Being a Witcher means walking a path of monsters and magic, but is there a way to make a Geralt of Rivia... for real?
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Thanks for watching, Super Nerds, and happy new year! 2020 is going to be interesting. Looks like you all love some Witcher science, so if you want to see more, let me know! -- kH
@becausescience4 жыл бұрын
👋
@christiansebastianobaudo95584 жыл бұрын
I think it'd be cool to go into Witcher potions and how they work and why they're deadly to most other humanoid creatures.
@victariongreyjoy72614 жыл бұрын
Should do a thor and witcher cosplay, get your subs to vote on which is better.
@Refridgerraptor4 жыл бұрын
@@christiansebastianobaudo9558 Hey buddy -- kH
@becausescience4 жыл бұрын
@@becausescience Yes! I love me some Witcher!
@SpinalProblems224 жыл бұрын
Instructions unclear, accidentally created a werewolf. Send help.
@neroblack27044 жыл бұрын
I'll help, but first let's talk about the payment
@19Sephirot934 жыл бұрын
I'll help. I take payment after the job for a third of the price.
@virxhenskodra46034 жыл бұрын
Ill help for free, but i wanna keep the body after....
@zeddbrown76714 жыл бұрын
I'll help for you're First born son and I'll pay you
@peterhardman1274 жыл бұрын
I suddenly feel like a npc handing out quests to the most willing hero.
@neroblack27044 жыл бұрын
Steps to create a Witcher: 1. Gruesome training since childhood 2. Gratuitous amounts of drugs 3. Survive
@PaleGhost694 жыл бұрын
Number 3 could also translate to "a shit-ton of luck". Because even with top preparation there is no guarantee you'll see the end of the process.
@laterreurrouge19174 жыл бұрын
isnt modern sports same?
@peikonpoika834 жыл бұрын
@@peikonpoika83 not quite, no. Because in sports you can prepare a lot and very rarely die ^^
@laterreurrouge19174 жыл бұрын
@@laterreurrouge1917 4. Become Henry Cavill 5. Profit
@viniciusrodrigues16894 жыл бұрын
Sounds like the life of a Viking
@akumaking14 жыл бұрын
"Winds howling." Would have loved to hear Henry Cavill say this at least once.
@ryanrothrock70514 жыл бұрын
"Looks like rain..."
@charleskilo43834 жыл бұрын
@@charleskilo4383 I've always laughed hard that at the "looks like rain..." Dude, it's already raining. Yes, it is rain. Did you use your Witcher senses to notice the rain? Lol
@guacca4 жыл бұрын
@@guacca I always love that quote from when you're at Kaer Morhen drinking and you have to find Eskel, and when you bend down to find clues Lambert says "You had to bend down to see that?"
@MonarchyControl2854 жыл бұрын
he could season 2
@randomcallum4 жыл бұрын
Dont forget "Storm damnit"
@nasyattaufan4 жыл бұрын
So, Kyle has mutated from Discount Thor to Clearence Geralt?
@daikansanchez76744 жыл бұрын
😂🤣🤣
@alexanderm89754 жыл бұрын
You mean Lambert?
@thomascollins56223 жыл бұрын
@@thomascollins5622 💀💀💀
@lordcat19582 жыл бұрын
@@lordcat1958 You know I'm right!
@thomascollins56222 жыл бұрын
I was so coming to say something like this! 🥰🥰🥰
@verdazair2 жыл бұрын
"Aging tends to cause the condition known as not being alive anymore." Hmm yes, the floor here is made out of floor.
@inspektical23934 жыл бұрын
But is it recycled floor? Global warming is a thing people, recycle your floors!
@Just_som_Ottur4 жыл бұрын
@@Just_som_Ottur KMSL. Love it.
@gifctdotorgthought-police37064 жыл бұрын
People die, if they are killed.
@Irmarinen4 жыл бұрын
Fuck
@sanjibthakuria97604 жыл бұрын
In other news, water is wet
@Audiotrocious4 жыл бұрын
Toss a Like to your witcher
@melwinpaul3214 жыл бұрын
Oh valley of plenty :)
@DukeofDusk4 жыл бұрын
Oh valley of plenty! oh oh oh
@nChilDofChaoSn4 жыл бұрын
Fuck off bard
@BlackIcebergChannel4 жыл бұрын
Toss a sub to your witcher
@thelonelyshivy53704 жыл бұрын
@@nChilDofChaoSn A friend of humanityyyyyy..
@jakubport73614 жыл бұрын
“Buff bois” and “thicc sheep” were both so emphasized, I love it
@GuitarGuruGaming4 жыл бұрын
haha man that was awesome :D
@lukaskekesi12764 жыл бұрын
*T H I C C S H E E P*
@meniimya51484 жыл бұрын
MUSCLE MICE
@WhiteGinger100004 жыл бұрын
Your even got a Witcher haircut, I’m tossing the like!
@entropyanonymous33854 жыл бұрын
He’s a friend of humanity now give him the rest
@talion_kj_fireborn48694 жыл бұрын
you tossing off....
@randomcallum4 жыл бұрын
to your Kyle Hill
@RotmgTrollerFan3 жыл бұрын
Nice six hundred and sixty six like man you’ll need it
@reraltofgivia88143 жыл бұрын
🎵toss a like to your witcher🎵
@James.D.B.3 жыл бұрын
“Yeah that only took, like, a few hundred hours” Same man, same
@ethanlomax68724 жыл бұрын
After the netflix show I wanted to start the witcher 3 again, and then I realized how many hours it actually took to finish the game :)
@TheCivildecay4 жыл бұрын
*looks at my number of 100%ed games* "Only took a few hundred hours" -just you wait for games that can't be 100%ed because it's always adding new content to itself-
@sweetiewolfgirl4 жыл бұрын
Took me 480 hours to get 25% through it because I explore too much.
@IAmKnightsDawn4 жыл бұрын
@@IAmKnightsDawn Enjoy the game how you want, that sounds like an exaggeration though. You can literally do every quest in the game in half that time.
@cowmanthe3rd4 жыл бұрын
That one trophy for killing 50 humanoids with a headshot is the only thing keeping me back from getting that platinum):
@leokhan47034 жыл бұрын
Me fighting bandits with my steel sword: Geralt: HOW YOU LIKE THAT SILVER
@mr28shenanigans434 жыл бұрын
Accurate af lmao
@Narbirale4 жыл бұрын
@Romeo M Its ok geralt sees bandits as monsters too
@MoJo-su9hv4 жыл бұрын
Geralt was using silver only against monsters and only the ones that was sensitive to silver. Otherwise he was using only steel. Silver sword is to fragile to fight anything most of the time.
@Marcin79W4 жыл бұрын
Geralt when he's about to go down on a woman: Ugh, that stench.
@thatdudewelove84984 жыл бұрын
"Damn, you're ugly"
@KSR5874 жыл бұрын
Seeing Kyle achieving 100% completion on The Witcher series and the DLC. "Is it possible to learn this power?"
@elijahmonroy79124 жыл бұрын
Yes, but you'll have to play a lot of Gwent.
@xandirnich_2373 жыл бұрын
"......Not from a jedi."
@Xander_P.G.K2 жыл бұрын
"has cat eyes" "still require Cat potion to see in the dark" ummm wat.
@DiZeHiZe4 жыл бұрын
In the game you can clearly see in the dark of the night whats going on. Like in most games. In reality you wouldnt be able..try to go in a forest at night. You see shit. The potion enhance this ability even in pitch black darkness
@Tuxedosnake004 жыл бұрын
@@Tuxedosnake00 You don't get my point. Nocturnal animal like cats don't require addiational help to see in the dark. So why go through a mutation that is totally unnecessary if you still require aid? And no, I cannot remember how many times I to brew potions or walk with the lantern to be able to see. During the fight with the werewolf in his cave, You couldnt see shit without help.
@DiZeHiZe4 жыл бұрын
I guess it just further enhances the effect. Think about it, witchers sometimes have to fight in pitch black darkness against opponents that are super fast and/or almost transparent. Under those conditions having anything less than perfect eyesight might prove to be fatal. This implies that the witcher's normal eyes are simply not perfect, so they need the cat potion.
@howielowis4584 жыл бұрын
Having 'cat eyes' let you shave in brokilon night light. You take a potion when you go into mines, caves etc.
@dienicy4 жыл бұрын
@@DiZeHiZe ah ah ah, nocturnal animals can see in the dark but cats need to see during the day too, their eyes being too sensitive to light would make them useless while the sun is out, the witcher doesn't need the aid of the potions, they just boost his abilities without making a permanent change that could be highly detrimental later.
@alphaplayzz13814 жыл бұрын
“The general condition known as not being alive anymore.”
@nickblackmusic4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@pressaltf4forfreevbucks1794 жыл бұрын
game ended
@yacerdidine65274 жыл бұрын
My family has a history of getting that condition...
@Just_som_Ottur4 жыл бұрын
@@Just_som_Ottur Yeah I can't seem to find a cure yet.
@tahraki49184 жыл бұрын
Tahraki491 good luck man.. hopefully the prognosis for you ain’t as bad as mine.
@Just_som_Ottur4 жыл бұрын
“Look at Henry Cavill” “Whoo” “Whoo” “Whoo”
@masterrace9214 жыл бұрын
My reaction to Henry Cavill. every.damn.time.
@perusalenne4 жыл бұрын
Thirst Whooo
@paranormalphenomena5634 жыл бұрын
Man crush much...
@majork71154 жыл бұрын
A wise man once said, "If I found Henry Cavill in bed with my wife, I'd tuck him in."
@luxorien4 жыл бұрын
I legit laughed when he did that
@ITSFRICKENADAM4 жыл бұрын
I mean, if he dyed his hair and beard white, he'd actually look like a witcher
@arthurmagalhaes24414 жыл бұрын
Arthur Magalhaes Witchers don't really look very different to regular people, barring the cat eyes and (probable) multitude of scars. Geralt undergoes loads of extra mutations which bleach his hair. So he's weird, even for a Witcher
@TheThegoldenspatula4 жыл бұрын
@@TheThegoldenspatula the Trial of the Grasses can bring forth many side effects (one of which is their sterilization), albinism (lack of production of melanin) can be one of them.
