

This might sound cruel but Dark Souls II is a game that implicitly encourages this type of behavior among its community. “We tend to use slower and weaker weapons against less experienced players which is entertaining for us (It’s basically like challenging yourself by using a non-optimal setup) but it ends up being a nuisance to the players you fight against,” Krisis18z tells me. As veterans of the game, he and others enjoy annoying less experienced players by purposely using frustrating tactics in the game’s PvP. Have a look at Krisis18z’s Twitch profile and you’ll see he describes himself as “a trashcan souls player and love annoying the hell out of people.” He claims that this sentence is a joke between himself and the people he knows in the Dark Souls II community. It’s easy to say that “Philosopher of the First Meme” is an effort to troll the Dark Souls II community and anyone else who comes across it. Krisis18z wasn’t just going for discordance with this mod.

A tortuous medley of Pokémon theme music and Korean pop hit “Gangnam Style” is strung together like snot to form the soundtrack.

A shoddily-drawn portrait of Link from The Legend of Zelda is the face of the gems used to restore health. Buzz Lightyear grins from a hardened warrior’s flowing cloak.
