I just want to say, I love NL talking about his thought process as he makes his decisions and plays the game. As someone who is still aspiring to reach ascension 20, I find it very helpful and enjoyable.
Enjoyable for sure. I wouldnt try to learn to much from it though. Egg is one of the worst sts players to watch for education imo. He makes tons and tons of missplays and judgement errors. If you wanna learn more about this game watch baalorlord or jorbs as examples. Egg is the most entertaining player for sure though.
@@joosthartog1333frostprime is also very entertaining and the way he plays the game is way more "just send it bro" compared to jorbs, which might be more fun for some people like me
Someone tell NL that consume is a good card. I remember it took him ages to start taking it in the original series and it seems he forgot about it being good. Oh well, either way we loving the STS videos though.
As the rare non-banter-enjoyer, it has really made my mornings to see NL locking in on these runs like the pro gamer we all know he is. Please keep it up egg dad!
@@blahthebiste7924 Biased Cognition shouldn't have been there in the first place. Also this is like the 3rd or 4th video (in the current arc) where he should've taken Consume and didn't.
@@Trevor21230Why shouldn't it be there, am I missing something? Biased Cog fucks, it's one of the best cards in the game. If you've just got decent orbs it solves many hallways/elites and helps tremendously in bosses. 1 cost, 4/5 focus is insane if the fight isn't even gonna last more than 4-5 turns. The front load is crazy But I do agree he definitely undervalues Consume, it's also a great card
@@Trevor21230 The literal #1 best card in Defect's pool "should not have been there"? Do you mean it was just lucky that he saw it from a normal combat reward?
4:16 This speech of him loosening his mental muscle memory, realizing he can adapt at any given situation thrown at him and not just default mindlessly to certain options is honestly one of the faith-in-humanity healing and heart-mending moment in NL's career. It is the tenet and foundation of having fun in video games. Even if he should have done it with all the games he plays with the notable ones being SAP, Elden Ring, Balatro, and it took the equivalent amount of time for the revival and revitalization of Pompeii's soil post-eruption with Slay the Spire, evidently this bald middle-aged man is happy to play and share his gameplay, we are just as much.
Love the Snecko respect! Only thing I'd want to emphasize is that an abundance of draw becomes more important with Snecko as well, as with a higher chance of drawing 1 and especially 0 cost cards, it can effectively be seen as an energy benefit in addition to the natural card draw benefit. Skim goes crazzzyyyy in Snecko decks.
Potion is +5 dex. Could be considered a good play against time eater. Just burn him down to the heal with regular orbs and finished with no artifact biassed.
@@joosthartog1333 biased is +5 dex to frost orbs. basically it's 10 dex for glacier. so there really is no universe in which speed pot into an artifact is a play
@@quaoar3070 that is if you want to have frost orbs. I think in this situation either 1 would have probably worked. He only had 2 frost cards though, and he didnt have much card damage/scaling. Dont know if u watch baalorlord but 1 of the things ive picked up from him is for consistency u generally want orbs to do damage or block and your cards to do the vice versa of that. That way your draw is the most consistent. Imagine getting 2 frost cards turn 1, then having to evoke turn 2 cause your damage comes from orbs and not drawing frost turn 3. Biggest thing to keep in mind though is you dont actually lose 5 focus. You can still play the biased with downside and use it on your lightning orbs.
