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chaosapiant posted:I don’t know poo poo about what the last 10 pages of this thread are talking about, but boy do I love me some Disco Elysium! And now that I’m a year or so out from a bad breakup, I’ll have the stomach to play through this amazing game again. You should call them, it can only go brilliantly.
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Orange Devil posted:Prepare for feelings.
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FairGame posted:I will never not laugh at Encylopedia popping up to tell you about Contact Mike.  but when you buy the innocence book
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Orange Devil posted:If you want to go deeper on this, the melody Scooter is using here is from a Breton folk song. It was used by Dutch band Bots in 1976 for their explicitly socialist song "Zeven dagen lang". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le6uFnLwqYU drat, this is so cool, there’s so many things in disco elysium that seem like they’re related in multiple, complex ways, like this, probably just because Robert Kurvitz and whoever else have had the history for Revachol in one form or another develop in their heads for so long through the book he wrote and their tabletop game campaign and then disco elysium that all of these reference points probably just formed subconsciously a lot of the time. I’m always amazed by how layered all of it is and how the setting feels so rich and realistic, but then I remember how much time they’ve spent developing all of it and then it makes more sense, but even then it’s still really impressive.
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chaosapiant posted:I don’t know poo poo about what the last 10 pages of this thread are talking about, but boy do I love me some Disco Elysium! And now that I’m a year or so out from a bad breakup, I’ll have the stomach to play through this amazing game again. Be prepared for a blow or two to the emotional kidneys.
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bop bop perano posted:Isn’t it just referencing the question he asks you when you’re trying to figure out the egghead puzzle or whatever before that asking how much is the fish? Which is a reference to this, or is that what you meant? Egg Head basically just being H.P. Baxxter from Scooter is one of the funniest things about the game to me
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catgirlgenius posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/joegrstdeux/status/1567566908244824066 just one more piece of alternate-universe industrial design
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Went to an ancient torture museum today and saw a very familiar face: they had no idea of his vast, oceanic soul
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Having an discussion/argument with a person on instagram this morning (at 5AM? what is my life) about how the radio computers function. What do you all think? My initial impression is: "scifi/fantasy computer woohooo" but considering how detailed everything is, there must be some low-level logic to how it functions, even if it isn't like, real-world analogous. Encyclopedia specifically says "they haven't invented modern silicon-based computing yet" which is... a whack-rear end 4th wall break? OR it is implying that silicon-based computing DOES exist, recently, but isn't available to the masses yet? How expensive are Radio Computers? Since Fortress Accident has ONE, Kim has NEVER seen one, and Trant has one, they must be.... accessible or extremely expensive? Trant seems.... rich? I'm just gonna spitball: Our discussion mostly revolved around the reasoning for "radio" in radio computer. I argued that they are more distributed-based computing, utilizing radio in some capacity. They argued that the radio is a placeholder/replacement for dial up internet and only used for password verification, which I can kind of see, but we mostly argued around the issue of why do you need to contact a repeater station to access the filaments related to Fortress Accident? They said it was just external password validation for sensitive/protective purposes, and it wasn't always required/necessary because Trant says his kid plays video games and stuff on their radio computer, which seems to somewhat imply that Trant/his kid DO NOT need to contact a repeater station every time they boot up the system. As an aside, I think it is interesting to consider that they computers don't say EXECUTE or RUN, but "PLAY" as if they are playing cassettes/tapes. Of course, this could just be a uh "flourish" to make them seem more old-timey. Do the filament memories work like really low tech circuitry or something? They are held in a cage with light, so I assume they are read in a manner that requires light to penetrate them, but that doesn't seem to consider how they are written to? Is that a manual process or something? Maybe they only require passwords if they are requested. Otherwise they automatically unlock? I'm spitballing. A quick google pulls up this on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/comments/p0w5dv/radio_computers_any_insights_into_this_mysterious/ Much to consider.
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ziasquinn posted:Having an discussion/argument with a person on instagram this morning (at 5AM? what is my life) about how the radio computers function. What do you all think?
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Transistors come out of radio. They are an evolution of radio amplifiers. My assumption was it was just an alternative development path that stayed more radio.
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You can do a lot of weird stuff with radios IRL. IIRC there was an early way of pirating atari games or some such that involved listening to a radio station and recording its "audio" to a tape, with that audio just being the game's data (back when games literally were on cassettes). Data can be transmitted just as easily as audio, as long as the receiver is designed to demodulate the RF properly and, presumably, there is something in place to handle missing bits of data. The Instrument Landing Systems functions on a principle of "space modulation"; broadcasting two signals of the same frequency & signal strength with different modulating audio tones and allowing the difference in phase experienced by the receiver being in different physical location to do some math (kinda sorta). I imagine that maybe the broadcasted RF signal is acting as some sort of RAM, or there is some sort of space modulation going on to perform calculations.
