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Eau de MacGowan posted:oh god i really shouldnt have shaved the only decision that is truly unforgivable
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Mulva posted:There's also the thought that tells you how old you are: A reminder that you are still in your early to mid-40s, and while you may not be able to wipe away all the damage your hard living has done, you still have time enough to turn things around and make a difference.
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:it is worth getting rid of that awful smile though I got rid of *the expression* without shaving
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Nov 9, 2019 08:57
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Relin posted:harry's kind of a drama queen about dora. get over it dude she clearly wasnt that into you. they werent even married They were together for over a decade and she was kinda the reason Harry became a cop.
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Nov 9, 2019 09:13
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Nov 9, 2019 09:37
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Penisaurus Sex posted:Reminds me of all the best contours of Thomas Mann, which is a comparison I don't think I've seen anywhere. Deffo. I said it earlier: some of the stuff, particularly things like the Western Plain and boiadeiro culture are definitely inspired from Jorge Luís Borges and Gabriel García Márquez, the latter being the big name of magical realism. The writers are really superb. And IIRC, none of them are native anglophones!
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The game did indeed become a lot more amusing once I started over and went for Phy/Psy, my necktie started talking to me, and the dialogue options opened up in more amusing ways than cold logic or knowledge. Giving in to electrochem is pretty amusing too. Thanks for the advice.
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:they would have gotten back together if he hadn't called her it is much better for both of them that they don't get back together, if there's one thing that's firmly established it's that they were awful together
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Nov 9, 2019 09:57
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Tindahbawx posted:The game did indeed become a lot more amusing once I started over and went for Phy/Psy, my necktie started talking to me, and the dialogue options opened up in more amusing ways than cold logic or knowledge. Giving in to electrochem is pretty amusing too. Glad you ended up enjoying the different playstyle more.
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Palpek posted:The tag already got uploaded: Oh no, did I miss this? Oh god. Tell me I didn't miss this.
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Begemot posted:In my first run, I just bashed in the back door of the bookshop, I had no idea you could convince Plaisance that you're a paranatural detective and then she just gives you the key. 
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Nov 9, 2019 11:08
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Palpek posted:The tag already got uploaded: I keep going back to day one to get those boots, although I did eventually gently caress about with hios mouth long enough to find what killed him, I've been playing for a couple of weeks because my mind gets burned out (Too many IRL characters I know... Wierd to be "triggered" by a game) Of course I went ArtCop first play, and its magical.  Disco Inferno! [Press the Button] https://i.ibb.co/N7pWkxt/Measurehead.png staberind fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Nov 9, 2019 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:the only decision that is truly unforgivable
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The anthropods are in silent and meaningless awe of you. They are rooting for you :3 "No, you are the miracle." I am in silent and meaningless awe of ZA/UM's writing, how do they understand me so well? Sekenr fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Nov 9, 2019 |
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Palpek posted:The tag already got uploaded: me me me Eau de MacGowan posted:oh god i really shouldnt have shaved such a bad choice
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Nov 9, 2019 15:36
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Fess up those who have finished, how many times did you cry during the game? I am man enough to admit to at least being choked up 3 times. Coach Physical Instrument wouldn't have approved.
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tripwood posted:Fess up those who have finished, how many times did you cry during the game? I am man enough to admit to at least being choked up 3 times. Coach Physical Instrument wouldn't have approved. I almost cried during the tie sacrifice for some reason. He is such a faithful friend
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tripwood posted:Fess up those who have finished, how many times did you cry during the game? I am man enough to admit to at least being choked up 3 times. Coach Physical Instrument wouldn't have approved. Three times for me. Finding the Badge, telling the Working Class Woman what happened, and weirdly, the scene where the city tells Harry it loves him and begs him to help it remain on this earth. The Phasmid was a very powerful scene, too, but in a very different way.
