Technically, duplication glitches for food is biblically accurate. In the Gospel of John, Jesus feed 5000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish by using his own "divine" duplication glitch, making the glitch biblically accurate... Got to love loopholes.
Well it was only partly a miracle. Turns out a lot of people weren't hungry and they were putting them back so it made it seem like there was a lot more than there actually was.
@JPBrooksLive yes but they almost always only research within their own bubbles and thus end up not knowing the first thing about what they're researching. that's why there are so many kids who became hentai fans because their christian parents were protecting them by buying them "harmless" comics and cartoons. that's what created sydsnap.
- Uses shield - extremely moral - Defeats much stronger enemies by imbibing a formula that allows them to exceed human limits You just created Steve Rogers, Captain Skyrim
There is a mod that adds space marine armours (and another with some 40k weapons). Now if only they added more chapters because half of them are just blueberry variants.
Parents: Time for BED! Me: Negative, there are more traitors who need the Emperor's Mercy!!! Parents: You said that 2 hours ago... and an hour ago... and, yesterday actually... Me: **glances over shoulder** I sense heresy.
Hod being sometimes accidentally locked in his house by his wife and just waiting inside because he is not allowed to have a key is a hilarious design choice, intentional or not
Tbh you can't even exist in Skyrim without violating those laws, simply because it's a polytheistic society and you are forced to engage in non christian activities from the start.
I'm only 1:25 into the video but based on the premise, Zack's parents seem to have had an uncanny grasp of the game mechanics and systems to be able to impose the restrictions that they did... ...on the other hand, Spiff is playing Skyrim, so I'll shut the hell up and go put the kettle on.
Spif talking about magic resistance makes me think of that enchanted ring someone made that is called something like "magic isnt real" with like 9999% magic resistance
@cromefire_ unlikely, given the messages between him and the Reddit user he drew inspiration (and information) from were from January. Of course, they could've been from January 2025, but I think it would say so on the timestamp (don't know for sure).
@olddiggy4800 Tut tut. Salt is a mineral seasoning, not a spice. Cinnamon, cloves, ginger, mace, nutmeg, pepper have been used in England since the Middle Ages. That's before 1776 so you might not have heard of it 😁
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." That's not lightning *magic* , it's a voice activated micro tesla coil! That's not fire *magic* , it's a personal short range air-fuel igniter! That's not a *magic* healing potion, it's programmed repairing nanites in a liquid solution! That's not a *magic* dragon, it's an organo-metallic bioengineered synthetic draconiform! Nothing is *magic* ; Skyrim is actually a sci fi game! The people living in this world just like a really rustic aesthetic.
"But we, as a truly moral person, wouldn't be taking the gold off this skeleton!" 30 minutes later: "So, now after we've finished selling that skeleton loot, we need to get repeatedly arrested and break out of jail..."
aint no parent picking and choosing which game mechanics their kids can use. they will just ban the game outright if they dont like 1 thing in it. which is still sad.
@Lord_Diamus Right. How dare a parent do their job as a parent. Better to let kids decide for themselves what they want to do and let the government handle everything else. Parents have their own lives, after all.
A have a friend who's parents banned him from playing any shooter games except Halo because they were okay with their kids killing aliens, just not people.
@ahalfsesameseedbun7472 Some more fundamentalist types are extremely against depictions of anything even remotely resembling real life occult practices, and a lot of those involve chanting supposedly magic words. And what are shouts if not magic words in the most literal sense?
