Bonfireside Chat 297: Roundtable Roundtable Belurat (feat. Noah Caldwell-Gervais)
Added 2024-09-01 23:03:31 +0000 UTCThis week, for the first Roundtable Roundtable of the DLC season, we invited the excellent YouTube video essayist Noah Caldwell-Gervais to join us to talk about Elden Ring, the Shadows of the Erdtree DLC, and his travelogue approach to analyzing games. Then we read your responses to the Gravesite Plain region and the Belurat, Tower Settlement legacy dungeon.
Comments
Omg. Will Hughes should be a guest more. Just listened to the adaption decay after this and holy shit.
TheGrizz
2025-03-14 23:11:27 +0000 UTCI'm going to hold on listening to this until I've finished the DLC (almost there!), but what a great get! So pumped that you finally got Noah Caldwell-Gervais on the show.
Joseph
2024-09-09 19:23:26 +0000 UTCOh hell yeah. So excited to hear Noah Gervais on the pod. Both because he's my favorite essayist, but also cause it must have been pretty exciting for y'all.
William
2024-09-06 13:28:34 +0000 UTCGreat episode, great guest.
Rule34Bomberman
2024-09-06 12:23:22 +0000 UTC100%, just the absolute best. Every time a new video drops it’s a holiday
Justin Zode
2024-09-06 05:46:46 +0000 UTCFinally got to listen to the whole thing. I couldn’t tell you were nervous and this was exactly the crossover of the ButterRossCaldwelliverse I had hoped for.
Conner Reid
2024-09-05 11:44:46 +0000 UTCGary, you did great! And so did Kole and Noah. Fantastic episode.
Daniel Runfola
2024-09-05 11:38:41 +0000 UTCWhen you stagger them and hit them in the eye. I was using bloodborne terminology. -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2024-09-04 16:44:30 +0000 UTCWhat did you mean with visceral when talking about the furnace golems?
Aaron Sproule
2024-09-04 16:29:20 +0000 UTCNoah is the GOAT of game essayists. No one comes close.
Jonathan Straka
2024-09-04 07:23:07 +0000 UTC“Surreal” was a great descriptor by Gary at the front of this interview in regards to hearing Noah’s voice outside of his videos. I still found myself mesmerized, and truly a bit awed, by his poetic cadence and incisive insight during the conversation. A dream guest for all of us, and I don’t blame Gary one bit for being nervous!
Andy O
2024-09-04 06:17:43 +0000 UTCAwesome guest One of my favs
Dalton Markowich
2024-09-04 01:30:17 +0000 UTCGreat guest! Glad to hear y'all chuckle about my getting scholared. I get it now.
Taylor Osbourne
2024-09-03 19:19:48 +0000 UTCThose books are cool. I haven't read all of them, but they're on my eventual list. -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2024-09-03 02:33:58 +0000 UTCFellow putrescenct & hand mom fans! 💪💪💪 The fighting with a sunflower comment made me think of something i've been reading recently- Book of the New Sun, by Gene Wolfe. I wouldn't be the first person to say it has a lot in common with soulsborne and it's actually giving me the itch to replay ds1 and all the rest, but there is a striking scene in the first book where the protagonist participates in a duel where they both fight with flowers.
Goldie
2024-09-03 01:43:00 +0000 UTCSame. I'm not a Halo guy, so I don't need to worry about playing them all first. I'm just going to let him be my guide. -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2024-09-02 21:56:55 +0000 UTC*And* he's gotta a Halo retrospective coming down the pipeline? I'm gonna be checking YouTube constantly until that drops, can't wait
Erik Brown
2024-09-02 20:59:02 +0000 UTCAbsolutely goated choice for a guest, this rules
Erik Brown
2024-09-02 19:37:28 +0000 UTCHoly shit! Long live you guys and Noah!
Darkworm
2024-09-02 19:22:16 +0000 UTCDon't be too hard on yourself. Best roundtable yet!
Kenny Bentley
2024-09-02 12:56:35 +0000 UTCOh my god I absolutely lost my mind refreshing and saw this episode, in bed with my wife and I just point at the title and she says “isn’t that your favorite dude?” I was like YES the only people I have ever found worthy of my Patreon dollars are doing a collab. Incredible work, my absolute favorite podcast and my absolute favorite video essayist together. Such beautiful and brilliant, unique voices that bring so much joy, content that makes me think and I treasure and look forward to.
Justin Zode
2024-09-02 05:56:29 +0000 UTCLiterally the only guest you could have gotten on to get me to listen to a Roundtable! Nice
Stoned Skeleton
2024-09-02 02:08:57 +0000 UTCStraight up GASPED when I saw the guest!
Chandler
2024-09-02 01:12:21 +0000 UTCAmazing collab here- gasped when I saw the name in the notif! Can't wait to listen 😊
Goldie
2024-09-02 01:09:56 +0000 UTCRegardless of the cause, I think it worked wonders. Also, the 2500 comments on his recent video are 98% overwhelmingly positive so I think its great to just draw a line and show him that most of the community really appreciate his perspectives.
Oliver Tripp
2024-09-02 00:56:45 +0000 UTCHoly shit! Love Noah!
Richard Cochnar
2024-09-02 00:55:08 +0000 UTCI didn't want to talk about it much because I didn't want to invite any contrarian abuse his way, being honest. -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2024-09-02 00:54:40 +0000 UTCThanks for publishing my correspondence and amazing 'get' with Noah. What a great episode. I was also pleasantly surprised that some of the toxic response to Shadow of the Erdtree from the Souls community didn't get valuable airtime with the three of you, just focusing on positivity and objective criticism of the game itself. I was half expecting it given this was a feature of Noah's recent video. More of this please, as I'm sick of a moronic minority getting attention.
Oliver Tripp
2024-09-02 00:43:14 +0000 UTCholy shit, a collaboration for the ages
Connor Plantier
2024-09-02 00:35:28 +0000 UTCWHAAAAAAAT
Mystic Referee
2024-09-02 00:14:08 +0000 UTCNo way! This is the best shit ever!
Victor
2024-09-01 23:39:10 +0000 UTCI sort of wish I did better! I was nervous -GB
Duckfeed.tv
2024-09-01 23:19:19 +0000 UTCFinally! Gary, Kole, and Noah in a room together. It’s like Duckfeed read my diary.
Conner Reid
2024-09-01 23:18:00 +0000 UTC
