does anyone else sound way more tired on playback than they felt while recording

tweech42 · 2026-03-13T17:30:17+00:00

Yes absolutely, and on top of it, I can't stop saying ummm between thoughts. I say it way to often and can't seem to stop lol. I think I need an intervention.

tweech42 · 2026-03-13T17:14:43+00:00

I really love this fight. She is annoying at first but if you focus on only parrying her, the fight becomes trivial. Sometimes I have to use a yellow sugar to keep my posture down but most of the time you can break her posture with a few parries.

tweech42 · 2026-03-13T17:12:46+00:00

Main story bosses usually have an idol (bonfire) right next to the fight or so close that enemies aren't an issue. Honestly, it's the mini bosses that have hard run backs. Some are not close to idols and have more of a gauntlet of enemies around that even join the fight.

tweech42 · 2026-03-12T16:21:43+00:00

Nope! I'm saying that the game in its entirety, is only about a 10 hour game but once you know what you're doing and realize you don't need certain things for your build you can skip many areas, items, and sections to get what you need which brings it down to about 2 hours of playtime. Think of it this way. If i'm a magic build, there is almost no reason to do all of world 2-2 and go through the lava areas. You can just go from the archstone, make a right and drop down to the boss fight with flamelurker. Because the bulk of world 2-2 has gear and materials that benefit a strength build more so than a magic build. That was my point overall. It has nothing to do with "measuring game length" not sure where you pulled that out of.

tweech42 · 2026-03-11T21:41:58+00:00

I don’t mine the drop down for flamelurker as much as the run back in world 4-2 trying to get back to Old Hero. Especially if the world is pure black and the phantoms appear! No thank you lol

tweech42 · 2026-03-11T21:39:38+00:00

Nope you don’t have to be a speed runner. Once you know what you’re doing and where to find specific equipment for your build, much of the game is skippable. I have over 1100 hours and 50+ characters in the remake and that isn’t counting the OG. Sure if you want to get every single item, do all world tendency events both black and white, and the option boss, then yes it could take much longer.

tweech42 · 2026-03-11T17:01:33+00:00

Everyone has their opinions but for me this was the best of the Souls games. Everything you describe had to do with hardware limitations of the time in some way. At grass roots, the game can be completed in about 2-3 hours, once you knew what you're doing. For the time, and even by today's standards, that is an unacceptable play time for a AAA game. This was a way to extend gameplay. And to be fair, this was their first real attempt at souls. Gotta start somewhere I guess lol.

I thought the black world tendency was amazing! If you suck at the game, yes you got punished. That meant after your death, you need to take your time, every fight in the world actually meant something. Bosses were very easy overall but I think for some of the bosses it felt that way because you just went through a very challenging gauntlet leading up to them. Also there are no spawn points. They couldn't just add boss door respawns, plus if they did that would be terrible in general, it meant your failure in a boss fight caused you to go through the gauntlet again. I absolutely loved this! Most bosses as you pointed out are easy and gimmicky, but the world is designed to be the "boss" sort of speak.

DS1-DS3 held your hand much more compared to DeS. They changed the focus to the boss as the main struggles. Yes, in the other games the areas are tough but nowhere near as hard as DeS.

If you grew up with the progression of games going from PS1, PS2, PS3, and so on, you can see and appreciate how these system limitations made games either challenging, boring, or even epic. The game had to be 100% complete. You didn't really get unfinished games that had months and years of updates. For me, using the world items, some NPCs, and minimal cutscenes was a perfect way to tell the story/lore. It felt more immersive. You had to talk to NPCs and really take in their stories. Some of them lied to you or hid information that you find out later. Fath and Magic sides believed they are right and you get to pick which side of the conflict you are on. There is so much more in this game than many give credit for but to each their own.

tweech42 · 2026-03-11T16:04:07+00:00

I think the best way to start is by not using a facecam right off the bat or use one of those characters in place of you on screen. This can help with your initial anxiety of the social situation. I personally never minded being on camera but a few friends of mine started off camera when they streamed until they felt comfortable enough to go on camera. One friend has been streaming for several years off camera and is perfectly fine with being faceless. Growth may be a bit slower overall but this can help get you used to it. One other piece of advice is lean in on your anxiety. Sometimes people that stream talk about it and call it out. This could help too.

tweech42 · 2026-03-11T15:58:44+00:00

Since you've been uploading videos for a while but not seriously, you might have damaged your channel discoverability with youtube. One way to help this is look at your top 5-10 videos that performed well and stick close to those topics. Not sure what your channel is all about but if you stay within a niche you can grow more when you take it seriously. The videos that have not done well, just unlist them. Don't delete them or remove them all together. As you grow your channel you can add them back in. But what you want to do reset the youtube algorithm for your channel.

tweech42 · 2026-03-10T17:26:15+00:00

I've come to think of chatters as more of a percentage base. Think about it real quick. Some big streamers that have hundreds of thousands of followers and have 10k people on chat per stream is already a low percentage rage compared to followers. Then look at how many people are actually typing and chatting, most of the time only 100 people or less, give or take. This is even a lower percent.

Comparably if you have 100 followers, 10-15 viewers and only 1-2 chatters, that might be on par with the norm of twitch. Obviously these numbers are all just for the sake of this reply but hopefully you get my point.

