Andy Corrigan

I will DM you in Discord.

Siegward’s payoff, as in the big moment and what it means for the boss fight, is probably my favourite in the series, but it’s definitely an unearned next to Siegmeyer.

Daw

Last day in my job and I tried to buy the team at my coffee shop some drinks thanks for the morning pick-me-up and bantz, and the result is that I didn’t do that and instead got given a free coffee.

Every game that logs me in has a Toast sensor.

Please resist the urge to be excited about the idea of a new Xbox and look at what Microsoft does as a whole.

They are making the world worse in a billion different ways and they’ve just given the keys to their gaming division to an AI evangelist. It’s going to be a *shitshow*.

A comic style sketch of Sif the Great Grey Wolf from Dark Souls.

Very unhappy with it, but I tried a Sif sketch over lunch.

Might start again with using the roughs later.

#art

A comic style sketch of Sif the Great Grey Wolf from Dark Souls.

Very unhappy with it, but I tried a Sif sketch over lunch.

Might start again with using the roughs later.

#art

Coincidentally, my little trilogy replay has had me back on the art train!

This was meant to be a quote-post. Lmao.

I am dogshit at art, but doing the thing is the valuable part of doing the art.

For a second I thought the stationary shop had started ripping off Ikea.

Officeworks has a canteen whuut?

(I’m kidding. I like owning physical copies of games I love but don’t care if it’s sealed or not.)

I’m sorry, you called?

The Darkmoon Knightess, a fire keeper from Dark Souls. The armour appears in all 3 games, however.

"What you saw under light of the Darkmoon shall haunt you forever."

Lunchtime sketch

I replayed DS2 last month/this month, and there was a “Warning, toxic woman” message in front of a chest with one of these in it (near the King’s door in Forest of the Fallen Giants?).

(I honestly don’t know enough about the trial to know if it was funny or sexism)

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.

It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.

My months-long investigation 👇

I realise this thread has the structure of a LinkedIn post. Sorry about that.

Since I dropped out of the games writing scene (something I miss terribly but no longer have energy for), I’m unburdened, free of that mentality and, this time around, I’m savouring every second.

It feels like it’ll stick this time because I no longer have an artificial mental barrier in the way.

I realise now it probably wasn’t the game; it was me. When it launched, I still felt pressure to keep up with latest releases, therefore its size was a barrier; something I had to push through to be free of, rather than enjoy.

The result was a game I know I enjoyed but remembered very little about.

Previously, I called Elden Ring a game I enjoyed but would never replay due to its size. Like, it was all great, but there was just *too much* of it. So much I didn’t even consider the DLC viable.

A few years later and here I am, replaying it anyway.

My favourite armour. Always end up with it in NG+.

The Darkmoon Knightess, a fire keeper from Dark Souls. The armour appears in all 3 games, however.

"What you saw under light of the Darkmoon shall haunt you forever."

Lunchtime sketch

The OST for the Lord of the Rings trilogy on vinyl.

A treat for winning a new job, which I start in a month.

Greyscale portraits of the 3 fire keepers from the Dark Souls series. Left is the Emerald Herald, in the middle is Anastasia of Astora, and the Fire Keeper from Dark Souls 3.

Fire keepers.

#art #darksouls

“AI super legend” = in on the grift.

And that’s double replays of each entry in the Dark Souls trilogy done (annoyingly I forgot to beat Vendrick on my second run so I’m missing DS2’s walk-away ending).

Next time I replay these, I’ll run with magic builds for the first time ever.

Installing Elden Ring on PC as we speak.

Greyscale portraits of the 3 fire keepers from the Dark Souls series. Left is the Emerald Herald, in the middle is Anastasia of Astora, and the Fire Keeper from Dark Souls 3.

Fire keepers.

#art #darksouls

a painting of a monster in a cave ALT: a painting of a monster in a cave

Darkeater Midir is the only boss in the Dark Souls trilogy I’d never managed to solo… In my original playthrough of DS3, I spent *hours* trying and failing, and ended up calling in another player.

Tonight, however, I got him down on the third attempt on my own. Feels magic.