#playing mastermode for the first time

[fireplceashes]

there's nothing better than playing breath of the wild to make yourself feel better

[zathechaosgod]

Philza Stream highlights

Stremed on: november 14, 2022

BOTW mastermode stream! Part 1, of a series that will continue until phil finishes the game or isn’t having fun with it anymore.

Actual bulleted list of fun moments is below the read more!

(also warning for botw spoilers, obviously)

first dono of the stream: apparently the last time there were no people in space was halloween in 2000

phil got the controller to work, and the heart beat sensor working

kangaroos cant fart

donos are feeling Educational today

"should be fun, should be hell!" phil isn't sure which one it's gonna be, but we gonna be vibing

this man has played through the game like. twice. and is now gonna go do master mode.

this might end up another endless series until he completes it

this is your reminder that new philza merch dropped on ph1lzamerch.com!! its gonna be gone december 1st, so get it while you can!

the game double checks you actually, really, are you absolutely sure, want to play mastermode

this is your reminder that phil does have the dlc group selfie in a massive framed print in the bg of his room

"link isn't british, i dont think"

"link, pick this iphone 17, its the size of a tablet, idk why they kept making it bigger"

phil knows how to whistle run, thank god

also side note: botw is still the prettiest freaking game oml

back on track: imagine link just mooning all of hyrule in the opening sequence, just turning around and pulling his pants down

phil is very good at imitating the old man. surely not an indication of anything

phil died to the first enemy he came across :thumbsup:

got halfway to killing him the second time, threw him over a staircase, and decided to just continue onwards- nvm i lied he walked back

dono: watch out for the open spaces on the great plateau

phil, 5 seconds later, spotting the white lynel in the next field over:

i'd suggest a death counter but it'd be too bothersome. every single mob phil comes across kills him at least once

look on the bright side! your whistlerun might alert every single enemy in the area, but at least you can farm arrows while doing so!

bows are OP in this wut

"so... the play is headshots"

"the beast. her name's pauline"

phil putting his button mashing skills to good use (more than two lines of dialogue)

to a dono who mistook an uruhara cosplayer for a philza: "theres a clear difference! im a yassified uruhara!"

phil would like to throw up at the nintendo switch shirt

"ancient and decrepit" sabe the chatter: "just like you!"

old man on old man violence! phil wants to murder the old man

skeleton boy is politely waiting for phil to activate the shrine <3

he scammed the last surviving bokoblin living in one of those skulls. killed all of his friends and robbed his house

he also keeps dying to a bokoblin camp but he Needs to know what's in the chest

prehistoric people be like: "oh there's people down there and they have food i want."

the botw experience: whistlerunning through the entire snowwy area so he can get to the shrine (and pick up a dlc crate on the way)

stardew valley is like crack cocaine to phil and kristen. they'd play it from morning till well into the afternoon on any day he wasn't streaming, and spend the rest of their time thinking about doing things in stardew

kristin brought him marshmellows and he caught one with his mouth

also he forgor how many ice blocks he can make and drowned himself bc of it

phil has also lost track of what he's supposed to do

and forgor he can fasttravel

then fasttravelled and remembered the shrine is high up a ledge and a lynel is between him and there

hype music time for the lynel fight (aka phil dies over and over again until he's out of weapons)

phil has given up on the lynel bc his weapons wont last long enough

we're going for the final shrine so we can get the glider and just Dip

climbing the cliffside: nearly as difficult as the lynel /hj

turns out there is, in fact, an easier spot to climb up

phil is 100% going to the lovejoy newcastle gig if wilbur lets him in

imagine if the big rock balls were bouncy

finished the plateau shrines!

 gotta go back to the church first to get the glider L

chat is taunting about a shiny boy he’s gonna run into eventually

“the blue trails are ghost farts”

“he didn’t need to do this” about the old man pretending to be an old man and then having a magical girl transformation into the king

Urbosa best girl, real and true

paraglider time!! off the great plateau <3

“oh nooo the rock dudes- oh wait i have a hammer”

pov you catch a shrine solely bc you were bombing the bokoblins you were running away from

philza chatters, united in the ingrained need to name things “dave”

second tower complete! “~here comes the radiation! he doesn’t know his skeleton shows for a second or two! dududu slightly more poisoned~”

beedle!!! phil is dripping for him (with sweat!!!)

