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I think my character had a pretty nice curve of cop type. Started as a superstar cop, but Kim's disapproval caused me to become a sorry cop by day 2, then day 3 I really start to get my poo poo together and become a competent cop for the rest of the game.
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How are you supposed to get Titus to fess up if you don't pass the Rhetoric check?
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Dec 6, 2019 20:54
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cock hero flux posted:shaving and losing the expression makes you look sad and awful and dead inside cosigned
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Dec 6, 2019 22:30
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good song from the game's composer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZfGa5t4e8
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Dec 6, 2019 22:33
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I beat this Wednesday night and am still floored. The writing reminds me of Thomas Pynchon more than anything else, with the deftly handled tone juggling and musical numbers. I save scummed a few white checks, but only one red: like hell I was letting Kim get shot. Christ almighty what a great game. I don't think I saw this mentioned in the thread, possibly because it's a bit too obvious, but Disco Elysium is a play on The Trammps' Disco Inferno, with "Inferno" taken as a synonym for "Hell" rather than a kickin' rad party as it is in the song. The church in the karaoke song's title could be a reference to Camille Saint-Saëns, a 19th century composer most famous for the downright bitchin' Dans Macabre.
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Dec 6, 2019 22:45
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I clapped, I clapped whenever they said the thing about Disco Elysium in dialogue.
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Dec 6, 2019 23:23
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It took me two weeks after playing the game to to get "Gary, the Cryptofascist"
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Dec 6, 2019 23:33
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UP AND ADAM posted:I clapped, I clapped whenever they said the thing about Disco Elysium in dialogue. I'm frankly not sure why they give you multiple options to name the club. Maybe to make you feel happier about picking the right one.
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Dec 6, 2019 23:36
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Dreylad posted:It took me two weeks after playing the game to to get "Gary, the Cryptofascist" oh my god
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Dreylad posted:It took me two weeks after playing the game to to get "Gary, the Cryptofascist" *dashes hat to the ground, stomps repeatedly*
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Dec 6, 2019 23:38
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Dreylad posted:It took me two weeks after playing the game to to get "Gary, the Cryptofascist" god drat it
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Dec 6, 2019 23:45
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Is there a joke I'm missing beyond it being a pun on Morell, the Cryptozoologist?
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Dec 6, 2019 23:51
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I'm sorry to all of us who played through being a sorry cop.
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Dec 6, 2019 23:55
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Lightningproof posted:Is there a joke I'm missing beyond it being a pun on Morell, the Cryptozoologist? a cryptofascist is someone who adores fascism but does so in secret to avoid being ostracized, it's a play on cryptozoologist, cryptid, and cryptofascist as he's not a cryptofash as we know it but he still is because he's regular fash but super into cryptids
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Dec 7, 2019 00:00
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Its Coke posted:good song from the game's composer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZfGa5t4e8 this is a dope as hell song but wasn't the music composed by British Sea Power? i don't see any member overlap between the two bands
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Dec 7, 2019 00:04
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OutOfPrint posted:I don't think I saw this mentioned in the thread, possibly because it's a bit too obvious, but Disco Elysium is a play on The Trammps' Disco Inferno, with "Inferno" taken as a synonym for "Hell" rather than a kickin' rad party as it is in the song.
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Epic High Five posted:a cryptofascist is someone who adores fascism but does so in secret to avoid being ostracized, it's a play on cryptozoologist, cryptid, and cryptofascist as he's not a cryptofash as we know it but he still is because he's regular fash but super into cryptids Okay, yeah I know all that. I just wasn't sure if there was something beyond that that I was missing, going by people's reactions.
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Dreylad posted:It took me two weeks after playing the game to to get "Gary, the Cryptofascist" motherFUCKER
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Dreylad posted:It took me two weeks after playing the game to to get "Gary, the Cryptofascist" Great. loving great. I will never not be mad. 
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Dec 7, 2019 01:29
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GreyjoyBastard posted:I'm frankly not sure why they give you multiple options to name the club. No truce with the furies gets great reactions, especially with Kim if you tried to bring it up whenever possible (like naming the case)
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Dec 7, 2019 02:00
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Minor mid-game spoiler: Can I find my gun without working for Evrart? I got as far as the pawnshop guy telling me 'someone named Pigs has it' and the game telling me I'll need to luck across it. But I hit the fishmarket after 10 and it was empty! However, I did this without reporting it missing and without triggering the secret task. P.S. This game is excellent.
