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I was a little disappointed when I found out you can't make yourself the killer by believing in it enough and telling Kim about it and blathering about it to everyone who will listen. I mean, not really. But there was a hot minute where I thought maybe the game's narrative had some postmodern, Pynchonian cause/effect inversion going on and you could shape reality by thinking. That ended up a big part of the story's metaplot, but not the murder mystery. I ended up seeing it more like a "whydunnit" than a "whodunnit." Yeah, you're looking for who killed the hanged man, but their means and motive are more important to the narrative and thematic thrust of what is essentially a visual novel.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Yeah, it's definitely (and ironically) the weakest part of the game. I was disappointed when I found out that the killer never changes. Imagine Cuno did it.
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His motive? gently caress does Cuno care?
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Regalingualius posted:His motive? I have it on good authority that he don't.
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Logic: It can't have been Cuno, he wasn't *regional* at the time.
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He was in... he was in loving *Night City*!
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I nearly bounced off this game hard when I lost a tonne of progress early on (or at least it felt like a tonne at the time) by losing my single morale point for asking Roy about my lost gun and getting an immediate game over. I'd heard so much about how hard it was to fail, losing rolls is good etc. that I thought it was some sort of goof. Then the game did goof on me with the ledger faint and I reloaded a save straight away instead of playing it through lmao. Really glad I stuck at it though and just finished my first run through. Seems like a pretty standard Centrist Sorry Cop experience but I loved it. Going to dive into another tomorrow weeeeee.
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Go Art Cop, no problem stands a chance against the twin guns of high Conceptualization and high Encyclopedia
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Gasmask posted:Then the game did goof on me with the ledger faint and I reloaded a save straight away instead of playing it through lmao.
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i think the game's linearity is ultimately kind of a strength. it narrows the scope of content enough to let them write many diverse ways for the few necessary plot points to play out, and also it's a game in many ways about moving towards a preordained ending, from the coming apocalypse on a macro level to the returning Dora dream on a micro level. as for moments that really hit im surprised that no one mentioned the pay phone, a sequence that made me have to stop playing the game for a bit. I've never regretted succeeding a check more, which is obviously what harry feels too. the way it stops you from backing off once you've started is absolutely brutal.
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Valentin posted:i think the game's linearity is ultimately kind of a strength. it narrows the scope of content enough to let them write many diverse ways for the few necessary plot points to play out, and also it's a game in many ways about moving towards a preordained ending, from the coming apocalypse on a macro level to the returning Dora dream on a micro level. That bit hurt a lot, yeah. There's no cell phones, and she moved, so that means Harry committed her new number to memory, and they'd had that conversation before so just oof. It's also the one instance of interacting with the real Dora, assuming the call itself wasn't another fever dream moment.
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I posted like a year ago that I had read Kurvitz's book (check out my previous post for a small sample!) and should really get around to finishing the game. Well, I finally restarted (I had played like 6 hours so not a huge loss) about two weeks ago and just finished. Glad that Kim acknowledged me not having had a single drink! though also bummed that the one time I had a smoke to light the "art piece" on fire triggered the "he smoked all the time!!" text lol (perhaps I didn't even need to smoke one, just had to have them in my inventory? But the game said something like "light one up" first so I did. whatever, video game mechanics. clearly I am bothered by this Anyway yeah, pretty great stuff. Definitely had to play it mostly in ~hour-long chunks because otherwise I would just start tuning out the walls of text and had to hold myself back from just skimming the text instead of thoroughly taking it in. Just to
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Angryhead posted:I posted like a year ago that I had read Kurvitz's book (check out my previous post for a small sample!) and should really get around to finishing the game. English translation was finished a few months ago, everyone in the thread who wanted - read it
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Starting a new playthrough of Disco and like the first playthrough I felt a strong influence of the Paris Commune and how that transpired historically. I am playing through this yet again with my bf playing along with me both of us talking and considering all the choices and world building elements. Just want to post this song and other info that is yet again influencing my choices and such. Have read bits posted here from the books translated and all while some see it bleakly, and even tho the Revochal revolution was crushed and further than that it ends with nukes and hell fire in further material there is still hope. That can never die, like the phasmid. It is hope for liberation. Freedom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzrz5u_q_e8    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/01/paris-commune-1871 quote:La Commune may have only lasted 70 days, but this laboratory of social and political experimentation, of citizen exaltation, of audacity and courage, paved the way for a better future and translated republican ideals into concrete social and economic goals. Visionary public policies that were created in this period, such as civil partnerships, the separation of church and state, pay equality, freedom of the press, trade union representation within private firms and a minimum revenue, have now all been accepted and made into laws, some only very recently. If La Commune teaches one lesson, it is that insurrection is the most sacred of rights and that what is required in politics is, as Danton said: "De l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace" ("Audacity, still more audacity, and audacity for ever"). e; VIVE REVACHOL VIVE REVOLUCION
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So i dont post here as much as a should but i love the game and i was bored and had just been to my cousins birthday party and i decided to commision an art piece that combines disco elyisum and something completly wholesome and unrelated so i talked with some art friends and found someone and well...    so yeah. here is the horror. it took like half a year and they wernt able to do the face but they were able to get alot else right. i found the idea so weird and amusing that i just wanted to see it in a 3d space. sorry for bumping the thread for horrorid weird poo poo that came out of my brain through an artists craft.
