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

Hey folks! This week's guest is Nick-Foo, an artist and very big fan of Bloodborne. Her and I sat down to talk about why Bloodborne inspired her to draw fanart, and also why it's just a dang good video game. Y'all are gonna enjoy this one. Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Don't Give Up Skeleton: A Dark Souls and Bloodborne Podcast Episode 74: Zach, from Lordran and BeyondWhat a Lucky Thief: Page 1 - Lordran & BeyondArt of Nicole - HomeNick-Foo (@ZeroGiblets) | TwitterFan Art stuff

Hey folks! This week's guest is Danny O'Dwyer, a name you may already know if you pay attention to video games at all. Danny worked at Gamespot for years, and is now running a crowd-funded video game documentary series called Noclip. I have links to my favorite eps of that in the show notes, but I'm going to reinforce it here: the video on Warframe is extremely good, and worth your time even if you've never played or heard of the game. Danny was nice enough to sit down and talk about his unique experience playing the game in this extra long episode, and I KNOW you are going to enjoy it. Special thanks to AllisonByProxy for putting this bug in Danny's ear, and thanks of course to Danny for agreeing to be on the show. Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing t

Hello everyone! This episode is quite a bit different from the usual. Recently, I was introduced to a game called Immortal:Unchained. I believe I've mentioned it on one or two episodes of this podcast, and if you've been following me, or Twin Humanitities, or SenPlus on Twitter, then you probably saw us talking about it. I was struck at how many Demon's Souls/Dark Souls vibes the game was giving me, so I wrote to the developer and asked if any of their staff had played the games, and if so, would they be willing to come onto the show and talk about their experiences. I was very surprised and delighted when they got me in touch with Johannes, the Lead Level Designer for Toadman. We sat down and talked all about Immortal, and just a little bit about Dark Souls and how it relates to the game. Forgive me for geeking out a bit, I was pretty excited! I hope you enjoy this as something a bit different from the normal Don't Give Up, Skeleton episodes. Thanks for listening everyone! Don't Give Up

Hello folks! This week's guest is Devon, a writer and artist who has gotten into Bloodborne/Souls just this year. Don't let that fool you, though: she's one of the biggest Bloodborne fans we've had on the show. We talk about her love for the stories and the characters, and just how darned attractive most of them are. Y'all are gonna enjoy this one! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:The Dragon Prince on Netflixdevon giehl

Hey folks! This week's guest is Chase, a friend of mine from the Duckfeed community. Chase walks me through all of his experiences with the games, including what sounds like an incredibly fun way to play through Demon's and DS1 for the first time. Enjoy! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Majula (My Town Vr.) by bansheebeat | Free Listening on SoundCloudStardew Valley publisher Chucklefish's next venture is Spellbound, a wizard school simulatorAnother PathChase G. (@TQLoudly) | TwitterAnother Path is creating podcasts! | PatreonShakesbeer — Lionface Productions

Hello folks! This week's guest is the extremely nice Kat, who came to video games late but has really embraced them. Her first Souls game was Bloodborne, but she's played almost all of them (when are we getting that PS4 Demon's, Sony?) since then, and done some extremely hard challenge runs since. Check out her Twitch and YouTube to watch some of those. Enjoy! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:KatTheWolf (@KatTheWolf1) | TwitterKatTheWolf1 - TwitchKatTheWolf - YouTube

Welcome folks! This week's guest is Oodles, an author and huge Bloodborne fan. He talks about finding Bloodborne for the first time, and what inspired him to begin writing his own fiction about the universe. From there we get into Dark Souls 3, the rest of the series, and what he wants to see in the future. Enjoy! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Oodles! THE WEREWOLF KING!

This week's guest is Lewis S, a teacher and more importantly, huge Souls fan. He encountered the series after a long hiatus from gaming, and on this episode he tells us about his journey through them, starting with watching LPs and eventually going out to buy a PS4 for a certain Sony exclusive. Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!

Hello folks! This week's guest is Chris L, a delightful dad and husband who loves loves LOVES the Souls series. He was very excited to sit down and talk with me, and it was a lot of fun hearing his stories about starting, bouncing off, and then eventually conquering the series, along with his family. Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!

