Not really? The pawn shop guy literally says that their aim was to provide cheap energy for people and that they failed because they lacked the tech. I’m failing to see “blame” here.
Oh, remind me, what natural disaster was responsible for Chernobyl disaster? Was it an earthquake? A tsunami? A solar flare? A storm of epic proportions perhaps?
I would argue that the only thing this game deems worth pursuing is becoming a decent human being capable of empathy. It promotes the idea that after all the ideologies have failed (and there’s no better one in sight) it is the simple folk that is capable of fixing things. The “good” playthrough is to basically try to make things work together as they are without going into extremes, or relying on ideologies.
Yeah, I also learn history from HBO.
I guess Yuri Andropov, chief of KGB and later General Secretary of the communist party was an HBO consultant.
..which is hilarious, cause that's what centrism should be. Yet, like how we treat agnostics, it's labeled as being a pussy that has no balls to make a firm stance. People are bullheaded extremists that can't figure out it's precisely why we're so easily kept in the constant state of Divide. The balance of the natural polarity should be the obvious endgame and it's only actively preached by eastern philosophy. Smh
Yes, we know that while criticizing Chernobyl we can only use Soviet sources provided by the Soviet authorities themselves.
Haven't seen this content, but sounds like an obvious metaphor for USSR, which lasted a "second" in the grand scheme of history.
Typical anti-soviet propaganda point about Lysenko.
That's funny. Because I consider myself a centrist and I think their portrayal of centrism is interesting. Sure, it is done in a parody-like way, but it is really well written. To the point where it manages to land at least some of its punches.
Is your romantic idea of communism "firing squads", "animal wagons", "eating the rich" and "impaling all people who have more than 25 real in their pocket"? Because that's how the game wants you to build communism.
Was the text too challenging? You got tired and couldn't read the last two sentences of my message?
We get so many retards thinking Disco Elysium promotes communism than you looked like yet another one. The game doesn't really "pull the punches" on communism. In fact, it's pretty straightforward about it from get-go.
>Posts the western equivalent of Soviet propaganda mouthpieces
Can we agree that disco is a good cyoa (adventure) game? And main theme isn't about politics at all. Quest for Glory had more RPG elements than Disco (+combat). Still great game.
Still, politics plays a major role in the game. Enough to fill the shoes of alignment in other RPGs. Only with much more impact in this case, as pretty much everything is filtered through political alignment (or, in some cases, the Thought Cabinet). I do agree, however, that politics doesn't work the way the common Disco Elysium's detractors think it works.
Disco Elysium doesn't simply have RPG elements. It was made from ground up to be an RPG (and built off of the actual homebrew PnP RPG system). You can't say the same about any game that just happens to have RPG elements.
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I posted two sources: a letter from KGB chief and an article from a local Ukrainian journalist from before the disaster. Both stating the same thing: there were numerous construction failures during the building of Chernobyl nuclear plant.
