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When you’re a starving Ethernopian, criticising The Acolyte is the only thing that brings you joy in life.
Marklar Marvin, the OG Schlurpo.
People should flood their comments section with "I wanted to like/dislike this video, but the Starving African Children..."
Watching starving Trump and Biden in Africa debating the Acolyte is the only thing that brings joy in my life.
That's like 3 tisms combined in one
@@nhagan001you don’t see it as incredibly embarrassing that you’re talking about flooding the comments of maybe the best movie centric RUclips channel ever because they made a tongue in cheek comment lightly making fun of you? You realize this is how they shills act when people make fun of them right?
“Africa had its chance”
"Were did you grow food? ON A FARM?!"
Best response to the Africa sophistry.
You thought you could threaten my fellow knight who says “ni”?
@@lordofthepizzapie9319 XD
"Kal-El no!"
"This is the best episode of Star Wars television ever. Also the sets look bad, the dialogue is bad, the main character's and main antagonist's actress is bad, the writing is bad, and the main mystery is bad."
Bog standard Disney shill.
That should just cite how comically low the bar is.
One thing that I really, really can't stand is people saying shit like: "Why do you care" while at the same time jizzing in their pants when a lightsaber turns red, or that something is made for kids, when they have whole fucking rooms dedicated to that stuff.
Dude, he Vadered!
My rule is, if the thing you're simping for and making daily news updates about is supposed to be a stupid kids show that adults can't criticize, then the fact that you're this obsessed with loving it should be a red flag for grooming behavior. Yall _really_ want to occupy the same space as adult Teletubby fanatics?
That is the single biggest red flag thing someone can say. Usually, those people aren't worth conversing with. They have nothing to say or are too cowardly to admit to some negatives in what they like.
"Why do you care" is the preemptive defense and dismissal of any criticism you might levy against them. It's an attempt to deny that you even have the right to argue with them about something they like. You have to _prove_ that you get to debate any particular point before you're even allowed to engage with them, and make yourself vulnerable by trying to explain yourself to an already hostile opponent. It's the cousin of "just let people enjoy things." It's disgusting sophistry.
Arrested development? Never heard of it.
The starving children in Africa have to beat the Elden Ring DLC before they are allowed food.
If you don't finish your Shadow of the Erdtree, how can you have any pudding?
That's just cruel
Too easy. They have to kill every ulcerated tree spirit while blindfolded, torch only, and on DK bongos
Great reference 😆
Guess I'll die .jpeg
"The Acolyte is good, actually" and other signs to identify brain damage.
I remember getting to the hospital after a semi crash, and the Dr. asked me, "Would you rather have unprotected sex with the president or watch 3 episodes of the Acolyte?" I said Acolyte. Not only had I suffered from a severe head injury, but it turns out I was also medically ret@rded the entire time, and still am. Thank God we have the Acolyte, or the Drs might not have caught my condition in time. These are the cutting edge breakthroughs in neurological science that we need
'Your weapons. You will not need them.', because nothing in there could actually harm him. The point is that Luke still took them in with him out of fear.
And what do we know about fear?
I swear, it's like we watched completely different films.
Why are we talking about starving children in Africa? Spider-Man is coming out!
I knew he was projecting when he roasted wrestler guy.
😂
Who?
i keep seeing this meme, but i still don't know the source
@MJelly-yj8kp Oh, it's an OLD EFAP meme from when Wolf was still a host. I think it wasa Brown Table video they watched when he says something like "why are people still talking about Captain Marvel? Spider-Man is coming out". In reference to The Don(peace be with him).
I fucking love the little platoon. He has this capacity to cut through the fat and get to the nerve and the core of an idea. I admire his clarity of mind and analysis
He's my fav reviewer on youtube at this point
It's all his posh British accent, really.
He’s also accomplishing quite the insane feat by releasing a highly edited, hour+ long review of each episode of the acolyte every single week. It’s pretty impressive.
I think he has an academic background in philosophy, along with a few other subjects. That might explain part of it!
He also has some creative insults that are always so decadent.
Gentlemen, we are only nine episodes away from another double dose of Batwoman.
how do you know?
@@sayonara3926swat It's tradition for them to drop a Batwoman episode in between each of the anniversary streams.
Wym? Like they finna pick back up reviewing the rest of batwoman?
and Jim Sterling greeting us again... 🎩
@@noank9175 Don't get my hopes up, all i wish is more batwahmen in my life
Timestamps
0:00 Bantering
3:09 Skittles & Coffee
6:43 From the lands of Videogameland
33:14 AI Summary
33:36 Preamble, Pee & Peeks
39:48 Video 1: A Good Show
45:48 Pre-Judged
47:34 Outraged RUclipsrs
48:50 Made For Children
57:28 Video 2: The Low Bar
1:04:11 Technology
1:09:29 Set design, Acting & Writing
1:15:50 Choreography
1:24:54 The Villain
1:31:50 The Prequels
1:34:08 Conclusions
1:34:54 Reminder
1:36:12 Video 3: The Isolationists
1:42:52 Canon
15:0:23 Referencing OT
1:53:28 Suspension of Belief
1:56:46 Standards
2:00:24 Grown Out Fans
2:10:30 Aggressive Ownership
2:18:15 Politically Charged
2:26:34 The Creator
2:28:40 Prequels & Sequels
2:32:00 Buzz Words & Objectivism
2:33:58 Video 4: RLM
2:36:00 Starving Children
2:48:44 Lightsabers
2:56:42 Favourite Acolyte Episode
3:03:15 Jedi, Sith, and Witches
3:43:20 Stop Watching It!
3:49:20 Conclusions
3:52:53 Gary Leaves
3:54:48 Elden Ring
4:45:20 Closing
Which part do they start on The Acolyte?
@@dadocta5168”Video 1”
@@unpopularopinions7407 cheers 👍
How tf you do this so fast?
You are awesome I hope you win the lottery
I hope every single video RLM makes from here on it is flooded with people saying: "Why are you talking about this? There are children starving in Africa!"
On it!
Why are you all so butt hurt over an obvious tongue in cheek comment? This is genuinely embarrassing. You’re actually acting like the lefties who shill Star Wars bc RLM lightly made fun of you
The good faith defense to this is that SWT saw this as if he was unfolding some political scandal that happened and people making fun of him for the overreaction was justified. That being said, using starving children in Africa to deflect SWT’s comments is not the way to do it as this can be said towards you when criticizing any form of media and this raises the question on how do we determine whether a piece of media or scene is serious enough to where your criticism is above starving children in Africa. The defense that the RLM crew never took itself seriously doesn’t work either as this leaves the question on if their media insight is a good enough reason to follow them because if so, they are unable to use this defense. I mean there is a certain channel who’s response to people saying that they make incorrect statements on movies they cover is that they’re just a**holes who b*tch on the internet about media so don’t take them seriously and that didn’t fly at all with the internet. If that isn’t a valid defense in making incorrect statements about a film I don’t know why we aren’t using this on someone who made a bad defense to deflect SWT’s reaction.
On it
@@burnypython8230 you are way way overthinking this. People watch them because they are enjoyable to watch. What happened here is they made the mistake of poking fun at a bunch of self serious blowhards who now want to brigade their comments because they’re mad they got made fun of
Red Letter Media is too smart to be this dumb about their Star Wars Acolyte defenses. They should know how hypocritical and cringe worthy they appear with the starving children in Aftrica schtick. This leads me to beleive that they are being intentionally provocative for the purpose of engagement farming. I'd like to think they are being genuine but wanting to make money off of triggering us Star Wars nerds with their bad takes makes more sense to me.
