It's funny to be reading this and seeing on the other side of the YouTube lens. Gaming channels like yours focus so much on the game they often have a lot of negative space between videos. It's frighteningly easy to forget there's a whole life happening there.

I've been watching since Dark Souls first launched stateside and I couldn't dream of beating the game without that god damned Flying Dragon Sword. But even more than just showing how to find the cheap shit, and more than just a walkthrough, you played the hell out of that game. Seeing you run circles around the bosses made me feel like such a goober. Your explanations of the mechanics really made me look at how I was playing games and what kinds of games I was playing. It was something that had been on my mind for some time before then but none of my friends are gamers so I was never really exposed to people who looked at games at more than a surface level. It felt like the floodgates were opened and couldn't be shut and every game I play I eviscerate with my hodgepodge attempt at a developer's mindset and often come up disappointed. What's out there is good, but it isn't what I want. So I find myself now enrolled in computer science undergrad with my diamond-dozen token idea. Guess I should start saving for Japan?

The videos might not be your ambition, but you're damn good at them. The things you say and the games you show really do reach people, even if most of them never comment a word about it (or if the ones that do comment aren't willing to match your southern hospitality). But even more than that you've managed to effect change all the way up to Fromsoft. You really deserve to take a step back and appreciate what you've done with the channel. There's a big difference between doing a sponsorship deal with Ubisoft and having dinner with a lauded game designer and working on an official product for his game. There are few things worse than being arms length from your dream, but don't let that depreciate what you've done on your way there.