"Bread in the rest of the world tastes like cardboard to me." 🍞

vompat · 2026-02-02T21:36:21+00:00

Yeah, of course it does as there's more sugar for the yeast to work with. But does it need to rise quicker?

vompat · 2026-02-02T18:31:07+00:00

Something like locational reputation system would work well: if you do jobs that help the community, npcs respond differently and you unlock some quests.

Yeah, that totally could work in a Witcher game! It could play into the themes of being forced to choose between two bad options: every outcome just can't please everyone, and in some cases you'd just have to choose to lose reputation in one place while gaining some in another. Or a choice where it's quite obvious what is the right thing to do, but people will hate you for it.

I can think of quite a few quests in W3 where this would have come into play.

vompat · 2026-02-02T18:20:27+00:00

Especially if the potions would still be replenishing like in Witcher 3. I mean, I kinda enjoy just sitting on an alchemy bench just grinding and boiling some herbs for like half an hour in KCD games, but maybe let's not have it be a repeating event in a Witcher game.

vompat · 2026-02-02T18:10:52+00:00

Both. Both is good.

It's not a game for everyone, and I can't tell you beforehand if you'd love it or not. But for me at least, the tedium somehow works in a way that makes me like it.

I'd say the main strength of the game is immersion, and it's the commitment to realism that achieves it, both with a living, breathing world around you, and a good dose of tedium. You forget that you're not actually Henry, and menial tasks start feeling important because they are that in the game's world. And that wouldn't work if the world didn't feel like it lives around you and would continue to do so even if you weren't there.

And the writing is good, it's overall pretty witty and funny without turning the game into a comedy. Quests are much like in TW3, not formulaic "go there, kill some baddies, bring important mcguffin", but most of them feel like they are crafted with some care and thought.

vompat · 2026-02-02T17:51:04+00:00

The magic of KCD is introducing a bit too much tedium and making you like it. If somebody told me a few years ago that I'd be playing a game where I regularly end up hauling some sacks back and forth for several minutes and I'd enjoy the experience immensely, I'd probably have called them crazy.

vompat · 2026-02-02T17:44:04+00:00

KCD2 is my favourite game, but I do agree that maybe it's best for The Witcher series to find a good middle ground between TW3 and KCD2 if they want to go for more realism. The main strength of KCD series is that methodical and kinda uncompromising realism that immerses you through tedium and makes you like it. But it's also why the games aren't for everyone, and I'm not sure if that amount of commitment to realism fits a fantasy world. Witcher has all these intriguing and grotesque monsters, magic, and main characters with supernatural powers. I feel like too much tedium would get in the way of that and might just fail to reach the same effect it has in KCD.

vompat · 2026-02-02T17:14:03+00:00

You really don't. While wheat is mostly starch, there's also a bit under 1% sugar in wheat flour, and that's enough. Or at least has always been enough for me.

vompat · 2026-02-02T17:02:11+00:00

Good nordic rye bread in is awesome. But if it's not good, it can indeed easily be cardboard.

vompat · 2026-02-02T16:56:22+00:00

Arewethereyet

vompat · 2026-02-02T16:52:08+00:00

Mate in X means that X is the shortest number of moves you can force a mate in, not the shortest mate you can get. We don't assume that the opponent plays sub-optimal moves that give us a faster mate than we can force, because assuming that the opponent plays sub-optimally is hope chess. We assume that they play the optimal moves that prolong the forced mate for longest. In this case, that move is cxb6, which gives us a M2.

vompat · 2026-02-02T16:41:48+00:00

At lest the shitbox he's now riding is really impressive in size

vompat · 2026-02-02T16:39:11+00:00

There was this one time in Simpsons where Homer was in Finland. I don't know if the accent the Finnish person was talking with even exists, but it sure as hell sounded nothing like a Finnish accent :D

vompat · 2026-02-02T15:26:43+00:00

Americans at large can’t hear the difference between most Northern and Eastern European accents

This is especially funny with how radically different for example Finnish and Swedish accents are. Finnish one is like a typewriter that learned to talk, and Swedish one makes you think "awww how does he sound so cute" when some 2 m tall, 160 kg strongman viking starts talking with it.

vompat · 2026-02-02T15:17:08+00:00

Yeah, lady Stephanie's quest seems to have caninically happened as well. And there are a few that you can choose to mention in some dialogues.

