kekw true and false people come to play the expanstion and they gone wait for the patch 6.1 and we will see if it s dead if people dont com back for the patch then we will say it s dead and just befor you say ff andy i dont even play any mmo
I mean, not really wrong? You enter the fog, they instantly antagonize you. Godskin Noble after the 3rd attempt on Twitter: "Omg guy keeps coming back" with a selfie of himself overdramatically worried.
@@saroporoggo you aint wrong my dude 😂 i feel like a better example would be to build yourself really strong just to die to your own mimic in that one boss fight because you were too op.
I mean the funny part is that after all his flexing about how easy the game is and how good he is for not getting stuck on magrid, funny how it didnt translate to anything else
i agree but he doesn't seem to have that same attention and fun to it as back in ds1 days, he's stuck on the LA roullete for atlest 1-2 more months until he clears the content.
@@Shyzenth he is not having fun cause he is losing. Its clear that he is too weak to fight the boss and not exploring to get stronger which was the whole point of elden ring.
i recommend you to find “mimic” summon to fight the godskin duo, it will hold against one of the boss until u finish the other. No reason to fight a battle where u r outnumbered.
Play however you want but as the first souls game I have ever played, the mimic tear basically trivialized all the content and I was first timing important story bosses without having to learn their movesets at all. I beat the game doing this and feel like I cheated myself. I am now on my 2nd playthrough using no summons for bosses to try to actually improve myself and not do everything on easy mode
@@Starshrek917 I've played through DS1, BB, and DS3 multiple times. There's always a way to challenge yourself in the game (I like to early dancer every ds3 playthrough). But sometimes you want to chill and have fun too. Play the game how you want, and don't use something if you don't want to. Sorry if you felt you cheated yourself out of a tough challenge. But you were using a tool at your disposal, and went with the mimic tool. I don't think you cheated yourself out of anything other than a potential headache. Now that you're better leveled and in ng+, the bosses will probably be more fair and fun to fight, and might give you a better experience overall, than if you hated things from the start.
I find it curious that Asmon is mainly an MMO player which is a genre very heavily focused on farming and dungeon crawling yet he finds it difficult to grasp the concept of Elden Ring. I feel like if he approached Elden Ring like a single player MMO he would have a much easier time. I had this mindset and did most of the side content in Limgrave before tackling Margit, and I beat him in my third try. Souls vets complain about the summoning being an easy mode which just isn't true. The easy mode is courtesy of the games open world. It is easier than ever just to pick a place on the map, discover it and farm runes. The map is so huge and so expansive that you can get runes without it even feeling like a grind.
Honestly its not even "easy" either, the game is still very punishing if you go out of your depth. And besides, summons actually make the bosses harder. They have more HP scaling to how many people. Then you're going to be juggling aggro on the boss. It actually takes far more strategy and planning to beat a boss with 3 people than it does solo.
@@zerosolis6664 I'd disagree, being able to aggro swap and take turns damaging the boss is way easier than solo, regardless of hp boost. Gets around having the learn all of the dodge timings when you can just run until the boss turns its back on you.
@@zerosolis6664 This is quite literally the _duuumbest_ comment I've ever read about a Souls game. If summoning actually made it harder, people wouldn't use the mechanic as a go-to to beat a boss they're stuck on. What a brainIet
@Kimi Timoskainen tbh i dont blame you, for all I love this game some, of its quest can be annoying to even just START, I started his quest line by a sheer miracle .
As someone who’s beaten all the souls games, Watching souls vets like asmon come back and watching people who are new to the souls games (like Dr disrespect) has truly been a great time. Elden ring has brought the souls games back into the spotlight and I’m so happy seeing it.