if the shirt sells for less than 100, he’s keeping it for stupid pictures

it sells for FIFTEEN?

duolingo haunts phil even on stream

[excited gasp] “oh chat, there’s a big woman around here isn’t there”

dono: big woman is rapidly approaching your location. do not run.

got the maracas, it was a pain, phil is probably not gonna do the dlc stuff in mastermode

impa!! the old woman we dont really care about

pov you attempt to murder the old woman with a sledgehammer bc you were smashing through the dialogue

phil will not wear clothes unless its too cold to go without

BIG LADY TIME  aka fairy fountain

do we have fairy fountain mumza with link!phil art yet

pov phil went to the bathroom and now his heartrate is over 150 (because the dude got tickled. i think.)

JUST JUMPING JACKS lmaoooo

ph1lChef new emote!!

RED MOON WHILE PHIL IS DOING THAT BLUE FLAME QUEST NICE TIMING

honestly most of this stream is just zelda and vibes

also tubbo is here to vibe for a bit in chat

lynel round two! the lynel is regenning his health faster than phil can hurt him!

we move on again (phil saved beforehand and reloaded to not waste all the weapons lmao)

“pot lid you’re gonna get me through this. rest in peace pot lid.”

pov potfriend is, in fact, a pot

hinox murder time! it’s most phil doing the murder, this time

phil is so good at the game -> gets slammed in the chest and off of a cliff by a goat

collective simping moment for sidon, who did the thing! “positively kicking my feet”

boy needs a lot of strength in his thighs to make those jumps

4k, bonk.

phil is on a flying platform with one of the lizard guys and he’s just. straight up not seeing phil

phil wanting to know what’s in the chest vs the electric beams oneshotting him

moooooom, phil is bullying the wizard boy by repeatedly bashing him with a floating box again

the moment sidon appears on screen you can literally time stream delay by waiting for the flushed emotes to come in

anyway we’ve reached the water city!! i’ve forgotten the name

one last shrine in the city and then it’s end of stream time

phil is Hungry and wants noodles. which, mood.

he is also thinking Way too hard again, went through a (w)hole lot of trouble for the Wrong ball

big elephant!!!! a friend (phil will die next stream)

phil likes the music, characters, and the fact the power you get from this one is essentially a totem :D

[jessicasmithcreates]

So picture the scene: I have been waiting for a year to see Avengers Endgame. In some ways I’d been waiting for this movie since I first saw Iron Man in 2008. The whole year I was trying not to speculate and guess what was going to happen. I’ve tried to not watch trailers, since I was going to see it no matter what. I caught a couple pictures, by accident, but other than the white team up suits I didn’t see much. I wait until the weekend post premiere to see it and manage to avoid spoilers on the internet.

I’m in the theater, one of my small local theaters which has thin walls, but my movie is going to be the loudest anyway. There’s a pretty good crowd, but there’s only about 4 people in my row 3/4 of the way to the back.

I am shocked by the time jump, but liked the plot device. I enjoy the Bruce Hulk combo, and Scott’s time travel banter. I like Morgan. I can see why Clint has changed. I cry over Black Widow. And then they create the gauntlet. The Iron Man/Hulk/Nano gauntlet to take the strength of the infinity stones to make another snap. It’s a great team up of all the sciencey people of Marvel!

And then the “twist.” Thanos comes back to the future from the future past, and wants the stones, so he blows up the Avenger’s HQ. And suddenly, the person who has possession of the gauntlet is the least powered person on the team. Clint Barton.

In the MCU, he’s survived on wits, on archery skills, and on hand to hand combat. But he doesn’t have a super suit that flies or shrinks. He doesn’t have sorcery or superpowers. He’s just a guy. A guy with skills, but just a guy.

That was the image that stuck with me when I left the theater. Sure, I cheered over the “We’ve got this” moment, I cried over Tony, I was heartened by the win, and was pleased by the dance. But a guy playing keep-away with a seemingly unbeatable alien. That’s what stuck.

So when I realized I could go to DragonCon in August, I decided to make a Hawkeye/Ronin costume and carry around a gauntlet to recreate that moment. It’s maybe two minutes of the story, and probably only 30 seconds of screen time total. But that’s what DragonCon is for! Recreating beloved moments, and someone will get it.

Even before making the costume, I knew I needed to make the gauntlet, and I knew that would take the longest time, mostly for drying and waiting and mistakes.

