Comments by "Regis" (@Timbo5000) on "TheQuartering" channel.

  1. About the two swords thing, that is purely in the games, not the books. In the books he carries one sword, and another on his horse for specific monsters. This series follows the books, which is of course the original source material.
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  2. Actually, there were a couple hundred of thousand USSR female soldiers and pilots, as well as female British SOE operatives behind enemy lines sabotaging things. Fun part is that EA/Dice ignored these REAL women and deliberately chose to take stories about men and rewrite the men as women. They're real idiots and they insult the people that they wrote out of their own stories and replaced with women
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  3. Yeah, I think this might be a great part of their futuristic dystopia theme. A fourth wall breaking satire, if you will. It definitely fits the game imo. We already had references to SJW stuff
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  4. They could have at least had the DIGNITY to make her 006 or 008 or whatever and make the film a spin-off of James Bond, but no they just had to remove James Bond, they just had to ruin the franchise. James Bond IS the franchise.
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  5.  @EEYore-py1bf  I will tell you why non-white kingdoms aren't enough for SJWs: the entire point of their race switching is not mere inclusion, but to push down our throats that multiculturalism is good and has always existed. It is not about including a non-white character in a story. It is about portraying non-white characters as an equal member of a white society, projecting modern multiculturalism on the past. Therefore you can't have non-white characters portrayed as being from a foreign land, it doesn't fit their agenda.
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  6.  @jamiealexandermiller  It's critical of several aspects of the modern world and presents a futuristic dystopia in which these elements spiralled out of control. I agree that corporations' power is at the top of the criticisms, but there are also cultural criticisms which include some SJW stuff. We already saw some of this in those oversexualised ladyboy posters that another shitstorm was created over. That is why these options actually fit the theme of the game nicely.
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  7. I'm pretty sure the Ciri we see is the 16 year old post-Thanedd Ciri that Geralt tries to track down in the books. The post came with a comment that says something like "I'm looking for Geralt", so this is after they meet and after her training at Kaer Morhen.
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  8. She'll probably be a Mary Sue as well if we're going in that direction
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  9. Yeah he's described as a white man with brown hair and blue eyes in the novels, IIRC. But for some reason I still think Idris Elba would be great in the role. He has that spy look to him, he's British and he could definitely act teh role well. But ultimately it might be better to call him 009 or something instead of James Bond himself and make him a different agent.
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  10. Yennefer looks close enough, despite being half native American. I don't see an issue, apart from her age. She looks too young to play Yennefer and I fear that acting like her she will come across as a bitchy teenager instead of an intimidating sorceress... But we shall see.
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  11. And don't forget that that mission is heavily based on a famous real story (sabotage of heavy water source in Norway), featuring Norwegian and British commandos. All written out of their own story and replaced with one young girl and her mother. If they had made the story up I'd not mind much, but rewriting history like this is a plain insult
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  12.  Charles Lee Ray  There is a distinction to be made between culturally British and ethnically British. You're only a full on Brit when you're both, but when you're only culturally British you're still British, just less.
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  13. Yen looks fine. Close enough. Her age is definitely a problem however... looks too young, despite being similar to how Yennefer is described in the books (with a little make up). Hopefully it'll work out and she'll look older on screen, but meh
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  14.  @LalienX  That's what a pyrrhic victory means. A "win" that came at such great cost that it is not really worth the victory.
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  15.  @careyunknown3449  British fits Geralt better than the game accent in my opinion. The way Cavill does it is on point
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  16.  @careyunknown3449  Why, you American or something?
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  17.  @JazINaBoX  As to Teen Titans. It's about the change and the possible reason for the change, not realism per se. They had a reason to change things and it is pushing politics into entertainment, which anyone should stand up against.
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  18. To see racism in as many things she does, you'd have to constantly view the world in a racially divided manner, measure how those groups are interacting and whether there is perfect equity. That's a deeply racist way of viewing the world.
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  19. My only problem with this is that they Americanised it. They threw Slavic culture and European mythology out the window in favour of a typical diverse Hollywood cast. They made elves, which are mythological people supposed to represent our hunter-gatherer ancestors, black. It's just annoying that their view of "diversity" is making every film the same Americanised melting pot instead of authentically portraying stories from cultures around the world (you know... REAL diversity). This should have been a portrayal of a Slavic story, based on European mythology. It should have been the Polish Lord of the Rings, if you will. But on the bright side, Geralt looks stunning, Triss looks great, Ciri looks great, Yen looks a bit too young but she might make up for that in acting and they seem to properly follow the books. But they really miss that Slavic atmosphere. If this was made in the early 2000's we'd have had another epic Lord of the Rings type story with fully authentic cast, but eh... it's current year of course. The current trend of making everything the same and calling it "diversity" is annoying me. But it looks well made and a proper book adaptation, so I'll give it a watch. Ultimately it's no deal breaker.
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  20.  @kv-2thekingofderp866 Yeah... partly. Al Gore said the sea level would have risen by multiple metres and a world disaster would have happened by now because of that.
