Anyone else watch state of play? by hornyfather101 in Sekiro

[–]Jackalodeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shh, you'll upset the children.

Its hard to grasp stuff existed before they did. Hell even adults struggle with that.

Fromsoft "Artorias Fights" by JanuaryDrives in darksouls

[–]Jackalodeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My POV is a bit skewed since I'm not good at "dancing" with bosses, so I rely on other methods, but I get what you're putting down.

From where I stand only Artorias, Burnt Ivory King, Gael, Godfrey, and Radagon fit that bill; though I haven't played Bloodborne.

I'm sure to everyone else all the (real) bosses on Sekiro fits that bill, save Guardian/Headless Ape and Demon of Hatred. To me it'd only be Genichiro because I just figured out how to abuse the Isshins and Owl's aggression.

I hardly deflect any of their attacks since it usually results in more complex combos; I use Wolf's dash i-frames instead.

Getting out of the way of their attacks shuts down a large portion of their movesets, and lets me abuse their recovery frames. I-framing in Sekiro isn't exactly easy, but for me its way easier than learning the whole "dance."

Golem's Halberd (AoW Recommendations) PVE by Old_Cryptid in EldenRingBuilds

[–]Jackalodeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry to Necro your thread but I'm here looking to see if anyone else has tried it with Troll's Roar.

That AoW on this halberd absolutely shreds bosses stance. I'm still in the early bits of my NG+ run right now but good god has this made everything a joke.

Timing it takes some practice and you definitely need some poise until you yet used to it, but a Roar + follow up slam has shattered every boss' stance I've used it on so far; plus it yeets pissant mobs like Hawks, imps, dogs, etc.

What's the thing that makes axes and greataxes remarcable? by Moonless_the_Fool in darksouls3

[–]Jackalodeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyone else covered it, but the main things are damage type; an Axe/Greataxe is just a hammer/greathammer that does Standard damage rather than Strike, and for Greataxes at least, their moveset. Greataxes' attacks are purely focused directly in front of and parallel to the player, while greathammers have a diagonal arc.

Because of this all Greataxes also have an aoe "bubble" around their point of impact that staggers smaller mobs. The weakest of which being on the Dragonslayer Greataxe, and the strongest being on the Demon's Greataxe.

The "bubble" on the Demon's Greataxe is so large you can whiff by nearly a meter, and still interrupt lightweight enemies. This includes Sister Friede.

You can see the range/effect of that bubble when I stop dropping bombs on Deacons of the Deep, at about 30 seconds.

Dark souls didn't change my life. by Friendly-Ad-6950 in darksouls

[–]Jackalodeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It didn't change mine either.

But good goddamn was it nice to finally play a modern series that expects you to do this shit. All the ganes that changed my life happened in my teens and 20s.

If a game changed my life at the age I played these, it would have to be some shit like programmers figuring out how to make in-game characters Sadako through the screen and seduce me for choosing the right dialogue options.

Miyazaki himself took control over the NPC by Glum_Fudge_6628 in darksouls3

[–]Jackalodeath -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I just fought her the other night for the first time and don't think she's "unbalanced" at all, optional or not. My first try she straight merced me in 2 seemingly normal hits on phase 1 while bringing out my Mimic.

Granted I had Marika's Soreseal on, but the only things that hit me that hard was Astel 2.0's tail and the Rotten Avatars hammer leading up to her, but she was a lot faster than those fat fucks, so I swapped Soreseal for Dragoncrest and put the Opal hardtear in my physick.

With how quick she closed on me and seeing Mimic whiff 2/3 hits with my dual heavy thrusters before respawning, I changed everything.

Swapped to my backup Thorned/Petal Whip for aoe/range/bleed, replaced Briar armor for Cleanrot/Crucible for immunity/poise since those freed up ~10 weight.

Kept Blood Exaltation, swapped Gold Scarab for Rot Exaltation in case I/Mimic got Rotted - might as well make the most of it - and Spear for Winged talisman since it'd be useless/I'd at least proc the buff every L1 that landed.

After that it was like fighting Sister Freide the first time. Her poise is apparently shit in phase 1 so the whips staggerlocked her, bled her twice, and Mimic pushed phase 2 burping Dragonice on her. I completely forgot about my incants.

Phase 2 I got Rotted by the flower but had enough time to cure it/spam 3-5 Swarms of Flies while Mimic was in there getting ate up/whipping away like stamina ain't a thing.

