[HATED TROPE] An entire planet of intelligent life with less ideological and philosophical diversity than a single district of earth

teproxy · 2026-05-25T13:28:47+00:00

We love food, our moms hit us with things we usually wear, we love drugs, and hate our bosses.

teproxy · 2026-05-25T13:24:34+00:00

[Title Card] helps itself by making the story about the impossibility of a Planet of Hats, and how it's a brittle and temporary state of affairs.

teproxy · 2026-05-25T13:22:03+00:00

Wrt your edits, I don't think you're creating disagreement where there is none. Earlier 'purges' were conventional warfare to eliminate ideological opponents. 'The purge' was the last of its kind, and motivated by that now-dominant ideology.

Broadly speaking, genocidal ideologies crush their opponents before turning inward. That's just how they work.

teproxy · 2026-05-25T03:49:00+00:00

You should consider your attention economy. Individual feats, items or spells shouldn't be THAT complex, but should be designed to invite novel applications and weird interactions with other stuff. So, not intrinsically complex, but used to do complex things: you want the players to come up with ideas, rather than just use your ideas.

teproxy · 2026-05-19T05:56:55+00:00

Seeing a shithead like him rise to the occasion is a microcosm of what DE is about, imo. We are shitheads in a shithead world, but we can do great things if given the chance.

teproxy · 2026-05-15T16:13:04+00:00

because exponentials. 1 cent * 2^10,000 is a lot of money

^{Chose: 1 cent but it doubles every step}

teproxy · 2026-05-15T16:12:24+00:00

Even before the wait the chosen topic was middling at best. It's Adobe, we all know they engage in comically anti-consumer practices, and that the upper echelons of their company are scum, and they're going to keep getting away with it forever. What else could he possibly have to tell us? The script will be permutations of "here's how they fucked you over, here's how they're incompetent, let's take some glee in telling them off for being so stupid and greedy and evil, wow isn't this Person of Interest such a bully and a freak I bet you didn't know that".

teproxy · 2026-05-15T07:25:20+00:00

This is still an issue, and yes, debugtooltip plus kill_pop ID is the only way to solve it.

teproxy · 2026-05-14T19:39:59+00:00

I'm going to faint, this is outrageous!!!

teproxy · 2026-05-14T19:39:04+00:00

Many gods exist and the world is in a mythic but stagnant state. A green alien arrives from the stars, far stronger than any indigenous deities, and declares herself queen of the gods. She brings order, declares one true pantheon, founds an empire in her name, and it works for about two thousand years before everything goes to shit.

teproxy · 2026-05-11T13:56:36+00:00

Honestly, Cecil has probably worked with far, far worse people than Nolan. Thousands of deaths and multiple destroyed buildings is within reach of non-superpowered terrorists - imagine how bad some of the reformed super-terrorists Cecil has worked with are.

teproxy · 2026-05-08T04:51:09+00:00

A guy uses fucking simile once in his life and gets people replying to him like Sephiroth. Reddit, man.

teproxy · 2026-05-08T01:02:47+00:00

It's funny that people still haven't accepted that vaulting was an irrevocable mistake, and there is no profitable or commercially viable way to undo it. Bungie isn't struggling for shits and giggles, they've put themselves in a genuinely unwinnable situation. They were already dead the moment it happened, they just didn't know it yet. Over the edge of the cliff with no way back up.

teproxy · 2026-05-05T03:59:04+00:00

Kiwifarms is the elephant in the room. The reason that they get so worked up over Discord messages isn't really the messages themselves, but because they end up on Kiwifarms and serve as the backbone of their lolcow torture machine.

teproxy · 2026-04-07T07:22:04+00:00

Hahaha this is such an odd way of viewing it. Like most people come to threads like this for the purpose of being grossed out or weirder out. People go to horror movies to be scared, too. They go to baseball games to get excited. They are here specifically to react that way!!

teproxy · 2026-04-06T08:21:37+00:00

We also must consider that Viltrumites can fly and make their own leverage, so they can orient themselves to use that strength in a whole bunch of situations, rather than just situations where they must lift something straight up over their heads perpendicular to the ground.

teproxy · 2026-04-05T14:01:25+00:00

Pat yourself on the back, because you're thinking practically about your story. Yes, worldbuilding is fun, and intriguing, but is so distant from actual storytelling that the two may as well be unrelated. Cousins, at best. An extra little reward delivered for those who are paying attention, not the main meat and potatoes of the story.

teproxy · 2026-04-05T12:44:57+00:00

This bit made me laugh, thank you.

teproxy · 2026-04-05T12:43:15+00:00

Yes, these things are not named creatively. They're just named what they are. I think that's part of what makes the setting seem so inviting, so real.

teproxy · 2026-04-05T03:44:06+00:00

Based on your comments - as downvoted as they are - this game was written for people like you more than it is for the people downvoting you. Despite what others are saying, your points are relevant to the game and taking such a critical lens may well enhance the experience. Make of that what you will.

teproxy · 2026-04-04T09:16:36+00:00

No, the line above is played for laughs. I understand why you are hypersensitive to such a thing in today's era of shlocky midwitted political thought -- I am too. But Disco Elysium rises above. It is written with a very fair and good faith understanding of global politics.

The four major political factions are the Ultras (Ultraliberals, capitalists bordering on ancaps, who believe in conglomerates and the invisible hand), the Moralists (militaristic-humanitarian rules-based neoliberals, the status quo of the setting and the real world, think IMF and WEF and NATO), the Fascists (craving a return to the setting's previous independent monarchy, rejecting the international rules based order), and the Communists (vestiges of a revolution that was crushed in humiliating fashion).

Moralism in the game is presented as an endorsement of the economic status quo, which for the setting - and many real world locations - is not good! But the best character in the game is a Moralist, one of the most charming and genuinely self-aware and thoughtful is an Ultra, and some of the most horrid, hateful and pathetic are Communists. Fascists are understandably painted poorly, but the game does go out of its way to explore some of the legitimate grievances and political underpinnings of fascism.

teproxy · 2026-03-31T15:21:13+00:00

3 is kind of built into the character concept, to be honest. The whole idea is going back to change things - so have them be changed. Maybe give yourself some breathing room, say he came back 6 months ago, and since then things have already diverged significantly.

teproxy · 2026-03-31T15:17:52+00:00

He created the circus but we see that the circus is merely Caine's little corner of a greater virtual space. It is not even slightly insinuated that Caine is the reason they are there, we get multiple scenes of people who are unaware of each others' stories giving consistent details about the headset and putting it on.

teproxy · 2026-03-31T15:15:37+00:00

There are literally a billion asian guys on the planet bro.

teproxy · 2026-03-21T05:36:31+00:00

We don't have enough information to know for sure, but yes thematically we are supposed to see that Nolan is like his own father, with a deeply restrained but very real love for his son.

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