the more i watch asmon getting fucked in elden ring then succeeding really makes me wanna play, up until the point that i cant decide on a build XD so until then, more asmon for me
Always knew who asmond was. Since I’ve never been into WOW. I’ve never watched him. But have respected him from a distance. Watching the elden ring content. Now I like him quite a bit. Never knew he was into from software games as much as he is
That try with the *Godskin Noble* was some solid proof FROM SOFT did not properly test these bosses. I went for more less the same build Asmond was there (strength, colossal weapons), and 3 power stance hits with colossal weapons staggers pretty much every humanoid boss (hell 3 single colossal 2-hands does it even for the infamous Crucible Knights) and several big boys (Ulcerated Tree Spirit, Morgott, Mogh, etc) but not this one. Lost many times as I was certain I was doing something wrong or not connecting fast enough to prevent the posture bar going back. Until I gave up and went shield and poke with a great epee, won first try. Pretty deflating victory, IMHO. It is immersion breaking see *how a big monster has less posture than a humanoid one* , hell even the dragons stagger more easily. It is almost as this boss was just set to be annoying AF. The *Rykard portion* , it is 100% doable and I daresay easier if to do *without the Serpent Hunter* if you have enough vigor and resistances. With 60 vigor and resistance talisman the magma does not stagger you and the damage is a joke so you can get up in his face and the AI does not know what to do, especially in second face. Rykard just stands there getting pummeled and the nasty fire ball tracking spell does not get cast or connects because you are on his face. He cast all kinds of crap and tries hitting you with the sword when you are at a distance, close quarters he just either stands there hitting nothing OR tries the jump slam which is pretty easy to dodge. I went without the Serpent Hunter as I thought it was going to be a challenging fight, but ended up winning first try.
5:05 in all my experience with souls games I've learned one very important lesson if the enemy you're about to go fight has wheels attached to it or IS a wheel.... RUN because chances are your not ready to fight that thing and it's going to run you down. Yeah he wasn't ready
bro the ulcerated tree spirits are so easy. just get a 100%block shield, hold down block, and keep moving forward into the boss until your basically trying to get inside it from the side. then start whacking with a few occasions of having to block. I beat the one in the bottom of stormveil castle one shot and the one at the tutorial area at the bottom maybe after try 11 or 12 when i realized you could literally just do the above. felt like such a moron haha
Use your summons or magic. I know alot of people feel the use of summons and magic is ez mode but this game in particular seems to strongly encourage the use of both magic and melee.
Godskin bosses are a joke lol they have almost no sleep resistance so the sword of st Trina or a sleep pot will knock them right out, then you can hit them like 10 times before they stand back up. Works on the duo too. Elden ring isn't that bad if people use the tools the game provides, and remember there's a fucking crafting system people seem to overlook
Seriously though... Someone needs to get him to use the spirit call system. Even low tier spirits make fights that much more easy and it's a built in game mechanic. Yet I am impressed that he does all these hard fights without them or even the ashes of war as well.
@@slicemup9 That's not the reason he isn't experimenting though, its because he's just pragmatic. When he finds something that just works he rarely switches things up. My first playthrough I had enough resources to dive into many different weapons. Elden ring is very generous, and like previous entries you get key items that let you buy the stones you've progressed past.(and some enemies just drop stones if you want to farm them, which is common throughout the series). Also, a quick tip if you're playing the game yourself, damage types are far more important, so a elemental type/slash, strike, pierce weapon at a lower upgrade tier, can and will outperform a weapon that an enemy is just resistant to. Casters have more than one element available to them for this reason as well.
@@TheHeartThatRunsCold I think the only time I've had damage types actually matter at all is on the miner guys in the random dungeons, otherwise everything is about the same damage regardless of damage type. And yes, I have played and beaten the game already.
This actually makes me feel better about myself seeing asmon on Godskin Noble I make the same mistakes and said the exact same words of why am I making the same mistake.
@@Writeous0ne Very much so, duo godskin is a cake walk compared to Double Crucible knight. Especially since I don't use shields on bosses to parry but I was forced to change my build on Duo Crucible by how little space they give you to breathe.
Asmon this is not an mmo. Its an Action RPG made by Fromsoft. Dodge, walk out of the attack or use a shield. There is no tanking. Getting hit is pretty much always bad
Final fantasy is beyond dead. The only people left are the socially outcasted and the furries
Jesus christ 😆
Wow Andies, man
Based
@@FrosenHell He's a Lost Ark andy, he's made comments about WoW being dead aswell on Asmons LA videos.
kekw true and false people come to play the expanstion and they gone wait for the patch 6.1 and we will see if it s dead if people dont com back for the patch then we will say it s dead and just befor you say ff andy i dont even play any mmo
Torrent: *slips Ulcerated Tree Spirit a 20 dollar bill* "Just let him win"
UTS: "I gotcha fam"
"Elden Ring is definitely one of the games ever made."