These guys have been on the internet for a long time now. Go ahead and just watch the earlier videos and look at the complexion in their eyes compared to now. The dudes have aged, and they seem to consider themselves separate, so I can only imagine how much of the conversation they delude with Centrist condescension.
They are slowly becoming the nerd crew. Give it a year
A lot of times your ego will make you see the world in really weird ways to avoid confronting certain things about yourself.
With RLM, I seriously get the impression that they're total nerds about media, but they don't want to be see as nerds, especially as middle-aged men, so they go too far with the "We're not nerds, in fact, we actively mock nerds all the time," schtick with stuff like The Nerd Crew. Every couple minutes in their Star Wars and Star Trek reviews you'll hear a variation of "We're not nerds. Nerds are stupid and lame. We're definitely not manbabies."
So, of course when all the nerds and manbabies are complaining about The Acolyte being bad, they'll say "Well, we're not nerds or manbabies, and we think The Acolyte is alright."
It's kinda sad how obvious it is to everyone else except them.
I heard that they were somewhat better at one franchise then the other. I think it was Star Trek they were better at then Star Wars.
@@RhysCallinan-hf7qx The thing is that their audience tends to not watch Star Trek, or only watched The Next Generation.
You can see it with Lower Decks. They made a number of direct references to RLM in the show, but fans almost never bring it up because RLM fans don't tend to watch Lower Decks.
So, RLM can just say anything about modern Star Trek and their fans will believe them.
Like, RLM famously liked the Abrams reboot, that's why they said he should direct Star Wars. They also didn't think Wrath Of Khan fit in with the Star Trek universe and caused serious damage to the franchise which is probably more true than people want to admit. Wrath Of Khan really is a movie for people who don't like Star Trek, which is why people say it's the best of the movies.
List of moronic arguments defending The Acolyte (Yes these come from actual people)
"It makes sense Horned girl performed better than the Jedi Masters because Smylo Ren was exhausted"
"There are no retcons to Anakin or Ki-ADi-Mundi"
"Acolyte is performing excellently because Disney said so!'
"There are more of us than the haters"
"Star Wars is for everyone!"
Well the first one is kinda valid, but they did not hint to it at all. It would have been cool if they would have done that to make their fight a bit more balanced and logical, with Qimir being way more skilled but his movement being slower. The rest have no substance
@@oscargruber8582 Smylo dispatched four Jedi and made Yord VPN wet himself in a matter of minutes...what was he tired from? Flying?
@@oscargruber8582 no. Your opponent being tired doesn't make you any better. The previous episode she was training with sticks like the childreb before they become padawans. The fact that the others didn't even get to block a hit while she has an entire coreography is just plot armor.
Yes, cuz four or five Jedi, Yord and Master Sol all had to be defeated before he wore out. Even tired Smilo should've just force pushed her or something. She's nothing more than a worm to him. He barely bats an eye at killing everyone even Mae but some kid is someone he won't use the force on to distance himself if he was tired. If anything I'm more likely to believe he was playing with her but Disney isn't creative enough for that low level of writing.
Rag's comparison to mages in Dragon Age is spot on. Force sensitive individuals are more vulnerable to the dark side, so you want to bring them in and train them. The Chantry is a bit harsher than the Jedi though.
Just a bit.
The dark side does not change who you are. Its a lie. All it does is reveal the rot within.
@@MrFallenone You could not be more fundamentally, fantastically, amazingly wrong.
@@MrFallenone That's well said (maybe something a sith would say!) but I don't think that's the canonical lore. The dark side is supposed to corrupt you.
Anyone can be influenced by negative crap, so why wouldn't someone with force powers use it for bad stuff. Why wouldn't they use it to steal, or influence or whatever? It's why they're taken from a young age, cuz the chance to use it without their understanding of it at a young age would be rather destructive. You're gonna get the odd person who uses it for good but that's an exception to the rule. The Jedi order does what they do to prevent the worst outcomes that can befall them, whether as a result of their own actions or the actions of those around them.
Of all the stupid changes Disney brought, removing the name Slave 1 is one of the most inane. Jango named it that because he had been held as a slave in prison, so when he stole the guards’ starship, he named it Slave 1 to reclaim his freedom and identity they stole from him. But that was the EU, and Disney cannot understand good story telling.
"i have experienced peak from-soft."
ah, so you have played Metal Wolf Chaos, eh?
That game about US president riding a mech ?
I think you meant chromehounds
Why are you posting this, don't you know that there are people starving in Africa!?
What happened to the starving kids in China? XD
@@EpicJasonX9000Where'd you learn to starve? ON A FARM?!
@@EpicJasonX9000 you cant love an orphan.
Why are you posting this, don't you know there are people starving in Africa?
Every minute that passes, Africa loses 60 seconds
Picard dodging that laser like a dodgeball is hilarious 😂
It's sad that RLM can't be honestly inquisitive about the quality new Star Wars beyond the surface level. Rich has his "Jedi are weird cultists" schtick in his head, and Mike can't make peace with the fact that standards have indeed fallen further since Disney took over. Maybe the Prequels just completely shut down their ability to care, or maybe it is just coping over what they established their channel off of.
It's very curious, anyway.
The secret is that Mike has never actually cared about Star Wars. The Plinkett Reviews are very well done from a humor perspective but the actual criticisms in it are often very off base or factually incorrect. It has good criticisms too for sure and the prequels have TONS of problems but RLM is wrong about stuff they criticize in many cases with them...mostly because they don't seem to actually care about Star Wars much. Mike has even said he cares about Star Trek, not Star Wars.
They could have fed thousands of starving people in Africa with the budget of the Acolyte.
millions lol, someone was flaunting info how one ep of acolyte cost more than godzilla minus one(which was below 10m I believe)
Not really, you'd make some warlords super wealthy though.
They sure do like the "why do you care? there's starving people in Africa" argumentation until you use it againts what they deem worthy or sacred.
It's so funny. When a show just poses the question and then the viewer has to do all the work, this is called interesting.
"Are the Jedi bad actually and the real meanies for not letting space witches create life from the force and mind rape people?"
Dunno, what is the argument from the Dark side user?
"I just want to wield power in anyway I want and be my true self(gay metaphor)!"
He literally says "I just want to use my power how I want."
But he's a fucking Sith, so that means he's saying "I just wanna kill whoever I want, but the Jedi keep getting in the way."
Like yeah, they're the good guys. Like Star Wars was made so the Jedi are explicitly the good guys, and their side is the correct one if you want to be a good person. Then the Sith are the evil side explicitly, they're the ones that compromise every moral to get what they want, even if what they want is to protect their loved ones, they'll butcher children to do it cause the children will eventually be a possible threat.
The Jedi were flawed, but the galaxy was objectively better with them around, cause their entire credo is based around justice and keeping the galaxy safe and avoiding war. New writers wanna insert all these things about "No actually the Jedi could be evil too, it's not just oversights or naivete, they just hate some people and want to keep them DOWN, so THAT actually is what makes the Sith, the Sith might be good guys who are oppressed you see."
That's all bullshit, the Jedi are good, the Sith are bad, the Jedi can make mistakes and not realize a decision they've made can go wrong, but they're the good guys at the end of the day. That's why their genocide was such a tragedy, nobody weeps for the death of the Nazis, even if their police force really kept the streets safe.
Just because he wants to lightsaber younglings doesn't make him a bad person
Ah yes, a classic argument!
"You don't understand the deep themes BRUH it's actually great!"
-tlj fans, fallout fans, Ashoka fans, media journalists and every hack activist "media analyst " on RUclips
Get some new arguments you boring fools.
