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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Disco Elysium: You Must Compress Your Shit Before Venturing Forth
 
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Oct 18, 2013

Captain Oblivious posted:

That’s kind of the point of Evrart as a character. He is the Lenin or Mao of Disco Elysium. He is fighting international capital but he is also so compromised that he will personally guarantee the revolution fails in the end. He is a dead end.
Seems a lot more like Huey Long to me, but even with all his slime America would have been a better place had Long dethroned Roosevelt.

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Captain Oblivious posted:

They kinda are.
:yikes:

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Epic High Five posted:

I think the big difference between right wing libertarians as we know them in the US and ultraliberals in DE is that in the latter, they seem to be coming from a place where they acknowledge the system is broken and screwing them. This opposed to thinking the system is fair and working as intended, and anybody who is screwed probably deserves it.

It's basically the only reason they'd side with the commies even if the alternative is a degenerated monarchy. Also it sounds like the king was hogging all the good blow
It's because just like the revolution has a lot of influence from the French revolution, the ultralibs are in large part based on liberals during the French revolutions, Russia revolutions, and revolutions of 1848. All of whom were broadly a part of the same side as the communists, and always ended up betraying them as soon as their came to power. The sort of political and economic freedom liberals need to function properly is something that puts them in opposition to monarchy and merchantilist systems enough to at least temporarily side with commies.

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Randarkman posted:

Ehm, the Russian liberals, or rather the moderate socialists if you're thinking of Kerensky's Trudovik faction (that would be it right?), didn't really do anything even close to betraying the communists. They got outmaneuvered, made a huge domestic mistake by sticking with the war, handing that ball to the Bolsheviks and got done away when the Bolsheviks turned on them, which was partly made possible because Kerensky never did betray the Bolsheviks or try to ally or get close to the White forces to outmaneuver push them out.

Also no communists during the original French Revolution, and the Paris Commune wasn't as much betrayed by liberals as it was simply done in by the French military after peace had been negotiated with the Germans.
For Russia I'm referring to the Kadets. Though you're right about the French, I remembered the end of the commune wrong.

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 Cuno also benefits from being an actual name.

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 Might just be people having lovely bosses is kinda background noise to most goons. All of us have lovely bosses because that's the kind of person who gets promoted to management in almost all circumstances. The theft is a novel problem.

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Vegetable posted:

It’s me, the loyal fan of the communist video game Disco Elysium who believes the workers who created it deserve no ownership of it.
The other workers getting ownership isn't on the table in the current legal battle unfortunately.

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 No it's companies using ai art. Same as if companies were using pirated copies of photoshop en masse.

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 It is extremely weird for anyone to got online to cape for their bosses for any reason, even a good boss. Not worth pillorying someone over. I just cannot understand why you would do that.

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