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I appreciate that he explained the lore to me. However, I don't think anthropic arguments are terribly good ones to support a writer's choices. It's kind of like gamers who play characters who are assholes and then defend themselves by saying, "That's not me, it's my character."

Not sure if anyone else is getting this, but I'm getting a weird error when I try to play embedded YT videos. It's jut a grey box with a playback error and code.

Both are on sale at GoG, thinking of picking one up as an xmas gift to myself. I started both back in the day, didn't get far, moved on. It was the same reason for both (janky controls/combat). But, if I only got one, what is the one to get and why?

I think this is the double-edge sword. Like, there's a really fine line between insensitive categorization and woke-ness for its own sake. From what I'm reading, I don't really see a good reason to prohibit women from becoming Witchers, aside from somebody just wrote it out that way. On the...

Finding the right terms to communicate and ask what I am asking sometimes kinda feels like playing a text adventure game where you need to get the syntax just right. If the alternative option is rabbit for dinner, I'll take the rabbit. I'm not sure if I can. But, I think Black Elk is agreeing...

I think Arcanum did something similar. I thought it was odd, but I just kinda ignored it.

Can women vote in Witcher-world? Can they own land? Maybe we need to start with the basics. Wow. Well that explains some things. Well, it's fiction and someone made the choice to exclude women from a major role in the narrative. I mean, it's an intentional choice, and an odd one to make. And...

I would argue that a Ren fair isn't capturing the spirit of an age. Instead, it's just an amusement park that borrows the aesthetic. But, maybe I should avoid the term "spirit" and instead use something like "gestalt"? I'm thinking specifically with regards to the OSR movement. On one hand, I...

This reminds me of the uproar that came out of Siege of Dragonspear (and to a lesser extent, the EE editions). I was never interested in either, but people seemed to get up in arms about the wokeness of it. However, it got rather messy because there was also a camp of people who where up in arms...

I'm not sure what intentionally writing in gender discrimination adds to the story. Like, what value does this bring to the lore?

I think the last time I bought a new game was Baldur's Gate, Throne of Bhaal. There are too many advantages to giving any new game a good wait and virtually no advantages to being cutting edge.

Fair enough. I thought the "world coming to and end" bit was a little over the top. But what about the idea of trying to recreate the past to capture the feel of it? Is it possible? Why or why not?

Time to throw something into the mix: "It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit...

We can burn a village to the ground, but they rejoice because we don't. On top of that, we may have negotiated our way to removing the barriers to women becoming Witchers. That's not bad for a Thursday night, if you ask me.

And so the villagers rejoice!

On one hand, I don't understand why anyone would give a shit whether or not a Witcher (whatever the hell that is) can be a woman or a man. Then again, I know this hobby and how women are often portrayed and perceived and so I could see why some neckbeards would get their Star Wars panties in a...

Ok, I believe Black Elk is saying that cities are the main population centers of a region and it doesn't sound like Cathedrals have a place in that rubric.

I suppose. By why do gender differences matter in a game like The Witcher versus Baldur's Gate, Pillars of Eternity, or Final Fantasy? Or, is there a reason we're curious about the cause of gender differences in this game? Actually, no animals have gender, they just have sexes. Gender is...

I think you would enjoy the movie. It's essentially about the story of the murder of a samurai as told by various witnesses. Nobody has the same story. I think Black Elk is way above my pay grade here.

Are gender dynamics something that is significantly part of the narrative in that game? I mean, most fantasy settings (and settings in general) take for granted some form of gender conventions and don't explicitly explore them.