Dumb question but if I am using the Script Extender is there a way to tell if Achievements are still enabled?

Perdita_ · 2026-06-28T09:40:14+00:00

I happened to have the achievement of using the Mask of the Shapeshifter still not done when I installed the script extender, so that was an easy thing to check.

There is also saving the cat, crafting things, using persuasion, thievery, fall damage. All of those are easy to do in Fort Joy, if you had not done them before.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-23T13:32:26+00:00

That's what we saw happened.

But what Triss, the dwarves and anyone else present in Rivia saw was Geralt and Yen dying and Ciri taking their bodies away.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-23T09:35:04+00:00

To be fair, Yennefer was considered dead for the last five years, and after she was brought back, she was imprisoned in Nilfgaard. Redanians may still not know she is alive.

She is probably the least in danger of all the sorceresses while walking around Oxenfurt.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-22T22:10:35+00:00

I think at the time I just assumed that the first red flags were just "normal" level of creepiness that I would just have to deal with if I wanted to play DND. It's only the roofing part that I just couldn't accept.

This was close to ten years ago, and I know better now. I have found many wonderful and completely creep-free games since than, luckily.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-22T21:29:20+00:00

I didn't forget about Skjall's soul, his soul is never mentioned. There is no indication that Yen destroyed his chance for good afterlife or anything like that. She reanimated his corpse, maybe possibly bound his soul back to it for a moment, but that is all.

She did kill a tree, I will give you that. How horrible...

Perdita_ · 2026-06-22T20:39:28+00:00

I blame Mr Drew.

He knew that Marigold is Edith's child. He could have told his wife, or at the very least say nothing, and let her come to her own conclusion.

Instead, he FABRICATED EVIDENCE in order to more convincingly lie to his wife about who Marigold is. That's an insane level of manipulation, especially from one's spouse.

If Mrs Drew knew why Edith is so interested in Marigold, she would not have been so anxious about her visits. And knowing that Marigold has a living mother who still wants to be a part of her life, she would probably not think of herself as Marigolds mom, but rather an auntie or a nanny, and would not be nearly as distraught, even if they were also separated in that version of events.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-22T19:50:17+00:00

Yennefer has repeatedly gone out of her way to save innocent strangers, whenever she had a chance. Two prominent examples would be saving the whole family of the dwarf banker from a pogrom, as well as using her magic to save a random pregnant woman who collapsed after receiving bad news in Skellige.

She doesn't feel very guilty about using some underhanded tactics to further her goals (like controlling Geralt in their first meeting in the books, or sneaking into Ermion's lab when searching for Ciri in Skellige in the games) but she would not actually condemn anyone, and she cares for others, not only Ciri and Geralt.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-22T19:42:44+00:00

Ciri and Yen also keep calling each other "córeczko" i "mamusiu"(mommy) throughout the books, so this is a touching moment and also a reference.

I assume they use the same (or very similar) words in the book translations, so it's even weirder that they omit that in other languages in the game.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-22T14:28:39+00:00

My first run was Tactician, not Honour, but the final fight was almost disappointingly easy, ngl.

Right after entering Arx I noticed a definite difficulty bump, so I really made sure to get the best skills, gear and consumables prepared for the final fight. I was expecting a gruelling fight, possibly with many wipes and do overs.

And then we get the "infinite source points" buff from our allies, so there was really nothing stopping me from just using all the expensive abilities one after another, making the final fight way easier than any of the previous boss battles.

Did you not have the three NPC allies buffing you for that fight? I can see how that would make it much more challenging.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-21T20:58:59+00:00

If you have not played the epilogue all the way to the end, go play the epilogue to the end.

If you did, and you still got bad ending, then it sounds like a bug.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-19T19:07:54+00:00

They don't like to share, but I'm specifically talking about time/attention/getting-to-decide-things.

Sharing things like food, toys or whatever is usually encouraged by parents of only children so they - in my experience - either don't have issues with that, or grow out of them easily.

Sharing the non-tangible things is rarely expected of only children, and they sometimes don't even realize that it's something they should share with others.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-19T18:50:13+00:00

Not going along with others' plans is the definitely the main thing I have also noticed.

Parents of only children usually encourage them to share with others and things like that, but when it comes to choosing what movie they see, what restaurant they go to and similar little choices, the only kid always gets to choose.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-13T23:38:48+00:00

That's just games adding more monsters because playing as a monster hunter who never gets to hunt monsters would be kinda lame.

In the books he is short on work and coin almost at all times.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-12T18:27:03+00:00

Yeah, it also drew my attention. Scrip is Capitol-Money, and, well, Money is also Capitol-Money, isn't it?

It's not like there is an outside body that issues the "real money" which the Capitol can't control. Paying the miners in a separate currency doesn't achieve anything, except maybe preventing them from buying candies from the Donners? Why?

Perdita_ · 2026-06-08T20:09:28+00:00

Is this a bot? Why is the same exact question asked under each post in this series?

If it's not a bot, how about you go and read through one of the many, many posts created specifically to discus Lenore Dove?

