Thread 715227346

>97/100 on metacritic before the consoy versions came out
>one of the highest-rated, most well-regarded games of all time
>turns 6 this year
>hasn't inspired a single video game other than money-grubbing ex-ZA/UM employees scrambling to be the first to create a spiritual successor
Why is it culturally irrelevant?

>>715227346 (OP)
Too high concept and too much reading for the average gamer. Most people I've spoken to who've played it and "loved it" never beat it or got passed day 3

It's only culturally irrelevant to Trump voters, who keep getting betrayed by orange man while he and Bibi laugh at them.

>game for faggots who like to pretend to be esoteric enlightened commies didn't do anything
Disco Elysium is the ultimate
>media literacy
test because all of the reddit troons who played it utterly missed the point

>>715227346 (OP)
A few games have come out that have aped its style and all of them failed because none of them were original or had the writing quality. One of them is a straight up a furry game.

There are like 3 or 4 games announced every year that are direct copies of the game's style, but most never seem to come out. It has inspired a lot of people but they're probably socialists. Or commies. Or fascists. Not a based super star cop ultra liberal like me who is hustling, grinding, and solving 20 cases a day.

>>715227481
I really like how you can tell this is a thirdie just because of that comma

>>715227531
>>715227614
When do the Epstein files get released?

>>715227481
this this this this this this this this this :3 :3 :D

>>715227614
You must be ESL if you think that comma shouldn't be there.

>>715227630
probably around the same time that the retarded commies who made this game get paid LOL

>>715227346 (OP)
Why do commie stories always be like "the revolution happened but it sucked"
Do they not actually want a better world after all? Why not a comfy Animal Crossing slice of life moeshit game in the glorious Worker's Republic? Why all this grim shit?

>game
Sure.

Just like Depression Quest and Gone Home.

>>715227346 (OP)
I wanna play this but I've heard it's a huge timesink.

>>715227734
>>715227701
Shalom

>>715227346 (OP)
How exactly do you milk
>communism is the worst system except for all of the others; the video game

>>715227701
It's funny because Harry trooning out would 100% be a believable outcome

>>715227346 (OP)
it's inspired at least two video games that i can name since its release, and i'm sure there are more. it is possible to take subtle influence from a game without directly copying its style, which i actually respect more than what certain games try to do honestly

>>715227346 (OP)
>Why is it culturally irrelevant?

Because it's just a commie rant disguised as a murder mystery game.
Nobody who went into it for the murder mystery wanted the political input, and all the commies who played it are already commies, and obnoxious ones at that, so nobody listens to them.

Game didn't do anything unique, it was bad at roleplaying and choices didn't matter, it was awful at world building, it had no actual gameplay other than clicking continue after characters spew a wikipedia long wall of text.

It's just not interesting, or fun.

>>715227767
Commies are educated and realize the revolution is never good for the people who start it.
Chuds are learning that the hard way right now in America.

>>715227346 (OP)
>>hasn't inspired a single video game other than money-grubbing ex-ZA/UM employees scrambling to be the first to create a spiritual successor
Sure it has. You just haven't up. I'm not even talking merely "dialog is on the side now" , but actual greater focus on non-combat and MUH DEEP writing.

>>715227792
Literally impossible. He's a homophobic cop who hates minorities and only ever comes around to being accepting of either after lobotomizing himself. He'd think troons are disgusting even after his amnesia.

>>715227767
Real talk and not pol tard shit, most visible commies are plants. Ever notice how most anarchist and activist media always avoids the actual revolution or makes a claim that The New Boss is the Same as the Old Boss?
Every normal person knows a new state is going to suck for a while, but leftytroons want a rapture like "everything is perfect now" and feds fuck with them by constantly making media that says "actually it'll never stop sucking because humans are inherently evil, but also vote for Cause and Change"
You'll get nothing worthwhile out of Burgermutt leftoid slop
You gotta look to other countries for that

>>715227885
>homophobic cop
He literally cannot stop having homoerotic thoughts about Kim

>>715227346 (OP)
That shit is going to be real interesting.