@catarinamagalhaes47754 жыл бұрын
@@catarinamagalhaes4775 Though as far as I remember things like being sterile is normal for witchers (e.g. one of the loading lines in Witcher 3 states that). Having white hair is caused by the unnatural amount of mutations or the unusually high pain inflicted on Geralt even from a Witcher's perspective. The only other witcher I remember being white-haired is Ciri. But for normal witchers like Vesemir or Lambert having white hair doesn't seem to be a expected side effect like becoming sterile (which apparently every witcher is, though not 100% certain)
@htm41064 жыл бұрын
not all the witchers have long white hair... .
@randomcallum4 жыл бұрын
HTM geralt is a “Witcher 2.0”. He bested the Witcher trials with relative ease and underwent further more difficult trials and mutations which affected his hair. That’s why he’s the only Witcher with white hair.
@themaseofspades68574 жыл бұрын
“When witchers are tracking cockatrices across the continent, they also need” A convenient teleporting HORSE!!
@nef51254 жыл бұрын
@Grand Crusader "don't judge me"
@lazyh-online48394 жыл бұрын
Damn Roach!
@fajaradi12232 жыл бұрын
That cant comprehend moving around a tree or fence
@NipplWizard2 жыл бұрын
*or a discounted translocator mule of exceptional endurance and agility*
@scottmantooth87852 жыл бұрын
Steps to become a Witcher : - says "hmm" evertime someone talk to you
@raynard34 жыл бұрын
Hmm
@biohazard7244 жыл бұрын
hmmm "fuck"
@novak.92864 жыл бұрын
@@checho00 *Steps to become Geralt. (Witcher 2.0)
@balintkeszthelyi12934 жыл бұрын
"How do you like that silver?"
@axeldornelles52924 жыл бұрын
Saying Wind is Howling is awesome extremely important.
@rafaelalodio51164 жыл бұрын
How to make a Witcher with science... Step 1: Throw the baby in the oven.
@MukuonChannel4 жыл бұрын
The C.I.A. Lmfao I just did that quest yesterday.
@danielhebard18654 жыл бұрын
Step 2 : Find and bring back an old lady's pan
@paradox3854 жыл бұрын
Daniel Hebard Same here, just recently completed that mission
@neweden23594 жыл бұрын
Step 3: Gwent!
@henryhighlights4 жыл бұрын
The C.I.A. That was a pretty dark moment in the game glad it worked out
@dionjaywoollaston13494 жыл бұрын
"It's a like a super soldier" *"But with fantasy and monsters"*
@aghitsaplane42624 жыл бұрын
agh it's a plane destiny 2 is that
@otisbucket45264 жыл бұрын
also without Nanomachines, son!
@IR-Fan4 жыл бұрын
Yeah it almost super💪soldier or super hunter‼
@ANDY-11094 жыл бұрын
And his backstory, lore, etc. Is actually competently made, unlike more recent stuff
@mrsmeee18433 жыл бұрын
@@mrsmeee1843 but some parts of the lore don't make much sense. It's clear that tge whole witcher program was sponsored by a king who put together the best alchemists and mages to cone up with the mutation process and the best knights to train the subjects. What is absurd is why the witchers are independent, even if the kingdom that created them fell surely another kingdom would step in and take over. Witchers would perform much better if they operated inside the organization of a royal army. They'd function as rangers, directly paid a stipend by the royal treasure, always equipped with the best gear available and able to rely on the support of the army for missions that required more manpower.
@arx3516 Жыл бұрын
LOLOL I do appreciate the 'nerd credentials' qualifier at the beginning. "Here are my hours. Yes, I DO know what Im talking about."
@genxlibertarian96564 жыл бұрын
He never once said those were his hours. Just that they'd take hundreds of hours.
@scotta5474 жыл бұрын
@@scotta547 I think that he did actually play the game and 100% it. Why you gotta be a buzzkill?
@Beach-bn2nj3 жыл бұрын
He has obviously never read the books
@tnnbaums50272 жыл бұрын
Let"s forget the Thor-Kyle and start thinking about the Geralt-Kyle
@wowthnxm834 жыл бұрын
"Let me introduce myself, I´m the witcher Kyle of the Lab."
@petrfedor18514 жыл бұрын
@@petrfedor1851 😂
@lucifers.morningstar38054 жыл бұрын
Slaying questions?
@eenrandomkip21624 жыл бұрын
Kyle of the Void
@InsomniacDream884 жыл бұрын
Petr Fedor yes
@nataliagonzalez16984 жыл бұрын
“ThiCC sheep” had so much oompf to its pronunciation i temporarily lost the will to function
@AuspexAstarte4 жыл бұрын
I wanted to find a way to describe how that made me feel and you did. Well done.
@VodkaHellstorm4 жыл бұрын
*T H I C C S H E E P*
@meniimya51484 жыл бұрын
When he said “just look at Henry Cavill” I felt that
@Divaliciousbeauty1234 жыл бұрын
I love you
@donkeyhobo344 жыл бұрын
The oofs got me
@apoptosis94594 жыл бұрын
That sums up my mood-
@ravencatcos4 жыл бұрын
the triple ‘phew’ was extremely deserved
@ttt5020 Жыл бұрын
I didn't. Because im not sexually confused.
@wildhunt63507 ай бұрын
*the science of witchers* Me: starts mutating my body to become a real witcher.
@scullyf22544 жыл бұрын
all types of Cancers=we are about to end this man's whole career
@Turi60704 жыл бұрын
And then fucking died.... ah Novigrad
@potatogamer15784 жыл бұрын
keep in mind only three out of then survive perfectly, the rest just get so fucked up they are euthanized or their organs implode completely.
@PemaMendez9904 жыл бұрын
I just realized he did his hair like Geralt.
@RadioactiveRoach4 жыл бұрын
How is that not the first thing you noticed?
@Sui_Generis04 жыл бұрын
@@Sui_Generis0 🤷🏾♂️it just escaped me.
@RadioactiveRoach4 жыл бұрын
@@Sui_Generis0 Cuz judging some dude's hairstyle wasn't the first thing he looked for.
@benparrish6724 жыл бұрын
@@Sui_Generis0 Cause real G's don't rock the standard haircut, but the shaved sides and ponytail
@K1NG_of_ReVeNGe14 жыл бұрын
While I would love to go into all the cellular biology and genetics gone through this episode, I sadly don’t have the time to do so on my lunch break. I will however talk about a bonus that comes with the increase number of red blood cells. Known as polycythemia, an increase in blood cells does increase the oxygen carrying capacity. Research has shown that those living at high altitudes develop polycythemia as a way to cope with the lower partial pressure of oxygen. So if Geralt has a form of polycythemia (there are several but again no time) he would also be able to retain his stamina and wouldn’t get short of breath at higher altitudes, which would be pretty useful for slaying griffins in their nests atop a mountain. Love the episode, keep up the great work!
@thetimecapsule16804 жыл бұрын
I guess that would match his training in Kaher pretty well, as it's a pretty high ways up.
@axeldornelles52924 жыл бұрын
Excellent point. I look at it from the other side of the coin: I have a form of anemia wherein I produce a LOT of red blood cells but my body essentially eats them, leaving me somewhat anemic (my doc keeps an eye on things and despite what WebMD says, I'm not dying of any horrible disease .. in fact, the cause of my condition is unknown, although it seems genetic, so it's not really harmful, just annoying). In an attempt to maintain health in my fifties, I work out HARD most of the week (CrossFit, martial arts, etc.) which has greatly improved my blood work results. My resting heart rate is in the mid fifty bpm range (like my age, LOL). But if we're doing some especially aerobic stuff (or I decide to outpace the younger ones working out), once my heart rate gets up pretty good, I'm DONE ... can't breathe, muscles worn out, vision might get dim ... but give me a minute to drop my heart rate and I'm as fresh as if I just took a nap. That's my long-winded way of saying I'm looking at the situation from the opposite side and you are totally right. Hmm ... maybe I should move high up on a mountain, force my body to adjust, develop polycythemia which would then edge me over into "normal" range? Darn my choice to live on the coast! ;) LOL!
@CeltKnight4 жыл бұрын
@@CeltKnight Thanks for sharing your story! I'm glad its something you are managing well!
@thetimecapsule16804 жыл бұрын
You are a SUPER NERD * guitar sounds *
@jucom7564 жыл бұрын
jucom I wish, that would make my year, and it’s only just begun!
@thetimecapsule16804 жыл бұрын
This makes that scene in the last episode even sadder when he says "You know what they do to a Witcher's eyes to get them like this?". How painful it must be :(
@B13e4 жыл бұрын
Remember uma screaming after being subjected to the first part of the trial?
@mihneaiordan18133 жыл бұрын
@@mihneaiordan1813 lol yeah i felt like a peace of shit
@thunderlifestudios3 жыл бұрын
@@mihneaiordan1813 that poor ugly baby
@myzo2473 жыл бұрын
Migrane from hell
@NipplWizard2 жыл бұрын
4:54 Saving this time stamp so I can come back just to hear him say “thicc sheep” on repeat
@EmbraceTheInevitable4 жыл бұрын
With 2 c's
@marcusmosley19154 жыл бұрын
I do like how Kyle changed his hair to match Geralt's style, even going so far as to put white highlights in.
@LuxDragon4 жыл бұрын
He just said "THICC SHEEP"...
@jamcalx4 жыл бұрын
👌
@nepii60434 жыл бұрын
Hes welsh
@Zak-ob5ze4 жыл бұрын
Beep beep
@BvLee4 жыл бұрын
@@BvLeeCultured, are we?
@jamcalx4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like dashie 😂
@jab-io2po4 жыл бұрын
Hi Kyle, I have another mutation to add, and it fits nicely with what we are already making our witcher out of. Since we are also increasing our witchers musculature and increasing oxygen transportation, there is another adaptation we can give him with regards to oxygen availability. Mammalian musculature contains another heme based oxygen carrying protien called myoglobin. In marine mammals, especially deep sea mammals, this protien is expressed at greater concentrations and acts as a primary means to store oxygen for their long dives. If we add a mutation to this effect to our witcher, there should be more oxygen available before those pumped up muscles have to resort to anaerobic processes, thus increasing the amount he could swing those big guns around before feeling muscle fatigue.
@ankokuraven4 жыл бұрын
Great Point, I'll Have To Remember This When I Make *VOLUNTARY* "Witchers".
@Moniker088 ай бұрын
This also has a nice side effect of them being able to hold their breath for a long ass time against either under water issues, or gas clouds
@GundamReviver8 ай бұрын
Why not use EPO
@bigchungus26675 ай бұрын
@@bigchungus2667 I could see that working out too.
@ankokuraven5 ай бұрын
@@ankokuraven whatever cocktail that team china weightlifting is using on their athletes is the formula to make a real life Witcher, just add EPO for maximum oxygen efficiency and availability
@bigchungus26675 ай бұрын
You: Wind is howling. Me: _exasperated sigh_ Looks like rain.
@jasonknight10854 жыл бұрын
Place of power, gotta be.
@LordShenanigan4 жыл бұрын
Fuck.
@vanator31694 жыл бұрын
A storm, damn it.
@edward1132884 жыл бұрын
Is level 10 and stumbles upon a level 36 Basilisk "bad idea"
@mergen31253 жыл бұрын
How do ya like that silver?
@danielsterling49183 жыл бұрын
Kyle: starts talking about cat eyes. My cat: comes into my room.
@kevinbruins49444 жыл бұрын
It heeds the call of the dark lord
@MrElionor4 жыл бұрын
_I wish I had a cat again..._
@Azrael_Equinox4 жыл бұрын
Cat:giving away our secrets,are you?
@IncognitoKarma5184 жыл бұрын
10:38 Vesemir Me who's just bought the game: "He's the old Witcher right?" Kyle: "He's dead, He snapped his neck" ME: "AWW WTF come on noo"
@2KOOLURATOOLGaming4 жыл бұрын
I know that feeling, man. My brother told me about Bruce Willis when I was about to start the Six Sense many years back.
@bbd1214 жыл бұрын
To be honest i get your feelings but the game had been out since 2015 so if you hear spoilers somewhere it's on you...
@brentmeyers96574 жыл бұрын
@@brentmeyers9657 Yeah but now its different. Lots of new players thank to the series. :) You still dont want to ruin the experience.
@Akos8434 жыл бұрын
@@brentmeyers9657 I said that to people who also haven't played AC III, where Desmond died and FFXV, where both Noctis and Luna died. And I'm just like... You have the internet, and these are big games... avoiding spoilers is the miracle here.
@colleennewholy90264 жыл бұрын
Bright side is: Spoilers don't exist, they simply shift your perspective from "OH! I DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING!" to that of a repeat viewing/experience.
@Lrbearclaw4 жыл бұрын
Instructions unclear. Accidentally created a badass wait nevermind that’s what I wanted.
@igp-bs4od4 жыл бұрын
"... which leads to unregulated muscle growth ... which leads to..." .... Letho ... really
@GypsyEyez_4 жыл бұрын
Letho is actually pretty lucky. If cardiac muscle swelled up like that he’d die of heart attack before finishing the trial of the grasses.
4 жыл бұрын
Witcher 3 plot in a nutshell: Overdrugged playboy Step-daddy find and save step-daughter from 3 big black cold dudes with the power of magic and The Heart of the Cards
@exudeku4 жыл бұрын
Sounds legit.
@IAmKnightsDawn4 жыл бұрын
Geralt isn't a womanizer
@kokroucz4 жыл бұрын
kokroucz depends on how you play him *for me yeah he’s definitely a womanizer*
@rnr79304 жыл бұрын
And plays a card game with the people he knows as cards.
@jonathanmercado9634 жыл бұрын
You had big, black and a third word beggining with c that most of us probably read wrong
@Svvicu4 жыл бұрын
*How to Make a Witcher with Science:* 1. Study Game Development 2. Study Character Design 3. Insert Dark Backstory
@duchi8824 жыл бұрын
Yup
@nepii60434 жыл бұрын
Hope you got 1000 likes!!👌
@nepii60434 жыл бұрын
0. Take preexisting and beloved books with established lore and characters.
@petrfedor18514 жыл бұрын
@@petrfedor1851 thats what i wanted to say... i feel like too less people know that witcher even bases on books
@aaronklein34804 жыл бұрын
The dark backstories were already written for you.
@nelsonw.94834 жыл бұрын
Only one downside to being a witcher. You can't have kids. Waldorf: how is that a bad thing? AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!
@ImperialKnight7704 жыл бұрын
Mischievous MaleFox you’re a child not a teen. I think he was around 7-9 when his mother gave him to Vesemir
@libertyprime28524 жыл бұрын
Also ordinary folk hating you, treating you like a moster and you have to stay calm.
@mergen31253 жыл бұрын
I was thinking years of torture
@teslawolverine70093 жыл бұрын
8:40 „Just look at Henry Cavill” *sighs* *sighs again* I felt that.
@AlexejCeros4 жыл бұрын
"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from Science!" - Agatha Hetradyne. This is what you can get with a consistent magic system and enough experiments.
@danuttall4 жыл бұрын
Witchers are litterally made by stealing monster DNA and enhancing humans...
@Felahliir4 жыл бұрын
Any unsufficiently analyzed science is indistinguishable from magic as well ;)
@jakubrogacz68294 жыл бұрын
whenever i think of magic i always think of it as another form of science, spells and potions are never just _there,_ someone in the universes at some point had to discover magic exists in the first place, like we discovered all the scientific things we have over the years and gave it the general term of "science", then had to go and create the spells, the potions, discover how everything works, all that stuff, its essentially that series/universes cooler science
@TheDaxter114 жыл бұрын
@@TheDaxter11 yeah indeed though that depends
@jakubrogacz68294 жыл бұрын
I just realized Kyle has Geralt's hairstyle in this video lol.
@user-go6qz8vq2r4 жыл бұрын
@Plague Doctor true, but he did dye it white though
@user-go6qz8vq2r4 жыл бұрын
@@user-go6qz8vq2r no he just stopped dying it blonde... the void takes its toll
@CED994 жыл бұрын
@@CED99 u rite
@user-go6qz8vq2r4 жыл бұрын
When the screen went dark for the cat eyes I saw my reflection in the screen and had an existential crisis
@exhibitionchristina48904 жыл бұрын
Everyone: cat eyes Me screaming: VIPER
@sunnydoggo37084 жыл бұрын
...I can't help but feel like in this day and age of Witchering, unicorns need to come with NSFW warnings.
@nateklein70844 жыл бұрын
Ahh yes I have heard of this "not being alive" before. I once heard a tale of a man coming down with a sudden case of death
@ObligedUniform4 жыл бұрын
Patient: Doctor.. is that bad? Doctor: mmmm... well you´re developing certain condition known as not being alive anymore...
@edercastro76254 жыл бұрын
MILLENNIALS - OK BOOMER
@buildawall58034 жыл бұрын
@@buildawall5803 ok boomer
@gufosufo3374 жыл бұрын
@@gufosufo337 uhh ok then call me a boomers even tho am 19
@buildawall58034 жыл бұрын
Because science: "AGH!! NNNOVIGRAD!!" Me: *subscribes*
@cork98844 жыл бұрын
Forgot the most important part about making a Witcher like Garult, you need to give him a horse named Roach.
@Icedteaable4 жыл бұрын
Well, Roach belongs to Geralt. Idk who "Garult" is
@earendilthemariner55464 жыл бұрын
Or maybe Plotka
@rafaelalodio51164 жыл бұрын
@@earendilthemariner5546 lol. I just commented quickly without checking my spelling on my phone.
@Icedteaable4 жыл бұрын
Never heard of that name... i thought it was different, but must be the localization
@alternamasaki4294 жыл бұрын
@@alternamasaki429 roach is the english name of the horse while płotka is the polish name
@anzelmgrzyb39824 жыл бұрын
As a graduate student studying red blood cell development in low oxygen, I approve this episode. In fact, EPO production in the kidney is induced by hypoxia sensing protein HIF-2a, which is degraded by PHD2 protein if oxygen levels are high. So if the witcher mutagen damage the EGLN1 gene (which encodes PHD2 protein), they would have more HIF-2a, and so more EPO, and therefore more red blood cells. There are actual clinical cases where patients have mutated EGLN1 gene, and the symptoms include chronic erythrocytosis (over production of red blood cells). In non witcher normal human this is a problem because too much red blood cells make the blood too thick and easily clot in your body. Another interesting fact is that Tibetan populations have a mutation in EGLN1 gene that *enhances* its activity, and therefore produce less EPO even though they are constantly living in low oxygen environment. This prevents frequent blood clotting from chronic erythrocytosis and gave the Tibetan population a selective advantage in highlands.
@johncao65164 жыл бұрын
When you talked about how to expand the lifespan I was surprised you didn't talk about the telomere research happening and how scientists are getting pretty close to expanding the human lifespan.
@jonathanyoung38894 жыл бұрын
The thing about the stamina is in fact a really good theory I think, cause in the books, Andrej Sapkowski writes that a witcher heart beats 4 times slower than a normal human one. That possibly means they have 4 times more red blood cells, so a witcher heart can be slower to do its "normal" work. And maybe it would also means that they can have almost 4 times more stamina and oxygen going to muscles than a normal human. great vid btw, I rly like this one
@ciriboom47093 жыл бұрын
The Netflix show is actually really good. Henry Cavill is killin it.
@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache4 жыл бұрын
yea and he's hot as fuck
@maggot68174 жыл бұрын
@@maggot6817 very much so
@Felix-ev5qh4 жыл бұрын
@@maggot6817 but he is infertile, so you can't have a kid with him ... I'm sorry :(
@draco5991rep4 жыл бұрын
He doesn't have cat eyes
@Ken197004 жыл бұрын
no, it's not
@Dukeofvampires14 жыл бұрын
"The wind is howling." Yes, Geralt. We know...it's kinda what happens when a storm rolls in.