@@joosthartog1333 while in NL's case it essentially doesn't matter, in general, 1 focus is way more valuable than either 1 str or dex, because its benefit doesn't cost you any draw/energy. focus outscales str/dex way too fast(if you are not running some nonsense claw deck i guess). to address your 3-turn hypothetical scenraio: if you see in your draw pile that there are no frost orbs coming and you are desperate for block, then just don't evoke them this turn. the damage you don't deal this way will be compensated in the future thanks to the 5 additional focus. the only way i could see 5 dex over focus be reasonable is maybe when your block engine is hologram and force field
@@quaoar3070 way to fast means how many turns? Just on your glacier example it takes 3 turns for it to become better then the dex pot play. Since you still can play the biased without artifact. This is also the problem with your reasoning imo. Dex pot is a 1 turn thing you extend to forever, losing 1 focus per turn is not that bad however. Most fights shouldnt take this long. This is also whats wrong in your second remark. Not doing damage against a buffer like time eater is how u can actually lose the fight. Either 5 dex or 5 focus will out scale him long enough to win as long as you do damage. Biased is imo 1 of the top 5 cards in sts, the downside is minor till you get to the hearth. Theres not many enemies that wont die in 5 turns to a biased lightning deck. You are comparing 5 dex to 5 focus. But the comparison is 5 dex to 0/1/2/3/4/5 (turns) focus. As i said before u still get the 5 focus. Feels like a value/tempo discussion to me now.
Hey nl, if the game offers you no less than 8 consumes and 6 capacitors on a run, maybe consider grabbing consume at least once, it's a pretty good combo lol
Hey NL this is likely to be buried but heads up on apotheosis, if a card that reduces its cost when upgraded is upgraded in your hand with sneko eye which cost below what it normally would, it changes to the "upgraded" cost. This happened around 56:52 with creative AI. It went from 1 cost to 2. A weird and somewhat rare interaction but something to keep an eye on. Edit: unless, and this is pretty weird, the card when drawn costs 0, it stays 0. See 1:00:49 where this interaction occurred
I adore this next season of NL plays STS tho I will say your old videos are more entertaining than I initially gave them credit for lol I enjoy the thought process
If apoth is in lightning in a bottle, its the only card you should upgrade, because hence forth you never need to upgrade any other card since apoth does it for you
Sometimes when im on the verge of sleep and high, and hear NL say "for the time being" in a slightly different cadence and think "wait i thought the timelord was a different boss"
42:09 he's so locked in that he's responding to chatters that aren't even there
me when i get mad at situations i made up in my head
Wait..this wasnt on stream? Lmao
@@TheGameVerse lol, nope; description says this is YT only... freaking hilarious
It's like he even looks at the other monitor for his chat that's not there LOL
Speaking to the voices
The core isn't the only thing that's cracked
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I'm on crack W game fr
Absolute +2
THE YOLK IS SPILLING EVERYWHERE HELP WEVE CRACKED THE EGG
Is it the egg? He means the egg
25:15 sci fi movie writers in the 80s deciding how to use the special effects budget
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19:18 Vladimir Lenin relocating to Krakow circa 1912 and suspending revolutionary activity to bide his time
+2, comrade, for it is the full value of your labour
Excellent
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Insane +2
+2 doesn’t do justice
16:45 me when I log onto a minecraft server and a moderator quickly sets me to adventure mode for their own entertainment
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29:35 tech companies deciding if they should lay you off
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and/or kill you (with attacks)
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i love that he's inventing chatters. almost like the streams but the chatters are less annoying
Certified youtube frog 😎
7:54 when im a seed and i start germinating
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2:34 King Arthur's knight realizing he has to stop looking for the Holy Grail.
Holy 🏆 +2
+2000
Insane +2
“You got a mouthful of lightning and a diaper full of thunder”
A true wordsmith
I just want to say, I love NL talking about his thought process as he makes his decisions and plays the game. As someone who is still aspiring to reach ascension 20, I find it very helpful and enjoyable.
Enjoyable for sure. I wouldnt try to learn to much from it though. Egg is one of the worst sts players to watch for education imo. He makes tons and tons of missplays and judgement errors. If you wanna learn more about this game watch baalorlord or jorbs as examples. Egg is the most entertaining player for sure though.
@@joosthartog1333 or a shameless Frost Prime plug, he's pretty good but a bit more of an entertainer than the others
You can also watch frostprime, or just engage in discussions with fans and you'll learn a lot.