@razorsimon6681 Depends whose accounts you believe. The gospel writers tend to absolve Pilate of responsibility for the execution, but their portrayals of him are inconsistent with those of contemporary writers like Philo and Josephus, who characterize Pilate as harsh, cruel and frequently at odds with the native Jewish population. Looking at it from the context of 1st century Roman Judea, he was probably executed for the crime of treason (lex maiestas) due to his illegal claim of being "king of the Jews" (the position to which Rome had appointed Herod). It was politically expedient for later Christians to shift the blame onto the Jewish authorities, rather than onto Rome (since these early Christians were mostly living in the Roman empire), and we can even see how Pilate is presented in a better light as time goes on: Mark (the earliest gospel) has Pilate question Jesus' guilt; then Matthew adds him washing his hands and declaring himself "innocent of this man's blood", while Luke has Jesus sent to Herod. That clean timeline does break down somewhat if we accept the theory of (partial) Johannine primacy. I won't go into the details here, but there are reasons to believe that some parts of John, including the trial/Passion narrative, represent an older tradition than that appearing in the synoptic gospels. Given that both John and Mark portray Pilate sympathetically, this would suggest that narrative arose earlier in the Christian tradition, possibly as early as the 40s or 50s CE. Again, taking it back to the historical context and what we know of Pilate from other contemporary writers, and our quite good understanding of Roman law at the time, the gospel account is unlikely to be historical, but it does leave us with the interesting question of why the narrative arose. It could have been simply a contrast device, employed for theological effect: emphasizing the "wickedness" of the Jews who rejected their messiah; or it could have been an attempt to legitimize Christ under Roman law: his followers are not following a criminal, since the Roman authority (Pilate) found him not guilty. It may also be that there is a kernel of truth to it, that Pilate _did_ initially push back, because he resented the idea that the Jewish elites might dictate whom he should judge, maybe, though we only have conjecture to go on. In the end, we can't really know for sure, but the most plausible timeline is the one where the Romans were more than happy to execute an upstart Jew causing trouble in the middle of a local holy festival.
30:10 Won't pick up a bow that some bandits left lying on a table, but is perfectly fine with looting corpses so long as the corpse isn't a freshly killed human...
Puleese! My standard game play IS Legendary, Dead is Dead, no magicka use, no staffs or scrolls, no potion use, no followers or dogs, no mods that give advantage over vanilla and to attempt ALL nine major quest-lines like this and no reloads except upon game crashes. Oh but I do allow shouts……Try it.
I like to think that they are big rocks that just encourage a general vibe of determination and grit of human spirit. However if you want to do this without them it is 100% possible just an extra notch painful
@alexishere953 I'm not religious, but the stones couldn't be seen, since they were inside the Ark of the Covenant, which killed anyone who even touched it. Possibly more magical than the Guardian Stones...Spiff set his own version of the rules, and broke them almost immediately.
"Banned Dragon Shouts" My first thought was the couple of scenarios where you're required to use the Shouts to progress the main storyline. I doubt Zack knew of any speedrun workarounds meaning he never actually got to finish the main quest if his parents banned Shouts (which they probably did since it's basically magic)
Chances are pretty good the story is fake considering the restrictions require more than surface-level knowledge of the game to impose. Parents like those would have just banned the game entirely; if Zack was a real person, it's far more likely he used his own knowledge of the game to make up a story about his parents banning aspects of it while lying about owning it so he could say he still got to play Hot New Game.
@travislyonsgary I mean, would this not be the issue evangelists have with Shouts? It's a false deity, so carrying its word would be blasphemy. So it's just another reason for banning them
I would have allowed restoration; some people forget that you, as a parent, can actually reframe the narrative for your kid; "healing/heal other", ""turn undead", "sun fire", etc. are undoubtubly good aligned.
"The only magical thing there was a deep fried Mars Bar" hahahahaha having come across such a thing only once in my long life, I concur with this message!!
36:19 actually Spiff, according to the rules of this run, there is only one God. You can do some insane exploits in Skyrim in his glory or whatever though. :3
"Actually there's one, but actually there's three, there's daddy dictator that flooded the earth and killed almost everyone because he wasn't praised enough as a -baby- eternal being, then there's the son that was also Papa, Prince of Blinding Light but also not, who was birthed by a teenage virgin, and thanks to the work of Judas died for 'our sins' [you know, the ones that when the son was the dad they blamed us for...]. And then, for inexplicable reasons and adding literally nothing to the story, there's whatever 'the holy spirit' is meant to be"
@Mikeztarp Does it use the word? No. Does it speak directly about debauchery and licentious behavior? yes. Ephesians 5:18 “Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.” This contrasts intoxication with spiritual fullness, treating drunkenness as a doorway to loss of moral restraint. Romans 13:13 “Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.” Paul groups excessive drinking with sexual excess and disorderly living as behaviors inconsistent with a life of integrity. 1 Corinthians 6:10 “Nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” Here drunkenness is named as a persistent pattern of life that stands opposed to God’s reign. 1 Peter 4:3 “For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do-living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.” Peter describes these behaviors as part of an old life believers are expected to leave behind. Galatians 5:19-21 “The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft…” The term translated witchcraft (pharmakeia) historically referred to sorcery often involving drugs or altered states, alongside sexual and moral excess. Revelation 21:8 “…the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts…” Again using pharmakeia, this verse places substance-linked spiritual manipulation among behaviors excluded from God’s future kingdom. 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 “Flee from sexual immorality… your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit.” The emphasis is on bodily stewardship and the spiritual significance of physical conduct. Galatians 5:19 “Sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery.” These are summarized as expressions of the flesh in contrast to life directed by the Spirit. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 “It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality… not in passionate lust.” Sexual excess is framed as incompatible with sanctification and self-control. 1 Peter 5:8 “Be alert and of sober mind.” Sobriety is presented as essential for spiritual vigilance and resistance to temptation. Titus 2:11-12 “The grace of God… teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives.” Grace is portrayed not as permission, but as training toward restraint. 1 Corinthians 10:23 “‘I have the right to do anything,’ you say-but not everything is beneficial.” A guiding principle often applied to alcohol, substances, and sexual behavior: freedom is limited by what builds up rather than degrades.
