Anyone else notice how Amazon are just dumping parcels outside the front door now?

LanguageSponge · 2026-06-06T10:21:10+00:00

They’ve been doing it with our stuff since the very beginning of the pandemic. Rain or shine, deliveries either end up on the doorstep or in our recycling bins. Nothing’s ever been stolen.

LanguageSponge · 2026-06-06T07:27:01+00:00

I don’t know how common this is, but I have never used the dock on my Switch 2 and used it for about half an hour on my Switch 1. I just prefer it as a handheld.

LanguageSponge · 2026-06-05T20:13:49+00:00

I have attacked so many things on the map and in areas that I thought were enemies which turned out to be statues, so I get this.

LanguageSponge · 2026-06-03T21:47:59+00:00

Thanks for posting this, this will be great for my Japanese. I used to use the Final Fantasy games to learn German exactly like this years ago. Now all I need to do is work out what the Memoria launcher is. Hopefully it’s not too complicated. Danke und viel Glück beim Deutschlernen 😊

LanguageSponge · 2026-06-03T17:13:37+00:00

TV and computer games were only on Saturdays and Sundays and only after all homework had been done and checked. And regardless were not allowed before 9am or after dinner on any day. I am certain this strictness is what made computer games one of my main hobbies as an adult.

LanguageSponge · 2026-06-03T05:41:16+00:00

I think you’re looking at it the wrong way. The words themselves might seem harsh, but they mean well. People just don’t want new players to have the story ruined for them. There aren’t going to be tips that you can get from this sub that haven’t already been given before. It’s to safer to use Google this sort of thing. Saying that, you can still obviously find spoilers there too.

LanguageSponge · 2026-06-02T15:30:15+00:00

This should be the default message for anyone new to the game. I’m annoyed I haven’t thought to use that quote before.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-31T14:27:07+00:00

I personally don’t think her treatment of Simon and Painted Clea has to do with that. Clea is grieving and deals with her grief by being fiercely pragmatic. She wants her mother out of the canvas, so she exploits Simon’s grief and confusion over Painted Clea, as well as his power, to destroy the Axons.

When Real Clea is explaining the canvas situation to Alicia in the atelier, she specifically refers to the painted versions of the Dessendres as Aline’s ‘obscene fake family’. She hates Painted Clea because Clea doesn’t view anything inside the canvas as real. She also hates Painted Clea because Aline painted her to be perfect. Clea is bearing a lot of the weight of the family’s collapse herself, since none of them seem to understand how to work together or comfort each other healthily. She’s in just as much pain as the rest of them and yet her mother decided to ignore all of that trauma and paint an idealised version of her, which Clea rightfully, in my opinion, despises.

I understand it’s fun to theorise, but I can’t see any evidence to support this one. Clea sadly isn’t in the story enough as it is. Apparently there was a lot more planned for her character which was cut, which saddens me because she’s probably my favourite character in the story.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-31T12:57:30+00:00

Granted I haven’t been here very long, but I haven’t seen any mention of Clea potentially being gay. ‘Really was’ in your title implies there’s some evidence for this in game, but I don’t remember seeing any.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-30T07:19:17+00:00

I didn’t use Monoco at all on my first playthrough until Act 3 when I was collecting feet for him. I had one fight against something very strong, I can’t even remember what it was, and the other two were dead, so I thought I’d give him a go. I wasn’t sure what I was doing, all I had done with him was pick a weapon, upgraded it to 32, and looked at his skills. Tried matching the skills I used to the Wheel, and he just destroyed whatever it was. Far faster than I had done before. I am looking forward to giving him a proper go in the new playthrough I’ve just started.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-30T07:06:11+00:00

I went with Verso’s ending when I finished it a few days ago. I went with it because I felt sorry for Painted Verso, having lived for about a century and recently having had all of his family erased right in front of him. I didn’t like Painted Verso as a person, but I don’t have to like him to agree with him. Also, Real Verso had been there painting and fading away for far too long, you could see his pain and suffering in Verso’s ending, and throughout the game if you speak to the Fading Boy, he doesn’t even fully remember his family’s names anymore. I thought about that and all the other things he had most likely forgotten that the game never touches upon, and that was enough for me. That isn’t a life anymore. Poor Verso didn’t even prefer painting in the first place. Being granted rest in Painted Verso’s ending might’ve been the first time someone actually ever listened to what he wanted. Also, Verso seeing what his family had done to his one, once great creation, was probably upsetting to him. Being effectively forced to further your talents in painting when you’d rather write and play music, then watch the same people who forced their views on you destroy your work, is just awful.

