment, and share some deleted scenes.

Links of Note:

• It has to be your bull
• Geop's LP
• Back to the Future 1 and 2 synced up
• Cracked: Back to the Future is terrifying
• Operation Dumbo Drop
• Kindle the Bonfire

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Russ Frushtick talk about the Darkroot Garden and the Depths. If you're playing along, we cover everything from the Titanite Demon up through the Gaping Dragon. The next episode will cover all of Blightown, including the trip back to Firelink through the Valley of the Drakes.

Links of Note:

• Bioshock Gardens
• Eden in Fallout 3
• First boss in Super Metroid
• Jumanji
• Evil Dead
• The Devastator!
• Action-Park!
• The Happening
• Outlaws Green Grass and High Tides
• Nobody Suspects the Butterfly
• Coffee eaten by cats?
• James Lipton

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about your experiences in Darkroot Garden and the Depths. Also, errata, and deleted scenes featuring Russ Frushtick.

Links of Note:

• [Forest Gump Soundtrack
• 100 White Albums
• Hall/Oates
• Edging
• Boogerman
• Frank Miller is an Asshole
• Bill Hicks
• James Adomian as Lewis Black
• Under Sen's Fortress
• STARS Lava resistance
• Nothing But Trouble

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Nick Glauber talk about Blighttown and the Valley of the Drakes. If you're playing along, we cover everything from the Blighttown Gates through the Valley of the Drakes (leading to either Firelink or Darkroot Basin). The next episode will cover all of Sen's Fortress.

Links of Note:

• Nick's Twitch.tv Page
• Pre-taped call in show
• D.A.R.E.
• Giant Hole Swallowing Up Your House Added To List of Things To Worry About
• Crazy Town - "Butterfly"
• The Great Outdoors
• Christina Hendricks
• Chinatown Ending
• Shiva of the East Lost Dialogue (SPOILERS!)
• Prepare to Cry Daughters of Chaos (SPOILERS!)
• Fair Lady Dialogue (SPOILERS!)

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Nick Glauber continue their discussion of Blighttown by reading your responses on the matter. Also, errata and deleted scenes.

Links of Note:

• Channeler Dance Video
• Under Sen's Fortress
• I Say We Let Him Go!
• Crimson King
• Nuts and Gum

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Levi Curran talk about Sen's Fortress. If you're playing along, we cover everything from the Sen's Fortress gates up through the Iron Golem. The next episode will cover all of Anor Londo and Alternate Anor Londo. Please Note: After this episode, all spoiler moratoriums will be lifted. Listen at your own risk if you have not beaten the game.

Links of Note:

• Temple of Elemental Evil
• Tomb of Horrors
• Frampton Comes Alive
• Superframpt
• Prepare to Cry on Tarkus
• Dark Souls Barrel Game
• E: Grick
• Sen's Fortress on Blades
• Dr. Light
• The Rock
• Chinese Moon Bears (Do not read. Sad)
• Problem Child

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Levi Curran read your thoughts and responses about Sen's Fortress.

Links of Note:

• Primeval Demons
• Wall Hugger
• Chode? Taint? Grundle? Nacho?
• Battletoads Pause Music

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Bob Mackey talk about Anor Londo. If you're playing along, we cover Anor Londo in its entirety. The next episode will cover the Return to the Undead Asylum and the Painted World of Ariamis. Please Note: As of this episode, all spoiler warnings are off. Proceed at your own risk if you have not beaten the game.

Links of Note:

• Retronauts Kickstarter
• Retronauts T-Shirt
• Rastafy Poochie
• Bob Mackey Something Awful Column
• Bob Mackey Joystiq
• Bob Mackey's Dark Souls Review on 1UP
• Brass Armor Description
• Dark Souls Characters Unmasked
• Iron Tarkus Prepare to Cry
• Thirty Flights of Loving
• Hermit Crab Stress
• Obnoxious Friend Won't Stop Attaining Major Life Milestones
• House of Leaves

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Bob Mackey read your thoughts and responses about Anor Londo.

• Translation Doc Link
• Satusuki
• Custom Mimic Texture
• Bash Bros.

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Murph Murphy talk about the return to the Undead Asylum and the Painted World of Ariamis. If you're playing along, we cover everything up through Priscilla. The next episode will cover Darkroot Basin and the New Londo Ruins. Please Note: As of this episode, all spoiler warnings are off. Proceed at your own risk if you have not beaten the game.

Links of Note:

• None

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Murph Murphy read your responses about the Painted World of Ariamis. Also, deleted scenes.

Links of Note:

• Prepare to Cry: Heroes of Firelink
• Video of how to Skip Estus Flask
• Shock of White Hair in It
• Dark Souls 2 gameplay footage
• Bring me Red Pages
• Moonside
• Beetlejuice Lost Souls Room

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Brayton Cameron talk about Darkroot Basin and the New Londo Ruins.