The "Dragon." cuts you made with the dialog made me think someone needs to make a mod that replaces all dialog and quest log entries with nothing but "Dragon!"
Not exactly a challenge but my mother rented a N64 Spiderman game but took it back when she saw that it wasn't "just swinging around and climbing buildings". I remember my young self asking her if she knew how Spiderman stopped bad guys. 😆 Btw, stomping goombas was a-okay
In high school we had a group get together over D&D and other role playing games I was more into Battletech less dice and #'s for my simple mind. The church across the street always gave us a hassle and even one time called the cops and when the Chief showed up and saw some of the members of the group and commented he hadn't had to respond to any calls involving any of them since the group formed he kindly told the preacher man that if we were staying off the streets and not causing trouble in town than a little bit of role play couldn't be to bad. I mean there was plenty of underage drinking and other substances being used but we were not running the streets.
Blessings of the Divines Be Upon You For I have uploaded a video!
1 Like = 1 Prayer to our lord Todd
Love for lord Todd!
Well helloo how do you do .
Praise Rod Toward
Jank for the jank god!
In Todd we trust
Technically, duplication glitches for food is biblically accurate. In the Gospel of John, Jesus feed 5000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish by using his own "divine" duplication glitch, making the glitch biblically accurate... Got to love loopholes.
New headcanon unlocked
@Parcifall-7 jesus:"and now we just open our inventory, drop the fish, quicksave, load..."
Well it was only partly a miracle. Turns out a lot of people weren't hungry and they were putting them back so it made it seem like there was a lot more than there actually was.
@deatheven13If it happened at all.
God, the admin, allowed it
I like the idea of Zack's parents knowing enough about Elder Scrolls lore to ban Daedric quests specifically lol
@def6078 evangelical parents aren't shy about researching a thing to pick it apart for any sign of blasphemy lol.
@JPBrooksLive yes but they almost always only research within their own bubbles and thus end up not knowing the first thing about what they're researching. that's why there are so many kids who became hentai fans because their christian parents were protecting them by buying them "harmless" comics and cartoons. that's what created sydsnap.
@JPBrooksLive
Fundamentalist Evangelical parents. I'm an Evangelical parent and I love Skyrim lol
@swimmerfish34 How do you feel about Talos worship being banned?
Imagining Zack waiting for his parents to go to bed so he can cast a sneaky fireball and giggle to himself like a badboy is killing me
what a sad existence 😢
"Zack care to explain why your Destruction skill levelled up overnight!"
@melancholyplanet maybe, but in that scenario Zack would be made happier by casting that spell than you've ever felt doing video game magic
@SeveralGhost the scariest part of happiness is, it'll find it way whatever your condition is.
@PHyN1151 except for people that are unhappy and take their own lives because they can't find happiness, but I see your point
Challenge failed:
Activating the Warrior Stone is engaging in Astrology.
I would have said the "doors to oblivion" looting off a dead body, stealing is a sin!!
@TheBotherHood2 Looting a dead body to take Magically appearing books non less
oh i was gonna post something like this but you already beat me to it
Yeah, that was my first thought too.
OR it is praying to the one and only righteous god for a guardian angel to bless them in the smiting of heretics!
- Uses shield
- extremely moral
- Defeats much stronger enemies by imbibing a formula that allows them to exceed human limits
You just created Steve Rogers, Captain Skyrim
But for copyright reasons, he couldn't say the catchphrase*.
