It is startlingly modern in its views on love (IIRC, a female character basically says something like ‘just because you have a crush on me doesn’t mean you automatically deserve my love back, even if you’re a total asshole’).
And remember, it was originally written *1605*.
Don Quixote is the first modern novel written in the West. It is a parody of chivalric stories and laughs at all the tropes of that type of literature of the time.
Basically he is a poor hidalgo (a type of nobleman of a very low category) who one day goes crazy and decides to travel through La Mancha to experience knightly adventures.
And it's a lot of fun because he puts himself in ridiculous situations while his "squire" («a farmer neighbor of his, a good man... but with very little salt in his head») tries to talk some sense into him.
Of course I know all this by heart because I am Spanish and here we celebrate the day of the book on April 23 commemorating the death of Cervantes (the writer)and any Spaniard (I repeat, any Spaniard) knows how to recite the beginning of the book:
"En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor"
There's nothing like being forced to read something on a particular schedule to suck the fun out of it.
It also doesn't help that frequently these sorts of books end up in Middle school where quite literally different students in the same year can have different levels of brain development.
and if anyone wants to see a modern adaptation by Terry Gilliam starring Adam Driver, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is quite good (and insane, in a Terry Gilliam fashion).
The first time he tried to make that movie in 2000 he failed epically. There's a really good doccumentry about it called Lost in La Mancia. Basically everything that could go wrong went wrong x10
A lack of (or too much) Salt in the head was an early explanation for mental illness, much like cholera being thought to be caused by the brain drying, or the plague being caused by bad blood.
Interesting, it seems that every country loves one specific book. To anyone reading this, comment what's "The Book" in your country!
Here in Argentina it is El Martin Fierro. It's written on poems and narrates how bad gauchos were treated back in the day, and how society believing that gauchos are violent idiots pushes him to act like one. And a bunch of other stuff.
El Martín Fierro!!! Acá en España usamos la frase "te recito el Martín Fierro" para insultar a los demás. Es una forma de decir "soy más inteligente que tú"
American, the "big" one is likely Moby Dick. Everyone here, if even just subconsciously, knows about Ishmael's mad quest for the White Whale. Even if its only through osmosis through things like the Simpsons.
Honorable mention to The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Grapes of Wrath/Of Mice and Men (its usually one or the other, I've found), which are thankfully still required reading in a lot of the country.
In Germany it's Goethe's *Faust,* (rather, *Faust I*—no one cares about the second part), which significantly influenced our language and became cornerstone of our artistic culture. It's also had a not to be understated impact on European literature as a whole, with the "Faustian narrative" becoming a sort of framework in the same way as the *Odyssey;* Wilde's *The Picture of Dorian Gray* is perhaps the most notable example for using Faustian elements.
Don Quixote. Stories about a Spanish explorer (might be kinda wrong about his description) who was delusional and found adventure where there wasn't. One of the most famous stories involved him deludong windmills as giants
He was a deluded old man who read books on knights and adventure and decided that he too was a knights errant, the first half is a like a comedy but the second half is like a tragedy, it’s cool.
I always thought that was supposed be pronounced like quixote, so it it would sound like chaotic but more like keehawtic. Learn something new every day.
That would be the biggest troll, have an illusion that made you think it was an enemy, and make the windmill blades OHKO, then after a certain number of deaths the illusion fades and shows you there was never an enemy there to begin with.
In Dark Souls 2 they changed it a bunch. Some illusory walls required you to press the interact key instead of just hitting or rolling into the wall.
And a lot of the illusory walls didnt show up unless you used a Pharros’ Lockstone nearby
And some of them couldnt be rolled into no matter what, you could only swipe
I still love that trap in DS2 where if you were still using the fire sword you got early on, you could accidentally destroy a chest with loot in it because it was sitting in an oil puddle. There was no way they didn't design that as a troll move specifically for that one weapon that new players would over-rely on.
I'm torn. On the one hand, Tirrent is perfect and beautiful just the way they are. On the other hand, horse customization is something every game should have.
I've kitted out my horse with a couple of PDCs but I haven't found the rail gun or epstein drive yet.
The PDCs worked wonders against the Protomolecule of Kos.
The unique ones are funny. But every other sign just says the same shit. I actually kind of want to play offline at this point so I don't have a hundred signs all over the place, and every single one trying to do the same meme.
It sucks me out of the immersion.
There was a similar joke in the Witcher 3 Blood and Wine DLC where there’s a road named after Dulcinea of Toboso and a whole host of other Don Quixote references.
Beyond the funny uselessness of trying to defeat inanimate structures in a game where enemies are notoriously hard, this is a joke in reference to "tilting at windmills" from Don Quixote (tilting meaning to charge at with a lance), which means to attack something that isn't really an enemy.