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  21. The entire bloody internet is toxic as all hell for a number of reasons, they are just using this to attack gamers. The internet is anonymous, the internet has zero social consequences and zero social checks. This is a toxic cocktail that leads to people saying a lot of things they would never say in real life. Shame. But it's very wrong to single out games.
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  22. The end goal is making people believe non-whites are part of all white societies and always have been. Multiculturalism and the destruction of distinct cultures is the end goal. They don't want distinguishable groups with different cultures, they want us to be one group, one big melting pot. It is not about inclusion (otherwise they could have introduced some well-written Zerrikanean characters), it is specifically about showing black people as part of a white society. And for the Witcher this meant there would have to be blackwashing
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  23.  @6ftofmisery636  Oh thanks, for some reason I thought something else at the time
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  24. Fantasy needs to be grounded in the current reality? That's funny because most fairy tales are ancient stories that range in age from a few hundred years all the way to thousands of years, yet they always remained relevant and an important part of our culture in Europe. The Beauty and the Beast, for instance, is believed to be 4000 years old and Disney made a film about it a few years ago. Good stories don't have to be grounded in the current reality at all, they need to speak to us. That's all. They need to be great stories that speak to us. Timeless stories. And this is true for fantasy and fairy tales more than anything, because they heavily draw on ancient stories and lore. Elves, dwarves and other characters you always see return in fantasy are from thousands of years old European mythology, not "grounded in current reality". Many of the stories in The Last Wish are adaptations of ancient fairy tales, again thousands of years old usually. And even many of the themes are very old. There is such a thing as timeless stories and that is what fantasy is supposed to be. The Lord of the Rings will always remain a good story. If you infuse ideology into it, it will only be regarded as a good story as long as people identify with that ideology (which even today is already a problem). They took an amazing fantasy story and ruined it, if they've infused ideology into it. Politics is fine, as long as they are themes that are timeless and closely tied to what it means to be human. Yes, all stories have some degree of politics in them, but no not all (very few in fact, as this is a relatively new phenomenon) have ideology shoved in them. That is a very important distinction to make. And lastly I would also argue that dealing with fantasy/fairy tales comes with a responsibility towards the culture they come from to respectfully draw from that story. Fairy tales and mythology/folklore were not just written down in the 1800's by some brothers named Grimm, they are ancient stories that were often orally passed down from generation to generation for literal millennia before finally being written down. These stories are not just stories, they are part of European culture or whatever culture you draw the folklore from. Modern fantasy heavily draws from this folklore and I am not a fan of using the popularity of these cultural stories to spread some ideological message that has no place in fantasy. Fantasy should be authentic, in my opinion.
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  25.  @Giby86  CURRENT reality. Most fairy tales take from reality to some degree, otherwise the themes would be completely foreign to us. But my comment was against the idea that fantasy has to take from CURRENT reality, which is nonsense if you look at what fantasy is about and how old the most loved and well known folk tales are.
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  26.  @Giby86  The Witcher never was about present-day political issues. The books have more generally applicable political themes running through it and even thousands of years old political themes (i.e. the elves as hunter-gatherers making place for farm-based more complex societies, which is something that happened long long ago irl, and even the toll this takes on nature is touched on a bit in the early books. I suppose the latter is still applicable today as we continuously expand). I can't spot an in-your-face political narrative in the Witcher that is about something very modern. So politics? Yes. But present day? No, they are more generalistic themes that we could probably still identify with in a hundred years' time. Or could have identified with decennia ago, for that matter.
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  27.  @Giby86  None of those are particularly current subjects. The role of women in society even played a role 2000 years ago when our mostly more women-friendly paganism was replaced with christianity which was a lot harsher. And I guess Plato and Aristotle writing about the role of women in society also counts as "current politics" in your book. The themes you see in the Witcher have been prevalent for millennia, they are not current per se. The problem with the trailer so far is that it seems to include politics in such a way that it doesn't fit the lore and presented time period. If you make dryads black characters for diversity politics reasons, but you end up making them look like Ofieri or something, you hurt the story telling. And if they choose to implement modern-day feminist allegories into the story, that would also not be appropriate. It all depends on how they do it.
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  28. Corporations going political... not something we should want in democracies if you ask me.
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  29.  @douglasmurdoch7247  I'm not talking about being born somewhere, that is irrelevant. I'm talking about culture. If Daniel Craig was raised in China, speaking perfect Mandarin and was culturally indistinguishable from true Han Chinese then yes he is Chinese, but not 100% Chinese as the ethnic Han Chinese are. What makes up what a people is is not only ethnicity but also culture. The two of these is what makes us a distinguishable people.