The worst part is that the themes aren't even deep or at least interesting. They're the most bog standard themes in existence.
It’s weird how people treat this corporate slop like it’s East of Eden or something.
90% of the time 'theme' is just synonymous with 'this is what I *read into* it', and therefore copium.
The best part of that argument is when more than one person uses it and none of their interpretations of the themes line up at all.
@@Sphoonx I disagree. I think more often it's the director saying the intended theme in an interview, or a character in the media all but turning to the camera and flatly telling you the intended theme, while the actual content of the media does little to nothing to support it, and sometimes even contradicts it.
These people aren't reading into anything, that implies more original thought than is happening here. The ideas have been forcefully handed to them and they accept them without question.
Sequel lovers: Don't defend what you love (ST), attack what you hate (PT and OT).
You'd think they'd have learned from Rose, but no.
If I was an impoverished citizen in Africa being filmed on the street for a news story, I wouldn't want me and my kids' image being repurposed for some lame nerd-fight like I'm some wounded animal
Agreed! They are not wounded after all
"Media literacy" = "don't ask questions, just consume product and get ready for next product"
Yep. New buzzword leftists love using.
I get frustrated with the Disney Star Wars because it could be so much better. Take Jecki; you could actually make her a pretty tragic character instead of someone I don't care about at all. A padawan who was always top of her class and felt pressure to be as good as she could possibly be, so she could help others. But that desire to protect and be the best jedi she could be, combined with being objectively better than other padawans of her same level, lead her to be a little headstrong and overconfident. Her whole life she's been the best amongst her peers but suddenly she is facing someone who is way above her. She starts off fighting Smylo with that same overconfidence but very quickly realizes she is in over her head. Jecki begins to get desperate and Smylo is just toying with her. Jecki finally experiences true fear, and we see the absolute terror reflected in her eyes as she is confronted with true evil for the first time ever. She quickly understands that the only thing she can do is play defense and hope for one of the other jedi to come save her before things go too far; perhaps we have an earlier scene to show this aspect of her character where she gets in over her head and Sol saves her, which damages her pride and drives her to prove herself and insist she accompany Sol on this mission. Smylo could have felt like a horror villain just casually brushing aside any of Jecki's offense as he relishes in how terrified she becomes over the 'fight'. Sort of like an evil Batman; utilizing fear and misdirection as tools to overwhelm the padawan he could easily just kill.
edit: just watched the episode again and this would make Smylo's "You brought her here." line to Sol after killing Jecki extra impactful. I hate caring for things to be better... I'm going to go watch LotR Efap's again to feel better.
A genuinely good set of ideas for elevating such a character.
She should have been built up. She should have been close to becoming a knight, a lightsabre dueling progidy. Everyone should have been criticising her for focusing on duelling in a time of "peace", the other jedi learning blaster deflection for peace keeping. The earlier episodes she struggles with arrogance, but is competent.
In the fight with Smylo Ren the others get destroyed but Jecki due to her extensive training in lightsabre combat fairs better, but Smylo Ren was just playing with his food. Jecki really gives it her all, even suprising Smylo giving the audience hope, but then Smylo goes on the offensive. We see her struggling but we think she'll escape, then she tragically dies.
It's sad when we could write a better fight and character.
No, actually. It can’t be better.
Unconcerned producers, marketing, and advertising dictate the events of the stories, hiring undeserving cast and crew for their connections and pr, using underqualified writers to create connective tissue and dialogue between action setpiece mandates in isolation to prevent collaboration, all supervised by an idiot in service to a studio head actively antagonistic to the ip and its creator but immune to comeuppance
You *cannot* make something good out of that. Not even on accident.
@@lacidar3752Andor.
@@lacidar3752 I understand your point and mostly agree. I suppose I just have a sliver of hope that one day Disney will want to make money again.
Damn we’re so close to EFAP 300. Feels like EFAP 100 was just yesterday.
This ISSSS EFAP!!!! "Snyder screams"
Efap 100 was wild. Tonald showed up and that was the biggest goddamn plot twist.
So he dislikes big anime moves but then says Monster Hunter is one of the best action games like WTF
It's almost as if these are two entirely different games, and these big over the top anime moves work much better in monster hunter than in Elden ring due to the superior combat. What a shit take, you seriously think his argument is "Big anime moves are always bad"? Fucking hell.
He does not like their use in a more grounded setting such as Dark Souls.
They’re okay in MH due to the setting.
@@tomjames9681 There's that as well, outside of the gameplay method of dodging these, of which monster hunter has many more options to do so. And outside of rise, which is specifically made to be more "Anime" than the others, these big nuke-type attacks are much rarer than these idiots, most of which probably haven't touched a single game, like to believe.
Good one, focusing just on the superficial.
As a parent to a 12 yr old I refuse to subject him to the garbage that is the Acolyte.
12 yr olds deserve good story telling too.
thank fuck for stuff like Avatar the Last Airbender
Good for you.
@@MegaSpideyman what a pathetic reply
Show him shows from the 90s and early 2000s. Star Trek shows before Discovery are very good for example.
@@youdonegoofed Thanks, I try! 😎
Out of all the terrible arguments RLM made during their Acolyte review, telling everyone angry at the low quality of Star Wars, including Star Wars Theory, that they should care more about things like starving kids in Africa is beyond condescending.
That line doesn't work when parents try to shame their kids into eating their meals, and it won't work here.
This is not helped by the fact that RLM is the same people who felt the exact way when it came to Star Trek, but I guess Star Wars doesn't matter since it isn't as "intellectual" as Star Trek in their eyes.
Pretty sure they admitted that about themselves.
@@PatrickOMulligan Lampshading your hypocrisy doesn't absolve you of your hypocrisy. In fact, that just makes it worse, because it makes it evidently clear that you are aware of your double-standard, but won't repent of it.
It was a joke dude. You guys are so so mad RLM made fun of you that you started acting like how the shills act to minor criticism. This is embarrassing
@@DaMaster012goodness gracious “repent” good lord I never thought I would see this audience embarrassing themself like this. Kinda embarrassed I like mauler watching you guys react to RLMs light riffing
@@TrueGamer22887 "this is embarrassing, oh, so embarrassing, I'm embarrassed, so embarrassing wow guys. wow. so embarrassing"
you are the only person getting embarrassed here dude. right off the bat you're immediately doing the thing that you're accusing everyone else of doing - hopping in to shill for RLM and defend their shitty take. overreacting to people's ribbing at their "I was only pretending to be retarded" level """joke""".
as a counter to Rags, its also possible that someone is still a Christian or becomes a Christian BECAUSE they listen to Religion debates and found the atheistic arguments uncompelling.
That's even sadder than getting indoctrinated from childhood.
@@akashajones6079 Why?
@@matthewmilam6578 personally I havent heard a single convincing argument for religion in these debates, but I can see how some atheist arguments like "we dont know" arent too compelling either.
@@XraynPRthe fact that atheist just blindly believe so much unknowable shit, is enough reason to be religious.
@@XraynPR I’ve only ever found one Christian debater that was any good, but he was exceptionally good. He also had a book dismantling the arguments of Dawkins, Hitchens, and other new atheists. It was called The Irrational Atheist, great book.
I'm tired of the "criticism only comes from a place of hate" discourse. Criticisms are how you improve stuff. If you just clap like a seal at the pretty light then nothing will change.
I want Star Wars to be good again. Did you think I'd care enough to list what is bad about these shows if I didn't?
The argument of "the jedi want all the guns" shows either an embarrassing lack of understanding of why the jedi seek out force-sensitive children or a profound and intentionally dishonest corruption of what they do. The jedi order teaches its students how to control their emotions so that they don't give in to the fear, anger, and hatred that could potentially lead to the dark side.
