#disco elysium text post

[bagmanunlucky]

[u3pxx]

my specil little guys

[disco-asphodel]

realtalk but when i see dudes on steam or ppl on tumblr talking about how disco elysium made them feel pathetic and uncomfortable i just. i don’t know. i cannot relate to that at all. disco elysium is about an alcoholic amnesiac poet in love with a dying city who loves him back. if i had never been an alcoholic, if i had never been suicidally depressed, maybe i would think the world of disco elysium is a bleak one. but when you know what it’s like to go through that darkness and come out of it again? to fall back in love with a world that almost destroyed you? disco elysium is the most hopeful story imaginable. it sees the world for what it is and holds nothing back, none of the horror, none of the wonder, none of the love…

something about art comforting the disturbed and disturbing the comfortable i dunno

[axolotine]

MATERIAL GIRL - Wait! Scroll back up. That was a cute top. ROCKIN' BOD [Challenging: Success] - *and* you would look good in it. HESITATION [Trivial: Success] - I don't know... HOLIER THAN THOU - I bet the company that makes it uses child slavery. You know, like that one blogger. 2MB FLOPPY DISK [Easy: Failure] - Her name was... Nickelback? Or something. RHETORIC [Challenging: Success] - Who cares? There's no ethical consumption under capitalism anyways. Which means you don't have to think about this sort of thing at all. MATERIAL GIRL - She has a point. BIMBOFICATION CURSE - Buy this top or I'm eating another 5% of your prefrontal cortex.

[explodingfridge]

One of the things i greatly appreciate about Disco Elysium is that your character MUST BE FLAWED. You literally cannot make a version of Harry that is good at everything. There aren't enough skill points. It really is a game about the fundamental imperfection of the human condition.

[anemonet]

pro tip: you can always put the bugs in little outfits :thumbsup:

[thebelovedlion]

im gonna be completely honest. until about 30 seconds ago i was under the impression that Harry Du Bois was a real person. like a celebrity that people keep tagging stuff as who i knew nothing about

[kayleerowena]

i just realized i never posted this zine on tumblr, so in case it helps anyone else:

today i'm rereading this zine i wrote last year. when people ask, i describe it as being about being a silly little guy in late stage capitalism, but really it's all my beliefs on optimism & hope & kindness & loving each other boiled down into 16 pages.

and honestly, even more than that, i wrote it as a reminder to myself that hope & kindness & love exist in the world. because i forget about that way too often. it's easy to forget about that way too often.

i dunno if it'll help you, but either way i hope you find something today to remind you that people can be kind 💖💖💖

(you can also read it on my website, if that's easier, or print out copies for free on my itch.io)

[rad-roche]

not that i'm advising you do this, but i think i got the ideal first disco elysium experience, in that i booted up that game so hungover i could barely read

[gorjee-art]

sometimes i'm so glad that I never got into idol worship when I was a kid cause it genuinely makes me care less about modern celebrities. All I know is that I felt insanely jealous about cartoons portraying teenage girls with these shrines relating to their celebrity crushesss and they have sleepovers talking about how hot jason isss...

kid me was upset that I couldn't have that experience.

however...kid me needs to realize I will have that experience and will do that now.

with kim kitsuragi

cause unlike real people, he's never wrong and will never break my heart.

[u3pxx]

it's a new year, harrier.

[disco-asphodel]

just existing as an open bisexual is so funny like what is it about me that makes straight people want to come out to me. even if we’re talking about something that has nothing to do with sexuality, without fail, an hour or so into our conversation, the women are all like “is it gay to like boobs? doesn’t everyone like boobs?” and the men are like “i would let kim kitsuragi from disco elysium do heinous and disgusting things to me” n im like ok go off. can you drive me home after this i dont have a license

[beachf4gz]

I recently was able to restart my adhd meds after a few months of them being out of stock so I have been reading wayyy more DE fanfic again, and something I find kind of interesting is how prominant certain in-game choices are in regards to Harry's fanon characterisation. I understand why the communist route and sorry-cop copotype are by far the most common ways ppl write Harry- I think most people playing the game end up identifying with those dialogue options and therefor end up following those routes (and its a fairly big time commitment to replay with the intention of seeing all the different route you could take)- but I do sometimes really wish there was more writing for the different copotypes and political orientations because the ways Harry's internal processes and position in the world are affected are REALLY interesting to me. I completely understand being uncomfortable (or just uninterested) by the idea of exploring an ultraliberal, moralist or facist character- I think fanfiction as a medium is compelling in part because you are conveying your own relationship to a piece of work, including your own moral reactions and beliefs applied upon the work's characters- but I think DE includes the option to *play as* a character occupying these roles (rather than just presenting them through npcs) in order to invite players to experience and examine the act of being these things both internally and within social contexts.

I think Harry can be fascinating and heartbreaking as a character study in any of these routes, and the gameplay can feel radically different between them even following the same plot. For example, I found the moralist route deeply evocative. It has an uneasy, desperate feeling to it as someone struggles to occupy the in-group, to live in normalcy and civility in the face of their own world ending. It creates an odd position for Harry as accutely disabled and vulnerable- contrasting percieved social acceptance and safety with the tearing of reality "as it should be" at the failure of the social mechanisms he believes in to meet their promise of happiness or safety. The gameover at the statue left me genuinely stunned when I first got it, its sort of horrifying in it's bluntness, and I found it really upsetting in this specific raw way. Its an excellent way of demonstrating, emotionally, the failure and cruelty of liberalism upon those who believe in it- but also its devastating for Harry's character as he is presented through the moralist dialogue. I also found it rlly compelling how the honor cop dialogue options explore Harry as a person seeking dignity in the face of their social ostracisation, and how apocalypse-cop explores the social modes of someone who has fallen out of the "normal reality space", how impaired his ability to live is in response to a full awareness of overwhelming, total threat. I'm not good at writing essays and stuff, idk if I'm explaining this well, but all of the routes are written with such an intimate and personal examination of how it *feels* to occupy different modes of being- of the way the world will treat you if you interact with it in certains ways, or the person you will be and the emotional shape your life will form depending on your framework. I think its kind of abstract and difficult to write properly, but I think its something you can reaaaallly sink yourself into if you find Harry a compelling character- I personally do (lmao) and its something I love seeing whenever I get the chance. I get the appeal of Harry as an exccentric mentally ill communist whose political beliefs are, in social contexts, extentions of his rejection of social norms and position as othered under liberal belief- I do also just enjoy the fact that this version of Harry is only one mode of being he could occupy, and the varying ways in which he is socially, emotionally or cognitively enabled/disabled by other modes of being, and the position the game takes in exploring them all as choices or as routes and reactions by the same person- as someone afloat and disempowered in the world attempting to find "how to live".

[zipper-ghost]

[rebisrot]

im still not over the good cop/bad cop achievements in disco elysium being entirely dependent on kim. if kim hates you you are a bad cop no questions. he loves you? good cop. no questions.

[mrtequilasunset]

Stop giving Kim nice handwriting we KNOW that mfer writes nearly illegibly