Such a shame. Wasted opportunity.
*I can do this all day.
"I can do this all week"
Rteve Sogers you mean ?
@papypom Reve Stogers. It still needs to be an actual reasonable name :p
@noah-pc6wh That’s Skyrim’s ass
“YOURE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN HERE 🤬” *walks outside “oh, are you here for work 🤭”
Parents: violence is allowed but magic is banned
Me: Warhammer 40K then.
😂
There is a mod that adds space marine armours (and another with some 40k weapons). Now if only they added more chapters because half of them are just blueberry variants.
What about Psykers? Are they not 'magic'?
@KatotsuSamano, those are completely different words.
Parents: Time for BED!
Me: Negative, there are more traitors who need the Emperor's Mercy!!!
Parents: You said that 2 hours ago... and an hour ago... and, yesterday actually...
Me: **glances over shoulder** I sense heresy.
That glowing Warrior Stone looked an awful lot like Magik to me.
Those are pagan gods, run already dead
Astrology, run died quick
It's awakened geology, all good
Wise men following the star?
Hod being sometimes accidentally locked in his house by his wife and just waiting inside because he is not allowed to have a key is a hilarious design choice, intentional or not
At some point, not fixing it became intentional.
Given Gerdur is very chummy with Ralof things could be read into it lol
...Wait a second, aren't standing stones... MAGIC?! And even more, Pagan magic!
na, those are astrology, aparently a very okay thing.
@Revenpsix2 prayer is still prayer even if there guaranteed provable effect :)
Pagan IDOL magic, since every stone has an idol in the form of a constellation
Religious magic is different.
Tbh you can't even exist in Skyrim without violating those laws, simply because it's a polytheistic society and you are forced to engage in non christian activities from the start.
Zack if you are watching this I want you to know that I understand your suffering and I wish you the best in life
I'm only 1:25 into the video but based on the premise, Zack's parents seem to have had an uncanny grasp of the game mechanics and systems to be able to impose the restrictions that they did...
...on the other hand, Spiff is playing Skyrim, so I'll shut the hell up and go put the kettle on.
You're right this challenge is no Fun, and that come from someone who is a Christian.
What is it with kids named Zach And religious parents and Video games. Had a neighbor named Zach who's parents banned Mario because kamek.
You're playing it at hardest difficulty. 😂
You really needed the Targe of the Blooded for this run!
46:09 Saying “Reunification of Skyrim” after murdering everyone who stands in the way of the Empire…. Like in true British Fasion
Spif talking about magic resistance makes me think of that enchanted ring someone made that is called something like "magic isnt real" with like 9999% magic resistance
Amusing
Whilst I did not make the one from that meme picture I did famously create a wizard who resists and absorbs all magic 😊
A ring so anti-magic, it absorbs and destroyes the magic that was used to make it.
Specifically, it was called "Magic isn't real, you idiot" and the resistance was more like 110ish%.
Still, one of my fave meme items lol
@ResileafI've seen your comments on another channel, I forget which one.
19:08 "its 2025" -spiff 2026
Well while recording it it might have still been 2025, might have taken some time to get it done and out.
@cro@cromefire_couldve inserted a correction text tho
@lyxinia Why would anyone bother to do that, though?
@cromefire_ unlikely, given the messages between him and the Reddit user he drew inspiration (and information) from were from January.
Of course, they could've been from January 2025, but I think it would say so on the timestamp (don't know for sure).
We just did the thing where you say/write the wrong year at the start of the next one by accident.
Idk, eating that much seems like the sin of gluttony...
But thats just me, lol.
"Good empires like the British" is the most British thing I've ever heard
Absolutely no Bias here and famously we never did anything wrong, that's a certified fact (Please for the love of god do not check any history book)
@thespiffingbritYall just wanted some spices, nothing wrong with that (even if yall decided you didn't like anything other than salt)
Hey, it's not our fault that everyone else was bad at not getting conquered...
@olddiggy4800 Tut tut. Salt is a mineral seasoning, not a spice. Cinnamon, cloves, ginger, mace, nutmeg, pepper have been used in England since the Middle Ages. That's before 1776 so you might not have heard of it 😁
@BarryTGash Then why do they not use them in their food?
Zack mid-combat: "We had a breakfast, but what about second breakfast, elevensies, brunch..."