I recommend jorbs then
@@joosthartog1333frostprime is also very entertaining and the way he plays the game is way more "just send it bro" compared to jorbs, which might be more fun for some people like me
59:00 my doctor after I've been complaining about headaches all week
28:22 renowned japanese doctor performing surgery on yakuza boss
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55:41 sora at the end of kingdom hearts 1
this one's a real deep cut (I don't get it)
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No fucking way😂😂😂😂
27:37 indiana jones’s internal monologue while exploring an ancient temple
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holy +2
57:55 SAG-AFTRA when publishers try to use AI for everything
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Holy +2
30:23 me going back to doing my job after my 15 minute bathroom break
I feel like he's sleeping on Consume, especially when he already has a Capacitor. Focus is huge in the orb-centric deck.
Especially since he likes whippin the orbs around instead of keeping them slotted up
I almost lost it when he skipped it like 3 times in that one run
NL is like way too scared of Biased Cognition and Consume while also just neglecting Loop entirely.
@@gray007nlI also noticed he almost never considers go for the eyes
He's fully blind to certain cards
Nah consume is whack. If it wasn't 2 cost it would be fantastic but that really holds it back plus it doesn't get the power synergy that defrag gets.
26:00 me when my new girlfriend brings me over to her Latino family home and asks me how's the food while I try to keep a brave face
LOL +2
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This is the free lunch of NL videos
I swear to God he said free lunch at least ten times this video
3:55 the inventor of baseball deciding how many strikes makes an out
8:40 Cain after cracking Abel in the dome with a rock
the card art for melter is actually the 'big sphere' enemy that NL describes at 10:30
Someone tell NL that consume is a good card. I remember it took him ages to start taking it in the original series and it seems he forgot about it being good.
Oh well, either way we loving the STS videos though.
I literally commented that 10 minutes ago haha, the consume disrespect was painful with all those capacitors..
Consume is sooooo good like upgraded it turns a frost orb into a defend
we're still working on our boy skipping defrags left and right.
It's still the weakest of the 3 focus sources
As the rare non-banter-enjoyer, it has really made my mornings to see NL locking in on these runs like the pro gamer we all know he is. Please keep it up egg dad!
It reminds me of Binding of Isaac, which is to say it reminds me of home
My man is allergic to taking Consume
THANK YOU! He's sleeping on it so hard it's actually killing me.
Pretty unnecessary with Biased Cognition already in the deck
@@blahthebiste7924 Biased Cognition shouldn't have been there in the first place.
Also this is like the 3rd or 4th video (in the current arc) where he should've taken Consume and didn't.
@@Trevor21230Why shouldn't it be there, am I missing something? Biased Cog fucks, it's one of the best cards in the game. If you've just got decent orbs it solves many hallways/elites and helps tremendously in bosses. 1 cost, 4/5 focus is insane if the fight isn't even gonna last more than 4-5 turns. The front load is crazy
But I do agree he definitely undervalues Consume, it's also a great card
@@Trevor21230 The literal #1 best card in Defect's pool "should not have been there"? Do you mean it was just lucky that he saw it from a normal combat reward?
They call him Bald Lightning.
I have been blessed with a straight to TH-cam slay the spire
That bottled apotheosis and then the upgrade to cool headed immediately affect 😂
To be fair what else should he have upgraded? I dont see much better options.
2:34 content creators when they're in the middle of a controversy and take a year long hiatus
I've never seen or heard a man so obsessed with lunch, free or otherwise.
This video has me acting tempestuous.
Prayer wheel/question card is such an insane combo to get so early. I’ve never seen it
>he doesn't know that clockwork souvenir doesn't negate confused from snecko eye
Consume crying in a corner for being ignored every single time...
Man oh man when he realizes the sybergy of loop electrodynamics, then ill really be pogged out of my mind, get it twisted
3 minutes in he's actually leaving gold behind right in front of the shop. The mysteries of NL will never be revealed to me.