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However much money they charged you for that, it wasn't enough
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World War Mammories posted:fascinating i had bought my little cousin a pony for her birthday and it just popped into my brain how loving weird a harrier dressed pony would be, like what kinda of hosed up life poo poo would implode a technicolor ponies brain that bad. Bar Ran Dun posted:No the expression? i tried but the artist needed show samples and none of them had that kinda look so i went with sorta broken/tired/hungover look instead. i also tried to get the garbage back but i can probably add that.
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Youremother posted:However much money they charged you for that, it wasn't enough oh friend, they have made much much worse poo poo then that. most of the poo poo they make is weird and vaguely horny pony poo poo which was scary and sadder. but yeah probably. idk. i have a goodish paying wage job and i am bored alot. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:oh friend, they have made much much worse poo poo then that. most of the poo poo they make is weird and vaguely horny pony poo poo which was scary and sadder. but yeah probably. And you gave them money? Perpetuating this businesses existence? Vote with your dollars friend
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Killingyouguy! posted:And you gave them money? Perpetuating this businesses existence? lol. ehh better them then amazon.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:oh friend, they have made much much worse poo poo then that. most of the poo poo they make is weird and vaguely horny pony poo poo which was scary and sadder. but yeah probably. idk. i have a goodish paying wage job and i am bored alot. The ideal amount of money to charge is "however much that would have put it immediately out of your feasible price range"
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I’m feelin like an instrument of surrender now
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hell yes, talked my boyfriend into playing. introduced him to Cuno and then showed the “you try to badger Kim into telling you about himself but his eyebrow has too much authority and you crumble before it” exchange and he was like “hm that’s pretty funny” then the REAL sell (which seems to work on drat near anyone) was “also you can die in literally your first action” and he was in. bless
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I was hooked the moment my stats started talking to me, but also I would never use that in the pitch because I'd never rob someone of the opportunity to discover that blind. last time I sold someone on the game was by quoting the Kingdom of Conscience Solution from memory, which might also have been what got me curious, come to think of it
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Epic High Five posted:Go Art Cop, no problem stands a chance against the twin guns of high Conceptualization and high Encyclopedia You know who else had twin guns?
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the escape goat posted:hell yes, talked my boyfriend into playing. If your authority is high enough you can overpower Kim’s eyebrow. They changed a patch or two after the Final Cut and tbh I still don’t like it.
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how were the loot bags at your cousin’s birthday? what was the pin the tail meta like? was there another clown to shoot the poo poo with? thank you for supporting the arts.
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Killingyouguy! posted:And you gave them money? Perpetuating this businesses existence? Let the man have his Ponyier DuBois!
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Bar Ran Dun posted:No the expression?
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panko posted:how were the loot bags at your cousin’s birthday? what was the pin the tail meta like? was there another clown to shoot the poo poo with? thank you for supporting the arts. it was at some weird private run park were some rich nerds made a mini train set up that carried people through the woods. i mostly just talked with other family. TACD posted:Even more inexplicably, no mutton chops i am still annoyed about no trash bag. whats funny is this is one of the few spontanious commissions i have made. When i do commision art, i usually just go to artists i am friends with or have worked with before and its mostly just like a highquality plush of a character that can sit on my montor or something. but this one just popped into my head and i couldnt stop loving laughing. and i just dug around twitter until i found someone. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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Orange Devil posted:You know who else had twin guns? Contact Mike?
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Superman in that weird rear end comic where he turns into an ancient boomer and guns down two Hitlers?
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Fatty posted:Contact Mike? You're goddamn right.
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Forgive the interruption. Your pet snakes appear to have fallen ill, sire. Yes, the both of them. I would advise you to contact Mike at the local veterinarian, before those pythons of yours become any more sick. BLOOT Would you like to know who else had sick pythons? CJacobs fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Sep 26, 2023 |
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Speaking of one-liners: my favorite one, or at least one that has lived in my head ever since hearing it, is an exchange with the junk dealer: "They're bad speakers. Lo-fi socialist junk. "I need them. I think I'm lo-fi socialist junk myself." GET OUT OF MY HEAD, HARRY.
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