Atmosphere In Souls Games

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Whether Its Elden Ring, Sekiro, Bloodborne, Dark souls, Or the coming Shadow of the erdtree Elden Ring DLC all of these Fromsoft games excel in atmosphere using music, ambience, and other mechanics In this video essay/analysis I with a few others discuss our favorite moments of atmosphere in souls games.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:34 - Souls changes lives
2:48 - RAID
5:49 - Masters of atmosphere
7:10 - Demon's Souls
12:36 - AesirAesthetic's World
15:08 - Dark Souls
20:42 - Lost? (Mid Bump)
21:10 - Dark Souls 2
25:27 - Bloodborne
30:40 - Snack Covenant's World
37:41 - Dark Souls 3
43:07 - Sekiro
46:32 - Elden Ring
46:44 - Ember's World
48:06 - Elden Ring pt 2
52:06 - Recap
52:54 - Little Pitstop
54:42 - Thank you
54:50 - Patreon
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[@yikes6969]

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[@Ke-hs6vw]

Hard to pick one favorite moment from these games, but defeating Lady Maria at the top of the clock tower and then walking through the clock into the sunlight to find the fishing hamlet was such a cool experience.

[@hughbarry9471]

Yeah the sudden change in atmosphere blew me away the first time

[@atonofspiders]

And seeing the cathedral ward underwater was trippy and psychotic

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[@Urd-Vidan]

For Elden Ring, its the Ancestor Spirit. What a beautiful creature, what an OST. Hearing the OST and it approaching, it felt so primal, it felt like I'm not supposed to be there.

[@thisisfyne]

Ow man what a cool moment. Easy boss, but the atmosphere, aesthetic, and OST coming together makes for quite an unforgetable sequence.

[@jobi1kawobi317]

That boss fight was so magical like nothing I’ve experienced in a boss fight! The music was literally ancestral with all the ancient instruments! And the design was so good!

[@glatykoffi6672]

Im on the total opposite side with rykard. Simply nothing like him in souls.

[@EldenJohn69]

It made you feel like the bad guy, as if you were disturbing a peaceful beast and forcing it to fight and, inevitably, die. Fantastic boss

[@strattonnolen1134]

The moment you spawn into placidusax for the first time and you see him in a ball hovering…such a cool intro.

[@denisruskin348]

Leyndell takes the cake for me. The dungeon structure, ambience, soundtrack, contrast between the gorgeous city and those mofo sewers, the Erdtree and the very end guarded by Morgott...it's perfection.

[@mmehdi3437]

True, i love it !

[@buckyhurdle4776]

Giant fuck off dragon body in the middle of town. Leyndell is one of the coolest levels in video game history. Its at the point where I get genuinely sad now when it fills with ash.

[@AnthonyCasadonte]

My favorite atmospheric moment…Dark Souls 1 character creation…that music…immediately enchanted

[@failovrgs3306]

Atmosphere and aura in these games are one of the main reasons I still go back to replaying Dark Souls. It feels so different from other games and I only found something similar to it in ICO and Shadow of the Colossus (I got interested in ICO because of you btw, thanks)

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[@revalone3944]

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[@nyfinest487]

Well those games inspired Miyazaki😂

[@SL4PSH0CK]

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[@curranmckenzie9574]

The moment where I found the Siofra River Well in the Mistwood, went down the elevator expecting maybe a larger-than-average dungeon, and instead finding an entire world space right below Limgrave was magical. The Altus Plateau was a great exercise in contrast, the regal decadent splendor of the Golden Order right beside the visceral horrors of the windmill village and the forest filled with Wormfaces. And Leyndell. Whoooo boy, Leyndell. Walking through that entrance, seeing Gransaxx’s gigantic corpse, discovering the fortified manor was oddly familiar, ascending the towers upon the vines of the Erdtree, and then discovering there was an entire sewer system beneath the city that served as a whole other dungeon itself! 👌Peak FromSoft.

