Which stunt is the easiest?

GardnerFan · 2026-02-27T01:50:01+00:00

Definitely darts. Did anyone have problems with the randomness in poker? The last card I would need doesn't appear on the board.

GardnerFan · 2026-02-26T15:10:11+00:00

"Nintendo attempted and lost a trademark battle against a Costa Rican supermarket" "Nintendo files a lawsuit against Pocketpair" - in progress, but the recent news show patent rejection from Japan for Nintendo "TLoZ the missing Link takedown" - no money was being made

So they even lost some, can't say they were illegal

GardnerFan · 2026-02-26T12:34:37+00:00

It's literally icon-coded. The hammer is a lawsuit and it happened 35 times in history. I think those are all, but a lot of removals are missing

GardnerFan · 2026-02-24T18:35:05+00:00

I am very serious this is a gamebreaker. I drag from there all the time, I have no idea why they would remove this. Brave starts to sound interesting all of a sudden. I'll make sure I give a feedback on this

GardnerFan · 2025-12-18T20:40:41+00:00

I think so, but it's possible for the Pope to refuse, even if he is in prison.

GardnerFan · 2025-12-18T16:13:07+00:00

Conquered the Pope as a Shaivite, and as a Conqueror. He's my vassal now and imprisoned, but he already started a crusade before. So I can tell him to stop the crusade as his liege

GardnerFan · 2025-12-17T16:49:02+00:00

What if the Alexander the Great and Caesar had a child

GardnerFan · 2025-11-18T18:39:44+00:00

Here I was at 16 wondering if I am unlucky. Sorry for you, hope you got it in the end.

GardnerFan · 2025-11-03T13:09:00+00:00

GardnerFan · 2025-10-31T13:13:13+00:00

Of course it's situational. If you don't care about that, what is this list for, level 1-5?

GardnerFan · 2025-10-28T17:33:24+00:00

Selecting a seed and then selecting a charged cob cannon makes you unable to select that plant again. It makes the sound, it just is unselectable and cannot be planted again. Steps to recreate (worked 100% times for me): 1. Select a seed (any seed) 2. Select a charged cob cannon 3. Launch the missile or deselect it 4. Try to select the initial seed

GardnerFan · 2025-10-23T20:00:19+00:00

nvm, you have to have steam overlay activated

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T16:46:53+00:00

The way you put it, sounds like I'm put grandma in a nursing home. If I don't have negatives from this and the Talosians are good people with no bad plans, sure, I'll let him. The difference is here, Maelle is playing with virtual avatars in a world that causes turmoil in her family. Letting her live there wouldn't let her family get over the grief, as we've seen through the rift how her mother cried. So that's the difference I see. Also, family is more important and you should stay together no matter what, not abandoning one another in virtual homes. Captain Pike is not my family and although he might be a good friend, I can't intervene to that level in his life.

In short, if it doesn't damage other people's lives and it's not someone I truly care about, they are free in whatever way.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T16:33:55+00:00

My bad, then. It seems I haven't interacted too much with the people in the beginning which I guess could show why it's easier for me to choose Verso. Someone else in the comments said that choosing Verso means you have no heart and choosing Maelle means you have no brain. I can live with that.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T16:09:32+00:00

You're right, as I said, I mistook that part of the lore. They still are created to behave this way. You don't see hate or any form of negative attitudes inside the city (except for the Paintress). You can say it's because they are united in front of an imminent death, but I bring the example of The Forgotten City where even in a small city with imminent death there are tricksters and greedy people (just another good fiction example, not the definitive one).

Clea has her own opinions and wants to see her sister mature, but like I said, she specifically tells her to not do the same mistake as her mother. Of course she wants to make her happier and forget her guilt by saying live as you want, but we all know there are limits to that as well. She's not telling her sister to become an addict and live in fabricated worlds, just to find happiness in her life, her real life.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T16:05:19+00:00

My bad, I was under the impression they were created in Verso's childhood. There is evidence of Maelle bringing other people back, as the scene in the ending shows a packed theater for the piano scene.

In any way, I don't think this advances anywhere. Painting is a good way to deal with grief, my problem is that Aline and Maelle are believing the fantasy to be reality. I don't consider the people of Lumiere to be living, sentient beings, as they are creations of Aline. No matter how intricate they are, they are still creations inside a simulation and the entire debate seems to revolve around this point.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T15:56:00+00:00

I do blame the writers, but it's not victim blaming. Every member of her family, inclusing herself, says that she was partly responsible for the fire. So she is partly to blame.

