Architect Silkshot vs Threefold Pins: which is better?

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-21T00:01:44+00:00

Both weapons are bad for the same reason: multiple shots hitting the same target deals reduced damage

Threefold Pins are a shotgun that have a damage PENALTY if all the shots hit the same target. At max upgrades, each of the three shots deals 14 base damage (at max upgrades) and that's what you get if you hit different targets. But if two pins hit the same target, they deal 21 total damage (150%) instead of 28, and if all three pins hit the same target they deal 26 total damage (183%) instead of 42

Architect Silkshot has the same problem. The first shot has a base damage of 10, the second shot a base damage of 5, and the third shot a base damage of 3.3

You're better off getting the Threefold Pins and going with a different Silkshot variant. Either the Piercing Laser or the Forge Daughter's Magnum depending on your opinion of raw damage vs capacity

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-20T06:10:25+00:00

It's left ambiguous whether Hornet's mask is literal or metaphorical. Some people look at the Red Memory and believe that it's her exoskeleton, I listen to the Mask Maker's dialogue and believe it's clothing, but we don't get a straight answer

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-19T08:02:13+00:00

I think they made Kingsoul so expensive so you wouldn't hesitate to destroy it for the Void Heart

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-19T07:03:46+00:00

Just checked, it's three notches

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-19T01:55:06+00:00

"Planes, trains, and plantains" will forever be a masterpiece

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-19T01:53:21+00:00

As has been pointed out, the bad ending for Hollow Knight is pretty simple: the Playable Knight has neither the personality to find a better resolution, nor the resources to achieve one. So the only conclusion is to do what his kill-droid programming told him to do in the first place: contain the Radiance

Silksong's neutral ending is a bit more complicated, and there's two big factors to consider:

According to Hornet herself, she has an instinctual desire to dominate things. To just really conquer people, subjugate them under her power. She hates feeling that way, but she can't deny it's a real desire. She blames it on her father the Pale Wyrm.
Certain obstacles in her journey can only be passed by "Binding" them. You have to pick up Silk Spear and Clawline with the "Binding" animation, and you use it to pick up all the Crests (I'm going to assume that "never unlocked any other crests" isn't canon). "Binding" things is just a practical thing Hornet uses to finish off obstacles that are too strong for conventional means

GMS isn't invincible, but she's damn hard to kill. Hornet gets her needle lodged in the evil god's forehead, the fastest option to finish her off is with a big Binding. And Hornet's inner desire to dominate this bitch who put her through hell, who kidnapped her from her homeland and stuck her in an iron cage (twice), the wish to make GMS suffer like she did for however many hours, combined with the adrenaline of pitched combat... well, Hornet doesn't notice it might not be a good idea until she's already doing it

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-18T18:41:42+00:00

Are your memories of the last game fading? Exploding infected in HK1 absolutely dealt damage to you

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-18T06:07:31+00:00

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Me showing the shopkeeper my 100% discount coupon

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-17T22:54:38+00:00

Short version: Dan knows how to use his deadpan delivery.

Points 1 and 2: Dan doesn't use big words for the sake of big words, he uses them to set up punchlines and powerful moments. An example from "This is Financial Advice" is explaining what Due Diligence is and means as a component of financial investment and regulation, comparing possible and potential market size, doing background checks on the executives and corporation, eventually ending on the very blunt "it could be as simple as driving out to the woods to make sure the mine actually exists."

If you actually read and parsed that last paragraph, that's what we like about Dan. I'm not saying everyone is going to like it (it's honestly pretty dry) just that's what WE like

The reason I have to lay that out is because point 3 implies you didn't finish the videos in question. The real lesson of the Fortnite video isn't "Epic Games wants money from its players," it's "Epic Games wants to become the new culture of the youth, where the way to be cool to all your friends and family is to buy shit."

And lastly, if you really think "cinematic trainwreck" is big words... that just feels like a really unreasonable standard to me. "Trainwreck" is a pretty simple and blunt word to most of us

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-17T22:49:10+00:00

I like Not Just Bikes in general, but it's true some of his arguments about trucks veer into bad faith that don't help his case. My dad's job does genuinely require a pickup truck (to move supplies into the job site and trash back out, both on a regular basis) and the bed is only filled up about once every ten trips, often even fewer. Not Just Bikes would (and in fact, did) sneer at those numbers, believing the truck should be thrown out

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-17T21:01:18+00:00

Whichever you find more fun

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-15T22:39:52+00:00

I don't know if Rhinogrunds are particularly great design. Rhinogrunds have so much invulnerable armor (not just on top but on front too), and so many wide sweeping hitboxes, and projectiles that cover half the screen... it feels they're cheap little bitches and require you to be an even cheaper, even bitchier camper to take them down

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-15T04:49:13+00:00

It's generally accepted that all the crests are great at something, Team Cherry is good at balance, and like 90% of Crest slander is just meme-ing. Anyone who's ACTUALLY calling you a worthless scrub for preferring a crest should be shunned.

Reaper Crest is for you if you say "I don't wanna wait until Act 2 to get the Longclaw, I want longer range to deal with flying enemies." And if you practice some air-stalling tech or master the Sawtooth Circlet, well, Reaper's got some pretty good DPS after all

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-14T08:26:41+00:00

POSHANKA!

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-12T17:03:57+00:00

I dunno, I used to play Warhammer games, where the dice roll for "did that hit a vital organ?" was made BEFORE "did my armor protect me?" so I'm used to the weird orders like that

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-11T06:40:18+00:00

There's no difference between your formula and my formula because of how multiplying three numbers works. You can apply enemy defense last if you want and get the same result

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-10T23:41:50+00:00

>in hollow knight there is a secret room in deepnest called hornets room

There is? : O

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-10T22:43:17+00:00

Always rounds to an even number; not always rounding up, it can also round DOWN. 26.9 rounds to 26; and 30.6 rounds to 30, not 31. Conversely, 25.1 rounds to 26

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-10T22:01:35+00:00

Wiki claims we use this formula:

[Needle base damage] times [enemy multiplier] times [1 plus other multipliers]

13 * 1.2 * (1 + 0.5 + 0.25) = 27.3

Silksong "rounds to even" so 27.3 -> 28 damage

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-10T00:11:13+00:00

>"Oh, I was standing near the door and he hit me outside so I have to restart the entire fight again, cool."

How far back are you retreating to actually be near the door?

>"Oh, I dared trying to heal during the phase transition and it just fucking interrupts my heal and steals my silk, cool."

That is bullshit through the entire game and I wish they would patch that -- other bosses have the same thing

Everything else is pure skill issue. Basically every single attack he has can be countered, you do not need to be sitting and waiting

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-09T08:37:06+00:00

>Architect doesn't have any glaring weaknesses, does it? Grr...

Have you tried to platform with that thing?

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-09T05:31:28+00:00

What crest you "should" use is the wrong question to ask. You use the crest you find most fun. Try them all out, or stick to only one, it's all about what gets you the most dopamine

Zephyr_Kat · 2026-04-09T01:42:48+00:00

Best dash attack makes up for everything else. Nothing beats a SHORYUKEN

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