Prospero could never (Slay the Spire)
4:16 This speech of him loosening his mental muscle memory, realizing he can adapt at any given situation thrown at him and not just default mindlessly to certain options is honestly one of the faith-in-humanity healing and heart-mending moment in NL's career. It is the tenet and foundation of having fun in video games. Even if he should have done it with all the games he plays with the notable ones being SAP, Elden Ring, Balatro, and it took the equivalent amount of time for the revival and revitalization of Pompeii's soil post-eruption with Slay the Spire, evidently this bald middle-aged man is happy to play and share his gameplay, we are just as much.
This is actually what playing a bunch of Hades helped with, especially as the Heat increased. Adapt and survive, always be reassessing.
Yeah but then he immediately took electrodynamics, his current muscle memory card.
@@BuddhaMonkey7 Electro was the best choice there anyway. It's a great solution for Act 2, especially the elites, since 2/3 are multi-enemy combats.
Bro just whipped out a thesis in a Slay the Spire video
two hour-long sts episodes back to back
we are eating good
HE FIXED THE CCAMERA AND I CAN SEE THE LAST ORB NOW
Love the Snecko respect! Only thing I'd want to emphasize is that an abundance of draw becomes more important with Snecko as well, as with a higher chance of drawing 1 and especially 0 cost cards, it can effectively be seen as an energy benefit in addition to the natural card draw benefit. Skim goes crazzzyyyy in Snecko decks.
My man is not even giving Consume a look. That card space is just blank for him.
Tempest+ when Richard III+ walks into the room.
11:36 NL reacting to Daredevil (2003) starring Ben Affleck
16:08 me when I’m going through puberty
58:08 The ending to that one Offspring song if Dexter Holland was into Slay the Spire
ive always liked how the art for melter is Big Sphere That Has Low Base HP But Puts On A Tonne-a-Shield
the capicator + consume combo is so good, im becoming type A because of this gameplay
Question Card + Prayer Wheel hooooly
NL playing mid games on Twitch and good games on YT is kinda Goated
NL out here getting Shakespearean on our candy asses.
NL figuring out that biased cognition wins hallway fights before it ever goes negative, it's so joever for the spire
as someone who has reached a20 on all characters (except watcher), i love this series and hope it continues for a long time
21:40 my man cooking with the stove off
That line about Solomon Grundy was out of left field
Watching NL use the artefact potion on gaining 2 dex permanently instead of Biased Cognition which was in hand hurt me to my very soul
Potion is +5 dex. Could be considered a good play against time eater. Just burn him down to the heal with regular orbs and finished with no artifact biassed.
@@joosthartog1333 biased is +5 dex to frost orbs. basically it's 10 dex for glacier. so there really is no universe in which speed pot into an artifact is a play
@@quaoar3070 that is if you want to have frost orbs. I think in this situation either 1 would have probably worked. He only had 2 frost cards though, and he didnt have much card damage/scaling. Dont know if u watch baalorlord but 1 of the things ive picked up from him is for consistency u generally want orbs to do damage or block and your cards to do the vice versa of that. That way your draw is the most consistent. Imagine getting 2 frost cards turn 1, then having to evoke turn 2 cause your damage comes from orbs and not drawing frost turn 3. Biggest thing to keep in mind though is you dont actually lose 5 focus. You can still play the biased with downside and use it on your lightning orbs.
@@joosthartog1333 while in NL's case it essentially doesn't matter, in general, 1 focus is way more valuable than either 1 str or dex, because its benefit doesn't cost you any draw/energy. focus outscales str/dex way too fast(if you are not running some nonsense claw deck i guess).
to address your 3-turn hypothetical scenraio: if you see in your draw pile that there are no frost orbs coming and you are desperate for block, then just don't evoke them this turn. the damage you don't deal this way will be compensated in the future thanks to the 5 additional focus.
the only way i could see 5 dex over focus be reasonable is maybe when your block engine is hologram and force field
@@quaoar3070 way to fast means how many turns? Just on your glacier example it takes 3 turns for it to become better then the dex pot play. Since you still can play the biased without artifact. This is also the problem with your reasoning imo. Dex pot is a 1 turn thing you extend to forever, losing 1 focus per turn is not that bad however. Most fights shouldnt take this long. This is also whats wrong in your second remark. Not doing damage against a buffer like time eater is how u can actually lose the fight. Either 5 dex or 5 focus will out scale him long enough to win as long as you do damage. Biased is imo 1 of the top 5 cards in sts, the downside is minor till you get to the hearth. Theres not many enemies that wont die in 5 turns to a biased lightning deck. You are comparing 5 dex to 5 focus. But the comparison is 5 dex to 0/1/2/3/4/5 (turns) focus. As i said before u still get the 5 focus. Feels like a value/tempo discussion to me now.
