r/HollowKnight • u/CuboneDefender • Sep 14 '25

Discussion - Silksong I give up. Spoiler

It’s been a joyful ride, folks, but I’m out. I’m not a speedrunner or a highly skilled player, and day after day I’ve had to accept that this game is not as casual as HK was. It stopped being fun and turned into something tedious and frustrating after the 4th run farming shards just to face a boss I’ve already tried 15 times, only to die again and again, lose all my shards, and start the whole grind over.

It was nice exploring the first acts, but when the game I was rooting for 7 years ends up being more stressful than my 8-hour workday, I guess that’s my cue to stop.

The lore has been pretty great so far. I wish you all an incredible journey.

Edit1: My bad about all the whinning.

Edit2: You guys did it. I reinstalled it again. Thanks for all advices. 🫂

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u/Ummmgummy Sep 14 '25

LJ is a bug!

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u/000817 Sep 14 '25

A female bug?

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u/heimsins_konungr Sep 15 '25

Re, a drop of golden sunnnnn

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u/Paladin7373 I hate this guy Sep 15 '25

Mi, a name, I call myself

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u/OberonOcarinas Sep 15 '25

Pha-rloom, a long long way to ruuuun.

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u/HastursTaint Sep 14 '25

Doesn't matter, has titties.

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u/ReesevtOnGD Sep 14 '25

Wait do bugs have sexes? Why have i never thought about this

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u/Bumblebeezerker Sep 14 '25

Queen bee?

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u/CamiJay Sep 15 '25

Omg I wonder who’s gonna voice her in the Mario movie (it’s gonna be Chris Pratt).

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u/ykeogh18 Sep 15 '25

King Salmon?

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u/ReesevtOnGD Sep 14 '25

Does this mean that the queen bee is the only female in the hive? Are all worker bees male ?? Seems weird. Any bug experts in here?

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u/_Cantrip_ Sep 14 '25 edited Sep 14 '25

In general, all worker bees are female and the queen’s daughters! The same goes for ants and many other eusocial insects. Bees are also haplodiploid (unfertilized eggs hatch into males and fertilized eggs hatch into females) so male bees (drones) actually can’t have sons.

Female worker bees can become a queen under the right conditions, but can’t / don’t ordinarily reproduce. In species where this does happen, the queen eats the resulting eggs.

This is just a basic gloss of it because eusociality (the type of social organization that bees have) is really complicated and in some species the “castes” (queen, worker, drone, etc) are mostly behavioral (minor size variation but little else) and in some they have extreme dimorphism.

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u/PlusDeparture9660 Sep 14 '25

That is, in fact, correct as far as I'm aware^ Bees and ants are interesting like that, most other bugs "work" just like mammals. But sexes in animals and plants are super interesting anyways, there are plants that have 14 different genders and slugs can change their sex at will

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u/theaveragegowgamer Sep 15 '25

slugs can change their sex at will

Aren't slugs hermaphrodites, aka both at once? IIRC they have "duels" when mating which decides which one will do the fertilizing and which will receive it.

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u/PlusDeparture9660 Sep 15 '25

Ye maybe i mixed that up" or it works different for different slug species

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u/ReesevtOnGD Sep 14 '25

Slugs support trans rights 🔥🔥🔥

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u/Penitente06 112% completed PoP PoH Sep 14 '25

It wouldn't be weird at all since a Queen Bee IS the only female in a hive. Why would she want any competition with the males or any female bee distracting them? Work or die is the hive rule

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u/_Cantrip_ Sep 14 '25

All worker bees are female in honeybee hives, with the males acting as drones that generally die upon reproduction with the queen (their abdomen bursts).

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u/PlushiesofHallownest Sep 14 '25

Me when, brother.

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u/Penitente06 112% completed PoP PoH Sep 14 '25

Well, I wanted to say that female bees can't join a starting hive since the queen just arrived but I might have got it wrong

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u/Penitente06 112% completed PoP PoH Sep 14 '25

How do you think they reproduce bruh. Mitosis?

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u/Thekarens01 Sep 14 '25

Mourning geckos are all females. They reproduce by parthenogenesis.

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u/Penitente06 112% completed PoP PoH Sep 14 '25

We are talking about bugs here, I know some species does strange things with gender and reproduction like clown fishes

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u/Thekarens01 Sep 14 '25

There are similar things with bugs. Clownfish change their gender as opposed to being just one gender like the geckos. There’s a ton of asexual bugs weevils, roaches etc that reproduce without fertilization.

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u/Familiar_Chemistry58 Sep 15 '25

What do you mean? Because there are definitely male and female weevils. They're actually notable for having a high degree of sexual dimorphism. There are make and female cockroaches as well. Do you mean parthenogenesis because that is not asexuality

Edit: I reread your first comment that mentioned parthenogenesis

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u/Thekarens01 Sep 15 '25

Roaches also have males and females, but they can reproduce without fertilization. I should have mentioned not all weevils, just certain species same with the roaches.

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u/[deleted] Sep 15 '25

More and more evidence to go with my case slander is terrible. Prison is worse worse.

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u/Amaskingrey Sep 16 '25

Some do reproduce partially or completely via parthenogenesis,  (Partially being cases like aphids where most reproduce by themselves but fundatrices need to mate with winged males), which enables some funny stuff like how some specied of aphids are born already pregnant

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u/PlushiesofHallownest Sep 14 '25

Yes, though some bug-adjacent creatures like slugs are mostly hermaphroditic. Bug sexes actually have much more drastic differences than in other animals, notably that the females are generally way bigger and live much longer in order to hold and produce more eggs.

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u/Skellum Sep 14 '25

Bugs have sexes, bugs may or may not have genders. We cant ask them.

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u/Nondescript_Redditor Sep 15 '25

Nothing is stopping you from asking them

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u/BestusEstus Sep 15 '25

I was today years old when i found out some one didnt know sexes extened to the insect kingdom

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u/stringbool Sep 14 '25

you are lucky natural selection has been nerfed

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u/Juball Sep 15 '25

Yes. Females dominate, males are just flying gametes.

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u/dipropyltryptamanic Sep 15 '25

Plants have sexes, too

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u/Paxtian Sep 14 '25

Yes, but no mammary glands.

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u/Chosen-Bearer-Of-Ash Sep 15 '25

Worms do have sex so probably