To be fair, you have to have a very high class consciousness to understand Disco Elysium. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of the immortal science most of the jokes will go over a typical player's head. There's also HDB's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his copotypes draw heavily from Honoré de Balzac works, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE UNDER CAPITAL. As a consequence people who dislike Disco Elysium truly ARE fascists- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in HDB's existential "Horrific Necktie" dialogue, which itself is a cryptic reference to fascism/fashion dialectics. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Robert Kurvitz's genius wit unfolds itself on their monitor. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Kitsuragi tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 CC points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
To be fair, you have to have a very high class consciousness to understand Disco Elysium. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of the immortal science most of the jokes will go over a typical player's head. There's also HDB's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his copotypes draw heavily from Honoré de Balzac works, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE UNDER CAPITAL. As a consequence people who dislike Disco Elysium truly ARE fascists- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in HDB's existential "Horrific Necktie" dialogue, which itself is a cryptic reference to fascism/fashion dialectics. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Robert Kurvitz's genius wit unfolds itself on their monitor. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Kitsuragi tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 CC points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎
Reading that in my head in the game's main narrator voice makes it funnier. :kitsupogi: