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Mulaney Power Move posted:I think I am playing Geralt too soft. So far I have spared the allgod, the godlings, both succubi, and every troll. I did murder some students for knocking over those shrines. Got a few peasants hanged. This will pay off eventually
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Mulaney Power Move posted:I think I am playing Geralt too soft. So far I have spared the allgod, the godlings, both succubi, and every troll. I did murder some students for knocking over those shrines. Got a few peasants hanged. Canon Geralt is a huge softie, FYI.
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Oct 14, 2022 18:20
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Geralts whole, like, deal is understanding what species are really rolled into the monster category and dealing with them accordingly. Not sure wantonly killing Trolls and Godlings falls into that There’s a really good side quest in Skellige that deals with all of that
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Oct 14, 2022 18:25
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Gerault kills monsters, and even then, usually only when he's getting paid.Arc Hammer posted:Succubi are harmless but their reputation precedes them There's one who's a little suspect, but not really any proof either way. Halloween Jack posted:The Witcher is such a painfully straight franchise. We never meet an incubus, or a woman who isn't built like a lingerie model.  More seriously-  I guess also of the female characters, so many are somehow intended as love interests or otherwise embroiled in something saucy.
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Oct 14, 2022 18:55
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The Sorceresses are not exactly pinups before they glam themselves
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Oct 14, 2022 19:04
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Gaius Marius posted:The Sorceresses are not exactly pinups before they glam themselves true, although i don't know if that makes it less male gazey
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Oct 14, 2022 20:11
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Ainsley McTree posted:true, although i don't know if that makes it less male gazey I just don't get why Wizards don't do the same thing, like can they not use the same magic Yennifer and Triss use to look like Yennifer and Triss to make themselves look like Brad Pitt in Fight Club or Johnny Depp before he started drinking his weight in wine every day? No, I will use my magic to live for 800 years and also look like I'm 800 years old.
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Oct 14, 2022 20:32
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Mages tend to go for the "wise old man" look to jack up their market value to monarchs. Vilgefortz is an outlier who likes to look more handsome.
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Oct 14, 2022 20:33
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Arc Hammer posted:Mages tend to go for the "wise old man" look to jack up their market value to monarchs. Vilgefortz is an outlier who likes to look more handsome. If my name was "mousesack" I'd make myself hot as hell just to confuse people
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Oct 14, 2022 20:37
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Ainsley McTree posted:If my name was "mousesack" I'd make myself hot as hell just to confuse people CDPR translating his name as Ermion is both good for sounding better but also sad for depriving us of many jokes about his name being Mousesack.
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Oct 14, 2022 20:41
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Arc Hammer posted:Mages tend to go for the "wise old man" look to jack up their market value to monarchs. Vilgefortz is an outlier who likes to look more handsome. The way I see it, sorceresses make themselves younger and pretty, because kings want to have hot sorceresses around. Wizards go for the distinguished and wise look, because kings are less likely to want younger hotter men around making them look old and fat.
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Oct 14, 2022 20:44
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Khizan posted:The way I see it, sorceresses make themselves younger and pretty, because kings want to have hot sorceresses around. Wizards go for the distinguished and wise look, because kings are less likely to want younger hotter men around making them look old and fat. Rasputin did well for himself until the Brits murdered him.
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Oct 14, 2022 20:49
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Rasputin had a female ruler to work with, so the basic rule for court wizards that you should look young and hot for ruler of opposite sex and look experienced and distinguished for ruler of same sex holds true.
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Oct 14, 2022 21:57
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Lt. Lizard posted:Rasputin had a female ruler to work with, so the basic rule for court wizards that you should look young and hot for ruler of opposite sex and look experienced and distinguished for ruler of same sex holds true. No he didn't
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Oct 14, 2022 22:30
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Lol, nope he indeed didn't. I always misremember and think he lived like 100-150 years earlier during Catharine the Great reign for some reason.
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Oct 14, 2022 22:54
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There were also many rumours that he was cucking the tsar, so the 'wise old man' thing doesn't even stop those.
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Halloween Jack posted:The Witcher is such a painfully straight franchise. We never meet an incubus, or a woman who isn't built like a lingerie model. I mean, this is the real answer. Whatever reasons we might contrive to explain away hot sorceresses and crusty man-Wizards, and for all the good things about Witcher 3, the bottom line is that the setting is heteronormative to its core.
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Oct 15, 2022 01:39
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i'm mostly straight, but i'd like to think that if i stayed hot and virile for 150 years i'd have experimented at some point
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i am a moron posted:Geralts whole, like, deal is understanding what species are really rolled into the monster category and dealing with them accordingly. Not sure wantonly killing Trolls and Godlings falls into that This made me think what the most openly evil Geralt playthrough would look like -kill the succubus, the godling, the doppler, etc -kill the trolls with lambert you monster -ally with gaunter o'dimm -get the dumb brother elected as king of skellige -let ciri die and radovid win the war -try for a threesome
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Oct 15, 2022 02:23
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You forgot “go to bed early like Yen tells you to.”
