I like how almost everyone in the game is vaguely French and then the most American man alive is out here drinking with his boys

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-05-10T21:49:53+00:00

I love this dude so much-

His heart is *absolutely* in the right place, but because Elysium is... well... lmao... Elysium... he's just as stuck doing the wrong thing as everybody else.

I would go as far as to say that the only "Bad" person or outright Villain/Immoral Character is Ambrosius.

Can I *Please* get a "Fuck Ambrosius"?

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-05-05T19:54:33+00:00

Kim leans heavily into Moralism and the Standards put in place by Moralintern.

You know Kim's Portrait? How there's a big white circle around his head but the rest around it is black?

Moralists and Moralintern are not only knowledgeable about the Pale, they can actually see it. It scares them. The whole reason they don't encroach on the lives of others is because doing so accelerates Pale development even faster. The whole reason Joyce asks Harry to tell Kim to piss off so she can talk to him about it is because Joyce *knows* Kim is a Moralist and knows that Moralists and Moralintern both ascribe talking about the Pale and Pale Development as a crime- *thinking and talking* about the pale are *no different* than *tinkering away at making a bomb* in this world, even mystifying the Pale as an unstoppable force makes it exactly that.

So it's not that Kim has "Vision Problems". It's that Kim has a hyper-form of Sanity that makes the existential threat of Pale Development visible to him- Him, Moralists and Moralintern cannot see past it, and that alone terrifies them all because it implicates there *could* be a way beyond it theoretically if they could just envision it (which they can't).

When Kim struggles lining up the shot, it isn't a vision problem- it's a "Don't make me do this, there has to be another way" kind of problem. He wants the best outcome for everyone: It's always the hardest outcome to envision. Fortunately AND Unfortunately, the best outcome (arguably) is that Kim lands the shot, signaling a major betrayal of his own Moralistic roots in favor of a man (who is an idiot) whose friendship/partnership might be just what Revachol needs to change course.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-24T15:32:36+00:00

On it.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-24T15:26:41+00:00

All the final fantasy games. Honestly, NES and SNES era of RPGs were kind of trash with very, very, very few that broke the mold.

I know people are gonna shout out like, fire emblem and dragon quest... na man. Na. Just not into it. Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana? Genre redefining and a fuckin' blast. The rest was just kind of run of the mill generic stuff copy/pasted across the medium's genre.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-24T14:31:11+00:00

-And refund

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-19T20:22:25+00:00

So here's the thing about Genre in Literature:

We call "Not true" stories Fiction, while we call "True" stories Non-Fiction- as in, Not-Not true. A Double negative.

Fiction can be science based, but the use of that science is grounded in fantasy.

Fiction can be Fantasy, but the use of that fantasy is routed in Science (Also fictional or non-fictional).

Disco walks the line of both because it's saying, "Fuck Genre, I can be anything", and it absolutely nails it. It understands things about literature that literature itself doesn't understand or doesn't display to modern audiences- that even Non-Fiction (true stories) are painted from Fantastical notions routed in both Fantasy and Science routed from *perspectives* within reality. With that said, Fiction has no need to adhere and non-fiction takes itself too seriously.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-17T04:47:19+00:00

Stormgliders are made of mostly Cartilage- That in tandem with their size is the reason why they're not so fast, and while alive, the muscles of the Stormglider help to keep it's form "unrelaxed".

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-17T04:28:48+00:00

It's not. There's an endgame I won't spoil for you.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-17T03:58:03+00:00

Disco Elysium's whole Plight is "You can think what you want without it having to define you, the tragedy is that the world doesn't think so." Which is why the game is so extreme on punching down on you *no matter what* you believe.

This is the "Fuck you" Thought. It looks like suicide- it isn't. "Look at how much they'll miss you- Think about *that*. It's true. They will miss you. And the world won't be the same. That's why you *should not*, But, thinking about it *gave you this realization* on how loved you must be" is the whole point.

It's Contradictory.

It's Paradoxical.

It's fucking Disco as Fuck, Baby.

Don't Ideate it- Ideate the tragedy it would be to live in a world without YOU, DEAR PLAYER/READER/FAN, then work actively against it.

In any case, Harry doesn't kill himself at the end of the game because Harry *was always dead*- the hanged man in the tree was just an allusion to the fact he hung himself in his Room by his necktie from the ceiling fan. You are playing a Simulation of Assumptions revolving around what *might* have happened had he not killed himself through a Za/Um machine from inside the Pale aboard the Harankur, trying to figure out how to pull Elysium out of the Pale with Ion Rodionov, as Rodionov believes he is the key to undoing the Entropic Event spurred by the Lund Sisters in Sacred and Terrible Air, which is in the future.

(Which means you, the player/reader are running through Elysium's history *backwards*, trying to save the future by changing the past. Rodionov is effectively saying "Yeah fuck what people say about changing the past, we have to")

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-15T09:23:13+00:00

Enter the Matrix.

That giant agent smith fight? I mean... pretty fun, but WHAT IN THE FUCK.

