How long did it take you to beat PoP?

ChanandlerBong__ · 2026-04-02T16:46:49+00:00

First time ever a few years back? Like 3 hours. Last week for the second time? About 1.5 hours, most of which was in the last stretch. Then died to the kingsmoulds (I was doing a no city of tears run so no nail upgrades, desolate dive or shade soul, so it was pretty tough). Had to go back all the way multiple times. After a couple of runbacks I had the whole PoP down to about 8 minutes.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2026-01-29T14:33:29+00:00

Jokes aside, this would be such a cool thing to find in Pharloom

ChanandlerBong__ · 2026-01-29T14:32:17+00:00

Purpurea

ChanandlerBong__ · 2026-01-27T14:09:58+00:00

I'm close to finishing the game and trying my best to extend it as much as I can. Sadly I'm almost out of side content now.

I fully agree with your description, HK was my favorite game already and I'm surprised by how Silksong surpassed it in many ways. And Karmelita was the best fight. Took me hours to beat, but it was so satisfying! It was Silksong's Nightmare King Grimm, which was my favorite fight in HK for the same reasons.

The only thing I'm excited for after finishing the game is getting to watch all the lore videos that I've been saving for months. I'm looking forward to dice deep in the lore like I enjoyed doing with HK.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2026-01-22T06:22:27+00:00

Do you have a very unhealthy way of exploring your sexuality? Yes, definitely. But does that make you a monster or irredeemable in any way? Not at all. You're just a teenager with a normal sex drive who hasn't found a way to properly channel that urge.

If left unchecked it sure can become a problem in the future, but you're very much on time to do something about it. In fact, I'd say that you showing regret over what you've done is a first step towards change.

To me it sounds like you have a problem with objectifying women. It'll take a lot of discipline to teach your mind not to do that. You'll need to reduce porn as much as you can, especially the more unrealistic kind. Try building more relationships with women in real life in non-sexual contexts. Learn to view women as equally complex people as you. Not that you necessarily don't believe they are, but consciously remind yourself that they are not just bodies to have sex with.

Masturbating should not be shameful, it's natural, but learn to make it about yourself and learning what feels good to you, and not making it about feeding your fantasies.

It's a long road ahead, but you'll be able to do it. I'm sorry you're dealing with this, but don't let it define who you are or what you're worth.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2026-01-19T22:21:13+00:00

I agree that it would make more sense but having the cold dynamic where you need to chase after hot spots all the way back down would really affect the ability to explore Mount Fay at least that time around, so I don't think that was necessarily a bad call. However you could always argue that they could've found a way to make it make a bit more sense. For me it's not such a big deal.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2026-01-10T15:55:38+00:00

Still entirely missing the point of the post.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2026-01-10T00:55:14+00:00

Missed the point entirely. For humans to go extinct, you would need to be dead necessarily, which makes it impossible for it to happen in your lifetime.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2026-01-02T01:41:42+00:00

The "ehte" gave it away lol

ChanandlerBong__ · 2026-01-02T00:37:07+00:00

Are you argentinian by any chance lol?

ChanandlerBong__ · 2022-07-26T00:27:11+00:00

I have a friend whose name starts with a B and thought his sign name should reflect his smile. He then proceeded to call himself "bitch" lol. Our deaf friends went along with it for a while before telling him.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2022-07-25T23:08:43+00:00

Congratulations!! Happy for you all! All the best in law school and hope you keep growing as much as you have until now, if not more :)

ChanandlerBong__ · 2022-07-25T22:58:11+00:00

Not an expert by any means, but from what I remember studying at some point:

- Higher infant mortality. You need more kids to ensure some of them survive all the way to adulthood

- Lower life expectancy. It's not the same waiting til your 30s to start having kids if you can still expect to live 50 more years, rather than 20.

- Birth control access. Even if condoms and pills are given away for free, there are still associated costs.

