"She Made Her Decision Before You Finished Your Sentence"

Three seconds. That's how long it took. Your shoes. Your posture. The way you held your drink. Whether you looked at the floor or looked at her.

She already filed you away. Interesting. Boring. Safe. Bold. Before you even opened your mouth.

Everything you say after that is just her confirming what she already decided.

So stop rehearsing lines. Fix the first three seconds. Stand tall. Look up. Smile like you mean it. Walk like you belong wherever you're standing.

The words come later. The impression comes first.

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The witcher season 3

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Beside the fact that I forgot everything that happened before but..is it me or it starts to look like a teenage drama show?

All these teenage girls and pre post wall women arguing with over colored soyboy elves.

Anyone has an opinion on it?

Basically that poor bastars of henry cavil was supposed to slaughter monsters and dragons yet he is a half way between a baby sitter and a servant.
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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I watched part of the first season but never finished...played and beat all of the Witcher games tho which were fantastic.
 

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I watched part of the first season but never finished...played and beat all of the Witcher games tho which were fantastic.
It happened the same to me kinda, I watched the first season which was decent but nothing worth running to to see, then dragged through the second but this third one is really heavy to watch...it's like a soap opera with a wizard once in a while.

I'll probably drop it.

Also the witcher gets less and less minutes by the episode.
 

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Making the show all about Ciri was a huge mistake, the second I saw them hinging the entire narrative on her, I knew they were severely limiting themselves and their ability to tell a story in this universe.

The conflicts in the source material are rarely about Monsters, Geralt has been studying and hunting Monsters all his life, he has most of the answers already, understands most of the time what needs to be done, watching him pull the answer out of his ass is only entertaining from a female perspective, it's no different than super man, the real conflicts both Super Man and Geralt experience are with human beings, not necessarily the things that threaten the human beings.

At any point in time you could lean into the narrative of being a monster hunter, for them to have the Ciri narrative while focusing on homie being a monster hunter is so out of tune with the entire theme of the source material, they could of introduced Ciri or Monster hunting at any point in the story and instead focused on cultivating the interpersonal tension Geralt experiences as a sub human, instead they just blew their load in the first and 2nd season... What could season 3 possibly offer at this point.
 

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Making the show all about Ciri was a huge mistake, the second I saw them hinging the entire narrative on her, I knew they were severely limiting themselves and their ability to tell a story in this universe.

At any point in time you could lean into the narrative of being a monster hunter, for them to have the Ciri narrative while focusing on homie being a monster hunter is so out of tune with the entire theme of the source material, they could of introduced Ciri or Monster hunting at any point in the story and instead focused on cultivating the interpersonal tension Geralt experiences as a sub human, instead they just blew their load in the first and 2nd season... What could season 3 possibly offer at this point.
A show called "the witcher" where the witcher is a secondary character cause the whole story is based on a teenage girl learning spells from an other woman after countless hours of introspection and feeling sharing while random people we dont even remember look for her.
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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