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Dec 7, 2019 02:57
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Accretionist posted:Minor mid-game spoiler: I don't believe so, that particular thing is a string only he can pull you may need to exit the area entirely before re-entering, that triggered it for me
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Dec 7, 2019 03:02
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cock hero flux posted:I'm pretty sure shaving and then keeping the expression automatically uninstalls the game and notifies the authorities
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Dec 7, 2019 03:05
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Shaving without changing his expression is all I did.
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Dec 7, 2019 03:18
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Its Coke posted:good song from the game's composer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQZfGa5t4e8 You joke, but a game with a GY!BE or SMZ soundtrack would automatically be my goty, no matter the actual quality or genre of the game. Heck, out of all software houses, ZA/UM is probably the one that could actually pull it off
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Dec 7, 2019 03:53
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JamMasterJim posted:No truce with the furies gets great reactions, especially with Kim if you tried to bring it up whenever possible (like naming the case) If he likes you enough, he does actually use it as the case name too. Dreylad posted:Shaving without changing his expression is all I did. I did this too and don't regret it. Don't know wtf everyone else is slagging that option, it definitely beats the miserable shaved cop with the unsmiling expression of misery. Perhaps a hamster fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Dec 7, 2019 |
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Dec 7, 2019 04:41
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Naw, man. It's honest pain, that shaved sad-sack. That's where resolve comes from.
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Dec 7, 2019 05:01
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Yeah I did it and it really didn't fit my Harry, and the scene with Kim experiencing it is great. All the scenes with Kim are great.
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Dec 7, 2019 05:18
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UP AND ADAM posted:All the scenes with Kim are great.
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Dec 7, 2019 05:25
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Midgame: I got the walk with Lilienne to unlock, but the dialogue seems broken. Do you guys know what's going on here? I went to the northern peninsula IMMEDIATELY after the conversation at the docks ended.
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So I spent some of tonight transcribing a few key scenes for the essay I'm apparently actually going to write, mostly about the pale, consciousness, and existentialism. I got the following scenes transcribed:
Tomorrow when I have a little more left in me I'm going to transcribe the conversation with the Phasmid. I'm doing these on my hacked playthrough so I'm getting all the passive skill successes. Does anyone remember any other conversations or sequences that touch on the pale or consciousness that would be worth having in my notes? Maybe some of the dream sequences where you talk to the Ancient Reptilian Brain and the Limbic System? As a side note, Joyce calls the pale "The transition state of being into nothingness" which makes me fairly confident that the existential themes are intended and not just a personal obsession I'm reading too much into the text, lol.
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Lightningproof posted:Deeply suspicious (not really) of those who weren't the sorriest, most communist cop in town on their first playthrough. I went communist at first but all the communists in the game are jerks so I went moralist
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Dec 7, 2019 07:17
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 these are actually all types of cop you can be
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I just got this game yesterday, and man. I want to push Sunday Friend out the window. Racist Lorry Driver is bad, but relatively harmless. (Except I to suspect he was the peeping tom. I need to go back and check his boots.) Sunday Friend is literally the corrupt right wing government official right down to the (conjecture) sex scandals with the poor. My favorite thing so far is the writing choice to make your skills into characters in their own right. It adds so much depth to Harry's psyche.
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Dec 7, 2019 11:26
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Enjoy posted:I went communist at first but all the communists in the game are jerks so I went moralist I definitely had enough moralist points by the end for that thought to come up, it only takes 3 or 4, but I had something like 30 commie points.
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I got the steam achievement Worlds most laughable Centrist in my 2nd playthrough. I laughed. First playthrough I went 4/4/2/2, 2nd time 2/2/5/3. It's radically different, Game is just amazing.
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Digital Osmosis posted:As a side note, Joyce calls the pale "The transition state of being into nothingness" which makes me fairly confident that the existential themes are intended and not just a personal obsession I'm reading too much into the text, lol. Dude, it's an Eastern European game. I can assure you it being soaked in existentialism is by no means a projection or an accident.
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Enjoy posted:I went communist at first but all the communists in the game are jerks so I went moralist Every ideology has at least one genuinely admirable proponent in the game. "Nationalism" has Rene Arnoux, who is a genuine badass and also dies, making him the only kind of good fascist "Moralism" has Kim Kitsuragi who is actually a crypto-communist even if he doesn't realize it himself; see his jacket, etc. "ultraliberalism" has Joyce who surrenders to the Union and/or is still daydreaming about her hunky communist boyfriend from 30 years prior And communism has the Deserter who is a better communist than you. Actually the serious answer here is Titus Hardie
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Yeah, why you would think you're the only one that is experiencing those existential themes in this game is bizarre. Do you think you're the only person that truly exists? 
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I... *might* have assumed you guys were my skills
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