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BioEnchanted posted:OK, Witcher 3 kinda spoiled it's tastefulness in the second major area with the witch. The first town your in there mentions that soldiers are abusing their power but instead of just insinuating that they're rapists they go cartoonishly out of the way to make sure the player gets it. It's not "Oh no, the soldiers aren't allowing people their dignity" it's more like " Considering one of the Witcher 3 devs had to actually post in a thread to explain that the evil rape empire were not the good guys I can't actually blame them for taking the path of no-subtlety.
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ALL RIGHT EVERYONE LINE UP FOR YOUR MORNING RAPIN'!
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Based on Witcher 2, the kingdoms being invaded are ruled by extremely stupid and selfish inbred psychopaths and when I found out the sorceresses were scheming to take over it was hard to hold it against them. Later when Letho revealed he was on a mission to destabilise the kingdoms to pave the way for the Empire invading well, maybe that would be a net positive for the area? So I can imagine them really having to play up the evil of the Imperial soldiers just to make it clear that they're not preferable to the likes of Henselt.
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May 30, 2016 19:57
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The Emperor of Nilfgaard is Charles Dance so an imperial victory would be a victory for everyone 
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ImpAtom posted:Considering one of the Witcher 3 devs had to actually post in a thread to explain that the evil rape empire were not the good guys I can't actually blame them for taking the path of no-subtlety. Ah, you mean the dev who flipped his poo poo because people were actually saying the Big Bad Evil Rape Empire wasn't portrayed any worse than the Big Good Evil Rape Not-Empire unless you'd already read the books?  Watching him accuse goons of being fascists fetishists because of that was hilarious. e; just to clarify. People in the Witcher 3 thread were making comments about how the Empire antagonists didn't really come off as any more antagonistic than the other groups (a lot of the early NPCs affiliated with them are direct and relatively fair in their treatment of you and the people, if very snobby), and the dev lost his poo poo about how rape, slavery and so on were obviously being glorified by the goons in question...despite those activities being portrayed as something drat near everyone in the gameworld takes part in. It was a really weird freak out on his behalf. poptart_fairy has a new favorite as of 21:27 on May 30, 2016 |
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Actually, nah, I'm keeping this: Nah. He was responding to poo poo like quote:Nothing wrong with slavery, slaves get fed. Slave that can't work is useless. Slave owners letting them die? They were gonna die anyway. Better off being a slave, have food and shelter than to starve. And honestly? Legalizing slavery will solve a big part of the homeless problem. ImpAtom has a new favorite as of 21:33 on May 30, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 21:31
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poptart_fairy posted:wrong
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Stuntman posted:Reminder: this is a poptart_fairy post. I'd suggest looking up the original shitstorm if you need to figure what actually happened. Why don't you quote the posts then? I'm the guy he originally flipped his poo poo at. Guy Mann posted:LOL if you actually read Poptart Fairy posts. Whose bitter re-reg are you. poptart_fairy has a new favorite as of 21:36 on May 30, 2016 |
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May 30, 2016 21:33
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LOL if you actually read Poptart Fairy posts.
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poptart_fairy posted:Why don't you quote the posts then? I'm the guy he originally flipped his poo poo at. Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Yeah, I dunno how anyone can play through NML and not come away hating both armies. Read some of the notices posted on the hanging people, the Nilfgaardians aren't exactly progressive. (btw they practice slavery) (also everyone is starving because one army or another stole all the food) (also unprovoked war of conquest) Here is where it starts, by the way. Enjoy the 'flipping out' that doesn't actually happen.
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Also, I shouldn't have called you guys neocons, what's really bothering me is the explicit fascism. When did this board turn into 4chan? Comte de Saint-Germain posted:This thread is full of neocons. Comte de Saint-Germain posted:You are the worst liberal. These are the words of a rational man. That discussion was silly all around. Lets not go pretending the dev had some sort of higher calm over it. ImpAtom posted:Actually, nah, I'm keeping this: Still amazed the guy's been on SA this long but took a gimmick poster seriously. poptart_fairy has a new favorite as of 21:49 on May 30, 2016 |
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I don't care about any of that.
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poptart_fairy posted:These are the words of a rational man.
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Witcher has never struck me as taking national sides like we all love to as players. It says war is bad, soldiers on the march are bad, famine is bad, pogroms are bad, tyrants are bad. Not 'oh Nilfgaard gets +1 for women in the civil service but -3 for Roman slavery but +1 for...' Also there is no form of feudalism that is tolerable to a civilised society (hi Saudi Arabia). That doesn't mean we have to read Lord of the Rings hoping for a popular revolution to overthrow Aragorn, or lecture Ciri on Destinysplaining or whatever. Strategic Tea has a new favorite as of 22:04 on May 30, 2016 |
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Stuntman posted:They actually are, if you don't realize that right-wing views are objectively harmful and wrong you're part of the problem. You can realize the views expressed by that gimmick poster are silly, while also acknowledging that falling for the bait and responding to them in a sincere manner is also pretty daft. I dunno man, you're angry enough to break a month's silence in the thread over this so  Strategic Tea posted:Witcher has never struck me as taking national sides like we all love to as players. It says war is bad, soldiers on the march are bad, famine is bad, pogroms are bad, tyrants are bad. Not 'oh Nilfgaard gets +1 for women in the civil service but -3 for Roman slavery but +1 for...' Yeah, that was why I was bit weirded out the developer got snippy about me seeing both sides as equally terrible. On one side we have rapists and thieves that started a war, and on the other we have rapists and thieves who backstabbed their allies during said war. The series lacks discretion but it always has; the first  big moral choice back in the first game was to rescue a woman from implied rape or leave her to it. The overall writing has gotten much, much better but the actual moral side of the games still errs a bit too heavily on the grimdark side of things at times.
