Because in their world things happen to people irrespective of their actions. I have a few people like that in the company, for them life is something that just “happens”, they are unable to reflect on their mistakes and learn from them.
You understand people can delete things, right? My Twitter is on a 30-day automatic delete script just in case.
You need a diverse writing team to adapt witcher for modern audience.
Bro, hundreds of people work on every AAA game. Some of them say stuff that might offend you. EVERY game. If you go looking for reasons to be mad and not buy games you will always find one if you look hard enough, but that's a fucking crazy thing to do.
Some notes -
CD Projekt Red’s Franchise and Lore Designer Cian Maher is a former writer at TheGamer who has made it clear he does not like gamers and even wants to punch them.
Regarding, Netflix’s The Witcher show, he wrote:
“Annoys me when people say Netflix's Witcher writers don't respect the lore. They have made sweeping changes, yes. Some of them have been questionable, others have been outright bad. But it is crystal clear that they love and respect Sapkowski's books. That is a lazy criticism.”
On transgender ideology so much so that he now dislikes the Harry Potter novels because of author J.K. Rowling’s political stance on the issue.
“The thing that will never cease to amaze me about people who tirelessly defend Harry Potter is that they'll say, ‘But you used to like it, you just don't like it anymore because you disagree with JKR's brazen transphobia’ and it's like... Yes? Why would I need any other reason.”
You can read the rest here or Watch the video
CD Projekt Red's Franchise & Lore Designer Is Former Games Journalist Who Wants To Punch Gamers
CD Projekt Red’s Franchise and Lore Designer Cian Maher is a former writer at TheGamer who has made it clear he does not like gamers and even wants to punch them.Fandom Pulse is a reader-supported publication.fandompulse.substack.com
Not the full Article:
YouTuber The Reviewer: Wild Take investigated Maher’s history and specifically a number of posts he made to X where he shared his desire to commit violence against gamers and expressed his disdain for them.
The Reviewer: Wild Take first noted that Maher’s video game career did not begin in development work, but he was an Associate Editor and eventually Lead Features Editor at TheGamer.com from September 2020 to December 2021.
He then became the Associate Editor at GLHF Entertainment AB, which describes itself as a '“company [that] provides best-in-class written and video content to some of the world’s biggest publishers.”
He only stayed there for 4 months before becoming games consultant in August 2022. He then joined CD Projekt Red in April 2023.
Next, he began digging into his post history on X by doing simple key word searches for “gamers” and others which quickly populates how much disdain he has for gamers.
In July 2022, he shared a Bernie Sanders meme that reads, “I am once again asking for you to stop being toxic little weirdos.”
In June 2021, he wrote, “law school being easier than dealing with gamers says everything anyone needs to know about this gig lmao.”
In December 2020, he complained that being a games journalist was difficult, “the thing i find funny about gamers complaining about how good games journalists have it is, like... if you think this job is so incredibly well-paid (it's not) and easy (it's not), why don't you just do it yourself”
As The Reviewer: Wild Take also points out he has no qualms praising massive lore breaking shows such as Netflix’s The Witcher and The Rings of Power despite his job being a Lore designer, which one would assume is to stay true to the lore.
Concerning Rings of Power, he wrote in 2023, “Tolkien fans obsessed with ‘accuracy’ are so f***ing weird. ‘Nobody cares about this adaptation’ — why do you care about any adaptation then? The only reason you're upset about Rings of Power is because ‘critiquing’ it allows you to pretend your vitriol and bigotry have value.”
To no surprise, he’s projecting as in his next post he claims that Sam has brown skin, “What's also funny is that most of the loudest Tolkien ‘fans’ online constantly tell on themselves You've read the books, yeah? Cool, so you know Sam has dark skin. How accurate was it to cast Sean Astin then? What's that? Speak up please, I can't hear you — where are you going?”