Never understood why anyone likes RLM, and every time I see something from them they solidify that sentiment in my mind.
Strength Knight Greatsword user here and honestly I can't relate with most of the Elden Ring complaints here, I just spend time learning the moveset and where to punish. Final boss's second phase is the only one I have an issue with, the first phase is easy to dodge and punish without getting hit tbh.
Also wrong on how you can only roll to "dodge" attacks, theres a new talisman that gives your backsteps s and theres the new Deflecting Hardtear that allows you to perfect block attacks and take no damage like its Sekiro, also enhances your counter attacks (how I beat Rellana).
Its also interesting to hear that Morgott is Theo's favourite fight mechanically when that fight has a lot of the same mechanics that he complained about when it came to Rellana.
Attacking while you're healing?
Morgott quickly throws magic daggers that hit (unless you're far away enough but this is also the case for Rellana).
Weapon weight seems inconsistent?
Morgott swings his sword really quickly but also has slow and delayed attacks like it changes weight.
Get close when Morgott's just done some moves?
Suddendly he pulls out magic dagger and hits you and then extends his combo further.
Phase 2 attack that will hit most players the first time they see it?
Morgott going into phase 2 for the first time looks like hes knocked down but then turns into an AOE attack, most who fight him for the first time get hit by it but dont fall for it again, like Rellana's moons.
I get some complaints but this feels exaggerated. Watching the Rellana gameplay on screen was miserable. Not because Rellana was this super unfair fight, but because I had to watch Metal spam his Bloody Slash skill in the middle of Rellana's combo and spam roll the most telegraphed attacks (Something Margit should've taught you not to do already). If you're still doing that after 30+ attempts then yeah no wonder you didnt enjoy the fight, you're not even trying to learn the fight you're just trying to bruteforce it with Bleed.
Its like they're saying one thing but showing another, exactly. Theo is hyperbolizing like CRAZY calling this the worst game experience he's had in such a long time. Honestly I don't see how that's possible given the modern state of games unless he's somehow making the game miserable for himself, and I fully believe that his mentality is part of it as well. After all this is the guy that JUST wants it to be Dark Souls 1 AGAIN.
I've found on streams alot of ppl are struggling by locking on and dodge rolling far too much, I've found back step and strafe jumping non locked on to be far more helpful for alot of attacks. There's some silly design here but that's true of nearly all their games, I only struggled with final bosses 2nd phase for a couple of hours till I switched to greatshield and it was cakewalk.
@@compostsmurf5519 but it's still bad design.
@@Batmans_Pet_Goldfishand at the same time, a very hypocritical stance from Theo.
Maybe if he spent less time trying to sound superior:
"I've done things in Souls games you couldn't even imagine."
and instead actually formed a better argument or didn't have such an incorrect stance, then he could've easily have sold it.
(Comimg from someone who has a TON of problems with ER and the DLC greatly improved over the base game, and someone that doesn't summon or use meta)
@@NimbusTM so your issue is the phrasing and not the argument?
I understand that RLM has never liked SW much but damn I didn’t think they could be THIS out of touch, even with Kenobi it wasn’t this bad.
Next EFAP SWT should be brought on, I imagine he has plenty to say since he’s public enemy number one to the Disney Star Fans.
Yeah it’s crazy how the shills always try to find a way to blame swt it’s annoying
Kenobi destroyed stuff from both the prequels and OT. Acolyte ruined a few prequel stuff. I'd say Kenobi is still worse, but honestly your view is still legit. It's probably second or third worse with Ashoka.
I'd say less coffee for Rags, but now that we know, in depth, ad nauseum, about his coffee requirements, amongst other ravings and ramblings, I'll instead say "Less meth, Rags... PLEASE!"
I enjoy Theos recurring appeaeances on the cast, also Platoon is a most welcome recent addition to the guest roster.
Yeah, Theo is pretty insightful when the conversation isn't related to videogames in any capacity.
@@Ron_Jambo_ you don't think his elden ring game rants are insightful?
@@Ron_Jambo_coming from someone who doesn't play video games btw, idk anything about what he's talking about
@@Ron_Jambo_Yeah Theo’s Elden Ring game takes are dog shit
@@justanotherday5833 no its the equivalent of watching a new hope and complaining and manifesting faults out of the aether for everything else star wars related because you refuse to even watch the other stuff properly because it isn't a new hope. its not insightful, its intentionally only taking a hammer out of a toolbag and attempting to put a screw in a board and then complaining that its not as fun as the nail you used 5 mins ago
They want to distance themselves from "rtight leaning" people. They never do this the other way
I was kinda on board with Theo until he said that Skyrim and Elden Ring offer similar experiences and that's such an absurdly reductive thing to say that I can't help but assume he's off base as a result. I'll wait to see his video and to be honest I'm not that invested in elden ring but that is an insane statement to make.
Unironically wrestling WWE in particular has more consistent writing then the Acolyte like always running when pulled by one arm and Irish whips(back handed chops to the chest) always hurt when it shouldn’t
True lol
"Being good isn't so good" is he assuming that every good action must be rewarded? Why would anyone think that? That is not how reality works.
Star Wars Theory got Shattnered by Mike Stoklasa. Ironic.
Why's that?
Because Mike loves Star Trek as much as Theory love star wars.
@@jamesesparza6893ha! Good one!
"it's for twelve year olds" - Then why is so much of the merch targeted for adults? Why are all the helmets, FX sabers and other high end merch made almost exclusively for adults? Why can i easily find full armor sets for adults, but kids only get Party city quality costumes? Where's the child size Black Series helmets? Why are some of the Nerf guns for 14+? Why are some Lego sets recommend for 18+?
Now, why would a company make merchandise for people outside of the target age group of their franchise? It's almost like....its not made for kids, its for ALL audiences...
To be fair, there are plenty of man-children these days.
@@o00nemesis00o Maybe, but that it isn't why. It simply makes more sense to target a broader audience than to restrict yourself to one specifically especially when adults have all the money and children age, which is why you don't see the same phenomenon with Barney, or Sesame Street because those ARE actually "for children" and the difference is incredibly obvious.
In an ironic twist, you could easily make the argument that the people making current day content are more immature than the fans they continuously try to demonizes. A majority of the people currently in the industry are so hung up on superficial things it makes you wonder how they live or call themselves an adult. Typically you learn to grow out of such things as children but are you really 50+ years old and still can't enjoy a movie, TV show, book or game unless the main character looks like you? They're so hung up on their "trauma" some of these people are still mentally stuck in High School....if you ask me, THAT is more indictive of immaturity.
Limbs get cut off, people die and quite a bit of spicy stuff. Yeah, def for kids.
@@RhysCallinan-hf7qx Nothing says "kids show" like incinerated bodies, sex slavery and warfare politics. I remember that episode of Sesame Street, don't you?
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the cringe.
starwars has hit the level of endless deconstruction that the very idea that the jedi are good at their core, and CAN be justified in their existence has become a foreign concept to some people. Its so fuckin boring that so manyy fuckin creators look to the jedi council and goes, "wow these guys are misguided and overly dogmatic, I MUST show everyone else these EARTH SHATTERING IDEAS" despite the fact thats the same idea literally everyone has. The jedi were flawed, yes, but they had a reason to exist. A lot of worlds were improved by their existence and teachings even with their flaws. Im sick of it tbh. It was a neat concept way back in kotor and the EU, now its one of the only stories people want to tell cuz its "interesting" to criticize them, but almost nobody being given the reins to starwars seems to realize theres ways to bork the concept. Namely fucking up trying to tell that story a thousand times in a row. As much as i dislike parts of Rebels, its portrayal of the jedi as a force for good is weirdly refreshing amidst the modern deluge of "oh but the good guys arent perfect so theyre bad actually" we have nowadays. Even clonewars tried to strike a balance between "jedi kinda suck" and "yeah but we kinda need them tho." This shit doesnt even acknoledge the jedi being justified in ANY capacity once dialogue starts. So fucking boring
I’ve got 3 kids. My 3 year old and ten year old love Bluey. I enjoy it. I have my issues with certain things but overall pretty good. Each kid takes completely different things from each episode. And any adult that watched it would see the very adult messages throughout. Shit there’s an episode about jealousy that revolves around the moms sister not being able to get pregnant and being jealous of the family. And I’ll be honest. More episodes than I like to admit hit me in the feels.
Lol at Theo raging out about elden ring and other people’s opinions on it, then saying later that people who can’t respect other peoples opinions are insane and are incorrectly using the internet.
Because Theo is “well akshually” personified.
Tbf Chat did it first.
@@RhysCallinan-hf7qxhe started it by telling the chat that he's better than them. Not with that gameplay he showed he ain't.
@@mrkennady That's Metals gameplay. And so what we all brag about being better than others at games. Plus he was pissed off with the "git gud" and "skill issue" comments which, in all honesty, are pretty retarded. It reminds me of the lackluster attempts by shills to get rid of criticism for shit media like Star Wars or Star Trek or whatever.
I love Redlettermedia but their acolyte video was a mega stinker. How do you make a nearly hour and a half long video where you complain about how the politics surrounding the show have overshadowed most discussion about the quality/content of the acolyte, and then proceed to make a bunch of centrist takes about the political backlash and barely talk about the quality/content of the show :/
Philibustering was the point
The real irony is that 90% of the show's (using the term as loosely as possible) dialog is one character telling another character things they already know. Poor Lezzye... so dishonest, so untalented, and so, so gay. 😂
They did a whole Plinket Review for The Last Jedi discussing a bunch of other stuff rather than the movie.
Roughly 2 hour mark: You know this might be controversial, but I quite liked what Disney was doing with The Muppets about 10 years ago. I liked the 2 movies, I liked the sitcom, but despite my positivity, Disney still put the Muppets on ice. I miss the Muppets, but I don't trust current Disney with them. Maybe if I loudly hated The Muppets back then, they would still be around.
That's intriguing.
The people IN this show are defending the premise that your view of good & evil is just matter of perspective, while at the SAME TIME calling critics of the show as wrong & evil. The moral lesson we are apparently supposed to get out of this show is only one of "perspective," why am I not allowed to have the perspective that the show is sh!t? Wtf is Disney doing?
At this point I feel like Disney are so maliciously incompetent. I don't even find it worth my limited time on this planet to listen to, or care about what any of them say. The only reason I even remotely know anything that they say is because EFAP covers it.
Giving post-modernists moral relativism will result in this exact scenario, especially when those post-modernists have never given a single thought about their own positions and contradict themselves like this.
I’m actually disappointed with the RLM Crew on this one wtf man
They've always been complete and utter trash that don't understand Star Wars one little bit.
you're a bit late to the party Weekend man, but a based take indeed.
Theo is literally the strawman people use to make a point, who uses a hammer to get in a screw and complains that both are badly designed.
Except unironically.
"Its like the government... making your own medicine."
Its so freaking obvious it hurts.
Smilo says that he wants to do his own thing.
The Jedi didn't know about him at all.
Doing his own thing, based on the show, means hunting and killing Jedi.
Is that not a valid reason for the Jedi to attempt to prevent this?
Or Palpatine, orchestrating a galactic war as a means to cover his rise in the senate to the point of chancellor... who didn't relinquish his powers and then turned a republic into an empire?
Not to forget a Force capable coven of Witches... creating life.
Or a Force capable coven of Witches, using the force in the form of sith alchemy. Creating unspeakable things with the force.
Making Savage by corrupting and altering a person into a unstoppable killer, with force powers he didn't have before?
There are so many examples as to why the Jedi have the right to test and train the children of others, beyond the scope of keeping the Sith from returning.
Kept leaving and coming back, and every time I tuned in, they were showing Elden ring footage while Theo talked about how super crazy-amazing he is at the game, lol... Happened several times.
If you've been watching Little Platoon's videos like I have, is it also weird for you to hear him actually saying Osha and not Occupational Safety and Health Administration every half minute?
Watch them make smilo Ren into a young Palpatine when he is still a sith apprentice
How fuckin old is Palpatine?
@mrdropkicker1 I mean they already changed the age of mundi along with his entire species lifespan so I don't put anything past Disney at this point
There is "Quickstep" and especially "Bloodhound's Step" in Elden Ring if you need something longer or little different than just dodge-roll.
You can also use a shield.
Harris isn't around to hurt you, so it's ok to use a shield.
After watching Red Letter Media's take - To quote Luke, "“Amazing, every word of what you just said... was wrong.”
Almost all of their thoughts and ideas about Jedi and the Light Sabers were addressed in the Original and Prequel Trilogy, and their novelizations.
#1. ANYONE Can pickup and use a Light Saber, their entire weight is in the hilt while the blade weighs practically nothing (energy supposedly has a very minor weight). It takes a force wielder to use it effectively, since they enhance their speed and perception through the force. It also helps the wielder NOT hit themselves with the blade since it's so light and dangerous.
#2. Episode 4: New Hope - Obi Wann is training Luke in the use of a Light Saber vs a practice droid. He has Luke lower the blast visor and let the force guide his hands to block and/or reflect the orb's shots.
#3. Episode 5: Empire Strikes Back - Physical objects are NOT block or reflected by the blade, merely sliced. Which is why even when Luke was slashing through them, they still hit him. This includes bullets and knives (which the Acolyte Episode 1 got majorly wrong) and is one of the primary methods Mandolerians used to fight and hunt Jedi in the Old Republic.
Dude the stories about Mandalorians fighting Jedi were brutal. After learning they could deflect blaster shots back. They went back to good old buckshot and used the Jedi's instincts to block against them. The molten lead from the projectiles would just hit them in the face and burn them.
Definitely agree with #1 and #2, but #3 is wrong - the blade does block physical objects, which is also why Mandalorians usually failed hunting jedi. The blade will also cut through physical objects though, so if you continuously force push a large heavy object at somebody, they will hit you even if you cut them. Just like if you dropped it on their head, gravity would drive it down through the sword. A throwing knife thrown without the force will be blocked, however. Just like a projectile fired by a gun (which would also be vaporized by the blade if it's not more broad than the blade itself). If bullets easily beat jedi, everybody would use bullets. Facts it that it simply does not work like people think it does.
@@Arphemius The blade cuts the large object, but with enough momentum (such as a force push behind it) it will just split and continue through.
As for bullets, it's two fold.
You are right, when up against a slug thrower, the saber will melt the bullet. However in canon, a slug thrower that fires at the speed of an uzi/assault rifle would kill a Jedi.
The Jedi cannot block all the bullets, and a normal robed Jedi would be shredded. However, even basic Star Wars armor from the old republic were capable of stopping slugs/rapid slugs without issue so they fell out of fashion and are incredibly rare compared to any form of blaster.
(Meaning an armored Jedi would have no issue)
As for Hunting Jedi, I am referring to the Mandolorian war, where the Mandos almost wiped out the Jedi and took over the Republic if it weren't for a few turning to the Dark Side, and the teachings of the Sith.