If you're playing along, we cover the Hydra, Sif, and all of New Londo (including the Four Kings).

The next episode will cover the Duke's Archives and the Crystal Caves. Please Note: As of this episode, all spoiler warnings are off. Proceed at your own risk if you have not beaten the game.

Links of Note:

• The Pitch
• Cheers Theme Song
• Snake Rattle and Roll
• Egret
• Crystal Lizards
• Dusk of Oolacile
• Metal Gear Solid 3 Ladder
• Mana mana!
• Pharis
• Pharis's Hat
• Disney's Robin Hood
• Shiva of the East Cut Side Quest
• Pink Tail
• Skeletor

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Jeremy Greer talk about the basics of PVP in Dark Souls.

Links of Note:

• Dark Souls Haters
• Youtube - NotECEC
• GiantDad
• No True Scotsman
• Karmic Justice Build
• Gary's Skype Image
• The Estus Eatery
• PitchPod Twitter

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Brayton Cameron read your responses about the New Londo Ruins and Darkroot Basin. Also, deleted scenes.

Links of Note:

• Priscilla's Dagger
• Mimics have fingers for teeth
• Sif in Real Life
• There's a Moon in the Sky, It's Called the Moon
• Brain Camp
• I Wish You a Turtle Christmas
• Bicycle Safety Camp
• My Spidey Sense is Tingling
• Dragonstrike
• Prison Sex
• House of Leaves
• Raw Shark Texts

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Dennis Furia talk about the Duke's Archives and the Crystal Cave. If you're playing along, we cover everything from the Stacks up through the final fight with Seath. The next episode will cover the Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith. Please Note: All spoiler warnings are off. Proceed at your own risk if you have not beaten the game.

Links of Note:

• Demon's Souls 5-2
• The Duke - Stevie Wonder
• King Ralph
• Anor Londo Desperado
• Tree Man
• Astrolabe
• Thanks Obama Mod
• The Holocaust Never Happened
• Secret Castle
• Kevin Trudeau
• Snatcher
• Dark Souls Young Turks
• Alarm Cutscene
• Gricks
• Put the Candle Back
• 10 Things You Didn't Know About Dark Souls
• Moonlight Greatsword King's Field
• This American Life Cryogenics Episode

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Dennis Furia read your responses about the Duke's Archives and the Crystal Cave. Also, deleted scenes.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• FM-2030
• Yes Roundabout
• Falcor
• Kalameet vs. Manus
• 10 Things You Don't Know About Dark Souls
• Ornstein vs. Smough

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Vivienne talk about the Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith. If you're playing along, we cover everything from Ceaseless Discharge to the Bed of Chaos. The next episode will cover the Catacombs and the Tomb of the Giants. Please Note: All spoiler warnings are off. Proceed at your own risk if you have not beaten the game.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Design Works Interview
• This trick only works once
• Tree Lizard
• Caeseless Discharge Trick
• Rampage
• Your music's bad and you should feel bad
• Load-Bearing Boss
• Orange Charred Ring
• Drider
• Demonic Statue
• House Centipede
• Frog Fractions
• Angkor Wat
• Bounding Demons
• Chaos Eaters
• Vampire Slide

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Vivienne read your responses about the Demon Ruins and Lost Izalith. Also, deleted scenes.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Duke's Archives Episode
• Pre-Taped Call In Show
• Jet Force Gemini
• Labyrinth Doors
• Unacceptable Condition
• Abject Suffering - Pac Man 2
• Patches Cosplay
• Elcor
• Don't Starve
• Terraria
• The Music Man
• Ludo

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Will Owens talk about the Catacombs and the Tomb of the Giants. If you're playing along, we cover everything from the Graveyard up through the Gravelord. The next episode will cover the Artorias of the Abyss DLC. Please Note: All spoiler warnings are off. Proceed at your own risk if you have not beaten the game.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Skeleton Jokes
• HP Lovecraft LIterary Podcast
• Is Pinwheel three people?
• Little Rascals
• ICP
• Dino DNA
• Leeroy Jenkins
• Agro Crag
• McJordan Sauce
• Italian Horror
• Tommy Boy

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Will Owens read your responses about the Catacombs and the Tomb of the Giants. Also, deleted scenes.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Pre-taped call in show
• Abject terror
• Dave Mirra
• Black Metal/Burzum/Until the Light Takes Us
• My watch has been magnetized
• Lakini's Juice
• It was a Good Day, a specific Good Day

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Jon Wolf talk about the Artorias of the Abyss additional content. If you're playing along, we cover everything from the Sanctuary Guardian through Manus. The next episode will be an Appendix about Speed Running. Please Note: All spoiler warnings are off. Proceed at your own risk if you have not beaten the game.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Dungeon Mister
• Dragon Strike
• Dark Souls Connectivity Fix
• It's Always Sunny Wedding Dress
• Manticore
• Chimera
• Dark Souls Lightning in Water
• Woodstock '99
• Super Mario Movie
• Map of Lordran
• Falling Down
• The Arena (EQ)
• Does Anybody Want a Peanut
• 15 Mysteries You Didn't Know About Dark Souls
• Emerald Weapon
• Lisa Trevor
• Shirley Chisholm
• Map viewer DLC vs Lordran
• Achewood Googly Eyes
• The Polyphonic Spree - "Light and Day"