Hello folks! This week's guest is Astral Lace, who I met through friend and previous guest, Kou. Lace has a passion for Bloodborne that I've rarely seen, and it was great being able to sit down with her and discuss how she found the games, the difficulty she had at first (which I think all of us can relate to), and why she stuck around. We also get into some DS1 and DS3! Enjoy the episode, and make sure to stay till the end to hear her song about Dark Souls. Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Vacuous Rom, It's Own ThingBaldcoigne Twitter Moment - Part 1Baldcoigne Twitter Moment - Part 2The Age of Ancients: Kuon | Yin | Part 1 - YouTube

Hey folks! This week's guest is Michael, a very nice and effusive gentleman (I assume anyone with a British accent is a gentleman, tbh) that's a big Souls fan. We chat about Bloodborne, depression, old video game systems, and a host of other things during this episode. It's a lot of fun! Enjoy! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Thumpermonkey - Sleeve (Puppet Cthulhu) - YouTubeThumpermonkey.com -Thumpermonkey (@Thumpermonkey_) | Twitter

Hi there! This week's guest is The Littlest Cthulu, a Souls speedrunner. We sat down in the Don't Give Up, Skeleton HQ and talked all about his experience with the games, speedrunning strats, and everything in between. It's a great episode and I think y'all are gonna dig it. Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:The_Littlest_Cthulhu - Twitch

Hello friends! This week's guest is Rookie, and it's a great one! We talk about her trip through the Souls series, which started off rocky and then eventually got way, way better. We dip into a lot of different things in this episode: combat mechanics, Souls helping people come to terms with their personal identity, and competivie Minesweeper. Like I said, all over the place! Enjoy the epsiode! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Rookie Faraon

Hello! So, awhile back I had an idea: interview a bunch of speedrunners, and release an episode per day during the week of SGDQ. For a variety of reasons, this didn't come to happen, but I did end up interviewing a couple of speedrunners about the things they do. The first of these interviews is with rythin, this week's guest. They explained a lot of aspects of speedrunning, and talked a little bit about their history with the series in general. Enjoy! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:rythin - YouTube - YouTuberythin (@JustRythin) | Twitterrythin_SR - Twitch

Hello everyone! This week's guest is Jon, a frequent contributor to the Cane & Rinse podcast and all around good dude. We talked for a looong time (I think this might be the longest ep of DGUS yet), and covered just about everything you can imagine and then some. I had a blast, and I think you will too. Enjoy! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Jon (@CatatonicNali) | TwitterFinal Fantasy IV - The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

Hey folks! This week's guest is Emily, a friend of mine from THE INTERNET. She's an artist and cosplayer that is fascinated witht the Souls series, Micolash in particular. We talk about her finding Bloodborne, the reasons she decided to cosplay Micolash, and a whole host of other things in this episode. Heads up: there are some audio issues with this one. Discord was misbehaving, so every so often Emily cuts out. I listened back and I didn't find it too distracting, and I think you can understand everything she was saying via context, so I'm leaving it pretty much as is. Remember: always blame the editor, never the guest, so this one is on me. Sorry if it's distracting folks! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wea

Welcome back, everyone! This week's guest is iota, an Italian Souls player that is a friend of a former guest, Teresa. iota loves playing these games with other people, and it shows in this episode. We had a delightful conversation that I'm sure you will enjoy. So get listening! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Bloodborne - Martyr logarius - YouTubeAnime/GDR club!iota-09 (@iota_09) | Twitter

Welcome everyone! This week's guest is Hunter M, a lore fiend and huge Souls fan. The two of us talk about their experience with Souls, starting way back when with Demon's, and why some of those experiences don't live up to others. It's a good one folks! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Hunter M (@LEDcomic) | TwitterLuv's Cool Pad For Art, It's Rad!cool advice from dark souls

This week's guest is Rach, who I met from my friends over at Dark Insight. She guested over there for an episode and started talking about Souls, so of course they pointed her my way and I got her on the show. We take a meandering path down her Souls journey, really getting into Bloodborne (of course) but talking about all the games. Thanks for listening! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!Links:Kay Plays Dark Souls, Episode 1 [Blind / Live Commentary] (re-uploaded) - YouTubeDontRachQuit - TwitchRach (@DontRachQuit) | TwitterWhatCulture - YouTube - YouTubeWhatCulture Gaming - YouTube

Please welcome Jakob to the podcast! I know Jakob from the Duckfeed community (take a drink!) and it was fun sitting down and getting to know how he started with the series. As you might imagine, he had some problems at first, going into the Catacombs first and not realizing the correct path. It's a fun listen, and I hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon, which is a great way to support the show if you can. Donations go to keeping the podcast bills paid, as well as my ever growing collection of Souls games. You can also support the show by leaving an iTunes review, or by sharing the podcast with your friends. Merch! Wear a skelly on your belly!