You've gotten so much better at this.
The Tempest reference in the year of our Lord 2024?
28:23 My cardiologist with horrible bedside manner trying to deal with his own anxiety
Hey nl, if the game offers you no less than 8 consumes and 6 capacitors on a run, maybe consider grabbing consume at least once, it's a pretty good combo lol
2:34 Hitler deciding to end it all after Indy prevents him from attaining the Grail.
There's no such thing as a free lunch... unless...
Hey NL this is likely to be buried but heads up on apotheosis, if a card that reduces its cost when upgraded is upgraded in your hand with sneko eye which cost below what it normally would, it changes to the "upgraded" cost. This happened around 56:52 with creative AI. It went from 1 cost to 2. A weird and somewhat rare interaction but something to keep an eye on.
Edit: unless, and this is pretty weird, the card when drawn costs 0, it stays 0. See 1:00:49 where this interaction occurred
There's a specific card that's an exception to this.
My boy still out here disrespecting Loop by not even noticing it in the shop
aamazing run! snecko eyes rules and you played that so well! it was very fun to watch
4:54 LeBron after the 13/14 NBA season
bro watched a frost prime tutorial
this is the best revival series ever
the egg is cracked and he’s scrambling the spire holy
Yippie just in time for my lunch break :D
Hooooooly man
56:42 Crazy how upgrading Creative AI increased the energy cost of it, however at
1:00:37 Apotheosis didn’t increase the cost of Creative AI?
huh good catch, must be an oversight by the devs.
We're northernlion enjoyers, of course we get free lunch
I adore this next season of NL plays STS tho I will say your old videos are more entertaining than I initially gave them credit for lol I enjoy the thought process
I’m so pegged for slay the spire
Act 2 enemy. Big sphere. Puts up a lot of block:
Spheric Guardian
Brilliant ending. I saw it coming a mile away but didn't know if he'd do it
You hit that mega Tempest right when my Internet dropped, so I though it was so powerful it lagged my phone 😅
Skipping that consume feels like a mistake
By Klovis' hairy armpit, I think he's learned the scrolls.
I love watching you play slay the spire, thank you for another great episode
HELLO TO THE GAMERS
Hitting out of the park with these titles brother, keep up god's work (producing endless heat)
Congrats on the A19 win!
That second run was a HELL of a run, man! Very well played!
Unceasing top is what all my exes called me
Put it in the books. One of the great STS runs
37:05 Zeus after being asked to leave a birthday party
Cursed key in act 3 with the amount of draw you have seems like a no brainer. Great choice Ryab
cant wait for the 20 ascension run. good stuff baldy ily
My mind has officially been changed regarding snecko
i love when i finish the video i get to click on all the time-stamp andy’s
3:25 My Catholic friend when he tries to buy groceries after paying his indulgences
That was a crazy run. Tempest on Sneko eye + Ice cream rocks
Such growth compared to his past self.
i love slay the spire, thank you papa northern
If apoth is in lightning in a bottle, its the only card you should upgrade, because hence forth you never need to upgrade any other card since apoth does it for you
Unless you have a card that would cost too much mana to play together with Apoth, and that you would want to play on the first turn over Apoth.
Remember, you don't actually have to open the chests if you have cursed key.
Not taking golden idol? Not realising northernlion is a sigma til now
Sometimes when im on the verge of sleep and high, and hear NL say "for the time being" in a slightly different cadence and think "wait i thought the timelord was a different boss"