@zyhurbeelzebub62134 жыл бұрын
"Wind's howling! - Sorry, I have to say that every few minutes." XDXDXD so true.
@Verrisin4 жыл бұрын
This Made me love Witcher even more. The science behind all of this is great. Thank you for taking the time to put together all these facts about mutation, mutagens and so on Thank you long haired dude
@browncapman4 жыл бұрын
I really liked the “winds howling” bit. Almost spit my swallow potion out
@griMx7114 жыл бұрын
One thing you didn't touch is his slow heart rate, and second about sterility the mages like Yennefer that end up modifying their body are sterile too
@checho004 жыл бұрын
Yen is not sterile do to her body change, Netflix is wrong about it.
@Riva_Bear4 жыл бұрын
He briefly discussed sterility in the final seconds of the video 11:19
@fourstringsmanybass4 жыл бұрын
@@Riva_Bear she is sterile as all mages, in the book said that
@checho004 жыл бұрын
@@fourstringsmanybass yeah but just witchers, not the others individuals or creatures
@checho004 жыл бұрын
not only is he sterile, but he is also immune to diseases, I remember that from the first game, I dunno if it's in the book though
@Nekrull4 жыл бұрын
Me a couple of years ago " I don't understand this stuff but this is cool" Me today " HELL YEAH THIS IS 100 TIME MORE INTERESTING NOW"
@beziik23574 жыл бұрын
"that only took a few hundred hours" you could spend a few hundred hours on wild hunt alone and not even be close to done no?
@jordanwylie23254 жыл бұрын
Spamming the Aard sign like that against a 2 dimensional spider is against the Witcher's Codex.
@blowmebiatch4 жыл бұрын
I remember Kyle saying in a previous video how he 100% completed the game. Good to see him back it up.
@Elchansan4 жыл бұрын
He did it on insta.
@balintkeszthelyi12934 жыл бұрын
Call me a cynic but I don’t think 100 percent completions mean as much as they used to. Feels like most game nowadays you could complete 95 percent just doing the story mission. The rest just cleaning out bandit camps and collecting useless treasures. Leaving you feeling like it’s all become a menial task to complete and not compelling at all. I remember scouring the cities in AC2 to find the clues to the precursor civilization feeling like I was actually uncovering a mystery. That sense of satisfaction when I got to watch the final clip after finding all the pieces was cathartic. Now everything become about collecting for collectings sake something even The Witcher 3 couldn’t escape from.
@kingjamestres4 жыл бұрын
@@kingjamestres You should check out the trophies for the Witcher 3. Some of them are nightmares. I started trying it and stopped when I found out you needed to kill 50 enemies with reflected crossbow bolts.
@sephirothsadvent4 жыл бұрын
sephirothsadvent it’s not reflected bolts. It’s 50 head shots Edit even doubled checked it’s not that hard of a game. I got it platinumed. Working on the disk platinum now. Different trophies lists.
@ericvanleeuwen9794 жыл бұрын
Damn straight -- kH
@becausescience4 жыл бұрын
You even have the renowned witcher 2 elven hairstyle for Geralt.
@atoningful3 жыл бұрын
In the section about repairing damage from monsters, while you did cover that increased amount of certain growth factors like VEGF would lead to faster healing, but you neglected to mention the really important fact that in real life, increased amounts of those growth factors are often present in cancer patients, due to growth factor genes being important oncogenes in tumor formation, though if you’re already able to give Witcher’s cat eyes, being able to put more tumor suppressor genes to decrease cancer risk might be able to mitigate increased risks from increased growth factor activity. As well, you covered Witcher’s potentially being more resistant to oxidative stress, which would lower risk of cancer overall, though it would be hard to see how mutagens would produce those same characteristics consistently over many generations of Witcher’s.
@thetwilight24484 жыл бұрын
Kyle: "I've spent a lot of time with Witcher games" Me: *crying in Witcher books series*
@UmbrellaSound4 жыл бұрын
I'd cry more if he had only watched the TV show :P
@LeutnantJoker4 жыл бұрын
At least he fully completed it
@somebody72054 жыл бұрын
"age causes the syndrom known as not being alive anymore" 😂😂 i love your caution with the forbidden word
@goncalobaia15744 жыл бұрын
yo I really appreciate the extra mile you go with all these transitions and the editing. also your humour is great.
@bccr134 жыл бұрын
9:51 - Geralt has to take herbs regularly to keep his side effects in check (unless you played Witcher 1 on the easier difficulty). Herbs, especially ginger, contain anti-oxidants and sometimes even vitamin E that absorb the effects of oxidative stress. Those anti-oxidants are plant-based, which is why the human body sucks at making them on its own. That is why the best course is to keep eating that stuff regularly and with food to minimize the chemical stress of the food. Most of the harmful chemicals come from the food, so minimizing the food effects will help to preserve your genome. If people took more olive oil or ate seeds daily, they could get the vitamin E easily that way.
@ihavenoson3384 Жыл бұрын
"A few hundred hours" mere mortal hours.
@Matt_102034 жыл бұрын
I love that the only 2 things you didn't cover too much were covered in the show. The sterilization because the life of a Witcher doesn't leave a lot of time to be a parent. And they mentioned the cat eye procedure being very risky and often failing and causing blindness which sounds about right with how invasive it would be
@zoeeee29524 жыл бұрын
In a fantasy scenario you explained very well what is going on in Lifespan or SENS foundations... with proper right ethical critique ;) Good job!
@HonestGuyWhoSpeaksUp4 жыл бұрын
The "Winds Howling" made me believe that he know's what he's talking about and not just a fake fan sparked by Netflix
@K1NG_of_ReVeNGe14 жыл бұрын
@George Kreutzjans Absolutely not, a single quote you hear at least 4 trillion times is better proof
@K1NG_of_ReVeNGe14 жыл бұрын
Did you dye your hair for this episode? I love the enthusiasm man! You're by far the best science/pop culture educator on youtube!
@sci-guy-no-55144 жыл бұрын
I was wondering that too, started scrolling the comments to see who noticed it too XD Not many did :/
@midnightequinox20264 жыл бұрын
That's very high praise! Thank you Andrew, I really appreciate it -- kH
@becausescience4 жыл бұрын
4:47 best 3 words I've ever heard you say
@lukab46794 жыл бұрын
You know how awesome it is to watch a video like this, and to finally understand half of what's being explained... #biostudies
@Senpai-tb6lo3 жыл бұрын
Bones heal Chicks dig scars Pain is temporary Glory is forever
@omnigar96114 жыл бұрын
Shawn Matney replacements is the best
@liamfuller34434 жыл бұрын
"Mutants are sterile" - The Bounds of Reason
@dienicy4 жыл бұрын
@Romeo M Perhaps they learned a thing or two since Turing.
@dienicy4 жыл бұрын
Sorry just a small mistake, oxygen has 6 electrons in the outer "shell"
@MrThoScho4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I noticed that too I thought I was going crazy for a second there lol
@bigaj69014 жыл бұрын
Oxygen has 2 Valence electrons, that's how to look at it. Carbon has 4, Fluorine has 1. ETC, however the amount of Valence electrons means very little in actuality, because there are non-valence electron bonds as well, valence electrons basically mean a vacuum that could house an electron, but even so, the view of electrons as existing in shells is extremely faulty. After all, Electrons aren't really bound by some law to any particle in particular and exist purely as possibility clouds around atomic nucleus.
@livedandletdie4 жыл бұрын
@@livedandletdie Woah we got a scientist on our hands guys. That is really good info though. I actually find that really interesting.
@prestonbotik12594 жыл бұрын
@@livedandletdie Also your profile pic. I hate him. He's such a terrible father to Shinji.
@prestonbotik12594 жыл бұрын
How to make supersoldiers. Watch out, someone might label you a villain.
@Drejzer Жыл бұрын
leave Triss Marigold alone, she has been through enough.
@lucifers.morningstar38054 жыл бұрын
Thor wanting to become a Witcher.... he will either become a super god, or he will become a super devil.
@lucifers.morningstar38054 жыл бұрын
@@lucifers.morningstar3805as long as he doesnt train under the viper or cat school he should be fine lol
@ZacDaMex4 жыл бұрын
@@ZacDaMex but I like the Viper School, besides he would be welcomed into the school.
@lucifers.morningstar38054 жыл бұрын
Pffft. She tricked ol Geralt into a relationship. Bratty girl.
@morriganrenfield82404 жыл бұрын
@@morriganrenfield8240 Yennifer is no better, she wants everything done her way and if anyone goes against what she wants she throws a huge temper tantrum.
@lucifers.morningstar38054 жыл бұрын
I finally know why cats eyes "glow" in the dark! Thanks Kyle, great stuff as usual.
@0wasp04 жыл бұрын
He's basically medieval Captain America with swords.
@cruise_missile83873 жыл бұрын
I love that thanks to the witcher I found your channel. Great job 💜
@zireaelxx4 жыл бұрын
That's cool, but Let's talk about my reward
@TheGuerra1134 жыл бұрын
The sterility is kind of needed thing because like, they don't know how their mutations would affect the mother during pregnancy or the child.
@Oskcreed4 жыл бұрын
or the mutagens just do funny shit to their balls? :)
@ruairifisher72144 жыл бұрын
I say if you were able to make a not sterile witcher, go for it. Chances of things going bad can't be worse then the success rate of making them from scratch every time and the great traits might even be better in a couple of generations. That said there is probably a reason it is like this in the first place.
@insaincaldo4 жыл бұрын
Finally the pee will be stored in the balls.
@LightningSe7en4 жыл бұрын
"Winds howling Sorry... i have to say that every few minutes" 😂😂😂😂
@williamreed69484 жыл бұрын
so this is where Netflix found out that Liam Hemsworth has a potential of being Geralt
@spookitty86619 ай бұрын
Kyle: *makes a video explaining how to make a hero* Also Kyle: *Oxygen is bad for you*
@Sceadusawol4 жыл бұрын
Lēoht Steren one of the 5/6 great mass extinctions in earths history was caused by the production of oxygen by early photosynthetic organisms. And it is slowing killing all of us, but the amount of ATP generated by using oxygen as our final electron acceptor is about 16 times greater than if could not use it. So the juice is worth the squeeze.
