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

Hi! Hello! Hey! This week's guest is Jonathan, a religious student that brings a very interesting perspective to the Souls games. It's not every week that we have comparisons of Bloodborne and Dark Souls lore to actual religions, so of course when he emailed me I jumped at the chance to interview him. We sat down to discuss his history with the series, as well as how his religious studies have effected his various playthroughs of the Souls games. Links:Jonathan Duckett (@JDuckett) | TwitterΤετέλεσται (it is finished)

Hello skeletons! Welcome to a special episode of Don't Give Up, Skeleton. Sanadsk is one of the first people on YouTube to start posting videos that show off cut content from Bloodborne, so when I got the opportunity to interview him, I jumped. We had a great conversation, and as you probably know from his videos, he's a very charming and personable guy. Hopefully you'll enjoy this podcast where he talks about his methodology, the unusual charm of the Souls series, and of course, all the cut content he's found. I know I enjoyed recording it! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon! Come support the show.Links:Sanadsk - YouTube - YouTubeSanadsk (@SanadskYoutube) | Twitter

Hello friends! Welcome to another episode of Don't Give Up, Skeleton. This week's guest is Liz, who is a big gamer. She started out way back when in the PS1 days, but hung up her controller once kids came along. After they grew up a bit, she picked it back up in a big way. After seeing some of Dark Souls 2's character creation, she bought it blind and jumped in. Later, she fell in love with Bloodborne and Dark Souls 1. This is a great episode, y'all, and Liz is a super sweet and nice guest. Enjoy! DGUS is now on Patreon! Donate a couple of bucks a month to help support the show. It's very much appreciated. Links:YOGSCAST Lewis & Simon - YouTube - YouTubeLiz ★ (@CyberDiva2) | Twitter

Hello skeletons! Welcome back to the show. This week's guest is Robin, who contacted me forever ago and asked to be on the show. Robin has a lot of hours into these games, so we spend quite a bit of time discussing the ins and outs of each one, and also spend quite a bit of time rambling about everything in between. Enjoy the episode, folks! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is now on Patreon, consider supporting the podcast. Links:The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant - WikipediaDark Calls(25) Greenspeak - TwitchBloody Souls Man on Flipboard

Hi Skeletons! This week's guest is Scott, an extremely nice guy who likes Dark Souls, Armored Core, and Nier. As you might imagine, we talk about all three in this somewhat rambly podcast. Scott also talks about his day job of inspecting satellite imagery to deduce missile activity in North Korea, and how that made him appreciate the way the story is told in Souls and Bloodborne. No, really! #MissileTwitter is here! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is on Patreon! Yay!Links:DARK SOULS : Bartholomew Trailer - YouTubeThe Hit House feat. Ruby Friedman – Hunt You Down (Bloodborne Trailer Song) - YouTubeScott LaFoy (@wslafoy) | TwitterArms Control Wonk PodcastNorth Korea’s Big Frickin’ Missile

Hello and welcome, friends. This week I sit down with Sam, a cosplayer who is playing through the Souls games for the first time and planning on building an Artorias cosplay. I had never talked to a cosplayer before, so when she emailed me and I saw how crazy good she is at this stuff, I knew I had get her on the show. We talk about designing cosplay, her experience with the Souls games, and a bunch of stuff in between. Be sure to check out the links below! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is now on Patreon, consider supporting the podcast. Links:Home - Dovah DesignDovah Design - HomeDovah Design (@dovahdesign) • Instagram photos and videos

Wayne and I have been Tumblr mutuals for some time now, so I was glad to finally get to talk to him about our shared passion. He talks about his experiences with the games, coaching his wife while she plays, and some of the art he's drawn in response to the game. It's a great episode, but of course I say that about every episode, so who can you really trust? Don't Give Up, Skeleton is now on Patreon, consider supporting the podcast. Links:Voice Actors in Dark Souls - YouTubeOn Side SevenWayne (@Onsideseven) | TwitterOn Side Seven's art tag on tumblr

Howdy skeletons! This week Kris makes himself comfortable in the guest chair, and we go through his entire Souls story. Kris emailed me with a subject line "Senior and OCD Souls gamer" so of course I clicked through that. At 50+, I wouldn't consider him a senior, but he took a long break from video games and came to them much later in life, so he has an interesting perspective on the Souls game. I think y'all are going to enjoy this episode. Don't Give Up, Skeleton is now on Patreon, consider supporting the podcast. Links:Lucians_Sword - YouTube - YouTubeDemon Mage - Demon's Souls English WikiDark Souls - Epic's Favorite Build (NG+ Easy Mode) - YouTubeKris (@BallerSwagSword) | TwitterDark Souls - Best Weapon (Dex) - YouTubeBloodborne - YouTube - YouTube

On this week's episode of Don't Give Up, Skeleton, Sinclair sits down with me to talk about how she got started making lore videos. After a solid 15 minutes of great conversation, I realized I hadn't been recording the dang podcast! After a brief reboot we get back to the topic at hand, and it's a great conversation. She talks about playing Bloodborne for the first time, how making videos has changed her approach to the games, and her plans for the future. Enjoy! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is now on Patreon, consider supporting the podcast. Links:Sinclair (@SinclairLore) | Twitter(3) Sinclair Lore - YouTube - YouTube(3) Prepare to Lore (Dark Souls #1) Guess the Character - YouTube

This week's guest is Davide, an Italian game designer who has a strong love for Dark Souls 1, and a grudging respect for Dark Souls 2. We sat down to talk about his entire history with the games, and it came out to be a great episode. Be sure to check out the links below for Davide's games and podcasts, especially the episode of Going Digital I guested on. Thanks for listening, everyone! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is now on Patreon, consider supporting the podcast. Links:Davide A. Fiandra (@DavideAFiandra) | TwitterDavide A. Fiandra - itch.ioGoing Digital: A Digimon Rewatch PodcastAuto Advance TextScripta Ludica

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! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is now on Patreon, consider supporting the podcast. Links:El ❄️ (@elliejoypanic) | Twitter

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! Don't Give Up, Skeleton is now on Patreon, consider supporting the podcast. Links:DEMON'S SOULS (Zero Punctuation) - YouTubeThe Fantastical Imaginationdom of Bryan May

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!Links:Megaten Marathon

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 kee

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! Links:Shin Garrett (@shadro) | TwitterGoing Digital (@GoingDigitalPod) | Twitter

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. Links:And Always RosesTwitterDevolution SpiralDevolution Spiral

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!Links:Joe Donnelly (@deaco2000) | Twitter

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.Links:Barry Spencer (@speculatype) | TwitterBarry Spencer

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!Links:Don't Give Up Skeleton: A Dark Souls and Bloodborne Podcast Episode 36: NikiDon't Give Up Skeleton: A Dark Souls and Bloodborne Podcast Episode 69: NiceSouls of Darkness PDF by GaryButterfieldDancer's Armor | Dark Souls 3 WikiEileen's voice actor: Jacqueline Boatswain - IMDbMiyazaki quote about the Undead DragonJessi (@Filthywizard) | Twitter — mooncycles-comic.tumblr.comMooncycles

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!Links:Stephen Rhodes (@Rhodes_Writes) | TwitterStephen Rhodes – Writer & Narrative Designer