A video essay on the difference between Disco Elysium's treatment of politics and the woke propaganda of other games. Ultimately, it's a difference of genuin...
Yeah, Harry ends up a blabbering depressed maniac at the end of the fascism quest. There's a theme of constantly harming yourself, the game portrays fascist ideology as self-harm. You'll constantly get voices to tell you to move on from Dora, or the life you had, but your Endurance stat is the one that keeps pushing Harry into fascism. I took that to mean he believes the self-harm makes him stronger, that if he can endure the pain he inflicts to himself, he'll survive a world he believes has abandoned him. It's fucked and sad.
Also, the skill for communism is Rhetoric, which I interpreted to mean Harry needs to reason and talk himself into being a leftist, since communism's not something he ever considered much before his amnesia. He's just some dumbass cop who doesn't know any better, but all the Mazovian theory seems to make sense, doesn't it?
There’s a theme of constantly harming yourself, the game portrays fascist ideology as self-harm.
4ch!n's /pol/ and /r9k/ and even /b/ communities openly practice this, brag about it, and make it into a competition to see who can "numb" themselves the most.
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Yeah, Harry ends up a blabbering depressed maniac at the end of the fascism quest. There's a theme of constantly harming yourself, the game portrays fascist ideology as self-harm. You'll constantly get voices to tell you to move on from Dora, or the life you had, but your Endurance stat is the one that keeps pushing Harry into fascism. I took that to mean he believes the self-harm makes him stronger, that if he can endure the pain he inflicts to himself, he'll survive a world he believes has abandoned him. It's fucked and sad.
Also, the skill for communism is Rhetoric, which I interpreted to mean Harry needs to reason and talk himself into being a leftist, since communism's not something he ever considered much before his amnesia. He's just some dumbass cop who doesn't know any better, but all the Mazovian theory seems to make sense, doesn't it?
4ch!n's /pol/ and /r9k/ and even /b/ communities openly practice this, brag about it, and make it into a competition to see who can "numb" themselves the most.