#roger dlc spoilers

[raspberry-vinaigrette]

i am pondering dialtown peter since i just did the roger dlc good end. warning in advance for roger dialtown dlc spoilers. cool? cool anyways

i just think like. okay the good ending cutscene with peter is kind of. abrupt. and confused people according to doggo and i can see why, it's... a bit weird in tone and isn't built up to as well as it could've been imo. no shade to the ending though the ending is fuckin AWESOME and that roger speech shook me to my core. however i think the peter intrusion can be reinterpreted to be really interesting with a bit of canon wiggle room, so to speak, because like --

imagine you are peter. you're the straight-laced, responsible co-manager of the factory, and you have been for a while. you know that you aren't easy to get along with and you don't really try to change this. it keeps things under wraps. it's all you can really do when everything around you is chaotic and wacky and you're so consistently left out of the loop. things are done without you being consulted. you feel like a joke so you have to prove you're the only thing that isn't. and really, it's your fault, in a way. you're the villain here for letting these things happen. you are to blame.

and then there's your best friend roger. you feel, sometimes, like he's the only person youre tangibly helping. you got him off of alcohol. you're always the one he leans on, always the one checking in. he is a good man. life has dealt him a bad hand, and people laugh at him sometimes, but you know he's good. he tries so hard. you wonder if maybe you aren't trying hard enough, but maybe your destiny is just to be this way. you don't think about it. he seems happy around you and that's enough, you suppose. and then management changes.

for all you know you are responsible, you also believe there is something rotten within you. something that will only weigh others down. you are able to be so very normal amidst the chaos of work, but you believe you can't be personable. you're too methodical, too straightforward, too managerial. and people want a person to talk to them, not a rigid machine. you look in the mirror and wonder how much of you is just the phone on your head. you look in the mirror and wonder who you are. but you can't fathom a good man like roger could look in the mirror and see anything but the sun. you trust him. you know he's a trainwreck, a mess, clumsy and irresponsible sometimes, but he's a good man. you know he can prove himself. maybe if you just keep at arms length, don't take over too much like you tried last time...

and things are a mess anyway. things are worse. and you begin to wonder if maybe you're the issue. if maybe your destiny is just to take over and rule with an iron fist, because that is the only way things can be done. this rot inside you, this thing that is clearly only making roger worse by your presence -- it must be killed at the source. so you have to play the game. you know what has to happen, don't you? you have to take over. and then everyone will be miserable, and roger will see how good he is, how much potential he has, and he will usurp you. he will be good. he will surprise everyone. and the rotten festering thing will be taken out, and he will never be dragged down again. because it must be you holding them back. you're the common denominator.

you're the villain.

peter doesn't understand that not being the boss is better for roger. he doesn't comprehend he is likable as a person moreso than he is a corporate entity, a responsible manager -- the only person he may believe likes him beyond that is caroline, and even then he has a fucking board discussion about if he should be allowed to act more than completely rational and reasonable, with a pros/cons list! yeah that's meant to be a jokey dialogue scene but i still think it reflects how peter tries so hard to be rational and reasonable and i think to some extent he believes that makes him less human. roger is so bright, of course he can surprise people and show them the sun! peter may be good at management but how far will that get him when surely nobody wants to directly associate with him? he is a menace.

he does not understand that roger cares so deeply for him, the same way roger doesn't understand people love him without him having to prove himself. idk. this is only half canon and its kinda text extrapolation and interpretation to fit w the ending scene but its an interesting thought

[tigsbitties]

hey! get back to work on that presentation!

[loumoonz]

ROGER DLC stuff :)

[waddlephone]

Finally got all endings in the DLC and dude it was AMAZING, specially loved the evil route because gaslighter Gingi is hillarious.

Individual versions under the cut.

[m0thwinged]

last three standing.

[irradiatedsnakes]

we're not even finished with the evil route yet but it's feeling QUITE bad. fellas the situation is BAD

[trans-object-heads]

roger's desktop if anyone wants it

[ardentblooms]

objectum roger propaganda

get your own for €5

[thedogofchristmaspast]

me when i replay the entire evil route with the name frothbaby, expecting one or two lines about it at most, because i really like dialgoue, and the game instead chooses to point out a lot of the insecurities i've been heavily struggling with of recent like OKAY. i GUESS.

(i also recorded it for anyone who wants to see it but doesn't want to replay the whole route/doesn't have the game. because HOLY SHIT. please excuse the small audio issues recording on top of playing a game using wineskin was making my laptop overheat like crazyyyy)

so like. roger's route is ABSOLUTELY a story about neurodivergence right. like it was already pretty clear but this scene hammers it in pretty hard...he's SO adhd coded i'd be genuinely super surprised if it wasn't intentional. i mean it Has to be right? i'm not insane??

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DIALTOWNMAXXING

[swagishh]

5th and 7th period duddle

[tigsbitties]

collection of squinkies

[sunsetfly]

The parallels between them are fascinating in this dlc.

[simbii]

Theyre so silly,,, buddies Fr

[m0thwinged]

whiteboard doodle i ended up really liking....here you go tumblr...

[irradiatedsnakes]

HATE THIS THING