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Incline Disco Elysium - The Final Cut - a hardboiled cop show isometric RPG

Laz Sundays

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This game isn't about politics so you retards can save the sperging out for another topic
True, it isn't. I shifted into it by inquiring about western trends. Got my answers, nothing left to be said about that.

Opusteno, malo se zajebavamo, malo listamo tredove, malo caskamo.. isti kurac ko i svaki drugi dan jbg.
 

Heinrich

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This game is about the beauty and truth of Rightism overcoming such trivial lefty concepts as authorial intent: When I come across some lefty loser sitting in a swamp trying to tell me his life's story I reply 'I'm a fascist, lol.' and arrest him. When I see some sad working class specimens that were tricked into thinking they're part of a union I tell them they would have been great fascists and they agree, because the real fascists are those we made along the way. When the game presents me with with crude ways to be mean to my favourite vassal, Kim Katsuragi, I can recognize that I am, in fact, an enjoyer of blessed particularism instead of a fan of sad universalism and he can, in fact, be My Binoclard without me being a hypocrite.
 
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How does hardcore peacock individualist that hasn't worked a day in their spoiled lives end up endorsing Marx&Engels, hahahah WHAT??
The western libs confuse Marxism with Freudo-Marxism, Frankfurt school, Marcuse and other forms of schizophrenia that for some reason count as "philosophies" and who have tried to lean against Marxism for legitimacy, but have nothing to do with it.
It's also an attempt to muddle the real science of Marxism. Sciences are hard to understand for the masses, but if you explain to them that Marxism is the sexual deviancies they indulge in, they jump on board and run around screaming that Marxism rocks. And an average worker Joe looks at this horde of degenerates and thinks "Marxism sucks", and then never wants to hear about it again.
And the US has no labor movement as a result. All capitalist goals achieved.

Disco isn't different from that. When you select "communist" choices, the game says you should "start shooting people" and doing "mass graves". Typical anti-communist propaganda, nothing I didn't expect from a Baltic humanities idiot. The game even manages to blame Tchernobyl on communism, disguising it into other names. Doesn't say anything about Fukushima, this is a democratic technogenic disaster, all is well.
I liked the game, but I had to skip through politics, it was too cringe.
 
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Heinrich

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How does hardcore peacock individualist that hasn't worked a day in their spoiled lives end up endorsing Marx&Engels, hahahah WHAT??
The western libs confuse Marxism with Freudo-Marxism, Frankfurt school, Marcuse and other forms of schizophrenia that for some reason count as "philosophies" and who have tried to lean against Marxism for legitimacy, but have nothing to do with it.
It's also an attempt to muddle the real science of Marxism. Sciences are hard to understand for the masses, but if you explain to them that Marxism is the sexual deviancies they indulge in, they jump on board and run around screaming that Marxism rocks. And an average worker Joe looks at this horde of degenerates and thinks "Marxism sucks", and then never wants to hear about it again.
And the US has no labor movement as a result. All capitalist goals achieved.

Disco isn't different from that. When you select "communist" choices, the game says you should "start shooting people" and doing "mass graves". Typical anti-communist propaganda, nothing I didn't expect from a Baltic humanities idiot. The game even manages to blame Tchernobyl on communism, disguising it into other names. Doesn't say anything about Fukushima, this is a democratic technogenic disaster, all is well.
I liked the game, but I had to skip through politics, it was too cringe.
Nobody died from Fukushima except from the hysteric evacuation of course. Huge difference with Tschernobyl. One thing I really find funny about this website is that it's horseshoe theory manifest. Nobody gets a vatnik tag except communists and fascists. 'Killing literally everybody regardless of political opinion' is one of the times this game transcends authorial intent and reaches something higher.
 

Hydro

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The game even manages to blame Tchernobyl on communism, disguising it into other names.
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.

What’s your take on Tchernobyl though?
 

Lord_Potato

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Disco isn't different from that. When you select "communist" choices, the game says you should "start shooting people" and doing "mass graves". Typical anti-communist propaganda, nothing I didn't expect from a Baltic humanities idiot. The game even manages to blame Tchernobyl on communism, disguising it into other names. Doesn't say anything about Fukushima, this is a democratic technogenic disaster, all is well.
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?

No. The only disaster that caused Chernobyl was the Soviet rule. Soviets ordered the construction of a faulty powerplant and ignored all criticism, then gave another order, to push its design to the limits, which in reality proved to be way above those limits.
 

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Disco isn't different from that. When you select "communist" choices, the game says you should "start shooting people" and doing "mass graves". Typical anti-communist propaganda, nothing I didn't expect from a Baltic humanities idiot. The game even manages to blame Tchernobyl on communism, disguising it into other names. Doesn't say anything about Fukushima, this is a democratic technogenic disaster, all is well.
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?

