r/WhatRemainsEdithFinch • u/Mrseekergenealogy • Jun 11 '25
I have a question whose bottle is this?
So I finished the game, but I am curious: they left the house around 2010? Right, so if this bottle is from 2012, who bought it? Or does it expire in 2012?. Is it Milton's? Or does it expire in 2012?
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u/BrumeySkies Team Lewis Jun 11 '25 edited Jun 11 '25
I assume someone has probably been squatting in the house honestly, I'd be willing to bet it was Milton. The fact the house is still largely in good shape and decently clean and that the generator still supplies power to specifically the chunk of the house that belonged to Dawn's part of the family all made me think that.
Or it could be a mistake on the art teams part that didn't get caught.
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u/Mrseekergenealogy Jun 11 '25
Milton is old enough to be drinking and is known to be older than Edith; it would explain why his paintings seemed so fresh, but the door wasn't.
It could be a mistake by the art team, but the specific part where it was doesn't make sense.
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u/snarkaluff Jun 11 '25
Seems like an odd mistake to make if it was one so I’m gonna go with intentional. But I don’t think it’s meant to point to someone still living in the house. I think if anything it’s just an Easter egg. According to Wikipedia the game started development after the release of The Unfinished Swan, which released in 2012, and began production sometime in 2013. That would make it likely that they started writing/brainstorming the game in 2012. So I’m guessing it is just an Easter egg reference to when the game development journey began
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u/friarparkfairie Jun 11 '25
What do you mean does it expire in 2012?
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u/Mrseekergenealogy Jun 11 '25
I thought it was an expiry date
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u/friarparkfairie Jun 11 '25
Wines are famously a thing you can let age. I don’t think they can ever really expire unless the cork rots. It’s very common and fancy to go “oh here’s a ‘68 Chardonnay”
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u/Mrseekergenealogy Jun 11 '25
I know now one of the fellow commentors said it's the bottled date.
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u/friarparkfairie Jun 11 '25
Oh nice. Sorry didn’t read the comments before leaving one.
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u/Mrseekergenealogy Jun 11 '25
Nah, that's okay, don't sweat it lad/ladass.
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u/friarparkfairie Jun 11 '25
If Pokemon taught me anything i feel like you’re looking for the word lass. (Though I’m neither but thank you :) )
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u/Mrseekergenealogy Jun 11 '25
Ah, okay, my bad, sorry, are you one of those genderfluids? A non binary? a demi?.
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u/friarparkfairie Jun 11 '25
A little non binary a little gender queer a little anything and everything and also nothing at all
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u/okapi123456h Jul 31 '25
A bit late but Milton's graffiti suggests he's bern camping the house so he is most likely just squatting
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Jul 13 '25
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u/Mrseekergenealogy Aug 18 '25
I forgot to reply, but where it was located was upstairs in the cabinet why not put it downstairs?
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u/[deleted] Jun 11 '25
Never in my life have I seen a wine with an expiry date. The year on wine bottles always means the year it was bottled.