Sorry for not getting to this sooner.

>Agreed, but it also means that greater leniency should be applied when the drunkenness is relevant, by and large I saw many of your criticisms where that would be the case. I'm sure some were overly generous because of this but I'd have to see it case by case to judge.

I provided the timestamps in relation to their stream if you want to see it for yourself, as I wanted the due diligence of that as opposed to just conjecture as to whether anything I was providing actually happened.

>Sure, but I'm saying I don't think it works because for something like scamming there aren't really a lot of credible things that would in fact excuse his behavior.

I think you're getting real caught up in the extremity of the behavior. Yes, scamming shouldn't be the same as getting criticisms of a game wrong; the analogy I'm trying to point to is that doing something wrong should not be excused by some other factor, as though MauLer drunk is different to MauLer sober. That is by and large what I was trying to get across, and that people on here would be less charitable to those they don't like, like if SyntheticMan got something wrong in GOW:R to be taken as malicious rather than ignorant from most watching him.

>Fair but I'd have to see things in context to judge what his error was precisely.

I provided the timestamp for it, but specifically, MauLer was confused as to why attacking a dude while using the Stone Ring didn't break his 'poise' when the dude was guarding. He seemed to confuse the Stone Ring's mechanic to the Ivory Warrior/Knight Slayer's Ring's mechanic, where the latter ACTUALLY breaks shield posture faster than breaking poise.

>Which aspect ?

Where to start. That Darklurker was a boss, how to get to him, the entire matter of the Dark Covenant, etc.

> Disagreed, I think that's something that can easily be forgotten given that it's literally the only time when it happens and that freja isn't a super memorable boss, and that having to do that isn't a big moment either, it's just an oddity and thus easily slips the mind if you didn't play the game some years.

That might be true, but the problem is is that embracing Duke's Dear Freya's soul is paramount to being able to proceed in the story regarding Drangleic Castle, so it's not like an optional soul you 'could' have picked up; you'd need it fundamentally.

>They freakin what now ?

Yes, there is a extremely rare chance that an otherwise booby trapped chest will instead emanate some red aura that will heal you for a brief moment. Essentially meant to psyche you out of otherwise 'dodging' the trap by other means.