[@Wadacup]

Yes! Discovering the original Roundtable Hold was so incredible for some reason.

[@NotEthanWinters]

let's not forget that Andre's hammering right after the birds chirping in front of sen's fortress is probably as close as we're getting to Guts coming back to Godot's place after weeks of never ending nightmares and hearing the stubborn old man hammering on his anvil.

[@DARK-cw7qe]

"it always seems like the musical equivalent of a question mark" Could not have said it better myself man. Great job

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That was a beautiful moment hearing about Dark Souls 2 being therapeutic. Much of the Souls series has been a form of escape and healing for myself. It's cool to hear others accounts about that stuff. Anyway, awesome video! I really appreciate you reminding me of atmosphere in general for gaming. 🤘

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[@BehelitMusic]

Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 are my favorites. Mainly Bloodborne. The atmosphere of the whole game really sticks with me more than anything in the other games. The sounds of the clinging and scratching of the scary dudes axes in Central Yharnam or the screaming of beasts in the background in certain areas. It's that constant fear that I love. Obviously, a game like Bloodborne is terrifying and gut wrenchingly sad, but the world itself is my comfort and another home for me. It's a friend to me. A friend i can go to whenever I'm at a bad point in my life and trust me.. I've had a fair amount of bad points. The world of Yharnam is a home that I'd get lost in for days straight. Thanks, Miyazaki. This has been my ted talk. Seeya.

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The prison area of Duke's Archives just hits different, it's so masterfully weird and unsettling. One of my favorite locations in DS1

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Your description of the decaying and putrefaction theme present in Dark Souls 3's atmospheric callbacks to the original's areas made me appreciate a game I'd been harsh towards a lot more. Thank you. Cheers from Iran.

[@crowmagnon]

Currently writing a health paper about Dark Souls and its link to depression, this is just the kind of thing I needed

[@differentbutsimilar7893]

That 'question mark' sound in Vendrick's theme is from the inclusion of the tritone in the chord. The tritone is just two notes, 3 semitones apart. It sounds 'evil' or I prefer, 'not of this world.' It sounds like they used some sort of dimished chord featuring the tritone. Diminished chords tend to sound really dark and weird because of that - they bend or remove the notes that give chords a sense of color and harmonic stability. The major scale has only one mode that has such a chord as the root, defining chord... locrian. The reason I mention this is because people call locrian the 'question mark' mode, because of that tritone in the root chord. The root chord of a mode or key is supposed to the 'home base' of the progression, a point where everything sounds resolved. Whereas the note placement in the locrian scale makes it so the home chord is unstable and essentially wants to become something else. None of the other modes of the major scale have that peculiarity, and it's what makes locrian sound mysterious and unsettling - a sound that's hard to pin down in an unnerving way, like something moving in the shadows that could be many things, none of which you know. The dissonance in that tritone is 'leading,' it wants to resolve and become a regular minor or major chord. But in this case it can't, because it's already home. It's leaving you strung up in that suspense. And it's funny... locrian is notoriously hard to use in songwriting, but many times, when it IS used, they drone out on that root note the whole time, to keep the 'question' open and drive home that restless tension, rather than let it start to sound more distinctly minor or major as it would when moving away from the root. It's sort of like an endless staircase - you keep thinking there's gonna be something at the top... IF there's a top. But you only ever find yourself on those same stairs and it confounds you. It's like our brains don't know what to do with those sounds. Vendrick's theme does eventually lean into those somber, devastation-laden minor chords. But it starts off hanging around that diminished chord for a good bit, evoking a tiny bit of that dark/uncertain locrian feel. And in fact, the little sprinklings of melody over top sound almost atonal, not really in any particular key, making it extra-jarring. You don't hear stuff like this in very much music out there - it takes a certain person to figure out how to do it right. Most musicians I know don't bother with the stuff you need to write music like this. Metal and Jazz are basically the two exceptions where it becomes much more common. Tritones are everywhere, but not often as like, a foundational thing - they get hidden in transitions where it doesn't even register as dissonance, so you just don't hear it like it sounds in Vendrick's jawn. Most of the time, composers/songwriters avoid it, so when the tritone is put front and center, it really cuts through you.