''The sky is blue''
It is
Upstairs is above
Sixteenleo? Lmao
Why is the moon?
"He just doesnt care"
Thats right your losing the fight due to the bosses lack of empathy LOL
I mean, not really wrong? You enter the fog, they instantly antagonize you.
Godskin Noble after the 3rd attempt on Twitter: "Omg guy keeps coming back" with a selfie of himself overdramatically worried.
He is saying that because he wanted him to stagger with those big weapons and the boss just wont 😂
Watching Asmonglod play elden ring, makes me smile a lot, knowing hes having a lot of fun and having Mcdougall there makes good content.
I love Mcdougall’s content
McDougall is the man!
good ol mcgougle
Yeah McDonald's is great
Those 2 are such a cute couple they got me pogging
The irony of the God-devouring serpent eating Asmongold "the literal god" is not lost on me.
I kept waiting for the moment where he slashed his way out of its belly, but that moment never came.
@@Avatar_of_Chairness I mean he came out the other side...
people need to learn the meaning of irony lol, ironic would be the god devouring serpent being devoured by god
@@saroporoggo you aint wrong my dude 😂 i feel like a better example would be to build yourself really strong just to die to your own mimic in that one boss fight because you were too op.
@@saroporoggo I meaaaaaan it kinda did, considering Rykard assimilated with it from the inside out
asmongold hitting every wall upstairs when its downstairs was painful to watch
Asmongold has made so much progress in souls games it's crazy ! I remember him being much more anxious to stream these skill based games
is this a joke?what progress
I mean the funny part is that after all his flexing about how easy the game is and how good he is for not getting stuck on magrid, funny how it didnt translate to anything else
*skill based*
>tank through every hit
@@nanehater8606 Hes beaten every fromsoft title prior to elden ring
@@Miqzz You realize he's joking right? He brags about himself on the dumbest shit so when he fails, the stream laughs and he smiles.
Good luck not quitting during Malenia. She nearly made ME ragequit 😂😂
She won't be a problem. Freezing pots interrupt waterfowl
please don't quit elden ring, watching you play souls games are fun af
i agree but he doesn't seem to have that same attention and fun to it as back in ds1 days, he's stuck on the LA roullete for atlest 1-2 more months until he clears the content.
@@Shyzenth he is not having fun cause he is losing. Its clear that he is too weak to fight the boss and not exploring to get stronger which was the whole point of elden ring.
@@retardboy4185 You sure? Cause Xqc skipped half the bosses lol
@@Shadow4192008 seems to have finished the game tho?
@@KleptomaniacJames Yeah thats what im saying. He doesn't need to do all the side stuff.
The “it’s the rectangle one?” and then him proceeding to actually look for a rectangular wall and then realizes it’s a troll, was gold
This boss is literally an incarnation of the dark souls fat roll. a combination of both fat rollers and no clothes rollers. It's a huge meme.
There are more bosses in this video
and that's why you always top your HP bar no matter what xD
busy hitting walls
“Go kill Radahn”
“Who?”
His reaction during that😂😂
It took me 18 tries facing the one in the catacombs at stranded graveyard. The closed ring makes it insane
Have you done the godskin duo yet?
@@chickenflex4882 *pepelaugh* oh no no no
i recommend you to find “mimic” summon to fight the godskin duo, it will hold against one of the boss until u finish the other. No reason to fight a battle where u r outnumbered.
@@retardboy4185
lowkey thats my philosophy of this game, if its two vs one im always summoning my boy for help.
I actually enjoyed that boss. Then again, I destroyed it with both my mimic and I using the spear... so yeah.
Yeah the mimic tear is amazing for the serpent
Mimic lol
Play however you want but as the first souls game I have ever played, the mimic tear basically trivialized all the content and I was first timing important story bosses without having to learn their movesets at all. I beat the game doing this and feel like I cheated myself. I am now on my 2nd playthrough using no summons for bosses to try to actually improve myself and not do everything on easy mode
@@Starshrek917 I've played through DS1, BB, and DS3 multiple times. There's always a way to challenge yourself in the game (I like to early dancer every ds3 playthrough). But sometimes you want to chill and have fun too.
Play the game how you want, and don't use something if you don't want to.
Sorry if you felt you cheated yourself out of a tough challenge. But you were using a tool at your disposal, and went with the mimic tool. I don't think you cheated yourself out of anything other than a potential headache.