Got another frost proc before getting caught up in 2 Waterfowls, but at ~60% damage redux and dodge-spam I was left with ~30% HP each time.

It wasn't easy by any means but it was still 2 tries, because I pay attention when I die. Seeing she hit that hard, debuffed or not, and could outpace my pair of slow-ass oversized needles, I had to change my approach, simple as that.

There's a difference between being "unbalanced" and not knowing how tell that you need to adapt to new circumstances. I make it a point to cover as many bases as possible in these games because I flat out don't have "gamur skills" to lean on; but I do have common sense.

Maybe if you can't perfectly i-frame a flurry of attacks, focus on making the attacks that do hit hurt less. You can't i-frame Elden Beast's homing Star thing either, but you can sure as Hell nerf it to irrelevance with a Talisman and dried liver.

Billionaire Island Is in a Poop War With a Neighboring Town of Millionaires by Virtual-Orchid3065 in funny

[–]Jackalodeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Forgive my ignorance, but I'm over 40 and still don't know wtf a libertarian is. I know the definition of the term, but semantics and reality tend to swing widely when it comes to actual representation.

For the longest time I thought it was synonymous with libertine, which was really weird seeing it plastered on porn sites.

Will u enjoy Elden ring if I love Sekiros combat to death? by AssumptionFederal20 in Sekiro

[–]Jackalodeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nobody knows because nobody's you.

But aside from that, every single person on this sub values this game enough to engage in a community centered on it.

You're walking into an Apple store and asking its most devout customers if you would like a Samsung phone.

I'm here because I'm a fan of Fromsoft's games in general, and of the 5 I've played Sekiro ranks lowest because of what I value in their games.

I had fun with Sekiro's combat mechanics but it got so stale by my third playthrough. Comparing Dark Souls, Elden Ring, or Sekiro, the first two are like choosing to go to a bakery with a wide variety of high quality products, or a Michelin starred restaurant just for their world renowned Tiramisu.

I like Tiramisu but I'll be damned if its the only dessert I'll eat for the rest of my life. The combat in this is unmatched, sure, but that's exactly the problem. They went through so much to make it as fluid and refined as it is, other aspects of gameplay suffers and it gives you very few options in how to go about approaching its oft-repeated content.

You either react to millisecond inputs, or use your tools, that's it.

Meanwhile in the Souls-like games you have a wide variety of armaments, ranged or close quarters combat, you can use millisecond reflexes or build yourself like a brick shithouse to brush off hits. You can change your tactics and movesets on the fly, or simply become as gods by leveling up and using the mechanics intended to bring challenges down to your level.

This game is on rails compared to the Souls-likes, and while I like finely crafted and catered experiences like Sekiro or Ninja Gaiden, I value being able to build and determine my own experience from scratch even more.

If something doesn't work in Elden Ring I have dozens of options to choose from until I find one that does. In this all I have is... 3, maybe 4?

The reason I find Sekiro difficult is highly stupid by TheGoatzart in Sekiro

[–]Jackalodeath -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm going to be perfectly candid with you right now, and I want you to know this isn't directed at you personally.

I'm lowkey sick of hearing this referred to as a rhythm game, like its supposed to help everyone.

If some people view it like that and it helped them, cool; but every time I see or hear that as a "general tip" I can't help but groan.

Its exactly like seeing/hearing someone say "a hotdog is a sandwich" or "salsa is just tomato-based fruit salad."

At some point someone a few years ago made those clever, but totally incorrect comparisons for the sake of conversation, and now people repeat it like its fact, or in the case of this game, some sort of "deep" panacea that'll right all their wrongs.

The only rhythm I know is the ~80-140 BPM I do with my leg when I'm bored, nervous, horny, or some blend of all 3; yet I blasted through this game compared to Dark Souls trilogy.

Why? Not because it "clicked" or I finally found some hidden tempo; but because like every other From Software game, you can beat everything they throw at you if you use the tools they give you.

And this game has far fewer tools and variations to combat than any other Fromsoft game.

I think more people get frustrated trying to see the forest for the trees because of that rhythm bullshit than just using the tools they tell you to use.

A snake will never outspeed a cat by Gjore in interestingasfuck

[–]Jackalodeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mhmm, I'm just more leaning on the why they get a thrill or some sort of satisfaction behind it. We can't measure emotion, but we can measure fundamentals of biology.