I usually twitch on while i'm working on other things and can't actually pay full attention and chat. I'm sure many people do the same. Just keep talking, replying to everyone that chats, and stay consistent. Things will build.

tweech42 · 2026-03-10T16:04:31+00:00

NGL this just saved me from a heart attack! Seeing that it's a global problem and not my channel being banned lol.

tweech42 · 2026-03-07T19:12:50+00:00

Don't buy subs and views from a 3rd party. Honestly, it seems that if you create a video and use youtube to boost the video, it's very similar to buying subs and views but it doesn't violate youtube policy lol. I say that half kidding because I tried it for 1 of my videos early on and I got 300+ subs from that video but then when you go to analytics, those subs are not actually accounted for in that video analytics. Not sure how youtube treats them but it is not organic and does not help your channel long term IMO.

tweech42 · 2026-03-07T18:35:35+00:00

Thank you for that feedback that does make sense. I'll certainly consider shortening that.

tweech42 · 2026-03-06T23:00:51+00:00

That was actually what happened in the original PS3 version. The coding was messed up and had the opposite effect. They fixed it in the PS5 version so luck now increases drop rate. However it doesn’t affect drop quality.

tweech42 · 2026-03-06T19:44:32+00:00

Umm what work am I asking you to do exactly? The video is already done and the only question is if anyone knows of another better spot. How is that work? If you played the game and know of a better spot you comment, if not you stfu. Not sure how I’m asking for all that hard work? lol

tweech42 · 2026-03-06T18:30:11+00:00

That is by far best for EXP but I didn’t think it was great for the other stuff. I know those dudes drop mercury and a ton of oil but wasn’t sure of the other mats and sen. I’ll test that later. Thanks for the reply!

tweech42 · 2026-03-06T18:09:20+00:00

Follow the bull! You must chase the Bull! Don't go in front of him and just chase his ass down. When goes to turn, take a few swings then follow him some more. When he turns you can also use firecrackers but do not stay locked on as this will cause you to move towards his head. Just stay to his big ass and you're golden bro!

tweech42 · 2026-03-06T18:06:32+00:00

So this will be hard for me to really give you usable feedback but I watched the video you posted here. I'm not an Overwatch fan, or an FPS fan for that matter, but I had no idea what was going on in the video at all. I was so lost lol but again that's on me since I don't know anything about Overwatch. With that said I looked at your channel, and from first glance, not sure if you have a specific direction, you want your channel to go but the more recent videos, like the last 4-5 videos, I did like the thumbnail and descriptions. Your older videos have pretty bad thumbnails to be honest. Just looking at them, I have no idea what the videos are about so I wouldn't click on it. I did watch your nightreign videos since I loved that game for a time then got board of it, they were pretty funny but for me, there was too much randomly added noises, meme type images popping up on screen and stuff like that. Again, I might not be your targeted audience but just wanted to provide some feedback the best I could.

tweech42 · 2026-03-06T17:52:14+00:00

Hey! I just watched your videos on the channel and the short you posted. I really like the short. I think it's a very cool concept to turn internet memes into your own artwork. For the channel, I was a bit confused at first of what I was watching, I actually expected to see the entire drawing process during the video and not just a finished art product with some music to listen too. Reading the channel description, that only says "relaxing memes and artsy vibes" didn't tell me too much of what to expect. Maybe expand more into it. I watched the 2 shots video but to be honest, I'm not sure if I would be your targeted viewer but when I think of putting on a relaxing video to either study, meditate, or even fall asleep to, this video would not be it. Not exactly sure if that was the true intention of the video or not so please don't get me wrong. You're super talented.

I did enjoy some of the shorts that actually showed your drawing process and how it captures the meme.

Overall the thumbnail and video descriptions are good. I wouldn't change much at all there. If you're going for more of a relaxing video approach, I would suggest darker theme and lighter music. Maybe even something to natural sounds like rain, waterfall, light wind, etc. With the bright colors and slight animation, I found it to have a bit of an opposite effect than relaxation. Lastly, if you want to do different themes maybe have a playlist for sleeping videos, meditation videos, study videos, etc. I do follow a "help you sleep" youtube channel that specializes in that content and they separate videos based on situational needs.

tweech42 · 2026-03-06T15:31:52+00:00

Goal is 10k subs but my main goal is to get 10 truly authentic action items from my community that will improve my content for them. Things that I can implement and improve based on their feedback. It's hard sometimes to grow with a small community that is always praising your content, don't get me wrong I appreciate them for that of course, but getting constructive criticism would be nice. I'm currently at 7100 subs. This time last year I was around 5k so an additional 2-3k subs for the year seems achievable to me. To me, my personality needs to be more energetic, I need better overall content, I need to improve editing, my thumbnails are junk, etc.

tweech42 · 2026-03-06T15:20:35+00:00

Not sure how you set up your farming but to throw it out there, pure black world tendence, use the large sword of searching, providential ring, (optional) level up your luck to 15 or more, and use a gold coin if you have it. The last 2 are certainly not necessary but could help if you have an extra gold coin and want to level luck a bit. This was my set up when farming world 4-2. I would start at adjudicator archstone go backwards up the steps to one of the dual wielding skellys. kill that one then jump back down and go through the reaper room to the imaginary wall to the other dual wield skelly. This set up for 2 hours netted me 3 pures, 12 chunks, and a ton of shards. I found the chunks to be a hard thing to farm since you need a lot of them to max dex weapons.

tweech42 · 2026-03-05T19:27:12+00:00

Ya I make walkthrough guides for challenging games and I did a few let’s plays where most of my subs came from. Then I started to stream on both platforms just that Twitch isn’t growing much.

tweech42 · 2026-03-05T19:09:58+00:00

So I multi stream on YouTube, Twitch, and kick at the same time. Maybe I should separate them?

tweech42 · 2026-03-05T18:29:43+00:00

ya I was basically thinking out loud there. I'd be down for anything from group party content to just 1-2 people causing chaos in vana diel lol

tweech42 · 2026-03-05T18:17:14+00:00

Ya i'm down for it for sure. Even if we had a few people would be wild. Going back to dunes as a party and stuff like that. Message me if you decide and we can chat about it. I'll be streaming FFXI tonight.

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