I barely use social media anymore, but yesterday marked two years at CDPR for me. Still can't cast Igni, but I did win a pub quiz with a team called "Geralt of Trivia" last night, which seems like the next best thing

Bookshelves coming along nicely

I can't believe God packs are real. Opened this half-asleep and nearly threw my phone at the wall. Had to double-check later because I thought it happened in a dream. Holy shit

Finally

Happy new year everyone. Fingers crossed I see another volcano in 2025

ICYMI: In light of the recent trailer for The Witcher IV, myself and my colleague, Marcin Batylda, had a chat with IGN about the lore of The Witcher

This has just become a serious contender for the funniest video ever posted on the internet

Fills me with joy to see so many people talking about The Witcher, whether that be motivated by the new trailer, revisiting TW3, or (especially!) a desire to jump into this incredible world for the first time. My absolute favourite fantasy setting - hope people love it as much as I do

ICYMI: In light of the recent trailer for The Witcher IV, myself and my colleague, Marcin Batylda, had a chat with IGN about the lore of The Witcher

Had a chat with IGN about Witcher lore. What an absurd sentence to write youtu.be/W1P4USVwyPs?...

Woke up this morning thinking about The Witcher

Pretty cool imo youtu.be/54dabgZJ5YA?...

Witcher

*at a job interview* Boss: Tell me about your skills Me: I can derail any conversation by instantly changing the topic to The Lord of the Rings Boss: I'll be honest, that sounds pretty useless Me: The deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised

Watching Gladiator and thinking, "If I was alive at that time I would absolutely be Maximus," despite the extremely obvious fact that I would instead be one of the lads who gets trampled by a chariot 4 seconds after walking into the Colosseum

Had a dream in which LinkedIn closed down, and within a week there were global news reports about how society was healing

Theoden's 'Forth Eorlingas' speech has always been one of my favourite LOTR moments, although it has been almost totally ruined for me ever since I heard it as "Forth Aer Lingus." Why does my brain not want me to have nice things

Built a bookcase on my lunch break today, meaning I am wholly committed to being a Lore Guy even outside of work hours

Opening Twitter at any given moment

Paul Mescal doing his country proud

I am in discourse Stepped in so far that, should I post no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er

"And that's why X will always be better than Bluesky. If I pay money, users will be forced to read my far-right opinions instead of posts from people they actually like and value. Don't you care about free speech?"

Christmas next month...

Friday

Me looking at Twitter last month vs me looking at Twitter now

In love with this book my girlfriend got me for my birthday yesterday

29 years ago today, I entered this world and said: What do you mean they don't serve Guinness in hospitals?

I have yet to spend a single cent in this game, so I am not entirely sure how this is even possible

Some pics from Sevilla

It seems like forever ago because I was just 23 when I wrote it, but I am still really proud of this story about how Terry Pratchett got involved in the Oblivion modding scene - and why said scene became so important to him in his later years www.eurogamer.net/the-story-be...

It seems like forever ago because I was just 23 when I wrote it, but I am still really proud of this story about how Terry Pratchett got involved in the Oblivion modding scene - and why said scene became so important to him in his later years www.eurogamer.net/the-story-be...

Clearing out some old drawers and found these bad boys

My studio is hiring two narrative roles, a senior writer and senior ND. Come work with my wildly talented team ✨ www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/7440... www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/7440...

I don't usually do these things, but this seems like good fun. Might as well chat about some cool games

Just realised that Bluesky has yet to see the single greatest internet comment of all time

Friday

Was playing CK3 and lost a bunch of fame over a bad war, which meant my daughter was no longer eligible to marry the king of Poland - or so I thought. Said king relinquished his claim and became unlanded to marry her, which is a very cute love story but not at all what I needed to Reclaim Britannia

For every like, I will drink one pint of Guinness on Friday night

Still can't believe how successfully the Pokémon anime captured all three states of "This guy has consumed eight to 13 pints of Guinness"

Talking to your squadmates after finishing every loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2

Tom Bombadil whenever anyone mentions Evil, the Ring, or the general state of the world

Been feeling a bit like Sisyphus these last few years, but it's finally beginning to seem as if all of my hard work is about to pay of- oh you've got to be shitting me

Logging onto Twitter at any given moment

Given that everyone is doing intros again, I'm Cian. I work as a lore guy for The Witcher at CDPR and I love books, grunge, and beer. I don't post much on Twitter anymore, so I'll prob share most of my bad jokes here from now on

Opening Bluesky for the first time in 4 months

Better get our skates on, lads. Only 73 days left to make it happen