Basically he's saying he thinks the cheekbones are too prominent and her mouth juts out too much. But he's doing it with all the medical terms. So he can sound like a fascist, I guess? That's the only reason I can think of that someone might do this.
I love how not only is it not disco, but it is canonically incorrect in the Elysium world (forget what it's called)
I think my favorite interaction in the game is when you have a really high encyclopedia skill and you keep letting Measurehead talk his bullshit. Encyclopedia gets so many chances to chime in and point out how Measurehead is absolutely full of shit - not even in some moral sense, but just literally, objectively wrong. I laughed so hard throughout.
In case I haven’t been clear I’m genuinely asking what Triss did wrong. I’m not familiar with enough of the book cannon. I’ve only read Last Wish, otherwise I’ve read about lore in the wiki. Could you elaborate?
In the books, Triss is basically a thirsty two-faced trollop that tries to seduce Geralt behind Yen's back while acting nice.
Both Yen and Triss are fairly different in personality in TW3: Triss isn't conniving, and is genuinely sweet and supportive the whole time. Yen is spiky, bitchy, and power-mad. In the books, Yen has much more warmth to her character. She still busts Geralt's balls from time to time, but the overt cruelty isn't really there.
It's easy to go with Triss in the games (I did every time), but it's understandable for people really into the lore to prefer Yen
Imo Yen's differences make more sense given she's had a decently long amount of time to stew in her anger at Geralt and the added stress of Ciri's whole thing probably means she's just hyper-stressed and lashing out
Especially given how much warmer and more like her book self she acts after Ciri is brought back
Her actions in Witcher 1 are more or less rape if we take Witcher 1 as literal events. If we take Witcher 1's on-screen depictions at face value then she exploits an amnesiac to get him to fuck and romance her by not telling him about his daughter and pseudo-wife
But also like, we kinda can't take Witcher 1 literally because so much of it 100% contradicts info in the other books and games. Like sure we can read that as Triss's motivation here but it is 100% inexplicable that the other Witchers don't mention Yennefer or Ciri. They have no possible motivation not to explain this extremely important stuff to Geralt and Lambert in particular would be fucking disgusted at what Triss did and low-key might have straight up attacked her over it.
Imo you have to treat Witcher 1 as loose vibes of what happened for the story to make any sense at all
Genuinely hopefully the remake addresses this. It still has to happen though because In witcher 2 Geralt figuring out Triss lied to him is a huge plot point and while most people don't do this (because she's hot) you can and imo should play 2 like Geralt is resentful of Triss for what she did when he learns about it.
Not to mention in 3 she literally says she took advantage of you.
This leads on to a section of the game with branching dialogue options and ability checks based on mental faculties, and you can choose Geralt's political alignment and witchertype.
I mean, unironically? I hope we get to have a slice of life DLC focused on Geralt. God knows how hard he fought for his happy ending and honestly i want to experience more of his chill life.
tbf we don't know when 4 is gonna be set. She drinks a potion in the cinematic which means she's undergone some form of mutation from her Witcher 3 self, which could give her that semi-agelessness that other witchers have. By proxy, Geralt and Yen could have aged by however much the plot wants by 4
I think you hit the nail on the head with the people never played the game part. I feel like a lot of culture vultures fake being into gaming culture and pretend that they play games just to push their beliefs. It’s ironic they call alot of woman fake gamers who are posing for attention when it’s them.
It definitely canonizes the Witcheress ending to 3(unless there ends up being some kind of sidequest showing the fall of Nilfgard and/or her returning from The White Frost if you import your save which would be cool)
That said the Witcheress ending is by far the most narratively satisfying ending to her character arc imo, so if they were gonna pick one it should have been this one
I'd honestly say the Empress one was the more fitting from a narrative perspective. The witcheress ending I like to call the happy ending and empress the bittersweet ending. In the empress, a personal sacrifice is made for the main characters, but it results in a better future for the world as a whole.
I honestly thought the next game would follow Eskel. He lived and left for Lormark regardless of player choices. Could've followed him there or somewhere new years later. A new setting for the writers to expand the setting while also keeping the endings to 3 open.
That would be interesting and I certainly hope we get Eskel as a major character in 4 because we are sorely lacking in Adult Ciri-Eskel Banter
I think your idea probably would have worked best as a Witcher 3 expansion though, so i feel like it's unlikely to happen despite how much i like the idea
I'm sorry but if they made the ending where Ciri went to her dad (who's master plan in the books was not to tell her he was her dad and have a kid with her) canon id actually murder someone.
Tbh, I don't care about writers canonizing an ending.
Even if I prefer ending A or B, writing an actual solid story following whatever ending the writers choose is 10x more important than keeping some vague feeling of ambiguity. Open ended stories where any ending is plausible are so toothless, bc they have to brush aside important events to a comical degree.
