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Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Glad to see those green eyes on Ciri despite the mutations! (Flawless. Gem. Queen.) 💎 #TheWitcher4

Not SuperNowa continuing with the FULLY voice acted Witcher audiobook series with Ciri's journey in The Tower of the Swallow!?🤩Finally, after all this time! (also could we pls have the little tune Avallac'h plays on the pipes at the end as a separate file, pretty please!)

God, I hope we see Ciri's vision-warging in The Witcher 4.

Crazy how much abandonment trauma The Witcher has.

'...it is not an ordinary person, most esteemed sisters. It is death or life, destruction or rebirth, chaos or order. Depending on how you look at it.' —Philippa about Ciri It's someone with the ability to choose.

'Monck sailed to Loc Muinne, to persuade the elves there to adopt a group of Source children,' I think it would make for a super cool Witcher story if we got to follow a child like this in a digest of elf-human cultural & magical differences. Before humans became a dominant force in the Neverland.

I write like 6.5 times better when I read out loud to myself what it is that I am writing. I write like 3 times better when I hit the perfect ratio between font & window size when I have 4 parallel working spaces open. I just work more efficiently when I switch to b&w mode. Got any weird tips?

‘Perhaps not imagine places or faces, she thought, but strongly desire … Strongly wish for something, very strongly, right from my belly …’ Ciri must really-truly know what she wants in order to navigate in the archipelago of moments. She ends up in a blizzard when wishing to reach Geralt

Work in progress on üks mu lemmikajaleht. Hiljutises numbris ilmus ka lihtne, aga põhjalik ülevaade Hansalinnade tõusust ja langusest. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-ri...

📘 Make sure to check out the book by Lennart Meri "Silverwhite: The Journey to the Fallen Sun". Now in English. 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/Silverwhite-... #LennartMeriConference

For a Belleteyn/spring challenge with some lovely friends, I wrote a thing, where Ciri makes wishes and Avallac'h dabbles in wish fulfilment. Oh and crime. They do crime. Enjoy! archiveofourown.org/works/65449399

The Witcher 3 reminds me so much of the anime Mushishi.

It's actually NOT so shocking how much of The Witcher comes down to characters not handling their own emotions very well & hiding behind some dysfunctional coping mechanisms -- not only witchers wear that mask. Feels very much like Sapkowski went: LEARN YOURSELF you stupid f to its male characters.

Happy belated birthday, Ciri!

In 2022, Curtis Yarvin (Peter Thiel’s “in-house philosopher”) wrote that, “it is Russia’s fate to again to restore order in Europe,” but “Trump needs to let Putin really know it’s okay to do it.” Yarvin added: “There is only one way to send this message unequivocally: withdraw from Europe.” 1/

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Echo. #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2 #VirtualPhotography

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2

if anyone's already watched Conclave and is craving more papal dramatics, recall that the bonkers modern classic THE YOUNG POPE exists, and this is a typical scene in it youtu.be/yFMDVH4lqSU?...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Portraits. #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2 #VirtualPhotography

You could get a whole genre out of #KCD2 and pictures of washerwomen, as they're all about it at such picturesque spots.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II The Knight of Greens. #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2 #VirtualPhotography

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #VirtualPhotography #KCD2

How do people play a game while screenshooting? I manage the story for like 20 minutes, and then spend 2h taking shots. Will never finish #KingdomComeDeliverance2 at this rate.

The Lodge of Sorceresses as the Dames of the Round Table.

#witcher If there is no Avallac'h in the new part of the game I will take up killing lol You can judge me, but you can't command your heart😉

#witcher couldn't resist🙂

reposting with alt text. omg DO NOT DO THIS.

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are. Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.

Steam says I've spent 243.5 hours in this game (and I'm far from done) 🫠 #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2 #VirtualPhotography

#kcd2 #hansry another day another sketch I hope after all of my deadlines I could draw something more than this....

an attire befitting a king #kcd2 #hansry

Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #VirtualPhotography #KCD2 #KingdomComeDeliverance2

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #VirtualPhotography #KingdomComeDeliverance2 #KCD2

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #VirtualPhotography #KCD2 #KingdomComeDeliverance2

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II #VirtualPhotography

Sad to learn Kingdom Come: Deliverance II was supposed to have a cooking mini game (what are all these delicious spices FOR man...), but it got cut :( Hungry Henry could have veered into becoming the best chef in Bohemia.

One of the 'nice' ways to combat the gold surplus in Kingdom Come: Deliverance II would have been, for example, to have us lose our horse (sorry, Pebbles) permanently after one notable ambush in ACT1 (along with what we had stored on it. Feels bad BUT I like struggling in this game.

Who will be the first to write the history of that short-lived period that began in 1989 and ended in 2025? So much hope and opportunity, so much short-sighted and incompetent leadership on all sides, and such an ugly, tragic ending.

Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.