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Leyndell, the part with the Paige is just playing his flute under that tree. Just... Sublime

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Man, the moment you get dragged into hypogean gaol, having to find your way out on your own. Probably the strongest moment for me, everything from the terrifying enemies, to the sky, the burning corpses to the ominous and mysterious note in the middle of the street. And the music, oh the music. Atmosphere has since day one been such an important part of these games for me, so I’m glad to see someone talk about that side of these games. Love it, keep it up❤

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Something that I think is interesting to note is the shaded woods in ds2. The fog-filled area with the moaning trees is nuts. And then you head out into the mossy ruins with the laughing all around you, extremely unique and cool vibes. Also, the fact that the area before Mibu Village was a reference to it was very cool.

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My favorite thing about ds2 is the variety of environments. The game is super varied in area design and I like it a lot. Tons of people hate on it for that but ds2 is about time and space getting all jacked up over the countless cycles of the undead curse so I think it fits.

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One of my favorite moments in Elden Ring was in the Haligtree's graveyard before the Melania fight. After clawing your way through this hellish area and killing dozens of knights and the like you see this graveyard filled with knights resting, praying, and staring at the graves of their lost comrades. This small interaction instantly made me realize that these knights that protect the Haligtree aren't just spooky zombie men, but outcasts trying to protect their found home and loved ones.

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[@dndhydrate]

Reminds me of when I saw someone playing a Metal Slug game in an arcade cabinet as a kid. There were solider enemies on one screen in a "chatting it up" animation, and seeing them scream in surprise before being engaged blew my mind. It also blew my mind when they'd gather up in the location you died only to start laughing at you.... until you respawn and they start screaming again like you were a dead person that came back to life. There was so much attention to details on those games.

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i really love the chill midbump thing you do, it gives me time to process the info in the video better, and I relax and unclench my jaw 10/10

[@Glace077]

Ash Lake is the best location in any Souls game and I thank you for respecting it.

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[@JokingThief]

What a beautiful phonetic spelling

[@crystallinecrisis3901]

I got into gaming later than most my age so Elden Ring was my first souls game. But to me just the way that each atmosphere is crafted makes you have to stop and just exist in the world for a bit and that’s one of my favorite experiences in games

[@Multimonata]

When you got abducted by the big bag man in Bloodborne. As you said, there is so rarely overworld music in souls games, that when I woked up, dazed after that impromtu kidnapping, in that somber cell ... And hear the chanting ... I was glued to my chair, my eyes darting in anxiety, heart racing, hands sweating ... Amazing.

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[@GaminLuna]

My two favourite moments of Bloodborne are going to Yarhar’gul early and hearing “Hail the Nightmare” it was so unnerving and immediately put you on edge as soon as you woke up in that jail cell. The other would be Upper Cathedral Ward. I’ve beaten Bloodborne numerous times and the pure terror of Upper Cathedral Ward never goes away, it still terrifies me and that is entirely due to the nightmarish atmosphere it evokes.

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You never dissapoint and YOU are getting better at your videos. I love to see a channel like this growing to be exactly the kind of content that I want to watch. Furthermore, your passion for Dark Souls is driving you to some great topics. I feel so identify because, as I told you, we expirienced most of the same culture and experiences that made us who we are today. This is even more “curious” (For lack of a better word) given that you are from the other side of the border and still we share a lot without knowing it.

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[@KRESTFELL]

IP, I'm a bit late, but to me your channel is exactly how you described Majula. A place of calm in a sea of media. Thank you.

