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    December 14, 2019

    Kingdom Come That would be lit

    That would be lit

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 01:16 AM PST

    Jesus Christ be praised

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 03:47 PM PST

    All I ask for is a 6 hour session

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 07:51 AM PST

    *Angry Eurogamer noises*

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 10:44 PM PST

    Had to read the history to understand stuff

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 09:30 AM PST

    A needle in a haystack

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 10:43 AM PST

    [WARNING: DLC PLOT SPOILERS FOR A WOMAN'S LOT] effortpost on the ethical dilemmas present in "The Madonna of Sasau".

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 07:19 AM PST

    Just played this quest and finished this trial and it's incredibly good! The trial itself is one of the best written sections of any game I can remember playing. The moral dilemmas I'm going to address here are great and paint the situation in lots of complexity! Maybe I am taking this game waaaay too seriously, but... I was just blown away by the depth of the ending of this questline.

    So I saved the game after getting the dice from Matthias because I had a sense that giving Johanka the dice or not giving it to her would be a plot defining decision. Johanka said she wanted to be honest with the Inquisitor and I began to feel that there was more at stake here morally than just keeping Johanka safe.

    I wanted to keep Johanka safe, because she's a cool character and I think pretty nice as a person (not perfect, for sure, but who is). However, I didn't want to manipulate her out of saying what she wanted to say. What she is saying- a populist condemnation of the church and the nobility- was in my opinion basically true in the language and context of the time. And you also have to manipulate her using her feelings for Matthias to get her to repent, so I feel like the game wants you to consider this as a dilemma: everyone is trapped in the system. Is it better to live the best life possible and accept the evil, or to strive against it and suffer more?

    On the note about class dissent and religion, I love how her sermons were written in the game. All of them addressed social issues of the time and roused the anger of the peasantry against the class structures of the time, which is why the inquisitor shows up and puts her in prison. But it is done in the way I think it would have been done then. Nowadays capitalist modernity has stripped away all of that superstition. People nowadays talk about class in a very direct manner- it's a matter of social inequality, some say it is natural and even desirable, others a matter of quantitative inequality can be solved through tweaking budgets and fiscal policy, others try to look at social inequality as qualitative political inequality which can only be overcome through social revolution, but such theories always try hard to claim to either be scientific or critical of what they'd deem falsely "scientific" pretensions in an academically rigorous manner.

    But back then- this is true of all cultures I am aware of, from the Ikko Ikki of Sengoku Japan to numerous Chinese peasant rebellions (i.e. the Yellow Turbans) to the European Hussites and Cathars, Diggers and Levellers- the discontentment of the oppressed peasantry was of course always expressed in highly metaphysical, religious terms. I personally (and my Henry, ha ha, because I am playing Henry as a guy who doesn't like the nobility or the church much) appreciate what she is saying through her "divine" visions. This was a time historically when class dissent was voiced through religion, and the Hussite rebellion that this time period leads up to was pretty radical in that regard. The radical factions of the Hussites, especially the Taborites, were communist, and founded a city-commune called Tabor. They did so precisely because they wanted to worship God better and turn to a "truer" Christianity where all were equal and lived with virtue. People would burn and destroy their property in order to join them. But I'm digressing!

    Johanka's sermons in the game really reflect that. They are all spoken through religious allegory, and heavy allegory at that, but the real-world implications are plain- live without sin and love your neighbour in the first, in the second that the unjust nobles should be cast down (which by logical extension is in a way a sort of democratic demand, because if bad nobles should be cast down then the nobility's only right to rule is if it rules well in the view of those lower than them, and this either transforms or removes their "divine mandate") and the third (which she only gives to the inquisitor in the court room at the final cut scene, if she doesn't get the so-called "good" ending) is radically critical of the Church itself- it annoys me that I can't remember the exact content of the final sermon, but it is to that effect.

    After playing the trial I looked up on the internet what ending people got and what they thought. I was surprised to see that people tended to talk about the "Johanka fully repents" ending as the "good" one!