Foam was new to me. I found my local Harbor Freight and bought the two different types of floor mats they had, and used both for the costume, but only the thinner rolled one for the gauntlet.

I found this awesome 3D Pepakura model for the gauntlet from MasterMod, and printed off a cardstock copy so I could test out the size and how it fit together. Cutting those pieces nearly broke me, and I hadn’t even gotten to the foam yet.

Deciding to size up a bit, I printed out a new copy, and set to work cutting the foam. I was using a couple of fresh X-acto blade, and was still having trouble, so next time I’ll follow suggestions to use a scalpel.

I would cut out some pieces, and glue some pieces, and cut some pieces and glue some pieces. At the time I was living in a townhouse where I only had one room for both living and crafting, so I didn’t have the space to cut and arrange all the pieces at once.

Contact glue was my weapon of choice for assembly, and boy is it smelly and sticky like mis-made caramel sauce. The stick, not the smell. Something I didn’t consider until it was too late was that the edges of the foam should probably have a specific angle in order to fit together properly. Oops!

Also, don’t let the can of contact glue fall over and spill into the bottom of a bookcase. I got lucky, and the carpet underneath the case wasn’t affected, but it could’ve been disastrous. And eternally smelly.

Cut and glue and cut and glue and cut and glue.

Okay, so then it was assembled and I needed to get a move on, as DragonCon was coming up quick.

Plastidip and North Carolina humidity in August doesn’t work well together.

Average spray paint is actually worse.

Masking off tacky spray paint and mildly tacky Plastidip is less than ideal.

So I grunged it up with some black and brown acrylics.

The jewels. Those were a treat. I found them in a grab bag of rhinestone jewels at Michael’s. I spent about 20 minutes sitting on the floor of the young craft kit section one night after a work shift making sure that I had the correct colors and shapes if I was going to spend 15 dollars after a coupon on a bag of jewels I might never use afterward. Massaging a bag of craft jewels 15 minutes before closing is… not a pretty look.

I think I used contact cement to attach them, then used some kind of puffy paint (craft supply hoarding for the win!) to really cement them in.

For the inside, I decided to keep my super glue, and my wallet inside the glove, which would mean that I needed a pocket inside.

I found some scraps from the Merida skirt, made a zippered pouch, then glued in the pouch and some lining to black out the inside of the glove.

And that rounded out my Nano Gauntlet! It now graces my curio cabinet in a tribute to Ironman.

It’s time to talk about the gauntlet. So picture the scene: I have been waiting for a year to see Avengers Endgame. In some ways I'd been waiting for this movie since I first saw Iron Man in 2008.

[cmyknoise]

Like specifically that game or the whole franchise? If the first, what part was the hardest for you to beat? If the second, what's your favorite version of the Link and Zelda dynamic?

whole franchise! tho i'll answer both questions.

i'm more familiar with the 3D releases and the four swords mangas than the 2D games.

i think the hardest thing for me ever was phantom hourglass but that's only because I was 10 when I played it, it was my first game from the series and a huge part of that game is the temple of the ocean king or whatever is timed, like every single time you go in there it's timed. It's also the only game I never beat due to various other circumstances.

though recently the hardest things for me have been the silent realms from skyward sword, and maybe master mode botw (im dogshit at the fury rushes which are so vital in mastermode)

oo... that's tough? three come to mind though.

i like the childhood best friends dynamic from skyward sword. i think it's really sweet, and some of the references in game are cute. like link would carve wood into figurines and zelda's room has several of them.

i like the reluctant allies to friends dynamic of tetra and link from wind waker. i just think the tetra version of zelda is really cool. she's a badass pirate and her sarcasm/attitude is amazing. and link is silly goofy and just a sweet kid.

the third is i guess not technically link and zelda but i'm counting it anyway. i really like ravio and hilda. for the brief moments we saw them together they looked like they cared a lot about each other and their people. ravio disobeyed hilda to try and find a solution bc he cared so much. he's not a brave character but it's so obvious he's courageous even though the triforce doesn't exist for them. same for hilda. her plan was dark but incredibly wise and them together was superb.

basically i like when they're really really good friends. i've never cared for any romantic implications between zelda and link because i think they work so so so much better as friends. plus link's other love interests in games end up a lot more interesting than 'hero gets the princess' dynamic. i think they're really good friends.