@TheMacmister4 жыл бұрын
100% of humans that breath oxygen die.
@urukhai57294 жыл бұрын
Oxygen is the sustaining factor in the condition known as life, that kills with a %100 mortality rate.
@kutlumzrak26894 жыл бұрын
Kutlu Mızrak not for all life, there are plenty of anaerobic organisms that oxygen will kill.
Never been this early to an episode. Toss a coin to your science Witcher makers. ❤️
@wadenbeisser24914 жыл бұрын
I love how you used the witcher games as base for this episode
@nickygonzalez22764 жыл бұрын
Hello Kyle! Some abilities that you may have forgotten that are really useful and necessary to a Witcher. Low bloodpressure -> His heart beats really slow. That makes him bleed slowly. Slow Metabolism to selective substances-> Although witchers are imune to most diseases and poisons, sometimes is not trully immunity , he just metabolise the substance so slow that he can endure it until it wears off. That allow him to use his witchers potions too, that are lethal to regular humans. But if he abuses too much of this ability a witcher suffers from intoxication. High senses -> Smell, hearing and Tact heightened. Low Physiologic response to emotional distress -> One thing that is repeated in the series and the books over and over is that Witcher has no emotions. But the reality is that while Witcher feels anxiety, fear, passion, love, happiness, and all other emotions, his parasympathetic nervous system is not activated. Very useful in fights with very dangerous monsters like Griffins where showing fear is the same as dying .... or showing other emotions, against Sucubbus, for example, if you catch my meaning. And a little correction. The regeneration of a Witcher is increased but not so much. What usually gives the Witcher a boost in regeneration are the Witcher potions that the character ingested. Those potions have substances that would cause multiple organ failure in normal humans, but in witchers generate a faster regeneration factor over a period of time. However if he abuses the potions, it backfires and then he suffers from intoxication. That's why Geralt is always on drugs.
@marcioaugustocabral74854 жыл бұрын
10:20 ish, just to throw this out real quick: another compelling way to prevent ageing in theory is to find a way to preserve (or prevent the loss of) our telomeres. Telomeres are basically a length of sacrificial DNA. You see, during cell replication, DNA polymerase (the enzyme responsible for copying the original DNA onto the new strand of DNA being made) always leaves out a little bit of DNA at the ends, meaning that that part of your DNA isn't replicated. If that happened under normal circumstances, then you'd lose a lot of information in the form of DNA over time (as your cells divided), and eventually die as a result. Our bodies' solution is telomeres, which are basically just added so that _they_ are the part of DNA that isn't replicated (since they code for nothing, this is neat). It is theorised that over time, our chromosomes' telomeres get shorter and shorter until the vital DNA becomes exposed and the cell dies. This is a small scale ageing mechanism, the prevention of which could theoretically slow ageing down on a cellular level. Cool huh? Loved that we got a Witcher episode btw! Keep up the scienceing!
@infiniteaseem65234 жыл бұрын
Darn, didn't scroll down far enough before I did my comment on telomeres. Yeah and there are other organisms that don't have that reduction process that we have in ours. If I recall we do have a specific mechanism that cuts a little bit of it away every replication and we're working on turning that off cause things like the starfish are basically immortal.... If it's in optimal conditions at all times.
@alexandergarfield15614 жыл бұрын
well no because telomeres are just rebuilt by telomerase, at least for a long while. long-lived populations have been found to have overexpressed telomerase, but still got "old" at the same rate and just didn't suffer the catastrophic cell failure that the absence of telomeres would cause (exonuclease breaking down the DNA due to exposed ends). the real way to make people be "younger" for longer is more efficient cellular repair by slightly overexpressing the proteins that fix simple mismatches or by making the cells keep extra junk copies of the DNA for so it can be used for homologous recombination which doesn't delete any part of the code instead of non-homologous end-joining which deletes as much as the DNA is broken. also more a more sensitive cell death mechanism is probably needed if the speed is cranked up when healing wounds, which would drastically reduce the chance of cancer. witchers or longer-lived people in general need a system for regenerating damaged nerve cells and cleaning up leftover proteins as to not go senile or get altzheimer's.
@mriamthekingofyoutub77364 жыл бұрын
@@alexandergarfield1561 that's non-homologous end joining and it's required to fix double-strand breaks in DNA as eukaryotes aren't literally always replicating their DNA, so they don't have a reference string of DNA to perfectly fix it by
@mriamthekingofyoutub77364 жыл бұрын
Fun fact about lobsters: they produce an enzyme called telomerase, which repairs telomeres. If one of the Witcher mutations allows Geralt to produce teolmerase, that could at least partially account for his longevity.
@markcochrane95234 жыл бұрын
Batspecies of the genus Myotis do not age and only die due to starvation (dental wear) or other external events (accidents, dehydration). These species do not produce telomerase but have up to 21 'telomere maintanance' genes (e.g. ATM, SETX) that prevent the individuals from ageing.... Some wild animals have been annually identified and monitored for over 40 years(!!) For an animal of only 4-10 grams with an exeptionally fast heartrate and metabilism (annual average is incl. several months of hibernation). Studies by dr. Emma Teeling of Dublin University college on genetics advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/2/eaao0926?VancePak+%28updated+6%2F30%2F2017%29&EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02&, interesting topic, this anti ageing.
@marcosnijder4 жыл бұрын
Eddie “The Beast” hall has what is known as the hercules gene, a lack of miostatin. His strength is INSANE. He is the world record holder for deadlift, at 500kg.
@adriantonica3434 жыл бұрын
bruh thor beat him a while ago
@tenjiku82514 жыл бұрын
When? I don’t think he did
@adriantonica3434 жыл бұрын
What about all the strongmen that beat him then? So Thor and Shaw both have the same condition?
@h1m37m4 жыл бұрын
Himel Mondal no, only he has that condition
@adriantonica3434 жыл бұрын
@@adriantonica343 embarrassing for eddie then, looks like the gene doesn't really mean much in real world applications
@h1m37m4 жыл бұрын
*SPOILER ALERT:* In This Video There Is A Major Vessemir Spoiler. You've Been Warned LoL
@JackNapierTM4 жыл бұрын
Lol yea i am currently playing the witcher for the first time and i was watching a few tip guides and this popped up in my recommendations ....i was enjoying the video but that was very unexpected no warning at all just quick and without mercy
@jasonbrandenberger89934 жыл бұрын
Why is this channel better than actual science class
@BandAIDS784 жыл бұрын
"The general condition of not being alive anymore" was the thing that got me
@adorimable96904 жыл бұрын
When Chris Hemsworth and Ryan Reynolds do the fusion dance. It it becomes him.
@nethureta77464 жыл бұрын
I'll never un-imagine that now
@charlesh45604 жыл бұрын
He's not as buff as they are 🤷♂️
@johannesstephanusroos49692 жыл бұрын
0:49 Nice job getting Platinum!! I’m still stuck trying to get the marksman achievement for 50 crossbow headshots as well as Gwent stuff lol
@ThePancakeRenegade4 жыл бұрын
I think there's a mention in Witcher 1 that the mutations just accelerate the evolution humans would go through over generations of evolution.
Thanks for watching, Super Nerds, and happy new year! 2020 is going to be interesting. Looks like you all love some Witcher science, so if you want to see more, let me know! -- kH
👋
I think it'd be cool to go into Witcher potions and how they work and why they're deadly to most other humanoid creatures.
Should do a thor and witcher cosplay, get your subs to vote on which is better.
@@christiansebastianobaudo9558 Hey buddy -- kH
@@becausescience Yes! I love me some Witcher!
Instructions unclear, accidentally created a werewolf. Send help.
I'll help, but first let's talk about the payment
I'll help. I take payment after the job for a third of the price.
Ill help for free, but i wanna keep the body after....
I'll help for you're First born son and I'll pay you
I suddenly feel like a npc handing out quests to the most willing hero.
Steps to create a Witcher: 1. Gruesome training since childhood 2. Gratuitous amounts of drugs 3. Survive
Number 3 could also translate to "a shit-ton of luck". Because even with top preparation there is no guarantee you'll see the end of the process.
isnt modern sports same?
@@peikonpoika83 not quite, no. Because in sports you can prepare a lot and very rarely die ^^
@@laterreurrouge1917 4. Become Henry Cavill 5. Profit
Sounds like the life of a Viking
"Winds howling." Would have loved to hear Henry Cavill say this at least once.
"Looks like rain..."
@@charleskilo4383 I've always laughed hard that at the "looks like rain..." Dude, it's already raining. Yes, it is rain. Did you use your Witcher senses to notice the rain? Lol
@@guacca I always love that quote from when you're at Kaer Morhen drinking and you have to find Eskel, and when you bend down to find clues Lambert says "You had to bend down to see that?"
he could season 2
Dont forget "Storm damnit"
So, Kyle has mutated from Discount Thor to Clearence Geralt?
😂🤣🤣
You mean Lambert?
@@thomascollins5622 💀💀💀
@@lordcat1958 You know I'm right!
I was so coming to say something like this! 🥰🥰🥰
"Aging tends to cause the condition known as not being alive anymore." Hmm yes, the floor here is made out of floor.
But is it recycled floor? Global warming is a thing people, recycle your floors!
@@Just_som_Ottur KMSL. Love it.
People die, if they are killed.
Fuck
In other news, water is wet
Toss a Like to your witcher
Oh valley of plenty :)
Oh valley of plenty! oh oh oh
Fuck off bard
Toss a sub to your witcher
@@nChilDofChaoSn A friend of humanityyyyyy..
“Buff bois” and “thicc sheep” were both so emphasized, I love it
haha man that was awesome :D
*T H I C C S H E E P*
MUSCLE MICE
Your even got a Witcher haircut, I’m tossing the like!
He’s a friend of humanity now give him the rest
you tossing off....
to your Kyle Hill
Nice six hundred and sixty six like man you’ll need it
🎵toss a like to your witcher🎵
“Yeah that only took, like, a few hundred hours” Same man, same
After the netflix show I wanted to start the witcher 3 again, and then I realized how many hours it actually took to finish the game :)
*looks at my number of 100%ed games* "Only took a few hundred hours" -just you wait for games that can't be 100%ed because it's always adding new content to itself-
Took me 480 hours to get 25% through it because I explore too much.