No. The only disaster that caused Chernobyl was the Soviet rule. Soviets ordered the construction of a faulty powerplant and ignored all criticism, then gave another order, to push its design to the limits, which in reality proved to be way above those limits.

But, but, but, that's exactly like designing a NPP to withstand the most powerful known tsunami's to hit the region only for nature to hit it with one bigger than anyone thought was possible!

...right?
 

Longes

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I would argue that the authors' communism shows up mostly in the need to pull punches. The game has nothing to say about centrism/moralism beyond sneering. The game can have brutally honest exploration of fascist bitterness and take potshots at broke hobocop Harry trying to be an ultra-liberal sigma male hustlegrinder. But for communism, it still has to end at the romantic idea of communism. Yeah, the communist book club may have exiled their economist because he didn't agree that turnips will grow better under communism. But their impossible tower of communism defied gravity for a second, so communism is still worth pursuing goddammit!
 

Hydro

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I would argue that the authors' communism shows up mostly in the need to pull punches. The game has nothing to say about centrism/moralism beyond sneering. The game can have brutally honest exploration of fascist bitterness and take potshots at broke hobocop Harry trying to be an ultra-liberal sigma male hustlegrinder. But for communism, it still has to end at the romantic idea of communism. Yeah, the communist book club may have exiled their economist because he didn't agree that turnips will grow better under communism. But their impossible tower of communism defied gravity for a second, so communism is still worth pursuing goddammit!
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.
 

Lord_Potato

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Soviets ordered the construction of a faulty powerplant and ignored all criticism
Yeah, I also learn history from HBO.
Rome was tits.
I guess Yuri Andropov, chief of KGB and later General Secretary of the communist party was an HBO consultant.

https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter...struction-chernobyl-aehs-atomic-power-station

Contemporary Soviet journalist Liubov Kovalevska too:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...l-plant/deabfee2-61ce-4c6f-94cf-0a5e8c62902e/
 

Sweeper

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Soviets ordered the construction of a faulty powerplant and ignored all criticism
Yeah, I also learn history from HBO.
Rome was tits.
I guess Yuri Andropov, chief of KGB and later General Secretary of the communist party was an HBO consultant.

https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter...struction-chernobyl-aehs-atomic-power-station

Contemporary Soviet journalist Liubov Kovalevska too:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...l-plant/deabfee2-61ce-4c6f-94cf-0a5e8c62902e/
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/about
You're too far gone bro.
>Washington Post
lol, lmao
 

Laz Sundays

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I would argue that the authors' communism shows up mostly in the need to pull punches. The game has nothing to say about centrism/moralism beyond sneering. The game can have brutally honest exploration of fascist bitterness and take potshots at broke hobocop Harry trying to be an ultra-liberal sigma male hustlegrinder. But for communism, it still has to end at the romantic idea of communism. Yeah, the communist book club may have exiled their economist because he didn't agree that turnips will grow better under communism. But their impossible tower of communism defied gravity for a second, so communism is still worth pursuing goddammit!
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.
..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
 
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But their impossible tower of communism defied gravity for a second
Haven't seen this content, but sounds like an obvious metaphor for USSR, which lasted a "second" in the grand scheme of history.
And they brand it as "impossible", these so called "commie authors", uh huh.

the communist book club may have exiled their economist because he didn't agree that turnips will grow better under communism
Typical anti-soviet propaganda point about Lysenko.
 

Harthwain

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The game has nothing to say about centrism/moralism beyond sneering.
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.

But for communism, it still has to end at the romantic idea of communism.
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.
 

Longes

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The game has nothing to say about centrism/moralism beyond sneering.
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.

But for communism, it still has to end at the romantic idea of communism.
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?
 

Harthwain

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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.
 

ind33d

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what is the economic system where everyone lives in the forest and shuts the fuck up? i support that one
 

Sweeper

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https://www.wilsoncenter.org/about
You're too far gone bro.
>Washington Post
lol, lmao
Yes, we know that while criticizing Chernobyl we can only use Soviet sources provided by the Soviet authorities themselves.

Because obviously Soviets were known for transparency, openness and publically owning their own mistakes.

Retard.
>Posts the western equivalent of Soviet propaganda mouthpieces
>Views them as legitimate sources
>Calls someone else retarded
You're not as smart as you think you are potato bro.
 

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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.
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.
 

Harthwain

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Can we agree that disco is a good cyoa (adventure) game?
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And main theme isn't about politics at all.
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.

Quest for Glory had more RPG elements than Disco (+combat).
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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