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
That's not lightning *magic* , it's a voice activated micro tesla coil!
That's not fire *magic* , it's a personal short range air-fuel igniter!
That's not a *magic* healing potion, it's programmed repairing nanites in a liquid solution!
That's not a *magic* dragon, it's an organo-metallic bioengineered synthetic draconiform!
Nothing is *magic* ; Skyrim is actually a sci fi game! The people living in this world just like a really rustic aesthetic.
Amazingly, you have fairly accurately described the Dwemer by accident.
@Count.SarumanAwesome! And I've never even played. 😅
Just an Argonian wearing no armor? No, no, no: he's on a meth
Just one meth?
@maturin1919 my brother that's all it takes... God forbid he was just on meth. Or worse yet: THE meth.
@maturin1919 it's the premium one, as a treat
@siegwardinspirit Balmora Blue??
Skooma strength at its finest
"But we, as a truly moral person, wouldn't be taking the gold off this skeleton!"
30 minutes later:
"So, now after we've finished selling that skeleton loot, we need to get repeatedly arrested and break out of jail..."
they call that "doing the lord's work".
Spiff is but a shepherd in a world that needs tending.
Zack's parents sound like they are a real joy to be around.
The old testament lets David loot the foreskin off of the bodies of his enemies and take their loot... so i think you should've done so too
He killed like a hundred guys and looted their clothes as dowry.
That was Samson though.
@Rex_Reaper That would be one wild mod ngl
Unfortunately I did not have any Skyrim foreskin looting mods enabled
@thespiffingbritlame, have that made and released. For....science....?
@thespiffingbrit Mod? As if, that's going to be in the Ultimate Reremastered version + Skyrim for the Ps Vita. As a DLC, of course.
34:00 she's literally a HOUSEcarl, not an outdoorscarl
You failed the challenge right after leaving helgen. Waystones (birthsigns) are magic.
I love how part of the Holy Run strategy is to cosplay captain american bonking people with a shield while eating your vegetables.
It's the Veggie Tales strat!
A mod where a PARENTS ARE LOOKING warning happens randomly for a random amount of time and if you cast a spell or shout during this the game ends.
37:24 - Challenge failed. You honestly think Zach's parents would allow such reading material?!
As funny as these kinds of runs are, I genuinely feel bad for people whose parents are like this.
aint no parent picking and choosing which game mechanics their kids can use. they will just ban the game outright if they dont like 1 thing in it. which is still sad.
@Lord_Diamus Right. How dare a parent do their job as a parent. Better to let kids decide for themselves what they want to do and let the government handle everything else. Parents have their own lives, after all.
A have a friend who's parents banned him from playing any shooter games except Halo because they were okay with their kids killing aliens, just not people.
@ForeverLaxx
Doing their job by banning games cause they contain something that doesnt even exist in real life? lol
@ForeverLaxx nah, but overbearing religous values on your child that cant say refuse them is pretty sad
"Let's go say hi to your uncle, Hadvar" *Pulls out sword*
you could've gone to the temple of the divines to pray for slightly cheaper food right off the bat
Why no shouts? My religious parents used shouts on me quite often.
Edit: this is a joke, I understand that it is magic as far as Skyrim is concerned.
😐
@ahalfsesameseedbun7472 Some more fundamentalist types are extremely against depictions of anything even remotely resembling real life occult practices, and a lot of those involve chanting supposedly magic words. And what are shouts if not magic words in the most literal sense?
@niall_sanderson It... Wasn't a real question. T'was a joke.
@niall_sandersonso reallife that we have rituals like that in the holy christan church
@crash_hunter8659shhhhhh
The irony of a Christ-like figure siding with the Roman Empire analog is perfectly balanced.
Well it was that or the even worse Germanic tribes
Think of it as the holy roman empire; Then it's just Germans christianizing the pagan east of europe, perfectly religion-friendly ❤
constantine
Wasnt the romans who wanted to crucify Jesus
@razorsimon6681 Depends whose accounts you believe. The gospel writers tend to absolve Pilate of responsibility for the execution, but their portrayals of him are inconsistent with those of contemporary writers like Philo and Josephus, who characterize Pilate as harsh, cruel and frequently at odds with the native Jewish population.