@@IAmKnightsDawn Enjoy the game how you want, that sounds like an exaggeration though. You can literally do every quest in the game in half that time.
That one trophy for killing 50 humanoids with a headshot is the only thing keeping me back from getting that platinum):
Me fighting bandits with my steel sword: Geralt: HOW YOU LIKE THAT SILVER
Accurate af lmao
@Romeo M Its ok geralt sees bandits as monsters too
Geralt was using silver only against monsters and only the ones that was sensitive to silver. Otherwise he was using only steel. Silver sword is to fragile to fight anything most of the time.
Geralt when he's about to go down on a woman: Ugh, that stench.
"Damn, you're ugly"
Seeing Kyle achieving 100% completion on The Witcher series and the DLC. "Is it possible to learn this power?"
Yes, but you'll have to play a lot of Gwent.
"......Not from a jedi."
"has cat eyes" "still require Cat potion to see in the dark" ummm wat.
In the game you can clearly see in the dark of the night whats going on. Like in most games. In reality you wouldnt be able..try to go in a forest at night. You see shit. The potion enhance this ability even in pitch black darkness
@@Tuxedosnake00 You don't get my point. Nocturnal animal like cats don't require addiational help to see in the dark. So why go through a mutation that is totally unnecessary if you still require aid? And no, I cannot remember how many times I to brew potions or walk with the lantern to be able to see. During the fight with the werewolf in his cave, You couldnt see shit without help.
I guess it just further enhances the effect. Think about it, witchers sometimes have to fight in pitch black darkness against opponents that are super fast and/or almost transparent. Under those conditions having anything less than perfect eyesight might prove to be fatal. This implies that the witcher's normal eyes are simply not perfect, so they need the cat potion.
Having 'cat eyes' let you shave in brokilon night light. You take a potion when you go into mines, caves etc.
@@DiZeHiZe ah ah ah, nocturnal animals can see in the dark but cats need to see during the day too, their eyes being too sensitive to light would make them useless while the sun is out, the witcher doesn't need the aid of the potions, they just boost his abilities without making a permanent change that could be highly detrimental later.
“The general condition known as not being alive anymore.”
Lol
game ended
My family has a history of getting that condition...
@@Just_som_Ottur Yeah I can't seem to find a cure yet.
Tahraki491 good luck man.. hopefully the prognosis for you ain’t as bad as mine.
“Look at Henry Cavill” “Whoo” “Whoo” “Whoo”
My reaction to Henry Cavill. every.damn.time.
Thirst Whooo
Man crush much...
A wise man once said, "If I found Henry Cavill in bed with my wife, I'd tuck him in."
I legit laughed when he did that
I mean, if he dyed his hair and beard white, he'd actually look like a witcher
Arthur Magalhaes Witchers don't really look very different to regular people, barring the cat eyes and (probable) multitude of scars. Geralt undergoes loads of extra mutations which bleach his hair. So he's weird, even for a Witcher
@@TheThegoldenspatula the Trial of the Grasses can bring forth many side effects (one of which is their sterilization), albinism (lack of production of melanin) can be one of them.
@@catarinamagalhaes4775 Though as far as I remember things like being sterile is normal for witchers (e.g. one of the loading lines in Witcher 3 states that). Having white hair is caused by the unnatural amount of mutations or the unusually high pain inflicted on Geralt even from a Witcher's perspective. The only other witcher I remember being white-haired is Ciri. But for normal witchers like Vesemir or Lambert having white hair doesn't seem to be a expected side effect like becoming sterile (which apparently every witcher is, though not 100% certain)
not all the witchers have long white hair... .
HTM geralt is a “Witcher 2.0”. He bested the Witcher trials with relative ease and underwent further more difficult trials and mutations which affected his hair. That’s why he’s the only Witcher with white hair.
“When witchers are tracking cockatrices across the continent, they also need” A convenient teleporting HORSE!!
@Grand Crusader "don't judge me"
Damn Roach!
That cant comprehend moving around a tree or fence
*or a discounted translocator mule of exceptional endurance and agility*
Steps to become a Witcher : - says "hmm" evertime someone talk to you
Hmm
hmmm "fuck"
@@checho00 *Steps to become Geralt. (Witcher 2.0)
"How do you like that silver?"
Saying Wind is Howling is awesome extremely important.
How to make a Witcher with science... Step 1: Throw the baby in the oven.
The C.I.A. Lmfao I just did that quest yesterday.
Step 2 : Find and bring back an old lady's pan
Daniel Hebard Same here, just recently completed that mission
Step 3: Gwent!
The C.I.A. That was a pretty dark moment in the game glad it worked out
"It's a like a super soldier" *"But with fantasy and monsters"*
agh it's a plane destiny 2 is that
also without Nanomachines, son!
Yeah it almost super💪soldier or super hunter‼
And his backstory, lore, etc. Is actually competently made, unlike more recent stuff
@@mrsmeee1843 but some parts of the lore don't make much sense. It's clear that tge whole witcher program was sponsored by a king who put together the best alchemists and mages to cone up with the mutation process and the best knights to train the subjects. What is absurd is why the witchers are independent, even if the kingdom that created them fell surely another kingdom would step in and take over. Witchers would perform much better if they operated inside the organization of a royal army. They'd function as rangers, directly paid a stipend by the royal treasure, always equipped with the best gear available and able to rely on the support of the army for missions that required more manpower.
LOLOL I do appreciate the 'nerd credentials' qualifier at the beginning. "Here are my hours. Yes, I DO know what Im talking about."
He never once said those were his hours. Just that they'd take hundreds of hours.
@@scotta547 I think that he did actually play the game and 100% it. Why you gotta be a buzzkill?
He has obviously never read the books
Let"s forget the Thor-Kyle and start thinking about the Geralt-Kyle
"Let me introduce myself, I´m the witcher Kyle of the Lab."
@@petrfedor1851 😂
Slaying questions?
Kyle of the Void
Petr Fedor yes
“ThiCC sheep” had so much oompf to its pronunciation i temporarily lost the will to function
I wanted to find a way to describe how that made me feel and you did. Well done.
*T H I C C S H E E P*
When he said “just look at Henry Cavill” I felt that
I love you
The oofs got me
That sums up my mood-
the triple ‘phew’ was extremely deserved
I didn't. Because im not sexually confused.
*the science of witchers* Me: starts mutating my body to become a real witcher.
all types of Cancers=we are about to end this man's whole career
And then fucking died.... ah Novigrad
keep in mind only three out of then survive perfectly, the rest just get so fucked up they are euthanized or their organs implode completely.
I just realized he did his hair like Geralt.
How is that not the first thing you noticed?
@@Sui_Generis0 🤷🏾♂️it just escaped me.
@@Sui_Generis0 Cuz judging some dude's hairstyle wasn't the first thing he looked for.
@@Sui_Generis0 Cause real G's don't rock the standard haircut, but the shaved sides and ponytail
While I would love to go into all the cellular biology and genetics gone through this episode, I sadly don’t have the time to do so on my lunch break. I will however talk about a bonus that comes with the increase number of red blood cells. Known as polycythemia, an increase in blood cells does increase the oxygen carrying capacity. Research has shown that those living at high altitudes develop polycythemia as a way to cope with the lower partial pressure of oxygen. So if Geralt has a form of polycythemia (there are several but again no time) he would also be able to retain his stamina and wouldn’t get short of breath at higher altitudes, which would be pretty useful for slaying griffins in their nests atop a mountain. Love the episode, keep up the great work!
I guess that would match his training in Kaher pretty well, as it's a pretty high ways up.
Excellent point. I look at it from the other side of the coin: I have a form of anemia wherein I produce a LOT of red blood cells but my body essentially eats them, leaving me somewhat anemic (my doc keeps an eye on things and despite what WebMD says, I'm not dying of any horrible disease .. in fact, the cause of my condition is unknown, although it seems genetic, so it's not really harmful, just annoying). In an attempt to maintain health in my fifties, I work out HARD most of the week (CrossFit, martial arts, etc.) which has greatly improved my blood work results. My resting heart rate is in the mid fifty bpm range (like my age, LOL). But if we're doing some especially aerobic stuff (or I decide to outpace the younger ones working out), once my heart rate gets up pretty good, I'm DONE ... can't breathe, muscles worn out, vision might get dim ... but give me a minute to drop my heart rate and I'm as fresh as if I just took a nap. That's my long-winded way of saying I'm looking at the situation from the opposite side and you are totally right. Hmm ... maybe I should move high up on a mountain, force my body to adjust, develop polycythemia which would then edge me over into "normal" range? Darn my choice to live on the coast! ;) LOL!
@@CeltKnight Thanks for sharing your story! I'm glad its something you are managing well!
You are a SUPER NERD * guitar sounds *
jucom I wish, that would make my year, and it’s only just begun!
This makes that scene in the last episode even sadder when he says "You know what they do to a Witcher's eyes to get them like this?". How painful it must be :(
Remember uma screaming after being subjected to the first part of the trial?
@@mihneaiordan1813 lol yeah i felt like a peace of shit
@@mihneaiordan1813 that poor ugly baby
Migrane from hell
4:54 Saving this time stamp so I can come back just to hear him say “thicc sheep” on repeat
With 2 c's
I do like how Kyle changed his hair to match Geralt's style, even going so far as to put white highlights in.
He just said "THICC SHEEP"...
👌
Hes welsh
Beep beep
@@BvLeeCultured, are we?
Sounds like dashie 😂
Hi Kyle, I have another mutation to add, and it fits nicely with what we are already making our witcher out of. Since we are also increasing our witchers musculature and increasing oxygen transportation, there is another adaptation we can give him with regards to oxygen availability. Mammalian musculature contains another heme based oxygen carrying protien called myoglobin. In marine mammals, especially deep sea mammals, this protien is expressed at greater concentrations and acts as a primary means to store oxygen for their long dives. If we add a mutation to this effect to our witcher, there should be more oxygen available before those pumped up muscles have to resort to anaerobic processes, thus increasing the amount he could swing those big guns around before feeling muscle fatigue.
