For hundreds of years, individuals have sought to divine that means from the universe’s obvious nonsense, analyzing tea dregs, sheep liver, or squeezing blood from deep cuts as heat sacrifices to their chilly, mercurial gods. Right now – a time of algorithms and frozen meals – these strategies might sound excessive, even barbaric, however a couple of dreamers perceive the facility of historic desperation, they usually all occur to be on the Hole Knight: Silksong subreddit.
Fed up with the hourglass drip of knowledge they have been getting over the previous few months – the Metroidvania sequel is seemingly lastly releasing this yr, it retains getting gnat-sized Steam updates, and so on. – Hole Knight followers have taken to ritualistically banning r/Silksong members in trade for data. Supposedly.
“We made the selection, there is not any different,” a r/Silksong moderator says in a current thread with over 3,000 upvotes. The mod staff determined to ban one in every of their very own, u/sand-sky-stars, as “an final sacrifice”; as of writing, the person continues to be listed as a r/Silksong mod on their profile, however as previous sacrifices have indicated, a ritual Silksong “ban” merely means being discouraged from posting about Hole Knight on both Reddit or Discord.
Anyway. “Each r/silksong person holds a certain quantity of energy,” the mod staff explains in its thread, “that solely will get launched once we make a sacrifice, however irrespective of what number of goodbyes we are saying, it is by no means sufficient for our Cherry Gods to reply to our prayers.”
“WE WILL LEAVE TRACKS ON SAND AS WE VENTURE INTO THIS NEW CHAPTER, OUR CRIES WILL REACH THE SKIES AS WE SING FOR SILKSONG, OUR POTENTIAL WILL GO EVEN HIGHER THAN THE STARS,” the mods cry out with age-old longing, “WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BAITED MANY TIMES, WE HAD OUR LOWS, BUT TODAY WE OPEN A NEW CHAPTER AND WE SHALL KNOW NO FEAR.”
“WE ARE THE HOPE GIVEN FORM” – scream it! Half the clouds along with your want! – AND WE WILL ENDURE EVERYTHING / FOR SILKSONG IS IMMORTAL AND SO ARE WE.”
So what did the Silksong devotees earn from developer Workforce Cherry 16 hours after their uninhibited sacrifice? Idea artwork? A brand new trailer? A launch date?
No, it is, uh, one other incomprehensible Steam replace. Effectively, no less than they tried.
