{"id":31564,"date":"2014-06-03T07:29:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=31564"},"modified":"2014-06-03T07:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:29:29","slug":"barack-obama-partial-console-versions-witcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2014\/06\/03\/barack-obama-partial-console-versions-witcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama is partial to the console versions of The Witcher"},"content":{"rendered":"

During an address in Poland<\/a>, President Barack Obama mentioned The Witcher as an example of Poland’s cultural and economic contribution to the rest of the world. I’m okay with that. I mean, Kieslowski’s Red, White, and Blue are great and all, but they don’t have much swordplay. <\/p>\n

What I’m not okay with is President’s obvious bias against PCs, which are the primary platform for the Witcher games. When he mentioned The Witcher, he made the above gesture, as if he was steering Geralt around with a controller’s thumbsticks. Pfft. And to think I voted for the guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During an address in Poland, President Barack Obama mentioned The Witcher as an example of Poland’s cultural and economic contribution to the rest of the world. I’m okay with that. I mean, Kieslowski’s Red, White, and Blue are great and all, but they don’t have much swordplay. What I’m not okay with is President’s obvious […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"\nBarack Obama is partial to the console versions of The Witcher - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2014\/06\/03\/barack-obama-partial-console-versions-witcher\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Barack Obama is partial to the console versions of The Witcher - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"During an address in Poland, President Barack Obama mentioned The Witcher as an example of Poland’s cultural and economic contribution to the rest of the world. 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