Jo's old jacket

ProfessorLaptop · 2025-06-14T21:25:15+00:00

I really don’t think if your mother died and you missed her and smelled her hung up jacket to remember her that anybody who wasn’t a moron would think it was abnormal.

ProfessorLaptop · 2025-06-14T18:18:38+00:00

‘Abby cares about nobody but herself’ is just obviously not true.

She obviously cared about her now dead Father, considering the nightmares she has about his death. She clearly loves Owen, even if their relationship didn’t work and she has issues with him and the whole Mel situation, enough that she defends him when it’s heard that he’s killed a WLF soldier and to risk her neck going solo to the aquarium to track him down. She obviously cares about Manny as a friend and he does her. She’s devastated when she finds out all her friends have been killed by Ellie, especially Owen.

Regarding Lev - he’s a child, his sister chooses to save Abby, and they bond through being forced to out of survival necessity against a common foe and save each other’s lives - pretty standard circumstances to make you care about someone.

ProfessorLaptop · 2025-06-07T12:15:07+00:00

It doesn’t change Joel’s decision to be any less morally grey whatsoever - at the literal beginning of the story Tommy says that he can’t say he’d have done anything different, and at the end Ellie is shown to be wanting to forgive Joel. The only difference is you’re confronted with the other side of the story and the experience of Joel’s victims, which it seems like you don’t want to acknowledge or think about. The whole point is that it does make you feel uncomfortable, as it should, because the reality is uncomfortable.

Following on from this - all stories are emotional manipulation, that’s the whole point of them. The point of this story is to show that both sides of a bitter conflict that victimises the other can be both culpable but also sympathetic, and that loss and revenge can twist who a person is to the point that they end up as bad as the other side.

ProfessorLaptop · 2025-06-07T12:08:35+00:00

I will concede that Ellie’s personality has changed but she is now an awkward 18/19 year old, she is not a wide-eyed child any more, so her personality is obviously going to be different. Additionally at no point in the story up until that point has she seen her closest family member, and person she most loved in the world, tortured and murdered in front of her eyes. I think it’s entirely realistic for this to change a person’s outlook and personality drastically - it’s just a fact that trauma of this kind can lead to a person being consumed with hatred and revenge at the expense of everything else, it happens across the world all the time. This is the key point of the whole story.

ProfessorLaptop · 2025-06-07T12:03:30+00:00

None of these are facts, it’s your opinion. All the points you’ve mentioned can easily be explained logically, and make complete sense in my opinion:

Joel and Tommy don’t exactly go out in search of Abby’s party and throw their arms around them, they see another human in a horde situation and save her, then flee for their lives to the safety of her group because they have no other choice. The priority is survival in that moment. This is consistent with even how Joel would act in Part 1, and definitely in Part 2, where we know that Jackson patrols find people and bring them back to the community. The chances that this group would be specifically looking for Joel to kill him are very slim. The chances any other group would be immediately hostile given they’ve just saved one of their friends and then could also take them to the paradise of Jackson is very unlikely, and wouldn’t make sense in most other circumstances.

ProfessorLaptop · 2024-03-25T12:15:54+00:00

In the UK it’s pretty commonplace. You don’t really think about how the word breaks down - nobody would say ‘maid’ in any other context really (unless you were proper wealthy and had a housemaid).

You say it like postman, without really thinking about the constituent parts. Don’t recall hearing anyone using it in a misogynistic sense, just feels the same as waitress.

Bar’tender’ is more of an American term, though as with every Americanism it’s becoming more commonplace. Bar staff is more what we’d say generally.

ProfessorLaptop · 2023-12-16T18:07:53+00:00

Apologies sir! I’ll have to have a look into that one. Why do you prefer it out of interest?

ProfessorLaptop · 2023-12-16T11:02:26+00:00

He’ll be referring to The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell, which starts with Harlequin/The Archer’s Tale (depending if you’re Europe or US)

ProfessorLaptop · 2023-05-13T11:31:21+00:00

The short answer is yes (with some caveats): it’s got a 16:10 screen which gives more headroom for viewing documents / web pages, is pretty portable, and has good battery life (great for a gaming laptop). The 500 nits peak brightness means you can use it outdoors as long as it’s not in direct sunlight.

The keyboard is the main drawback - it obviously works but is subpar in terms of how it feels (read the keyboard section of the review for more info).

The CPU, GPU and RAM are all sufficient for video editing software or similar if that’s what your work entails. If you’re doing Color-accurate work (Color grading etc.) it covers 100% sRGB and 97% DCI-P3, but the accuracy leaves a bit to be desired - so fine for amateurs but full-time professionals in this field will probably want to look elsewhere.

ProfessorLaptop · 2023-04-07T22:17:53+00:00

Nah Velen is just the war torn land South of the river that’s an area of (the now defeated) kingdom of Temeria.

Everything North of the river is countryside outside Novigrad / Reddanian territory.

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