>>715227885

Are you seriously trying to portray Harry as a chud when he's such a beta who gets constantly lectured by an ugly gay chink, manipulated by a pencil neck smoker dyke, and who's girlfriend aborted his child and left him for a richer man?

I know Harry is such a huge sexless lonely loser kickedaround by everyone so maybe that's why you find him relatable but pretending he's some "based" character is embarrassing.

>>715227946
literally not true. The only homoerotic thing that ever happens in this game is him going
>ok. gay people exist. cool.
You are just a retarded fujo

>>715227973
None of them will ever finish a game

>>715227928
Literally this. Revolutions going bad happen, and governments getting disrupted means shit gets pretty bad for a while. But that's not supposed to discourage you from trying. Curiously though, Edgelords and """Anarchists""" dominate activist media and they conveniently tell you to not try because sure Napoleon may be bad but Stalin will be worse so just vaguely protest and troon out, that's good enough
Same how so many "based conservatives" just so happen to be from the (((Tribe)))

>>715227701
cute

>>715227984
>I know Harry is such a huge sexless lonely loser kickedaround by everyone so maybe that's why you find him relatable but pretending he's some "based" character is embarrassing.
lmfao this says more about you than it does about me. Harry is a cop who hangs on to the fact that he used to be a gym guy in his early 20s. His life after that consists of being a stereotypical cop while managing his mess of a life with his wife.

>>715227346 (OP)
It's literally just a failed author that got butthurt his novels weren't selling so he made a """videogame""" (glorified VN) where every single aspect aside of the gameplay is liquid shit and retards who hadn't read a book since high school creamed their pants over it

>>715227346 (OP)
>>turns 6 this year
No way, this came out before COVID?

>>715228092

1. He wasn't a "gym guy", he was a high school gym teacher.
2. Stereotypical cop because he's a suicidal drunk? He didn't even want to be a cop and quit his coach job he loved to earn more money to please his girlfriend
3. He never had a wife, he had a girlfriend, who aborted his child and left him.

Harry is the embodiment of being a loser, which is hwy you're even trying to change his backstory so he doesn't remind you of you.

>>715228060
It's not that they tell you to vaguely protest. It's more "rise up against the Man, but the moment even a single person tries to consolidate power like a normal functioning government, that's proof the Revolution had been corrupted and the cycle is just starting over again and things will never improve. Revolutions only count if they function like cartoon Disney fantasy movies where killing the evil overlord immediately destroys the autocracy and Freedom and Democracy wash over the land automatically (Also the writer will make several dozen Twittoid posts shit talking cartoons and manchildren being incapable of understanding nuance unironically)"

>>715227604
>A few games have come out that have aped its style and all of them failed because none of them were original or had the writing quality. One of them is a straight up a furry game.
I need names!

>>715227984
>I know Harry is such a huge sexless lonely loser kickedaround by everyone so maybe that's why you find him relatable
T R V K E

>>715228257
Alan Moore....

>>715228238
>He wasn't a "gym guy", he was a high school gym teacher.
so much so that he's literally willing to kill himself to lift some weights to prove how manly he is
>Stereotypical cop because he's a suicidal drunk?
did you play the fucking game? lmao. He literally finds solace in his shitty cop job
>He never had a wife, he had a girlfriend, who aborted his child and left him
yeah the girlfriend which he lived in and shared a house and got her pregnant and-

>>715227885
>He'd think troons are disgusting even after his amnesia.
Yes, but he also thinks that he is disgusting himself.

Authority would yell at him to put on the stockings or he'll forever be a COWARDLY FAGGOT.

