L&A play Dark Souls and Minecraft

[20:07] <Alexander_Pyrite> For now, alex just basks, and dosnt say anything
[20:07] <Lyra_Bel> "I'll learn"
[20:07] <Lyra_Bel> "V'got time, now"
[20:08] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I guess we do
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Eeyup.  Nothing left to worry about, just..."
[20:08] <Lyra_Bel> "Wait, n'then I guess celebrate"
[20:09] <Alexander_Pyrite> "sounds good  to me"
[20:10]  * Lyra_Bel nods
[20:10] <Lyra_Bel> "So..."
[20:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Waiting"
[20:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeep."
[20:11] <Lyra_Bel> "This is... fun"
[20:12] <Alexander_Pyrite> Alex nods.
[20:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "hey lyra"
[20:13] <Lyra_Bel> "Mm?"
[20:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "ever played Dark Souls?"
[20:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "pretty old game"
[20:13] <Lyra_Bel> "Um... I don't think so"
[20:13] <Lyra_Bel> "I recognize the name"
[20:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "from the... 10s?"
[20:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "it had a rep for being really hard. Theres like 5 of them"
[20:14] <Lyra_Bel> "Console or PC?"
[20:14] <Alexander_Pyrite> "uh... both? i cant remember"
[20:14] <Alexander_Pyrite> "ive been meaning to play"
[20:14] <Alexander_Pyrite> "coudl pass the time"
[20:14] <Lyra_Bel> "Sure, why not?"
[20:14] <Lyra_Bel> "Something to do is good"
[20:14] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Mind summoning a computer fom then?"
[20:15] <Lyra_Bel> "One or two?"
[20:15] <Alexander_Pyrite> "two, we can see whos bett er"
[20:15] <Lyra_Bel> "Oh, it's *on*"
[20:15]  * Lyra_Bel conjures a pair of computers
[20:16] <Lyra_Bel> And probably also chairs and desks or something
[20:16] <Alexander_Pyrite> "awesome"
[20:17] <Alexander_Pyrite> "so conveneint"
[20:17] <Lyra_Bel> "Omnipotence has that sorta tendency"
[20:17] <Alexander_Pyrite> "oh yeah that"
[20:17] <Alexander_Pyrite> "no cheating"
[20:17] <Alexander_Pyrite> "we do this legit"
[20:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Fine, fine"
[20:18] <Lyra_Bel> "As long as you've never tried it either"
[20:18] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Nope"
[20:18] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i downloaded it but never played"
[20:18] <Lyra_Bel> "Guess that's fair, then"
[20:19] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Alright"
[20:19] <Alexander_Pyrite> Alexs sits in the chair and gets started
[20:20]  * Lyra_Bel does the same at her own setup
[20:20] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((alex probably would try to do it, be ok at the beginning, then sget bad as he goes on tilt))
[20:21] <Lyra_Bel> ((I actually really have never played it, so I have no idea))
[20:22] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((the point of it is trying over and over again until youve got the movements down))
[20:22] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((how would lyra be))
[20:22] <Lyra_Bel> ((Memorization is pretty awful, reflexes also aren't fantastic.  Probably kinda terrible))
[20:23] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((shes more of a strategist right))
[20:24] <Lyra_Bel> ((More in a PVP sense, figuring out what the other player is trying than actually planning things out and making that work))
[20:25] <Lyra_Bel> ((But at least that more than tryna keep up to an action game))
[20:25] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((got it))
[20:25] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((how on tilt would she get))
[20:26] <Lyra_Bel> ((Extremely))
[20:26] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((got it))
[20:26] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((so lets cut to that shall we?))
[20:26] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((so lets cut to that shall we?))
[20:26] <Lyra_Bel> ((Sounds good))
[20:27] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((she barely gets through the first few enemies, dies at first boss too many times))
[20:27] <Lyra_Bel> "Well, this isn't working"
[20:28] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i gfucking agree"
[20:28] <Alexander_Pyrite> "this is hard as fuck"
[20:28] <Lyra_Bel> "To be fair, I guess that *was* what they marketed it as"
[20:28] <Alexander_Pyrite> "ugh"
[20:29] <Alexander_Pyrite> "how about you pick the next game"
[20:29] <Lyra_Bel> "Alright"
[20:29] <Lyra_Bel> "Um..."