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Oct 15, 2022 02:26
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Rasputin had them convinced he was the only one who could cure their only son's hemophilia. He wasn't competing against an array of other mystics for the position.
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Wolfsheim posted:This made me think what the most openly evil Geralt playthrough would look like Don't give Shani Wine, push Dijkstra hard. You monster.
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Oct 15, 2022 07:06
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Throw beehives at innocent dwarves.
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Tunicate posted:Throw beehives at innocent dwarves. I do that like once a month, oh wait, you mean in the game.
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I saved a village then accidentally killed several people trying to igni a beehive. I thought the peasant I accidentally burnt would live but he flailed his way into a Doom barrel and took some women and children with him when it exploded. "whoops"
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Yep, been there.
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Tried to play Geralt tougher and threw the baby in the oven but turns out that was the nice thing to do wtf. Plus what kind of leader is this Cerys? Tricking me into killing a baby and not battling the hym like a true Skelliger. Got me to murder those guards because of it. She is no queen.
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Oct 17, 2022 17:53
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Guard murdering is never brought up again. You’d have thought there’d be some blood-feud consequences given it happened in Skellige.
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Plucky Brit posted:Guard murdering is never brought up again. You’d have thought there’d be some blood-feud consequences given it happened in Skellige. i just chose to take it as geralt cutting them up but not killing them
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Oct 17, 2022 19:08
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I'm pissed you couldn't just knock them out with your fists, like you can in other circumstances. Seems like a better and sensible way to approach that situation.
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Oct 17, 2022 19:09
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i think its a limit of the game tbh, its a short moment and figuring out how to do combat where they are really trying to kill geralt and he just tries to incapacitate them might have just gotten cut
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In other news I redid my ability points to ditch ranks in firestream and melt armor, which are useless as far as i can tell, and picked up magic trap and puppet mastery. So I can just stand in one place and throw fire bombs at bandits.
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Plucky Brit posted:Guard murdering is never brought up again. You’d have thought there’d be some blood-feud consequences given it happened in Skellige. The Jarl probably just paid the weregeld himself
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TL;DR: Game crashes while loading, can't start a new one, already reinstalled, using Galaxy and not Steam. I'm over 100 hours in and in the Blood and Wine DLC. It's been playing fine with minimal crashes to desktop. I save my progress (after getting the third quest from Olgierd) and quit. Hours later, I load up the save. It stalls out during the load towards the end. Other saves, same thing. New game, same thing. I've done verify/repair. I've rebooted. I've disabled the overlay. I've reinstalled. What do I try next?
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Maera Sior posted:TL;DR: Game crashes while loading, can't start a new one, already reinstalled, using Galaxy and not Steam. Check your cloud save settings? Could be a sync issue there.
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Maera Sior posted:TL;DR: Game crashes while loading, can't start a new one, already reinstalled, using Galaxy and not Steam. Any mods? Also, find your INI files and rename/delete/move them so the game creates a new one. Sometimes an INI setting, like incompatible screen resolution, can gently caress over an install.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Check your cloud save settings? Could be a sync issue there. Would that impact starting a new game? Can't do one those either. Reinstalling GOG Galaxy and the game right now, can check the settings after it's done. chaosapiant posted:Any mods? Also, find your INI files and rename/delete/move them so the game creates a new one. Sometimes an INI setting, like incompatible screen resolution, can gently caress over an install. No mods. Would reinstalling create new INI files?
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Maera Sior posted:
Usually, no. When a game is uninstalled most games keep their documents and settings folder and files intact. So if you uninstalled a year ago, and say bought a new monitor or something, and then reinstall, it can sometimes mean that the game is trying to launch in a now-unsupported resolution. It might not strictly be a resolution issue either. That’s just a clearer example. If a reinstalled game won’t start, always move/rename/delete your ini files. I say move or rename so that you have the original file if there’s some settings you still need access to.
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chaosapiant posted:Usually, no. When a game is uninstalled most games keep their documents and settings folder and files intact. So if you uninstalled a year ago, and say bought a new monitor or something, and then reinstall, it can sometimes mean that the game is trying to launch in a now-unsupported resolution. Thanks, I'll try that right now. ETA: Nope, didn't work. Maera Sior fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Oct 23, 2022 |
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Arc Hammer posted:Don't give Shani Wine, push Dijkstra hard. You monster. I'm still annoyed at the option for this. It was like "shove Dijkstra out of the way" or something but then Geralt not only knocked him to the floor he then BREAKS HIS LEG?! Game, that is NOT what I chose
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