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It must have been really hard for gamers to do that side quest where Geraldo of Rivia says racism is bad

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Or when Ciri is canonically bisexual. Or how the Witcher 2 is about a guerilla movement for national liberation.

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58 points

You guys are overestimating gamers capacity to read

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39 points

Most gamers turn off the subtitles because seeing words makes them feel bad about not knowing how to read.

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I don’t understand people who go the Roche route literally just because the choice to get onto it involves Geralt just keeping the elf dudes sword away from him like a dick when Roche shows up out of the blue.

It just felt like such a weird choice to make to me. Like why should Geralt give a shit? I was just like here have your sword and go fight each other I guess.

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I have to imagine a lot of it is weird brainworms about “nonviolence” despite playing a game where you slaughter people willy nilly.

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Wasn’t that choice ultimately super obvious? Iirc either save the girls from pogrom or join the schutzstaffel.

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Don’t worry gamers argue Ciri isn’t actually attracted to women in giant long form essays

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13 points

damn… i never played the 2nd one… the first was fucking amazing and so was the 3rd but when the 2nd came out i didn’t have a computer that could play it and so i just forgot about it

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49 points

that side quest

I feel like “Geralt turns to the camera and says ‘the real monsters are cruel and intolerant men’” happens in a good ten percent of the quests, both side and main.

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3 points

The first trailer for W3 was exactly that. “Killing Monsters” shreds several nilfgardian soldiers, remember?

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29 points

There’s a mod that change it for woke is bad.

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1 point

Are you serious? What do they change?

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50 points

You can tell I’m a grown ass man because the thing I fear and hate is called Sweet Baby

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50 points

You know what?

Gay black Witcher

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I’m glad I never bothered with Based Geraldo’s game because the fanbase seems nuclear toxic.

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The books and the games are actually quite good, there’s a reason they got so big in Poland. See this synthesis of other comments:

“It must have been really hard for gamers to do that side quest where Geraldo of Rivia says racism is bad.”
“Or when Ciri is canonically bisexual. Or how the Witcher 2 is about a guerilla movement for national liberation.”
“I feel like “Geralt turns to the camera and says ‘the real monsters are cruel and intolerant men’” happens in a good ten percent of the quests, both side and main.”

I don’t think Andrzej Sapkwoski is explicitly leftist but the stories would get ripped apart by the anti-woke crowd if they were first released today instead of in the 80s, and no I don’t think this is just cope to defend a story I found deeply meaningful. Geralt’s character arc in the original short stories and books is about going from a jaded bitter individualist “why should I ever stick my neck out for anyone else” to “I will fucking eviscerate anyone from the dominant social group who tries to pogrom these ethnic minorities”.

Chuds just have exactly 0 media literacy skills so they see white man and think “omg he’s just like me” when his position in society is actually to be persecuted, scapegoated, and given the shittiest of shit-work to the point where he multiple times has to go into the shit-filled sewers just to earn money for food.

I mean I had no interest in the Netflix show because it looked horribly done, not because Big Woke woked all over it or whatever the chuds said

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I don’t think Andrzej Sapkwoski is explicitly leftist

He’s a weird dude who is a chud and an asshole, but for some reason he at least was explicitly antiracist when wrote the books. Ultimately, i would count him as a lib because his solutions to racism and national liberation are liberal.

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10 points

The fanbase is just another example of “curtain is blue and there’s no other meaning” brainworms even though the game has quite a lot of interesting themes going on

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45 points

Ah so this is what passes for a “meme” on

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41 points

I swear to god if i see the names of john woke or jane gender in the credits im gonna be SO PISSED OFF that i will assassinate the prime minister of israel Benjamin Netanyahu.

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