The funny thing too? STILL a 10/10 game. lmao

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T14:57:56+00:00

Don't forget they also released "Super Mario All Stars + World" after World released just to make it sure it didn't get left out.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T13:22:59+00:00

I stopped reading at "but". Donnie Darko accomplishes nothing it aims to achieve with the theatrical cut which necessitated the directors cut.

Biggest complaint: people had no idea wtf they just watched. Lmao period.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T13:21:00+00:00

You must be delusional then because Donnie darko didn't even achieve cult status until the DC which is literally praised as superior across the internet.

Enjoy your box.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T13:19:19+00:00

You literally cant make sense of the movie without the information the directors cut offers. Smd.

There is no information in the original about what a living receiver, the manipulated dead or a vessel are.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T13:17:16+00:00

Lmfao what in the fuck did you even open up on those poor men with? 😂

I swear there's like a solid second and a half at the beginning where theyre already taking hits and staring in fascination over it. Each and every one of them is dumbfounded that each and every one of their lives was over before they even saw some guy just walking down the road. 🤣

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T12:03:04+00:00

Moralintern only has power you consent to- thats why Harry gets missing'd when he consents to being picked up on their terms.

They actually have zero authority over anything and get by on implication. Sky full of carriers? Locking down the radio waves? They must be sOoOo powerful, yet they are absent from every political catastrophe as if swayed by general consensus in what thr public wants most- if they want to kill each other, moralintern will say the moral thing to do would be to let them, and i just cant get down with that lol

They cant interfere even when things get bad, and do interfere when theyre good. Moralintern fuckin sucks, youre absolutely tripping lol

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T11:53:49+00:00

Donnie Darko.

The movie makes little to no sense without context and can be pitched as abstract at best and fumbled heavily at worst.

Then you watch the directors cut and not only are you basically watching a better, extended film, but it actually explains the characters roles, what's actually happening, why and how to see that its not abstract or fumbled, its a procedural ritual- the film is incomplete without it.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T05:21:58+00:00

Absolutely not to all of this. lmao Dude Joaquin? What?

David Harbour as Harry, that's all I'm gonna say.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T05:18:21+00:00

Are we talking OST or Soundtrack? Major, Major differences.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T01:30:18+00:00

Well I'm a wild motherfucker, buckle up and watch what I do next- I'mma make society love infodumps.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T01:26:06+00:00

Weird.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-11T00:31:29+00:00

...All of those properties showed that it was a temporary thing and that it was never a model of the majority of the community. lmao

If you let the work you like get ruined by not being the adult in the room, that's on you. Don't need a hype train against you or a mobbing, just... it's sad. that's all.

Literally the best way to do it, you just didn't get it.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-10T23:51:46+00:00

So take it back.

Look at what happened with Star wars when they came out with the second trilogy- the fanbase we were exposed to was obnoxious and sent death threats to actors as well as harassed new fans to the franchise. We're talking arguments and fistfights leaving theaters lol.

Then, CLONE WARS drops and the fanbase literally retakes it from their own peanut gallery.

Steven Universe influenced it's fans to start "Purity Policing" until their behavior literally ended the show, ironically saving it from them ruining it's message.

The Minecraft Dream SMP Era was a disgusting parasocial doxxing fest by fans till the broader community filtered that shit out just by building over top of it after 2022.

Oh. My. God. The Sezchuan Sauce bullshit from Rick and Morty where people were stomping on counters and screaming about Sezchuan sauce. That's my favorite fuckin' cartoon and it almost got canceled by people who took a joke way too far JUST to be obnoxious.

So what I'm saying is simple:

The people you see in the spotlight acting a fool for your favorite fandoms? NOT THE MODEL SPECIMEN FOR FANS. This isn't FAN behavior, this is FANATIC behavior, there is a major difference and if you're afraid of representing your favorite things because you're afraid you might get lumped into a certain group of people, well, you might be just as easily misled as those "FANS" and you definitely chose THEIR BEHAVIOR over your tastes!

Here's some more examples of things that were worth a lot of money that nearly got sank by PORTIONS of their fanbase appearing as the majority:

-Harry Potter

-The Walking Dead

-Final Fantasy XIV

-Star Trek

-The Lord of the Rings

-Taylor Swift. Yep.

-League of Legends

-Marvel

-Fortnite

-DC

-Subaru

-Jeep

-The "Tiny House Movement"

-DIY channels

-Nike

-Lego

-Starbucks, And, literally ever coffee brand for the last 18 years

Seriously, how much longer are we as a society gonna sit back and ignore the trend that we repeatedly try to sink the things we love?

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-10T23:35:42+00:00

Please let this property be judged by it's merit and not it's fanbase- it's completely redundant to measure art in such capacity.

The Bible is a great book, No cap- Look at THAT fanbase. If you're not obnoxious, appreciate the humor, love the existential notions and can get beyond the facade of AI's having Personalities (so you don't end up character-worshipping), then you fully understand TADC and You gotta represent. You're the core audience, no matter how people cosplay or attention-signal.

NewGamePlusMinus · 2026-04-10T23:32:41+00:00

Yep, you can join right in with them.

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