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If you want to search DE text, I strongly recommend FAYDE. Much faster and easier to read than Disco Reader.
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Authority needs to be a Psyche skill because it's about your ability to command and control, not physically intimidate people. We have Physical Instrument for that. Kim's Authority is supposed to be off the charts but the dude looks like a skeleton somebody slapped magnifying glasses on
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Dec 9, 2022 00:29
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sebzilla posted:Shivers is *maybe* supernatural with Harry literally communing with the spirit of Revachol or *maybe* more wild hallucinations underpinned by his phenomenal ability as a detective, familiarity with the city (even if he's "forgotten" it his unconscious clearly still knows a lot) and/or a streak of lucky hunches. It's definitely a lot more fun to read it as the former, though, and in a universe where the Pale is a real thing it's certainly plausible enough. If we accept some extra-canonical stuff as being true - This stuff namely - it's very plausible that Harry is actually psychic and his visions might be 100% real. Inland Empire is definitely Harry's own weirdness but I believe that Shivers and Espirit de Corps are Harry tapping into the power of the Pale.
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Dec 9, 2022 22:47
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That one line alone is what makes the Magpies/Innocences theories so interesting, because they don't just see the future, they see potential futures, and can change the present with the information. That's why Elysium is such a weird technological hodge-podge, they're building things like electric cars and internet telecommunications using horse carriages and radios. We were supposed to come up with this ourselves....
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Dec 11, 2022 16:39
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And that's what's cool about the DE universe because they skipped all the "in-between" steps and got straight to the now. High-performance battery-powered cars with early 20th century style chassis and MMORPG games over ham radio. The most high-end and advanced computing technology in the world is still tape-based and was never even produced
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Dec 11, 2022 18:36
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The moment I fell in love with this game was talking about the Pale in depth with Joyce, and I realized this wasn't just a weird alt-history game but straight up existential science fiction. Well actually the moment I fell in love with this game was "I want to have gently caress with you" but I think those two moments together illustrate what DE is all about.
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Dec 11, 2022 19:19
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Phlegmish posted:I actually wonder what happens if you don't have a place to sleep, is it just game over? The game over sequence for not having a bed to sleep in is one of the saddest and funniest things in the entire game.
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Dec 12, 2022 00:33
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I think the new voices are all around WAY better than the old ones, especially Cuno's. Old Cuno is the most annoying thing I have ever heard in my life and yes I understand Cuno is supposed to be annoying but New Cuno is the right kind of annoying. He actually sounds like a kid. Like I really cannot believe that the strike leader would sound like a guy who does a podcast. I feel like I'm playing Counter-Strike when I hear that guy scream slurs at me.
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Dec 15, 2022 19:26
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I have found it extremely interesting that there's no in-game representative for anarchism as a political position. I think the only character who comes close to that is Cindy the SKULL? Maybe the devs are just above being completely political-compass-brained though.
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Dec 19, 2022 16:53
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Asking "who is good" is kind of a bad question for Disco Elysium. The real thing to ask is who is actually a bad person? Aside from like, Ruud, that is
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Dec 20, 2022 17:44
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Orange Devil posted:All the mercs, Joyce, Gary, the racist lorry driver, René and probably Cuno's dad and maybe Klaasje. And all of those people have believable reasons for being that way! The mercs all have horrible traumatic childhoods, Joyce's brain is being fried by the Pale, Gary's a wimp who wants to be cooler than he is, the lorry driver is what zero pussy does to a motherfucker, Rene's Narnia-deep in the closet, Cuno's dad lives in Revachol and Klaasje is actively being hunted for by the government. Every character, even the most vile ones, are human beings at their hearts and have real reasons for espousing their sometimes abhorrent philosophies. Except for Ruud, seriously, that dude is terrifying E: Oh yeah and the Sunday Friend is the evilest guy in the game that is true
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Dec 20, 2022 19:38
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Do any other characters in the entire game have a similarly halo'd portrait? Kim's halo is unique to him, but there's a few interesting motifs in the portraits:
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Dec 20, 2022 20:47
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That guy was a hero 
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Dec 20, 2022 21:09
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dead gay comedy forums posted:wait what Go do a Fascist Harry run, the fascism quest is unironically one of the best in the game
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Dec 20, 2022 22:35
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Maybe Dolores should have predicted the bulletproof vest if she didn't want to get merked so hard. And here we see the living proof:Rogue AI Goddess posted:Moralintern is a ship that was meant to be helmed by a living goddess, not by a committee. No wonder it has drifted so far off course. that when you scratch a Moralist, a Fascist bleeds!
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Dec 20, 2022 23:06
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cgeq posted:... what does fascism have to offer that makes it worth the cost? The last person in the game you would expect to having a frank, sincere, one-on-one conversation with Harry about the one thing that's ACTUALLY bothering him.