>>715227346 (OP)
writing is hard and dev studios would rather get level designers to do it

>>715228402
Authority would have him finish the job the moment he wakes up day one

>>715228376
>He literally finds solace in his shitty cop job
People who are in solace don't make constant jokes about killing themselves and drink so much they give themselves amnesia

>>715228376
>>715228508
Harry did hate to leave P.E. teaching and joined the police purely to earn more money, but he did get sucked in by the new job, so much so that it was one of the major things that scared Dora away. He was consumed by his cop work probably due to his connection with La Revacholliere, who is also the reason Harry and Dora had a relationship in the first place. So the city brought them together and then also became the reason why they couldn't remain together, le pottery.

That said, police work was seducing Harry while also destroying him. He most definitely was not finding solace in it, it made him obsessed, like a women. I personally think that Dora dumped Harry specifically because she realized that there's only enough place in Harry's life for one woman and Revachol already took it while she wasn't looking.

>>715228330
I recall V had to kill the person in charge repeatedly before the regime collapsed.

>>715229004
what the fuck are you schizo babbling about

>>715229091
Filtered

>>715227973
this shit is going to go absolutely nowhere

Bought, played it, got a 45 minutes in said “yeah, I’m done reading all this pretentious shit” and turned it off never played it again. And I’m someone who reads novels and poetry.

>>715229307
>And I’m someone who reads novels
Your Japanese waifu masturbation aides are not actual novels.

>>715227346 (OP)
>4 or 5 different projects from former devs
>3 or 4 indies that were extremely obviously influenced by DE
Even for games that aren't doing something similair, or even in the same genre, plenty of devs have said they were at least partially inspired or enjoyed DE and it's still held up as the gold standard for good writing in videogames.
>why is it culturally irelevant?
it isn't, but if you mean why aren't more people trying to do something similair, there's good reason. The setting and characters are a huge part of the appeal but you can't just rip those off and expect to succeed. The thing that really carried it was the writing, and the main writer for the game was a published and succesful author. Very, very few people are talented enough writers to write an entire novel that becomes succesful, and only a fraction of a percent of those that do will get a videogame made after their work, much less be directly involved in the writing of the videogame. Most people writing for games just aren't on that level. Even in terms of raw talent, it still takes lots of time and investment to write that much, and in ZA/UM's case, they had to cut a bad deal with a shitty business man to ensure they could get the funding to even make the thing, and it ultimately flopped when they lost the rights. DE is a miracle of the universe and we will not see another one anytime soon.

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I thought that was this thread for a moment and now I finally understand what really caused Harry's mental break.
>>715225071
>>715225237

>>715229514
K

>>715227346 (OP)
visual novel for pseuds
>>715227475
>>715227481
>>715227630
case in point

>>715227973
the only thing that will be interesting is if Kurvitz and Rostov can put the bottle down long enough and secure funding again to make something new.

need more schizocore media

>>715229702
What's The Birds?

>>715229702
I really can't take anyone seriously that talks about "reading books" and then posts the stuff we all had to read in high school. Get a grip and develop as a person, please.

>>715229856
Really good, really sad.

The Pale eroding physical reality is the best part of this game.

>>715227346 (OP)
>Why is it culturally irrelevant?
Gee I wonder why isn't a pretentious visual novel that doesn't have the decency to have any porn in it completely irrelevant. Let me think this out logically.
>Is it actually fun?
no.
>are the mechanics novel or interesting?
no.
>was the writing any good?
no.
Strangely when a game does nothing novel and even fails miserably at being a game it gets forgotten over time except by the retards who lauded it as the second coming of christ because it agreed with their communist sympathies.
Instead of understanding that this utter dreck is terribly written and worthless as a video game they just jerk themselves off in this thread about how "high concept" it is and how most gamers don't like to read.

>>715227973
well we know what at least two are

>>715229307
>someone who reads novels
this is only impressive to americans

>>715229778
Where's that comic from?