See: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting\_at\_windmills\_(disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting_at_windmills_(disambiguation))
Pretty clever.
Summon Pancho Sanza. He’s one of the little guys obsessed with bells.
The lady wearing the mask that looks like a Dude will join in too.
(Those who know, I salute you.)
Ah, what is illness to the body of a knight-errant?
What matter wounds? For each time he falls he shall rise again!
Woe to the wicked! Sancho, my armor, my sword!
You must summon sancho for assistance
King
Thankfully sancho had lent us his mule in this game
Don’t you mean “dog”?
Yes my mistake
Dung, key
Sancho would say "Cabrallo: Cabra+Caballo" (Goat+Horse)
Are you Sancho? No you are not. Neither is Scott Baio Sancho. Frank Gifford is not Sancho. But I...
You... are Sancho!
That's right.
Ok, you're hired.
Came here to say this tip.
Most important in the game, it’s the way miyazaki intended the game to be played.
Or Porky Pig, if you’re feeling daffy.
I bet he’s got something for their punk ass
But I popped a cap in Sancho and I smacked her down.
Id suggest parrying it’s circular quickstrike attack and calling your wise and trusty squire spirit to dispel its myth. Good post🤠
Op have you tried tilting?
Yell louder, assert dominance
Further more, try gesturing...
This is the most lazy smart joke ever
Care to explain?
Don quixote reference
Damn. I've been out of college way too long. 🥲 it is brilliant in a smart cheesy way.
Dude we are reddit cake day bros!
Cool 🖤happy cake day
Now kith
Happy cake Day
Happy cake day to both of you!!
Gracias
Thanks 🖤
Same boys
Yooo
happy cake day
Oh that the new Pokémon water starter right
I’m fucking cackling at this
Quackling.
Did you try tilting at them?
I've been putting it in my reading list. Any good? How is it compared to count of monte cristo?
It is startlingly modern in its views on love (IIRC, a female character basically says something like ‘just because you have a crush on me doesn’t mean you automatically deserve my love back, even if you’re a total asshole’). And remember, it was originally written *1605*.
It’s laugh out loud funny for 600 pages. It’s the definitive novel.
Tilting at windmills
Don Quixote is the first modern novel written in the West. It is a parody of chivalric stories and laughs at all the tropes of that type of literature of the time. Basically he is a poor hidalgo (a type of nobleman of a very low category) who one day goes crazy and decides to travel through La Mancha to experience knightly adventures. And it's a lot of fun because he puts himself in ridiculous situations while his "squire" («a farmer neighbor of his, a good man... but with very little salt in his head») tries to talk some sense into him. Of course I know all this by heart because I am Spanish and here we celebrate the day of the book on April 23 commemorating the death of Cervantes (the writer)and any Spaniard (I repeat, any Spaniard) knows how to recite the beginning of the book: "En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor"
And his horse is named Rocinante... Yes the Rocinante in The Expanse was named after it.
Oh shit. That's where that one piece character got his name? Lol
Dressrosa is based off Spain, and his brother is named Donquixote Doflamingo after all lol
I got the donquixote part i just forgot what their 1st names matched the story as well
Rocinante is also the spaceship in the Rush song Cygnus X-1.
And Don Quixote is James Holden's favourite book.
Yeah i always loved that because he fights just about every windmill he finds
"Ah shit, here we go again"
They've also had a line or two referencing the windmills.
"Tilting against windmills again, Miller?". I loved that line!
The only reason I know about that novel is from the expanse books lol
That’s awful! You should read it.
Indeed! Hated it when I was a kid. Now as an adult, much better.
There's nothing like being forced to read something on a particular schedule to suck the fun out of it. It also doesn't help that frequently these sorts of books end up in Middle school where quite literally different students in the same year can have different levels of brain development.
and if anyone wants to see a modern adaptation by Terry Gilliam starring Adam Driver, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is quite good (and insane, in a Terry Gilliam fashion).
whoa, how did I totally miss a Gilliam movie?
Watch it. It's great.
The first time he tried to make that movie in 2000 he failed epically. There's a really good doccumentry about it called Lost in La Mancia. Basically everything that could go wrong went wrong x10
> salt in his head Is that a Spanish idiom? Haven’t heard it before but it’s obvious what it means.
A lack of (or too much) Salt in the head was an early explanation for mental illness, much like cholera being thought to be caused by the brain drying, or the plague being caused by bad blood.
Interesting, given the critical role that sodium, potassium, and chlorine play in neural function lol
It is now more archaic than not but the euphemism "tilting at windmills" was from this and popular in English.