Looking at it from the context of 1st century Roman Judea, he was probably executed for the crime of treason (lex maiestas) due to his illegal claim of being "king of the Jews" (the position to which Rome had appointed Herod). It was politically expedient for later Christians to shift the blame onto the Jewish authorities, rather than onto Rome (since these early Christians were mostly living in the Roman empire), and we can even see how Pilate is presented in a better light as time goes on: Mark (the earliest gospel) has Pilate question Jesus' guilt; then Matthew adds him washing his hands and declaring himself "innocent of this man's blood", while Luke has Jesus sent to Herod.
That clean timeline does break down somewhat if we accept the theory of (partial) Johannine primacy. I won't go into the details here, but there are reasons to believe that some parts of John, including the trial/Passion narrative, represent an older tradition than that appearing in the synoptic gospels. Given that both John and Mark portray Pilate sympathetically, this would suggest that narrative arose earlier in the Christian tradition, possibly as early as the 40s or 50s CE.
Again, taking it back to the historical context and what we know of Pilate from other contemporary writers, and our quite good understanding of Roman law at the time, the gospel account is unlikely to be historical, but it does leave us with the interesting question of why the narrative arose. It could have been simply a contrast device, employed for theological effect: emphasizing the "wickedness" of the Jews who rejected their messiah; or it could have been an attempt to legitimize Christ under Roman law: his followers are not following a criminal, since the Roman authority (Pilate) found him not guilty. It may also be that there is a kernel of truth to it, that Pilate _did_ initially push back, because he resented the idea that the Jewish elites might dictate whom he should judge, maybe, though we only have conjecture to go on.
In the end, we can't really know for sure, but the most plausible timeline is the one where the Romans were more than happy to execute an upstart Jew causing trouble in the middle of a local holy festival.
Rather funny that I think Spif commits something invoking every deadly sin at least once in this
30:10 Won't pick up a bow that some bandits left lying on a table, but is perfectly fine with looting corpses so long as the corpse isn't a freshly killed human...
The best British person on RUclips has returned, ready the Yorkshire, burn Birmingham, oh wait it’s already been burnt. . . RELIGHT THE FLAMES.!!!
Ahhh yes the perpetual flame of Birmingham the beacon of the midlands
@thespiffingbrit As someone from Birmingham!... Yeah keep burning please, save us from this purgatory.
@thespiffingbrit Some Yorkshireman: Stratford-upon-Avon calls for aid! The beacon, eh, Birmingham has been lit!
@BarryTGashnice reference
Being the best Brit is kind of like being the nicest guy in prison.
Been playing Zack's challenge since Oblivion haha!
If the bandits didn't get Zack it was the cholesterol from eating 3 families worth of food per encounter.
03:20 - Zack's Mom: "Reincarnation?! You're grounded, 75 million Hail Marys, and I'm tithing your PS5 to the Church. Amen!"
Resurrection. Reincarnation would be coming back in a different body.
Our buddy Jesus was resurrected, so it's fine.
Me looking for the "is this an evangelion reference?" about the thumbnail
22:39 you should know what happens to children calling someone a name in kings2 24-25 😂
I have a lot of hours on skyrim and i never once seen someone get suplexed like that lmao. that was amazing.
I just realize the thumbnail reference. Very cultured of you Spiffing Brit
So technically you are playing kingdom come deliverance
"Like taking candy from a baby... an incredibly WEAK baby with no hands."
I about spit out my food at that line XD
It's a quote from something but I can't remember what he's quoting.
liking that this lowkey a shield hero challenge build
About 1:35 in, and this already sounds both difficult and impossible.
Puleese! My standard game play IS Legendary, Dead is Dead, no magicka use, no staffs or scrolls, no potion use, no followers or dogs, no mods that give advantage over vanilla and to attempt ALL nine major quest-lines like this and no reloads except upon game crashes. Oh but I do allow shouts……Try it.
did you PRAY TO PAGAN EFFIGIES at 6:30!? hellfire for you!
this and stealing the "free" arrows. run ended before it really began.
@BlueHinge It shows how a little stumble causes a tumbling fall.
13:25 POV you just stepped through the oblivion portal to raid the Argonian swamps
Aww, you blew it at the Guardian stones. Graven images are a HUGE no-no, as well as being magic.
I like to think that they are big rocks that just encourage a general vibe of determination and grit of human spirit. However if you want to do this without them it is 100% possible just an extra notch painful
No different from basking in awe at the 10 commandments chiseled in stone right?
