"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would *critique* capital end up *reinforcing* it instead."

​@@chronotunes3663I don't understand, could someone explain this?

​@normalguycap Easy answer Che Guevara shirt sold for profit, Rage against the machine selling tickets for millions more serious answer look at how much the narrative of "taking down the evil wealthy elite" is sold in media and not just from some 'indie' book/movie/game studio but by massive corporations, films like the Glass Onion are a perfect example of this it's a film about how horrible the wealthy are, starting wealthy actors and made by a wealthy director for profit even more seriously look at how many "Anti-Capitalist leftists!" Jumped into the arms of the military industrial complex in the last couple of years."This time, it's for a good reason!" The people meant to be the harshest critics of the system completely subsumed and consumed by it to the point of supporting the very worst aspects of it. Both the 'wealthy elite' and 'revolutionary critics' end up selling the same empty and hollow idea of rebellion.

​@@normalguycap Basically, no matter how much you criticize existence and the flaws present within it, you will always be contributing to those flaws in some way or another regardless of whether you're right or wrong.

@@Mariodash23 Hmm, okay thank you.

He is only one of the writers, sure he may be the author of the setting and one of the lead developers, but people forget that majority of the game was made by many other talented people. Just saying.

@@NoName-ym5zj Ok, 390 IQ decision.

​@@NoName-ym5zjAnd yet it backfired nonetheless. Authors are a thing, take it or not, it's a thing

@@lorenzomeulli750 I just don't like how people ignore all the other 90% of the team who worked on the game and are responsible for most of it.

​@@NoName-ym5zj You know there's only like 1 original writer who hasn't been fired left right?

the ultimate ironic twist DISCO ELYSIUM!!!

[ENCYCLOPEDIA Medium : Success] : *Fortress Accident were a game development studio working on "Wirrâl Untethered", an extremely ambitious radio roleplaying game about the heat death of the universe.*

Not really Fortress Accident, from what we see, seems to have failed specifically because of developers' feature creep and inability to set and meet deadlines. The big money men did not contribute to its death whatsoever. ZA/UM's failure, on the other hand, stems from the big money men strangling competent developers as hard as they can.

Literally not at all what happened to Fortress Accident, they fell to lack of direction and feature creep, whereas ZA/UM was taken by corporate mismanagement/IP theft. Not even remotely the same thing. Your comment suits your profile picture

Zaum was actually called fortress occident at first

[HALF-LIGHT] Look at his shit-eating grin. Fire him. Do it now.

I think it it more of a LOGIC or CONCEPTUALIZATION dialogue. The ENCYCLOPEDIA would probably comment on how there was a game studio that made a bad decision some time ago.

proof? Links?

CAP

Pinned post by searching my youtube url in tumblr Its in the Posts section. Under "Free Disco Elysco"

@@victoralexandervinkenes9193 No cap fr boi. I didnt download it yet but STILL

@@RainbowGod666 Are you absolutely sure it's the real one, cheif?

That's how youtube algorithms work, you'll never know

there was another wave of bad news. pretty relevant now

@@user-lk4ge3ns2g what happened?

@@chronotunes3663 de2's officially dead and za/um is crumbling for real

Red Tube gods blessed you for now Sonny.

generally it is less bad, but you can always refund the game.

You're one of my favorite youtubers on disco elysium, so good to see ya

🏴‍☠️ it, it's easy to find. last time it was on sale on steam people reblogged the key to the game on tumblr so people could just play it for free lol. highly recommend, easily top 5 games of all time for me

Piracy:

have you heard of a little website called fitgirl repack

It is easily one of the best games ever made in its category. I highly recommend playing by any means necessary.

The game itself was made before all the drama. That’s the best case of ethical piracy I can think of.

So was the old writer? Disco elyisum is very hopeful and optimistic at times. It was cynical, but it showed people could move past that into something better. The game literally ends (assuming you didn't fuck up) solving the case and being once again respected by your cop peers, you literally improve lives in the game via your actions. This seems like a very narrow-minded view of Disco. Yeah, it said the world sucked and everything was shit but that didn't make it *cynical* Not even saying the new writer is good, just this is a weird ass take on game.

@@boodle399 i didnt say the game was cynical (although it is) i said the writer was cynical. Old writer: communism is doomed and stupid. The old guard are insane murderers who conducted purges and legalised boy buggering, the new are naive overeducated young people who gatekeep against other communists instead of doing anything, and the best bet for a communist revolution and a free Revachol is an asshole who is turning Martinese into the heart of an international drug operation. And even then, the immense forces of the corrupt colonialist international government will just flatten the city again to stop it if they try. New writer: communism is here, the people are rebuilding after the war that gave them freedom, the tyrannical evil has been overthrown, and the people dare to smile again.

@@TheAussieBlue fair enough

@@TheAussieBlue I didn't read the book club guys that way. It seemed more like a hopeful, yet careful critique of the modern communist movement. I think the scene where you build the tower piece by piece with them really demonstrates it well: Communism isn't built in a day, and if we want to achieve it, we must work together and build it carefully, block by block. The seemingly impossible structure is held together by the collective plasm of the builders, and, even if only for a moment, something amazing stands, a testament to hope in a dying world.

@@mogim815 Yeah this is the way. And even then the moment you feel a bit of doubt the whole system just crumbles apart. It's meant to show you how there could be hope for something so inplausible in a world like Elysium, or even our own. It's a longuing for something that seemingly can't be, yet you still desperately wish for it to be so. It's disco-core. "In dark times, should the stars also go out?"

Will say they fired the person who litterally created the world. Disco elysium is a prequel to a book the creator wrote (imagine if georfe lucas made a starwars game and then he got kicked off of it and suddenly he's not the creator). It IS their intelectial property. Studios stealing stuff pf writters is bad eneugh as is.

Those 3 are the people who created and directed the IP. Removing them means all you have left is a trademark.

Well unfortunately the current news suggests that they won't. They've cancelled the sequel and the expansion and are axing a third of the workforce.

they cancelled disco elysium 2 few days ago so no my dear fellow, they wont make any more games at all cause those 3 are gone, the actual talent lol

@@Bleilock1 there will likly be a spiritual successer. By the same artists

this. it was clear they've screwed themselves when instead of working on "expansions" everyone's so sad about they opened a fucking disco elysium-themed boutique. as much as love the game, the obnoxious alco-bohemia got what it deserved

you're cringe

dude we get it nobody likes you

Trash comment and you cared enough to make it.

this is totally bait

**Growls!** I'M SO FREAKING MAD!!!

RHETORIC [Very Easy: Success] - He's just slinging around volatile words with no thought to provoke reactions. LOGIC [Medium: Success] - Judging by the name, it's possible there was not a even a person responsible for these words. It could just as well be an automated reply. CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - Like a thin veneer of wood that when stripped away, has nothing but a vacant hole underneath. HALF LIGHT [Challenging: Success] - I want. To kick his teeth in.