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Dec 21, 2022 01:38
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The Magpie stuff is only from extra-canonical concept art. You can see the ideas for it in the game if you look carefully and read between the lines, but it's not actually in there.
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Dec 21, 2022 04:29
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Trant is something more vile than a moralist, or even the most rigid of fascists: he's a genuine moderate. Shudder.
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Dec 23, 2022 19:52
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The end-game espirit check changes depending on your political orientation. If you're a communist Pryce says Harry will side with "the people", Moralist Harry will side with the RCM, Fascist Harry will side with Revachol, and ultraliberal Harry is, I kid you not, described as having always been "money over bitches".
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Dec 29, 2022 06:40
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I have a theory that most peoples' First Harry is a sorry cop-communist or maybe moralist, because the average human being is not ready to plumb the depths that are required to play the real Harry DuBois.
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Dec 29, 2022 06:45
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I have not read the book but I have heard that it has the second revolution succeeding and the Coalition nuking Revachol for it.
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Dec 29, 2022 07:42
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I have seen other people suggest the things that happen when you fail checks are what Old Harry would have done in that situation. Unthinkingly calling Kim a slur, putting his gun in his mouth and threatening suicide because he's not getting his way, having a crying meltdown at a teenager in public, I mean the list goes on.
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Dec 30, 2022 16:11
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Cpt_Obvious posted:You have to succeed at a check to shoot cunoesse tho. Yeah, not even the Old Harry would've done that, you monster!
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Dec 30, 2022 16:42
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i am a moron posted:I’m doing a racist/facist/not touching the body run rn and it actually sucks really bad. But I want to get the worst outcome on the tribunal and just gently caress this whole thing up and see what happens I think you can get the worst outcome easily by ignoring the quest to get your gun and letting Ruby survive... Which is what I did my first playthrough 
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Dec 30, 2022 20:54
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Cpt_Obvious posted:How does letting ruby survive impact the tribunal? If she dies you can take her gun. No dead Ruby, no extra gun if your didn't get your own.
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Dec 30, 2022 21:03
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Oxyclean posted:How does that help/change things? The Spirit Bomb is your backup, backup weapon. No gun and no flaming alcohol cocktail means you are completely defenseless against the Tribunal and are guaranteed the worst possible outcome.
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Dec 31, 2022 06:16
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Is it contested? The dialogue when you investigate the sniper's nest even describes the view as being like a landscape painting. If you look carefully you can even see the exact light of Klassje's room as described in the scene.
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Jan 1, 2023 22:58
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Best moments of the game are where you're making a drat fool of yourself and Kim decides to actually play along. Like the daba-doop-doop-dead scene or also wishing there was still ice cream in a years-old unused freezer.
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Jan 8, 2023 19:38
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My favorite part about that scene is thinking the "D" was some kind of alt-history fictional drug, but when he said "diamorphine" I remembered the very important context that "heroin" was actually brand name
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Jan 9, 2023 16:41
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Also do everything the necktie suggests, everything, even if and especially if you don't think you can afford to.
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Jan 10, 2023 02:30
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MariusLecter posted:Oh he wants that D alright. Needs it bad. KIM KITSURAGI - The Lieutenant turns his face away from you, clearly humiliated. "Please refrain from making comments like that to me, lieutenant-yefreitor." DRAMA - If you wish to flirt with him, you shall need to be more subtle than that, lord! ELECTROCHEMISTRY - He didn't realize you were offering...
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Jan 10, 2023 18:02
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If I can't work out and scream, I don't want to be part of your revolution
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Jan 11, 2023 17:36
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Zonko_T.M. posted:I would buy the hell out of a Kim Kitsuragi dating sim. Justin Keenan put it best, "the thing about desire is that it’s stronger when it’s not totally satisfied."
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Feb 2, 2023 23:37
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Side-eyeing the silhouette of the monster through those cargo pants will be enough for me.
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Feb 2, 2023 23:40
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Zero doubt in my mind that Harry is bisexual. None. 100% certainty.
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Feb 2, 2023 23:52
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Oh, y'know, my own wife can the same way. Sometimes I can go four, five days without seein' her! Mostly when I'm in the doghouse, that is. But, well, ma'am, there's no easy way to put this.
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Feb 3, 2023 02:41
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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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https://twitter.com/thehandunseen/status/1621548262271377409 Some extremely fresh semi-lore just dropped.
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Feb 4, 2023 07:12
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As if Vimes's thing isn't magical anyway
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I don't think the other 24 insane voices would work half as well if you didn't have a straight man for them to bounce off. Plus he always has your back, never steers you wrong, and gets some absolute banger lines. And the two times when he does gently caress up (during the Dora dream and with Klaasje) are both incredible.
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