I am expecting a lot of Disco Elysium, here...and nothing wrong with that!
A video gaming student organization I was once part of actually had a vote on their favorite sayings. The winner was the evergreen "Perhaps the same said could be said of all religions..." from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTizJemHO8
Later we had a second voting, which decided on the cult classic Trio the Punch's "BAD CHOICE"! https://youtu.be/rIPtzZHJnkg?t=454
My personal favorite? It's hard to say...but hey, that's what the scientist in Half-Life can comment, word to word! So maybe I'll put forward, said by the aforementioned: "My god, what are doing!?"
Tl;dr: Check title.
Excellent, but someone told me that is not a real quote from the game? If it is, I'll play it again!
Excellent, but someone told me that is not a real quote from the game? If it is, I'll play it again!
Oh damn I didn't know that. Been ages since I played it, regardless play it again, it's seriously the best FF game ever.
Spec Ops: The Line has some good quotes, especially in the loading screens.
- Do you feel like a hero yet?
- The US military does not condone the killing of unarmed combatants. But this isn't real, so why should you care?
- How many Americans have you killed today?
I firmly believe that most people who hate Spec Ops: The Line don't understand what it's trying to accomplish
That's true, but I think quite a few get what it's trying to do and hate it for the same reason I hate Pathologic, or most Brecht play productions. They're just not fun.
Oh, I like Brecht as a playwright, but his thoughts on "epic theatre" and keeping the audience emotionally detatched from the characters and constantly aware they're watching actors on a stage requires a deft hand and a great sense of comedy, or it all falls apart.
The best productions I've seen are the ones that ignore the stage directions and treat them as straight plays with suspension of disbelief.
That said I dont like Mother Courage, and I think the Threepenny Opera is worse than the source material of the 18th century Beggars Opera.
Ah I see. Do you like the work of Dario Fo?
This was my entrance into his work, good bit of explicitly leftist theatre: https://youtu.be/TqKfwC70YZI?si=QG4Zi1vCda7tatws
I love Fo. His rework of commedia dell arte techniques brings an immediacy and fluidity to his work.
I'll be honest, I'm blagging my way through a stagewriting degree right now as someone who's seen 1000 films and read/watched about 30 plays, and that observation you just made has given me some much needed material to work with.
If you've got any anti-imperialist playwrights or even plays to recommend, I'd really appreciate it. I'm in the process of writing Operation Gideon by way of Dario Fo/Monty Python, and the writings coming along fine, but a chunk of the degree is justifying why I wrote what I wrote and who/what influenced it, which is what's giving me a headache. Can't art just be art for the sake of being, because it just feels right??? Ah well.
No worries if not. I don't mean to outsource my work.
I'm more familiar with pre-20th century stuff and tend more towards musicals and opera than straight plays, but I'm a big fan of the great 18th century Bourgois revolutionary operas William Tell (Rossini) and La Muette di Portici (Auber). The first was the trigger for the 3 days in July, the latter for the Belgian Revolution.
There's also the ballad musical Reedy River, about the aftermath of the Australian 1891 Miner's strike that triggered the formation of the Australian Labour Party, the first Social Democratic Party to take power in the world.
If your looking for Socialist Operas/Plays/Ballets, the Maoist era plays (often filmed before staged, but they're all quite stagey in scripting) are better than their reputation suggests. The Red Detachment of Women is a particular favourite, though I prefer the ballet to the other adaptations.
For 20th-century straight plays, I recommend John Crawford, particularly his "Rocket Range" which examines the effect of the Woomera Rocket Range opening on local Aboriginal Communities.
Ah - the only one I really know from that era was the 1831 Spartacus - which actually with all the historical context of the time was quite bold. I got to see Il Trovatore done in the classical style a few months ago and it was also pretty amazing, even though according to my opera inclined friends the story is rubbish.
Those are all great recommendations. I was looking into old Australia the other day learning about "Swag men" so that's all up my alley.
It's a shame there's no theater com on hexbear. As much as I shit on it for being filled with libs these days, it's general disposition especially historically is very radical.
Anyway, thanks again.
The game is clever and well written but I'm not convinced the gameplay is generic on purpose. I've heard that before but never bought it.
Now yeah the devs put in things to make you uncomfortable, like the white phosphorus thing or how you can accidentally shoot civilians. And the game mocks you. But the gameplay is otherwise kind of typical for the time. It does get needlessly difficult at certain parts, and that's probably an aspect of the narrative, but the gameplay itself was probably intended to be functional and engaging.