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Jon Wolf read your responses about the Artorias of the Abyss DLC. Also, deleted scenes.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Home Movies

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and ubergoose talk about how to go fast in Dark Souls.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• UberGusMage Youtube
• UberGoose Twitch Channel
• Santzo84 Twitch Channel
• Vviking Twitch Channel
• Dark Souls Speedrun.com
• The Sunday Sequence Break

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Jeremy Greer reconvene to take a more in-depth look at PVP in Dark Souls.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Shield Only Speedrun
• Depths Shortcut
• It Gets Better
• Dark Souls Haters
• Red Rosie Mega Griefing
• Lifestraw
• Dark Souls cut boss
• Fun Time is Over
• Elliott Ness
• Patches PVP
• Groundhog Day
• Resurrecting Aeris
• Rasputin

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross talk about the Great Hollow, Ash Lake, and the Kiln of the First Flame in this thrilling conclusion to the Dark Souls season of this program. Tune in to the Appendix episode to hear details about the next season, which will be about Demon's Souls.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Beksinksi
• Low Level One Shot Boss Challenge
• The Hollowed Killer of Lordran
• The Crimson King
• Kodos
• The Prim
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Brooks

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses about the endgame of Dark Souls.

LINKS OF NOTE:

• Craigslist
• Shaq Diesel
• Santa Claus and Coke
• Neuticles
• Sam Simon
• Guys and Dolls
• Waifu Pillows

Welcome to Boletaria. There's some stuff you should know. Fear not, because Gary and Kole are not dead. Even though we've exhaustively covered Dark Souls, there are still more Souls left to conquer. This begins season two of our show, in which we discuss Demon's Souls in depth. Fans of the show will find no surprises here... we're still talking about every stage in Demon's Souls in a way that brings new info to Demon's Souls veterans and newcomers alike. This introduction episode covers the history of the game world, along with a discussion of the Tutorial section and the Nexus. The next episode will cover 1-1 and 1-2. LINKS OF NOTE: White People are like... Kristen Schall OPB Zero Punctuation Perchance to Dean Tall Drink of Water

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses about the intro to Demon's Souls. LINKS OF NOTE: Over 9000 Salty Bet Smash Brothers Prison Architect An American Tail The Aristocats The Aristocrats - HazelrahFirefly Bob Pollard

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Jason Killingsworth talk about World 1-1 and World 1-2 of Demon's Souls. If you're playing along, we cover everything up through the Tower Knight. Next episode, we're going to talk about World 2-1. LINKS OF NOTE Press Select Roger Rabit The Cable Guy Disney Transformation 10,000 Maniacs Deku Mask Mewtwo Epic Name Bro Ico Phalanx Shadow of the Colossus You Have to Burn The Rope

Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross read your responses about World 1-1 and World 1-2 of Demon's Souls. LINKS OF NOTE: Skylanders Penny Arcade Pita Faces XKCD - Achewood Perry Bible Fellowship Three Word Phrase Freedom Center Dogs Can't Look Up

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Jon Wolff talk about World 2-1 of Demon's Souls. For this episode, we do everything up through the Armor Spider boss fight. Next episode is about 2-2 and 2-3, up through the Dragon King. LINKS OF NOTE: Forgotten Realms Valve Level Design Lore Q RE5 Lava Snidely Whiplash Tucker

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and Jon Wolff read your responses about World 2-1 in Demon's Souls. LINKS OF NOTE: Junior Adelberg Pepe A Machine for Pigs Gone Home Spoilers! Transistor Dumbo's Feather Capra Gif Magical Game Time Latchkey Kingdom

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and CoffeeJezus talk about worlds 2-2 and 2-3 of Demon's Souls. For those following along, we play everything up from the Armor Spider through the Dragon God. Next episode, we'll talk about world 3-1, up through the Fool's Idol. LINKS OF NOTE: Twin Humanities Podcast Cane and Rinse Dungeon Ecology BJ and the Bear Stranger's Wrath Austin Powers Golf Cart McTeague A Rag, a Bone and a Hank of Hair IEDs in Empty Soda Cans Starsky and Hutch Emarrel is Amazing

Gary Butterfield, Kole Ross, and CoffeeJezus read your responses about Worlds 2-2 and 2-3 of Demon's Souls. Also, stay tuned at the end for a blast from the past, from when Kole didn't like Dark Souls. LINKS OF NOTE: ENB Dark Souls 2 Sif Statue Lacrima Mortis Stuff you should know Cars Dio Muppets State of Decay DTR Episode 131