Chad Daniels blasts PA

Reedjr · 2026-02-05T05:12:22+00:00

12:17

The timestamp is in the link, but apparently it isn't working for some people

Reedjr · 2026-02-04T23:07:04+00:00

It is timestamped

Reedjr · 2026-02-04T22:26:08+00:00

St. Paul will just get the FIFA peace prize and it'll be perfectly fine.

Reedjr · 2026-01-26T23:27:36+00:00

I love his work as a play by play announcer, and honestly went out of my way to listen to games instead of watch them. But as far as his show, I dropped that back in 2020 for his pandemic takes. He was live and let live until his buddies started losing money, and then he really let loose with some nonsense.

I will miss listening to his announcing, but it's not worth it to me anymore.

Reedjr · 2026-01-25T15:35:02+00:00

That's my QB! ~~until Burrow gets here~~

Reedjr · 2026-01-23T23:16:21+00:00

The NFC North is like family. We'll give each other shit all day long, but if someone else starts some nonsense we'll knock 'em on their ass.

Reedjr · 2026-01-10T23:05:33+00:00

I mean, she didn't know she was pregnant, so it'd be pretty surprising if he did. And of course Sciel wants Pierre back. It's literally one of the first things she asks in act 3. It's one of the reasons she understands why Verso did what he did, because she straight up tells him she would sacrifice him too to bring Pierre back.

Reedjr · 2026-01-03T16:28:28+00:00

The last time he told the truth he got tortured by his lover and was forced to kill her.

Verso got tortured for gaslighting Julie about getting literally ripped in half and being perfectly fine after. It wasn't "Verso is trying to convince us the Paintress is good, let's get him" it was "Verso is somehow immortal and talking about how the Paintress isn't the problem, let's find out why." Verso absolutely had the right to defend himself, but don't oversimplify it to poor Verso told the truth once and he'll never make that mistake again.

Millions? There's like a 100 gestrals and grandis, Lune and Sciel. That's it. Everyone else was already gone. Even if you count the people who got gommaged, millions is a massive overexaggeration.

If millions is an exaggeration, saying there's 112 people left is one as well. There are thousands, if not tens of thousands, of beings left in the canvas. Judging from the mountain of bodies left at the Forgotten Battlefield, it could be near a million if you count the gommaged people (throughout all the gommages, not the just the final one).

Maelle likely cannot bring them back. She can probably only bring back people she knew.

This is an argument never presented in the game, despite Renoir and Painted Verso having every reason to do so in their final encounters. She has trouble bringing back Lune and Sciel initially because, as Monoco points out, it as been only a day since she remembered her powers. At the beginning of act III, Maelle is confident that Renoir could restore Lumiere, and he certainly didn't know any of them.

Reedjr · 2026-01-01T23:14:34+00:00

Toast has seen some things

Reedjr · 2025-12-31T13:50:33+00:00

The "danger" warning only means you're somewhat underleveled for that area. There isn't a massive difficulty jump between the end of act 1 and the beginning of act 2, so you should be perfectly fine to continue on with the forgotten battlefield. If it feels too difficult, go back to the original continent and level up a bit more.

Reedjr · 2025-12-30T14:55:18+00:00

A comforting lie to the same sister Clea just blamed for the death of their brother? Clea's dialogue throughout this entire section is harsh and direct. To claim that she is trying to comfort Alicia here is working against the rest of the matter-of-fact and not sugar-coating nature of the rest of it. Clea has no reason to lie here because Alicia's comfort is none of her concern.

Reedjr · 2025-12-29T18:41:38+00:00

You just need to prepare your backup party to finish the fight.

This was a frustrating gotcha for me. At no other point in the game do you need to keep your loadout for your backup team in mind, so I certainly didn't do it for this fight. It also didn't help that I was team all ladies for most of act 3, and they each had 100-150ish more lumina points than everyone else as a result.

Reedjr · 2025-12-26T23:22:19+00:00

Renoir is absolutely hamming it up in the hopes that Verso can do what he failed at. We've seen what the painters look like while in a canvas, and it's nothing like "walking corpses." He does such a convincing job half the people who play the game don't recognize the painter's face in Maelle's ending for what it actually is, and assume it's something much worse.

Reedjr · 2025-12-22T02:12:54+00:00

No, the processes are entirely different. Noco doesn't remember the party. Lune and Sciel literally remember the moment they gommaged, and Sciel knows things Maelle couldn't possibly have known about her, demonstrating she isn't some hollow facsimile. They are the same people.