@@marbles8641 Yeah, but it has to be continuous momentum. The blade of a lightsaber does have a physical presence, otherwise they would interact with other lightsabers or vibroblades etc. either. So it actually would block the momentum of objects flying at the jedi like a physical sword would.
As for bullets being unbeatable for a non-armored jedi, that's not really true. A jedi blocks by moving a sword to a place where a shot is going to hit, as well as boosting reflexes. A jedi is also extremely fast, fast enough to block a bullet (Revenge of the sith novelizations have Obi-Wan block 18 strikes a second) even if they didn't, although that often doesn't translate to the movies.
Given all that, a jedi can easily block even an assault rifle's bullet stream by just moving the sword exactly where their opponent is aiming.
Then the jedi could also just stop the bullets in mid-air with telekinesis, with a telekinetic shield around them.
Even with slug throwers, jedi will win. They are extremely hard to kill.
In the Mandalorian wars, I don't really get why you're saying they hunted the jedi to extinction. They attacked the Republic, but as soon as Revan turned up with the jedi, the Mandalorians were beaten back. The turn to the dark side happened after that as well. The civil war between jedi turned sith and the ones still loyal to the order, that is what drove the jedi to extinction.
The Mandalorians did have teams hunting jedi, but more often than not, those teams failed and were completely wiped out. They certainly didn't do enough damage to stop the jedi from turning the tide in the war.
@Arphemius The only physical presence the blade has is energy. It has no solid presence beyond that.
The reason vibroswords and stun batons can block the sword is due to matching the frequency the saber puts out, allowing them to connect.
Even personal force fields can block a saber, but it uses up the battery quickly.
(This was explained in KOTOR)
I do remember a cheap trick from the old novels/expanded universe where a Jedi or Sith would change their Bladed frequency to get an advantage in a fight... making their saber initially unblockable, but that was a double-edged sword, leaving them just as vulnerable.
The speed of a Jedi isn't in question, and yes, any bullet that hits the blade would be vaporized. A rapid slung slinger was supposedly faster than MOST Jedi reflexes could handle if they tried to block it.
Good point about the blocking with a force push/grip, though. I was so focused on the saber usage that I honestly forgot that tactic. Quesion is, can they hold a bunch of bullets like in the Matrix.
I will also fully admit all this is from lore I personally read over the years. When at home, I reference Wookiepedis to double check, but I can't tell you what's canon v. legends anymore. I still hold most canon prior to Disney as canon, though my brain may be mixing in both the table top and video games.
I about had a stroke when RLM equivocated right wing pundits ragging on The Acolyte with leftist wishing death upon the right wingers for not liking it. Like, yeah, those things are in the same category of comparison.
The first guy you showed heavily moderates his chat, he doesn't allow for any debate or alternative views in the comments. It's so jarring if you're used to normal people who can just disagree.
That's disappointing.
@@MegaSpideyman it was quite a culture shock. I don't tend to go into militantly progressive spaces. But they're all jannies and so they won't debate you, they just ban you instead. Imagine having nothing better to do with your life than moderate RUclips comments.
Funny thing about Rag's Dragon Age comments, is that the later games show that despite the Chantry's & Templar's inconsistent & occasionally cruel treatment of mages, they ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT & JUSTIFIED IN THEIR ACTIONS!
Mages don't just 'have magic' but using it puts them in direct connection with spirits & demons(which, are actually the same thing) and thus the constant threat of possession if not cautious & properly trained.
And a possessed mage is essentially a reality warping walking nuke. In the first game alone, a child with magic that was not properly trained got possessed and massacred a town.
Also a mages tower get practically destroyed for similar reasons with massive loss of life.
There are repeated examples of why this system arose, why it's so strictly enforced, & why mages are so feared, well before the rebellion & mage civil war that erupts in Inquisition, which is nigh apocalyptic on its own before the big bad(also a mage,that tried to invade heaven) kicks off an actual apocalypse in the chaos.
The other societies in the settings have their own controls( elves banish children with magic if they already have too many mages, the Imperium had the exact same system as the Chantry more or less, but the mages took over and run it now, the Qunari do like everything else and strictly control and brainwash their mages).
"I've done things in dark souls you couldn't even imagine"
People will say things like this and wonder why fromsoft keeps making boss movesets harder and harder to predict.
He didn't wonder, he especifically said this was one of the reasons.
Continuity gives us Lore, Lore gives us World, World gives us potential for Novel. Mess with any one of the elements and you get garbage.
This comment section is gold
It also helps to give us a map of things that happened.
I'm not gay actor Michael Douglas
I heard he came from Seed City.
A cumtown bit in an efap video? It's more likely than you'd think. Also I'm gay
One look at the first subject of this video confirms that whenever a light saber is activated, he has to change his pants because of all the soy that just exploded into them. 🤮
- Doesn't use mechanics the game gives you.
- Complaints that game is too hard.
- Declares the dlc a bad experience.
Maybe he should have gotten the review build that reviewers got where the game was easier (this is real by the way).😂
He said in the same block that he doesn’t want a Fromsoft game with all the added mechanics and that’s why he dislikes it over older souls.
Bluey is amazing especially when you consider current children’s programming.
Bluey is a legitimately good show, I’ve watched the first two seasons with my daughter and it is high quality children’s show.
Unironically, Bluey has better character development and story progression/consistency than any D+ star wars show! (I find myself watching it even when my daughter isnt in the room 😂😂)
I think anyone can use a lightsaber, but it’s not a great combat weapon if you can’t block lasers
RLM got what they wanted for Star Wars. So I don't really take their opinions on most anything serious at all. They're effectively part of the Hollywood problem.
In that they're too forgiving, or apathetic?
I couldnt handle watching more than like 10 min of RLMs "review" so I didnt realise just how far they have fallen. Damn this is so sad.
This might be a weird comparison, but these people who think you are supposed to like everything no matter what, remind me of the people in the fat acceptance community. The way both groups attack a person who disagrees with them, comes across as both extremely insecure and immature. It's like both groups think the criticism of the product/ideology reflects badly upon themselves. It does and it's freaking hilarious but also incredibly pathetic.
2:36:47 Great point by Mauler. You can just throw the "starving African defense" back at the person. If you're saying that my online criticisms are petty (there are starving people in Africa for heaven sakes!) then your criticisms of my criticisms are even more petty.
Theo getting filtered a second time by Elden Ring is the funniest shit ever.
Bluey is fucking Shakespeare compared to the Acolyte. They tell more interesting stories and morals in 15 minutes than Disney Star Wars has in all their shows put together.
Do yourself a favor and watch the Sleepitime episode. A work of art that will stick with me for the rest of my life.
In defense of RLM:
They truly do not give a shit about star wars. They want it to die so when they say "who cares" it's because they can't fathom anyone giving a shit about the ip anymore. Because they are treckies. XD
Then they should shut the fuck up or get an actual Star Wars person on their show. I'm so sick of these hacks talking about shit they either don't know and won't learn the stuff or hate it and try to drum up discourse and attack people with legit criticism instead of engaging it in civil talk.
They sure cared a lot when they made all those Plinkett reviews
@@Gojeto346Yeah, and by now they stopped caring.
Your point being?
Did RLM actually get to a review in thier review? I stopped watching 45min in bc all they did was tell us how far up thier asses the fence is
@@pbradics3670You had us in the first half, ngl.
lol
I think Theo legitimately is delusional when it comes to the souls series. "I've done things none of you would ever believe in this game". Most experienced soulsborne players do SL1 runs, the DLC is very doable at SL1.