[20:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> "or movie works"
[20:30] <Alexander_Pyrite> "or anythign to pass the time"
[20:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah"
[20:30] <Lyra_Bel> "There are options"
[20:30] <Lyra_Bel> "Just tryna pick something that would actually be interesting for two players"
[20:31] <Lyra_Bel> "And also that I don't have crazy amounts of time logged into"
[20:32] <Alexander_Pyrite> "oh?"
[20:32] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what kind of crazy amount of time"
[20:32] <Lyra_Bel> "I lived on the road, dude"
[20:32] <Lyra_Bel> "Unstable wifi for days at a time"
[20:33] <Alexander_Pyrite> "Wait"
[20:33] <Alexander_Pyrite> "wifi wasnt everywhere?"
[20:33]  * Lyra_Bel laughs
[20:33] <Lyra_Bel> "It was not"
[20:34] <Lyra_Bel> "Wasn't even in most places"
[20:34] <Alexander_Pyrite> "damn"
[20:34] <Alexander_Pyrite> "we had some serious satteliets giving everyone on earth wifi"
[20:34] <Lyra_Bel> "Makes sense, I guess"
[20:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Wifi satellites"
[20:35] <Alexander_Pyrite> "fast too"
[20:35] <Lyra_Bel> "Of course.  Slow wifi is even worse than none"
[20:35] <Lyra_Bel> "But nah.  Had to piggyback off of whatever local networks there were"
[20:36] <Lyra_Bel> "Added up to a *lot* of time with offline games"
[20:36] <Alexander_Pyrite> "like what"
[20:37] <Lyra_Bel> "Mostly Minencraft"
[20:37] <Alexander_Pyrite> "oh that"
[20:38] <Alexander_Pyrite> "thats an old ass game"
[20:38] <Alexander_Pyrite> "still popular in places though"
[20:38] <Lyra_Bel> "You still knew about it, though"
[20:38] <Lyra_Bel> "Yeah"
[20:39] <Lyra_Bel> "Hardly a competitive one, though"
[20:39] <Alexander_Pyrite> "still, if i reme ber right"
[20:40] <Alexander_Pyrite> "theres a tono f content"
[20:40] <Lyra_Bel> "Eeyup.  Metric boatload of mods, probably even more by your time"
[20:41] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah yeah"
[20:41] <Alexander_Pyrite> "could burn some serious time"
[20:41] <Lyra_Bel> "Very true"
[20:42] <Alexander_Pyrite> "im down"
[20:42] <Lyra_Bel> "Sweet"
[20:42] <Lyra_Bel> "So... how d'you actually fight on it?  Just try and kill each other or something?"
[20:43] <Alexander_Pyrite> "on minecraft?"
[20:43] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i mean we coudl try to see who can build the best shti quickest"
[20:43] <Alexander_Pyrite> "but that usual devolved to murder'
[20:43] <Lyra_Bel> :P
[20:44] <Lyra_Bel> "Everything devolves to murder.  It's a video game"
[20:44] <Lyra_Bel> "We also have no impartial judge"
[20:44] <Alexander_Pyrite> "true true"
[20:44] <Alexander_Pyrite> "so should we"
[20:45] <Lyra_Bel> "Worth a shot"
[20:45] <Lyra_Bel> "Though outright PVP is always an option"
[20:45] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah"
[20:46] <Alexander_Pyrite> "ive ne ver played though"
[20:46] <Alexander_Pyrite> "can we do collab first at least"
[20:46] <Lyra_Bel> "I guess that works"
[20:46] <Lyra_Bel> "Long as you understand I'll be stockpiling weapons for myself the whole time"
[20:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> "great"
[20:47] <Alexander_Pyrite> "ill do that too once i figure out what the weapons are in minecraft"
[20:48] <Lyra_Bel> "Swords"
[20:48] <Lyra_Bel> "S'just swords"
[20:48] <Lyra_Bel> "And I think axes do a little bonus damage too?"