>>715227346 (OP)
>Why is it culturally irrelevant
any story focused indie dev you talk to will suck the dick of disco elysium so hard
there's probably plenty on itch.io that nobody has ever heard of, and Disco is unique enough that and copy attempts will be seen as too blatant
Pentiment definitely takes things from Disco, but it also flips stuff on its head in a way of "we know the player will assume this is just like Disco, so it'll be a twist"

>>715229929
>poor retard can't cope with his sister getting dick
this sounds terrible

>>715229881
You’re on 4chan right alongside me on Friday night, friendo. But yes I’m sure you’re far superior.

>>715229990
But enough about Harry

>>715229998
in the sense that I don't post pictures of myself reading freshman required reading material like I'm some sort of intellectual.

>>715229881

let’s be real here, no one actually read the “required” reading in school lol I sure as shit didn’t

>>715230130
>>715229881
and yet you're here on a video game board defending disco fucking elysium lmao

>>715230157
>let’s be real here, no one actually read the “required” reading in school lol I sure as shit didn’t
assuming your like me and american, that would explain the 40% literacy rate. the bar is on the fucking floor, I wish /v/ would stop talking about books

>>715230198
lol didn't play btw ghey commies

>>715230198
yeah, it's better than any of the edgy shit cormack mcarthur ever wrote

>>715229702
Imagine this faggot posting his self on /lit/. Makes sense you stick to /v/ now, lmao.

>>715229881
>these books are bad because...I (didn't) read them in high school
What a bizarre attempt at a gotcha.

>>715228060
revolutions may not suck but socialist revolutions do
Soviet, China, Cuba, North Korea,... even after 20 years they're still suck

I've read 134 books since October 2020 and think DE is great.

>>715229741
The real problem is that Disco had all the important story bits. Unless they just recreate disco and change all the names.

>>715230907
jacob deserved belle, edward is such a prick it's not even funny

>>715227973
I couldn't care less about any project besides whatever Robert and his gang are doing. And yes I am well aware there's a huge chance it will never see the light

pic related is what I see whenever someone mentions the "spiritual successors"

>>715231096
Summer Eternal's lead writer was one of the OG primary writers of Disco Elysium. Argo Tuulik wrote a large chunk of the script and is the writer of characters like Cuno and Evrart. It's about as legit as Kurvitz' new project.

>>715231272
okay you piqued my interest. I'll also look into that one if it ever goes anywhere

>>715227346 (OP)
>hasn't inspired a single video game
Pentiment exists faggot OP

>>715231508
HAHAHAHAHAAHSHAHAHhahaah

>>715231272
They seem crazy enough to make some real art
Lets hope theyre kept properly oppressed in order to pressure them into creating something good
Thats how you have to work an artist you know, the real ones anyway

>>715227973
Actually them all splitting and immediately pointing fingers at the other is how you can tell they were true believers.

>>715227346 (OP)
I DONT WANNA READ

>>715232330
Thats because you're bad at it

When I read its like I'm living each sentence in my head

>>715232508
>>715232330
>mfw my vision is so fucked up even with glasses
>reading books is a nightmare due to headaches
I still weather through it but damn afterwards I'm so exhausted I just end up taking long-ass breaks.

>>715229702
You should not be playing with your dads books.

Post memes.

>>715232330
the deluxe edition is almost fully voiced

>>715227346 (OP)
>communist game for retarded communists and troons
>fanbase is absolute trash of retarded communists and troons
>communists and troons try to grift each other to avoid working and they all fail

Color me surprised.

>>715233323
Very low IQ post. Are you circumcised?

>>715228001
you can literally think about him when you're about to start masturbating in the middle of the fucking street bro

>>715233772
>communist jew tranny trying to project to protect the communist tranny game

Not going to work.

>>715233870
Even lower IQ post.

>>715227346 (OP)
>Why is it culturally irrelevant?
Because everyone knows communism is fucking gay. All the retards and trannies sucking off the game in their big circle jerk isn't enough to make it relevant outside that circle.