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  30.  @lilmovieperp3599  Family has not been "defined", it's an existing phenomenon created by nature. And it's central to humanity. We did not "create" the concept of family, it is an inherent feature and necessity of our species. Creating a family and taking care of the children together is not done for no reason. It goes so far that children literally have a biological need to grow up in a family unit with a mother and father figure (if you ask me, those roles can still be fulfilled by two men or women, as long as those roles are properly fulfilled within a family setting). A child with a one parent household has a demonstably worse upbringing in several aspects and always turns out lesser than they could have been. A proper family upbringing is literally a biological need for children. Asking why humans create families is like asking why penguins raise their children in pairs or why other species do it alone. It's an inherent feature of our species and has been since the beginning of time. It's ridiculous to even question it because that directly goes against our biology and the psychological needs of our children. Nobody "defined" family and nobody can alter the definition of what a family is without the consequences.
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  31.  @lilmovieperp3599  Good argument you have there.... maybe provide an actual comment with substance next time.
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  32.  @lilmovieperp3599  You're calling me a kid while writing things like "megalol" and evading the argument... okay, buddy. What we call family is not something we ourselves created, it is something that came to be naturally and is part of our biology. Do tell me the origin of family units if you think differently, instead of acting like a child.
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  33.  @lilmovieperp3599  No...
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  34.  @lilmovieperp3599  Stop nagging my inbox please. Someone who seriously asks for sources whether children in the past were raised by parents and/or extended relatives (family) is not worthy of any response. I'm not even going to bother looking for "sources". I guess I'm afraid I'll find out about the truth of how 2000 years ago, all children were left on the streets and raised in orphanages or left in the wild before we humans invented the concept of raising them ourselves in families... /s And to find the well-known literature on how single-parent upbringings are inferior to two-parent upbringings, google is your friend. It's one of the most basic findings within psychology, to the point of literal children writing school essays about the subject. I don't even want to enter into an argument with someone that does nothing other than laugh, evade arguments and deflect by asking for "sources" for the most simple of concepts, so don't respond.
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  35.  Szymon Lech Dzięcioł  Hmm, I always imagined them as Middle Eastern/North African, but people from those areas can still have blonde hair so maybe their skin is still darker.
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  36. Honestly, I think this fits in the modern dystopia they're trying to create. It's part of the satire of the modern world
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  37.  @laszlokiss483  They are creating a futuristic dystopia as a critique of some aspects of the modern world. This could be a creative fourth wall breaking part of the satire. In any case, it fits the theme of their game perfectly. But I can't say if it's intended or not, but my guess is that it is an intended satire. They probably wouldn't have done this with a game that doesn't have such a theme.
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  38. +Micromation It's stupid to shoot the actress down because of her ethnicity. It's about what she actually LOOKS like. And she looks good enough, but not the best (Yen should be more pale according to the books). Then there's also her age which is the biggest problem for me. She looks too young.
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  39. It's not only about him being a white man, it's that coupled with the story of him going mad and turning into a villain. They equate this to radicalisation of school shooters and such. You're right that this is dumb and that this kind of thinking would lead to bizarre conclusions like "Goodfellas promotes the mafia and causes more people to join such organisations". It makes no sense.
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  40. Oh boy, you're in for a treat with the Witcher 3
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  41. Serves them right. The way they portrayed WW2 in the war stories is absolutely disgraceful
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  42. Humans 2019 years ago: see eachother naked all the time Humans in 2019: omg a nipple cover that up This is just stupid, especially when we're talking about breastfeeding which is a perfectly natural thing. Sexualised nudity is different and can be prohibited, but things like breastfeeding have no reason to be banned other than pure prudeness.
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  43.  @AnabelleLee100  Whatever, are we going to ban bare feet too because it can be sexualised? No. If a woman is obviously sexualising her breasts, ban it (this can include sexualisation of breastfeeding). If a woman merely breastfeeds her baby with no sexual connotations there should be no banning at all. It all depends on context, you can't just brush over everything involving breasts as being sexual.
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  44. Yeah... The Endgame scene was pretty innocent pandering in just one scene, but the pandering is reaching some very scary levels now
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  45.  @stoprightthereclicker218  Most yes, but there were also many in combat roles both on the ground and in the air. Some of the fighter pilots were even an ace.
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  46.  @sparhawk1228  I'm talking about actual soldiers, just like men. They didn't avoid combat, you are simply making this up on the spot. Some of the women even got hero of the Soviet Union awards, so the last thing they did was avoid combat. Among the fighter pilots there were a few aces too.
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  47.  @toythief1633  By the end of the war there would be at least 500.000 women at any given time in roles that would require them to enter the front lines or fight. I would count paramedics that carry rifles and rush to wounded soldiers on the frontline to treat them as women in combat roles. I would also count manning AA guns and shooting down enemy aircraft as a combat role. 500.000 during the later stages of the war, full number of served in the military would be 800.000 (including non-combat roles)
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  48.  @sparhawk1228  I'm sure they would, but hand to hand combat was pretty much redundant by WW2 so I don't get your point. It was still somewhat part of the war in WW1 trench combat, but WW2?
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  49.  @sparhawk1228  Again, this isn't WW1. Bayonets have questionable use at best, they even did in WW2 already.
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  50. Got a bunch of ads though, so congrats
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