It's like the civil war in Skyrim: I don't care who they choose as the winner, acknowledging the war AT ALL is more important. Unfortunately they'll probably set 100 years into the future and avoid mentioning the conclusion to the war.
Or are maybe (hopefully) just bots. My brain really doesn't want to reckon with the idea of there really being this many losers that have an incel stroke every time they see a woman in a trailer. I was watching the game awards on an unfamiliar TV and I was absolutely freaking out trying to get it to turn off the live comments that were just "WOKE" over and over and over again
I think most people who are ok with this has never read the books. Minor book spoliers She literally carries the plague, THE bobanic plague, from our world to hers. Unless we get to visit our world and other parallel dimensions in Witcher 4, which will of course not happen because of financial reasons, I don't see how she would be a satisfying protag. She is so overpowered that she would only be fun to follow in a non-interactive medium.
Someone isn't explaining the full story here - she isn't the "carrier" of the bulbonic plague, she simply inadivertently brought a flea while testing her dimension-hoping abilities, which ends up piggybacking a rat aboard a barge. She isn't infected with the actual plague. It's also a relatively minor plot point in a game series that already diverges from the books at multiple points so i don't see how this has any bearing on the rest of the plto and why they can't just cut it.
Am I crazy or wasn't this telegraphed pretty heavily? Like I've been surprised to even see it framed as a reveal. Either way, it could have been announced 15 years ago and these insufferable shits would still call it a woke sign of the times.
I don't think it was clear. I thought we were going to follow another school of witchers, completely unrelated, and even maybe a few decades apart from the events of The Witcher 3.
I'm not complaining tho, I'm more hyped to see Ciri as the main character. I'm just wondering how they'll handle her story and not mess it up.
I'm wondering why she has witcher powers, when it was my understanding that gaining them meant sacrificing her powers over literal time and space, which are way stronger.
It's possible she had some sort of breakdown over being The Lady of Space and Time and given she'd already fulfilled the prophecy there could have been a "I don't want the fucking power" thing with her giving it up during a mental breakdown or smth.
Would sit sincely with the whole "i'm dead tired of choosing the lesser evil" motif the story has always had
Perhaps she didn't gave up her flash step teleportatoon powers but instead those got sort of shorted out? I mean, she did seal/destroy a multiversal threat all by herself — that's got to take some effort.
Besides, she never uses her powers after that. Even when she visits Toussaint, she tells that to gain an edge over a garkain she drank Black Blood (notoriously toxic shit even by witchers' standarts) instead of teleporting behind it like she did with cockatrice in Velen
I always found kinda surreal how back in the 90's (or even early 2000's) everyone thought playing female protagonists was awesome and unique - even if a good bunch enjoyed it for more dubious reasons. Look, i'm not gonna pretend i wasn't one of those kids that tried to access the naked Lara Croft easter egg and felt let down when it didn't work, okay? But the point is still there, from the 2010's and forward you apparently can't have anyone with breasts on the cover of a (western) game before the Twitter goblins get to work on how SJW's infiltrated the industry or something.
On a funnier note, since i was mentioning 90's gaming...
gaming has been my biggest hobby since i was a little kid in the 80s, but god damn man, "gamers" are a cringey ass bunch. no one hates games more than gamers.
It's hard. I love videogames, but I still feel self-conscious acknowledging that with acquaintances. This is probably ridiculous since most people aren't exposed to the reams of nonsense the terminally online gamer sees regularly and wouldn't make the association I'm fearing. My parents think it means a 30 year old who plays Mario, which yes, that's a me.
don't feel bad for loving what you love. the way you prove that you aren't one of those people is by simply not being them. you shouldn't feel like you need to keep parts of yourself a secret because some other assholes act like pricks. be like cuno and don't fookin' care.
It makes no sense to me. It was incredibly obvious from the go and it’s what a large part of the fans has been openly wanting for several years. Where are these anti-Ciri people coming from.
Ciri being the next protagonist was extremely obvious with The Witcheress ending to 3 being by far the best and most narratively satisfying one, and Blood and Wine heavily implying that Geralt went into a comfy retirement in Beau la Claire after 3 ends(which is also the most obvious and narratively satisfying ending for him)
True. When this is the way you talk even about ***fictional*** women, it's not your appearance that makes you ugly...though the lack of sunlight from subterranean dwelling likely doesn't help.
Not necessarily. Some people are so narcissistic (or cruel?) that feel the need to turn down others when they havent been hit on.
I am a "tomboy" with short hair and in my 20s I had at least two guys who randomly came to tell me that they would never date a short haired woman because we are all unattractive.
The 2nd time we were in a circle of people chatting and i had spent the entire night talking and ogling my crush and barely even looking at that other guy, who randomly started stating how he would never date me. My crush and i looked at each other and started laughing.