[@ClvrBstrd]

Checkpoint: May 5th, 2023 These past few months I have been exercising again to improve my health and self-esteem and am trying to decide on which martial art to go into. Am thinking either judo or jujitsu. I've also taken up gardening with my grandfather because it's rather therapeutic and helps in bonding with him since we used to be a bit distant. We've also been helping my sister manage her depression so she isn't sleeping all day and spiraling further. Not going to be easy, but nothing worth while is. Still lots I wanna do, but I'm sure I'll get there. Thanks IP for making your videos, they do a lot to improvemy mood. As well as introducing the Checkpoint thing. Can't wait to see the next video. And *Buddy Brought the Tassles Goddamn!*

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[@masson5775]

for me what really hit in sekiro was seeing the war unfold in the places you had already gone through and seeing all the destruction it brings, especially when guys like the nightjars that were fighting you are now asking for your help

[@PilotoBahia]

People always talk about the rich atmosphere that the world and game design give to the player, but honestly for me the best atmospheric moments in these games are found in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls title screen and character creation menus. In demon's souls everything is complete silence and pitch black until the title fades in with weird distorted sounds just to be silent again until you get to the character creation menu that plays a beautiful but strange song. In Dark Souls you hear nothing, the title fades in, and then you press start and get jumpscared with that "sword unsheathing" sound effect , to then listen to that main menu soundtrack that is so calming, dreamy and ethereal. After Dark Souls 2 (that also has this dreamy and esoteric vibe to the main menu soundtrack) every title screen has some grandiose cresciendo soundtrack. DS3, Sekiro and Elden Ring they all just start blasting your ears with the most epic soundtrack (that also is the main theme of the game), not leaving space for an atmosphere to settle. In Bloodborne the menu soundtrack calm and the epic but nontheless gives that gothic/lovecraft feeling. Nowdays I really appreciate the older games's title screen atmosphere work, with unique songs that you can only listen there, they are calm, beautiful and make you feel safe but also hint at the weird and deppressing world that waits for you beyond the main menu. That for me is atmosphere building at its finest and the game didn't even start yet.

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Finally a new upload, I love ur vids and I think you're a really cool dude. Watching this while playing DS2 on my ps3 with mega mule lmao, also congrats for the raid sponsor!

[@user-vi4zw6zu4c]

You described Hunter's Dream very well, because at the end of the day it is A DREAM, it's nice and comforting, but you know you probably shouldn't hang in there for a long time, because getting stuck in a Dream forever is a scary thought. Imagine in real life that when you are sleeping and you are aware that you are dreaming (you are lucid dreaming), but you feel like you cannot escape it and wake up. It would be terrifying to say the least. That's why Hunter's Dream has that feel of a comforting place you shouldn't spend a lot of time in. Seeing the agony Gehrman goes through only amplifies the feeling.

[@panpanpantoja]

you know I’ve played any of these games and I always thought those impossible boss fights were just not worth my time, but after watching this I’m sold

[@iquemedia]

return of the king

[@viktorpede1840]

I prefer YT videos of max 20 min length. You are literally the only channel who offers content I enjoy so much that 1hr length is no pain but pure pleasure to watch. Thanks for your great content!

[@ericevan12]

Bro, your little intermission segments are fire, vibe checks in the most meta way. I'm so glad I found your channel.

[@TheLastGame666]

Dark souls 2 atmosphere is so unexplainably good, I don't know what is it but it always stood out for me.

[@viktorwessulv5829]

what sets demon's souls apart from the others to me is that demon's is so heavily immersed in a purely medieval and semi realistic atmosphere while the other souls games are more high fantasy and anachronistic. really gives you that oppressive vibe of being a peon in the middle ages where everything is out to kill you, harm you, deceive you, starve you and there is no way out but death

[@Kovez1]

Let’s go soulsstop video I’ve been needing this recently

[@Kovez1]

Buddy brought the tassels goddamn

[@twilightburial]

great video pitstop ❤ i love hearing u talk and gush about souls games, it was really cool to have those other channels talk about their favorite souls atmospheres too. also the bump was fantastic, keep up the great work dude !

