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[–] 58 points 2 months ago (8 children)

tbh 9/10 cases in the Witcher III are just people trying to hide domestic murder behind folklore shit.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    In fairness, that's not far off from reality.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bridget_Cleary

    an Irish woman who was murdered by her husband in 1895. She was either immolated or her body was set on fire immediately after her death. The husband's stated motive was his belief that she had been abducted by fairies and replaced with a changeling, which he then killed.

    I think about this woman a lot. It really seemed like she wanted to go and do things, enjoy life, and then life and circumstance just said "no"

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    Almost like witcher was commentary from the beginning. Almost.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I'd love to know what you think this "commentary from the beginning" is. Please, elaborate.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Admittedly only dumped ~20 hours into one game, so may not have the most holistic view on the game.

    But feels like there's a ton of quests that are "go hunt this monster", find out the monster's motivations, realize it was the humans/"civilized folk" who dealt the first blow / profaned nature / failed to perform some ritual, Geralt grits teeth and sides with civilization against obviously wronged nature/monster.

    So yeah, I didn't see any "its actually domestic abuse" quests, but the games are crawling with "humans have hubris/pride that is their own downfall" commentary.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I wasn't talking about the third game in the series but the books the games are based on.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Can't speak to those myself, but also the show had some similar themes so would assume that's an underlying motif to the whole series.

    I'm def not the best guy to be answering your question, but from what I've seen, it has been a pretty prevalent notion of the franchise.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago*

    Then you watch a YouTube video later that shows you missed an option to talk to a thief that was going to rob them and saw the wife strangling the children.

    Edit: Then you get 11 crowns.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Anon is trying to sneak through a really bad take here, so I hope you guys are only laughing at this because you don't know what they're referring to.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 months ago*

    If y'all aren't taking 4chan with a heaping pile of sea salt, you probably should be.

    I made the soft, teen-angst mysogyny connection before posting the image, but I didn't figure it mattered too much to you folk. It's 4chan, take some, lose some. Wipe the poo off before ingestion as always and carry on.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    tHEy pUT a GiRl iN MY gAmE!

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