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**WITCHER 3 PLAYER ACCIDENTALLY SAVES VILLAGE FROM MONSTER, GETS BANNED FROM SUBREDDIT FOR “META-GAMING”**

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**WITCHER 3 PLAYER ACCIDENTALLY SAVES VILLAGE FROM MONSTER, GETS BANNED FROM SUBREDDIT FOR “META-GAMING”**

**TL;DR:** AITA for using Roach’s god-tier physics glitch to launch a werewolf into a lake, only for it to drown? The village praised me, but the mods on r/witcher say I “broke immersion.” Now they’re calling me a “Geralt roleplay purist’s worst nightmare.” 💀

**Story:** So I’m doing “The Beast of White Orchard” quest, right? Typical werewolf fight, except Roach does the *thing*. Geralt whistles, Roach materializes on a roof, slides off, clips through a tree, and full-on yeets the werewolf into a nearby lake. The wolf is just… swimming. For like 10 minutes. I’m laughing. It drowns. Quest complete.

But here’s the twist: The village elder gives me a cutscene dialogue option that’s just “A monster? No, I saw a horse commit a hate crime.” I selected it for the meme. Next thing I know, the villagers are screaming “SOMEONE CALL THE TEMERIAN INQUISITION!” and now the quest is permanently bugged – the blacksmith won’t talk to me, and the herbalist just spams “The gods have abandoned us, Geralt.”

I posted the clip on the subreddit, expecting gold. Instead, I got 4k downvotes and a ban for “exploiting unintended mechanics to bypass lore-appropriate combat.” Like, sorry I didn’t spend 40 hours on Death March dodging a chunky wolf with 2 HP. AITA for using the game’s spaghetti code to my advantage? **/s obviously, but the mods clearly didn’