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I love these videos where you talk with other people! They give great insight into what y'all are thinking and how you make decisions! I loved the vibe of the video where you sat down with him and Terrance and went over your streaks, it was like old spire veterans sitting round the fire and retelling their adventures.

I came to a realization that very few people in the entire world can have a conversation like this. You are both such masters of what you do while being incredibly humble and thoughtful

Was gonna put this as background noise while playing, but probably 30 minutes into it I found myself just minimizing everything on other monitor and watching this at 100% attention. Very fun and informative. Great content creators

Baalor: "I don't think anybody makes it through an A20 run without making a mistake somewhere" Very true, for example yesterday I forgot that I was using Loop+Frost to block after 30 turns against Awakened One, and put a dark orb in front.

I cannot begin to calculate how many hours I have spent watching both of you on RU-vid...

I would like to see a collabo run series where they talk through their decisions and bounce ideas off each other. Like what sneakyteak and rhapsody did.

"You learn more when you lose than when you win".... I must be learning a lot !

It's so beautiful how you're both masters at the game, but Jorbs had so many runic pyramid wins and Baalorlord had so many with snecko

One of my first thoughts when Baalor matched 17-0 was "I hope this means we'll get another streak retrospective collab" Very pleasant surprise this morning, I know I'll be chewing through this discussion for a while. Congrats on the streaks!

3:00:00 As someone who admittedly perpetuates the negativity of pitting streamers against each other in my head, I really respect Jorbs for showing a lot of vulnerability surrounding that topic. And I appreciate him adding a heaping ton of nuance to my attitude towards how others play strategy games, or even how they run their streams.

What a lovely conversation! I would definitely watch more collab content with Jorbs and Baalor.

So I need to trim my hair short and wear glasses to be a pro STS player, gotcha

I just got so incredibly happy seeing this pop up on my feed, time to get cozy and vibe to good conversation about one of my favourite games.

Good to see my 2 favorite StS streamers comparing notes! Just shy of 2k hours into StS myself and I found myself nodding along to your thoughts on strategies.

That 47 damage jaw worm run taught me to never abandon a run.

Absolutely enjoyed every minute of this conversation, the amount of insight one can get from listening to people have a conversation about a topic they are passionate about is something i really love experiencing. Now it is definitely time to go and get some chocolate cause i died to jaw worm twice while watching this and i deserve it.

This is really cool can we have more stuff like this After listening to the full 3 hours I think it's really beautiful how it came full circle to the jaw worm fight. I too will be using this as a metaphor for life.

Finally my two favorite sts youtubers are collabing

Your Chess analogy is spot on. I will find some tactics in game, but when you don't know it's there, it's hard to sack your queen in some odd way because it enables a forced mate.

"It's not the size of the deck that matters, it's how you use it" Baarlorlord maybe

Amazing watch. Kinda sad Jorbs doesn't mention his lengthy discussion with that other StS player (sorry can't remember the name) about Watcher. Jorbs argued very much against forcing Watcher infinites, then slowly turned to forcing infinites after that, after trying it. Before that, Flurry was probably his most important common, I feel like. I very much appreciate the ability to change the style based on evidence though.

these guys are insane! i only have 225 hrs on StS and my A20 win rate is like 0.0001% so hoping to improve! interesting to imagine being a professional StS player (i know they do variety sometimes)

This was a great video idea, I'd love to see more like it (also been enjoying the "brand new account videos")! As a pretty new player who just hit A3, it's not only super informative, but it was also reassuring to hear that you each have different strategies and playstyles that can get winstreaks on A20. I've been struggling with that, "Should I play to my strengths and experiment, or just try to learn what's optimal?" This video helped me realize that it's going to be way more fun and rewarding to try to figure some things out for myself, nobody knows exactly what's optimal in every situation anyway, and I can still save time by learning from streamers. For instance, taking Snecko Eye when I already have Runic Pyramid... I can skip that experiment. Also it was interesting to hear that you switched from dying at Heart to dying at earlier acts, because that was my experience too, even on lower ascension. Once I switched my playstyle on Watcher, I wasn't getting to Heart anymore, but when I finally did, I beat it easily. And since then I've started to see why people say Watcher is super strong. Thanks for everything Jorbs, I can see myself playing a lot of this game, and I'm sure I'll be watching a lot of your videos in the meantime!

Got whiplash hearing CRIMSON BLUR in this video and not a melee video!

This is awesome Jorbs! Love seeing you two review your runs and compare what you’ve come back with. Big fan of you and Baalor both so this was really cool to watch!