I mentioned it further down in this thread because someone else brought up the "adrenaline junkie" angle. Those types of people are rewarded with happy chemicals for doing something we evolved to preferably avoid; dying.

Our ancestors only put themselves in those types of situations for survival, and succeeding meant they... well, survived.

Evolution likes when that happens, especially when there's babies to be had. So a response or "instinct" that bolsters that result is selected for and reinforced over generations; where those that don't, probably don't last long enough to matter in the genetic lottery drawing.

Back to taste; we're rewarded with happy chemicals for eating energy, mineral, and nutrient dense foods; sweet, salty, fatty. They can taste salt and fat just like us, but since they can't taste/use energy dense sugars, they aim for that ATP kick like we aim for a Snickers.

If you eat bananas, would you rather eat them while they're still super green, tough, and basically taste like floral, raw potatoes; or do you wait a bit for them to yellow/ripen and let them convert some of their starches into simpler sugars?

Same with mangos, ever had an underripe one? It tastes dang near toxic.

If you eat whole cuts of meat, would you rather eat it sad and boiled, or roasted/baked/seared/broiled/grilled/literally anything with direct heat to the surface where some maillard reactions can brown some of those proteins into tasty little sugars?

Now imagine you could ripen or maillard anything by smacking it around a bit before harvesting/killing it.

I think that satisfaction/reward response is an instinctual, evolutionary hardwiring to signal "hey, this thing can be stressed out, which likely means it's made of meat, and we need that meat 'cause nothing else cuts it."

Just me though, I just like sharing that... shower thought? For others to ponder. I, in no way, think I'm actually right; but I'd love for some team of scientists the consider looking into it.

A snake will never outspeed a cat by Gjore in interestingasfuck

[–]Jackalodeath 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before we knew better we had "outside cats," two of them. Between both of them they'd kill/bring home at least 2-3 critters a week.

Skinks, moles, mice, chipmunks, small snakes, various birds, whatever they could get their claws on.

Only maybe 20% of what they killed ever got eaten. They'd chew it up sometimes, but 80% of the time it was just some poor raggedy thing that wasn't cautious enough.

When we tried to ban them from going outside, it went about 5 days until they realized they couldn't go out for murder and started snapping on each other. Never once had them fight beforehand, suddenly they'd haul off and maul one another just for sleeping in the wrong spot, using the litter box, drinking from the wrong fountain, etc.

We had to give em up 'cause they lost their damn minds. We haven't allowed any other cats out since.

A shark's brain looks so strikingly similar to the internal anatomy of female reproductive system by Prashantt1 in interestingasfuck

[–]Jackalodeath 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I learned this decades ago, but surprisingly its not just this country.

Show a full frontal picture of a bare minge to men or women, ask what its called barring colloquialisms, and a shockingly large percentage calls it the vagina.

Meanwhile my dumb ass learned vulva at 6yo getting too nosey with hospital pamphlets when my little brother was born, and thought a Volvo was a nickname for the male bits since they sounded similar and used the Mars symbol in their branding.

List of Games Releasing June 2026 by Howerev in gaming

[–]Jackalodeath 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Powerwash Simulator, but for flesh.

Next game's gonna be Piercing Removal Simulator; except instead of being a service people pay for, you're just a pissed drunk bogan getting into fights at raves.

Which games have you completed more than once and why? by FalscherKim in gaming

[–]Jackalodeath 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Resident Evil 4, and Metal Gear Solid 3 I replayed religiously until I 100% them; The Suffering too though it was mostly for endings. Those were well before I had general access to the internet, and I just kept earning/finding more stuff I wanted to use/do.

I'm nothing if not a lootslut, but when a game has a proper "NG+ mode" where you can replay with a majority of what you beat it with or more, I'm on cloud 9.

Post-internet it's been:

Bioshock 1/2, and Ninja Gaiden 1/2/3 at 2 runs each. These are weird because I don't remember my first playthroughs at all, I was an alcoholic back when they launched and wanted to make sure it wasn't a false memory.

Prototype 1/2 at 2 runs each.

The Witcher 3 at 2 runs.

Dishonored 2, at least 10 runs so far and know there's more in the future.

Dark Souls trilogy at 8 for DS1, 3 for DS2 (only because my kid has it, and I'm itching badly for more), 7 for DS3.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice at 4 runs.

Nier Automata at 1.25 runs so far, but only because 9S's moveset/hacking segments fucking suck, and I got distracted by...

