#disco talking

[sygneth]

allright i have few thoughts about Jules Pidieu and yall need to listen

He is old. Probably good 10-15 years older than most of his colleagues. Maybe more. From guys like Jean, Chester, Torson, definitely more. He has to deal with a bunch of guys with unsophisticated sense of humor all the time. The talks with Harry makes absolutely no impression on him, he is used to that kind of shit. It may seem that he is tired of it, dealing with drunk officers on duty, with their stupid jokes and using him to banter with one another via official channels. He tries to stay professional. And yet still plays the game and passes all the messages, even not the relevant ones. And even though he seems reluctant, it doesn't take much to convince him to pass even the extreme ones. In his own manner, but he will.

Heck, if Harry will refer to himself as "Firewalker" in the first conversation, Jules will go along with that too, if you call the precinct more than once (well, right after he told Jean that Harry refers to himself as *firewater* and I refuse to belive he didn't do that on purpose as he literally said that right a statement before)

But there is another thing. There is constantly someone in the comms besides him. The rest of the precinct, or at least the C-wing seem to hang out in there all the time. He is a man that others like to have around. What is more, if Harry will ask him for the details of his personal life, what Jules says, suggests he and Harry have been talking quite a lot too. "You're not really keen on mentioning your home life, so I've always assumed things weren't that good on that front" - is what he says.

Yeah, we may assume that Harry is rather keen on talking to people and also talking about himself, though one still needs to talk to another person quite a time to notice which topics they'd rather avoid.

Another thing is, that Jules seems to have heard about Harry's life before the RCM, it's just that the question takes him off guard and then Jean appears and cuts it short.

Even if he looks like he's done TM with the shit he has to deal with, I think he finds some satisfaction in it. He will never admit it, because what he does is sigh and probably roll his eyes while lighting another cigarette, but he actually likes the fact that people come gossip to him, that he is in possession of most of the precinct's secrets, that there won't be a drama he will miss. He wouldn't go into all this if there wasn't a part of him that liked it. He is just very subtle showing this.

[virovirokun-has-adhd]

[sygneth]

@niktosphynx tags:

my time hath come

I see many people suggesting that Whirling was a repurposed building, but I would say its architecture indicates it was not. It looks very much like those post-soviet resort hostels, with its glass facades, the big common space to organize karaoke/dancing and a private room downstairs, and a few rooms upstairs. As an architect who lived my whole life in CE Europe, this is something that would totally exist in a small seaside village in my country. Heck, I would say it's sometimes easier to find a place with two or three rooms than a proper hostel in more neglected/not touristic parts of the country. Whirling looked so familiar to me that I didn't even think it might be confusing, I remember similar places from my holidays as a kid.

Same thing with the rooms. There is one VIP room with a balcony and separate bathroom (bourgeoise!) and two, probably cheaper rooms with a shared bathroom (shared bathrooms are also a classic move, ah the number of times when someone forgot to unlock my side of the bathroom after using it and I couldn't use it... memories haha). I am also not very surprised by the looks of the rooms or the pull-out bed, that's something I would totally expect in a place like this. (This place is closed now but!!) The rooms are probably just furnished with what Garte managed to find on the sales/flee market and that was it. There were either no funds or no need to change it to anything more luxurious, as people probably rarely even rent a room in Whirling, and when they do, they don't expect anything sophisticated. As prev noticed, Martinaise is no popular direction for tourists. There is Klaasje, there is Harry who just came, and then there is still a room free for Kim, and I honestly think those few days of investigation were the most guest-packed for Whirling in years.

Am I the only person who thinks the whirling in rags is like… a little weird?

Like it’s a café and a motel. That’s fine. But it only has three rooms. Harry’s room is arguably one of the biggest but it doesn’t… have a bed. His bed is a pull out couch. Sure, it says a lot about each character and definitely an artistic way of expressing their personalities (Harry, Kim, and Klassje) but it’s… not their actual homes. Why would there be two motel rooms with actual beds and one with a pull out couch? And wouldn’t you want to put the larger bed in the larger room?