Great Point, I'll Have To Remember This When I Make *VOLUNTARY* "Witchers".
This also has a nice side effect of them being able to hold their breath for a long ass time against either under water issues, or gas clouds
Why not use EPO
@@bigchungus2667 I could see that working out too.
@@ankokuraven whatever cocktail that team china weightlifting is using on their athletes is the formula to make a real life Witcher, just add EPO for maximum oxygen efficiency and availability
You: Wind is howling. Me: _exasperated sigh_ Looks like rain.
Place of power, gotta be.
Fuck.
A storm, damn it.
Is level 10 and stumbles upon a level 36 Basilisk "bad idea"
How do ya like that silver?
Kyle: starts talking about cat eyes. My cat: comes into my room.
It heeds the call of the dark lord
_I wish I had a cat again..._
Cat:giving away our secrets,are you?
10:38 Vesemir Me who's just bought the game: "He's the old Witcher right?" Kyle: "He's dead, He snapped his neck" ME: "AWW WTF come on noo"
I know that feeling, man. My brother told me about Bruce Willis when I was about to start the Six Sense many years back.
To be honest i get your feelings but the game had been out since 2015 so if you hear spoilers somewhere it's on you...
@@brentmeyers9657 Yeah but now its different. Lots of new players thank to the series. :) You still dont want to ruin the experience.
@@brentmeyers9657 I said that to people who also haven't played AC III, where Desmond died and FFXV, where both Noctis and Luna died. And I'm just like... You have the internet, and these are big games... avoiding spoilers is the miracle here.
Bright side is: Spoilers don't exist, they simply shift your perspective from "OH! I DIDN'T SEE THAT COMING!" to that of a repeat viewing/experience.
Instructions unclear. Accidentally created a badass wait nevermind that’s what I wanted.
"... which leads to unregulated muscle growth ... which leads to..." .... Letho ... really
Letho is actually pretty lucky. If cardiac muscle swelled up like that he’d die of heart attack before finishing the trial of the grasses.
Witcher 3 plot in a nutshell: Overdrugged playboy Step-daddy find and save step-daughter from 3 big black cold dudes with the power of magic and The Heart of the Cards
Sounds legit.
Geralt isn't a womanizer
kokroucz depends on how you play him *for me yeah he’s definitely a womanizer*
And plays a card game with the people he knows as cards.
You had big, black and a third word beggining with c that most of us probably read wrong
*How to Make a Witcher with Science:* 1. Study Game Development 2. Study Character Design 3. Insert Dark Backstory
Yup
Hope you got 1000 likes!!👌
0. Take preexisting and beloved books with established lore and characters.
@@petrfedor1851 thats what i wanted to say... i feel like too less people know that witcher even bases on books
The dark backstories were already written for you.
Only one downside to being a witcher. You can't have kids. Waldorf: how is that a bad thing? AH HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Mischievous MaleFox you’re a child not a teen. I think he was around 7-9 when his mother gave him to Vesemir
Also ordinary folk hating you, treating you like a moster and you have to stay calm.
I was thinking years of torture
8:40 „Just look at Henry Cavill” *sighs* *sighs again* I felt that.
"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from Science!" - Agatha Hetradyne. This is what you can get with a consistent magic system and enough experiments.
Witchers are litterally made by stealing monster DNA and enhancing humans...
Any unsufficiently analyzed science is indistinguishable from magic as well ;)
whenever i think of magic i always think of it as another form of science, spells and potions are never just _there,_ someone in the universes at some point had to discover magic exists in the first place, like we discovered all the scientific things we have over the years and gave it the general term of "science", then had to go and create the spells, the potions, discover how everything works, all that stuff, its essentially that series/universes cooler science
@@TheDaxter11 yeah indeed though that depends
I just realized Kyle has Geralt's hairstyle in this video lol.
@Plague Doctor true, but he did dye it white though
@@user-go6qz8vq2r no he just stopped dying it blonde... the void takes its toll
@@CED99 u rite
When the screen went dark for the cat eyes I saw my reflection in the screen and had an existential crisis
Everyone: cat eyes Me screaming: VIPER
...I can't help but feel like in this day and age of Witchering, unicorns need to come with NSFW warnings.
Ahh yes I have heard of this "not being alive" before. I once heard a tale of a man coming down with a sudden case of death
Patient: Doctor.. is that bad? Doctor: mmmm... well you´re developing certain condition known as not being alive anymore...
MILLENNIALS - OK BOOMER
@@buildawall5803 ok boomer
@@gufosufo337 uhh ok then call me a boomers even tho am 19
Because science: "AGH!! NNNOVIGRAD!!" Me: *subscribes*
Forgot the most important part about making a Witcher like Garult, you need to give him a horse named Roach.
Well, Roach belongs to Geralt. Idk who "Garult" is
Or maybe Plotka
@@earendilthemariner5546 lol. I just commented quickly without checking my spelling on my phone.
Never heard of that name... i thought it was different, but must be the localization
@@alternamasaki429 roach is the english name of the horse while płotka is the polish name
As a graduate student studying red blood cell development in low oxygen, I approve this episode. In fact, EPO production in the kidney is induced by hypoxia sensing protein HIF-2a, which is degraded by PHD2 protein if oxygen levels are high. So if the witcher mutagen damage the EGLN1 gene (which encodes PHD2 protein), they would have more HIF-2a, and so more EPO, and therefore more red blood cells. There are actual clinical cases where patients have mutated EGLN1 gene, and the symptoms include chronic erythrocytosis (over production of red blood cells). In non witcher normal human this is a problem because too much red blood cells make the blood too thick and easily clot in your body. Another interesting fact is that Tibetan populations have a mutation in EGLN1 gene that *enhances* its activity, and therefore produce less EPO even though they are constantly living in low oxygen environment. This prevents frequent blood clotting from chronic erythrocytosis and gave the Tibetan population a selective advantage in highlands.
When you talked about how to expand the lifespan I was surprised you didn't talk about the telomere research happening and how scientists are getting pretty close to expanding the human lifespan.
The thing about the stamina is in fact a really good theory I think, cause in the books, Andrej Sapkowski writes that a witcher heart beats 4 times slower than a normal human one. That possibly means they have 4 times more red blood cells, so a witcher heart can be slower to do its "normal" work. And maybe it would also means that they can have almost 4 times more stamina and oxygen going to muscles than a normal human. great vid btw, I rly like this one
The Netflix show is actually really good. Henry Cavill is killin it.
yea and he's hot as fuck
@@maggot6817 very much so
@@maggot6817 but he is infertile, so you can't have a kid with him ... I'm sorry :(
He doesn't have cat eyes
no, it's not
"The wind is howling." Yes, Geralt. We know...it's kinda what happens when a storm rolls in.
"Wind's howling! - Sorry, I have to say that every few minutes." XDXDXD so true.
This Made me love Witcher even more. The science behind all of this is great. Thank you for taking the time to put together all these facts about mutation, mutagens and so on Thank you long haired dude
I really liked the “winds howling” bit. Almost spit my swallow potion out
One thing you didn't touch is his slow heart rate, and second about sterility the mages like Yennefer that end up modifying their body are sterile too
Yen is not sterile do to her body change, Netflix is wrong about it.
He briefly discussed sterility in the final seconds of the video 11:19
@@Riva_Bear she is sterile as all mages, in the book said that
@@fourstringsmanybass yeah but just witchers, not the others individuals or creatures
not only is he sterile, but he is also immune to diseases, I remember that from the first game, I dunno if it's in the book though
Me a couple of years ago " I don't understand this stuff but this is cool" Me today " HELL YEAH THIS IS 100 TIME MORE INTERESTING NOW"
"that only took a few hundred hours" you could spend a few hundred hours on wild hunt alone and not even be close to done no?
Spamming the Aard sign like that against a 2 dimensional spider is against the Witcher's Codex.
I remember Kyle saying in a previous video how he 100% completed the game. Good to see him back it up.
He did it on insta.
Call me a cynic but I don’t think 100 percent completions mean as much as they used to. Feels like most game nowadays you could complete 95 percent just doing the story mission. The rest just cleaning out bandit camps and collecting useless treasures. Leaving you feeling like it’s all become a menial task to complete and not compelling at all. I remember scouring the cities in AC2 to find the clues to the precursor civilization feeling like I was actually uncovering a mystery. That sense of satisfaction when I got to watch the final clip after finding all the pieces was cathartic. Now everything become about collecting for collectings sake something even The Witcher 3 couldn’t escape from.
@@kingjamestres You should check out the trophies for the Witcher 3. Some of them are nightmares. I started trying it and stopped when I found out you needed to kill 50 enemies with reflected crossbow bolts.
sephirothsadvent it’s not reflected bolts. It’s 50 head shots Edit even doubled checked it’s not that hard of a game. I got it platinumed. Working on the disk platinum now. Different trophies lists.
Damn straight -- kH
You even have the renowned witcher 2 elven hairstyle for Geralt.
In the section about repairing damage from monsters, while you did cover that increased amount of certain growth factors like VEGF would lead to faster healing, but you neglected to mention the really important fact that in real life, increased amounts of those growth factors are often present in cancer patients, due to growth factor genes being important oncogenes in tumor formation, though if you’re already able to give Witcher’s cat eyes, being able to put more tumor suppressor genes to decrease cancer risk might be able to mitigate increased risks from increased growth factor activity. As well, you covered Witcher’s potentially being more resistant to oxidative stress, which would lower risk of cancer overall, though it would be hard to see how mutagens would produce those same characteristics consistently over many generations of Witcher’s.
Kyle: "I've spent a lot of time with Witcher games" Me: *crying in Witcher books series*
I'd cry more if he had only watched the TV show :P
At least he fully completed it
"age causes the syndrom known as not being alive anymore" 😂😂 i love your caution with the forbidden word
yo I really appreciate the extra mile you go with all these transitions and the editing. also your humour is great.
