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?"
Did you do the political vision quest for communism? Because I thought that was truly beautiful. IMO, being a communist often DOES feel like a hopeless, scary thing. But like in the political vision quest, if you can stack the matchboxes just right, something amazing can happen
The game itself is really just amazingly written, and the finale with the
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:: insulindian phasmid absolutely blew me away.
100 percent agree, I love that vision quest and honestly think that's the point where the writers showed their hand most explicitly in terms of their personal politics. While it pokes fun at sectarianism and theory, when you compare it to the other quests which range from outright jokes (ultraliberalism) to pathetic (fascism) to downright sinister (Moralism), it's pretty clear where they stand. It's the only vision quest that really has an overall hopeful tone (we do be living in dark times, but the stars don't seem like they're gonna go out anytime soon).