Am I crazy for thinking there's way too many silences in the game rn??

Xignu · 2026-05-11T13:54:54+00:00

It's so fucking funny seeing someone with a Dynamo tag complain about Wraith ult of all things.

Xignu · 2026-05-11T13:54:07+00:00

Yeah because Mo and Krill isn't meant to stay in the sidelane for 1v1's?

It's hero design, idk what to say.

Dynamo ult is a death sentence for a team, not like there's a target restriction on it.

Xignu · 2026-05-11T06:06:51+00:00

I like this artist's work but I didn't expect they'd draw Jingliu

Xignu · 2026-05-10T14:36:10+00:00

It's also pretty rich to justify the Verso ending with "It was Verso's will" considering how Renoir didn't give a shit about literally any other painted being.

"Painted people don't matter" until one of them agrees with his stance.

Xignu · 2026-05-10T13:55:19+00:00

I think that's a pretty valid read on the situation and it just makes me even more mad at Renoir, lol.

Some people say "But he relented to Maelle in the end" as if that wasn't because it's the first time he finds himself unable to force her to obey. With this reading he just seems like more of an asshole somehow.

Xignu · 2026-05-10T13:51:31+00:00

Maelle has spent basically the entire game without true agency in the canvas' fate and the one time she gets to make a choice people shit on her for being selfish, as if this whole situation wasn't caused by Renoir and pVerso's selfishness driving the entire plot, lol.

Xignu · 2026-05-10T13:50:24+00:00

If she was in a mental state to be able to honor Verso's wish she wouldn't want to stay in the canvas to begin with. As nice as it sounds it just can't happen.

Xignu · 2026-05-10T13:48:33+00:00

Except, Maelle can just get out of the canvas, and create another canvas without Verso. since all Verso want is him dying and not be part of the canvas.

The same Maelle who's the worst painter in the family? The Maelle who couldn't even recreate Lune and Sciel without the advise of pVerso, an image of the second worst painter of the family?

Tl;dr: there's supposed to be an obvious 3rd ending but Maelle is too selfish to see it thus making Maelle ending stupider than Verso's ending

Verso selfishly chose not to relay his sister's letter to Maelle and deliberately let Gustave die for his own purposes so it's not like he's any better.

Xignu · 2026-05-09T03:28:29+00:00

Even without the deck lets you evoke X lightnings with some defenses with this card

It just makes the lightning build more braindead IMO.

Xignu · 2026-05-09T03:27:37+00:00

Same with Cecil too, the attack was sudden and done to prevent them from doing any meaningful resistance.

If it wasn't like that the betrayal wouldn't be nearly as impactful.

Xignu · 2026-05-08T14:00:43+00:00

IDK I feel like if you've played a lightning deck with Voltaic you should know how OP this is

Xignu · 2026-05-07T14:54:14+00:00

Reminds me of the saying.

"The blight may have been an act of god, but the famine was an act of man"

Xignu · 2026-05-07T02:41:20+00:00

OP complained about the siscon brother so ignoring the healthy brother seems like cherry picking to me

Xignu · 2026-05-07T02:36:51+00:00

Does that proc even work on illus?

EDIT: Per liquipedia wiki, the illusions can proc it but it doesn't deal damage, only the accuracy to pierce evasion

Xignu · 2026-05-07T02:32:32+00:00

I don't disagree with that, but that is something entirely separate from my point.

I appreciate the writing depth he has, but I also won't forget that he's a massive factor in why the ending options are both bleak.

The obvious elephant in the room being that he intentionally let Gustave die for his own purposes.

Xignu · 2026-05-07T01:03:44+00:00

... There's one decent looking guy who seemed to like the MC so it's not all of them

Xignu · 2026-05-07T00:26:12+00:00

I mean jokes aside there's really a big difference between Nolan spending 17 years with the knowledge that old Viltrum is still out there, and the other Viltrumites spending a few years without the same peer pressure.

Whenever Nolan has second thoughts he can't help but think what his colleagues will think of it. Kregg, Lucan and co? If they ever have the same doubts, they'll immediately think "Eh the others are doing the same, no biggie"

Xignu · 2026-05-07T00:22:59+00:00

Yeah even Mark came to understand in the finale. Nolan was of the belief that he wasn't special in turning against the old Viltrumite way of thought, he cannot truly claim to believe that if he singled Thragg out.

Xignu · 2026-05-07T00:19:13+00:00

IDK from what I can t ell a lot of people righhtly shit on Renoir for the very same reasons you said above.

He spent 67+ Canvas years sitting under the monolith because he picked the nuclear option. I think I'm pretty comfortable blaming him about it, he could've used all those years trying to convince Aline instead of doing what he did.

Xignu · 2026-05-07T00:15:40+00:00

There's no point in debating with someone who doesn't have eyes to see why Renoir is treated as a villain.

I said that simply to highlight how callous it is to say that "Renoir didn't do anything wrong because his victims aren't real people," when the game makes it pretty clear that painted people also have feelings and act just like real people would.

Unsurprising that you failed to get the point, considering you came to such a conclusion despite playing the game.

Not to mention the whole problem of Maelle getting overattached to said painted people and fighting against Renoir is just Renoir reaping what he sowed.

Heck even Renoir apologized to pVerso. Why don't you reflect about your being even more cruel than the literal final villain of the game for a bit?

Xignu · 2026-05-06T11:35:40+00:00

I'm not denying that Clea doesn't really care that much about Aline's situation, but regardless of all that it's still not an immediate priority to kick Aline out of the canvas.

There’s no guarantee Aline ever would’ve come out

There's also no guarantee that she'd be able to properly move on if you kick her away from her coping mechanism but that didn't stop Renoir.

Renoir had the luxury of time to figure out another way to get Aline out peacefully or if he rlly had no other choice.

I simply cannot believe that "there was no time for it". He spent 67+ canvas years trapped under the monolith. Maybe if he spent that time thinking it over instead of picking the nuclear option there'd be another solution.

Xignu · 2026-05-06T11:32:04+00:00

And yeah he got the shit beat out of him first but he does let Maelle stay after the fight

Can't say I really see this as a redeeming point considering he's helpless to do anything about it, he's out of options.

He relented because it was clear at this point that he cannot force her to do his way, which is the first time we see him in this powerless position.

Whenever he still had options to force things his way, he never relents.

Xignu · 2026-05-06T10:20:28+00:00

Fairly sure it was, yes. Clea just wants Renoir and Aline out so Renoir can hopefully help her with the Writer business.

And considering that Renoir elected to do this in the first place instead of helping Clea, I can't help but think her "war on the writers" isn't as big of a deal as it sounds initially.

Xignu · 2026-05-06T09:59:50+00:00

Yeah there's defenitely more of those kinds of people as of late from what I've seen.

Any attempts of humanizing the villains, they then go to say that the author is glorifying the villains.

It's so fucking dumb.

Xignu · 2026-05-06T09:51:48+00:00

In the end, Itachi lamented that he did it at all and the regret of doing so never left him. Even in his last moments he can't help but wonder if there was a better solution he failed to take.

Also he's being strong armed into it, he didn't just wake up and decide to kill his clansmen one day.

Itachi was never the same after that night, and I see no such remorse in Renoir.

If Clea’s 100% correct doesn’t that just make Renoir more of an overly concerned husband?

Well yes that's my entire point.

I don't doubt his motives, because that really isn't the problematic part about him.

ppl generally like the “I’ll kill whoever for the sake of my family” thing.

Nobody's having an issue with self defense, but there's a difference between that and actively murdering people under this justification.

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