This isn’t an “open-ended” build-your-own-character RPG. This is an RPG in a literal sense: you are playing the role of a character who already exists, Geralt the Witcher. He is not Geralt the Mage, or Geralt the Archer, and if you try to play him that way you will find yourself woefully ill-suited to the art of…

Well, I've only played Hearts of Stone, but they can be tackled pretty much any time after you make it to Novigrad. They're fairly high level quests, though, so you'll probably want to do them towards the second half of the game.

"Horrible, atrocious, awful"....you're being a real drama queen about your inability to play this game the way it's clearly supposed to be played. You're blowing minor foibles up into game-destroying mechanics put in place specifically to spite you. Get over it.

Your problem is that you're playing the game as a mage instead of a Witcher. Play your character and you'll do just fine. This isn't a game where you build whatever character you want. If you don't play to Geralt's strengths, then you're just making the game needlessly hard for yourself. Instead of using the crossbow…

Yes. The stuff in Skellige had some of my favorite quests in the game.

Does he do the radio voices for the "Car Talk" radio show in Job Simulator? I was listening to that last night and thinking "this sounds like an extra-dimensional radio show from Rick and Morty."

Every sentenced he ever passed should be vacated. They're all tainted, and it's the only way to be sure.

Look, I'm sorry you can't afford the cool new technology, but your bitterness is really off-putting. My friends and I will continue having a great time in VR. You don't have to watch if you don't want to.

Yeah, it can't possibly be because it's an awesome piece of technology that fits directly into Kotaku's format and is interesting to their audience (it's a video game blog for fuck's sake). Stop acting like your opinions are everyone's opinions. I just bought a Vive, I think it's fucking awesome, and I'd love to see…

I think this is a big part of it. Also just the general desire to be part of something, and to fight for it. Unfortunately for some people this is the best cause they can come up with.

Aerys's infatuation with Joanna was definitely mentioned in passing at some point. I can't recall exactly when, but it was while Tywin was still alive.

And thus "the dragon has three heads," the King, the Queen, and the Hand.

Well, there's the fact that at least two of those things are absurdly untrue.

Seriously? Compared to the past two seasons this one is racing along.

it seems, via Bran’s warging time-travel exploits, like Wyld Chyld Rhaegar Targaryen is probably his rapist father, which would possibly make him somehow magic

Well, the Mad King was always enamored with Tywin’s wife, and in the books Tyrion’s hair is much fairer; almost white. And he has one purple eye, which if I’m not mistaken is a Targaryan characteristic. If he were the Mad King’s bastard with Tywin’s wife (whom Tywin supposedly genuinely loved) then it would help…

As long as you’re still doing fantastic comic write-ups then everything is awesome.

Unless you're a pregnant woman, Zika is basically like the flu.. It's unpleasant and can be dangerous if you have immune issues, but otherwise not a big deal.

It changed.

Laws are necessary to enforce a civil society. That's true for preventing theft, it's true for preventing murder, and it's true for preventing discrimination. It's all fine and good to put the responsibility for equal treatment on the moral compass of the average person, but history shows you'll only be disappointed.