You are describing a tiny minority of the overall playerbase, I assure you
I hate how many people like him have this "appeal to authority" mindset that just because they were good at some of the other games then they're clearly experts on others. Elden Ring is a game he's played once with a chip on his shoulder and a stubborn attitude. He doesn't know nearly as much about the game as he thinks he does. Especially compared to people who have been playing it consistently over the past 2 years
@@uhrwerk5505 I agree. When I say "experienced players" I mean the ones who have played thousands of hours of souls games like myself. His statement "I've done things none of you would believe" is the one I'm appealing to.
@@Terrbearr428 That is fair. When there are youtubers going around beating the game with only Law of Undead Smiting or whatever which takes 5 years to cast and does 2 damage, I‘m not sure what Theo could be referring to that he did that‘s unbelievable
Theo definitely does come off like he’s just whining, and this is coming from someone who struggles with the same boss tactics he’s complaining about.
Woo! You guys are getting me through the "hurry up and wait" process the military always makes people go through. It's been a real pain having my life be put on hold by these people.
What's the waiting for?
Rich has always had a disdain, if not outright hatred, for anything to due with Christianity (institutions, morals, values, etc.) so it's no wonder he has maintained a hatred for the Jedi, but it bleeds into his criticism, so much so, that he takes the default position of "Jedi Man bad". It becomes tiresome liatening to try to shit on them over and over. We get it, Rich! Take a step back already
I like RLM but they're so out of touch when it comes to Star Wars. I never understood the argument often used by Rich Evans, when he claimed that you can't do much more with Star Wars. It wasn't until recently when they watched Andor that Mike and Rich finally understood the concept of the Expanded Universe. Star Wars has so much potential, but Disney simply refuses to take advantage of it and do anything cool with the IP.
Oh trust me, he has had some bad takes even during the Pre Rec livestreams. I’ve agreed with him on many things, but I’ve had my disagreements with his stance on the N64, Venom & Carnage, Star Wars, Doom 64, and so on. He even notoriously hates JRPG’s. In the Rich Evans family stream he was forced to play FFVII and was miserable.
@@EpicJasonX9000so7nds liked based takes to me. Especially on jrpgs.
They did Andor.
@@PatrickOMulliganshit take
He has a weird chip on his shoulder over Christianity and he hates the Jedi because he sees them as an allegory to Christianity, he has said as much on his prerecorded livestreams and is not just your typical fedora tipping redditor take on the religion it goes much further than that to the point that calling him hateful against it is putting it mildly.
Understand that RLM's apathy for star wars set in YEARS before you guys. They were checked out in the early 2000s
27:46
FS is not manipulating you into rolling at a bad time. Those attacks are delayed so you have time to recover stamina/get into position for a charged heavy-attack.
I held this same sentiment on my first playthrough. Then, on my second run, I tried playing around with those delayed attacks and discovered they were very easy to deal with. You can easily block, roll, parry, or jump over those delayed attacks as soon as the attack comes out; they are 100% reactable.
I had a ton of problems with Elden Ring on my first playthrough, but then I stopped treating it like a sequel to Dark Souls. It’s much like Sekiro in that regard.
Edit: 3:55:26
Christ, this is a gross oversimplification of ‘Souls combat’…and this isn’t a ‘Souls’ game. This whole rant sounds like me bitching about Maliketh during my first playthrough.
The combat is clearly more complicated than you understand because R1 attacks in ER are almost useless against bosses unless you’re simply trying to get in a quick hit. The real damage in ER comes from breaking an enemy’s posture, which is done with jumping heavies and charged R2s. You can hit a boss with R1 attacks all day and never break their posture.
As for dodging, it’s okay...but in many cases, jumping over an attack is better in every way, especially when it’s a sweeping attack or a ground AOE. Jump a Crucible Knights tail-sweep->confirm into jumping R2->watch him crumple.
Thank you lol. Its like complaining you cant block in bloodborne. The bosses may slightly look like DS bosses, but they arent. Elden ring leans into high fantasy and the wild stuff bosses can pull off represent that. Its like the complaint about "anime moves", they're meant to be dangerous attacks that, if properly handled, can be used to deal a ton of damage to the boss
@@Schlumbuo Sure do love waiting a minute or two for them combos ti expire. That’s super fun, or how the camera is the worst it’s ever been. Super engaging stuff right there
@@bender5271you're not waiting that long for combos and if you are that means you didn't learn the fight very well. Most boss combos have openings in the middle of the combo or can be spaced around to attack them when they wiff
@@bender5271how do you listen to a five hour stream if you can't deal with a couple minutes of observation?
Kinda rubs me the wrong way theo says rolling is all you can do and how you cant change it much when theirs 3 different rolling weights and ashes of war that are specifically designed to be a better roll
Not to mention jumping is an extremely powerful option that avoids many attacks, is a gap closer, and jumping R2s do mega posture damage.
It's also ignoring how powerful guarding and shields are in Elden Ring compared to every other souls game
@@kalecraft8906very true
Rolling, jumping (which includes some ashes of war that put you in the air), spells, shields... literally side stepping attacks too, i think people who think rolling is the only way to deal with attacks would be surprised at how many attacks you can avoid just by good distancing achieved with simple walking or a little sprint.
Rellana is the perfect example of this, you can back off a little and she will just be punching air for a while. If you know what you're doing a simple shield can easily dominate her in the entire fight too, so many of her attacks are parryable including the one that she does a 180° and to get behind you (and it's kinda badass to parry 2 of those in a row lol). If you are not good parry even just blocking her attacks and doing guard counters can net you a good amount of stance breaks.
@@joppa4836 depends on the build tbh.
@@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish depending on the build what? You can use Ashes of war or change your roll weight on any build in the game unless you use very spefic weapons where you can't change it and that doesn't matter beacuse ANY build can off hand a dagger with the bloodhound or Quickstep what's your point?
Is RLM going towards the same "Dark-side" arc/path as Chris Stuckman has been?
I used to watch Blind Wave all the time, but it became clear they will praise anything that has Star Wars on it. Their SW content is the one I won't watch because it's just blind praise.
Same. It's a shame because they offer decent discussion when the things they watch are actually good.
I kinda just stick to the mha and Rick and morty videos now
What’s wrong with a discussion around the positives of shows, especially if they genuinely enjoyed it and want others to appreciate what they enjoyed as well?
@Kriv-kj6lk There's nothing wrong with that, but they can't make the assertion that most negative criticism of starwars is inherently hateful or unwarranted without looking disingenuous.
That's not a discussion, that's "i like it so it's good, you don't like it so I'm going to write off any valid critique as toxicity."
@@mrme4329 Exactly
Remember, Mike thought Yoda danced around in a bikini when seeing one of the Sequel movies.
I have an idea, maybe Smilo Ren killed the Witches and made it look like the Jedi did it. Maybe he was a teenager hidden in the Witches coven somewhere underground but his evil mind was able to influence certain people such as Mae. Probably a better story than what we will get, just throwing that idea out there.
It amazes me how people heard. "there are people starving around the world" and changed that to "there are children staving in Africa"
This is some mandela effect level of telephone
Isn’t it just racism? Like “poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”
Do your parents know you're watching EFAP?
Does it matter? It's a dumb statement to make because you're upset at people expressing their dislike for something online lol. So who cares? lol.
I guess they got tired of using the same phrase but were too lazy to change it fully, or too creatively bankrupt.
This mistake doesn’t change any of the arguments that MauLer and co made as using people starving around the world as a counter to SWT not taking the retcon well is still one of the worst ways to respond.
With the RLM part how would they handle if a new star trek series was set diring Kirk's star fleet academy days and all of a sudden we have a cameo of Wesley Crusher.
Wouldn't they complain about that. Would they say it doesn't matter.