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tripwood posted:Fess up those who have finished, how many times did you cry during the game? I am man enough to admit to at least being choked up 3 times. Coach Physical Instrument wouldn't have approved. TYPICAL PEDERASTY OF THE RCM
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tripwood posted:Fess up those who have finished, how many times did you cry during the game? I am man enough to admit to at least being choked up 3 times. Coach Physical Instrument wouldn't have approved. A few times, I remember feeling really bad when I called the girl who quit the Whirling Rags because of Harry's antics. it was really upsetting. . I also had very mixed feelings about the dead mercenary. I both hated him for what he's done in other colonies and felt bad about his background. Too much empathy in this run has made this game not as funny as other people's experiences with the game. I think I'm gonna go wild next run with electrochemistry.
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Sekenr posted:The anthropods are in silent and meaningless awe of you. They are rooting for you :3 legit teared up at this part.
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staberind posted:Disco Inferno! [Press the Button] holy poo poo
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tripwood posted:Fess up those who have finished, how many times did you cry during the game? I am man enough to admit to at least being choked up 3 times. Coach Physical Instrument wouldn't have approved. “ All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.”
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lot of love for Kim here, and that's cool, that's cool, but Kim is only Harry's second best partner 
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Night10194 posted:Three times for me. Finding the Badge, telling the Working Class Woman what happened, and weirdly, the scene where the city tells Harry it loves him and begs him to help it remain on this earth. The Phasmid was a very powerful scene, too, but in a very different way. Major moments for me. First, The tribunal. I felt ready. I had my armor. But I kept failing. At each failure, someone died. I had 75% chance to make all those checks, but hosed up every time. Got shot once, brushed it off only because of the armor, got shot the second time and went down. Almost everyone had died because of me. Managed to warn Kim in time even though Authority was my dump stat. But only because Kim *really* trusted me. It was so touching. I was sure I had gotten a game over and Harry was dead. He had failed after trying so drat much to change, to help the weakest of society. But he had at least tried. When I got to, I saw my boy Kim had taken care of me. Esprit de corps. Those writers, man. Those writers. Second, the dream of Dora. But I felt it the most because of how raw it was, I wanted Harry to move on the entire game. But he couldn't. He wasn't ready. Every option in that conversation tree to move on pulled him back under like an undercurrent. Until the deathblow. There were tiny hints about it during the game, but the gut-punch solidly landed. Then you learn that it was that exact dream that played in his head, every night. For years. That drove him to oblivion. Third, the conversation with the city. There have been a lot of Shivers-cop in detective novel, but the detached descriptions and the plea from the city felt like deep cuts. It reminded me of Sam Vimes from Discworld. And I have also felt great loneliness at times and felt comforted by long dark walks in the city. Feeling something powerful from the heart of the great city. It hit home. About the ending, I'm kind of sad you get railroaded back into being a cop. Though I guess, they have to set up the sequel somehow. I totally wanted to give up my badge and invite Kim to become my partner and start our own private investigation company with me. That would have been bad-rear end. Psychic cop and ultra-stable cop together 4ever.
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"islet? like a gimp-island?" lmao goddamn what a line
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:so how do i get the Jamrock Shuffle ... I'm still trying to figure out how to get Searchlight Division. Fangz posted:Can Cuno dance? Xander77 fucked around with this message at 20:08 on Nov 9, 2019 |
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Xander77 posted:That, Torque Dork and Hardcore Aesthetic seem to be bugged at the moment, since no one figured out how to get them. Sorry then Kim is still the best
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Xander77 posted:That, Torque Dork and Hardcore Aesthetic seem to be bugged at the moment, since no one figured out how to get them. ok, they can be for the replay then when the expansion comes out
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Hibbloes posted:“ All the gifts your parents gave you, all the love and patience of your friends, you drowned in a neurotoxin. You let misery win. And it will keep on winning till you die -- or overcome it.” gently caress
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Finished it earlier today, and it's just goddamned fantastic. The scene at the end before you take the boat back with the Phasmid made me tear up, as did the resolution to the missing husband case. The latter really got to me, because of the way that whole chain of events starts off just seeming like Harry going off on a ridiculous tangential chain of thoughts. ugh. I started off gravitating towards the sort of comedy-option dialogue choices towards the beginning of the game, but when you get your paperwork back and find out that you're actually a really good detective that has solved a lot of cases (to the point of impressing Kim, even) it really made me shift how I played going forward. I don't know that any other game has done that to me. I do kinda regret never figuring out what Cuno's deal was, though.