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I think I even remember something about some researchers in Israel looking into how you could use radio frequencies to steal data from computers even if they were airgapped
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christmas boots posted:I think I even remember something about some researchers in Israel looking into how you could use radio frequencies to steal data from computers even if they were airgapped TEMPEST? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
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The technology in Elysium developed in a radio direction because you can’t run transatlantic (transisolic?) cables across the pale, so for an internet-like thing to work it needs to communicate over radio. Even when you call Sylvie, the radio operator at the station connects you to her landline via the radio.
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The "cube-like crisscross of filaments" I believe is a rope memory module! These things also went up to space on the Apollo missions. It's wires that are hand-spun through little rings in a grid, and providing the right X and Y voltage would flip the data stored at the X/Y position on the lattice. 
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Wrr posted:You can do a lot of weird stuff with radios IRL. IIRC there was an early way of pirating atari games or some such that involved listening to a radio station and recording its "audio" to a tape, with that audio just being the game's data (back when games literally were on cassettes). Audio animatronics are another example. The Disney stuff. The audio tape with voices and music was also the data for the animatronics motion. The DE stuff strikes me as still at that analog digital transition period
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zenguitarman posted:God drat I need another disco Elysium game Same. Give me a prequel where you play as Klaasje loving over MI and Looskap or something.
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zenguitarman posted:God drat I need another disco Elysium game TRANSLATE THE BOOK, KURVITZ!
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Animal-Mother posted:TRANSLATE THE BOOK, KURVITZ!
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I think it was this story: https://www.businessinsider.com/tel-aviv-researchers-hack-into-laptops-using-radio-waves-2015-6 But not surprised the tech has been around for a while
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CottonWolf posted:Same. Give me a prequel where you play as Klaasje loving over MI and Looskap or something. I don’t think ZA/UM is going to go in this direction, but I really want a straight up sequel set in Jamrock. We’ve barely plumbed the depths of Harrier’s vast and oceanic soul. It could have a save import, where your partner is Kim, if you recruited him for Precinct 41, or Cuno if you recruited him, or Jean if you did neither. I would love exploring the doom alluded to by La Revacholiere. King Carnivore fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Sep 12, 2022 |
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Is there any way at all to avoid the -1 “weak when you first met” against Titus when establishing authority? I’ve tried avoiding the initial interaction until having a lot of evidence I need but haven’t figured out how that particular one works. No big deal just curious
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the_american_dream posted:Is there any way at all to avoid the -1 “weak when you first met” against Titus when establishing authority? I’ve tried avoiding the initial interaction until having a lot of evidence I need but haven’t figured out how that particular one works. No big deal just curious If you're a high physique cop with lots of physical instrument you can size him up, and if you don't pick the dumb options you can avoid the -1 modifier, and even get a +1 modifier of "won physical standoff" when you first meet.
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Ah ok. That is the current build I have but I backed away in the standoff because I forgot to save and know there are a few ways to die with that group  Thanks
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the real way is to “I’m gonna loving kill myself now, you whore.” (Pull the trigger.)
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zenguitarman posted:God drat I need another disco Elysium game Animal-Mother posted:TRANSLATE THE BOOK, KURVITZ!
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zenguitarman posted:God drat I need another disco Elysium game ZA/UM pairs up with activision to release a Krenel Ops shooter moba
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Wrr posted:You can do a lot of weird stuff with radios IRL. IIRC there was an early way of pirating atari games or some such that involved listening to a radio station and recording its "audio" to a tape, with that audio just being the game's data (back when games literally were on cassettes). My sailboat has a modem and can send and receive emails, weather data etc over SSB radio (HF/MF) It's cool but sloooow
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ziasquinn posted:Having an discussion/argument with a person on instagram this morning (at 5AM? what is my life) about how the radio computers function. What do you all think? I always took radiocomputers to be a tongue in cheek joke about cloud computing but I would entirely believe it goes deeper than that. The real fun thing though is tape computers, of which you play the game through one, if you look carefully on the filmstrips that crisscross the UI you can sometimes see the word 'FELD' spelled out on some of them. There's also a like of dialog (shivers I think?) that alludes to the fact that there still exists a working Feld computer hidden away in a sewer somewhere, that for all we know is semi-diagetically the one you're playing the game on. E: http://fayde.co.uk/dialojue/5540414 "Two seagulls circle in the sky. You look up and think: really? Or was there a fourth prototype that remains hidden in the mausoleums below Coal City?..." Sardonik fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Sep 12, 2022 |
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I kinda want to see what happens to Revachol after it gets nuked. Also, anyone else using Fayde religiously?
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AFAIK ZA/UM has been hiring for game positions so somethings coming, who knows how long it will be though.
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Pattonesque posted:they had no idea of his vast, oceanic soul was reading about this and thought it was very disco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic_feeling
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Tagaziel posted:I kinda want to see what happens to Revachol after it gets nuked. I use https://disco-reader.gitlab.io/disco-reader/#/ which lets you see the dialogue as a tree. the automatic layout is bad with the tree criss-crossing itself but you can see the conditions that lead to certain dialogue opening up really easily
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