@thespiffingbrit I might buy that myself, if it weren't for the sky beam that activates when you choose.
@alexishere953 I'm not religious, but the stones couldn't be seen, since they were inside the Ark of the Covenant, which killed anyone who even touched it. Possibly more magical than the Guardian Stones...Spiff set his own version of the rules, and broke them almost immediately.
It's the LORD stone though, like our LORD and savior Jesus christ lol. I'm sure Zack could argue that to his parents.
"Banned Dragon Shouts" My first thought was the couple of scenarios where you're required to use the Shouts to progress the main storyline. I doubt Zack knew of any speedrun workarounds meaning he never actually got to finish the main quest if his parents banned Shouts (which they probably did since it's basically magic)
Which is funny given in context Dragonshouts are essentially a Angel carrying the word of a creator deity to do miracles. Just saying
well they probably weren't watching the whole time...
Chances are pretty good the story is fake considering the restrictions require more than surface-level knowledge of the game to impose. Parents like those would have just banned the game entirely; if Zack was a real person, it's far more likely he used his own knowledge of the game to make up a story about his parents banning aspects of it while lying about owning it so he could say he still got to play Hot New Game.
@travislyonsgary I mean, would this not be the issue evangelists have with Shouts? It's a false deity, so carrying its word would be blasphemy. So it's just another reason for banning them
I’m not sure about that. Shouts are commonplace in evangelical households.
“No mother that is not healing magic it is a divine miracle from God like the apostles did to heal people”
I would have allowed restoration; some people forget that you, as a parent, can actually reframe the narrative for your kid; "healing/heal other", ""turn undead", "sun fire", etc. are undoubtubly good aligned.
"It's not a dragon shout, I'm speaking in tongues"
the apostles didn't heal people
@ArticleReaderRandy In real life? No. In the Bible? Yes
Tell that to Peter in Acts chapter 3
"Youve lost sir, go home!" the most British response to an invasion lol
"The only magical thing there was a deep fried Mars Bar" hahahahaha having come across such a thing only once in my long life, I concur with this message!!
So picking up a bow from a bandit camp is stealing, but it's fine to take all the archers arrows from the target in from of him 🤔🤣
Now i want to see an challenge where you cant break the ten commandmends 😂
20:05 Guess you got to retire, you took an arrow to the knee
The only way to get into the cloud district
You deserve a medal 🏅
Do you get there very often, by chance?
I'm surprised he didn't make a little trip to Blackreach to get the targe shield
36:19 actually Spiff, according to the rules of this run, there is only one God. You can do some insane exploits in Skyrim in his glory or whatever though. :3
Haha i was just about to comment on that too
"Actually there's one, but actually there's three, there's daddy dictator that flooded the earth and killed almost everyone because he wasn't praised enough as a -baby- eternal being, then there's the son that was also Papa, Prince of Blinding Light but also not, who was birthed by a teenage virgin, and thanks to the work of Judas died for 'our sins' [you know, the ones that when the son was the dad they blamed us for...]. And then, for inexplicable reasons and adding literally nothing to the story, there's whatever 'the holy spirit' is meant to be"
Skyrim Captain America: Using just a shield and fists.
i live for spiffing brits skyrim videos man, absolute kino
Love the eva reference in the thumbnail
Challenge failed due to the standing stone counting as a magical effect.
"Its truly one of the design choices Ive ever seen" ....yes
Alvor gives you a mini quest of creating and upgrading an iron dagger and a hide helmet. He provides the materials for this.
32:49 kinda surprised "no alcohol" wasn't one of the rules, assuming Zack was underage at the time.
There's no prohibition in the Bible against alcohol.
@o3chaos784 Pretty sure it says nothing about cocaine, either.
@Mikeztarp Does it use the word? No. Does it speak directly about debauchery and licentious behavior? yes.
Ephesians 5:18
“Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.”
This contrasts intoxication with spiritual fullness, treating drunkenness as a doorway to loss of moral restraint.
Romans 13:13
“Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.”
Paul groups excessive drinking with sexual excess and disorderly living as behaviors inconsistent with a life of integrity.
1 Corinthians 6:10
“Nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.”
Here drunkenness is named as a persistent pattern of life that stands opposed to God’s reign.
1 Peter 4:3
“For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do-living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.”
Peter describes these behaviors as part of an old life believers are expected to leave behind.
