Rebecca Black

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Screenshot from Silksong: "Pain, Anguish and Misery / WISH GRANTED"

I love Silksong to death but also am surprised I haven't seen this screenshot being used more widely. I see you Team Cherry, I see you.

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I'm still processing it all but god damn there's a whole paper to be written about Silksong and HK as a meditation on parenthood and what it means to create life and the selfishness of imposing legacy on our children in ways that deny their personhood.

I'm turning 40 next spring and I think a good goal for the next decade of my life would be getting the any% ending of Hollow Knight: Silksong. (I was gonna say beating act I but let's dream big.)

Important update, I beat him before my next flight took off! My reward was the red boingies yaaayyyy ☺️💢

Chonky bone enemy from Hunter's March

If anyone sees a tiktok or something being like ha ha this loser on my flight just spent an hour and a half dying to this early game Silksong enemy, that was me, I'll own it. 😇🕷

It's been so many years of the word "silksong" being a constant meme that the actual semantics of the name never really sunk in before playing it. The role of music and sound in this game is absolutely S-tier. I'm utterly blown away.

Okay but why does Bilewater's music of all places slap so hard? 😂☠️

Ahh you are totally right, I was thinking that any% doesn't need tear but yeah that's with acid skips. My bad!

I know it's beside the point but I don't think that's true; you can pogo the durandoos to get in from greenpath.

And yeah I completely understand people's complaints about the punishing damage and general difficulty. I just people saying it's linear aren't doing enough exploring. 😅

Hmm can't you get there via greenpath? In any case yeah it may be fewer areas but to me the feeling of the exploration and backtracking is very similar.

The sound design of Silksong alone should win every award ever. (Yes every award, not just the one for sound design, that's how good it is.) 🔔🔔

It's definitely true that Hornet's quest is "get from point A to point B" (in act 1 anyway) while the knight's is "get from point A back to point A but after you've done a bunch of stuff" and I definitely take your point that that automatically gives the exploration a different vibe.

That's not really true in HK, if your goal is to get the dreamers and defeat THK you don't need to bother with exploring kingdom's edge or hive or howling cliffs or even waterways. There's a lot of HK's map that's just for exploration and leveling up. (Slightly less so for TE obviously.)

Hopefully you'll get that experience more in act 2, whatever it is (don't tell me!) 😊

(Okay only one of them actually had the ice thing but you get the idea)

Mmm yeah that's a really interesting point. But I'm so curious which biomes you did in what order before reaching the citadel because there really are so many areas that had that "wait where the hell are we, why are we taking ice damage, wtf is happening uhhh run away" sort of feeling. 😂

But... that's happened to me like five times lol, we keep stumbling into biomes and being like uhhhhh are we supposed to be here. 😅 I won't name then 'cause spoilers I guess but that's been a huge part of my experience so far.

Yeah I'm expecting it to open up even more after act 1 (I have literally no idea what act 2 is, no spoilers!) but how much backtracking did you do? If your only goal is to get to Citadel there's probably a pretty defined path to follow but if your goal is to explore the map there's so much to find.

Rosaries are mostly useful for benches and bell stations and maps, but if you're exploring all the crevices/breakable walls etc you'll get most of them from caches you find there; grinding enemies for resources hasn't felt necessary. (Paying for benches is bullshit though lol, sheesh 😅)

But basically everyone I've watched play Silksong has discovered things in vastly different orders. Silksong is bigger and more complex than HK but progression doesn't feel fundamentally different to me.

Yeah lol I saw people complaining in a steamer's chat literally Thursday at like 2pm that the map was too linear... guys it's been out for four hours. 😂 Backtracking is insanely fruitful.

I think contact damage should never hit for two and I agree about bench placement, but I don't understand the idea that it doesn't play like a metroidvania. Each movement ability opens up so many new things in old areas and overall the game feels even more movement and platforming based than HK.

Thank you for this story, it injected much-needed pure joy into my soul. Peri is literally the best I love it so much. 😭💕

I'm so happy and emotional and moved by the success of Mamdani's campaign, but definitely one of my biggest takeaways from this whole thing has been becoming a huge fan of Brad Lander.

NYT quote: "Republicans, including Mike Johnson and John Thune, rallied behind Trump, calling the strikes a necessary check on Iran's nuclear efforts. Some, including Mitch McConnell, criticized the strikes. Democrats condemned the attack as unconstitutional and warned that it could drag the US into a long war."

Fuck the @nytimes and all journalism that takes this passive "people are saying" approach to the truth. Democrats condemned the attack as unconstitutional BECAUSE IT IS. It's your job to say that. It's your job to contextualize and fact-check, not just quote both sides and shrug.

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Like I'm sorry but we already had functional search engines and journal archives and textbooks and free educational resources online about basically everything. Not to say education isn't gatekept in all sorts of ways but LLMs aren't some magic way around that.

I'm starting to see posts like "but if you use LLMs intelligently they can be a great tool in learning, it's making knowledge accessible, you just have to use it right!" and like okay but then sort of by definition you are not doing anything you couldn't do without the LLM.

One way in which capitalism and cisheteropatriarchy are intertwined is in the pressure to extract continuing profit via "next gen" spinoffs, incentivizing compulsory heterosexuality in media. As such, we can see mpreg as an important tool in disentangling the patriarchocapitalist complex. In this es