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I'm not sure if you missed the Great Sapkowski Discourse a couple days ago, but responses like this weren't uncommon.
Quote skeet saying: ""Lore" is a byproduct of IP culture, and hostile to literature."
November 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Which is exactly how he answers questions about things in the books.
Q: Is there a message or lesson you hope readers walk away with after finishing the saga? A: Of course there is, or rather there are. Many. Didn't you spot it? Pity.
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If your worldbuilding is any good, it *should* be relevant to your themes.

In particular, the coexistence (or lack thereof) among fantasy races is an explicit theme in the books (often with clear parallels to real-world groups), so questions about such coexistence seem relevant to me.
Excerpt from Blood of Elves: "We have to live next to each other," Yarpen continued. "We and you, humans. Because we simply don't have any other option. We've known this for two hundred years and we've been working towards it for over a hundred. You want to know why I entered King Henselt's service, why I made such a decision? I can't allow all that work to go to waste. For over a hundred years we've been trying to come to terms with the humans. The halflings, gnomes, us, even the elves - I'm not talking about rusalkas, nymphs and sylphs, they've always been savages, even when you weren't here. Damn it all, it took a hundred years but, somehow or other, we managed to live a common life, next to each other, together. We managed to partially convince humans that we’re not so very different-” Excerpt from Blood of Elves (continued): "We're not different at all, Yarpen." The dwarf turned abruptly "We're not different at all," repeated Ciri. "After all, you think and feel like Geralt. And like ... like I do. We eat the same things, from the same pot. You help Triss and so do I. You had a grandmother and I had a grandmother ... My grandmother was killed by the Nilfgaardians. In Cintra." "And mine by the humans," the dwarf said with some effort. "In Brugge. During the pogrom."
November 2, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I mean, he also seems to view those kinds of questions with contempt.
Q: Is there a message or lesson you hope readers walk away with after finishing the saga? A: Of course there is, or rather there are. Many. Didn't you spot it? Pity.
November 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
4e artwork went hard.
An image from the 4e DMG. A group of adventurers is fighting a lich and some boneclaws. One of the adventurers is bashing in a boneclaw's skull with a massive fucking hammer.
October 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
The problem with the Treaty of Versailles is that it didn't go far enough.
September 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
An unironic fascist getting almost 50% of the vote among 30-50 year-olds is even more alarming.

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Graphic from Pew Research showing voting patterns by age and gender. 18-29 year-olds were 58/39% for Harris/Trump, while 30-49 year-olds were 50/48%.
August 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is the opposite of true.

www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
Graphic from Pew Research showing voting patterns broken down by age and gender. 18-29 year-olds were +19 for Harris.
August 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
What game has the best aesthetic, in your opinion. It's not a TTRPG, but the art style of the board game Beast speaks to me on a spiritual level.
July 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Yessss....
A group of adventurers fight a lich and some boneclaws. One of them is bashing a boneclaw's head in with a massive fucking hammer.
July 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
HoI4 should be in the middle, but otherwise this meme is accurate.
3-circle Venn diagram of video game communities, with the circles labelled "autistic", "trans", and "nazi". HoI4 sits at the intersection of "trans" and "nazi".
July 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Well, this is awkward.
Header of a character sheet. Race is listed as "half-orc", but with "half" crossed out, and a note: "There is no such thing as “half”-orcs. Though I may have human blood in my veins, my soul is of Gruumsh."
June 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm about to be a massive hypocrite, because I just said how much I hate when people drag up quotes the author made after the fact, but I still think that Tolkien hit the nail on the head with his distinction between "applicability" and "allegory".
“I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
June 8, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Gortash: I enslaved and abused one of the origin characters. "Awww, you're sweet." Cazador: I enslaved and abused one of the origin characters. "Hello, human resources?!"
May 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This one includes both combatant and civilian deaths (although it still seems to exclude the Rwandan genocide for some reason), but it only goes back to 1946, so it's not terribly useful for proving the existence of the Long Peace.
Deaths in state-based conflicts by region, 1946-2023.
March 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
From my BG3 journal.
I am less certain than ever of what to do next. Do I fear Gortash’s Steel Watchers, or Orin’s assassins more? And who would be more dangerous to let live for now? Orin and her fellow Bhall-cultists plan to commit several more murders in the coming days, but that doesn’t make it any less pressing to stop Gortash’s plan. Oh, and I guess we should also try to rescue Halsin. We owe the damn druid that much, I suppose.
December 30, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Man, I love just hoe hard some of the 4e artwork went.
November 4, 2024 at 2:32 AM