Now that you're better leveled and in ng+, the bosses will probably be more fair and fun to fight, and might give you a better experience overall, than if you hated things from the start.
@@zolo-p3p lull who cares
I find it curious that Asmon is mainly an MMO player which is a genre very heavily focused on farming and dungeon crawling yet he finds it difficult to grasp the concept of Elden Ring. I feel like if he approached Elden Ring like a single player MMO he would have a much easier time. I had this mindset and did most of the side content in Limgrave before tackling Margit, and I beat him in my third try. Souls vets complain about the summoning being an easy mode which just isn't true. The easy mode is courtesy of the games open world. It is easier than ever just to pick a place on the map, discover it and farm runes. The map is so huge and so expansive that you can get runes without it even feeling like a grind.
Honestly its not even "easy" either, the game is still very punishing if you go out of your depth. And besides, summons actually make the bosses harder. They have more HP scaling to how many people. Then you're going to be juggling aggro on the boss. It actually takes far more strategy and planning to beat a boss with 3 people than it does solo.
@@zerosolis6664 I'd disagree, being able to aggro swap and take turns damaging the boss is way easier than solo, regardless of hp boost. Gets around having the learn all of the dodge timings when you can just run until the boss turns its back on you.
He does it for the stream and the chat. He plays offline and explores much more. It’s what he said in another video
@@zerosolis6664 This is quite literally the _duuumbest_ comment I've ever read about a Souls game. If summoning actually made it harder, people wouldn't use the mechanic as a go-to to beat a boss they're stuck on. What a brainIet
1:33 The NPC invader disappeared on me like he was scared of my epic skill. I cannot get him to come back.
1:30 Coolest death because the coolest weapon killed him. Holy wow!
>no great rune equipped
>no jelly bois
>using broken (golden) halberd like it's DS1
ngmi
@@theninja2k14 Can confirm, made a new character 2h ago, with the sword of night and flame I 3 hit killed Margit. It's truly OP.
@@bavarianwolf3806 you are mistaken, he is that bad, he wasnt playing games for 15 years...he was playing wow for 15 years thats completely different
You should do the blaidd quest line he has the most guts looking armour and has a insane great sword it’s right up your alley
@Kimi Timoskainen tbh i dont blame you, for all I love this game some, of its quest can be annoying to even just START, I started his quest line by a sheer miracle .
@Kimi Timoskainen he was right outside her tower for me. I baited the dragon in to do damage while i pelted him with magic. Easy shit.👌👌
As someone who’s beaten all the souls games, Watching souls vets like asmon come back and watching people who are new to the souls games (like Dr disrespect) has truly been a great time. Elden ring has brought the souls games back into the spotlight and I’m so happy seeing it.
These edited Elding Ring videos are amazing
Bro mocconnell "i can't elaborate but it gets worse" was perfect add lol and it went right over asmonds head haha
No one can stagger this boss
Laughs in moonveil
Love your content bro. You make my days better for sure.
the more i watch asmon getting fucked in elden ring then succeeding really makes me wanna play, up until the point that i cant decide on a build XD so until then, more asmon for me
You do not need to worry about builds respec is as easy as ever and classes just give you headstart in certain stats
@@That_guy1111 uh, you need a certain items to respec, it's not like it's free or very early in the game.
@@ThoA45 never said its free and why would you need to respec early in the game
Drives me crazy thinking of how long he used Golden Halberd for and never used Golden Vow lol
Little known fact but spamming buttons when grabbed in a souls game absolutely helps you get out of it.
you mean r1 right not any other buttons?
@@oystercoaster6621 r1 and l1, actually
@@trielt1 nice didnt know l1 worked too i think in ds1 its only r1 but maybe im misthinking
I love how expressive your face is while playing lol 😆
15:09 "Dodges are cars" - Asmon playing Elden Ring instead of Gran Turismo 7 🤣
6:25 Some coyote logic right there
That laughter fits perfectly in this madness inducing torture 😮
19:50 Asmon goes ape on the explicit lyrics 🤣
one million subs , congrats on the channel , goddamn
Godskin noble combo attack faster than mortal kombat
Always knew who asmond was. Since I’ve never been into WOW. I’ve never watched him. But have respected him from a distance. Watching the elden ring content. Now I like him quite a bit. Never knew he was into from software games as much as he is
This has been so fun to watch Asmongold play Elden Ring with McCool shotgun
Asmon - "You think I cant handle a pizza?" And I felt that.
