kneeling

[dragonlady7]

catholicism

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this isn’t really a Wee Precious Flower Prince playthrough post or anything, it’s just a single observation, but I was watching some_stars https://tmblr.co/m0l4iDjxkB7VuWm6d1vXtOQ stream Witcher 3 on Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/vivianw last night and Geralt, as he does, happened upon a Place of Power, as he does.

And of course, as he does, he went up to it and knelt at it, and I was like

that is the most Catholic thing I have ever seen

so I pointed out in the Twitch that it stood to reason that a bunch of game devs in an extremely Catholic nation would in fact prioritize their character having a flawless kneeling mechanism.

I’d sort of half-noticed it before in other playthroughs but just then given the context I was like ah holy shit, because I expected Geralt to cross himself and was inwardly startled when he didn’t.

I bet Geralt has a good genuflect movement coded in, too…

i still haven’t worked up my good thesis about how Catholic Geralt is as opposed to how Jewish 2nico https://tmblr.co/mVj1k9zJ5Qll-QRuvsWGp2g has theorized Lambert to be but there’s a preview of it.

Also now I have Tom Lehrer’s Vatican Rag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvhYqeGp_Do stuck in my head.

genuflect! genuflect! genuflect!

this sort of thing is just kind of an occupational hazard of being me, though. (Your picture was not posted)