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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I like the implication throughout the game that Harry had actually seen the cold open and knew exactly what happened, but ended up forgetting about it after blacking out. There's probably a One Last Thing somewhere I'm forgetting about, but I think that's the more fun Columbo homage. Wait what cold open
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Every Columbo episode opens up with a cold open where we see who the killer is, and how they did it. There's a theory that Harry had completely solved the case before he did... whatever it was that wiped his brain.
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Feb 3, 2023 05:23
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I think it’s a certainty that he’d more of less solved it given what Inland Empire says about love doing him in
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Feb 3, 2023 05:36
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how did he solve it then? given nobody acts like he's asked them all these same questions before? the deserter doesn't seem like he's met harry before, lilienne hasn't loaned him the boat before. unless you tell them most people don't even know about harry's memory wipe
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Feb 3, 2023 06:32
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look if I ever met good ol’ Tequila Sunset I’d pretend I didn’t know him either e: sent the buddy who introduced me to DE a screenshot of folks talking about Kim’s crank and his response was “ “I *have* been wanting to learn a visual novel engine... 👀” will report back with progress should there be any
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Feb 3, 2023 08:55
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Soon I'm starting a full fash run and be mean to Kim and there is nothing you can do about it
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Feb 3, 2023 10:08
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Make sure you have the precarious world thought running the first few times you do the big shivers check. You need to fail it and get put on the quest to call in to the radio station where you can really be mean to Kim
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Feb 3, 2023 10:13
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I am incredibly late to the disco elysium party and I am not going to contribute anything of value, except to say that this game is indescribably good and I'm so glad I've managed to somehow go in blind, this long after release If there still somehow exists other idiot losers like me that haven't played disco yet, just do yourself a favour and get to it
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Feb 3, 2023 12:30
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Got my bf to start a game of DE completely blind, they are loving it just going through the dialogue and stuff right before leaving the Whirling in Rags. They are picking it up for the switch today so they can keep playing whenever.
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Bohemian Nights posted:I am incredibly late to the disco elysium party and I am not going to contribute anything of value, except to say that this game is indescribably good and I'm so glad I've managed to somehow go in blind, this long after release 
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Wafflecopper posted:how did he solve it then? given nobody acts like he's asked them all these same questions before? the deserter doesn't seem like he's met harry before, lilienne hasn't loaned him the boat before. unless you tell them most people don't even know about harry's memory wipe Nobody really knows, but if you talk to the hanged man and get the "communism killed me, but love did me in," line, you can keep pulling at those threads to Kim's increasing consternation. At the end, when it turns out to be a wholly accurate but unhelpful description of the actual murder, Inland Empire's best bet for knowing about it is that it's something Harry figured out and it's just been feeding you dramaticized memories. As for why he never really did anything with it during the big ol' bender, well, we can only speculate.
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Feb 3, 2023 15:38
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Wafflecopper posted:how did he solve it then? given nobody acts like he's asked them all these same questions before? the deserter doesn't seem like he's met harry before, lilienne hasn't loaned him the boat before. unless you tell them most people don't even know about harry's memory wipe Well there are two theories: Either Harry is a detective genius on par with Sherlock Holmes who took one look at the bloated corpse, immediately deduced he was shot by a holdover communist sniper from a failed revolution 60 years ago, with a grudge against society, from an island several miles away, all without talking to any key witnesses or even an obvious bullet hole in the corpse. Or he's mildly psychic, being sensitive and attuned to the pale gives him a sort of ESP that is filtered through his brain and manifests as these visions or thoughts Personally my money's on the latter option
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Feb 3, 2023 15:50
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Like I said, he watched the cold open.
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McCloud posted:Well there are two theories: He's a 'new style' detective
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Feb 3, 2023 16:09
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I don’t think there’s anything in the game that supports anything other than Harry showed up and got completely wasted. It’s fun to think about, but imo his psyche skills/shivers being legit is completely reasonable given the setting and I never questioned them being legit before I read other peoples thoughts on the game
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Feb 3, 2023 16:23
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I can see "Harry figured poo poo out first then forgot it again" being a legitimate possible reading of the game's text but the problem with it is that Shivers and Esprit de Corps often seem to clue Harry in to things happening either contemporaneously or in the future. It certainly is *possible* that Harry figured some stuff out in advance, but it seems more *probable* that he's mildly psychic. Of course, those are non-exclusive options.
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Feb 3, 2023 16:30
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The game has supernatural elements to it, inland empires prescience being one of those things.
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Feb 3, 2023 16:41
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Nah, Shivers and Esprit de Corps are straight up magic, but Inland Empire is just Harry tapping into his entirely mundane subconscious and dressing it up for kicks, nothing supra-natural about that.
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Feb 3, 2023 16:57
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Inland is the power of your ~IMAGINATION~ But combined with other stuff I wouldn't be surprised if it's adjacently supernatural.
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Feb 3, 2023 17:01
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I might be misremembering some dialogue, but Inland Empire seems to remember parts of Harry's past that he's trying to avoid. It freaks out when you're about to find your old ledger.