"My country lay within a vast desert. When the sun rose into the sky, a burning wind punished my lands, searing the world. And when the moon climbed into the dark of night, a frigid gale pierced our homes. No matter when it came, the wind carried the same thing... Death. But the winds that blew across the green fields of Hyrule brought something other than suffering and ruin. I coveted that wind, I suppose"
Wind Waker remains my favorite LoZ for many reasons and chief among them is giving Ganondorf even the barest amount of characterization and motivation beyond "evil man bad conquer hyrule, stop him destiny child"
Wind Waker's Ganondorf was awesome, is awesome. Hopefully will be awesome.
When you're on your ZigCel arc and moving for great justice. You know what you doing.
When I first played it as a youngin, I thought the Gravemind cutscene from Halo 2 was the deepest shit ever and had every atheist cell in my body vibrating at the speed of light
"This one is machine and nerve, and has its mind concluded... this one is but flesh and faith, and is the more deluded"
"Lies for the weak, beacons for the deluded"
Green cyborg man and eldritch horror own the alien paladin by proving that his religion is fake with facts and logic
"I? I am a monument to alll yooouuurrr siiinnnnssssss."
Halo 2 is so fucking good.
Too bad Bungie run out of time. You can tell Halo 3's story was hastily assembled from the bits they had left over from Halo 2's intended climax
"There is much talk, and I have listened through rock, and metal and time"
A couple from Outer Wilds.
Spoilers, though not huge ones.
As a child, I considered such unknowns sinister. Now, though, I understand they bear no ill will. The universe is, and we are. I am ready.
The pain of your absence is sharp and haunting, and I would give anything to not know it; anything but never knowing you at all (which would be worse).
...are you still here? I am unsure how to survive in this place without you. (I am unsure how to be me without you.)
The past is past, now, but that's... you know, that's okay! It's never really gone completely. The future is always built on the past, even if we won't get to see it. Still, it's, um, time for something new, now.
and in the same vein:
Our curiosity goes with you on your journey. You walk in the footsteps of those who came before you, and your path guides those who will follow later.
tell you what, this has been really fun. And I got to help make something pretty cool, so I’ve got no complaints. I mean, not me, exactly, but close enough. It’s the kind of thing that makes you glad you stopped and smelled the pine trees along the way, you know?
I'm not exaggerating when I say I'm crying as i reread these.
How beautiful. It’s different than I’d envisioned.
Whatever happens next, I do not think it is to be feared.
Masterpiece of a game
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Solanum: “It’s tempting to linger in this moment, while every possibility still exists. But unless they are collapsed by an observer, they will never be more than possibilities."
"You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"
Creepypasta aside, the Happy Mask Salesman sets the tone of Majora's Mask so well. This ain't gonna be your beat-eight-dungeons-and-fight-Ganon kind of Zelda game.
Just because there are so many fucking bangers:"In the dark times, should the stars also go out?"
"HARRY: The people who build this world intended it to be better for you, but they failed. It is easier to live in their failure with this by your side." (Tap on the tape recorder). The wind howls. She remains silent. EMPATHY: It's real. Tell her. HARRY: It is not a childish fantasy. It can be a real weapon against what's coming for you now."
"Few of us can begin to imagine the horror of you -- with all of creation reflected in your forebrain. It must be like the highest of hells, a kaleidoscope of fire and writhing glass. Eternal damnation."
"The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone — everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed. And then you see it. As it strangles and beats your friends to death... the sweetest, most courageous people in the world. You see the fear and power in its eyes. Then you know."
"What?"
"That the bourgeois are not human."
Probably my favorite DE quote. Also love that "0.000% of Communism has been built" one, though.
The last bit with the phasmid resonates with me so hard, I think, because of my sensory and social issues. There is so much goddamn information out there, all of it contradictory and painful and harsh and insidious, and I struggle to process it all, as I am compelled to process it all. "A kaleidoscope of fire and writhing glass" sums it up pretty good. There is incredible beauty in the world, but guarded behind a gate of horrible pain. But not crossing the gate is a hell all its own. A lower hell, one devoid of meaning or purpose. To wallow, stagnate, and atrophy is a worse fate than facing the agonizing beauty of the world on its own terms. Every rose is behind a mile-long hedge of clawing thorns. But I have to remind myself the thorns are not all there is.
Not a white boy left standing, you're a credit to our tolerant society
-Director Starkweather in Manhunt
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