[@vargagyork8751]

This is a very underrated video, you somehow managed to express all my feelings for the dark souls games' atmosphere in one video which is impressive and I thank you for making an essay about this.

[@mordojack2912]

bro the elden ring time delay attacks are evil and put in the game solely to screw the over eager dark souls veterans

[@InternetPitstop]

yes bro! I was coming in thinking I had this rolling game on lock lol

[@differentbutsimilar7893]

TBF, if I was a giant monster with god-level strength who's every move was like a house flying in random directions, I'd hang the wind-ups just to milk the fear a little more. I think these bosses enjoy toying with their prey. They're looking down on us, laughing as we roll frantically, while they stand there doing nothing but watching. And then when they get bored, they finally hit you. "Ahahah, this is good fun, but seriously now... time to die. Have a good one!" [casually chucks tarnished through 5-point, animation-locked, poise-shattering combo]

[@kareemduncan4863]

Kings pet fisting me over here

[@shunpofx]

I got a few. Ashes of Ariandel and the Ringed City in DS3 really hammer home that end of the world vibe. In bloodborne the research hall took what made yharnam creepy and cranked it up to 10. And lastly in elden ring there is the Haligtree. It's such a beautiful locked away location that only so few have been able to reach. Plus it's now in a slow state of decay since Miquella was kidnapped. There's a brilliant mix of vibrant light and gold, with the festering decay of scarlet rot

[@TOGthatoneguy]

love to see your uploads man great work.

[@TheTrueJuan]

Thank you for making a video that focuses so heavily on the atmosphere of this series. It's truly what I love about this series and many of my favorite games. Bloodborne is my favorite and the whole atmosphere of that game is amazing. If you look at the artbook, you can see how the game devs may have been inspired to translate the dread and horror. Plus Castle Cainhurst was just amazing for completely optional area. Dark Souls 3's marriage scene with Anri is also very atmospheric at least to me.

[@amansavant707]

Buddy bought the hour long video goddamn

[@mishan3168]

What I really love and what really sets you and your content apart from many other creators is how much you talk about your experience, your impressions, with what interest and passion you talk about it! Not just a dry set of facts, guys, this anime / game / film was made by such and such a person, it has such and such a plot, and so on. No. You share your impressions, a real person, and for this your content is very, very valuable. Thank you. waiting for new videos.

[@InternetPitstop]

Thank you man! That means a lot because I always worry that doing that might be a bad idea but glad to hear it’s good!

[@flamingmanure]

"Not just a dry set of facts" thing is, alot of souls youtubers tend to delude themselves that they are actually speaking facts as if they are game developers, what they are is basically fans like us but with microphones, recorders and some good writing skills, with a deluded sense of armchair game developer narrative in their heads. not pitstop though, hes one of the only gaming youtubers i remained sub too purely for the reasons you mentioned in ur comment, the dude can differentiate between subjective opinions and dry facts.

[@mishan3168]

@@InternetPitstop you can speak about Winx and peppa pig and it still gonna be enjoyable)

[@Levire_]

This video appeared in a perfect time. I started seeing while in the mid of a existencial crisis about forgetting others and things, and this made me thing about a lot. I even started to cry a little in the clip of Gehrman lamenting about the dream. Congratulations about the video man, and sorry if my english is kinda bad.

[@cliftonsargent1572]

Never got alerted that you came out with this so I just wanted to check in and see where you were at? Glad to see your still at this man. I definitely appreciate being a fan before you get fkn huge, love what you do for us

[@gatorslayer2388]

This is honestly starting to become one of my favorite channels, i love the vibe of just seeing someone talking passionatly about what they love and cant wait to see what you cover next man, keep it up!

[@seanforbes3930]

Buddy brought the tassals, goddamm!