I mean clearly we’re taking some artistic liberties here to present each character’s equivalent of what their living spaces would look like (except klassje is on the run and doesn’t have a home iirc). But in reality this place would suck and Harry should have a better mattress.

[fazmid]

[spiribia]

the game's commentary is so profound

[atissi]

kras mazov lookin ass

[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”

[elesketchii]

pet dads…

[palmonlink]

i love this freak so much. i mourn all the people who never got to hear its beautiful voice.

[anthyies]

the thing about disco elysium is that it has women in it. what you see on the internet about it might lie to you about that but it has women, gay women even, very compelling women even, in it.

[sygneth]

Just a thought but let's stop for a moment and think about how Jean we see in the game is the worst version of himself, not his standard behavior, yes?

Like. He's been dealing with Harry's shit for a while now trying to keep him in line, excusing him to the captain and other precinct members, he's been cleaning his mess and all of this struggling with his own issues, just to hear that Harry "doesn't want to get better, he wants to get worse" and what Jean does is cramping his style and he should finally fuck off. When he comes back to Martinaise thinking that Harry's just playing his usual shit and tries to justify himself in the most stupid way, still being pissed for the fallout they had earlier (I mean, it's quite normal to be pissed after an argument, yeah) and then he finds out that no, Harry has really lost all his memory and doesn't remember shit. What makes him even more pissed, because, you know. You argue with somebody, you maybe expect an apology but you know you won't get it if you won't be the first to reach out, so you decide to do it anyway, and then you find out the other person doesn't remember what they did. And you're still pissed about that argument, and now also pissed, as you don't see any way of making up if they don't fucking remember and you don't really feel like explaining it to them, because you're still pissed. Well, it's not like there is no way, but for now, you're to mad to see it. You just wanted it to be over and you're stuck again.

Now let's add to this equation that one of the most important to him people don't recognize him and he cannot do anything about it. His boyfriend best friend doesn't remember him, at all. Something he didn't really expect when they argued and he left, probably thinking stuff like "this is so over" and "I don't want to know him anymore". (Careful what you wish, for, if you're unlucky enough, you may receive it). Sounds frustrating to me. Sounds like a very bad combination when you're already depressed and feel like shit yourself and deep inside you need someone, because you're a human and have human needs, but you get left with nothing.

Let's spice it up even more with the fact that Jean actually leaving Harry in Martinaise before the events from the game may suggest that some part of him noticed how unhealthy and mutually toxic their relationship was and that was an attempt of getting out of it, and not falling again into the same, old dependent patterns. And yet. If he didn't leave, there is a huge chance Harry wouldn't have drunk himself to oblivion. And well, it probably only adds to Jean being pissed and frustrated. Because if he didn't leave, he would be mad at himself for babysitting Harry once again and fixing his mess. And now he is mad at himself because he let Harry erase his memory. And being a Jamrock boy with no awareness and probably little connection to his own emotions he gets it out on Harry.

Oh yes, and half of the time he's probably really fucking anxious that someone will find out what has happened and they will all get dicked for it, possibly could even lose jobs, and while he wants to think it's all Harry's fault, it's actually their shared responsibility and he knows about it, so it only adds up.

So yeah, that was the worst week probably not only in Harry's life (but he's fortunate enough not to remember the worst part of it), but also in Jean's, and what we see is probably him acting in his worst possible way, as the sky has quite literally fallen onto his head. And I'm not saying it as "he's a real victim of the story". Many people are affected by Harry's behavior and many people are responsible for what happened, including Jean (and not only events from right before the game, but all the little mistakes and misunderstandings and unhealthy mechanisms they both with Harry got themselves into). Also, he's acting like an ass when he is angry and I'm not trying to deny it. I'm just noticing here that the narrative doesn't give us a representative sample of Jean Vicquemare, only the most shitty, pissed, frustrated, and anxious one.

[nonbinoclard]

excerpt from a conversation between me and a friend of mine

[phlegmykins]

Harry’s soul is vast and unfathomable (Please unmute) 

Link to Youtube

[ph-cutie]

tfw you dont wanna sit on the chair but you maxxed out electrochem instead of volition

[rynli]

shut up we’re so fuckin hetero-sexual

[floating-goblin-art]

Devastatingly cool