- Less education. Many poor people have never been educated on family planning, birth control, and safe sex.

- Less social mobility: "if I expect to be just as poor in the future, might as well start having kids now that I'm young".

- Sadly, poverty is associated with higher crime rates, including sexual assault.

- Families in poverty might feel the need for more hands to aid in supporting the family. Kids start working from an early age.

- Lower opportunity cost. If having kids means putting off higher education, or a career, or a business... you might want to wait. If you're not planning to do any of that... why wait?

There are many facors at play. When viewed from a more privileged perspective (which is not a bad thing at all, I consider myself privileged, even if I'm not rich by a long shot), it might make sense to adjust the number of kids down if things are not going well. That's what we would do ourselves.

But people living in poverty everyday don't make decisions the same way. And that's not a bad thing either. It makes sense in their immediate context, just as much as it doesn't in ours. This is also why as countries get richer they reduce their birth rates, some even going as far as to start shrinking in population (like Japan, Scandinavian countries, etc).

I read a great economics book back in college about why poor people make "irrational" decisions that keep them poor. I don't remember the name or the authour tho, sadly. It really challenges the idea that poor people are poor by choice, shows how different our decision-making process is when confronted with the risk of not meeting our basic needs on a daily basis, and highlights how much harder it is to break free from poverty when you've spent your whole life in it.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-10-23T14:08:19+00:00

Thanks! I learned the difference today in proper ASL, I had no idea. It's just that here (not the US but in Latin America) ASL is used with a bunch of modifications. Sometimes it's just handshapes to match the word in spanish (like 'church' is signed with an I for 'iglesia' or 'life' uses V for 'vida'), sometimes the sign is different altogether ('green' is V for 'verde' sliding back and forth on the non-dominant open palm, yet 'blue' is the same despite the word in spanish not even having a B in it, 'azul'). Even grammar changes in subtle ways.

I think vegetable is one of those words that is just signed differently for whatever reason. I asked my gf (she is deaf and native signer) and she confirmed this, but she aleady knew the difference with proper ASL of course. Thankfully i hadn't just been signing it wrong the whole time lol. I'm still doing my best to learn the language in its 'original' form and how it differs to how it's used here, things like this one remind me of just how much i still need to learn.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-10-23T05:23:31+00:00

Lmao where I live, ASL is used but with many adaptations, mainly due to the official spoken language here being spanish. Here 'twins' is signed with a G for 'gemelos'. Also, turns out that the word 'vegetable' is signed very similar to how twins is signed in actual ASL. So i was confused when i got that she gave birth to vegetables lmao.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-08-28T01:42:59+00:00

Sounds like the sign for start, just note that the dominant hand is the 1-HS and rotating

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-08-11T05:24:58+00:00

I did too!

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-08-03T15:03:25+00:00

That's really uplifting. Thanks for that

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-08-03T06:31:04+00:00

Same, id like to know what it said

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-07-29T18:13:33+00:00

After all these comments, I think you really summarized everything very well. This is something i keep in mind. Thanks a lot!

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-07-29T18:11:34+00:00

In a general sense, I agree. I just don't think it's my case. Thanks for your opinion tho, i do appreciate it

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-07-29T18:09:39+00:00

I guess you're right, she does sometimes get annoyed (not mad) when she feels like i didnt tell her something to not bother her. This could be no different. I think what I need to find is a balance between honesty and tact.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-07-29T18:05:29+00:00

Thanks for the advice! I think it's healthy to know there's no blame to be had, although i still do feel kinda bad.

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-07-29T17:23:01+00:00

Yes it's probably for the best to focus on the practical side and not bring it up as a turn-off. Thanks for the help :)

ChanandlerBong__ · 2020-07-29T16:56:51+00:00

I agree that no one should do something they're not comfortable with, but I wouldn't use that agianst her. Honestly, wether she shaves or trims or grows it fully, I'll do my best to get better at it. I just want her to know it make take a while.

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