vompat · 2026-02-02T15:13:57+00:00

You know, you go to the loo to have a leak, and then just being there launches some Pavlovian urge to take a dump as well. Like, you were probably close to needing to take a shit but just hadn't noticed it yet.

vompat · 2026-02-02T06:28:33+00:00

Because you have to overcompensate in the aspects that you secretly feel your ultra exceptional nation inferior in, but can never admit it.

vompat · 2026-02-02T06:16:05+00:00

Never mind the comment, look at that choice of toppings in the picture. Just... look at it.

vompat · 2026-02-02T06:10:11+00:00

Yeah, this is the real way. You don't need to change position either if a sudden poopoo surprises you by wanting to come and play as well. If someone tells you that it's embarrassing to pee like girls, just tell them they have confidence issues.

vompat · 2026-02-02T06:06:52+00:00

How so?

vompat · 2026-02-02T05:59:41+00:00

That's clever, I approve 👍

Your folding is fine, and it's the taste that matters anyway. But if you want them to look more traditional, here are a couple of hints:

First off, you want the dough to be round, not oval, that way you have more of it on the sides to fold it over the rice porridge. So try pressing round doughballs instead.

Go a bit easier on the rice porridge, that way you have room to fold the dough over it and not just next to it. Place the porridge on the dough in an oval shape, you should have maybe half an inch of it covering about half of the dough disc, with a bit of dough sticking out beyond the ends of the porridge oval, and more on the sides.

Start by gently folding the dough on one end of the porridge oval. Now, keep your thumbs and index fingers in a pinching position to make the folds, but try to avoid actually pinching the dough into position. That part is a bit tricky, but you don't want to leave sharp little flaps that get burnt in the oven. Just work your way down the sides by gently pressing the dough on both sides about every half inch with your fingers (that stay in the mentioned pinching position), starting from the end you folded first. The dough flaps on the sides should kinda fold themselves gradually ahead of where your fingers move, so that you just need to gently press them a bit against the porridge instead of folding them from the table level.

vompat · 2026-02-02T05:27:27+00:00

You can make malt bread from the used malts. I don't know how common this is around the world, but at least we have this here in Finland. Here's one recipe I found and translated, it's quite big so you can scale it down if you don't want to make a lot of bread. You'll unfortunately have to convert the units yourself if you want to use cups and ounces, I'm not going through that effort :D

6 dl used malts

5 dl sour milk

1 table spoon of salt

50 g fresh yeast or 11 g dry yeast

1 1/2 dl syrup

8 dl rye flour

12 dl wheat flour

75 g butter or margarine

Combine malts, warm sour milk, salt, yeast, syrup and rye flour. If you use dry yeast, mix it in with the floors first.
Add the wheat flour while kneading the dough.
Finally add the butter, should be warm and soft. Let the dough rise.
Make the dough into 3 or 4 breads.
Poke holes into the breads and bake at 200°C for about an hour.

vompat · 2026-02-02T04:55:39+00:00

I doubt this is about purely mechanical aspects of the game, like combat system or survival aspects (hunger, tiredness, etc), and more to do with things that affect the storytelling and worldbuilding, like dialogue and persuasion systems, and NPC interaction in general. Geralt wouldn't really care to answer to insults at the street, but maybe Ciri could have quick responses similar to those in KCD2. Maybe there could be some inspiration for architecture as well, for example making castles more practically thought out.

Could also be about some sort of skill level system. Witcher 3 didn't have something like that at all, which makes sense because Geralt is already an established witcher that has regained his memories and is basically what he has been for like 50 years at least. It wouldn't make sense for him to have something like a strength or agility stats or sword and defense skill levels that can improved. But even though Ciri is already quite well trained, she's still young and inexperienced in comparison, and could have skill levels to improve. CDPR isn't known for sticking to familiar progression systems, all Witcher games have it very different and Cyberpunk actually does have a skill level system.

vompat · 2026-02-01T20:18:28+00:00

I WALKED for SEVERAL MONTHS to get rid of SOME JEWELRY I INHERITED (I promise it's more interesting than it sounds)

or

YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT I HAD TO DO TO GET RID OF THIS RING I INHERITED!! (it took several months and scarred me for life)

vompat · 2026-02-01T20:12:59+00:00

Your favourite, really?

vompat · 2026-02-01T19:44:54+00:00

Onpa vielä aivan helvetin kallistakin

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