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I don't remember if he says so outright at any point, but Kim's parents ended up on the receiving end of a Communard firing squad, right? That tends to sour people away from utopian ideologies.DJ_Mindboggler posted:The line from the opening of the moralist vision quest is haunting: "Then you haven't lived through real chaos." Kim has, and wants to help people without possibly setting the world on fire. Then you get the solution to the moralist thought cabinet project and it's the most ghoulish poo poo out of all the ideologies. I love that.
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SexyBlindfold posted:I don't remember if he says so outright at any point, but Kim's parents ended up on the receiving end of a Communard firing squad, right? That tends to sour people away from utopian ideologies. he says it explicitly to Joyce, I think it is. a grad-school buddy was an anti-tech Washington hippie as a teenager. in college she started working with Cambodian refugees and it dawned on her that Pol Pot was coming the closest to making her teenage ideals come true. one of the things I love about this game is that every choice is bad. that's great!
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christmas boots posted:Garte exists to protect the Whirling-In-Rags Garte is a small business owner. Petit-bourgeois through and through.
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:Kim is a moralist, but he's an *apolitical* moralist. Don't say that he's hypocritical Say that he's... apolitical The body went up How does it get down? "That's our department" Says this binoclard clown
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Garte made me capital's bitch, but he gives the union special privileges and indirectly supports the production of their shady brew. His corruption makes him palatable.
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Orange Devil posted:Garte is a small business owner. Petit-bourgeois through and through. Darkness rides.
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Animal-Mother posted:Don't say that he's hypocritical Did not expect a Tom Lehrer riff here
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Animal-Mother posted:Don't say that he's hypocritical lmaoooooo incredible
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call him the kimball, he won't even frown "so now he remembers," says the binoclard clown
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Animal-Mother posted:Don't say that he's hypocritical  I haven't played this game but once through, but I keep reading this thread for these, holy poo poo
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Animal-Mother posted:Don't say that he's hypocritical
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now do "Poisoning Pétanque in the Park"
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Love Stole the Day posted:AUTHORITY - Honourable One, you have accumulated a substantial amount of honor points on your life path. You are a man most virtuous. 
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I've gone through the game three times, but half the time I go behind a spoiler tag I see something I didn't know. Is there a method to get more obscure info, or is it just a matter of playing way more, different skill combos, etc?
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Naylenas posted:I've gone through the game three times, but half the time I go behind a spoiler tag I see something I didn't know. Is there a method to get more obscure info, or is it just a matter of playing way more, different skill combos, etc? There are Steam Guides on getting the more rare scenes. They have been adding a bunch of those in last few content patches.
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Animal-Mother posted:Don't say that he's hypocritical Very good.
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Gorn Myson posted:Completed the game again today. Either I forgot or I only just found it, but one of the characters quoting a communist marching song which is actually just "If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next" by the Manics put a huge smile on my face. Something about the anachronistic references in this game just gets me good. When does that happen? A friend loves the manics and I need to show him!
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christmas boots posted:I think there’s a difference between moralists like Kim who may or may not like the status quo but don’t challenge it, and moralists like the Sunday Friend beyond the rhetorical posture they've chosen to hide behind, not really no. Kim is well beyond "not challenging it", he's an enforcer for the colonial administration and party member same as the Sunday Friend, he's about as actively involved as his abilities will allow. Animal-Mother posted:Don't say that he's hypocritical 
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Kim is at the tribunal in the right place. Between the mercs and the people, protecting the people. He’ll come down on the right side folks because his actions indicate he will.
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Bar Ran Dun posted:Kim is at the tribunal in the right place. Between the mercs and the people, protecting the people. IMO Kim's position in the tribunal is more happenstance than anything. He sided with the union because his job was to investigate a hanging and prevent further crimes which meant he was forced to protect the people. Had his job been to protect the interests of Wild Pines (which is what cops do irl), he would have sided with the mercs.
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If it were real events yeah, but it’s a narrative that has no possibility of him not being there.
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the mercs were always an expendable asset, not a stand-in for the regime. Even the libs and company reps you meet will happily help the cops bust them, so long as they contain the reaction to their rampage so it doesn't become a full-blown revolt. Which they do.
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Esprit de corps pings Kim as being on the side of the people I think. And it's one of the few thoughts that don't lie to you.
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DJ_Mindboggler posted:Kim is a moralist, but he's an *apolitical* moralist. He seems resigned to the big-picture/status-quo stuff, and wants to just do his best to help the people immediately in front of him. This is (imo) the most potent argument of the moralist against armchair communists, who may have grand ideals but doesn't actually do anything to improve the day-to-day material conditions of their fellow man. The Revolution and its aftermath have left him jaded to the claims of extremists, which given the state of Revachol, seems pretty fair. "Every school of thought and government has failed in this city — but I love it nonetheless. It belongs to me as much as it belongs to you." That is one of my favorite Kim lines. It sums up his beliefs and attitude so well.
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At high levels, Volition makes you hyper-sane. When you’re about to get funky, it keeps you normal. It’s a bit of a party-pooper. At low levels, however, you’ll have little Morale.  Without it, you’ll be a profoundly unstable cop, falling apart at the seams as you make irreversible mistakes. 
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Bother Kim After Hours He probably won't mind.
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https://twitter.com/KevinRothrock/status/1503247606591459329?s=20&t=OTTfYCHJFV0iK-QVsBwCeQ not really good to joke about, but I immediately thought of disco elysium putting the gun in your own mouth when I saw this, lol
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i am ashamed to know that is not NEARLY the worst comic that guy has made. not even top 3.
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Doc Hawkins posted:i am ashamed to know that is not NEARLY the worst comic that guy has made. not even top 3.
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Another merch drop is coming this Friday the 25th at 10 AM PST. One of these days I'll be free and have the money to buy something from there.
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OK this one is going over my head, is this actually in the game or is this a quote from Lost or something?
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TACD posted:OK this one is going over my head, is this actually in the game or is this a quote from Lost or something? TNG
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and here i thought it was some sort of deathloop reference, kept waiting for harry to drop a colt line
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TACD posted:OK this one is going over my head, is this actually in the game or is this a quote from Lost or something? given the heavy-duty exposition assault from pages ago from somebody who got something translated from Sacred and Terrible Air in its original estonian, there might be some space-time fuckery related to the Pale which also is hinted in the design work previously posted edit: it's TNG but also valid
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