#disco playthrough

[juniesfairies]

Disco Elysium’s “lungs are for love” really stuck with me. As a singer I’m aware of my lungs all the time, and now they are a subconscious way we can take in the world. They expand, and fill with the particles of whatever city we inhabit. Everyone’s lungs and their insides look a little different. Harry and Kim’s could be stunted due to their smoking, I think this could be connected to their stunted capacity for love, and how painful it is for the both of them to not only love themselves and other people, but the world around them. Lungs fill up and breath love into ourselves and the world around us. If you are a smoker and had polio, could you not take in enough love?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy one year anniversary to In Stars and Time!

[pomidaea]

Thank you encyclopedia

[infamousmonkey-cat]

i actually think it’s so significant that disco elysium is named after an optional side quest. because the heart of the game is in the margins. same way you don’t get the real ending if you don’t do the (let’s face it, sometimes annoying and disincentivised) cryptozoologist quest line. you have to care about the world and its people, not just grinding through the mystery, to ever really understand anything. which is exactly what the game of suzerainty tells you IF you don’t try to “win”

[maxwell-grant]

Every conversation I have with her listening to her foreboding choir music makes me feel like I'm in a cutscene conversation with the Final Boss, except that conversation never ends, and the Final Boss won everything before I was even born, and it couldn't be bothered to show up so it just sent one of it's teeth after me to make small talk, if only to have me recoil before it's pleasing sharpness. I adore talking to her and it makes me feel sick and hollow. why is this game so horribly addicting.

[hildegardladyofbones]

cindy gets it. he IS a sad, sopping wet creature tbh

[warren-keplers-funk-band]

a moment of silence in remembrance of the truly incredible timing of this thought breakthrough

[allmightyscroll-swag]

Pov: Kim leaves with the body

[bemp0]

Short visit on Tabernacle Road

[myzlwow]

guess what ive been playing recently :]

i love em they r so silly expect more disco posts 💥💥

[faoluoo]

my form of apology to her for getting [REDACTED] in my first playthrough

[juniesfairies]

Thinking about two gay characters in Disco Elysium again…while smoker is underground as a part of the homosexual underground, which if that isn’t something Harry made up and is an actual term, then yes they have to be underground to enjoy life to its fullest. Ruby is underground as a fugitive, literally underneath the Feld building, but also the homosexual underground. Ruby’s lesbianism and current predicament are so intertwined to me. Like of course everyone in Martinaise wants to pin the murder on the predatory butch. The mean nasty dyke has to fend for herself, foraging scraps to make machines and smoke cigarettes. Smoker and ruby are at two ends of a distinct neural and physical pathway carved out by identity and ideology that have surely crossed by now. Klaasje even smokes on a balcony. But smoker eventually stays. Ruby and Klaasje don’t. Regardless they are all underground in more ways than one.

[silv-paru]

i love revachol. it's post-urss estonia. it's not estonia. it's france. it's not france. it's martinique. it's not martinique. it's dying - it has been dead a long time - yet its people are still fighting to keep it going.

[vaperarmand]

L + ratio + trite + contrived + mediocre + milquetoast + amateurish + infantile + cliche-and-gonorrhea-ridden paean to conformism + eye-fucked me + affront to humanity + war crime + should *literally* be tried for war crimes + resolutely shit + lacking in imagination + uninformed reimagining of + limp-wristed + premature + ill-informed attempt at + talentless fuckfest + recidivistic shitpeddler + pedantic + listless + savagely boring + just one repulsive laugh after another

[meinqiwu]

this is somewhere to be

[bardicbird]

no actually i want to talk about how fucked it is yet how much it makes sense that you can ‘save’ cuno from his situation but not cunoesse. because the way you get through to cuno is by emphasizing how scary cunoesse is to him; by separating them.

and, yeah, part of it is because cunoesse is more verbally aggressive and harder to get through to. but i really think a significant part of it as well is the difference in how harry is able to empathize with cuno and cunoesse respectively—and thus how we as players tend to end up empathizing with them.

harry can see himself in cuno. and even though the future he can give him with the rcm isnt exactly… ideal in any way, it’s still giving him a chance. the way harry sees cunoesse, on the other hand, is from a more distant lens. he can acknowledge that she needs professional help, but he doesn’t want to engage with her. she’s the scary little girl who’s killed people and lashes out. harry’s type of Cop empathy doesn’t give him the skill set to understand and sympathize with her. and it’s just. so tragic and realistic. idk.