The Witcher Game Series

[Agarathium1066]

I'd elaborate that Joseph Anderson really amps up how they "ruined" Yennefer to the point that he had to stop playing. Really cringy fake shit.

If anything, a woman having double standards on men's actions is the most realistic thing in the series.

Joseph Anderson is notorious about finding something for his autism to fixate on to never stop hammering about that complaint. He does it even more in his videos than he does while streaming or having more casual conversations. He's admitted repeatedly he will lean into that aspect because its expected of him.

He's a Yen simp, like titanically a Yen simp. I like her a lot, she's my go to because the history between them and the way they bounce off each other is great. She's a huge bitch who has an extremely fragile ego even when compared to other sorceresses. No shit she's going to be frigid and snipe at you for what has happened. There's an age defining war raging, her adoptive daughter is missing, her pseudo-husband is running around allegedly without any memory pumping a close friend.

Everyone, even close friends, comments on how Yen is at the best of times tempestuous. Those that aren't as close can't stand her and try to advise Geralt to dump her.

 

[demicolon]

Geralt being a vagabond has a preference for one-night stands. He mostly got with sorceresses who are dangerous/unstable by definition, most of them were hideously ugly, coping & sneeding at other girls before getting a free photoshop IRL for graduating by their school.

Geralt on top of being a sadboy badboy is immune to STDs and infertile which makes random women want to bang him on the side. The "immune to AIDS" thing doesn't make much sense 'cause while he can't catch it, he can certainly carry it and would be a walking petri dish spreading it to everyone he sleeps with but whatever, fantasy logic.

Speaking about women moments, one reason why Yen stays with him, aside from the djiini curse, is that he's immune to charming magic. See, every magician can force anyone to be their willing sex slave, but with Geralt everyone knows his love for her is genuine. Their romance made waves when it started and all of Yen's girlfriends were jealous.

I still can't find where in the books Triss date raped Geralt. IIRC they had a brief romance after one of Geralt and Yen's breakups, Triss wanted to go further but Geralt treated it as nothing more than friends with benefits, but Yen was so pissed off she bullied the poor girl so much she's still timid around her. It's not specified what exactly happened anyway.

 

[Snekposter]

Geralt on top of being a sadboy badboy is immune to STDs and infertile which makes random women want to bang him on the side. The "immune to AIDS" thing doesn't make much sense 'cause while he can't catch it, he can certainly carry it and would be a walking petri dish spreading it to everyone he sleeps with but whatever, fantasy logic.

Witchers have super-boosted immune systems as a result of changes to their bone marrow, think altered T cells and such. Whatever tries to infect them gets killed off instead of witchers acting as carriers. If a witcher got infected with HIV his immune system would eat the virus instead of his immune system being eaten by it.

 

[demicolon]

Yes, but it wasn't specified like that back in the 90s when it was written, there was no Google around to quickly fact-check something like this. The author was a clothes salesman who majored in foreign languages before he started writing books full-time.

Komodo dragons while being resistant to disease have mouths full of not only venom they make naturally but also rotting flesh and resulting bacteria that'll kill you with sepsis even if you survive the bite or venom, that's what I was rambling about.

I haven't played the games and read the books a long time ago so I might be wrong. What I remember reading was that witchers are immune to disease and pull tail thanks to it as the girls don't have to fear catching a suprise from them.

 

[Snekposter]

I haven't played the games and read the books a long time ago so I might be wrong. What I remember reading was that witchers are immune to disease and pull tail thanks to it as the girls don't have to fear catching a suprise from them.

You're not wrong about them being immune and sterile and constant womanizers, but yes, they do possess significant resistance if not outright immunity to diseases.

Here's a section from The Last Wish where Geralt talks a bit about the process:

And one from Blood of Elves:

And a video:

(Yes, its a mod for W3, but as near as I can tell it uses the exact same dialogue lines as from the actual prologue.)

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Witchers have super-boosted immune systems as a result of changes to their bone marrow, think altered T cells and such. Whatever tries to infect them gets killed off instead of witchers acting as carriers. If a witcher got infected with HIV his immune system would eat the virus instead of his immune system being eaten by it.

This reminds me one of the things I really disliked when I read the novels was the witches knowing modern age biology and science. Really clashes with everyone else being dung age level.

 

[demicolon]

This reminds me one of the things I really disliked when I read the novels was the witches knowing modern age biology and science. Really clashes with everyone else being dung age level.

It's a purposeful anachronism to make wizards come off as scientists, a meta joke too I think. Kings talk and behave like you'd expect a modern realpolitik statesmen would, not like actual medieval monarchs in real life.

Reminds me of the time someone at a con asked Sapek why there are potatoes in the witcherverse if there's no Americas. He called him a retard and asked him why there are kings in the witcherverse if there was no Charlemange there.

The biggest inaccuracy in the books is when the Lodge make a vote, they somehow turn up with 9 votes from 8 members total.

 

[Maniacal Foreigner]

The biggest inaccuracy in the books is when the Lodge make a vote, they somehow turn up with 9 votes from 8 members total.

That's just Eastern European politics for you right there

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's a purposeful anachronism to make wizards come off as scientists, a meta joke too I think. Kings talk and behave like you'd expect a modern realpolitik statesmen would, not like actual medieval monarchs in real life.

I don't have an issue with anachronisms, it's just weird that the level of how such a gap in knowledge is formed unless being a magician somehow make you realize things that required a ton of group effort to figure out. I guess you can argue the sorcerers long lifespan helped them find those out, and they safeguard it because they don't want to lose their position to technology.

