Ok so I just finished disco elysium for the first time and I gotta say I'm kind of, surprised I guess for all the hype I saw for it from here? Feel free to call me dumb and that I missed that whole point but I felt like it was so hard on communism as an idea and communists as people that I was left with nothing at the end but "communism is a hopeless shot in the dark and trying to be a decent person in the hellscape world will end up with you dead, safer just to be a musclebound fascist who fucks bimbos all day or an elon musk who accumulates so much wealth they are above the laws of physics" Like I get those characters and ideas in the context of the situations and what they are saying there, but the over all vibe left me feeling nothing but demoralized about communism. Did I just not "get it?"

  • Bluegrass_Buddhist [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    communism is a hopeless shot in the dark and trying to be a decent person in the hellscape world will end up with you dead

    I mean, it kind of is and it kind of will. At least in the context of a desperate, declining U.S. / Eurocentric world order. No one alive today will live to see The Revolution, much less enjoy the benefits of a communist society. I think that's the moral challenge of the game. Knowing it's hopeless, at least in your lifetime, will you fight anyway? Will you plant trees under whose shade you'll never sit?