God i love the extended metaphor of a "tape recorder" as Harry's thoughts and feelings molding around the new world he's learning about that appears all over this game "Spining on empty, forever," "a magnetic tape reader on the world," to UI for the text display scrolling out like a thin strip of tape and all the sound effects and now "like a man who's heard the same record one too many times" for Kim's persistent experience with racism in the RCM Good shit

Passing the authority check: Peace and love on planet Earth. Watered my crops, cleared my skin, healed my soul etc Failing the authority check: If Kim shot me I would thank him

The empathetic me, and proud pro detective rachovolian just aches at the image of this lmaoo just pathetic lmaoo god

What happens if you stop dancing immediately and apologize?

The moment when you shoot down the corpse and it KNEELS infront of you will NEVER not make you feel like a badass

Speaking to Joyce mad me hope she is a cannibal, he'll she could eat me

Damn, the difference in the voice acting of the corpse now and then is like night and day

I reloaded a save from an hour prior just to avoid this, it was too painful.....

I passed this check and thank god 😭i had no idea the risk i was taking. Luckily i just got to see kim bust a move

I didn’t realise you could apologise, I just save scummed because I thought he was gone forever

I never even tried to open it, since I had nothing specked to Interfacing and I fully expected Harry to throw himself against it and lose health.

I murdered Mordin Solus in Mass Effect, I did the Genocide Run in Undertale, Ive sided with the Legion in New Vegas and killed numerous children for power in Bioshock. All of this was done in the name of 100%ing a game. But this shit is asking too much. I care more about not disappointing Kim than I do my own parents.

I love how the voices in your head are just fully against you

Harry is litelary me (I wanna kms)

What's the OST's name for this encounter?

“Kisses, kisses, kisses…”

i think i took irl morale damage from hearing kim angry during the continuing to be a dick portion i had to pause and regain my composure

I LOVE KIM SO MUCHH

I love how harry continues dancing as kim storms out lol

I'm sorry *what*

This genuinely made me sick to my stomach

This game is almost impossible to do alternate runs with, I just can't bear to be a dick sometimes. Especially not to *ahem* Lieutenant Kutsuragi.

The "get this *one* thing right" always hits so hard... Harry must feel so defeated and useless at this point, so much that he thinks it is the only option and yet, he feels like he can fail at it... so embarrassed, devalued and stripped of his sense of worth. It's really sad to see how his self-esteem failed him and the circumstances won over him.

great video!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I OPENED EVERY FUCKIN'! NOOOOOOOOO! IMPOSSIBLE! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I have to remind myself that it's all fiction to stop myself feeling ashamed just for watching; that's how effective the writing is. Wow.

I started a new game just to open this goddamn door and after 10 attempts I read on the Internet that this door will never open. existential crisis

Normally Harry would be in a middle of a break down. Here, he is breaking down.

I may have missed this, but the video doesn't seem to have what happens when she kills you with the compressors damage

I could listen to her for days, thank you for not skipping the voiceover

I had a ridiculously low Authority on my first playthrough and didn't understand how skill points worked so I had to see Harry sucking Kim's gun over and over and over and

YOUR STATS BETRAYS YOUR DEGENERACY.

I love this one because you not only dissappoint Kim, but Volition as well. That "That's it? You don't even want to change?" is so powerful. Volition is one of the only aspects of yourself that are actively trying to cheer you up and make you a better person, and cop despite the situation. And yet there it is, absolutely disappointed at your own incompetence.

Same with 2nd shot during tribunal. I rolled two 6 there and although in the text menu i had written sucess. I had a failure screen and same result. The game was rigged from the start.

Electro-chemistry telling you will keep the bad thoughts away like, mf you're the one telling me not to recover from alcoholism and drug abuse💀

Pig on pig emotional damage.

I'm gonna go play a genocide run in Undertale to lighten up the mood

ngl as i was done with the dialogue i tried to click the button to leave and misclicked and died💀

Truly a realistic and horrifying portrayal of the awful plight of the white-identifying Hapa. Torn between his 75%/25% ancestry, what can he do? In his heart he is 'white,' yet he does not 'pass.' And so he is cursed as the man who does not belong! The man of nowhere! One day he shall stand before his ancestors and ask them why they chose to inflict this fate upon him! What could they tell him then? Love? _Love!_ They had not looked ahead, not thought of the consequences that he would be forced to carry?

You can shoot a kid in this game, and yet this is still somehow quite possibly the most evil thing you can do.

I am ashamed of you. Why would you ever do that?

I got a critical failure and got this outcome. I really thought this was scripted😭

Im depressed af right now, and this video made me laugh. This game is great.

Do communists not own ladders?

But why did she leave me then?

the confusion and shock in Volition's voice when it says, 'So that's it? You don't even *want* to change?' really gets me. even harry's own fractured psyche thinks he's a cunt.

This game may be the best written game ive ever played.

Margaret Thatcher jumpscare

Just played this game for the first time and the rhetoric check here was the only 97% I failed on the entire game. Made me seriously question my no-savescum rule, but ugh

this i think is the only truly impossible check other than the leg shot, might be wrong tho.