[@aceretrogaming]

Dude this video was absolutely amazing, you've really outdone yourself. Literally everything said about Bloodborne was giving me shivers, and Sophie's points about the atmosphere was so insightful. Loved every second of this!

[@Shenhongg]

Love the video. It seemed like you put in a lot of time and effort into this, so I just wanted to say that it's always a pleasure to watch your content and take as much time as you need.

[@Ketsu112]

watching ur drip/presentation style change throughout ur uploads is like when i watched my friend in college last year's grades dip as he got into edibles (in like a based way)

[@superluigicam6660]

I actually never finished a Souls game. I'm gonna get serious with Bloodbourne this weekend, and then I wanna play the first 3 DS games, and Sikiro. I've tried Elden Ring many times, not a big fan. But Bloodbourne captures a horrific, depressing, huge town filled with dangerous beasts. Yarnaham is one of my favorite locations in a game.

[@elyakel5682]

So, how was your journey, my fellow hunter ?

[@coloryournight]

If you get through Soulsborne and Sekiro, i’d def retry Elden Ring. It’s in my opinion, the best one. Especially when it comes to its world. If you end up liking the older souls games, maybe you’ll have a newfound appreciation for Elden Ring.

[@austinwiebe3801]

This is the video I’ve been waiting for you to post

[@oak3785]

Internet Pitstop is such a fitting name cuz with these long videos i love leaving then coming home later and just recharging my social battery by resuming your videos

[@Frxmfire]

For the fellow #LoreWhores who haven't already done so, check out Charred Thermos's series on the historical inspirations of bloodborne and the parallels to real life Victorian medicine of the 1800's. It makes the game more horrifying than it already is. It made me love the game more than I already do.

[@silentobserver4425]

There is nothing like the atmosphere of a souls game. In my own opinion yes they are rpg’s but to me they are equally horror games.

[@ryanrochon8891]

great fucking video man. the type of vid that until watched it, i didn’t know how desperately i wanted to watch something like it. placing yourself in the green screens of the environments genuinely made it so much more engaging. there really is nothing i love more than hearing people gush about the less obvious details of these games. this is also the first time i’ve seen one of your vids and seeing aesir, sin, and sophie in it was a huge wtf moment. immediate fan of you

[@KungFuLandau]

Atmosphere is what makes Metroid, especially super Metroid, my favourite

[@kingfrogx]

The sewers in Elden ring is hands down my favourite moment from Elden ring, it just shows the despair and what really goes on behind the scenes in the world of Elden ring

[@SL4PSH0CK]

same. for me, it was a flex on its overwhelming size regards its verticality, and proves ER was a culmination of fromsoft, for its dungeoncrawl DNA form Demon Souls and Bloodborne.

[@xviii5780]

@@SL4PSH0CK ds1 had the same section, but smaller

[@P-Dog1873]

Please Do a atmosphere vid about other games too

[@InternetPitstop]

For sure! Ill probably do a Zelda one in the future!

[@P-Dog1873]

@@InternetPitstop looking forward to that! Maybe also think about less known games too. Stalker, disco eylsium (!), secret of evermore and so on.

[@hammad9091]

​@@InternetPitstopcheck out the dishonored series. Amazing atmosphere.

[@DukeOfQueers]

An experience that will always be special to me was very early in my first Elden Ring playthrough. The first time i found the nomadic merchant in the north of Limgrave, i was genuinely so enthralled by his music that i just sat my character down next to him for a long time, listening to him play and watching the golden leaves falling in the night sky. It may not be much compared to the more obvious examples people could name for the game's top notch atmosphere, but regardless the gentle simplicity of this moment is forever in my heart and i love going back to chill with this guy 🫶

[@YeoxD]

I think dark souls 3 has a great atmosphere and it shines in its silent and empty ambience at all times.

[@advvo9880]

I’m so glad your channel blew up bro, top quality 👍