"Base Elden Ring was everything about Dark Souls 3 turned up to 11"
No, Elden Ring was Dark Souls 2 turned up to 15.
And people said theo was harsh on elden ring
Revisiting DS2 after playing Elden Ring is quite revealing.
For reference, check out SquiiddishVODs - Playlists - Dark Souls 2 - video 54 onwards.
Theo saying SotE has been the worst experience in years is straight up delusional. TLOU2, Lord of Ring Gollum, FO76, Slopfield, Forspoken, the list goes on, and yet the DLC tops all of them?
He hasn't played any of them tbh.
And you're somehow an expert on what games Theo has played? 🤣
MauLer, you took my comment out of context near the end because you thought that I said to rename the stream entirely, which isn't true.
what I actually said was: "you guys talked more about Elder Ring than The Acolyte. maybe you wanna rename your stream's episode."
I understand that the chat goes pretty fast, and it's hard to catch what we say, but please actually try to catch the comments and read it carefully because not doing so is a sure fire way of taking someone's comments out of context and misinterpreting what we say. which all I meant was to rename the episode to reflect on both topics, since it was more about Elden Ring than it was about The Acolyte. that's all it meant. you don't like it when we take your comments out of context and/or if other RUclipsrs do it, so, I would appreciate if you gave us the same treatment.
I'm not angry or upset, but I just need to be honest about these sort of things. and at least I took the time to track down my comment to back up my statement. which few people are willing to do.
This intro portion reminds me of why i don't watch EFAP for their gaming insight
It's definitely much weaker. I think they're good at covering stories and writing but many of the crew have some very extreme or weird takes on games. Fringy is probably the only one I will consistently agree with on games
Yup. I skipped past the intro and the end.
They have a few good points regarding the DLC. I've been playing it, and I absolutely felt the Scadutree Fragments thing. I think they should've just balanced the Shadowlands around like rune level 100 or so, cause that's around the level suggested for Mohg. If someone plows through it at level 173 like a maniac (I'm nearing the end of the DLC and I'm under level 160) then it'll just be easier and they can just let it. I was really confused as to why everything hit me like a ballistic missile, then after getting like 20 fragments it evened out and I went "Oh, that's.... Kinda just a chore, they couldn't just do what they did for the main game and balance it for a certain level range?"
Then there's the spinning thing where they ready an attack and I've seen enemies just instantly snap 180 degrees (See I know how degrees work, I don't say 360 when it's a half turn) and LITERALLY they have SLID across the ground so they would be closer and they would hit me, despite being in like a wind up animation. Like imagine if you were readying Unsheath, and then you just slid forward as you struck, that'd be total bullshit right? That happens kind of a lot.
And I actively despise the Putrescent Knight, that fucker is bullshit and I hate it. Yes I beat it, I just didn't enjoy a fucking moment of that garbage.
Aside from those complaints, the DLC is pretty fucking fun. There's a shit load to explore, it looks fucking gorgeous of course, there's new enemies and not all of them are good, but they're not all atrocious by any means, there's tons of new weapons and build potential, and plenty of good bosses.
I just don't understand the complaint of going into a boss, dying multiple times to learn its patterns, and then using those patterns to dismantle them. Some of them are WAAAAAY too "Just dodge over and over, hit it once, then immediately get back to dodging" THAT isn't fucking fun, and there's a bit too much of that, but for the most part the bosses are tough, but fair (I'm doing a Rivers of Blood build as well, so maybe it only feels like that because of that build? I dunno). Rellana was a great boss, her style of dancing swordplay was great to look at, but it also actually helped me fight her, because she treats it like a dance explicitly you can more easily learn the moves. I keep forgetting her actual name, but the boss of the Bud Church, she was great. Once you figure out the intricacies of her moveset, it's fucking art to fight and kill her. Her Remembrance weapon is also pretty good, I'm probably going to NG+ a build to use her incantation too, just spread rot everywhere.
Yeah but they complained about the learn by dying. THAT'S SOULS! THAT IS ALL OF SOULS! FOREVER! That has ALWAYS been the way of From Soft. That is how it works in every single From Soft game ever made, Sekiro ESPECIALLY. This game does not do that MORE. If you're so bad at the game, literally every time an enemy does a new move it kills you or you can't dodge it, that's a YOU problem. I get how them holding an attack a little longer can throw you off, but if you're arguing every enemy does that and almost every boss does that in the BASE game..... Whose fault is it you're still falling for that? You would think you'd adapt to the new delay?
And I hated Sekiro. I've beaten it enough times to see every single ending, so I'm not by any means complaining it's "Too hard", the story is actually excellent and the details of the location and stuff of that nature, all on point. The actual gameplay is kinda shit though. Just parry parry parry parry parry parry parry, hit. It took one of the options of Dark Souls combat, and just made it the entire game. Technically there's a dodge, but the dodge isn't nearly as useful as in Dark Souls, explicitly there are way fewer I Frames in Sekiro. There are the tools, but those are at BEST addons that sometimes you can make use of, but they have very limited uses and you can only have a couple on at a time. Once you run out of "ammo" for them, they're basically useless, so unless a specific tool is geared towards a specific boss, like firecrackers towards the bulls, you still need to rely on the constant parry playstyle because you CANNOT just fight a whole boss or worse, a boss PLUS the run up to that boss, with just the tools. In addition, the tool's run on an ammo that you need to grind for, you don't just get X amount of charges, and they refresh when you rest. That game has SO much grinding.
Again, I beat this game enough for every single ending, and every single playthrough looks the fucking same. Whenever I attempted "Oh maybe I'll try to do more of this kinda playstyle" it was ALWAYS dramatically worse than just learn the block timings and if you deviate from that you just fucking get killed. Then you've got your heal flask in case you miss a parry, so just miss fewer parries than you have heals. Sure there's the mikiri counter, and you can do some jumping, but again, that's specific encounters, you can't do a mikiri run. Dark Souls games have countless challenge runs, I have seen someone beat Elden Ring with nothing but their ass, no I won't provide context, if you know you know. Sekiro really doesn't have that option. Which sucks, because everything but the gameplay is fucking great. Even dying is unreasonably punishing compared to Souls games. If you die in Sekiro you lose like 3 different things AS WELL as your progress in a level. I've heard counters to all these complaints, and none of them are ever satisfying.
Yep
@@kalecraft8906 Why do you think Fringy often does?
“Starving people in Africa” theory will be his next channel
As for if the villain is a true Sith or not, stuff like this was also touched upon in the Original Cel Animated Clone Wars.
Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus : You are more powerful than I have sensed.
Asajj Ventress : The Dark Side is strong in me, for I am Sith.
Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus : Ha, ha, ha! A bold claim. But you are not Sith.
[Dooku floats down using the force and stands before Ventress]
Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus : You wear the trappings of the Sith, you fight like the Sith. But this can be imitated, however. You lack a vital quality found in all Sith. Sith have no fear. And I sense much fear in you.
Asajj Ventress : You are a foolish old man who knows nothing of the Dark side!
[ignites her lightsabers]
Count Dooku/Darth Tyrannus : [chuckling] Indeed?
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How is finding Scadu tree fragments any different from running off to find the weapons and armor or spells that you want for your build? What's stopping you from just looking up where to find the fragments online if you don't want to explore? If you "Just want to fight the boss" then just go and collect all the fragments you can like you would go grab all the items you want for you build. How is it "Less interesting" than gathering all the gear? How is it "less interesting" than sitting in a farm spot and grinding out runes? Why would you honestly sit here and LIE and say that it's the worst experience when we've had games like Gollum, TLOU2 and more?
Cuz it’s literally a skill issue so they have to cope to justify it lol