Galatians 5:19-21
“The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft…”
The term translated witchcraft (pharmakeia) historically referred to sorcery often involving drugs or altered states, alongside sexual and moral excess.
Revelation 21:8
“…the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts…”
Again using pharmakeia, this verse places substance-linked spiritual manipulation among behaviors excluded from God’s future kingdom.
1 Corinthians 6:18-20
“Flee from sexual immorality… your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit.”
The emphasis is on bodily stewardship and the spiritual significance of physical conduct.
Galatians 5:19
“Sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery.”
These are summarized as expressions of the flesh in contrast to life directed by the Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
“It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality… not in passionate lust.”
Sexual excess is framed as incompatible with sanctification and self-control.
1 Peter 5:8
“Be alert and of sober mind.”
Sobriety is presented as essential for spiritual vigilance and resistance to temptation.
Titus 2:11-12
“The grace of God… teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives.”
Grace is portrayed not as permission, but as training toward restraint.
1 Corinthians 10:23
“‘I have the right to do anything,’ you say-but not everything is beneficial.”
A guiding principle often applied to alcohol, substances, and sexual behavior: freedom is limited by what builds up rather than degrades.
Even heard of holy wine christ blood and all that
@Mikeztarp there's no cocaine in skyrim though...
the editing is great in this video. props to the editor, so smooth
16:56 wait… does spiffingbrit only have 90 hours in the game???
@colescott79 huh that does seem weird 🤔
I think this is a fantastic challenge. Like a mostly flesh and steel run
I love the editing and visual syorytelling with the extra camera shots. Well done, guys! More please!
Skyrim children knew they had Todd armor, Morrowind those little bastards knew better and hid in the floorboards or etc.
Restricted runs of Skyrim are the best. My favorite is a cloth mage without crafting...
you forgot the no video card....
4:25 failed run by invoking the "powers of oblivion" :p
43:00 I love how the horse is helping.
you know spiff is the king cheese king when normal gameplay feels like variety on his channel
15:09 Hooodd Toward!
The "Dragon." cuts you made with the dialog made me think someone needs to make a mod that replaces all dialog and quest log entries with nothing but "Dragon!"
Dragon!
Dragon?
Dragon.
@princesseville6889 Dragon? Dragon, dragon, dragon… DRAGON!
@SylvirLuna Draaaagooooon! :O
@princesseville6889🤣
@SylvirLuna TENTACLES! Noooooooooooooo!
Good Todd Almighty... that was a heavenly playthrough... now.. back to normal shenanigans. Pleeeeeeease.
It's not stealing if their dead. It's finding abandoned goods.
Artificially accelerated archeology
14:09 That argonian was from Dagestan
Oh god now I want to do a shield run of skyrim....
do the Skyrim tradition of heavy armor stelth archer
A true orc
You should have been allowed to use healing magic but only if done in the style of a televangelist.
If you layer armor, you can get the stone that removes equipped gear weight
I can relate, I could only play GTA 4 until I shot a gun
My favorite part of the Bible, was the part about going to hell if you used magic to complete deadric quests on your Xbox.
I'm glad to see you back at it spiff
24:32 more heresy
Not exactly a challenge but my mother rented a N64 Spiderman game but took it back when she saw that it wasn't "just swinging around and climbing buildings". I remember my young self asking her if she knew how Spiderman stopped bad guys. 😆
Btw, stomping goombas was a-okay
This reminds me of brokenstaff and his Skyrim halal challenge
15 minutes in and I'm mildly confused why you're not becoming a blacksmith.
10:56 or you could use the cool new cooking update to get more healing. [Spiff breaker of games my ass]
The warrior is a blessing from a pilgrimage site like a violent equivalent of Lourdes. So obviously righteous as well as effective.
46:16 I see that stripped corpse
For some reason I want to do a magic only playthrough now
15:37 is Hods last name Toward
Did you wait 3 days each time to respawn?
In high school we had a group get together over D&D and other role playing games I was more into Battletech less dice and #'s for my simple mind. The church across the street always gave us a hassle and even one time called the cops and when the Chief showed up and saw some of the members of the group and commented he hadn't had to respond to any calls involving any of them since the group formed he kindly told the preacher man that if we were staying off the streets and not causing trouble in town than a little bit of role play couldn't be to bad. I mean there was plenty of underage drinking and other substances being used but we were not running the streets.
Battlemath is fewer numbers? I think we must have played very different games