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Niilfgaaaarrd itself seems like a pretty sweet place to live compared to the hellhole northern kingdoms but the invading rape army is def a teething problem
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May 30, 2016 23:10
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Just order the soldiers not to rape people, boom problem solved. Geralt does his mind control thing on everyone "no raping"
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Put some posters up around campus.
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Guy Mann posted:LOL if you actually read Poptart Fairy posts.
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Deceitful Penguin posted:What were they? I swear, one day I'll replay 1 but I just don't have the time even for the games I haven't beaten, rather less the ones that I did years back. Strategic Tea posted:Eredin stalks you by projection and tries to freak you out I think. Yeah, Eredin shows up in an optional quest at in the first chapter of the first game (and a couple more points including the finale) and then there's the bartender convo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEzO5AQn_tI
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Angry Diplomat posted:I remember once when I was exploring other Z-levels and I found the old Jurassic Station or whatever. I was accosted and charged by a man-eating plant, which was unfortunate because I was in the process of setting my jetpack aside to wear and organize my backpack full of exploration gear. I was able to scramble out the airlock, hastily opening internals on my backup emergency oxytank as I went, but the thing sprinted through the void and tackled me. I looked Death in the eye and let out a single, defiant fart, which scooted me a tile to the right, out of the maneater's grasp.
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Witcher 3 is an amazing game. Especially for small things: I really love how the forest and wilderness look real and makes sense. I can't think of any other game where their forest's were as densely populated with trees and wildlife as this game. Also I finished a mission in the new expansion that had me protect a nobleman as he witnessed wildlife to paint them later, he had a head mounted machine that took pictures. One of his paintings was clearly the best one: 
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May 31, 2016 07:01
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Oh poo poo it's out? Uh boss I'm feeling a little ill
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Witcher 3 has seriously my favorite moments in games ever. The entire Ladies of the Wood questline was amazing, the Whispering Hillock, Johnny, Forefathers' Eve, getting drunk with my sad witcherbros and putting on a dress. Polish VA is usually trash in games, but here everything was on point. Also loved the little epilogue you actually play after defeating the big ugly whatever.
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I was sold on the Witcher the moment you get drunk with some sketchy army guys and wake up with a loving horrible neck tattoo.
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Gorilla Salad posted:I was sold on the Witcher the moment you get drunk with some sketchy army guys and wake up with a loving horrible neck tattoo. The scene in witcher 3 where you get wasted with your witcher pals is the hardest I've laughed at a game in forever.
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grate deceiver posted:Witcher 3 has seriously my favorite moments in games ever. The entire Ladies of the Wood questline was amazing, the Whispering Hillock, Johnny, Forefathers' Eve, getting drunk with my sad witcherbros and putting on a dress. Polish VA is usually trash in games, but here everything was on point. Also loved the little epilogue you actually play after defeating the big ugly whatever. The different epilogue's really save what would have otherwise been the lamest ending ever.
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MiddleOne posted:The different epilogue's really save what would have otherwise been the lamest ending ever. Yeah, after the climax I was bracing myself for a huge disappointment, but then the actual ending was about saying goodbye and it was perfect (got the one where Ciri becomes the Empress)
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jojoinnit posted:I'm playing through Bully for the first time and in the boys dorm there's an arcade game that's a decently fun top down Death Rally style racing shooter.
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MiddleOne posted:The different epilogue's really save what would have otherwise been the lamest ending ever. I never bothered to look it up, but didn't know there were different endings for Ciri, just figured there were different ones for romances and politics stuff.
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Abugadu posted:I never bothered to look it up, but didn't know there were different endings for Ciri, just figured there were different ones for romances and politics stuff. Mine was telling the emperor she died then it's revealed that she's becoming a witcher and Geralt and Yennefer (or Triss I guess if you want her but Yennefer is better) are living happily ever after doing whatever they do on that horse.
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:or Triss I guess if you want her but Yennefer is better Team Triss forever. She's been helping me out for two games and I'm supposed to drop her like a hot potato once the other comes along? COME ON SON
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In the newest DLC for the Witcher 3 has a reference to the oldest novel recorded in the opening: The opening scene has a knight charging at a windmill. But it actually turns out to be giant just behind it.
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The first boss of the Antitower dungeon in Final Fantasy XIV is a giant singing frog, Frog Song being a recurring ability in the series. He summons smaller frogs during the fight that sing too, and they sing bits of The Rainbow Connection. "The lovers!" "The dreamers!" The patch that contains this dungeon came out around about the time that David Bowie passed away. The second boss of The Antitower is named Ziggy and summons giant glowing rocks called Stardust.
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Samovar posted:In the newest DLC for the Witcher 3 has a reference to the oldest novel recorded in the opening: The opening scene has a knight charging at a windmill. But it actually turns out to be giant just behind it. First European novel. The Tale of Genji predates it by about five hundred years 
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My favorite part of witcher 3 might have been breaking dijkstra's leg. On one hand it was a total accident, the dialogue text doesn't let you see it coming. On the other hand he was an rear end in a top hat.
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owl_pellet posted:Team Triss forever. She's been helping me out for two games and I'm supposed to drop her like a hot potato once the other comes along? COME ON SON Triss took advantage of Geralt while he didn't have his memory. She's a monster! Yennefer is bae and she don't take poo poo from anyone.
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Yennefer was awesome and people that don't like her tend to be assholes. She's win win.
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Yennefer was a bitch. First off, weird name. Secondly Triss is a redhead. Automatic win.
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oldpainless posted:Yennefer was a bitch. First off, weird name. Secondly Triss is a redhead. Automatic win. Literally every terrible person in history was a redhead.
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BROCK LESBIAN posted:Literally every terrible person in history was a redhead. I'm not disputing that at all.
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