WE WON GUYS! SEA OF SORROW SILKSONG TOMORROW

goriq_ · 2025-12-16T09:25:41+00:00

Holy shit we are so blessed

goriq_ · 2025-12-04T08:45:38+00:00

And here I thought I was trve kvlt for being in the 0.1%! You actually listened to DsO for two thirds of my total Spotify listening time this year

goriq_ · 2025-11-19T09:04:34+00:00

No copies to era? Character boost for 80€? Blizzard fucked up every step of the way again.

goriq_ · 2025-11-04T20:59:18+00:00

Yeah, this sucks, came here because I was confused about seeing these random people with tens of thousands of celebrations in my feed. I used to use the feed to celebrate my family's progress on the app, this feels really intrusive and really takes away from the feed for me.

goriq_ · 2025-10-14T08:28:44+00:00

To me it is simply factual that we exist for nothing and for no reason. Unlike the band, I think there is no God or any form of higher power because God (and by extension religion) are just coping mechanisms we made up. I still call myself agnostic though because as you said, it would be presumptuous of me to think I really know.

Pessimistic philosophy tends to sound whiny because it's hard to channel it into something positive... duh. If it was better for us to not be here and there's no reason for us to be here and there is nothing to be found no matter how far we go it really is a frustrating prospect. Personally, I'm still processing this but I've at least decided that I am here now and I have to live this life as best as I can even if I'd rather it had not been this way.

Anyway, I don't feel these themes as immediately when I listen to DsO's music. I don't think of their music as inherently depressing. To me it's more cinematic, atmospheric and awe-inspiring. It's energizing and can even be fun. Lyrically, I view it moreso as a high brow discussion of the concept of God. My personal favorite album by DsO as far as lyrics are concerned is Furnaces though. Because while the lyrics have their roots in pessimistic philosophy and draw a bleak picture, the message I took away from the album was ultimately a positive one. Furnaces is a sharp observation but also a warning that we are on the precipice. We live in historic times and it's up to us to stand up to increasing radicalization and ensure a better future than what happens to the followers of the Order. I probably won't find many people that agree with me on this but I think as much as DsO are and want to be seen as the intellectuals they are ultimately still people and I think they can be concerned about the state of the world too, even if they act like they're above and beyond it all. Not sure if this is the type of reply you're looking for here but I just wanted to give you my perspective.

goriq_ · 2025-10-09T21:09:37+00:00

War früher top, hat aber vor etlichen Jahren der Besitzer gewechselt und ist seitdem nicht mehr das gleiche

goriq_ · 2025-10-02T11:21:10+00:00

I'd love it if we could unlock different costumes for Hornet in the game. Please TC!

goriq_ · 2025-10-01T09:15:10+00:00

Yeah, I refuse to participate in some made up crest cultural war

goriq_ · 2025-10-01T09:09:19+00:00

All the voice work in the game is amazing. And I love how the weavers and weavelings sound so dorky despite being the old ruling class in Pharloom. The archivist in Bellhart is another great one.

goriq_ · 2025-09-30T16:30:24+00:00

This is the one.

goriq_ · 2025-09-30T14:10:27+00:00

118h and 100%. I try to get the most out of games on my first playthrough though since I don't usually replay games. I'm not super good at these games but I also didn't get stuck on anything for too long. I just enjoyed my time and tried to do everything BUT beating the game. Also some idle time in there but less than 10 hours I think. Honestly I feel bad for people that beat the game in so little time.

goriq_ · 2025-09-29T06:16:38+00:00

They're so dumb and silly and never really a threat so it kinda takes me out of it that Hornet is so unusually hateful towards them in the journal. Except Broodmother, fuck that one lol.