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This game is extra deep if you ever spent a large portion of your life being a complete loving mess of a person with huge, dangerous cocktails of narcotics on the very, very regular but have finally made the effort to try to turn that shitshow around. But I bet it's still plenty deep if you didn't do that too, I just feel like they made this game for me and I appreciate that a lot. I am pretty sure I am not going to be able to restart Communism, I guess it was time to come to terms with that. Also I don't think I really look that much like the statue fella but drat it Kim's a real peach to humor me on it. I have never before wanted a game to get a sequel as badly as this and I'm not anywhere near the end yet. Agreed fucked around with this message at 20:47 on Nov 9, 2019 |
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Just finished, I don't think there was anything that really choked me other than the interaction with the phasmid, but I don't think I got some of the bits mentioned (the city begging, for one). I think the meeting with dolores would have hit harder if not for the fact that I was obsessing over the possibility that somehow Kim was the murderer, based on a half-baked theory that he seemed to be too good a shot given his glasses. Surely said over and over again through the last however many pages but the writing in this was incredible. I did have an issue with the structure of the investigation (it seemed abundantly clear from the first time Ruby was mentioned that she wouldn't be the killer, Klassje mentioned not hearing the sound of a gunshot (and my Logic voice acknowledged that as important), but I couldn't bring that up as a point against the killer being on the roof when talking to Kim about that, and then it's brought up in the confrontation with her and it's treated like new info.), but aside from that it felt pretty consistent which is pretty much a triumph as far as making a mystery video game goes, I'd say. It was absolutely the funniest game I've played, at least in the first half. The phone call to the police station had me gasping for breath. Much less funny later on, but that made sense given the subject matter, and might also have been down to me being a boring sorry artcop.
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Relin posted:harry's kind of a drama queen about dora. get over it dude she clearly wasnt that into you. they werent even married If Harry calls Dora on the Boardwalk and tries to say goodbye early, neither of them will hang up the phone. In their unskillfulness, they've made each other suffer for a long time, and they will go on to make each other suffer for some time more.
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The best part of the phasmid thing is that with the general vibe of the game and the whole questline, you expect it to be a funny moment or some kind of gag, but NOPE
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Palpek posted:The tag already got uploaded: I stayed out of the thread so I could complete this spoiler free but I neeeeeed this. Did a INT/PSY run. Rhetoric/Inward Empire created some interesting dichotomy, the emotional and rational parts of yourself fighting for dominance. I described playing this to a friend as like soaking in a caustic bath. It was so good.
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Reveilled posted:Surely said over and over again through the last however many pages but the writing in this was incredible. I did have an issue with the structure of the investigation (it seemed abundantly clear from the first time Ruby was mentioned that she wouldn't be the killer, Klassje mentioned not hearing the sound of a gunshot (and my Logic voice acknowledged that as important), but I couldn't bring that up as a point against the killer being on the roof when talking to Kim about that, and then it's brought up in the confrontation with her and it's treated like new info.), but aside from that it felt pretty consistent which is pretty much a triumph as far as making a mystery video game goes, I'd say. I don't know, Ruby seemed a good perp for it. It is hinted that she is a lesbian, so I thought she might have been in love with Klassje (who might have manipulated Ruby to do her bidding), spied on her and killed the merc in a fit of jealousy. But it didn't add up in the end and you know it before you confront her. Sometimes, a good suspect is TOO good to be true.
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tripwood posted:I don't know, Ruby seemed a good perp for it. It is hinted that she is a lesbian, so I thought she might have been in love with Klassje (who might have manipulated Ruby to do her bidding), spied on her and killed the merc in a fit of jealousy. But it didn't add up in the end and you know it before you confront her. Sometimes, a good suspect is TOO good to be true. Oh, definitely, there sure seemed to be motive for her, but when that comment about the sound of the gunshot was dropped very early on in that portion of the investigation, it then felt a little bizarre to then go through with trying to establish opportunity without resolving that question, or indeed even asking that question.
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