This seems like a reasonable bait to me. I can appreciate stirring up some discussion, though the means might be a bit rude here.

That would be a great way to stop people from claiming they've "finished" a game. 

Yeah, it's just a game. A videogame can't be something that forms a core memory or an important part of your life. Only books and movies and music are allowed to do that. /sarcasm. 

Also, I can't tell you how often you'll get laughed out of the room in this modern age while being right. Idiots are everywhere. 

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. 

It's not. As long as they admit that they aren't playing Silksong anymore. As long as they don't try to be a part of the community that genuinely likes Silksong and Hollow Knight. Just like it's fine to play Karaoke while just randomly mashing strings on your guitar so long as you don't tell people that "you are a guitar player". You do you. Just be sure to be yourself and not a poser. 

It makes me laugh how with videogames people are expected to tolerate ridiculousness that wouldn't fly in other hobbies. You can't throw gutterballs and then yell STRIKE! unironically in a bowling alley. A kid that thinks Soccer is played with hands is fine, but imagine he goes to join a local Soccer team and then insists to everyone that hands are allowed. And when they all tell him they aren't allowed he calls them gatekeepers or whatever. 

Also I'd like to once again point out that these games already have an easy mode built in. Grind out more souls and level up. They don't want an easy mode. They want things spoonfed to them and they want everything their way. 

You don't get to decide how other people enjoy their hobbies.

If people want to play their own way, that's up to them, and them alone. They don't need your permission or approval.

No, but I do get to decide whether their hobby is the hobby they claim it is. Someone mashing strings on a guitar with AI assistance isn't a guitar player. Someone that plays Soccer with his hands isn't playing Soccer. Someone that installs a mod that changes a critical aspect of the game isn't playing that game. They are playing a similar looking but different game. Look, I love Shredder's Re-Revenge but that's not SoR2. Someone who only beat Re-Revenge and never beat Rage 2 can't claim to be a fan of SOR2. They are two different games. People don't get to be posers, just because it's videogames. 

You actually don't get to decide that. Nobody appointed you the supreme overlord of gaming. Your opinion is just that, your opinion, it matters no more than anybody else's.

You can't stop people modding Silksong to be easier. You're free to dislike it, and complain about it, but there's nothing you can do about it.

So now the problem is people posing about their gaming? Who even does that? I know for sure that no one around myself would be impressed by what I play, no matter what game it is, lol.

Also, we're talking about toys, not sports or instruments. It's quite a flawed comparison. You don't play soccer for yourself so you don't get to make the rules. You also shouldn't cheat in online games. But when you're playing all for yourself, who gives a flying fuck about what you're doing? If you kick a ball in your garden you can do whatever you like and no one gets hurt. When it comes to instruments, everything is allowed when you play for yourself. Now whether you'd like to call yourself a guitar player just because you pulled some strings for three minutes is up to you. I'm learning Ukulele for three years now and still wouldn't call myself really good at it. But I also don't care what other people talk about themselves. Seriously, I don't have time to be upset about something this insignificant.

I still struggle to see the point of this thread.

I don't think you understand what an opinion is. An opinion is a subjective statement of like or dislike. A claim that Y is not X is a factual claim. You can disagree and believe that a romhack of Silksong is still Silksong. But whether it is or is not is not an opinion. 

I'm just arguing that once you take a critical component out of something it becomes something else. If you remove the water from the sea it's no longer the sea. 

Again, you are free to disagree and state that the sea is still the sea without water. Or that Silksong is still Silksong after being altered in a way that drastically changes the game. But it's not an opinion. 

And yes, exactly. I am free to dislike that people are actively butchering the game and being posers. I'm also free to make fun of them for it and point out that they aren't playing Silksong but an edit, because they actually don't like Silksong. I am free to suggest that they play a game they will actually enjoy instead of pretending to like a game that they don't like. 

You're free to feel that way, but frankly I doubt anyone really cares whether you approve of how they play games.

Plenty of people in this thread cared enough to berate me for judging others. 

Yeah, I think some of these reactions are a bit OTT. It's a fun little thread, no need to be rude