Regarding, Netflix’s The Witcher show, he wrote, “Annoys me when people say Netflix's Witcher writers don't respect the lore. They have made sweeping changes, yes. Some of them have been questionable, others have been outright bad. But it is crystal clear that they love and respect Sapkowski's books. That is a lazy criticism.”
He also is a proponent of transgender ideology so much so that he now dislikes the Harry Potter novels because of author J.K. Rowling’s political stance on the issue.
“The thing that will never cease to amaze me about people who tirelessly defend Harry Potter is that they'll say, ‘But you used to like it, you just don't like it anymore because you disagree with JKR's brazen transphobia’ and it's like... Yes? Why would I need any other reason.”
“I kind of get the nostalgia and cultural attachment. I was at midnight launches for the books as a kid and watched the films more times than I can count. But it's very weird to say ‘This thing I liked as a child, and everything adjacent to it no matter how immoral, is infallible,’" he added.
In September 2023, he wrote, “If you are an adult who loses their mind at the concept of pronouns, which everyone, everywhere, throughout all of history has used every single day, there is something wrong with your life but it's not what you think it is. The Wokes aren't out to get you. You're just a clown.”
“I honestly feel sad when I see people who have very clearly lost the ability to think because they have been swallowed whole by some inane grift,” he continued. “It is absurd that people can be so far gone that they will publicly go berserk at the sight of the word ‘they,’ or even just ‘pronoun.’"
“This isn't really a new or even worthwhile observation, but people online are way too obsessed with other people's lives and choices. Who gives a shit what anyone else is doing once they're content and not harming anyone. Let people be happy and mind your own business,” he concluded.
I was shocked to find out that approximately 1 in 3 people do not have an inner monologue that forces them to reflect upon their actions.
Question is why he was even hired
A sub forum for all this stuff would actually be amazing, yeah.
A sub forum for all this stuff would actually be amazing, yeah.
It especially doesn't work when we have credible reports that a lot of the writers on the show actively disliked the books.
You're ruining your own ability to enjoy things.
You're so fucking close, you just can't see it.
Yeah i guess he could be a real life NPC
You need to ask yourself how the recruitment process is hilariously broken in gaming if a guy like this gets hired.
Strawman, he isn't saying people are weird for complaining about lore accuracy and says he has his own complaints about it himself. That doesn't mean the discourse around the show wasn't toxic as hell.
Some notes -
CD Projekt Red’s Franchise and Lore Designer Cian Maher is a former writer at TheGamer who has made it clear he does not like gamers and even wants to punch them.
Regarding, Netflix’s The Witcher show, he wrote:
“Annoys me when people say Netflix's Witcher writers don't respect the lore. They have made sweeping changes, yes. Some of them have been questionable, others have been outright bad. But it is crystal clear that they love and respect Sapkowski's books. That is a lazy criticism.”
On transgender ideology so much so that he now dislikes the Harry Potter novels because of author J.K. Rowling’s political stance on the issue.
“The thing that will never cease to amaze me about people who tirelessly defend Harry Potter is that they'll say, ‘But you used to like it, you just don't like it anymore because you disagree with JKR's brazen transphobia’ and it's like... Yes? Why would I need any other reason.”
You can read the rest here or Watch the video
CD Projekt Red's Franchise & Lore Designer Is Former Games Journalist Who Wants To Punch Gamers
CD Projekt Red’s Franchise and Lore Designer Cian Maher is a former writer at TheGamer who has made it clear he does not like gamers and even wants to punch them.Fandom Pulse is a reader-supported publication.
Not the full Article:
YouTuber The Reviewer: Wild Take investigated Maher’s history and specifically a number of posts he made to X where he shared his desire to commit violence against gamers and expressed his disdain for them.
The Reviewer: Wild Take first noted that Maher’s video game career did not begin in development work, but he was an Associate Editor and eventually Lead Features Editor at TheGamer.com from September 2020 to December 2021.