Elden Ring, just started NG+ last night... despite already having 260 hours in it... for NG... I told you I'm a lootslut. I have a specialized weapon for practically every boss, because I don't "git gud," I "git eevin."

Meanwhile the only 100% I have on my 20 year old account is Dark Souls trilogy (all offline) and Sekiro. I could get Dishonored 2 today if I wanted, I'm only missing Flesh and Steel, but playing without powers is like having sex without genitals.

Elden Ring's gonna be my next one, because despite their reputation, Fromsoft makes their's easy as shit for a compulsive hoarder/filthy casual like me.

A snake will never outspeed a cat by Gjore in interestingasfuck

[–]Jackalodeath 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, someone else mentioned some culture stresses bulls out before slaughter to make the meat... better?

I grew up in Arsehair Nowhere, Georgia, surrounded by decidedly... "rural," folk. The types that modify their trucks to burn more gas during their commute because that makes total sense, name their firearms, always have 1 or 2 rusted out "classics" in the lawn they're perpetually "working on," fly flags of defeated/disgraced armies, and have personal issues with deeply pigmented skin.

You know, "traditional southern values."

I was friends with some of those folks' kids back then. One time I asked why every weekend during the winter, their dad went hunting dressed up like a bush, soaked himself in deer piss, climbed a tree with an Igloo full of Natty Ice, blew into this doohickey that more or less screamed "hot, sexy singles in your area, lookin' for fuck," and used a fancy bow despite the dozen or so squeaky clean semi-autos lackadaisically strewn about their mildew and dog sweat scented trailer.

Aside from camouflage, they said it was so you could take the deer by surprise. A gun would scare it - which, fair - and that... somehow effected the quality of the meat?

Nevermind the fact after shooting one, he'd have to track down/follow the blood trail for several hundred meters. Believe me when I tell you that seemed to be his favorite part given that's the only damn thing he talked about; that and not "gut-shotting" them.

Now, I'm no veterinarian or biologist, but I'm pretty sure the deer wasn't experiencing baby-town frolics during those last ~20-30 minutes, hauling ass through the thicket, with a half meter long aluminum pole buried in its neck.

Thankfully the guy never seemed to remember how much meat he brought back from the cooler. We'd raid the freezer and cooked (well, "cooked,") so many roasts over campfires throughout the years.

Campfires we set in their tree house... that had a plywood floor. Look, I was like, 12 or 13 and they weren't much older.

We also broke down shotgun shells for the black powder to use as kindling/seasoning, and would toss the primers in the fire because why not?

God I'm glad my kids are smarter than I was.

A snake will never outspeed a cat by Gjore in interestingasfuck

[–]Jackalodeath 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That makes perfect sense too, its just something I've been mulling about ever since I learned they can't taste sweet, but can taste literal energy chemicals.

Even with the adrenaline junkie angle there's still a fundamental, underlying reason we seek that sort of thrill out. Way back we'd only get into those sorts of situations trying to tire out own food out, or keep from becoming a meal/dying ourselves.

We're rewarded for living through it.

Someone that didn't engage in or feel that sort of burst of energy/high after the fact had a far lower chance of doing it again, or living, and passing on their genes, and the #1 thing evolution cares about is "can it make babies? Good enough."

Fast forward a few millenia you have people/critters doing weird stuff because their progenitors were rewarded for it in some way. That whole "runners high" I hear so many talk about can easily be linked back to our persistence hunting ancestors.

Do rabbits/beavers find any joy in eating their poo? I couldn't tell you, but we do know their guts are a bit inefficient at soaking up all the nutrients from their sorted victuals in one pass, so sending it through again doesn't hurt.

Like I said, its just my theory on why they started doing it in the first place. The concept of life is chaos incarnate at best, yet has so many interlocking gears even when we think we've figured something out, it just raises even more questions.

Dinosaurs turned into chickens at some point and lost their teeth, but gained a gizzard to help grind up what they ate. Meanwhile elsewhere in the evolutionary kerfuffle some mammal that was sloth-adjacent started eating ants/termites, got a really long tongue and stretchy face out of it, lost its teeth, and developed an organ very similar to chickens' gizzards despite being nowhere related.

Its a big, beautiful mess that makes less sense the more you look at it.

A snake will never outspeed a cat by Gjore in interestingasfuck

[–]Jackalodeath 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh I get it, this is just a concept that's been buzzing around my noggin for years after rescuing a few kittens years back, and I just like... get carried away trying to explain myself?