Great video. This isn’t so much a comment re: the video as it is a shout into the void, but I hope one day that we might be able to see how much damage we deal with a card on a respective run like we can see stats with relics

I'm not even 10 minutes into this yet (so I'll probably add onto my own comment as I go), and Jorbs brings up streaming fortitude basically and discusses ableism, and I love how thoughtful you guys are just straight out the gate, about having a healthy relationship with fun

Sometimes you gotta take 4 damage to jaw worm is 100% gonna help me through some tough decisions in the future

Watching this channel has definitely helped me; I had lost 24 rounds on ascension 3 before I decided to actively learn ironclad and now Ive finished ascension 3, 4, and 5 back to back! enjoying playing on ps remote to handheld while I walk on treadmill!

I always like the jorbs discussion videos they are some of my favorite non-shovel content

1000s hours into the game, and learned so much from this video. Thank you

YES. I needed this, thank you guys.

A wonderful way to spend an afternoon. Thanks for all the great insight. So awesome to see you and Baalor bounce things off each other and riff! Two masters at work.

"How much worse is it to take 47 vs taking 4" approximately 12 times worse

Collab where one player picks the cards and another plays the combat.

Aww yeah baby the Lord and the Jorbs coming together

This was great to see. There should be like a monthly get together for the spire streamers.

Man so excited to watch all of this! Can never catch the streams due to conflicting schedules (damn you work!) But love hearing thought processes that you have and you bouncing that off of other who are just as skilled as you are is a very interesting take and good content. Would love to see more content like this with other streamers (my homeboy tricky has a crazy outlook on the game compared to you, and he just recently started streaming compared to just RU-vid content creation, would love to see how his outlook compares to yours)

What a video. MORE please. Understanding expert card synergy use is fundamental. I'm stuck at ascension 7 ironclad. Only really get to the end with impervious, exhumes, barricade and intangibles

Have you ever/are you thinking of doing a coop run where you play a run together ? Might be time expensive

Great stuff by two awesome dudes!

My two favorite streamers, love this!

I would love to see you two play some A20 runs together live!

After listening to them talking I think I learned so much. I am a good player now! *takes 43 from Jaw worm imediatly*

Love “loss conditions” on watcher

i cannot believe my eyes, two legends at the same time on my screen!

The discussion about playing with the end game in mind more than the early game is interesting. I've played a handful of Poker Quest (I think jorbs has also played some) and some advice that I felt was "common knowledge" on their discord server when asking how to get better was "take worthwhile risks early for good payoff, because if they don't work out, starting over is quicker & less of a walk back than from the later stages of the game." I don't think the exact same sentiment is being portrayed here, but I think there's some connection // similarity in idea?

I think it's their personal relationship with the Whale that makes all the difference.

Always love these! Thanks both!

Very informative and wholesome! Love both your youtube vids, but found this lovely

Thank you for the absurdly long video!

This is … the best.

I just got rewarded with a blue candle for one of my 3 relics from taking Calling Bell 👍 I figured this would be appreciated here lol

Now thats some top tier collab!

Great Discussion

What!!! This is so amazing to see.

Woah. Chocolate and peanut butter back together again.

this was so good, loved all the chat

an INTP Baalor crossover with an INTJ Jorb, powerful duo here

"you're asking me to do that day in and day out every day of my life for like 6 hours" wow that's rough, it almost sounds like a job :(

This video is over a year old but i just found it and I NEED to know if the Crimson Blur that Jorbs mentions wins 10 in a row early on the video is the same Crimson Blur from the Smash Bros Melee Community

I'd be extremely interested in a combined run, where you have to both agree on choices before picking a path, a card or a relic

Thanks!

Would you be interested in reviewing some of your older runs and all the differences from current playstyle? Might be interesting

I think I could listen to conversation forever.

Well, at least its a winstreak for Gremlin leader

BEST VIDEO YAYAYA

1:30:00 I'm currently running establishment with sand of time and wallop 😂 its fun anyway and I beat second act so far.... ofc, I obvi have meditate+

I thought these people where the same person all this time

Two very intelligent, experienced, entertaining, humble, and pragmatic people talking about one of the best games ever for 3 hours? Dream come true.

Can we get some timestamps?

You are Awesome Jorbs👍🏼👍🏼

Couldn't you have made this 37s shorter?

I thought you guys were the same person for some reason

@39:40 fuck wild strike, all my homies hate wild strike