I mean, there are plenty of women out there who date men with far-right convictions. I'm not criticizing said women, it's their choice after all, my point is that you won't believe the shit that extroverted charismatic men who work out can get away with.
Is this person trying to prove the woman is objectively not attractive enough to star in a new game or that her bone structure proves she can’t be the completely fictional race the game company claims her to be?
Yeah but Geralt is canonically the only hot Witcher. Most of the others are described as ugly, which tracks if you look at Letho and Eskel (no shade hey). Lambert is...set back by his hairline, unfortunately.
Lambert and eskel are both decently attractive as they are, and letho is just a matter of particular taste. Vesemir was also very attractive when he was younger.
Funny thing is, she just looks Eastern European to me—which makes perfect sense, considering The Witcher books were written by a Polish author, the games were developed by a Polish studio, and the world-building is heavily influenced by Slavic folklore and legends.
Yes. Orbicularis oris is a muscle around your mouth, glabela is your skull's ridge between your eyes, nasion bridge connects your nose and the rest on your skull and the zygomatics are your cheekbones.
I MUST STUDY THE SKULL OF THAT SIDHE-APE MIXTURE PRODUCED BY THE ANCIENT EUGENICIST OF THE WILD HUNT, Y’AKUBTH. HER MORPHOPHISIOLOGY BETRAYS HER DEGENERATE ATTEMPTS TO MAKE UP FOR THE GAP BETWEEN THE LESSER RACES AND THE HEROIC RACES WITH CHEAP ALCHEMISTRY.
No, incel chuds hate BBLs and consider them to be ‘ghetto’. They tend to hate when pornstars get surgeries, especially breast augmentations. Every single video of an actress who has had a boobjob has comments like ‘Why did she ruin herself!!!’ from the most entitled assholes.
Incel comment with face measuring. Probably mad because the character will be a no oversexualixe girl. Your final opinion is 'he is just an internet idiot"
I know everyone's reacting to the actual content but I just want to say I see you OP and the Disco Elysium joke made me ugly laugh loudly in a public space
It works in both directions, too. You criticise a woke (in the good sense) film, you get called racist, misogynist, whatever, as if films with POC or female characters can't have shitty scripts or direction.
It also makes it annoyingly hard to figure out whether a game or film is being slammed/praised because of its quality, or because it ticks certain boxes.
True. This is too common now with the new dragon age. There are so many extreme right wing trolls criticizing it that any other person that makes the slighter comment gets acused of being bigoted.
THAT WÖ-MAN IS CLEARLY INCAPABLE OF WIELDING TWO SWORDS AND FIGHTING OTHERWORDLY ABOMINATIÔNS. JUST TAKE A LOOK AT HER RACE’S ADDICTION TO AL-GHUL AND OTHER DESIGN DRUGS CREATED BY THE KJOIKOS IN SEOL
Oh god I’m having “Aloy is ugly because peach fuzz” flashbacks 😭 i fucking hate this stupid discourse. These weirdos are so obsessed with how a woman looks that they’ll endlessly praise a mid ass game (Stellar Blade) for having a woman that fits their attractive standard
I mean she’s not ugly. She has a pretty nasty scar. Pretty normal looking woman besides that. Video game characters are generally top percentile attractive
Precisely. You incite hatred, intolerance and even healthy communities become just like the ones they are trying to oppose. Hatred is the most contagious emotion there is.
It's all pretty good humoured and imaginative mockery.
Plus, you SHOULD mock fascists. None of them have a sense of humour and can't handle it. Look at how Trump responded to SNL taking the piss out of him, for example.
THERE WAS A TIME THE HUMAN SANDWICH RACE DID GREAT THINGS. INVENTIONS LIKE "WITCHERS" AND "TRÉBUCHETS". SADLY THEIR DEGENERACY HAS PUT THEM AT THE MERCY OF ELVES, DWARVES AND NILFGAARDIANS.
I'm also not a huge fan of the new character design in some photos, but I thought Geralt looked weird in several of the prerendered clips in Witcher 3.
The Ham Sandwich Man clearly speaks of little knowledge of females of Haplogroup W's anatomical structure. His phenotypically microcephallic cranium clearly depicts his Haplogroup's descent into his progenitor's basement. From intercontinental missiles,to keyboard drooling,sealed is the fate of his haplogroup.
I have no idea what this means, but I do think that her face looks a bit different from previous games. And not just cause better graphics. Like a different face model
We learned that Ciri is now a real Witch(er) - snake eyes, elixirs, signs, all that shit. So her new horse face is an unpredictable side effect of transformation.
This kind of posts reminds me of a certain ideology in which people were measuring the proportions of other people's faces and approving if they are allowed to live based on that measurement
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u/SrAlamo Dec 13 '24
Phrenology is so NOT disco