https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/comments/1fmauim/my_experience_playing_disco_elysium_as_a_former/

  • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    2 months ago

    My lib co-worker is playing this rn and I said 'just be yourself' in regards to playing it and he's having a lib version of that experience. DE rules cause it shows that everyone who isn't a communist is evil or stupid and that communists are the best cause we're just annoying

    • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      A friend did a lib play through and told me the game was mean to him and just called him a loser a lot haha

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        A friend did a lib play through and told me the game was mean to him and just called him a loser a lot haha

        Tbf that happens if you play as a communist too.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        Co-worker and I have spent like 30 hours each week together for almost 3 years, so we have a good rapport but if you're familiar with rlm, I am the Mike to his Rich Evans big time. We both like doing bits and I'm too punk rock and weird looking to play the straight man, he is Everymancore as hell and is totally aware of it. So that was sorta his experience but I think I cushioned the blow for him there. Also I make fun of him in the nicest way which is making up a detailed and elaborate fake backstory that I tell other people with a straight face in front of him. He goes along with it. Like he was on an episode of Nanny 911 that was pulled from the air and can't be found anymore, he was born with a small but noticeable tail, he can escape any man made prison, he's the sole beneficiary in Steven Segall's will for reasons he can't legally disclose and everything ill in the world is somehow his fault. I noticed he was kinda the whipping boy and decided to start making up really outlandish shit to blame on him cause despite for sure having some weaknesses at the job, he was getting too much shit and so I'd blame stuff like the war in Ukraine on him so that blaming him became a gag and therefore the legit raking him over the coals got lost in the noise. Inversely sometimes people feel a bit too comfortable bullying the guy cause of how we relate and I will cut that shit off fast, we have a thing where it's known we're both doing comedy and it's a long develloped shtick. He got me a ds9 model kit out of the blue after hearing I was gonna buy it and I make him 3d DnD setpiece maps. Sorta like an ogre battle map but I made different surface tiles by collecting twigs and drying out moss and gluing em together for trees and cutting the ends of grass and drying and making turf from that, we are pals and only I am allowed to fuck with my friends.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        Moralist in DE terms I suppose. He's ignorant as hell even about basic history or political theory but he's a smart lad, he's got a geology degree and can wrap his head around stuff, he was just never exposed to it. His dad is an architect who actually designed a bigass Irving shipyard in town and his mom has something to do with shipping that involved many trips to.greecw and got her the order of Canada. Dude is peak rich, sheltered and privileged and now he's a line cook. He failson'd hard and was very open to hearing why. And at this point if I'm talking about stuff he knows I'm not bullshitting. He liked Mao' Combat Liberalism as just like a good way to operate. EDIT: To add on, he got a geology degree, worked in the field for like 2 years and then the not oil jobs dried up and he's not evil, he just really likes rocks, so he's also the Otacon to my Snake. We also talk not about the philosophy of science cause the geological definition of a rock is a real headful and is a term used strictly for convenience. Essentially if a human interesxted with its it's not a rock. Coal is a rock, charcoal isn't. And then working back to how these fefimition were formed by utility and what that utility is ultimately bred to serve (big oil) wasn't lost on him so working out from that esd pretty easy. He's a born comrade but his privilege got in the way really, he's got all.the potential for a good class traitor and he's getting there. Also he's the only other vaguely intellectual guy and although he's all about rocks we can both get really sciency about food theory and stuff which is also fun. He's good people and his mind is getting there, made sure he got a raise when I did and of the same amount and thar showed communists will get you the goods and it's been a slow but sure lefthand drift. He sucks at his own oppression but third worldism also worked well cause we work with a lot of Phillipinpes who also like me cause I hate America and imperialists

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        2 months ago

        Love Kim, but he's a cop. Also whenever Harry Kim is mentioned in trek I now think of those two