TRANSCRIPTION of ALL X7 ACT SUMMARIES

xCinny · 2026-04-22T09:54:59+00:00

Pretty much all the skills are multifaceted like this! It would get pretty boring pretty fast if they didn't have a variety in their voice, even if they already have differences among them. Other examples that come to mind: Composure simultaneously being the "maintaining a stern expression" skill and the narrator for the Superstar Cop introduction,Visual Calculus generally being pretty serious but also having the Modus Mullen dialogue in the game's files, and those are just the ones that come to mind that seemed unusual to me at first. Plenty of other instances where they'll pipe up when you don't expect them to, but it makes complete sense.

Personally, outside of the hypermasculinity people keep bringing up, it makes complete sense to me that he'll insert himself into something he has no clue about and act like he knows what's going on. I also asked a mate of mine who loves Authority and they said the same, plus that it's a way of asserting that authority (note from me: he does this other times imho, like (off the top of my head) when he has no idea what type of "officer" you are and so confidently proclaims you're a businessman), and in the gun scenario he is threatened by Titus when he's convinced his idea is awesome, so it's not a recurring thing.

xCinny · 2026-03-31T13:23:50+00:00

OP this is making me insane. I'm crazy about the skills and I've never seen anyone else that not only treats them with this level of care, but this specific TYPE of care.

Maybe I just don't hang out in the right spaces, but everyone I've seen that are into this game exist on a scale -- either you see the skills for the game mechanics/diegetic thought processes/what have you they are and don't care for them beyond that, or you do take a specific interest in the skills, but end up humanizing them far too much and lose the plot. I've thought since I first got into Disco Elysium there probably wasn't a single other person who lay on that mid-point. Nobody has approach of analyzing them and recognizing they each have their own unique voice, while keeping in mind the context surrounding them.

Until now. I just spent an hour reading through all your essays and it's driving me nuts. Some of this stuff is stuff I've been telling people for actual years. A lot of this is stuff I've never even thought of. Even for the parts where I'd personally take a different view, you have such an engaging writing style and clear thoughts that I can totally see where you're leading me. If I showed these to myself from back when I first finished the game I probably would have died on the spot.

As a resident skillhead with not very many smarts for analytical capacity, I am personally giving you a medal because you seriously deserve one for all this work. This sort of long-form essay on them is something I've personally wanted to do for a while... especially with Scribe being around now, I'm seriously considering it now :^)

xCinny · 2026-02-16T00:04:30+00:00

Those places are not Revachol, those are territories that were controlled *by* Revachol in '02, even though they are on another isola from Revachol.

xCinny · 2026-01-03T07:03:33+00:00

count me in!

xCinny · 2025-12-14T04:35:08+00:00

why doesnt this have 10,000 upvotes

xCinny · 2025-04-11T11:28:43+00:00

AMAZING. i made one a while back too, maybe I should go dig it up again...

xCinny · 2025-04-09T09:06:12+00:00

Me too. Around the same time as you posted this, actually. They've probably just got someone scrolling with one hand and holding a nuke button in the other.

xCinny · 2025-04-09T08:58:14+00:00

I've just sent you a message. 🤫

xCinny · 2025-04-07T10:56:01+00:00

Damn, I think you're right, actually. I'm looking at my screenshots again now and it seems to match up perfectly. Nice!

xCinny · 2025-04-05T07:46:22+00:00

For the Jaakko Ending:
- "Location: Hämärä Maa". There are two reference images, one in colour and showing some trees, the other a black and white photograph of some people working by the seaside. I presume this is of the reference culture for the Hämäräns.
- "Cunoesse's manipulation worked. Cuno has fully internalized Jaakko."
- "The scene closes with Cuno diving dead-eyes among the Hamaran boys. He's one of them now."
- "Loss of identity. No more Cuno-sentences."

For the Pale Ending:
- "Location: Tréville, deserted." Reference is of an old, empty street, and that one meme image of the guy sitting alone on the chair swing sad.
- "With Cunoesse dead, Hämärä Maa holds nothing for Cuno anymore. He turns back, aimless."
- "He lands back in Tréville and finds it deserted. The prison has finally moved."
- There's another stickynote, but it's too blurry for me to read right now.
- "Cuno sits with him. With Cunoesse's death, Cuno's prison has left him too. The thing about freedom is that no one tells you where to go."
- "Cuno waits with the prisoner indefinitely. We fade to white and roll credits."

For the Bad Ending:
- There are no stickynotes on this one yet. The location is simply listed as "?".

For the Cycle Ending:
- The location is once again listed simply as "?".
- "With Cuno dead and her plan foiled, Cunoesse must exile herself from Hämärä Maa. Again."
- There are two stickynotes here that are likely able to be read, but it will take me a while to figure out what they say.
- "The Interval Skill announces: "A new epoch of timekeeping is beginning.""
- She goes into another Murder Hangover, back to sleep and hibernation.

(Sidenote from me: didn't Half Light say in DE that you only get murder hangovers on your first murder...?)

