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@bluebearsw: sent a request as well, uplay is: Zenian545

@bluebearsw: I just got into another clan but it doesn’t seem like anyone wants to bite for a raid, I can bring a friend over with me who is also interested in trying the raid. I’ll look for an invite next time I’m on

Yeah I read that too, it seems ripe for some kind of balance update or else I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some kind of critical difference between the console and pc versions someone hasn’t found out yet.

So 8 players is a lot of people to get into a group for a thing, and I'm not ready to wade into reddit waters. Is anyone interested in trying to set up a time that we can meet up and at least see this raid? Personally, even if we don't finish it I want to see what this thing looks like past the entrance.

Right now me and a friend are looking to maybe put a group together on a Friday anytime after 5pm Eastern time. No pressure if your build isn't perfect or if you dont want to use a mic, we just want to see some of this endgame content.

Forgot to say I’m playing on PC: Zenian545

Looking to join a clan for the raid, since there apparently wont be any matchmaking when it comes out. I was in a different GB clan but it looks like the clan leader isn't an active player anymore.

Playing on PC: Zenian545

Shoot me a clan invite if you've got space or kick out any inactive players!

I did enjoy it, but as a bunch of people said before there is an edit that exists in my mind that would make me enjoy the movie a lot more. It wasn't just that the movie was simply too long, but also the ways in which it spent some of that time. The long panning shots and the vangelis music that was so iconic in the first movie was used a lot, the long silent shots of people standing in silent contemplation. There was a lot to take in, and I think that the thing people forget is that it was effective and novel in the first movie because it came before the new movie. Seeing a lot of the same shots and style replicated (heh) undercut the fact that it wasn't entirely original and they kind of used the same tricks more than once in the sequel of a movie that already used those tricks.

And to touch on the plot itself, some of it did feel kind loosely tied together. This was even further exacerbated by the before mentioned long style shots interspersed by short, and what I thought were some heavy handed dialogue scenes.

Also, if we can talk about the larger plot of the movie, the temptation to talk about a robot uprising on the scale that they do at the end, COMPLETELY misses the mark of what made the first movie so beautiful in that it was a small group of replicants that were not out to change the world, but just coming to terms with their mortality and the unfairness of the world. Rutger Hauer didn't have romantic aspirations about overthrowing the government and turning society on its head, and that made for a way more intimate story by the end of it.

It was a fine movie, but it played too close to the original to be anything but a pretty good followup, which is fair considering its the sequel to what is almost unarguably a seminal science fiction film.

So a paid alpha access just opened up today, has anyone played it? Game seems interesting and I was thinking of taking the dive.

For anyone that doesn't know the game is billed as a free to play on release, but theres a founder's package and blah blah blah all that stuff.

@carlos707:

The "Anglo-sphere" includes the U.S., the British Isles, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, and probably some other countries that I forgot. The problem was that I should have also clarified that Poland is not in the Anglo-sphere and the Witcher isn't primarily targeted toward the those sensibilities (most of those countries I listed have significant minority populations and thus many of their inhabitants are greatly and rightly concerned with multiculturalism)

I think it is entirely possible that they might add such a mission as you described in DLC (of which there is lots planned for the game) or even a gaggle of non-white NPC's in a whole new area. All I said is that the part of the "giant world" that they chose to render in the shipped game happens to have very few to no non-white humans.

And I agree that CD Projekt Red did not think it was "important enough" to put non-white NPCs in their game. But why should they have? We've already eliminated the lore reasons so i guess it's just because people who aren't them might want that in their game? There just happens to not be people in the studio's creative positions who thought that was a good enough reason. To expect an all-Polish studio in Poland to give a voice to a non-Polish Ethnic group for reasons that aren't directly related to the game is to make a really terrible bet. My point is that you should instead be expecting that from a highly multicultural society, which Poland is not.

@homelessbird: Woops, comment deleted :)