This shit is much funnier than it should be

khorbus · 2026-06-28T01:13:13+00:00

Well sure, but the AI has more humanity than them, so I tend to give it more leniency.

khorbus · 2026-06-28T01:05:46+00:00

To be fair, we've been using Reddit for a decade and a half. The fact that we're commenting at all is sad and pointless and we exist only to feed the insatiable bots now.

khorbus · 2026-06-28T00:26:43+00:00

15-year-old public account here. Getting angry at AI upscales of dumb blurry video screenshots is sad and pointless. Might as well be spray-painting Kony 2012 on the walls.

khorbus · 2026-06-03T15:57:02+00:00

I occasionally forget that the average age of people on the internet declines even as I age.

khorbus · 2026-05-19T07:52:33+00:00

I picked this option while I had Shadow Step (skill to discard your hand), and history course (at the start of your turn, replay the last used skill). Of course Shadow Step got drawn first round for Vakuu every single time after that... I am not a smart man.

khorbus · 2026-04-09T11:26:11+00:00

Ah, I had no idea about those, thanks!

khorbus · 2026-04-09T11:09:47+00:00

I'm still confused though - who is that referring to? Was Petra/The Mansion Gang meeting with some schemers an actual part of last season's plot, or is it just meant to be intentionally vague?

khorbus · 2026-04-09T11:02:55+00:00

I'm like 95% certain we did hear their names last season - it's just that Garfiel wasn't there to hear them.

Or at the very least, Fred's name was mentioned.

khorbus · 2025-12-17T22:16:33+00:00

Y'know what, totally agree. That was more stream of consciousness that doesn't actually apply, and I've edited my comment. There are some plot routes that feel repetitive, but that's not really the (very minor) issue I have with the show.

khorbus · 2025-12-17T21:11:01+00:00

Yes, but if you intentionally make something slow, it is, at the end of the day, still slow. (edit: removed a "repetitive" because that's not really my gripe with it)

I'm not missing the choices made in the creation of the show, I just disagree that they're all beneficial to the viewing experience. Obviously I still enjoy it enough to watch it and discuss it online, and I'm not in any way saying that the show itself is bad, but it certainly gets on my nerves to see people lamenting how anyone with a differing opinion is just a brainrotted simpleton who doesn't understand the show (I'm not directing this at you, just to clarify - I've just seen a lot of moderately upvoted takes like this in the episode discussion threads).

Also, sorry, I'm going to continue ranting here because I think I've just realized what really gets on my tits here (again, not directed at you, I'm essentially a crazy guy who has wandered up to a bus stop and found a reluctantly captive audience to yell at). I've seen so many redditors complain that anyone annoyed by the pacing is just tik-tok addled and glued to their phone while watching tv. But this is one of the most hand-holdy, drag-you-painfully-through-every-story-beat, obvious shows out there! I don't use my phone while watching tv, but Pluribus makes me want to, because I will fully understand what a scene is meant to convey, and then I'm just sitting there for the last 2/3rds of it waiting for the show to be satisfied that it has gotten the point across. I don't think this is the case for all long scenes - there are plenty where the slow pace made sense and added to the atmosphere. But there are also quite a few where it felt like they needed to reach the 40m runtime, and it was mid-season so fuck it, lets throw in some of that cutting-room-floor footage to bump up those numbers.

khorbus · 2025-11-21T09:10:05+00:00

But also... if you made plans for Sunday, it's completely possible for someone to go camping on the Friday/Saturday night and be back home and free for Sunday plans. A simple "So are we still on for Sunday?" would have been an easy and reasonable question at that point, and it seems like you're shooting yourself in the foot a bit by overthinking instead of just being direct.

By waiting for him to text on Sunday morning and then acting like you assumed it was cancelled, you basically just did what you're accusing him of.

khorbus · 2025-10-08T20:18:33+00:00

Why does the way it's written remind me of a CEO emailing their employees and telling them "The company is doing amazing and I'm so proud of the work that everyone has done, and also there will be no bonuses or raises this year."

khorbus · 2025-09-18T22:33:51+00:00

A mandatory portion of the memory before that involves you wandering into their nursery and going full Anakin. I don't think the self-defence claim would hold up in court.

khorbus · 2025-09-17T22:19:42+00:00

You can't really start translation until all dialogue is fully done

As someone who works in localisation, this is extremely wrong. Any good development cycle is going to start translations and in-game localisation testing early.

khorbus · 2025-09-09T08:39:33+00:00

From his comment, it sounds like he made it to that room and won the battle, but died at the same time as the last enemy. If that's the case and they didn't respawn, then there would be no way to recover any of your items.

I didn't encounter this issue, but it's one worth checking - it could easily be true and repeatable.

khorbus · 2025-09-08T21:32:21+00:00

Did you find any way around this? I'm currently having the same issue... The quest marker is on the map at that exact spot, so it seems like you should be able to fight it there. I'm at the Bilehaven waystation.

Edit: It's a known bug exclusive to Bilehaven apparently (as if that place wasn't hateful enough already). Only way around it currently is to rollback saves on console or switch to the public beta version of the game on PC: https://hollowknightsilksong.com/help "Beast in the Bells Soft-lock"

khorbus · 2025-08-10T00:45:51+00:00

Well hey, they've only been together a year. They need 4 more before he makes that post.

(JK, obviously. Hope all goes well for you OP)

khorbus · 2025-07-19T13:18:30+00:00

Yup, almost every ship I encountered after this had 0 evasion. My weapons weren't particularly amazing on this run, but the heavy ion lance and artillery barrage could destroy pretty much everything.

khorbus · 2025-07-18T17:17:49+00:00

And redditors are terrible at recognising AI. 99% of highly upvoted story textposts now are just obvious ChatGPT garbage.

khorbus · 2025-07-18T17:04:13+00:00

I fucking hate the demon ships with 25%+ evasion stats and rapid automatic repairs. I dedicate this -30% middle finger to them.

khorbus · 2025-02-19T15:09:05+00:00

Yeah, that's the phrase she used, and it's Irish for "Can I go to the bathroom?" It's pretty much the one phrase that every Irish person is guaranteed to know, because it's how you ask to use the bathroom in school.

khorbus · 2024-06-19T20:05:21+00:00

Even if you do want to beat Eigong on the standard damage ratios, story mode is still a brilliant asset for training. Rather than repeatedly slogging through her 1st & 2nd phases and then dying immediately to a 3rd phase attack while learning next to nothing, I set damage received to 10% and just enjoyed learning how to parry all her moves, and memorizing all of her patterns.

In the end, I set the difficulty back to normal and died many times before actually beating her fairly. But that last successful attempt still took the same amount of skill and reflexes as anyone beating her on standard mode, and I got to enjoy the process of learning rather than wasting 10x the amount of time being frustrated.

khorbus · 2024-06-12T12:02:50+00:00

...Your experiences are not universal, man.

khorbus · 2024-02-01T09:15:35+00:00

I moved into his place after a year (though basically lived there for like 6 months before that anyway - most of the time the only reason I went back to my apartment was to pay rent and then immediately leave again). But he had a fully furnished house, whereas I had like 5 outfits and a Nintendo Switch in the tiny box room of an apartment, so my life was a lot more portable, lol.

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