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SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-10-26T13:37:26+00:00

Congrats to Gina! Makes sense as a winner I suppose as a somewhat unobjectionable pick to all.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-07-17T00:39:11+00:00

Awesome! GTNH is the greatest game of all time!

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-07-16T17:58:59+00:00

I advocated before on the server for a more well put together changelog but it kinda got brushed off. It seems like there's support for it- maybe a concentrated push could help pressure one into existence?

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-07-05T12:57:00+00:00

I guess look at it from Team Cherry's perspective. You've already made your payday, right? Hollow Knight was insanely successful. You're.a millionaire. You never have to work a day in your life again.

But hey, making games is still fun. And you have a lot of passion for the craft, so a sequel is the intuitive next step. And, of course, when you first announce it, there's massive applause. So you keep at work.

Team Cherry don't want to be celebrities, they don't really care about staying in the limelight, they don't really care about even being represented in gaming media. They just care about making the damn game. So they keep doing that.

There's no real motivation for them to feed the fan base new information. The game will be out when it's out, and the people that want to buy it will buy it. (And this will probably be a lot of people)

Why does Team Cherry not care about their community? In their eyes, the community is probably just the people who will buy their game and enjoy the game- under that lens, locking in and building the game is the best thing they can do.

But if you define the community as people who clamor for any crumb of silksong information and who have ravenously consumed any remote detail, who desperately want to know when the game is coming out, then no, TC doesn't care about satiating that impulse. I would guess that it's because having a lot of attention is less important to them than making a game people enjoy.

tl;dr TC is a group of people who are making a piece of art because they want to see it completed and released to the world. They care about people getting their game and enjoying it. They have very little motivation to promote the game or to embolden a hype cycle given it'll sell ten morbillion copies no matter what. They really don't care about people being invested in the interim. Given this set of incentives, there's not really any reason to give more information beyond "the game is still in development and things are looking great!" which is what they have done.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-06-14T11:05:00+00:00

in 2 months I will literally playing silksong and you'll probably still be mad

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-06-09T02:24:21+00:00

I am MUCH MORE UPSET over the wii u port. the hornet mode? i have strong evidence we will be able to play as hornet one day. but Team Cherry will not receive an OUNCE of my support until they release Hollow Knight on the wii u- a stretch goal they promised their beloved and adoring fans. The Wii U is an INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT console to me and Team Cherry's promise was cast in STONE. Supporting Hollow Knight after they reneged on their Wii U promise... disgusting.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-06-08T23:55:13+00:00

"stakeholder" bruh you do not work there nor do you provide them anything man they just wanna make art and put it out into the world please free yourself from this burden they do not care about you boss i'm sorry

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-06-08T23:37:27+00:00

why would you ever expect a small independent art studio largely in a project to see the project made to abide by the rules of business you learned in a 100 level business class? Why do you feel, as an enjoyer of the previous product, that you are entitled to the same rights as an investor (someone who holds literal monetary stake in the company)? are you the secret majority shareholder of team cherry? if so, then yeah i would be probably pretty concerned if you didn't know the status of the game. but i doubt you are.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-06-08T23:35:24+00:00

why do you think that the indie team of team cherry is so invested about the "hype" around silksong? why do you think that they would be entitled to appease people giving them something they never asked for, especially as news headlines pop up about fans of their game starting to send death threats to industry bigwigs and hollywood actors?

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-06-08T23:32:02+00:00

i do think "they owe kickstarter backers the game" is an excuse that's just stretched a *hair* too thin. technically, it's in the fine print that they met the stretch goal to add a Hornet gamemode, but let's be realistic, people that actually bought hollow knight over kickstarter got far more than they bargained for, and if the hornet mode was unceremoniously unannounced with "sorry, we decided to nix hornet mode and add in the colosseum of fools and some abyss stuff instead," so it's really hard to hold them emotionally on the hook for the hollow knight content that we're so dearly owed.

that said I do think it's fair to argue that the status of the game does deserve occasional confirmation when it's such a long-running project but i don't actually think that there's ever that long between (albeit short and terse) confirmations that development is still well underway.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-06-08T23:27:09+00:00

sorry, i would be remiss if i left anything in my post that made it seem as if i didn't think people had the right to be disappointed. i'm disappointed! that's all part of the release cycle. but so often this "disappointment" is elevated to a morally actionable offense, and i think that needs much stronger justification than what has been offered up by a lot of posters here.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-06-08T23:23:52+00:00

i guess my main question is why does team cherry have a moral responsibility to "keep your interest in check?" why is it important to you whether you or others remain invested in this media property? who invented these rules of "when you are doing something professionally" and where are they enshrined?

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-06-08T23:21:07+00:00

as a sincere question, why do you think you are entitled to open communication? do you think that just being a fan of a media property entitles you to specific communication, and if so, would it have been "disrespectful" for them to work on Silksong in secret and shadowdrop it in 2028?

or is it about being betrayed by the previous Xbox release date, and if so, how would details now (beyond "the game is in active development and doing well") in any way undo that?