    I don't really think there is a "good" ending to this quest line- just bad, bad, and worst of all (she gets executed). I love that about it, because it shows the brutal reality of the situation, and poses you with the dilemma I raised in the first paragraph- namely, is it better to live the best life possible and accept the evil, or to strive against it and suffer more?

    It's basically a battle between her voicing her mind and speaking against the unfree social structures of the time and her being cowed to them and accepting them (in front of the crowd she preached to, no less). Both choices end in violence of some sort, but in the choice where she is sent to the convent or even the one where she is executed the structures are exposed for what they are, and exposed to everyone to witness. Foucault makes the point that medieval societies had to maintain rule of law through arbitrary and extreme spectacles of violence; this was also their weakness, because the public spectacle of power, while it was supposed to display the omnipotence of the sovereign/Church, actually relied on the public spectacle, and therefore revealed that it relied on the participation of the people. This was particularly dangerous in cases where the people disagreed with the sovereign and admired or heroized the victim (as they do with Johanka).

    I think given the social backdrop of the time the more "ethical" choice to make is the one that directly challenges the Church and foments dissent, and allows Johanka the freedom to continue to challenge the social structures somewhat (she prays to Mary as she is being flogged so it seems she sticks with her convictions in this ending) through access to a monastic education. I hope that if we make this choice the journal entry "who knows if we will see her again?" makes true of itself in the 2nd KCD game.

    Then there is also how the inquisitor tends to get seen as "nice" by a lot of players. To me, he's a preacher who talks out of one side of his mouth about charity mercy etc. but actually his actions are evil- his job is to reinforce an incredibly cruel religious regime, to uphold an oppressive system, and he does so while preaching about virtue and morality in order to uphold the moral underpinnings of that regime. But I actually think in that regard he's a very well written character; there are a ton of religious authority figures much like him.

    I think the inquisitors of the past would have been like him in personality and temperament, partly because everyone thinks they're doing the right thing, and because for this reason the thing about evil people is that they're usually "nice" like anyone else; they are kind to children, bake apple pie for their neighbours, so on... because evil is essentially a very easy thing to do in an unfree world, often involving simply upholding the evil that others "make" you do, and is more about depriving others of their humanity and freedom as a result of that.

    So the other point on which I think this quest line shines unusually well in is exposing the banality of evil.

    In the end, of course, I've chosen the ending where she gets flogged and goes to the monastery- it's the one that sits morally best with me. But it's not an easy choice!

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    *Teresa knights Henry*

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 02:46 PM PST

    Henry the rat catcher dlc

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 03:47 AM PST

    When you try to read for the first time

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 03:04 PM PST

    Kingdom Come Deliverance - 2020 extreme Photorealistic graphic - Apex ENB - Apex Guide

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 06:46 AM PST

    Mods for more life on the roads?

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 05:01 AM PST

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    Travellers, bandits etc. The world feels a bit empty when you're riding around. I'm not speaking about fast travel btw.

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    Part 3 of a series I've been doing whilst playing the greatest 1ST Person RPG of our time! Give the entire series a go if you're feeling frisky!

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 12:43 AM PST

    “Henry: Where’s my sword?!?!?!”

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 02:55 PM PST

    My Favorite Henry

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 01:04 PM PST

    Swore better then duelist

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 02:30 AM PST

    Are there any better swords better than duelist I am mid-late game I am halfway through all that flusters quest

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    Looking for support in downloading mods (PC)

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 02:28 AM PST

    Every time I try and install mods and an enb for this game, they don't seem to work and my files eventually get too messy for me which makes me want to start over. I have now uninstalled this game two times now to start clean.

    There's only a few mods I want to download, but can someone atleast teach me how to install the unlimited saves mod?https://www.nexusmods.com/kingdomcomedeliverance/mods/1 ,

    Also, I never got the dot reticle mod to work for the bow. I made my own user.cfg and adding in the appropriate code didn't work.

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    Are there any advantages using weapons you are over-spec'd for?

    Posted: 13 Dec 2019 10:27 PM PST

    So far i have just assumed using the highest rated weapons is best.

    But am I missing something? Can you swing faster or parry better with a weapon you are over qualified for?

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