>>715230820
There's actually a reason for that
Literally every one of those revolutions happened in countries that literally every Marxist was saying was not even remotely close to being ready for socialism
Russia's industrial working class was almost as small as its nobility
China straight up didn't have an industrial working class
Nor did Cuba now that I think about it
Actually I think the only country that even went communist that was "ready" for it was East Germany, which had been blown out and mega-raped in World War 2
So just about every communist country spent those 20 years just trying to actually create a working class in the first place, which you can't do in 20 years
China only pulled ahead by adopting capitalism which is coincidentally what Marx said you had to do first
And commies somehow think China betrayed communism

I think about this character of a daily basis

>>715235258
I love how many surface level experts this game attracts to shit on it.

>>715235451
HARRY

I liked this game but it’s like a point and click adventure for me. I’m not going to play it again for another 5 yrs.

>>715227928
>Every normal person knows a new state is going to suck for a while
For how long? Commie states never stop sucking

>>715227346 (OP)
>Why is it culturally irrelevant?
tumblr noses

>>715235258
This. No amount of communist or jew or tranny kvetching will ever make it work, cause no one except their circlejerk is buying into it.

slop

>>715227346 (OP)
it isn't. there are at least 3 successors in development right now from za/um and offshoot developers.

>>715227346 (OP)
>>hasn't inspired a single video game
It has inspired several actually. Just because triple a slop is all you play doesn't mean eveyrone does

>>715238106
>three groups of communist grifters with nothing to show

>>715227346 (OP)
pseudo intellectual "dialectic" writing meant to serve as propaganda
thats why its praised by gommies and booklets. even some devs admit to it, and all gommies secretly affirm this interpretation for gommie pride

its why most people cant even discuss or even mention its plot without political context, because the flashy game obfuscafes bad writing without substance only style.
its shallow, obfuscationary and lacks vision and meaning.
i can prove it to you easily. compare the writing in Disco to any well written RPG ever made and point out its strengths in theme, character or background. you wont find any as the comparison is too innocent without political slant. the game, memories of it and discussions of it exist in a bubble filled with politics to the degree that a good discussio (akin to what youd find for VTMB, NV, KOTOR2, DEUS EX) has not taken place yet and maybe never will

>>715238285
You sound like a cumburper. Wrapped your lips around a hog lately?

>>715227346 (OP)
karl marx

>>715238454
This. Commies literally cannot function without the circlejerk.

>>715238454
>its why most people cant even discuss or even mention its plot without political context
That's nothing to do with this game, it's just because of the particular flavor of brainrot that's been inflicted on you and many others on this board. You are, quite literally, obsessed with what people you will never meet IRL believe. It's projected from everything you say.

Sincerely, and from the bottom of my heart, go outside and touch grass.

>>715227346 (OP)
boring

>>715227346 (OP)
Yeah, the definition of overrated.

>>715227346 (OP)
The things that are inspired by DE die very quickly because of the demanding workload, or end up mediocre

>>715235708
>For how long? Commie states never stop sucking
communist countries have overseen the most dramatic improvements in living standards this century. the USSR and China lifted untold millions out of brutal, grinding poverty - millions that capitalism completely forgot about.

there are two sides to every story. people feared AND loved Stalin for a reason.

>touch grass
what happened to this place

>>715227885
He's homophobic because he's in the closet. When his mind starts coming back and he realizes this he starts censoring out the word faggot in conversations with Cuno because of the mental anguish it causes.

>>715230157
Ah, I went to a school that was ok not letting kids graduate.

>>715227346 (OP)
>97
>Literally 12 reviews

lol

>>715229990
Average Disco Elysium fan...

>>715227346 (OP)
It was great until they added voice acting.

>>715227346 (OP)
It's funny, but forgettable.

>>715227346 (OP)
>hasn't inspired a single video game
Rue Valley

>>715227346 (OP)
>Why is it culturally irrelevant?
Outdated ideas.