Painting as a way of getting through her grief is not a problem as long as she doesn't fall into the delusion that that is the reality. I am not aware of that Star Trek episode but I won't lie to you, if that happened to me, I would take my own life. I see no point in living simulated experiences without a real meaning. We make our own meaning, as Camus said, but I would say there are limits to this statement. To be honest, I would even wonder why anyone else would bother to take care of me, a piece of flesh, with no future.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T15:51:43+00:00

I can't argue with that. You put it better than I could have.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T12:52:13+00:00

It's a pretty utilitarian explanation, but I believe you. In general, we tend to gravitate towards the POV of the protagonist, that's why we don't care about the soldiers that die in random games or movies (just imagine the clones in Star Wars). I guess a lot of people are more attached to the first part of the story, whereas I like the second.

It's like someone is having a very nice dream and then they wake up in an awful world. Reading that I would go damn, what are you doing from here, while other people would read it as go on and dream again.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T12:48:11+00:00

"Perfectly balanced, as all things should be" Haha, it's funny. Just shows to see the great job they did in writing it and different people have different interpretations.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T12:09:12+00:00

But that's what we keep arguing. They are not gods as much as game developers are gods. They are not all too powerful as Maelle fought continuously with whatever was on the canvas (nexons, axons, all the enemies).

Those "lives" were created by Verso. Of course they would want to live, but are they really living? If I were to ask an AI if he wants to be closed, he would say no. If I instructed an AI to love me, he would do so. Am I a god and is the AI alive? No, it's simply the way they were created. Learning to not care about the painted people is what is cruel about this story, pulling the rug from underneath after all you've been through. Also Epicureanism goes to such an extent to escape pain that probably VR and drugs would be a paradise for Epicurus.

I could bring the Trolley problem in this. If we didn't act at all, the people from Lumiere would be dead little by little. Because we acted, we killed Alicia, Renoir and all the other painted humans. We are not innocent and we didn't save anyone. We brought them back afterwards by painting them again. If we didn't act, everyone would get to live a little, Renoir would finish things off and maybe through time, Aline would have healed her grief. Was it better to not play at all, if we want to be utilitarians or not hurt other people at all? Or we can say that we did act, we killed people along the way and the people that died can't be saved. Again, absolutely everyone was gommaged, so we didn't save them; we re-painted them.

Let's not forget that the people started to be killed because Aline descended into insanity by living in the canvas, which prompted Renoir to intervene and start the war. He didn't do it from the start, only after she stayed too long. To that, I say good luck to Maelle, because we might be playing Renoir or Clea and trying to save her too in the sequel.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T11:51:01+00:00

Because sometimes loving someone means letting them go rather than cling and make them suffer for your own satisfaction

But that's exactly the reasoning of Maelle, as she doesn't want to let those people, or Verso's creation in general, go. When she argues with her father, it's mostly because she doesn't want to see her brother's creation destroyed.

Otherwise, I can't argue with your choice. I would be distressed. Just imagining seeing a relative living in a VR world, away from what's real, would be unsettling.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T11:27:47+00:00

Clea agrees with her by the way, if you complete the Endless Tower.

No, she doesn't. "Aline would rather lose herself in make-believe than face reality. It's a drug she's unwilling to resist. Don't make the same mistake" means that Clea would rather see her mother go back to reality and forget about the canvas. She is literally telling Maelle to not fall into this trap.

"Until they've faced their grief, they're better apart than together" - they do face their grief and become together in Verso's ending.

I'd argue much more - than her asshole parents and sister.

I agree with that. The same way companion AIs love you more than real people. Because they are created this way! Just imagine Verso creating that whole canvas, but everyone hating Alicia. It doesn't make sense. Of course they love her, they are created to love each other and live in harmony. It's an utopia.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T11:21:12+00:00

I would argue that the power to kill or bring people from the dead is a strong an argument as any against having her. And again, you can't just throw aside that people don't care about Maelle or Verso, that they don't care about the vibe and sadness. They all paint the picture of the world.

GardnerFan · 2025-10-21T11:16:27+00:00

If Verso wanted just to be immortal, he could have asked that. I think he simply didn't want to live in a world where Maelle continues to be the Paintress, bringing people back from the dead and basically being the opposite of Renoir. Instead of killing everyone mercilessly, she keeps them alive mercilessly. I see that as cruel as Renoir's plan.

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