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akilah12902 replied to your post “witcher 3: looting your nuts”
Look, if you want to get dragged into new quests and part 2s to extant quests, don’t be a bastard! Well, except for some very specific situations.
I suppose I am not surprised that Dr. Friend, left to his own devices and without advice from me, would pick to be a nice guy, he is actually a fairly considerate human. Though I think his rationale was more along the lines of what he thinks the character’s actually intended to do, rather than what he as himself would do in the situation, but I also think it’s funny that he also looked at this glowering facial-scarred Monster Hunter Guy and was like “yeah he’s probably supposed to be nice.”
I did tell him that the way to win the whole game is to parent the shit out of Ciri, and he was like it figures that while locked in a house with my kids the escapism i would choose is high-stakes parenting. But he said that as a man who earlier in the day had very patiently spent about an hour speedrunning some space-fantasy FPS called Warframe while explaining it all as vaguely as possible for the benefit of his 7-year-old, because, as he said, if you fast-twitch the controls and run fast enough there’s no gore in this game and it’s perfectly child-appropriate.
deputychairman replied to your post “witcher 3: looting your nuts”
I also witnessed this game being played by someone totally new to it, but he didn’t pick the nicest dialogue options like I kept suggesting
But when he did we got condescended to by some random academic in a tavern, so fuck that guy
WHAT WAS THAT GUY EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE ugh. I’m sort of mad that I’d independently made Jaskier be That Guy during MDS– I mean, yeah, a first-person chronicler of history! Only Jaskier’s not assuming that his status as an academic will protect him, he’s got a functional cover story as a bard because, you know, he’s actually sort of useful. ANYWAY. That guy was a dick? I hope someone kills him for his boots. Also I don’t understand or like Gwent and am sorry I’m like this but who the fuck would carry collectors-edition cards around in a preliterate society, you’re breaking my suspension of disbelief in your worldbuilding. I need more time to like. resign myself to it. i get why it’s there i just can’t get it in-world and it’s too much for me. i’m sure Dr. Friend is more amenable, we’ll have to look up a thing about how it works. I just need to accept it.
deputychairman replied to your post “yes”
I will never forget that fic exists!!! Nor will I die of despair because I got a ONE HOUR WALK thanks to having a child and children are allowed out for an hour a day now!!!!
an hour a day
NOW
what
oh my gosh
*twitches*
EDITED TO ADD
oh yeah the whole reason i was going to update is that i was telling the boy this morning about the video game we were playing last night, just to make conversation, and then in the other room i later heard him singing “bees can kill you! bees can kill you!” so there’s your life lessons courtesy of the witcher 3, an example to children everywhere.
akilah12902 replied to your post “witcher 3: looting your nuts”
Look, if you want to get dragged into new quests and part 2s to extant quests, don’t be a bastard! Well, except for some very specific situations.
I suppose I am not surprised that Dr. Friend, left to his own devices and without advice from me, would pick to be a nice guy, he is actually a fairly considerate human. Though I think his rationale was more along the lines of what he thinks the character’s actually intended to do, rather than what he as himself would do in the situation, but I also think it’s funny that he also looked at this glowering facial-scarred Monster Hunter Guy and was like “yeah he’s probably supposed to be nice.”
I did tell him that the way to win the whole game is to parent the shit out of Ciri, and he was like it figures that while locked in a house with my kids the escapism i would choose is high-stakes parenting. But he said that as a man who earlier in the day had very patiently spent about an hour speedrunning some space-fantasy FPS called Warframe while explaining it all as vaguely as possible for the benefit of his 7-year-old, because, as he said, if you fast-twitch the controls and run fast enough there’s no gore in this game and it’s perfectly child-appropriate.
deputychairman replied to your post “witcher 3: looting your nuts”
I also witnessed this game being played by someone totally new to it, but he didn’t pick the nicest dialogue options like I kept suggesting
But when he did we got condescended to by some random academic in a tavern, so fuck that guy
WHAT WAS THAT GUY EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE ugh. I’m sort of mad that I’d independently made Jaskier be That Guy during MDS– I mean, yeah, a first-person chronicler of history! Only Jaskier’s not assuming that his status as an academic will protect him, he’s got a functional cover story as a bard because, you know, he’s actually sort of useful. ANYWAY. That guy was a dick? I hope someone kills him for his boots. Also I don’t understand or like Gwent and am sorry I’m like this but who the fuck would carry collectors-edition cards around in a preliterate society, you’re breaking my suspension of disbelief in your worldbuilding. I need more time to like. resign myself to it. i get why it’s there i just can’t get it in-world and it’s too much for me. i’m sure Dr. Friend is more amenable, we’ll have to look up a thing about how it works. I just need to accept it.
deputychairman replied to your post “yes”
I will never forget that fic exists!!! Nor will I die of despair because I got a ONE HOUR WALK thanks to having a child and children are allowed out for an hour a day now!!!!
an hour a day
NOW
what
oh my gosh
*twitches*
EDITED TO ADD
oh yeah the whole reason i was going to update is that i was telling the boy this morning about the video game we were playing last night, just to make conversation, and then in the other room i later heard him singing “bees can kill you! bees can kill you!” so there’s your life lessons courtesy of the witcher 3, an example to children everywhere.