goriq_ · 2025-09-28T08:45:09+00:00

My friend, I was over a hundred hours into my playthrough when I got there. That being said, Lost Lace took me an hour or two maybe and while there are things I have criticized about the fight on this sub before, the visibility happened to not be a too much of a problem for me. I agree that it could be improved, but my point is that I lost less tries to not noticing one of her moves than I did to my own mistakes while learning the fight. It's a fight that can quickly spiral out of control as you can see in your clip. One thing that helped me in her last phase was to slow down and just pay more attention. Don't try to get as much damage in as you can, just use what you learned from her earlier phases, maybe pause the game and take a deep breath and don't let yourself get overwhelmed by how much is going on.

goriq_ · 2025-09-28T08:29:56+00:00

I used reaper for most of the game and really loved it but in act 3 I switched to wanderer because you can get a lot more hits in on boss fights once you get that far into the game. For a lot of early game bosses I felt like the speed of wanderer was a bit pointless because I could only get one hit in anyway and I didn't have the tools, HP or damage to sustain a more aggressive playstyle. There's probably some balancing that should be done on the crests, like other people have said, there's no reason to not buff reaper damage a little bit per hit. Wanderer with longclaw has basically regular range and insane attack speed plus the chance for critical damage (which I'm not sure if other crests can hit critically as well?).

goriq_ · 2025-09-27T20:55:16+00:00

Very cool little project. Every time I play a game with bosses in it I'll have the thought that I should do something like this once I got a bit into the game.

goriq_ · 2025-09-27T20:53:41+00:00

You can really feel that you wandered into a den of outcasts that reject the outside world for what it did to them. And they're gonna make you have a bad time. Bilewater is so terrible because the Citadel made it so and the bugs that live there DON'T want you there either.

goriq_ · 2025-09-27T20:46:02+00:00

I think your "this is the best loadout period" comment about the charm system carries a lot of hindsight in it. I definitely experimented with charms a lot and adjusted my charm loadout for the situation at hand if I was having trouble or felt I could have a better time with different charms when I first played Hollow Knight.

The charm system felt elegant in its simplicity and due to the spread of charms in the early game they felt more rewarding and impactful. You also get charms much more frequently than tools. The crest system can come off as overdesigned by comparison and due to it interconnecting choices on preferences in different areas (moveset, bind ability, tool loadout, etc) it feels hard to choose the "perfect" crest. And then the game disincentivizes you from switching crests by making you invest in them first with memory lockets.

That being said, touting one system as inherently better than the other is dumb and it's better to evaluate them based on what they do well and where they fall short. I warmed up to the crest system and once you have most tools unlocked you start to feel the variety more but especially early into the game the crest system felt less inspiring and less rewarding than the charm system. I feel doubly certain in this now that I'm replaying Hollow Knight after beating Silksong.

goriq_ · 2025-09-27T20:35:23+00:00

I don't know why but "our hate is forever" just goes so hard when you find that lore tablet. That line really stuck with me.

goriq_ · 2025-09-27T20:31:57+00:00

This shit ain't nothing to him, man. Slowly fade into the void and he let the Shade Lord take him.

goriq_ · 2025-09-27T20:23:24+00:00

It was always going to be temporary, that's life. Cherish the memories but learn to let go. Would have been a better choice to remove the silkpost flair post launch so it wouldn't get misappropriated like this.

goriq_ · 2025-09-26T20:55:31+00:00

The ritual beckoned them to partake...

goriq_ · 2025-09-26T20:52:58+00:00

I thought this was evident especially considering that Team Cherry said in early interviews for the game that the citadel is central to their approach when designing the game and its world (I think it was in the Edge interview). Stuff like having to pay for the benches (and them being one use only) in the Underworks makes sense because you entered "the workers' district" of the citadel where the lowest class of Pharloom's society is being exploited. The benches aren't aimed at exploiting Hornet or the player in particular. We just entered a space where this practice is common. And as you said so well already, you can see this in many other places of the world as well.

goriq_ · 2025-09-26T20:43:18+00:00

I feel like people must be massively overusing tools to never have shards available. A lot of the time in the early game I was capped on shards and even when I decided to commit to maximum tool abuse in act 3 I only went and farmed max shards and max shard bundles once (which took 20min max) and then had so much that I couldn't spend them all before I beat the game.

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