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What the community is arguing about, updated by heat
Day 9 · Ongoing
The Butler Gloves Debate
🔥 217 replies
True ending: gloves under gloves. The team is split between "Mr. Crow himself" (design logic matches) and "Mr. Crow's subordinate" (the saga never appears twice). Latest ammo: frame-by-frame seam comparison against Paradox — both sides claim victory.
Day 7 · Settled
Timeline anchor: 1896
✅ Settled
Triple-verified: manor calendar, carriage fare table and the fireplace newspaper all interlock on autumn 1896. Skeptics argued "electric lights didn't exist" — then someone screenshotted the gas lamps. Rusty Lake's artists did the homework.
Day 5 · Voting
Ending theories shift
🗳️ 3,204 votes
Sacrifice led at 47% all week, but Loop climbed 29% → 38%. The trigger: frame-analysis confirmed the true ending replays the SAME Day-1 footage, not a matching cut. The Loop camp got its smoking gun.
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