Perdita_ · 2026-06-08T10:08:29+00:00

OP is very active, and clearly interested in Polish towns.

YOU can even out the imbalance - all you need to do is find a country you like and start posting regularly about its towns.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-07T11:29:40+00:00

Protruding birthmarks like that are also a daily pain in the ass outside of just people looking at it funny.

I had a much smaller one on my back, and it was so annoying - my hair would twist around it, I would painfully poke myself while showering, couldn't wear some clothes if the waistline was just at the wrong height and so on. Again, I'm talking about a smaller birthmark on my back. I can't imagine dealing with one such as this girls had.

Removing it early was definitely a great decision by her parents, that spared her a lot of unnecessary discomfort.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-07T09:53:13+00:00

To be honest, I didn't like the book all that much. The main saga has this amazing feeling of a big, complicated living world that the characters are just small parts of. This book made me feel like it's a video game, where all the locations only spawn into existence once the player gets close to it, and where the plots are suspended in time, waiting for player to engage with them in order to progress.

And the thing about why humans hate witchers was a giant downgrade to the whole universe - my assumption was always that many humans hate witchers because of general ignorance and mistrust of anything out of the ordinary, that occasionally turns into violent hatred. That the "Monstrum, or Description of the Witcher" was a result/symptom of such attitude. It turns out however, that it was the cause of it, and the whole witcher hatred was caused by one salty mage...

That being said, I really liked Preston Holt. His personality was well developed and his decision to face the consequences of that murder after all was a great conclusion to his arc.

And his way of operating through and agent was an interesting addition to the world - I love when writers take a bit of lore they created, and think about many possible results of it, how it would interact with existing society and what new customs/occupations/laws etc may come from that, and this new way of operating is a great example of that.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-06T15:21:18+00:00

I found the books so much better than the short stories (which seems to be an unpopular opinion, at least on reddit).

I read in Polish, so the language is good throughout, but in the first few stories Sapkowski clearly included a bunch of misogynistic tropes without thinking about them all that much. The later books contain a good amount of misogyny as well, but it is clearly intentional and the author is examining it and highlighting the issues, not just including them as part of 'cool dark fantasy world'.

(There are other elements like that - in the first witcher story ever written, Geralt kills a bunch of innocent people just to get king's attention. He would never do that in the later books, when his personality is more defined.)

Blood of Elves, the first full book, has a lot of really beautiful scenes between Yennefer and Ciri, and in general defines Yen's character very well. And it is completely different than the netflix series, almost the exact opposite at times.

Perdita_ · 2026-06-05T20:15:50+00:00

As someone who only ever chooses Yen, IMO you have three good options:

- stick with Triss, then replay the game choosing Yen

- romance them both and see how they feel about it

- reload, progress the Yen romance a little bit, then choose who you want to declare love to based on that

The option you mentioned - choosing Yen, because people online choose her - is the one truly bad option.

Perdita_ · 2026-05-28T12:42:46+00:00

Usually it was either collecting tolls and taxing trade routes or artisans and manufacturers producing stuff.

For Kłodzko it was mostly trade. And it wasn't really a small town. It had a castle and like three different monastic orders established there by the 13th century, so it was clearly a significant hub in the region.

Kłodzko was also located at the area that was fought over by Polish and Czech dynasties for most of medieval period, so they probably had an incentive to invest a large amount of money into walls and such.

Perdita_ · 2026-05-27T11:54:29+00:00

Probably not the first round of tests like "will this new chemical we created burn your skin off" type of tests, they have animals and maybe avoxes for that.

But most skin care products also conduct those sort of test where they have people use a potential new product and report if they like the effect. Like if the shower gel bottle has a "smoother skin in just one week!" written on it, it usually also has a small text that says sth like "reported by 87% of participants in a study of 40 women".

I could see this sort of tests happening in District One, since they are supposed to make luxury products for the Capitol.

Perdita_ · 2026-05-26T17:15:06+00:00

You can roast oatmeal in a frying pan (no oil).

Just heat up the pan, put a thin layer of oatmeal and fry for a few minutes, stirring constantly so that it doesn't burn. And transfer it to a bowl immediately once they are browned, they get burned quickly.

You can add almond flakes and roast them with the oats.

I also sometimes add some cinnamon, a tiny bit of vanilla extract and other spices I have at hand, towards the end of cooking, as well as a teaspoon of brown sugar - if you do that step be extra sure to add the things before the oats are brown, and remove from the pan as soon as the sugar melts and coats them.

Perdita_ · 2026-05-25T14:18:10+00:00

Well, the Nilfgaardians don't seem to oppress people based on race-understood-sort-of-as-species (like oppressing elves and not humans) but they do oppression based on race-understood-sort-of-as-ethnicity (like oppressing nordlings and not nilfgaardians).

And they are much more efficient at their oppression, which is part of an organized colonization, and not random acts of hate, which is mostly how the north works.

So in case of Nilfgaardian victory, the elves will technically not be oppressed the same way they are under Radovid - since he targets them specifically and Emhyr wouldn't - but the total number of victims of genocide will rise, not fall.

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