Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

Major Isoor posted:

Hah, Cuno really is a genius! (Not to mention good at hurling high velocity projectiles)

Also, after you all mentioned it earlier, I realised that I completely missed out on Contact Mike on my playthrough - I've really gotta go through the game again, to see stuff like that, which I missed before. (And maybe do a high physical+motorics playthrough, with half-light and reaction speed being top stats!)

Flayer posted:

Disco Elysium is less of a detective story and more of a paean to the purity of lost revolution (nothing is more beautiful than the idea which existed without the chance to fail of its own accord). Infra-communism is written to be a ridiculous theory but the basic tenet that people fervently believing in communism would make it possible seemed to me to be the real belief of the writers. The ending and the culprit reinforced that idea.

Indecisive posted:

hi this man made a good disco elysium video and i think you should watch it (spoilers involved)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdW7Cp0iV0A

Tylana posted:

If you don't level stuff up, you are going to have to plan out how to unlock certain required white checks with external help. You can then fail them three times to proceed, but planning might be required not to softlock yourself (within the context of the challenge mode). Also not sure if you'd ever see Evrart or get the body down.

christmas boots posted:

There's an achievement for never even interacting with the body which would probably synergize pretty well with absolute fuckup cop

Flayer posted:

Encyclopedia is the best. I remember triggering some history quiz and Encyclopedia is like "this is the poo poo I was made for" before proceeding to give completely useless information and failing to help answer any of the questions.

Hobo Clown posted:

Came across an uncensored f*****t in Titus' dialogue today. Guess they had the voice actors saying fucktart in the booth, or maybe that's what Cuno was supposed to be saying all along

neongrey posted:

I think all the actors said something different under the censoring, but can't remember where I read it.

EorayMel posted:

What's the "superior" way of doing a 1/1/1/1 botchcop run? Trying to get the thoughts that increase learning caps for important stuff? Or the type that does not level up anything whatsoever or try to metagame out of being such a fuckup? I mostly wanna see how much time a failcop gets in a day due to less time getting eaten by succeeding a whole bunch of passive checks, plus how many weird/funny passive check failures there are for stuff.

Like this:

vegetables posted:

I have a lot of thoughts on this game but the first is that I’d just assumed “Dolores Dei” was a pun on “Doris Day” and upon finishing it turns out no one seems to think that except me. She’s known for the song "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time,” coincidentally or not

Pinely posted:

This is the quiz from reading the Greatest Innocence, right? My read on this is that Encyclopedia is deliberately tanking the quiz. Harry associates the Innocence Delores Dei with his ex Dora and his skills frequently try to distract or divert Harry from thinking about Dora or things that remind him of Dora. Particularly on the last question, Encyclopedia is trying to distract Harry by being frustratingly unhelpful so that Harry is arguing with himself instead of thinking about Delores Dei. At least that's my take on it.

Another neat thing with Encyclopedia. When your Volition is high enough to realize Klaasje is playing you, you can get an Encyclopedia prompt through some dialog where Volition will chime in and say you can probably trust Encyclopedia not to be compromised.

It's really hard for me to create a character with low Encyclopedia because it just adds so much, even though I've read it all before.

Xander77 posted:

Progressor and progressed, probably. I don't even remeber whether ZAUM listed the Strugatsky brothers as an influence.

Phobophilia posted:

On the note of Dolores Dei, her characterization put me through some low grade terror: here was a divine entity who descended upon civilization, "uplifted" it by maximizing our utility to an optimal amount of wheat and pigs and just enough social welfare, without ever liberating us from our shackles. Stuff we would have come up with ourselves, eventually.

Phobophilia posted:

Question to people who have finished the game multiple times: are there two different outcomes to meeting the phasmid in the ending and using Inland Empire? My interaction using was beautifully haunting, here I was conversing(?) with a strange alien creature, innocent of all the madness of civilized Innosentric society, interrogating our meanings of our shared evolutions. If its pheromones set the Deserter over the edge, it was an accident of biology. And it is a tragedy that we shall all share the same fate under the weight of the Pale.

But from what I can tell, other people describe a phasmid that is cruel and nihilistic, who deliberately drove the Deserter mad. Is there a trigger for these two outcomes?


In case you asked, I took a double dose.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

There's actually a few bits where the protagonist suspects he might be a character in a game.