[20:49] <Alexander_Pyrite> "oh"
[20:49] <Alexander_Pyrite> "well ok"
[20:49] <Lyra_Bel> "It's not exactly a very complicated game, in terms of optimization"
[20:50] <Lyra_Bel> "Real thing is the replayability, y'know?  Never gets old"
[20:51] <Alexander_Pyrite> "cool"
[20:51] <Alexander_Pyrite> "lets get started"
[20:51] <Lyra_Bel> "Sweet"
[20:52]  * Lyra_Bel hosts a vanilla server
[20:53] <Alexander_Pyrite> "cool, so what do i do"
[20:53] <Alexander_Pyrite> "just... punch stuff"
[20:53] <Lyra_Bel> "Basically, pick a tree to punch"
[20:53] <Lyra_Bel> "Find one that looks less fun to set on fire than the other ones"
[20:54] <Alexander_Pyrite> "what does that mean"
[20:54] <Lyra_Bel> "Not much.  Just hold down to break it apart, you're gonna need the wood"
[20:55] <Alexander_Pyrite> "ok... ok it exploded and did nto fall over"
[20:55] <Lyra_Bel> "No gravity.  Just move on to the next piece of the tree"
[20:56] <Alexander_Pyrite>  "cool"
[20:57] <Alexander_Pyrite> Alex just punches the shit out of a ton of trees
[20:58] <Lyra_Bel> "So yeah, that's the mining part"
[20:58] <Lyra_Bel> "Smash stuff and keep the loot"
[20:58] <Alexander_Pyrite>  "fun"
[20:58] <Alexander_Pyrite> "ok what do i do now"
[20:59] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i have a ton of wood"
[20:59] <Lyra_Bel> "Crafting~"
[20:59]  * Lyra_Bel dramatically splays her hands
[21:00] <Lyra_Bel> "E for inventory, n'bring the wood up to the top bit to make it into planks"
[21:01] <Lyra_Bel> "It honestly might be easiest to just open the wiki for a list of formulas or something"
[21:01] <Alexander_Pyrite> ALex looks it up
[21:01] <Alexander_Pyrite> "fuckin woah"
[21:01] <Alexander_Pyrite> "how am i supposed to remmeber all of this"
[21:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Bookmark it"
[21:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Most stuff, you'll eventually figure out"
[21:02] <Lyra_Bel> "Rarer things like potions or cakes, you can probably survive never memorizing"
[21:03] <Alexander_Pyrite> "and not memorize that i will"
[21:03] <Lyra_Bel> "Good call"
[21:04] <Alexander_Pyrite> "alright..."
[21:04] <Alexander_Pyrite> "so ive got this random stuff how do i build"
[21:05] <Lyra_Bel> "Planks to get a bigger working space, then use that to make a pickaxe"
[21:05] <Lyra_Bel> "That'll let you start harvesting stone and iron and stuff, which lets you make more stuff"
[21:07] <Alexander_Pyrite> "delightful"
[21:07] <Alexander_Pyrite> ((should we just skip over tghis? seems a bit borin gto talk about this stuff"
[21:07] <Lyra_Bel> ((Yeah, probably))
[21:08]  * Lyra_Bel continues to walk Alex through the first few stages of the game
[21:09] <Lyra_Bel> "So... that's this"
[21:09] <Alexander_Pyrite>  "this is prtetty fun"
[21:09] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i see why so many played it"
[21:10] <Lyra_Bel> "Really?"
[21:10] <Lyra_Bel> "S'usually kinda grindy at first"
[21:10] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah but playing with friends is great"
[21:11] <Lyra_Bel> "Guess that's fair enough"
[21:11] <Lyra_Bel> "Glad you like it"
[21:11] <Alexander_Pyrite> "maybe its just the friend though:
[21:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Um."
[21:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Did..."
[21:12]  * Lyra_Bel fights off a snicker
[21:12] <Lyra_Bel> "Did you just friendzone me?"
[21:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "no, i mean"
[21:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "I"
[21:13] <Alexander_Pyrite> "just pretend theres the word girl before that"
[21:13] <Lyra_Bel> "I get what you mean"
[21:13] <Lyra_Bel> "It was a joke"
[21:14] <Alexander_Pyrite> "sorry,  still a bi t nervous about this whole thing"
[21:14] <Lyra_Bel> "Of course"
[21:14] <Lyra_Bel> "It's... not exactly every day this happens"
[21:15] <Alexander_Pyrite> "yeah"
[21:16] <Lyra_Bel> "For either of us.  I'll cope my way, you cope yours"
[21:16] <Lyra_Bel> "S'only fair"
[21:18] <Alexander_Pyrite> "course"
[21:19] <Lyra_Bel> "But you really don't have anything to be nervous about, y'know"
[21:19] <Lyra_Bel> "Like you said.  Not like there're any other options, eh?"
[21:21] <Alexander_Pyrite> "i guess so"
[21:22] <Lyra_Bel> "Guess we're stuck together"