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I guess being naked helps you get past that dragon. Worked for you,so clever thinking I say! Good video with funny commentary,too.

Thanks!!

And going naked actually speeds up running just a little bit. There are actually four levels of Running/Rolling Speed.

Naked: Equipment burdon is <0.03%

Fast: Equipment Burdon is 0.04%-24.9%

Decent: Equipment Burdon is 25%-49.9%

Fat: Equipment Burdon is over 50%

The higher the percentage, the slower you will run and the heftier your roll will be. So by going naked (Despite having extremely light armor), I was able to go just a wee bit faster, thus enabling me to get past the dragon Wyvern

I always make sure to light my bonfires naked. Glad to finally see someone else carrying the torch.

It's not a party unless someone's naked.

Time to talk some Dark Souls.

The furtive pygmy is something I've been wondering about for a while. More than anything the furtive pygmy is the most under spoken and often overlooked aspect of the lore. I bet that ironically it might end up being one of the biggest fucking deals in the whole chain of events that took place when the First Flame mysteriously showed up and the humans went and found the Lord Souls in it and became deities and used their new powers to fight the dragons (If I remember correctly). The pygmy was mentioned right in the opening of the game, and then it gets rarely mentioned throughout the rest of the experience, but whatever sneaky stuff the pygmy was up to must have been big. The fact that they call it the furtive pygmy is interesting because the definition of furtive is:

"Attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive."

I heard that the pygmy was the one who discovered the Dark Soul (was the pygmy furtive because it found the "evil" Dark Soul and didn't want to get in trouble?), which is not only the namesake of the game but is supposedly the original source of all humanity, then it was bequeathed to all humans so that everybody carries some small measure of humanity in them. Is that a bad thing, is the Dark Soul related to the Abyss? The Gods got their power from the First Flame that showed up under untold circumstances and it gave them fire, sunlight, prosperity, and apparently all the goodies that seem necessary for life. In the Age of the Ancients everything was foggy and unremarkable, but when the First Flame came into being it created light and heat, but simultaneously created the opposites (shadows and cold) that always contrast a flame. The Dark Soul and Humanity only seem to be surrounded by darkness and using mass amounts of Humanity to summon the Dark Lord or whatever if the First Flame dies out. But then again, Humanity is what fuels all the bonfires and flames of the world, so all the goodness and warmth depends on Humanity.

This is one of the things that makes DS so great, it's high fantasy and appears to have all the typical trappings like dragons and magic, but when you dig into the lore it's very alien and unpredictable. I'm not sure if being human is a good thing in this game, I'm not sure if I fit into any of the factions in the game.

The Gods have light, warmth, and appear to have glory and honor (similar to many Greek gods in their defeat of the Titans), but they're also pretty shady and they want power, immortality, loyal worshipers, and they perform undead sacrifices in order to use humanity to keep the flames of all the fires going. You see somebody like Gwyndolin who was an effeminate boy and as a result was raised like a girl, and I get the impression that his father, Lord Gwyn, was disgusted by Gwyndolin and disappointed in him since his son would never be the big masculine lightning bolt throwing god that Gwyn was. And the lonely Gwyndolin is secretively masterminding the various operations of Anor Londo now that everybody has either fled or died, he runs two Covenants, he creates an apparition of his sister to pretend she is still in power when in fact she's long gone in another land married to Lord Flann. You see these weird Gods and family dynamics and like with the Greek gods you think, "People worshiped them?"

To contrast those Gods, the regular humans have Humanity and mortality and apparently nothing else. Then the Abyss seems to have only darkness, corruption, and madness to offer. And the dragons, who knows what the hell the dragons had going on, they were immortal and did God knows what back in the Age of the Ancients. My favorite place to visit in the whole game is still Ash Lake where you can look at all the arch trees surrounding you. It's my favorite area of the game because the description of the area in the Wiki says that Ash Lake is the last vestige of what the world looked like back in the Age of Ancients before the First Flame arrived. That time period where the flame arrived and men came "from the Dark" and began taking Lord Souls and power from it and it eventually led to war is the most climactic part.

It's a very textured, alien, creepy, and yet very human universe with lots of weird laws of nature, magic, and history. I was telling Julian Titus here at Pixlbit that playing Dark Souls is like playing a detective game but they never tell you it is. Experiencing Dark Souls is like walking around and trying to piece together evidence from historically significant events both big and small that occurred in the ancient past and everywhere you go there's evidence deliberately placed in the forms of item descriptions, art design, minimal cutscenes, and what NPCs say. It's totally a detective game dressed up in an atmospheric high fantasy RPG setting. Everything is dead and in some ways it's like a crime scene, but it shouldn't be called post-apocalyptic, it's more like post-calamity. You wander around finding evidence of the calamities that happened leading up to the war, during the war, and after it. The arrival of the First Flame is the most important event of the lore and everything after that is kind of like a side-effect or a ripple.

If you want the truth about the Pygmy character, then you need to find the NPC Kaathe. Here's a video of his dialogue, but be warned, there's major spoilers!!

And you're dead on in regards to Dark Souls being a lot like a detective game. It's a lot of guesswork and investigating, but once you uncover the truth and history it becomes so rewarding and engrossing!
The Sisters of Izalith is by far my favorite piece of Lore in the game. Especially the sad tale and connections made between Quelaag and Quelaan (The Fair Lady). It's heart wrenching, but once you figure out why Quelaag attacks you as soon as you walk through the fog, it all becomes clears.
Funny enough, did you know that Quelaag actually had dialogue but it was cut from the game?

The old "Run Like Hell" strategy. I've been known to use it from time to time. 

Sometimes, you just gotta make a run for it man.. lol

wait! your making a "let's play" video of this game?

Good thing it's not a nintendo game or else they will want to collect revenue off of it! I need to watch your prior videos