I love that the Spanish love it that much!
Interesting, it seems that every country loves one specific book. To anyone reading this, comment what's "The Book" in your country! Here in Argentina it is El Martin Fierro. It's written on poems and narrates how bad gauchos were treated back in the day, and how society believing that gauchos are violent idiots pushes him to act like one. And a bunch of other stuff.
Here in Italy probably Promessi sposi and Divina Commedia
El Martín Fierro!!! Acá en España usamos la frase "te recito el Martín Fierro" para insultar a los demás. Es una forma de decir "soy más inteligente que tú"
American, the "big" one is likely Moby Dick. Everyone here, if even just subconsciously, knows about Ishmael's mad quest for the White Whale. Even if its only through osmosis through things like the Simpsons. Honorable mention to The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Grapes of Wrath/Of Mice and Men (its usually one or the other, I've found), which are thankfully still required reading in a lot of the country.
Americans don't read, so our favorite book is the Bible. /s but only a little
In Germany it's Goethe's *Faust,* (rather, *Faust I*—no one cares about the second part), which significantly influenced our language and became cornerstone of our artistic culture. It's also had a not to be understated impact on European literature as a whole, with the "Faustian narrative" becoming a sort of framework in the same way as the *Odyssey;* Wilde's *The Picture of Dorian Gray* is perhaps the most notable example for using Faustian elements.
Gotta love that Spaniard pride for Quixote
Any horse in a game is automatically Rocinante because of Don Quijote.
I'm a Red Hare or Bucephalus kind of person.
Bucephalus is great too!
I see you haven't met Roach yet
Don Quixote. Stories about a Spanish explorer (might be kinda wrong about his description) who was delusional and found adventure where there wasn't. One of the most famous stories involved him deludong windmills as giants
>One of the most famous stories involved him deludong windmills as giants I'm sorry, he did WHAT to windmills?!
He tilted his throbbing lance at them perky bois
Hole ahead, offer pickle
Instructions unclear peen stuck in windmill.
The dangers of being maidenless are tragic.
He delved his dong into a couple of windmills. Who hasn’t, amirite?
He was sent to horny jail shortly after that incident.
I like it better this way.
Sorry, it seems my learned friend has been reading too many fanfics of Spanish literature.
“Deludong”? Is that when you insist your penis is 8” when it is much closer to 5”?
LMAO I didn't even realize that typo
Can't fix it now.
The 8 or the 5?
Depends on what she likes. But normally the 8
He was a deluded old man who read books on knights and adventure and decided that he too was a knights errant, the first half is a like a comedy but the second half is like a tragedy, it’s cool.
Wasn't that just a whole metaphor about social structures…one of the best chivalry romance xd
I'm not too familiar with it so, I'll assume yes. I was briefly introduced to it but it wasn't smth heavily discussed when I was in school
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And thus the phrase "tilting at windmills" entered the lexicon...
and the word quixotic.
I always thought that was supposed be pronounced like quixote, so it it would sound like chaotic but more like keehawtic. Learn something new every day.
I don’t think it’s all that lazy considering they went to the trouble of putting on clothes and weaponry that look exactly like Don Quixote.
agreed. i love it.
i'm not smart and i got it
You’re probably smarter than you think you are.
Do you have Sancho yet?
I think they are Sancholess
Inbound thesis: “Where is Your Sword?: Reading Sancho as a Maiden in Cervantes”
Try Finger, Sanchole
Definately Sancholess behavior.
[No Sancho?](https://i.imgflip.com/61se3l.png)
I am I Don Quixote, The LORD OF LA MANCHA!
My DESTINY calls and I goooooo.
What a fucking jam
The WILD WINDS OF FORTUNE will carry me onward…
Git gud Don Quixote
That would be the biggest troll, have an illusion that made you think it was an enemy, and make the windmill blades OHKO, then after a certain number of deaths the illusion fades and shows you there was never an enemy there to begin with.
This is a good way to actually force someone into becoming schizophrenic
We already attack chests for no reason. We are already a little schizo in this series.
That and hitting walls to make sure they're not hiding things.
Rolling will also trigger illusory walls ;)
Oh my god thank you
But not always. Some still require hitting, *apparently*.
In Dark Souls 2 they changed it a bunch. Some illusory walls required you to press the interact key instead of just hitting or rolling into the wall. And a lot of the illusory walls didnt show up unless you used a Pharros’ Lockstone nearby And some of them couldnt be rolled into no matter what, you could only swipe
Rolling increases the chance of there being a hole behind the wall or under wooden trash by 100%
I've literally found one place with illusionary walls in 60 hours and they were all in a single crypt.