9:51 - Geralt has to take herbs regularly to keep his side effects in check (unless you played Witcher 1 on the easier difficulty). Herbs, especially ginger, contain anti-oxidants and sometimes even vitamin E that absorb the effects of oxidative stress. Those anti-oxidants are plant-based, which is why the human body sucks at making them on its own. That is why the best course is to keep eating that stuff regularly and with food to minimize the chemical stress of the food. Most of the harmful chemicals come from the food, so minimizing the food effects will help to preserve your genome. If people took more olive oil or ate seeds daily, they could get the vitamin E easily that way.
"A few hundred hours" mere mortal hours.
I love that the only 2 things you didn't cover too much were covered in the show. The sterilization because the life of a Witcher doesn't leave a lot of time to be a parent. And they mentioned the cat eye procedure being very risky and often failing and causing blindness which sounds about right with how invasive it would be
In a fantasy scenario you explained very well what is going on in Lifespan or SENS foundations... with proper right ethical critique ;) Good job!
The "Winds Howling" made me believe that he know's what he's talking about and not just a fake fan sparked by Netflix
@George Kreutzjans Absolutely not, a single quote you hear at least 4 trillion times is better proof
Did you dye your hair for this episode? I love the enthusiasm man! You're by far the best science/pop culture educator on youtube!
I was wondering that too, started scrolling the comments to see who noticed it too XD Not many did :/
That's very high praise! Thank you Andrew, I really appreciate it -- kH
4:47 best 3 words I've ever heard you say
You know how awesome it is to watch a video like this, and to finally understand half of what's being explained... #biostudies
Bones heal Chicks dig scars Pain is temporary Glory is forever
Shawn Matney replacements is the best
"Mutants are sterile" - The Bounds of Reason
@Romeo M Perhaps they learned a thing or two since Turing.
Sorry just a small mistake, oxygen has 6 electrons in the outer "shell"
Yeah I noticed that too I thought I was going crazy for a second there lol
Oxygen has 2 Valence electrons, that's how to look at it. Carbon has 4, Fluorine has 1. ETC, however the amount of Valence electrons means very little in actuality, because there are non-valence electron bonds as well, valence electrons basically mean a vacuum that could house an electron, but even so, the view of electrons as existing in shells is extremely faulty. After all, Electrons aren't really bound by some law to any particle in particular and exist purely as possibility clouds around atomic nucleus.
@@livedandletdie Woah we got a scientist on our hands guys. That is really good info though. I actually find that really interesting.
@@livedandletdie Also your profile pic. I hate him. He's such a terrible father to Shinji.
How to make supersoldiers. Watch out, someone might label you a villain.
leave Triss Marigold alone, she has been through enough.
Thor wanting to become a Witcher.... he will either become a super god, or he will become a super devil.
@@lucifers.morningstar3805as long as he doesnt train under the viper or cat school he should be fine lol
@@ZacDaMex but I like the Viper School, besides he would be welcomed into the school.
Pffft. She tricked ol Geralt into a relationship. Bratty girl.
@@morriganrenfield8240 Yennifer is no better, she wants everything done her way and if anyone goes against what she wants she throws a huge temper tantrum.
I finally know why cats eyes "glow" in the dark! Thanks Kyle, great stuff as usual.
He's basically medieval Captain America with swords.
I love that thanks to the witcher I found your channel. Great job 💜
That's cool, but Let's talk about my reward
The sterility is kind of needed thing because like, they don't know how their mutations would affect the mother during pregnancy or the child.
or the mutagens just do funny shit to their balls? :)
I say if you were able to make a not sterile witcher, go for it. Chances of things going bad can't be worse then the success rate of making them from scratch every time and the great traits might even be better in a couple of generations. That said there is probably a reason it is like this in the first place.
Finally the pee will be stored in the balls.
"Winds howling Sorry... i have to say that every few minutes" 😂😂😂😂
so this is where Netflix found out that Liam Hemsworth has a potential of being Geralt
Kyle: *makes a video explaining how to make a hero* Also Kyle: *Oxygen is bad for you*
Lēoht Steren one of the 5/6 great mass extinctions in earths history was caused by the production of oxygen by early photosynthetic organisms. And it is slowing killing all of us, but the amount of ATP generated by using oxygen as our final electron acceptor is about 16 times greater than if could not use it. So the juice is worth the squeeze.
100% of humans that breath oxygen die.
Oxygen is the sustaining factor in the condition known as life, that kills with a %100 mortality rate.
Kutlu Mızrak not for all life, there are plenty of anaerobic organisms that oxygen will kill.
@@TheMacmister Statement holds true. Oxygen kills.
Never been this early to an episode. Toss a coin to your science Witcher makers. ❤️
I love how you used the witcher games as base for this episode
Hello Kyle! Some abilities that you may have forgotten that are really useful and necessary to a Witcher. Low bloodpressure -> His heart beats really slow. That makes him bleed slowly. Slow Metabolism to selective substances-> Although witchers are imune to most diseases and poisons, sometimes is not trully immunity , he just metabolise the substance so slow that he can endure it until it wears off. That allow him to use his witchers potions too, that are lethal to regular humans. But if he abuses too much of this ability a witcher suffers from intoxication. High senses -> Smell, hearing and Tact heightened. Low Physiologic response to emotional distress -> One thing that is repeated in the series and the books over and over is that Witcher has no emotions. But the reality is that while Witcher feels anxiety, fear, passion, love, happiness, and all other emotions, his parasympathetic nervous system is not activated. Very useful in fights with very dangerous monsters like Griffins where showing fear is the same as dying .... or showing other emotions, against Sucubbus, for example, if you catch my meaning. And a little correction. The regeneration of a Witcher is increased but not so much. What usually gives the Witcher a boost in regeneration are the Witcher potions that the character ingested. Those potions have substances that would cause multiple organ failure in normal humans, but in witchers generate a faster regeneration factor over a period of time. However if he abuses the potions, it backfires and then he suffers from intoxication. That's why Geralt is always on drugs.
10:20 ish, just to throw this out real quick: another compelling way to prevent ageing in theory is to find a way to preserve (or prevent the loss of) our telomeres. Telomeres are basically a length of sacrificial DNA. You see, during cell replication, DNA polymerase (the enzyme responsible for copying the original DNA onto the new strand of DNA being made) always leaves out a little bit of DNA at the ends, meaning that that part of your DNA isn't replicated. If that happened under normal circumstances, then you'd lose a lot of information in the form of DNA over time (as your cells divided), and eventually die as a result. Our bodies' solution is telomeres, which are basically just added so that _they_ are the part of DNA that isn't replicated (since they code for nothing, this is neat). It is theorised that over time, our chromosomes' telomeres get shorter and shorter until the vital DNA becomes exposed and the cell dies. This is a small scale ageing mechanism, the prevention of which could theoretically slow ageing down on a cellular level. Cool huh? Loved that we got a Witcher episode btw! Keep up the scienceing!
Darn, didn't scroll down far enough before I did my comment on telomeres. Yeah and there are other organisms that don't have that reduction process that we have in ours. If I recall we do have a specific mechanism that cuts a little bit of it away every replication and we're working on turning that off cause things like the starfish are basically immortal.... If it's in optimal conditions at all times.
well no because telomeres are just rebuilt by telomerase, at least for a long while. long-lived populations have been found to have overexpressed telomerase, but still got "old" at the same rate and just didn't suffer the catastrophic cell failure that the absence of telomeres would cause (exonuclease breaking down the DNA due to exposed ends). the real way to make people be "younger" for longer is more efficient cellular repair by slightly overexpressing the proteins that fix simple mismatches or by making the cells keep extra junk copies of the DNA for so it can be used for homologous recombination which doesn't delete any part of the code instead of non-homologous end-joining which deletes as much as the DNA is broken. also more a more sensitive cell death mechanism is probably needed if the speed is cranked up when healing wounds, which would drastically reduce the chance of cancer. witchers or longer-lived people in general need a system for regenerating damaged nerve cells and cleaning up leftover proteins as to not go senile or get altzheimer's.
@@alexandergarfield1561 that's non-homologous end joining and it's required to fix double-strand breaks in DNA as eukaryotes aren't literally always replicating their DNA, so they don't have a reference string of DNA to perfectly fix it by
Fun fact about lobsters: they produce an enzyme called telomerase, which repairs telomeres. If one of the Witcher mutations allows Geralt to produce teolmerase, that could at least partially account for his longevity.
Batspecies of the genus Myotis do not age and only die due to starvation (dental wear) or other external events (accidents, dehydration). These species do not produce telomerase but have up to 21 'telomere maintanance' genes (e.g. ATM, SETX) that prevent the individuals from ageing.... Some wild animals have been annually identified and monitored for over 40 years(!!) For an animal of only 4-10 grams with an exeptionally fast heartrate and metabilism (annual average is incl. several months of hibernation). Studies by dr. Emma Teeling of Dublin University college on genetics advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/2/eaao0926?VancePak+%28updated+6%2F30%2F2017%29&EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02&, interesting topic, this anti ageing.
Eddie “The Beast” hall has what is known as the hercules gene, a lack of miostatin. His strength is INSANE. He is the world record holder for deadlift, at 500kg.
bruh thor beat him a while ago
When? I don’t think he did
What about all the strongmen that beat him then? So Thor and Shaw both have the same condition?
Himel Mondal no, only he has that condition
@@adriantonica343 embarrassing for eddie then, looks like the gene doesn't really mean much in real world applications
*SPOILER ALERT:* In This Video There Is A Major Vessemir Spoiler. You've Been Warned LoL
Lol yea i am currently playing the witcher for the first time and i was watching a few tip guides and this popped up in my recommendations ....i was enjoying the video but that was very unexpected no warning at all just quick and without mercy
Why is this channel better than actual science class
"The general condition of not being alive anymore" was the thing that got me
When Chris Hemsworth and Ryan Reynolds do the fusion dance. It it becomes him.
I'll never un-imagine that now
He's not as buff as they are 🤷♂️
0:49 Nice job getting Platinum!! I’m still stuck trying to get the marksman achievement for 50 crossbow headshots as well as Gwent stuff lol
I think there's a mention in Witcher 1 that the mutations just accelerate the evolution humans would go through over generations of evolution.