He then became the Associate Editor at GLHF Entertainment AB, which describes itself as a '“company [that] provides best-in-class written and video content to some of the world’s biggest publishers.”
He only stayed there for 4 months before becoming games consultant in August 2022. He then joined CD Projekt Red in April 2023.
Next, he began digging into his post history on X by doing simple key word searches for “gamers” and others which quickly populates how much disdain he has for gamers.
In July 2022, he shared a Bernie Sanders meme that reads, “I am once again asking for you to stop being toxic little weirdos.”
In June 2021, he wrote, “law school being easier than dealing with gamers says everything anyone needs to know about this gig lmao.”
In December 2020, he complained that being a games journalist was difficult, “the thing i find funny about gamers complaining about how good games journalists have it is, like... if you think this job is so incredibly well-paid (it's not) and easy (it's not), why don't you just do it yourself”
As The Reviewer: Wild Take also points out he has no qualms praising massive lore breaking shows such as Netflix’s The Witcher and The Rings of Power despite his job being a Lore designer, which one would assume is to stay true to the lore.
Concerning Rings of Power, he wrote in 2023, “Tolkien fans obsessed with ‘accuracy’ are so f***ing weird. ‘Nobody cares about this adaptation’ — why do you care about any adaptation then? The only reason you're upset about Rings of Power is because ‘critiquing’ it allows you to pretend your vitriol and bigotry have value.”
To no surprise, he’s projecting as in his next post he claims that Sam has brown skin, “What's also funny is that most of the loudest Tolkien ‘fans’ online constantly tell on themselves You've read the books, yeah? Cool, so you know Sam has dark skin. How accurate was it to cast Sean Astin then? What's that? Speak up please, I can't hear you — where are you going?”
Regarding, Netflix’s The Witcher show, he wrote, “Annoys me when people say Netflix's Witcher writers don't respect the lore. They have made sweeping changes, yes. Some of them have been questionable, others have been outright bad. But it is crystal clear that they love and respect Sapkowski's books. That is a lazy criticism.”
He also is a proponent of transgender ideology so much so that he now dislikes the Harry Potter novels because of author J.K. Rowling’s political stance on the issue.
“The thing that will never cease to amaze me about people who tirelessly defend Harry Potter is that they'll say, ‘But you used to like it, you just don't like it anymore because you disagree with JKR's brazen transphobia’ and it's like... Yes? Why would I need any other reason.”
“I kind of get the nostalgia and cultural attachment. I was at midnight launches for the books as a kid and watched the films more times than I can count. But it's very weird to say ‘This thing I liked as a child, and everything adjacent to it no matter how immoral, is infallible,’" he added.
In September 2023, he wrote, “If you are an adult who loses their mind at the concept of pronouns, which everyone, everywhere, throughout all of history has used every single day, there is something wrong with your life but it's not what you think it is. The Wokes aren't out to get you. You're just a clown.”
“I honestly feel sad when I see people who have very clearly lost the ability to think because they have been swallowed whole by some inane grift,” he continued. “It is absurd that people can be so far gone that they will publicly go berserk at the sight of the word ‘they,’ or even just ‘pronoun.’"
“This isn't really a new or even worthwhile observation, but people online are way too obsessed with other people's lives and choices. Who gives a shit what anyone else is doing once they're content and not harming anyone. Let people be happy and mind your own business,” he concluded.
Who is forcing you to do that?
I do not think it was toxic, I think a lot of us are accustomed to a level of forced (toxic) positivity where disliking something and criticising it / standing your ground is seen as toxic / negative.
Remove witcher good storyline, You got nothing. The gameplay especially combat is not good
He didn't get this job without relevant writing samples, I promise you.
No it's not, he didn't even like the show, can you read? He was a fan of the books and he said he had a lot of issues with the show but he still thought people were being unfair at that point with some of their attacks.
He's the dude who writes the notes and lore entries you pick up and never read, dude. His job is not that important.
This is what blows my mind the most.