Game doesn't offer anything new or interesting to say, instead it recycles all the ideas we already know.
Game doesn't actually tell you any idea, it just discusses tired political tropes, for Communism it tells you that its good on paper but human nature makes it not work. For Fasicsm it literally pulls out stereotypes from Reddit like women bad and kill all minorities. For Centrists it tells you that you have no real position a mockery based on lies. For Capitalism it tells you corpo bad.
So overall the game doesn't say anything new, controversial or interesting, it just recycles all ideas you can find on any Reddit page.
The setting is post WW2 cold war eastern european town, which you can find in any film made during that period. Nothing really mindblowing.
-Characters are just caricatures with no personality
The story is barely there, the whole game is built around interactions with characters and a bunch of side quests to flesh the worldbuilding, the actual story has no weight and has no relevance or context.

>>715232330
Why are you on a forum, reading what people write then? You do realize that if you compiled all the posts you've read in this year only you'd probably have enough words for 3-4 books?

>>715227346 (OP)
I'm still mad this dogshit overrated game stole best indie awards from Outer Wilds (an actual creative & unique work of art)

>>715227767
>Do they not actually want a better world after all?
nigga i wanna be a party apparatchik who fucks hoes and kills proles not some gayass better world shit

>>715229702
>Meditations
nice.

>>715244751
So it's not only a commie game but also a fag one as well?

>>715245683
You can really tell when someone got mad about the game's portrayal of fascists.

>>715227885
No, Harry is the kind of nigger who will tell you he hates all trannies and black people immediately before going to hang out with his black tranny friend, without the slightest hint of irony.

>>715227481
this

>>715244570
Disco fanbase consist of 16-18 years old that think its super cool and smart to call this game a fav

>>715244284
Those happened DESPITE and not because of communism.

>>715229307
>>715229702
>being basically literate is some kind of epic own in today's world
Gay. Also, of course you won't like flowery stuff if all you read is extremely depressing shit. I can't believe anyone actually reads Grapes of Wrath for "fun."

>>715246094
how are they all so fucking fat holy shit

>>715245917
You can really tell when the midwit retards who fellate this trash have no argument.

There's two reasons this game sparks no discussion: its fans are too retarded to carry a conversation and the emperor has no clothes and nothing of substance to discuss.

>>715245683
>instead it recycles all the ideas we already know.
So like the first Deus Ex.

>>715247102
I'm not looking to have an argument, I'm just laughing at you.

>>715228376
>He literally finds solace in his shitty cop job
Apparantly solace is when you become addicted to speed to keep up with the workload, repeatedly threaten to shoot yourself in front of a bunch of civillians, drive your police cruiser into the sea and drink yourself into a coma and amnesiac episode.

>>715246250
>Those happened DESPITE and not because of communism.
"it wasn't real communism"?

>>715227346 (OP)
because the only people who glaze it as a masterpiece are agps, fags, leftoids, individuals who in general cannot create anything that does not appeal to their bubble so it has been forgotten just like any other game with such an audience

>game releases
>everyone starts raving about it
>usually when the masses rave about a game like this it's shit
>this one seemed unique tho, so I pirate it out of curiosity knowing close to nothing about it
>intro starts with a quote
>"oof, too pretentious already"
>amazing music starts
>interaction in pic attached happens
>think to myself "yeah this is a true rock n roll game"
>get hooked instantly
>shortly after that the game even allows you to be a commie
>get hooked even more
DE is based and redpilled

>>715229778
WHERE THE FUCK IS THAT COMIC FROM, LIKE SERIOUSLY IT APPEARS TO BE PART OF A GREATER SET OF COMICS BUT AFTER USING 6 DIFFERENT AI SEARCH SYSTEMS AND AN ARRAY OF 100 DIFFERENT IMAGE SEARCHES I STILL COME UP NOTHING

>>715227481
You could have done a lot better on that comment.

