So, today's issue of Pulse is unscheduled one. I watch a lot of stuff - and a lot of that stuff (unless very good) plays in the background while I’m cooking or doing other, more important stuff. Yeah, that’s a lot of “stuff” in one sentence, but I’m fine with that. Anyway, having something on in the background helps me keep a finger on the pulse of pop culture - and that’s important for many reasons. One of them being: I need to know what the hell my kid is watching. So, the stuff in question today is The Witcher (and no, before you ask - the kid is not watching The Witcher. Come on, it's 18+ and there are good reasons for that.).

I never read the books or played the games, but the series caught my attention. I appreciate a good joke and a morally justified bloodbath (you know, the kind where it’s all in the name of fighting evil and such) - and The Witcher delivers both. It’s a proper, well-made guilty pleasure I happily indulge in.

Beyond all the blood, gore and sarcasm, there’s also this parade of Eastern European fairytale creatures. And as someone of Eastern European provenance, I can’t help but feel a little thrill seeing the monsters I read about as a kid come to life on screen.

So, it’s evening - me watching the next episode of The Witcher. Today’s monster of the episode is a rusalka. Not the cute Disney mermaid type singing with crabs and fish, but the Eastern European kind - ugly and living in a swamp.

Long story short, the bitch catches Geralt. But Geralt being the Witcher, he knows how to handle her. He asks for a riddle trial - and, by some ancient rusalka law, if he gives the right answer, she has to let him go.

That riddle, my friends, is the reason for today’s post.

It goes like this:

Of course Geralt figured out the answer. You know it too.

The answer if Father.

The answer is all of you, lads.

Now, go and toss a coin to your Witcher.