That try with the *Godskin Noble* was some solid proof FROM SOFT did not properly test these bosses.
I went for more less the same build Asmond was there (strength, colossal weapons), and 3 power stance hits with colossal weapons staggers pretty much every humanoid boss (hell 3 single colossal 2-hands does it even for the infamous Crucible Knights) and several big boys (Ulcerated Tree Spirit, Morgott, Mogh, etc) but not this one.
Lost many times as I was certain I was doing something wrong or not connecting fast enough to prevent the posture bar going back. Until I gave up and went shield and poke with a great epee, won first try. Pretty deflating victory, IMHO.
It is immersion breaking see *how a big monster has less posture than a humanoid one* , hell even the dragons stagger more easily.
It is almost as this boss was just set to be annoying AF.
The *Rykard portion* , it is 100% doable and I daresay easier if to do *without the Serpent Hunter* if you have enough vigor and resistances. With 60 vigor and resistance talisman the magma does not stagger you and the damage is a joke so you can get up in his face and the AI does not know what to do, especially in second face.
Rykard just stands there getting pummeled and the nasty fire ball tracking spell does not get cast or connects because you are on his face. He cast all kinds of crap and tries hitting you with the sword when you are at a distance, close quarters he just either stands there hitting nothing OR tries the jump slam which is pretty easy to dodge.
I went without the Serpent Hunter as I thought it was going to be a challenging fight, but ended up winning first try.
"There it is, perfect!"
"Now I'm afraid..."
Soul's games in a nutshell 😆
Getting stuck in a wall is the hardest part of a lot of fights in Elden Ring.
6:30 this clip is priceless
When he said “ayeeee….it’s your boy” I automatically saw Rick kackis lmao
lol final words "time to have some fun"
"Now I'm afraid. "
🤣🤣🤣
11:22 no, it’s Peter Griffin’s Ultra Fart Instinct👌🏻
awesome content ! hope to see you in pvp same build but with swords
5:05 in all my experience with souls games I've learned one very important lesson if the enemy you're about to go fight has wheels attached to it or IS a wheel....
RUN because chances are your not ready to fight that thing and it's going to run you down.
Yeah he wasn't ready
This title belongs to the death bird clip. If you know you know.
He's making things so much harder for himself by not using weapon arts or just getting better armor than his starting gear.
“You think I can’t handle a pizza?” Had me rolling
“Obviously no one can hit every fuckin wall, that’d take way too much tim-“
“What do you mean by that?”
Jump attack not registering is still a problem on console even to this day
"Try lure out try ranged battle"
"why would I do that?"
*gets hit*
oh
"It's so easy I'm going to leave because I couldn't phase it."
first "killed by pizza" and then "burger king mode" LMAO
I know it's been two years but can someone on your team make a playlist for all of your Elden Ring content? Please 🙏
bro the ulcerated tree spirits are so easy. just get a 100%block shield, hold down block, and keep moving forward into the boss until your basically trying to get inside it from the side. then start whacking with a few occasions of having to block. I beat the one in the bottom of stormveil castle one shot and the one at the tutorial area at the bottom maybe after try 11 or 12 when i realized you could literally just do the above. felt like such a moron haha
I've finished the game with a Magic build, faith build and arcane build. Now I'm gonna try this method.
“He’s so long man.”
0:35 This is the dude that refuses to use summons
when he said that’s a fat boy to that one boss,it’s literally caseoh lmao
ive noticed theres some issues with input as well. even dumb shit like holding shift to sprint doesnt register sometimes or theres a lot of latency.
awesome video bro, I legit just finished playing elden ring for 11 hrs straight and dont regret it lol
11hrs is impressive
The fire-breathing cleaver-slam guys are harder than half of the bosses in the game.
Fat rolling only because of the two colossal swords you are using GIGACHAD
Ive always approached souls games like sideshow bob tripping on rakes. You will hit them all, second, third playthrough, you know where the rakes are.
"that is 5,what about 6",this really remind me of he quit streaming elden ring because he keep not getting 5 and only get 4 and even 6
You got this I had some rough patches and tough bosses I stuck through it 140 hours and I still haven't finished the game.
