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Hollow Knight

  • Silksong: The Cost of Faith

    I will always advocate in the name of honesty, no matter how painful the truth may be. The truth shall set you free I’ve often discussed that my approach to the everyday, at least, in my estimations of what it takes for one to be successful at surviving, depart drastically from common wisdom. I am… Read more

  • Silksong: Color Me With Expectation

    I usually advocate for Occam’s Razor, in shaving away all of the excess of complicated theories and leaving the simplest explanation left as the correct deduction. Always trust in the simplest reasoning As I detailed in my last post, I was finally able to reach the first “not true” ending of Silksong, after weeks of… Read more

  • Silksong: Nothing Beyond The Rainbow

    One person’s ending is another person’s beginning, true both in the fight of the every day, and the absurdity of what constitutes the reality of virtual battlefields. What I imagine most Silksong bosses eat for breakfast every morning And…credit roll… Fully aware I still have yet another full act of content to see before the… Read more

  • Silksong: The Homunculus of Hobbyism Theory

    I think that the quote: “Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar eats you” definitely applies to Silksong in radically wonderful degrees of resounding relatability How I imagine a lot of self-performed pep talks go with Silksong players about to give the boss who just killed them for the twentieth time just one… Read more

  • Silksong: Lauding A Leading Lady Fathomed Fervently From Fantastical Faithfuls

    It pays to know what ones specialty is, as trying to overextend yourself in an attempt to be everything all at once on account of appealing to everyone can come off as being an uninspired, belligerent mess. Something tells me Combo Man wouldn’t be considered for a Fortnite cameo…which is ridiculous, cause they’ll take fucking… Read more

  • Silksong: Do Good Games Take A Longer Time To Develop? Or Do Longer Development Times Produce Good Games?

    Self care is important, and looks like a lot of things to a lot of different people. Whatever it looks like to you, just make sure you keep doing it in times of need With that said, this is going to be a short one today I think, as the mood is quite drab, and… Read more

  • Words of Wisdom: Idealizing Idleness

    Sometimes, you’ve got to slow down, consider your options, and know when to let go. Some realizations are more painful than others Which is why the words of Wisdom for today are idealizing idleness, which might come as a shock to some of you, if you’re at all familiar with some of my own notions… Read more

  • Silksong: Marxist Alienation Inherent In Game Design

    You know it’s a “bad new bears” kind of vibe when people are actively routing for the collapse of the everyday, out of feelings of being totally over it. While there is something to be said about patience being a virtue, another notion in my mind springs forth, and that is “be the change you… Read more

  • Silksong: Clambering For The Climax That Never Comes

    We live in hypocrisy, and are often the makers of our own doom. I’m reminded of this sentiment these days, usually when I’m reading about others who lament the difficulty level in Silksong, as if they are tragically unfamiliar with the very nature of difficulty involving video game design since time immemorial. A lot of… Read more

  • Silksong: In The Land Of The Thoughtless, The Thinkers Rule As Kings

    As I always say: in a recession of shits to give, know how to budget accordingly. If time is money, then proper shit allocation is generational wealth. Yesterday’s post was a bit of an oddball attempt of mine at providing some wisdom in the realm of the strategically practical, with some D.I.Y tips on how… Read more

  • Silksong: Mastering Metaphysical Mahyem

    Life is hectic, and it’s easy to get caught up in the moment. That look you get when the boss goes into a surprise phase you weren’t expecting My time with Silksong has provided a lot of engaging sessions, and as many good write-ups to boot, with a surprising number of concepts that have sprung… Read more

  • Silksong: Socially Sustaining Such Scandalously Seductive Schadenfreude Sensibilities

    My heart goes out to all of the game developers who put in more hard work than the gaming masses will ever realize, all in the service of making something just for their enjoyment. How I imagine a lot of game developers feel right after launching a game with the crowded masses of fans doing… Read more

  • Silksong: Temple of Dooming Itself Into A New Context

    After being alerted to a theoretical reality of how horses function, I think my advice to Silksong players having trouble would be to start horsing around. Do as the horses do I think it’s fitting that while I write this article, I struggle a bit with mood and energy levels, which is generating a melancholy… Read more

  • Words of Wisdom: Doubting Your Doubts

    When in doubt…continue to doubt. No doubt Which is why today’s words of wisdom are doubting your doubts, a simple but radically useful movement within the realm of critical thinking, and the process of becoming. While it’s tempting to dismiss the kind of stereotypical sounding phrasing often associated with pointlessly esoteric sounding wisdom of sorts… Read more

  • Silksong: If Everything is Made Easy, Does Anything Remain Hard?

    Not all will summit Everest. I expounded upon the notion yesterday that many players are destined to bounce off of Silksong, if not before their arrival at the front steps of The Citadel, certainly in attempting to pass the gatekeeper known as “The Last Judge”, who acts as an all important skill check punctuating the… Read more

  • Silksong: The Gatekeeping Contingency

    Yesterday’s post dealt with the reality of game design, and the metaphysical idea of how some games do not necessarily predicate themselves on the notion of fun first and foremost. This might seem positively outlandish to some, or maybe even downright impossible to others, with the idea of video games firmly planted in their head… Read more

  • Silksong: It’s Practice Makes Perfect, Not Fun Makes Perfect

    Sometimes, I address harder truths that make people uncomfortable. Others, involving the observations of these same hard truths, just think I’m either telling some kind of queer, long winded joke, or am just straight up full of shit. The reaction I expect out of the majority of you who quit before articles end rolling their… Read more

  • Silksong: Honing in on Homing In

    I think people beat themselves up entirely too much, maybe possessing absurdist expectations that help totally butcher their mood in the process. Expectations cannot be subverted if one doesn’t have any to begin with I basically didn’t leave enough time for myself today to play around with ideas, thusly this post is probably going to… Read more

  • Silksong: Democratizing Difficulty

    No one likes a tryhard. This notion pushes some even deeper into the realm of absurdity, as they then double down, and try harder to become the “tryhardiest”…a self-damning effort, if I’ve ever witnessed one I mentioned briefly in my last Silksong article, in what I would consider me half joking about putting out too… Read more

  • Silksong: Nothing Gold Can Stay

    The Charles Bukowski quote: “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” seems truer and truer every single day that passes. The saddest of ironies I’ve made the habit of trying to get multiple articles out of any one game I’m… Read more

  • Silksong: The Grace of Skill and the Virtue of Patience

    Some games like to act as little moments of escapism, to grant us some downtime amidst the chaos of reality. Others still just channel the struggles of the everyday into a super condensed format My journey to the Citadel continues, as I join so many others in their arduous pilgrimage through Silksong, every new death… Read more

  • Silksong: Signature Beats

    Often time, nerds will seek the cures for what plagues them in the completely wrong places, and with morbidly inaccurate assessments of what kind of panacea they represent. Both games and memes similarly filling the void of genuine need and concern of addressing intense mental health issues, but a great new game launch is basically… Read more

  • Silksong: Out of Tune with the Choir of Praise

    In spite of my hunger for playing games, I find it far too easy to glaze over the good ones from time to time. Definitely me, but with games. Also: people. I had a notion people were really down with Hollow Knight, but it wasn’t until I had read reports that the follow up (Silksong)… Read more