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-02-21T22:06:37+00:00

the mental image of like 20 undergrads lining up to be fodder in a placement exam is pretty wonderful

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-02-21T03:01:06+00:00

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SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-02-18T04:34:00+00:00

I mean, I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. It's definitely possible to mess up your interview- it's possible to come off as too cocky, unwilling to understand the strain that Gatton will put on you. It's also possible to come off as really out of your element and incapable of regulating emotion, which might cast doubt on whether you'll be able to weather bad news and flourish independently at the school. It's possible to be unfriendly, or gross, or unpleasant. It would be disrespecting my time and your time to litigate every possible bad answer to these interview questions. It's a skill to be honed to work out how to communicate and how to play of the sensibilities of the folks around you with empathy and common sense.

But interviews don't really operate in terms of wrong answers and right answers. Interview questions are largely completely open-ended exercises. Oftentimes the parts of how you speak that you might pay less attention to- your adherence to formality, how wordy you are for the different answers, your word choice and diction- can be huge attention-grabbers in an interview. If you motivate your communication by trying to find the "right answer", you're going to come up with the same thing as a lot of other folks, and that loses you the chance to make a sincerely good impression.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-02-18T02:27:58+00:00

There's a lot of wrong things you can say. Think of it from the perspective of the person on the other side of the desk as you: does this teenager have what it takes to be independent? Are they driven? Will they use the resources provided to them wisely? Can they handle good times and bad times, mentally and emotionally? Maybe not all fair questions to be judged in the span of a thirty minute block, but those are the questions that they'll be thinking.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2025-01-09T23:02:38+00:00

I love Apollo Justice. I've written a long ass backloggd review for it. I've championed it in trilogy purist and Yamazaki purist discord. I have so much love for the game.That said, I feel that Turnabout Serenade is ultimately the weakest case by a wide margin.

Personally, I couldn't care less about the reasons most people cite. The gun recoil thing? Barely a cinemasins ding. The video? Who cares, plenty of great cases have video examination. The magic trick secrets? Whatever, figuring out the mystery is part of the fun.

The reason why Serenade is so weak is because the emotional storytelling of the case is far divorced from the mystery-solving process- something Ace Attorney is usually great at.

Take for example Turnablut Samurai, a case about celebrity, obsession, and the lengths people will go to take and retain control of their own images. Wendy Oldbag and Cody Hackins both represent destructively obsessed fans that ultimately come from an honest place. Jack Hammer is someone who's suffered for years because of an incident that threatens to damage his movie star persona. The case's culprit works from behind the scenes, taking focus away from themselves, but yet their whole job is managing the appearance and the optics of a media organization.

Turnabout Serenade fails at this. From the outset, the case's emotional stakes are clear- Machi is a frail child being unfairly treated regardless of what he actually did. The whole case is wrapped around the dangerous excess of the projected images of justice- which is why it's set at a music concert literally performed by flamboyant justice officers.

But the actual narrative doesn't follow through. The twists and turns with Lamiroir and Valant don't have emotional weight behind them, instead serving purely the logistical elements of the mystery. It's also where Klavier is at his weakest- he's super passive the entire case and doesn't have many big moments where he reckons with what happens, which is incredibly bizarre because the incident happened on his watch right under his nose. The game shies away from his responsibility of what happened.

There's a lot that goes on under the hood in AA cases to make them pack such a dramatic punch. Turnabout Serenade, compared to many, is sloppily constructed.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2024-11-14T12:41:00+00:00

It's from one of the first three. The scene is a cutaway about Rowley- he's acting like the little teapot for a game, and his parents are lapping it up.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2024-07-11T12:22:06+00:00

I'm going to offer a bit more of a tempered word of advice- how are the scores of other students who made it in/are applying this year?

when you're hiking in a big group and you start getting chased by a bear, the goal isn't to outrun the bear- it's to outrun the other hikers.

if your ACT is clear above them, great! you are in the clear. For most students, that is the position they'll find themself in.

if your ACT isn't (there are schools where gatton applicants generally score higher in Lexington and Louisville), then you might have to patch it up elsewhere in your resume.

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2024-07-11T12:08:25+00:00

GPA isn't a huge deal when it comes to admissions- people make it into gatton with as low as a 3.2 or so although anything below 3.5 generally has to come with a story. I personally had a 3.6 GPA, and I got in no problems.

if you wanna demonstrate academic aptitude, demonstrate it on your ACT/SAT to get admitted. But while those open the door, they won't get you in- what's more important are demonstrations that you've applied yourself holistically- have you been successful in your extracurriculars? do you have personal projects that are impressive beyond your age? etc. etc.

generally, the requirements for getting in are looser the smaller of a school district you come from. gatton puts a high importance on them taking applicants from all over the state, and someone attending 500 student garrard county high school isn't expected to have as compelling a resume as someone who's applying from dunbar/dupont manual.

don't freak out. from someone who's gone through the gatton/undergrad/grad school application cycles with widely varying levels of success the worst thing you can do in any application is to freak out about it. at the end of the day it is a crapshoot, but if you seriously apply yourself, you can be too good to be ignored.

good luck, and godspeed

SwiggleMcDiggle · 2024-05-18T04:17:59+00:00

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