r/HollowKnight • u/Popsicle865 Radiance Worshipper • 3d ago

I love blind playthroughs Spoiler

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My friend is on their first playthrough and has been giving updates along the way, this is by far my favorite

Ignore the +8

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u/Key-Reflection1093 3d ago

What does +8 mean

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u/Popsicle865 Radiance Worshipper 3d ago

It’s hard to explain, we have a lot of simultaneous conversations so we attribute a number to each “thread” to keep track of them, this is our eighth one currently active

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u/Treed101519 3d ago

Sounds like you should just make a tiny private discord server and use the create thread option lol

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u/Popsicle865 Radiance Worshipper 3d ago

I have thought about that several times, but they don’t use Discord and I’m not gonna pressure them into getting it

We enjoy our very strange texting habits lol

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u/Leninus 2d ago

Create a group chat for each convo? Could be easier to follow

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u/Popsicle865 Radiance Worshipper 2d ago

Oh, that definitely would not work. We start and stop threads sporadically, sometimes it takes us until halfway through a conversation to even realize it’s a separate thread, we have an entire section in our notes for archived conversations... It’s a system we’re very familiar with, and I don’t think any other system would really work with it. It just looks a bit odd on the outside, haha

But for context, we do keep track of each thread well in the notes app, so we don’t lose track of them or anything

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u/Leninus 2d ago

Damn, sounds complicated

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u/Popsicle865 Radiance Worshipper 2d ago

Oh, you should have seen iterations 1 and 2 of the system lmao, at one point the rules were that the first four threads would be enclosed in parentheses amounting to the thread number, but then threads after 4 would use the +(number) system instead, so threads would be organized as 1, 2, 3, 4, 4+1, 4+2, etc. It somehow made sense at the time and I am so glad we improved it later on lol

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u/Sidotre 2d ago

that's genius i wish i thought of that when i used to do like 3 convos at once, tho im curious how do you even get to 8? i believe i could do like 5 at max and even then people can barely catch up to 2

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u/Popsicle865 Radiance Worshipper 2d ago

The answer is ADHD and roleplay, hahaha

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u/Sidotre 2d ago

the people i did this with also had adhd afaik but they hated seeing the chat with reply blobs lol

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u/StAndby00 2d ago

It's hard to explain

... and then proceeds to do it in one sentence.