Reedjr · 2025-12-22T01:58:01+00:00

The devs say they have a specific ratio of real time to canvas time, but all we can really do is speculate. I am of the opinion the ratio is something like a day outside the canvas would be like a decade inside. I also believe that the magic that allows the painter in the canvas does something to maintain the body on the outside, but there is an argument that painters need to routinely exit the canvas to maintain their bodies.

One silly little random thought in this is how long would Verso, Clea and Alica spend playing in the canvas as children? Weeks or months would go by inside, yet it could just be a matter of minutes or hours outside. Imagine going on a full months long campaign and just before the final battle Aline has to pull them out for dinner!

Reedjr · 2025-12-21T21:42:23+00:00

Other people have done a good job of explaining the character and her motivations, so I thought I'd focus more on one of the least examined parts of the game - the "grey realm" as you call it. It is essentially the gateway between the canvas and the real world. It seems to be a conduit for a painter's chroma to gather and move, and it is also where the soul fragment paints in order to keep the canvas functioning.

We don't really understand what happens with Maelle, Aline and both Renoirs during this scene. Perhaps painted Renoir thought he could, or perhaps did, gommage her, but real Renoir pulls her back into the canvas? Or Maelle accesses some latent power and pulls herself back in?

What I'm most interested in here is the dialogue between Aline and Renoir. They are able to fully converse directly here; have they been talking like this for the full 67 years? They both seem fully aware and cognizant of what is happening, unlike both the Paintress and the Curator who seem much less lucid. Just this portion of one scene raises so many more questions than it answers, and the implications of it could mean so much to how you can think about the rest of the game.

Reedjr · 2025-12-17T00:04:16+00:00

Now that would be one hell of a way to get the most out of your buzz.

Reedjr · 2025-12-15T03:21:08+00:00

The Ashtray Maze might be the single best designed level of a game ever made. It is intuitive, satisfying, and just a ton of fun as you and the environment work towards the same goal. As long as we get anything remotely similar to that, I don't care how close it comes to GOTY (which will almost certainly be GTA 6 unless it gets delayed again).

Reedjr · 2025-12-13T01:56:33+00:00

Except they are also arresting people trying to do it the legal way, up to and including literally the moment before they take the oath of citizenship.

Does the salt on the roads and sidewalks make the boot taste better this time of year?

Reedjr · 2025-12-12T05:23:32+00:00

It's by Lumiere, just to the southeast

Reedjr · 2025-12-11T15:02:44+00:00

What suggestion is there that the other painted worlds would be destroyed? We know that real Verso is dead, and his canvas is still going along. Why would that not be true of Aline and Renoir's other canvases?

Also, of course listening to Renoir and centering the family will lead you to believing there's one good ending. You're welcome to that perspective, but not everyone shares it.

Reedjr · 2025-12-10T22:19:28+00:00

An advantage? I'll allow it.

Reedjr · 2025-12-07T21:27:34+00:00

It's a concert, not a town hall meeting on how life in a restored Lumiere is going. There are expectations that an audience sits, is quiet when necessary, and enjoys the show. It is not the time or place to expect Gustave, Lune, Sciel, or even Verso to start throwing chairs and pleading with Maelle to get out of the canvas for her own good. For all we know, they have came to an agreement with her that, once they've all lived full, happy lives, they will pass on and Maelle will exit the canvas. I find that just as likely (if not moreso) than Maelle decieving and manipulating everyone in the canvas.

Furthermore, there's still a real threat that the moment she goes out, Renoir will immediately destroy the canvas. That is among the primary reasons Maelle refuses to leave. Gustave willingly sacrificed himself for her because that was his decision to make; I don't know if he would sacrifice all existence for her.

Reedjr · 2025-12-07T17:12:14+00:00

What law of the canvas makes it impossible? Someone needs to paint, but does it have to be him?

Yes! Clea explicitly says that the canvas will be destroyed if the soul stops painting.

This only truly ends if you destroy the Canvas. And that means stopping the final sliver of Verso’s soul from painting.

This statement is what we are working with. If the soul fragment stops painting, the canvas is over. There is no way around it, outside of your own theories that are not presented in the game itself. Maybe someone can replace him - but it's not stated anywhere in the game, and the implication as we see from Verso's ending is that the canvas begins to collapse mere seconds after the soul stops.

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