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The Ballad of Geralt the Fanboy: A Look at the Critical Reception of the Witcher Games (Patreon)

Published:
2020-09-11 08:21:23
Edited:
2020-09-24 04:27:11
Imported:
2022-04

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Anonymous

Hell yes, I've been waiting on this one! Been loving this series so far!

Anonymous

Yeah the way to talk about watching Anderson’s videos is me. I’ve watched both his videos knowing nothing about Witcher, and left knowing the whole plot but that’s it, I know the events and mechanics but didn’t get a grasp on the meaning at all

Anonymous

Oh good, Joseph Anderson being wrong about the Scoia'tael wasn't something that only I noticed.

Anonymous

Great vid; really loving this series (which I am watching as FOMO, or rather because I'm more interested in your takes than The Witcher itself, though you're selling me on it). I had two thoughts while I was watching this. First: to what degree do you think the experience of Solidarity in Poland contributed to the critique of neoliberalism? Poland had a first hand experience of exactly the problems you highlighted about neoliberalism starting in '89, 3 years after the appearance of the first Witcher story. I don't know the books, or how the timeline of when they were written lines up with the actual negative results of Solidarity's turn to neoliberalism, but it might be an interesting thing to explore. Second: Joseph's criticism of the elves, even setting aside the fact that he seems to be criticizing two completely separate groups of elves, line up really well with David Graeber's comments on bullying, that 'bullying creates a moral drama in which the manner of the victim’s reaction to an act of aggression can be used as retrospective justification for the original act of aggression itself.' It's kinda interesting to see how that bit of justification is so deeply ingrained that it would come up in 'apolitical' media analysis.

Anonymous

“Oh man. I’m paying a whole two dollars to watch this video! I hope it’s good!” *Curio talks about gwent as main game with open world side quests* “Brilliant. Wonderful. I’ve spent this money well!” Love this video! I’m usually not for responding to people’s interpretation as “you are wrong”, but it does highlight how centrism tends to rely on missing key information and details in order to remain centrist. Alright, now I gotta go and read all the books, form my own opinion, then check in with your next video to make sure it’s the right opinion lmao

Anonymous

Okay, so I joined because I wanted to see this, and I'm so glad I did. Thank you for echoing pretty much everything I've said about the Witcher since I stumbled onto it after the Netflix series released. I love that you bring up that stripping the politics out of what is, in the end, a deeply political piece of art, leaves you with just aesthetic.

Anonymous

amen, I've been loving this series. I love the Witcher, and I love a lot of the themes explored, and I'm keen to see this one. In particular, I'm getting really sick of seeing colonialist, racist imperatives in games-and people ignoring the text of the Witcher to talk their shit: You read the novels, you'll understand: The moral of the story is, you colonise a space, you make those you colonised hate you, they brutally kill you, and you are a joke for being so stupid. You look at TW2, and it's like: You can choose to join the personally charismatic GESTAPO/SA chief, or you can join the indigenous rebel opposing the GENOCIDE of his people-who states many times, his goal is for humans and fae to live in peace (While Roche only has the goal of supporting his liege, which sometimes includes genocide). If you examine it in the history of the 20th century, Roche is a Nazi. A Gestapo. An SS, an SA, someone who does the evil will of his government because he feels it's lawful-If you don't get this I don't feel you can ever mention the Nazis except to mention you're very similar. If you judged him for his actions: He is a nazi and someone who deserves his skin peeled off. Yet the game gives him more depth: He took this job, he is so fucked and evil, because that is his job and the world around him-you can still like him. He is a coward who chose to be a nazi because it helped him. Whereas Iorveth: He is awful to you. He threatens and abuses you. He is a dick to the human allied mutant. He doesn't give you a chance: To explore his story, you must give HIM a chance. And he tells you: His dream is to let humans and non-humans into the forests without any fear of each other. Despite being a terrorist and a murderer, he wants something better, and his story is about confronting that BETTER and trying to deal with it, and his own past. While nobody else confronts this. Roche doesn't go "Hey, I'm serving racists in genocide, that makes me a Nazi-Frankly, in modern times, if you wouldn't put Roche to death, Israel would probably assassinate you-because he is, Roche is a Nazi, he's like a Gestapo, a Kapo, a political Nazi like the SS or SA. He's just doing it to get his way in the world: He was born to nothing, and it tells you how people adopt evil beliefs like that for a reason. It shows how capitalism reinforces the bigotry of the ruling class: Which Geralt fucking hates. In fact, Geralt has a character that says a) Monsters are not defined by form, someone deformed who hurts nobody is not worth killing, and say, a human rapist who is not derformed at all, is worth butchering, and granting the worst of fear to (Valid, fuckem). TW3 has the ad that shows him killing humans, and defining them as monsters: That's the twist in half of the Saporski novels But if you played TW2, and went "I can't understand Iorveth's point" nor "I understand how, as much as I like Roche, he is a Nazi" then it's really hard to deal with. The games are not subtle. The amount of people who project their own bigotry onto it is disgusting. It's always "Fuck whoever looks the least human" and honestly? As an austic man, I could say the same for everyone: Do you want to live by my standards, which say: Skin alive the Blue Stripes and those who support them? Because I'm still more moral than you for that. Deal with your own bigotry, or justify everyone else's. I picked Iorveth. No remorse. Roche is an interesting path, but if you can't understand why someone would pick Iorveth, you''d never understand anything meaningful out of supporting Roche. Really tired of this tbh. I am a massive fan of Kenshi. It is my favourite RPG/Simulator. And people decide that the bigotted parts of the history are right and the robots (Who, cannonically, experienced the first racial, human genocide) are in face, the baddies (No evidence supports) and the Holy Nation (Basically a parody of the WBC-Are RIGHT because the skeletons are secretly bad (Not supported at all in text). Honestly, as someone who's been a teacher, it reminds me of teaching 8 year olds. Geralt is the cowboy. Coming into town. He's a better gunslinger than anyone. If you fuck with him, he will butcher you, not compete with you, You are meat. And bad meat. I love him because he's stuck between those worlds and knows one will punish him for it, the human side, despite knowing: He can kill any human stupid enough to judge him. Geralt is a human lawnmower-shit talk my Geralt, and he cuts off all your arms and legs outside the bar. People project onto the humans, and ignore the setting due to their racism. Kenshi communities are so bad, because there are so many racists, trying to blame any non-human races for things, because they could not read the history. The Witcher makes clear (I'm talking about the series, but I am a fan of the books and games) that he does not give a shit. He knows the history, and is a lethal killer, he doesn't care about your shit, he can kill you easily. His position is about what choices he makes.

Anonymous

Can I admit I got Stennis and radovid mixed up in witcher 2 and actually cried that I didn't kill Stennis cos I could have stopped the genocide Radovid undertook? Omg what a mess I am. It was the 3rd RPG I ever played lol I don't have good video game eye for the details! They were wearing the same clothes lol Anyway thanks for listening to my confession.