167: Silksong Moment

Luke Oliver

18 Dec 2025 • 1 min read

This is a picture from a hike we went on in Boulder as part of the CWC. It was great.

I spent something like 6 hours in the last day working on ONE boss fight in Silksong. I have a weird love-hate relationship with games like that (Silksong, Hollow Knight, Celeste), because in the moment I'll absolutely despise the boss and enemies that I have to fight over and over and over and over (it was probably 30-40 attempts), but in hindsight, I got absolutely DIALED by the end, and then I won.

This form of incremental, visible improvement is honestly really fun, and I love seeing myself get better at the game in real time. I do the same thing with time-trial based racing games, because it's so validating to actively get better at something, and then eventually winning, and being done with it (setting a good time and/or finally beating the boss).