 

[demicolon]

Science = magic, and the elves trained the first magicians like a thousand years ago, and the elves were gay luxury full automated space communism-tier advanced so I guess they taught them those concepts, skipping a few hundred years of civilization advancement required to figure 'em out on your own?

 

[strawberry15]

My opinion on witcher
short stories> Blood of elves > last book> others
hexer> other media forms
w1>w3>w2
also, woman who has these opinions make great girlfriends, if you find one, keep her.
And anderson's video is a big nothingburger.

 

[Hamburger Detractor]

I still can't find where in the books Triss date raped Geralt.

I'm pretty sure everyone that spergs about "Triss raped Geralt" are just talking about her taking advantage of his memory loss in the first 2 games. It's been awhile since I read the books but the only interaction with Triss and Geralt in the books I remember is in the beginning when they are travelling and Triss gets some kind of food poisoning and Geralt has to keep carrying her into the bushes to shit. She tries flirting with him after but Geralt no sells it and that's that. Then at the end her and Yennefer have a Jerry Springer moment when Yenn yells "stay away from my man, bitch" but I don't remember anything else about it.

 

[demicolon]

I guess you can argue the sorcerers long lifespan helped them find those out, and they safeguard it because they don't want to lose their position to technology.

Morning shit theory of the day: the world Witcher takes place is an Imperial feudal world that was forgotten by the Administratum.

 

[Deus Exica]

Although I do wonder how he knows so much about getting into women's clothes as opposed to just getting their wearers out of them...

There's a non-zero chance Lambert is a fag. He is REALLY torn up about his cat school friend getting killed and he seems to have a general distaste for women. Bet he will be a homo in the next game for DEI reasons.

Shani deserved better

Hearts of Stone should have let her be Geralt's main squeeze if you break it off with Yen and Triss.

I'd elaborate that Joseph Anderson really amps up how they "ruined" Yennefer to the point that he had to stop playing. Really cringy fake shit

Makes me wonder if Joseph is actually married if he hasn't been on the receiving end of a Woman Moment(tm) like that.

Also his video kind of fucking sucked in general. No wonder it is taking him six years to make because he went in circles for an entire hour. Witcher 3's main quest is not really that long.

Isn't Geralt having a Denji esque preference for dangerous/unstable women a running gag in the books?

I don't know if it's a gag really. He is madly in love with Yennefer at the expense of almost any other potential relationship. A Little Sacrifice basically shows that he is totally incapable of really even entertaining the idea of moving on, even when he instigates something with another woman. He has zero interest in Triss whatsoever outside of one fling where she maybe used magic to help get him in the mood and anybody else is a casual tumble at best.

He even lets Yen cuck him in one story.

If anything the games make him suspiciously aloof regarding this so that the flings with other women can work.

I like her a lot, she's my go to because the history between them and the way they bounce off each other is great.

I also simp for Yen because most of their dialogue in Witcher 3 reminds me of the casual sniping and banter you do with someone you genuinely love and have loved for a long time, in comparison to the Triss romance which feels very teenage boy pandering. She's a fiery red head who loves you no matter what you do, effectively has no flaws, wants to live with you in a cottage and be your sorceress trad wife, etc;

Her not being charitable with Geralt is fairly in character even if it is a bit cold. But there's a pretty clear Triss bias at CD Projekt.

Really clashes with everyone else being dung age level.

There's a distaste for the common man that runs throughout Sapkowski's work that's pretty blatant and nihilistic. It's done that way to make sure you know peasants are bad and stinky and dumb.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

There's a distaste for the common man that runs throughout Sapkowski's work that's pretty blatant and nihilistic. It's done that way to make sure you know peasants are bad and stinky and dumb.

I really hate when writers do this while also going on humans being the real monsters.

 

[Jace on ice]

I really hate when writers do this while also going on humans being the real monsters.

The "Le Humans are the real monsters" is a CDPR thing that they're obsessed with. The novels have more of an "everything and everyone is shit" nihilism.

 

[Agarathium1066]

The "Le Humans are the real monsters" is a CDPR thing that they're obsessed with. The novels have more of an "everything and everyone is shit" nihilism.

They are but also consistently keep the theme that for all the dogshit humanity does the elves are just as awful back. With monsters they certainly bang the drums about them being poor misunderstood creatures.

I'd be a lot more understanding of it if half of them didn't in some fashion thrive off of human suffering or predating on them.

 

[demicolon]

TBF books point out that monsters can be as bad as humans.
In the 4th book Geralt has to pass some underground castle tunnels and encounters monsters blocking his way through a bridge. They of course don't like him for obvious reasons, but promise him safe passage if he breaks his monster-hunting sword as a gesture of good will. Geralt does that and they say "I cannot believe somebody could be so stupid to do that", then attack him. When he's done with them, he says "I cannot believe someone could be fooled by such trivial illusion magic."

Geralt keeps saying he's less mad at the mindless beasts who kill children because it's their nature and more at the fucking hippie wizards who keep creating them "for research purposes", then letting them loose in the wild.

 

[Chapalapachapa]

The "Le Humans are the real monsters" is a CDPR thing that they're obsessed with.

this trope needs to fucking die

 

[demicolon]

this trope needs to fucking die

You need to fucking say something interesting next time, every post of you I see is low-IQ thunderdomer spam.