Don't Give Up Skeleton: A Dark Souls and Bloodborne Podcast

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Episode 103: EllieJoyPanic Dec 13, 2017

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This week's guest is the extremely nice EllieJoyPanic. Ellie and I have been twitter buds for awhile now, and she's good friends with quite a few if not all of the English guests that have been on the show. She started playing Bloodborne, her first real Souls game, not too long ago and rushed through it. I caught up with her towards the end of her first playthrough to talk about her experience. Enjoy the episode, y'all!

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El ❄️ (@elliejoypanic) | Twitter

Episode 102: Bryan May Dec 06, 2017

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This week's guest is Bryan May, another friend of mine from the Duckfeed.tv community (I know, I know, take a drink). Bryan and I discuss his history with the games, and why he feels the Souls series has left him behind to some extent. Enjoy the episode everyone!

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Episode 101: Paul M. Davis Nov 29, 2017

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This week's guest is Paul M. Davis, a friend of mine from the Duckfeed.tv community. Paul and I met in person a year or two ago, and instantly decided he needed to be on the show. He discusses how he got started with the game, and how Dark Souls 2's depiction of dementia is one of the most accurate in a video game. Enjoy the episode!

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Megaten Marathon

Episode 100: Jason Killingsworth Nov 22, 2017

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This week's guest is the great Jason Killingsworth, one half of the team that literally wrote the book on Dark Souls. Jason was one of those people that inspired me to do this podcast, even though I don't think he knew that until we recorded this episode. Jason has been into Souls since the very beginning, and has wrote numerous articles on the series. This conversation drifts in between Souls and life, religion, and how Dark Souls can teach us lessons on parenting.

If you're reading this (and I have no idea how many of you read these notes), I just want to say thank you for listening and/or guesting. Episode 100 is just a number, but it seems like an accomplishment. Over 100 individual guests, all with their own unique stories, all told in their own voice in their own way. I've been remarkably lucky to have all of you listeners and guests. I'm writing this before recording the intro of the show, and I'm planning on rambling a bit thanking people there as well, so I'll try to keep this brief: Thanks!

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Jason Killingsworth
Jason Killingsworth (@KillingsWords) | Twitter
You Died: A Retrospective — Jason Killingsworth
Dark Souls review: Is a 100-hour video game ever worthwhile?
Opinion: Long live the long RPG - Edge Online — (Note: this is the web archive version of Jason's response to Michael Thomsen's Slate essay, and as such all the image links are broken, but the text is still there)
You Died – The Dark Souls companion
Keza MacDonald (@kezamacdonald) | Twitter
Jason and Miyazaki, at From Software HQ

Episode 99: Garrett Nov 15, 2017

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This week's guest is Garrett form the Going Digital podcast! Garrett and I sat down to talk about his thankfully actually existing Souls history. How many times does he try the games before he finally finishes one? Find out in the episode!

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Episode 98: Kou Nov 08, 2017

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This week's guest is Kou, who has a deep and powerful love of Bloodborne. So much so that we spoke for a full hour about just that game and somehow managed to forget about the Chalice dungeons. Oops! I know y'all are going to love this one anyway, though.

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Episode 97: Joe Donnelly Nov 01, 2017

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This week we have Joe Donnelly on the show! Joe is a writer for PC Gamer and a huge Souls fan. He and I sat down a few months ago, ostensibly to talk Souls but it ended up going all over the place. It's a real fun conversation! Unfortunately, the audio gods weren't smiling when we recorded, so Joe's audio is a bit rough in places. On top of that, we lost a good 5-10 minutes of audio right in the middle. I still think it's a great episode, though, so why are you still reading this? Go listen!

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Joe Donnelly (@deaco2000) | Twitter

Episode 96: Barry Oct 25, 2017

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This week's guest is Barry, a guy that got into Dark Souls a big way despite his mate's best effort to scare him off. Barry and I talk about his progress through the games, what it was like playing Demon's Souls last, and why his partner hates the Souls games now. Y'all are gonna enjoy this one! Thanks for listening, skellies.

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Episode 95: Jessi Oct 18, 2017

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This week's guest is Jessi, an extremely filthy wizard and now co-host of the Salt Report podcast (seriously, go listen to the Salt Report podcast, it's extremely good and funny, and is entirely made up of former guests of this show). Jessi is an illustrator and artist who hasn't played all the games, but approaches them from a unique perspective. She agreed to sit down with me and discuss her funny names for Bloodborne bosses, why Souls handles women and gender so well, and to bring up friend-of-the-show Niki approximately 100000 times. Enjoy!

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Episode 94: Stephen Rhodes Oct 11, 2017

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This week's guest is Stephen Rhodes, a games writer that has definitely worked on at least one of your favorite games. He and I sat down to talk about his history with the series, starting way back when Demon's Souls came out. We talk about all of the games, how Dark Souls influenced games writing, and a bunch of stuff in between. Be sure to check the links for more of Stephen's writing. Thanks for listening!

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