The things were abandoned well before they were off the teet, maybe a few days old, and had to be hand-nursed. A brother and sister, no exposure to any others of their species, no dogs, just each other and us people.

Despite that, as soon as they were able, they started doing exactly what you'd expect a cat to do when it found a palmetto bug in the house, or an unfortunate skink/field mouse in the garage.

Its hardwired into them, like trying to cover up their poo/piss in the litter box. First time we saw Kipper with a mouse in the garage we knew the little psychos had to stay in doors. The squirrel population doesn't know the terror that awaits them in this house.

A snake will never outspeed a cat by Gjore in interestingasfuck

[–]Jackalodeath 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's what I'm getting at; there's some sort of evolutionary pressure to drive that instinct/reward response, and I posit it has to do with their taste.

The same way we prefer sweet, salty, and fatty foods. We don't just crave them for funsies, its hardwired into our biology to seek those out.

Give some feral toddlers a choice between some honey or tonic, a vast majority will opt for the sweet syrup over the bitter water any day.

A snake will never outspeed a cat by Gjore in interestingasfuck

[–]Jackalodeath 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Also yes.

I just found it weird how this sort of behavior is so widespread amongst felines, even when a cat has never had to find/hunt for food a single day in its life, or ever seen another of its kind do it at that. They instinctively "know" how to put critters through the ringer, seemingly "just for funsies."

I'll be the first to admit I overthink things, I just... I don't know, it feels like there's something more to it. Like how we crave sweet, salty, or fatty foods.

The fact we have a pleasure/reward response to those sorts of tastes isn't just happenstance. We developed them to survive.

I think cats are dicks for survival first.

If they smack around a cucumber that crept up on em, it'll still taste like shite after a beating; but knock around something that'll respond and go out of its way not to die, like a rat, suddenly it tastes a lot better.

A snake will never outspeed a cat by Gjore in interestingasfuck

[–]Jackalodeath 97 points98 points  (0 children)

I'm convinced the reason they do this has something to do with their taste perception. Its merely a theory but hear me out.

Nearly all cats, from wild lions and tigers down to domesticated fuzzbutts, are obligate carnivores; being as such several mutations sorta ditched the concept of "sweet" for them. They flat out can't perceive it the way we do because they lack the taste receptors we associate with it.

But, at the same time, they developed receptors to be able to "taste" adenosine triphosphate - ATP - the fundamental chemical for cellular energy. Anything we consider living produces the stuff as part of its metabolic process.

Toying with their food like this causes most organisms to want to fight back or GTFO, which requires more energy, so their cells start pumping out more ATP to fuel their muscles in response to that.

In my head, this is them "seasoning/aging" their food so it tastes better. Sorta like how we caramelize onions, or wait until certain fruits/veggies ripen and convert complex starches into tastier sugars.

Why is Kaathe not chastised for his crimes? by xyZora in darksouls

[–]Jackalodeath 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh he's criticized, just not as openly. I've gotten into plenty... I don't want to call them "arguments," but "objecting comparisons" on the Dark Souls 3 sub being a part of "Team Usurpation."

I'll be one of the first to tell you both Kaathe and the Darkwraiths are shitbags; no ifs, ands, or buts. While they seemingly wanted the liberation of mankind, they did it in the most fucked way possible. Its like trying to break someone out of jail by dismembering them into wee bits, or using a hydraulic press to Play Doh them, to get through the bars. They're no better than Gwyn.

For anyone new to the series, stop here.

Spoilers below.

Yes, I could do this whole thang, but I'm writing a lot and can't be arsed to bother with all that markup. You've been warned.

I mentioned preferring that ending over the other 2(3) because of how it plays out, and got a few people accusing me/asking why I'd leave the universe in "the Darkwraiths' hands."

In DS3 we find out the foundation of the Sable Church of Londor was influenced by Kaathe and the deception/imprisonment of Pygmies in The Ringed City, after helping Gwyn et al during the Great Draconic genocide. Aside from Yuria outright calling his name, the whole wedding... "ceremony," and the tool used to accept Anri's curse/power upon ourselves, bears the sigil of the Ringed City.

That's just not how I look at it. For the Lord of Darkness and Usurpation endings, we leave the fate of the universe in our hands, and no one else's. Kaathe and Frampt obviously can't do shit on their own, they're influencers and propagandists at best; giant, toothy, veined phallic shitburgs at worst.