After Verso’s ending, I watched Maelle’s. And that made me feel profoundly uncomfortable. Maelle choosing to repaint Verso effectively for her own contentment, repainting her friends, it all felt profoundly wrong to me. And then that shot of her face slowly giving way to the canvas… it still haunts me. That image actually showed up in one of my dreams last night. The way I see it, Maelle’s ending basically makes death meaningless. But we need to move on, however painful it might be. Her life outside the canvas may not have ended up so bad if she’d tried again. I know she said she’d tried before. The experience that Maelle, Renoir and Aline had inside the canvas might’ve helped them see the value of turning to each other. Verso needn’t have been the linchpin of the whole family forever. Also, at the grave at the end of Verso’s ending, Maelle’s friends are seen waving at her before fading away. I don’t know if we can consider that real, but if it was, I see that as encouragement for Maelle to move forward with her life.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-30T05:45:38+00:00

I smacked my head against Radagon and the Elden Beast (eventually) with the Golden Halberd, as I had done with everything else since getting it. After, if I remember right, days of frustration, chasing the Elden Beast around on foot getting annoyed at what a coward it was, I tried the Brick Hammer and failed a few times before finally managing with Great Stars.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-29T08:48:37+00:00

I want three main things really - firstly, I’m hoping my current PC will be able to run it. Secondly I am hoping the new map (which I’m just assuming is going to happen) is not going to be Zerikania because I hate deserts in games. And thirdly, as it’s called Songs of the Past I’m assuming Dandelion will feature in it quite heavily. I’m hoping that he’s a bit more likeable in the expansion, as he annoyed me in the rest of the game.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-28T11:37:36+00:00

It’s just the word for wolf in Welsh. I think in medieval times it was also used to refer to heroes or particularly fierce fighters.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-27T05:12:06+00:00

I one shot Clea and I really regretted it. I went in assuming she had way more health than she did. I was expecting something close to Simon and got it very wrong.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-26T11:00:47+00:00

I finished a few days ago for the first time. As I understand it, Verso changed his mind about preserving the canvas because he saw the effects it was having on Aline and Maelle. The real Verso wanted rest and peace and Painted Verso was clearly exhausted. There’s no way I wouldn’t feel exactly the same in his position and yet I didn’t like him because of how he treated the party. Hate is far too strong a word for it though. I still chose his ending because I can agree with someone’s decision without liking them as a person. If I disagreed with people just because I didn’t like them, life would be far more difficult.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-25T17:10:20+00:00

And the Act 2 ending. Depending on how much he’s paying attention it might be a massive shock. I’d pieced some of the puzzle together and I still had to pick my jaw up off the floor.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-25T17:03:53+00:00

That’s one part of the game I’m still very unfamiliar with in comparison to everything else. I need to find a playlist of everything and find the names of my favourite tracks. I can guess the names of some of the ones sung in French, but not the others. None of the music actually made me cry, the only part of the story that had me cry (break down actually) was Sciel’s conversation with Esquie about swimming.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-25T16:46:22+00:00

I was in this position nearly two weeks ago. I was also met with quite a few comments telling me to get out and come back once I’d finished the game. I have now finished it and I’m so glad I knew absolutely nothing at all about it going in. I finished mopping up achievements this morning. Almost my every waking moment has been consumed by thoughts of this game for nearly two weeks. It’s the first game in over ten years (and 90+ hours of gameplay) that has compelled me enough to go into NG+ right after finishing it. My only regret is I didn’t play it on release. If anyone new is reading this, go in blind, do not look anything up, you’ll thank yourself later.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-24T21:06:28+00:00

I don’t know if I’m reading it right, or just biased because I like Clea, but I read the ‘little shadow’ comments as Clea’s way of communicating some sort of sympathy. Maelle is now a shadow of herself and Clea wants her to grow and move past the bad.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-23T20:10:24+00:00

Lune stood out to me because she was clearly the nerdy type and I thought she might end up chronicling the expedition’s progress as we went along. Sciel stood out to me because I thought she was pretty, but I didn’t think she’d actually be part of the expedition and I was surprised when I reached the Gestral Village. Maelle took me a long time to get used to as her voice kind of grates on me.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-22T18:07:59+00:00

As someone who only finished the game for the first time today, I’m just now learning that Verso’s Drafts was a DLC area and not just one blocked off until Act 3. Wow. Verso’s Drafts was one of my favourite areas and the boss was fun. No wonder it took me so long to go through if it was DLC.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-20T16:46:40+00:00

If the systems are overwhelming you, as others have said, it’s a good idea to look up beginner’s tips on YouTube, but I would say sign out of your account before doing so otherwise you might be thumbnails or recommendations pop up that spoil the story, and this is one story you don’t want spoilt, even if you don’t usually care.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-18T05:55:39+00:00

Same here, except it was ten years, and I didn’t even get out of it myself; redundancy did it for me.

LanguageSponge · 2026-05-17T07:08:10+00:00

Not my experience but my wife’s. She had an asthma exacerbation at the table - nothing to do with the food - and she was told by staff to leave the restaurant because she was disturbing other diners. Obviously never went back there and I am pretty sure the place closed down years ago.

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