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I think a few of your mind voices do? I think the implication from one of the thoughts you can get is that the information isn't entirely gone, but more that it's been locked away and you're selectively choosing which things to reintegrate? ("Cleaning out the Rooms") That said, maybe Harry was mind wiped but he's reacquiring knowledge and memory plucked from the pale?
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"Gentlemen, we are not, eh, accusing anybody of any involvement in the murder at this time." "Well of course not! Why... would you? We... certainly haven't committed any..... murders lately, right Leonard?"  "Bill, we're the murderers in like six episodes. Each. Remember the surgery one?"  "Yes, television... used the same actors a lot back... then." 
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i am a moron posted:I don’t think there’s anything in the game that supports anything other than Harry showed up and got completely wasted. It’s fun to think about, but imo his psyche skills/shivers being legit is completely reasonable given the setting and I never questioned them being legit before I read other peoples thoughts on the game E: Then again, I just found this snippet (spoilers!) so maybe Inland Empire is two steps ahead and talking about Harry from the start. TACD fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Feb 3, 2023 |
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Boring Cop penalizes shivers and inland empire, but not espirit du corps. Conclusion: shivers and inland empire are extrasensory, espirit du corps is just fantasy, and Kim is a lame binoclard.
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A boring cop is still a cop why would it penalize espirit
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Janissary Hop posted:Boring Cop penalizes shivers and inland empire, but not espirit du corps. Conclusion: shivers and inland empire are extrasensory, espirit du corps is just fantasy, and Kim is a lame binoclard. Apocalypse Cop encourages shivers and inland empire and also 
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EorayMel posted:Apocalypse Cop encourages shivers and inland empire and also Why did the HORSE DRUGS artist make it look like someone spraying diahrea? Edit: nvm it just clearly is.
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I'm going to hazard a guess that horse drugs are not ideal for human consumption
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TACD posted:There’s an early passive Inland Empire check that says ”in the West is the miracle” so either Inland Empire is at least partially extrasensory, or they meant to make that one Shivers or something. Look, Harry figured out the murder but not all the details. This is my head canon. He couldn't possibly know the exacts of it but for the best drat detective EVER, he figured it out THE VIBE and decided to get loving blasted into oblivion at the *GESTURES ALL AROUND* of it all. You know?
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KORNOLOGY posted:Why did the HORSE DRUGS artist make it look like someone spraying diahrea? I believe it is a reference to the COVID-19 pandemic; certain demographics decided that anti-parasitic medication would somehow work to treat a virus, and since medical professionals were reluctant to prescribe it, they would purchase veterinary supplies under false pretenses and ingest those. Turns out that overdosing on horse dewormer causes you to poo poo your guts out, which was a popular topic of derision among goons.
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Somewhere in an abandoned building lays Harry's full counter sniper setup, rifle, spotting scope, 50 packs of cigarettes. He deduced the killer by the glint of a scope he spotted after stepping out of his car. He never touched the body or asked anyone questions lest he spooks the sniper. Unfortunately, he thought about his ex for 5 seconds and was undone.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I believe it is a reference to the COVID-19 pandemic; certain demographics decided that anti-parasitic medication would somehow work to treat a virus, and since medical professionals were reluctant to prescribe it, they would purchase veterinary supplies under false pretenses and ingest those. The oddest thing tho is that covid did make any parasitic infection worsen from a severely weakened immune system and you COULD take that specific med to make that specific kind of malady better but loving morons just decided it was proof it cured covid or the virus. We're such stupid apes on this ball of dirt.
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ElBrak posted:Somewhere in an abandoned building lays Harry's full counter sniper setup, rifle, spotting scope, 50 packs of cigarettes. He deduced the killer by the glint of a scope he spotted after stepping out of his car. He never touched the body or asked anyone questions lest he spooks the sniper. Unfortunately, he thought about his ex for 5 seconds and was undone. This.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Turns out that overdosing on horse dewormer causes you to poo poo your guts out, which was a popular topic of derision among goons. one of my ... well not *favorite* posts from the Event was when someone in an ivermectin group was like "there are worms in my stool, is this normal???" and folks were like "that's uhhh that's your intestinal lining"
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I also recall that post; "poo poo your guts out" is not intended as a metaphor here.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqWDjJRhCkc&t=420s
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Harry is tragically straight, it's one of his many flaws. That depends on the dialogue choices you make, conversations with The Smoker on the Balcony have some especially powerful "I'm latently bisexual and have no idea how to process the feelings of same sex attraction I'm currently experiencing" options.
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Yeah, not only is Harry not straight, Kim finds Harry's inability to realize that in a remotely productive way despite how glaringly obvious it is pretty hilarious. Up until he finds it annoying anyway.
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ElBrak posted:Somewhere in an abandoned building lays Harry's full counter sniper setup, rifle, spotting scope, 50 packs of cigarettes. He deduced the killer by the glint of a scope he spotted after stepping out of his car. He never touched the body or asked anyone questions lest he spooks the sniper. Unfortunately, he thought about his ex for 5 seconds and was undone. Oh poor ol' Harrier DuBois, thought of ants and died.
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