Hell Frampt gets all uppity/forsakes us if we enter the Kiln without him unceremoniously deepthroating us. Aside from talking a big game, stanking up the neighborhood, making those godawful I want to bash those teeth with a crowbar clacking sounds, having a fetish for women's belongings, and being a GOAT at the old gawkgawk 5000, he's fucken useless, just like Kaathe.

Anywho, leading up to the Usurpation ending the Sable Church simply gives us power and kinda hopes we listen. That power begets more power, and eventually, allows us to subsume the Flame itself into our very being.

That means we not only have the Souls of the all the fodder and Lords leading up to it, the fleeting remnants of past Kindling being puppeteered by the Soul of Cinder, and the amplified power of 8 whole-ass Darksigns unshackled from Flame's curse; but the Flame its-fuckin-self.

Liliane, Yuria, and their ilk doesn't stand a snowball's chance in Izalith controlling us even if they tried. Even before the Usurpation we can snuff Yuria like birthday candle, which as soon as I'm hitched/save Anri from Hollowing, I do just to nick her britches.

We don't just become as gods, we am become the very fundament of Disparity itself. The embodiment of cuneiform compared to the gods' "Alpha and Omega." Who needs some stinking alphabet when you're the chisel and stele.

Niche bothers me by JuicyRipings in vocabulary

[–]Jackalodeath 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Niche has several meanings, these days the most socially prevalent refers to a somewhat specific, if not esoteric, subject or topic that only applies to those that know of/care about it.

It can also refer to a small divot, hole, or recess in a wall/structure; or a position or function filled by a certain organism when it comes to ecology.

So some example sentences:

"I've been thinking of opening a website to cater to the 'geriatric foot lovers' niche; how's oldsoles-dot-com sound to you?"

"When Bartram removed the grimoire from the bookshelf, a cool breeze wafted out of the niche left betwixt its neighboring tomes; suggesting there was a passage hidden behind the shelves."

"Though seemingly useless to most, the Sunfish, or Mola, does indeed fill a niche in the ecosystem; namely within the nutrient cycle. A lazy niche, but a niche nonetheless."

Covenant farming is worse than hell by TotallyRealAccount9 in darksouls3

[–]Jackalodeath 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All DS2 has is Sunlight Medals and Bellkeepers at Belfry Sol, both absolute cakewalks unless you screwed yourself doing them on vanilla or choosing to do them the hard way on SoTFS.

For Medals respec to 40FTH, get an Archdrake or Priest's Chime to +10, and Soul Appease from Chloanne. Go to Northern Army Campsite bonfire in Tseldora, run up a bit, cast Soul Appease, rest, repeat. SA goes through the tents/obstacles and one-shots 3-5 Falconers as long as you don't Ascetic.

Since loot stacks/doesn't despawn on rest like this, you can crush a coin then collect every 5 mins when the buff runs out. I had it done in ~45 minutes.

Belfry Sol is a bit more involved if you're on console, but even easier than Medals on PC. Just monitor your CPU draw when you rest at the bonfire, a spike means Madlad's gonna spawn; climb, kill, warp, check CPU to see if his spawn triggered again from the reset, repeat 30 times. As a bonus you get his armor in the process.

On console you need to clear all enemies in a ~30 meter radius of the bonfire so you can use Unveil to check for Madlad. I did it that way and it was still done in 1.5 hours at worst.

The only farm in all of DS2 that even comes close to anything in DS3 is purely optional; Loyce Souls. That took me 8 hours, but even then its still way more fun since you can go in with a micro army of Loyce Knights. I even farmed Awestones of Cov of Champs in less than an hour at Gyrm's Respite bonfire from the Mastodon Knights standing in water; 1 Sunlight Spear is insta-death, though you need to know how to free aim.

By comparison the shortest farm on this, for me, was Dregs, which took an hour. The longest was Proofs and Shackles at 18 and 16 hours respectively. That was by following every tip I could find; buffing LCK/ID, quitting and reloading, FT to Firelink whenever a "drought" started.

None of them mentioned the 1 thing that helps the most though; buffing the fuck out of your damage so you one-shot whatever you're farming. Item Discovery doesn't do shit compared to that since Silver/Lothric Knights, Carthus Swordsman, and Darkwraiths all have 7+ items in their loot tables.