>>715246094
oh say can you seeeeee

>>715227346 (OP)
it's too unamerican
americans can't comprehend politics more complicated than "two teams, my team based, your team cringe"

>>715227875
what game is this

>>715227346 (OP)
its greatest achievement is being able to show that all the variety of tankies and anarkiddies can actually finish something together before the inevitable infighting

>>715229778
did u make this yourself?

>>715254867
except the fighting started because of the capitalist
a true reflection of life
we should really sodomize the landowners someday

>>715254604
Clam Man 2
There's only a demo out, game's not finished so that anon is a faggot

>>715229702
>several works of mccarthyslop
stop watching video essays

>>715246456
texas

>>715227614
>Trump voters who keep getting betrayed
referring to a subset of all Trump voters who keep getting betrayed; not a quality of all Trump voters, only of those who keep getting betrayed
>Trump voters, who keep getting betrayed
referring to all Trump voters - who keep getting betrayed, the fools

I guess this is why over 60% of Americans read can't read at a middle school level. I always had trouble believing in that statistic, but...

>>715257765
>all trump voters are betrayed
amazing how people keep saying this when he's doing everything he was voted to do. literally making up "betrayed" voters like his voter was anti isreal or something

>>715227346 (OP)
only twitter lefties played it

>>715257930
Pretty sure his retarded redneck base didn't want him to take their government programs away. They wanted him to take them away from *them*, not "us."

>>715257995
not exactly a small group of people

>>715258028
You retards are literally living in an imaginary reality.

>>715257930
>>715258028
It's a mix. He directly promised
>lower the national debt
>release full JFK and Epstein files
And did the opposite of those things. Less directly, he promised
>to rework medicaid without taking it away
>to end the wars in Israel and Ukraine
>to not start new wars
>to immediately begin mass deportations of all brown people
And has either failed to deliver or modified his position on those things.
The bits where his voters are retarded for being mad are
>supporting Israel
>revamping the Federal bureaucracy to directly support him
>enacting widespread tariffs
Because he was very consistent about wanting to do those things throughout the entire campaign.

>>715229929
Yeah, this sounds awful. The rest of the books in that stack I read at 14-15 over a decade ago. Was that other anon right, were you rejected by /lit/?

>>715258575
His supporters will call you a Jew for this, despite him being among the most Jewish presidents we have had yet.

>>715260223
No… they won’t. You don’t understand who Trump loyalists are, in the slightest.

>>715227475
What a low concept post.

>>715229702
Meme books.

>>715229702
Looks comfy

>>715229929
That actually does sound pretty good, and it's not a meme pick. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that that stack is just what happens to be within arms reach.

>xir's thread reaches page 8
>>bumps with irrelevant unfunny one liner
>xir's thread reaches page 8
>>bumps with irrelevant unfunny meme
>xir's thread reaches page 8
>>bumps with irrelevant unfunny one liner
You couldn't pay me to live in your sad desperate head for a single second.

>>715239648
>go outside and touch grass
ironic coming from a twitter leftist. you people couldn't be further out of touch with the real world

Hardcore!

>>715244284
>communist countries have overseen the most dramatic improvements in living standards this century
I think you mean last century. The industrialization of USSR was done in a horrendous manner that left many people destitute or just dead. But the USSR didn't care about the loss of life, because it was an authoritarian nation. And China under communism oversaw massive humanitarian catastrophes, that left millions of their citizens dead. It only started to rapidly develop economically after they decided to privatize half of their economy, because they realized the planned economy model doesn't work. And those two weren't the most rapidly economically developing countries of the past century. That would be capitalist Japan post WW2.
>the USSR and China lifted untold millions out of brutal, grinding poverty
They killed millions in the process. But they didn't care, because they were authoritarian.
>people feared AND loved Stalin for a reason
People were forced to love Stalin because he enforced a cult of personality around himself, and killed everybody around him. Once he died, it was immediately acknowledged by the new rulers that he was a bad thing for the country and USSR started going through a period of de-Stalinization.