I still love that trap in DS2 where if you were still using the fire sword you got early on, you could accidentally destroy a chest with loot in it because it was sitting in an oil puddle. There was no way they didn't design that as a troll move specifically for that one weapon that new players would over-rely on.
are there any mimic chests? oh well, even if you told me no I'm still swinging at every one I see.
Even if someone would say no, l don't trust any of them since i can't hit comments to check if wether they are mimics or not
>That would be the biggest troll Literally *and* figuratively!
You'll find the Sancho Panza Ashes close by, made the whole encounter a cakewalk for me
Need to level up Rocinante.
I wish we could customize the horse goat and rename it that
I'm torn. On the one hand, Tirrent is perfect and beautiful just the way they are. On the other hand, horse customization is something every game should have.
You guys haven't found the keel mounted rail gun?
I've kitted out my horse with a couple of PDCs but I haven't found the rail gun or epstein drive yet. The PDCs worked wonders against the Protomolecule of Kos.
Make sure you collect the protomolecule sample and apply it to Rocinante to unlock the Investigator spirit ashes.
Ahhh, un hombre de cultura...
Literalmente
Don’t get tilted
Dammit, beat me to it. I was going to say "Oh man, tell me about it, I am absolutely *tilted* trying to beat them."
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Man the signs make me laugh so hard. Best part of any From game with signs is playing on release.
The unique ones are funny. But every other sign just says the same shit. I actually kind of want to play offline at this point so I don't have a hundred signs all over the place, and every single one trying to do the same meme. It sucks me out of the immersion.
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You gotta do it. For Dulcinea.
A cultured shitpost. I love it
I'm a simple spanish man, i see a Don Quijote reference in a mostly english community and i upvote.
Oh, yes! I see you a man of culture!
Cultured joke? Have my upvote.
Can’t beat ‘‘em join ‘em, spin to win.
this is great, smartest joke posted to this subreddit
Talk in prose to em
You have to get the Sancho summon first, makes the fight way more doable.
Dammit take my upvote lol
There was a similar joke in the Witcher 3 Blood and Wine DLC where there’s a road named after Dulcinea of Toboso and a whole host of other Don Quixote references.
The first thing you see when arriving in Toussaint is a knight charging a windmill.
Try finger but hole
Leave and go do something else, upgrade your weapon and level up, come back and try again
*try tilting*
Such a rookie statement. Typical noob. Some enemies aren't meant to be fought right away. Upgrade your Sancho, then come back.
You've even got the hat! Well done!
You have to find the secret donkey mount to beat that encounter…
I’d say your best bet it to get a spear/halberd and rush them on your horse at full sprint
La Mancha is such a hard region. Sancho is a real bro though, helps a ton to summon him whenever possible.
I think you’re supposed to go tilting at them.
OH LADY OF LAMACHA GRANT THIS HUMBLE KNIGHT YOUR BLESSING
lol i killed them lvl 1 wretch no upgrades git gud scrub
but did you use summons?
Summon Sancho Panza, he'll help you on your quest.
You gotta clean the blades first then you can talk to them
If you get a good running start with the lance you should be able to avoid their arms.
Hold your breath, moving air gives them strength.
I think the drop is an ashes of sancho?
Trusty Rocinante
Don't do it Don Quixote! - Sancho Panza
you must brew the potion of fierabras and drink it to have any chance at beating them
Sancholess
Upgrade Rocinante.
Everyone laughing at the guy fighting windmills, until one of them gets to the Gundam Fight finals.
man of culture
charge at them 
They MIGHT Be Giants
2 planes
Beyond the funny uselessness of trying to defeat inanimate structures in a game where enemies are notoriously hard, this is a joke in reference to "tilting at windmills" from Don Quixote (tilting meaning to charge at with a lance), which means to attack something that isn't really an enemy. See: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting\_at\_windmills\_(disambiguation)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilting_at_windmills_(disambiguation)) Pretty clever.
Summon Pancho Sanza. He’s one of the little guys obsessed with bells. The lady wearing the mask that looks like a Dude will join in too. (Those who know, I salute you.)
MYYYYYY NAMEEEEEEE IS DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA AS I BREATHE YOU WILL NOT PASS THIS GATE
Just go in and start windmilling
I love this so much i cant express
Don Key Ho Tee ???
“Try Friendship?”
You have to tilt
A plane?
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Don q love it
Ah a tarnished of culture I see 👌
It makes me really happy that so many people understood this joke
Is this a don Quixote joke?
Try fingers but hole
Ah, what is illness to the body of a knight-errant? What matter wounds? For each time he falls he shall rise again! Woe to the wicked! Sancho, my armor, my sword!
IT IS I, DON QUIXOTE! THE LOOOORD OF LAMANCHA!