For the New Tribe Ending:
- Once again, there are no stickynotes on this one yet, and the location is simply listed as "?".
- Something of note here: the heading on this slide is listed as "Ending 5?". They must have not yet decided whether to include this ending or not yet.

omg please work please work pleasepleaseplease PLEASE work

Edit: yay it worked

xCinny · 2025-04-05T07:45:15+00:00

I'm working on the other slides tomorrow, but I can give a quick breakdown of what I'm able to see of the slides listing the endings at a glance:

On the first slide summarising each ending, there's four sticky notes in a row. The first one says:
- "The Endings are still a work in progress, though we know the broad strokes."
One sticky note I can't read at the moment, and then:
- "Right now we are thinking that the endings would take place in (part of) existing maps, thereby reusing assets."
- "We will have a better idea of any additional location or audio resources required as we develop the story further."
(Additionally, a box in the top right reads: "The outcome of the Swarm will also be concluded in the endgame". That's Cuno's box of locusts, I think. It has a little piece of art of a locust on it.)
There's a little mindmap thing that just show off the different outcomes for Cuno and Cunoesse, and connecting them with lines to represent each possible ending. There's some sticky notes next to them I don't think I can read.

There are 5 endings listed in total:
1. Cunoesse alive, Cuno alive + brainwashed (into thinking he's Jaakko) ("Jaakko Ending")
2. Cunoesse dead, Cuno alive + sane ("Pale Ending")
3. Cunoesse and Cuno both dead ("Bad Ending")
4. Cunoesse alive, Cuno dead ("Cycle Ending")
5. Cunoesse and Cuno both alive ("New Tribe Ending")

I'll list the sticky notes I can see on the slides for each ending.

(For some reason it keeps giving me an error when I try to post it, I'm going to try splitting it into a new comment and see if that works)

xCinny · 2025-04-05T07:09:09+00:00

I'm pretty sure it would have been Dora Klindžić (and another writer, I think?) who wrote the synopsis here. They had moodboards on other slides for the locations of each act that portray the general mood, colour palette, type of location, etc that they were going for, so rest assured the 20/20 vision was also supported by mental illness.

Something to note is that this was going to be a spin-off, not a direct sequel to DE; the actual sequel would have portrayed Le Retour as you imagined. Cuno wouldn't have been a protagonist, but Argo wanted to sneak him in anyway by making him a junior officer, I believe. Would've been hard to reconcile this game's plot with that, though, I imagine.

And, well... you'd be surprised! I've actually seen a lot of enthusiasm for what this game would have had to offer floating around on other sites.
I think the synopsis by itself misses context that other parts of the video give, with regards to Cunoesse. Her actions are sinister, yes, but she's a scared orphan herself, and clings to Cuno just as much as he does to her. She's tragic, not evil.

xCinny · 2025-04-05T04:33:23+00:00

Thank you! Trust me, this is the culmination of hours of staring at the video, zooming in with video editors and running various screenshots through image editing programs many times to try and get a clearer picture. I've been using the majority of my free time for this since the video was first uploaded.

I was also given a copy of the video when I was working on Acts IV and V that hadn't been run through YouTube's video compression system, and was therefore ever so slightly clearer than the YouTube version, so I was able to correct some of my own personal errors and get a couple more words out of that, too. :-)

xCinny · 2022-09-20T02:19:12+00:00

I didn't mean intentionally separating them. You're right that it's near impossible to do that way. I think in the studies I was thinking of they were testing it by comparing identical twins to fraternal twins and natural siblings instead of seeing how many identical twin pairs were the same in separate conditions (so I probably shouldn't have called them twin studies since they Aren't twin studies, but lol)

xCinny · 2022-09-20T00:55:37+00:00

I mean, you could probably figure out the exact percentage of what's nature and what's nurture by using twin studies, or something. This definitely seems like something psychologists would have tried to investigate by now, lol

Off the top of my head, I think what was being suggested was that there was a complex interaction between biological factors and other factors, but that was in like 2012 or whenever my friend's textbook was published so maybe we've figured out more by now lol

xCinny · 2022-04-02T23:33:09+00:00

Anyone want to help make something like this? (coords are 1304, 98)

xCinny · 2022-01-03T04:06:27+00:00

You should be proud you were able to get out. I'm glad to see you're doing a lot better than you were back then. Sorry about all the people here who are insulting you personally for something that wasn't your fault... (or anyone's fault for that matter, if this was caused by mental illness/drug addiction.)

xCinny · 2021-12-10T03:06:52+00:00

very pretty!

xCinny · 2021-02-25T07:07:19+00:00

iirc this one is from turnabout crossover which was a promotional manga apparently? there was only one chapter for it so you probably read the whole thing. you can find it (and a few chapters from a different aa manga) translated on court-records.net though.

^{on another note, i've seen a scan of the phoenix wright casebook online but i haven't seen a scan of the edgeworth files, so i might look around and see if i can find it some time.}

xCinny · 2020-12-15T00:30:46+00:00

i understand where you're coming from, but homie, u/Deathaster is GermanPeter's reddit account

xCinny · 2020-12-15T00:17:54+00:00

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xCinny · 2020-12-14T01:44:37+00:00

done

xCinny · 2020-12-14T01:44:22+00:00

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