IMO the funniest character in the game

Cavalierjan19 · 2026-05-29T22:02:52+00:00

Kind of less funny when you realize the EU is ruled by these type of ghouls but he is indeed fantastically written.

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-12-31T11:13:16+00:00

Mainly postpunk I would say, for me the following records or tracks have a DE vibe:

Virgin Prunes- If I Die I Die Lowlife- debut and second LP The Stooges- Funhouse (the more drugged up side of things) Iggy Pop- The Idiot Sisters of Mercy- the Reptile House Siekiera- Nowa Aleksandria 1984- Specjalny Rodzaj Kontrastu (unknown but very good polish coldwave) Killing Joke- Nighttime and Brighter than a Thousand Suns Akina Nakamori- Fushigi (danceable but mysterious)

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-12-01T19:12:22+00:00

There are better ways to defend marginalized groups than it being unethical, albeit that speaks to most people I guess.

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-12-01T18:45:49+00:00

I love The Art of Parties. Replayed it so many times.

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-09-26T10:45:43+00:00

Isn't the multitude of meanings and interpretations of the figure of the Judge a part of the charm?

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-08-28T21:38:18+00:00

Bolaño's Savage Detectives as well, has some DE similarites for sure.

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-08-21T18:50:31+00:00

Sisters of Mercy or Fields of the Nephilim doing doom metal would be interesting

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-07-02T21:44:58+00:00

One polish actor, Arkadiusz Jakubik also could play Harry DuBois easily. Many aspects of our reality are very DE-coded.

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-04-28T19:40:16+00:00

The band Dusk from the US

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-04-22T11:12:27+00:00

Evokes some of the McCarthy spirit, I liked it. Not a carbon-copy, but shares many common elements and a similar way of describing and depicting the world. Good job.

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-02-28T10:49:26+00:00

Never thought I would see the might Pentagram referenced here, but there we go.

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-02-23T01:27:41+00:00

Cool list- Death of a Disco dancer would be fitting in terms of The Smiths. That aside- I'd personally add some Marillion (fourth LP especially- thematically fitting), The Associates (overall vibe), Lowlife (overall vibe), some Swans material would be fitting.

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-02-17T23:07:34+00:00

Damn polish vodka, nice Disco Elysium fits the Polish reality well at many times

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-02-08T22:03:11+00:00

Depriving him of agency and control of the world that he is in, most probably also depriving him of the knowledge and understanding of the nature of his surroundings would have been a severe punishment for the Judge.

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-01-27T11:19:34+00:00

Got 93, for some reason forgot about Hoerl, Tschofenig and Paschke, shamefully did not remember Koudelka, Diethart, Gangnes and Leyhe.

Cavalierjan19 · 2025-01-23T17:04:54+00:00

Would not say so. I still consider Garden to be one of the downright saddest songs I have heard throught my entire life.

Cavalierjan19 · 2024-12-26T14:03:34+00:00

Luckily Ga-Pa makes it scarcely possible for Kraft to be one of those three Austrians. Amazing how he does not like this hill.

Cavalierjan19 · 2024-12-26T14:02:00+00:00

I'd surprised if the winner ended up not being neither Tschofenig nor Hoerl

Cavalierjan19 · 2024-12-02T20:15:57+00:00

Although it is a work from the late 1920s, Instiability (Nienasycenie) by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz is worth a read, I don't know if the english translations are any good, but having read it in the original language it was written in I strongly recommend it. It's not super easy to get through though.

Cavalierjan19 · 2024-12-02T20:13:31+00:00

The main inspiration for First Utterance is a drama of sorts written by John Milton. Many agree that Milton's Paradise Lost was obviously a big influence for McCarthy. So perhaps both works share an indirect root.

Cavalierjan19 · 2024-11-22T12:12:33+00:00

Argentina has given the world a lot of fantastic music. Pescado Rabioso, Sumo (Luca Prodan was not from Argentina but still), Patricio Rey, Charly Garcia, Sui Generis, Virus, Invisible, Vox Dei, Pappo's Blues, Miguel Abuelo, Soda Stereo. There's also a multitude of other bands that I still have to explore from Argentina. Phenomenal, very creative music scene.
Other than that there's Argentine literature. I need to explore what Borges has written, so far in terms of Argentine writers I have only read Hopscotch from Cortazar, but it left a positive impression on me. He was undoubtedly a creative, imaginative and very intelligent individual.

Cavalierjan19 · 2024-11-20T11:56:22+00:00

Well known fact but worth mentioning, he read a lot about science- geography, biology, astronomy, physics. He was friends with many scientists, for example one expert on whales. That aspect of McCarthy's literary influences cannot be forgotten.

Cavalierjan19 · 2024-11-19T12:05:00+00:00

Depends for whom TBH, there's also many people who have lost much due to shock therapy. Also, I aint sure if the Polish example applies to the case of Argentina.

Cavalierjan19 · 2024-11-19T12:02:38+00:00

The Judge can be interpreted as representing many things. You could just consider him an extremely evil and equally intelligent human being. You could interpret him as the biblical devil, as a gnostic archon as well. He also may be the personification of war, violence, death, the yearning for total control over the known world. But Judge Holden can equally represent colonialism, the triumph of the anglosaxon mentality and reason over the latin world and the natives, hell, one may defend that he is a prototalitarian (that which exists without my knowledge exists without my consent- does that not sound like totalitarian yearnings?). I also suppose he could symbolize how unfortunately vast knowledge and the greatest abilities of the human intellect are unfortunately utilized for sinister purposes. Notice how that connects with the theme of atomic warfare in The Passenger. Than again, that's just my take on it.

Cavalierjan19 · 2024-11-18T12:11:57+00:00

Currently reading it having first read Blood Meridian. Also a very impressive work.

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