It's one thing to be a fucking commie, but to defend the failed communist projects that fell into brutal authoritarian rule that had fuck all to do with communism is something else.

>>715229965
>>715252564
It's from a webcomic called The Accidental Space Spy by Oyvind Thornsby

>>715227475
This is true, it is just too much reading. I've played the first three days over 36 times now and I still end up booting up another title as it once again slides into my backlog for another 6 months only for me to attempt 37 and then have it happen all over. I just wish the game was simple enough that I could remember what the fuck i was doing when I came back so I wouldn't have to start over.

Nigga I ain’t reading all that snarky unfunny lefty bullshit

>>715252564
I can't say for sure if it's him but the style is highly reminiscent of Øyvind Thorsby's stuff like Hitmen for Destiny.

>people still think disco elysium is some kind of communist propaganda game
i think the only reason i come to 4chan anymore is to feel better about myself by comparison. i sincerely cannot believe you are all so fucking stupid.

>>715245810
Outer Wilds is terrible.

>>715253537
kek, like 80% of this thread are said Americans sperging bout communism.

>>715268071
I love how there's always such an i depth review of socialism and communism but centuries of exploitation of the global south and lives consumed for the machine for the sake of capitalism are always just handwaved.

>>715269509
The red scare was a disaster for my race, pls understand

>>715269101
The entire point of the game is what kind of cop are you? It's so obvious if you actually played the game.

>>715269101
the 4chan experience improves immensely once you realize that ~80% of posters are retards. not just dim-witted, but legally handicapped — they're the type of people you might have seen eating glue in 8th grade, for example. once you learn to identify them, this site becomes such a joy to use.

>>715269101
What can I say. Americans are fucking retarded. Look at the state of their country. It consists of various political sects and they sperg nonstop and base their entire lives around tribalism. They're actual drones. Unthinking.

>>715270582
you're currently engaging in tribalism senpaitchi

>>715270813
Nope. Mere observations. I have never engaged in politics. This game makes Americans mad because of this mode of thinking.

>>715227346 (OP)
>hasn't inspired a single video game other than money-grubbing- AAAACCCKKKKKKK!!!

>>715269101
>>715270352
>rightoid 4chaners aren't smart like me!
and the devs calling-out out marx at the VGAs was just coincidence, right? As usual, the irony from unemployed leftists never stops

>>715270998
>disco elysium invented visual novels despite being a point and click game

>>715270013
>but centuries of exploitation of the global south
If you're referring to things like colonialism, then those were carried out predominantly under feudal empires, not under liberal free-market democracies. The latter is a relatively modern concept. And what does exploitation even mean in the modern context? Trading with a country that perpetuates human rights abuses in the production of the goods it sells? Sure, you can make that critique, but it wasn't really any different in "communist" countries. Hell, some of the biggest-scale systemic human rights violations in the modern world are perpetuated in China. Plus it's not something inherent in capitalism. You could easily draft legislation that would prohibit trade on such terms, it's just that people don't really care that much. And it's not like you can control the way another nation organizes their country in a way that would be ethical from the contemporary perspective. You can at most decide to not trade with them, but such trade in many cases is a lifeline for the people in those countries, where their governments are too weak to effectively govern. So it's definitely something you would have to consider.

>>715270914
bro saying "all x people are y, unlike my people w, who are z" is the actual definition of tribalism

>>715227928
That's an elaborate conspiracy but the USSR was a real attempt at real-communism and it was awful and humans are as evil as ever even under communism.

>>715270013
When [new thing] comes about, asserts itself, then burns down repeatedly, the atrocities of [old thing] matter less than [new thing] both needing those atrocities to function (minimum level of development and wealth to transition the market) and then burning everything down in pursuit of itself before finally either collapsing entirely or transitioning back into [old thing] with red paint on.

>>715227928
most visible political actors in general are plants

>>715229076
And then he put a whore in charge, lmao

>>715227475
Stop talking about me.

>>715231927
kek