Use your summons or magic. I know alot of people feel the use of summons and magic is ez mode but this game in particular seems to strongly encourage the use of both magic and melee.
You need a life badly lol 140 hours as of a week ago is insane.
Says the person that watches others stream games lol
Godskin noble = 1000lbs sister
High stagger weapons, dual high AR strength weapons, repeated jumping attacks, pinnacle of skill boys
13:55 that's why i love his content🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love watching your vids! Your awesome man!
"Elden Ring is definitely one of the games ever made." yes, it is indeed a game.
its probably the most video game ever
you got a good friend.
Godskin bosses are a joke lol they have almost no sleep resistance so the sword of st Trina or a sleep pot will knock them right out, then you can hit them like 10 times before they stand back up. Works on the duo too.
Elden ring isn't that bad if people use the tools the game provides, and remember there's a fucking crafting system people seem to overlook
10:20 Is that the King Murica?
CONGRATS ON 1MIL SUBS ASMON
Seriously though... Someone needs to get him to use the spirit call system. Even low tier spirits make fights that much more easy and it's a built in game mechanic. Yet I am impressed that he does all these hard fights without them or even the ashes of war as well.
He said he won't use it because he claims if you use it you didn't really beat the boss. He's going to love Radahn. :D
@@gitrekt-gudson He's all over the place regardless.
3:40 "Busy bisness man" This guy literally play games 24/7/365. He has no other life than games.
“Why’s she standing like that” ☠️
okay im going to have some fun i want that on a dark souls shirt that shows your avatar getting murked
Why would the edittor take out the part of him finding the spear??? That ending was so anticlimactic... I really wish it was less cut out...
My man lookin on the edge of a mental breakdown 😅😅 patience oh tarnished
@6:45 you can say that POT kills
@8:30 you're looking for Molten core entrance haha?
Ah yes. The same weapon and gear from 30 hours ago. I couldn't play a RPG and not try out every cool thing I come across.
Significantly harder to try out every weapon in souls due to needing to upgrade them to keep damage relevant.
I've used the same weapon for 80h 😹
@@slicemup9 That's not the reason he isn't experimenting though, its because he's just pragmatic. When he finds something that just works he rarely switches things up. My first playthrough I had enough resources to dive into many different weapons. Elden ring is very generous, and like previous entries you get key items that let you buy the stones you've progressed past.(and some enemies just drop stones if you want to farm them, which is common throughout the series).
Also, a quick tip if you're playing the game yourself, damage types are far more important, so a elemental type/slash, strike, pierce weapon at a lower upgrade tier, can and will outperform a weapon that an enemy is just resistant to. Casters have more than one element available to them for this reason as well.
@@halosaft you have much more patience than I do. I have new weapon ADD
@@TheHeartThatRunsCold I think the only time I've had damage types actually matter at all is on the miner guys in the random dungeons, otherwise everything is about the same damage regardless of damage type.
And yes, I have played and beaten the game already.
@0:48 I don't think I've ever seen a human being move there eye brows so much in such a short period of time.
Im glad he joined like 20 times FAMILY
This actually makes me feel better about myself seeing asmon on Godskin Noble I make the same mistakes and said the exact same words of why am I making the same mistake.
Lol did u best the duo?
@@Writeous0ne Very much so, duo godskin is a cake walk compared to Double Crucible knight. Especially since I don't use shields on bosses to parry but I was forced to change my build on Duo Crucible by how little space they give you to breathe.
The best part about this boss is that it will bug out and just sit there, kill most of them just because of that bug
Thats an intentional cheese bug tho. And is gone as of 1.04 so😢
You can change the controller button prompt to kb&m through the settings menu.
Yep just keep at it and you will kill the bosses. :) I found couple of strats for Godric and I finally killed him this morning! :D
Godskin Noble is Asmongold in an alternative timeline.
dudes never heard of running attack
Asmon this is not an mmo. Its an Action RPG made by Fromsoft. Dodge, walk out of the attack or use a shield. There is no tanking. Getting hit is pretty much always bad
0:57 I miss the old Asmon
Just a little tip if you're hunting for a hidden wall swap to a faster weapon lol!
that cartoon segment got me good.
No register heavy attacks happen all the time on my ps4...I just jump and look like a fool getting swatted like a fly