Instead of building Communism, he now builds a precise model of this grotesque, duplicitous world.
This line is a masterstroke, even by DE's standards. I still think about it from time to time when I find myself talking about how bad the status quo is too much.
disco elysium's prose is god tier. i'm not even remotely interested in being a writer and somehow i'm jealous of it.
Also I knew the writers were communists or at least leftists of some kind because no one else could possibly write such viscerally real and often comedic lines about communism. If it were anyone else it would have been "ha ha no food" all the way down i'm sure lol.
During the speech for their second win of the night, ZA/UM, the team behind Disco Elysium gave a special thanks to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the authors of The Communist Manifesto.
In this acceptance speech for the Fresh Indie Game Award, Helen Hendepere said that the team would like to thank “some of the great people that came before us.” The people they shouted out included the architects of communist thought, Marx and Engels, as well as Russian painter Vladimir Makovsky, and Viktor Tsoi, a Soviet singer and songwriter.
If you’ve played Disco Elysium, which features the vocal talents of the members of socialist podcast Chapo Trap House, you may not be surprised by these references. If not, I encourage you to read The Community Manifesto, which is about how a ghost called “communism” is haunting Europe. It’s pretty radical.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/12/disco-elysium-developers-shout-out-marx-and-engels-in-game-awards-victory-speech/
lol i never got into those 4x games, (tropico's a 4x game right?) but yea i always cringe when the topic is brought up in most media because it's always so shallowly done.
It's more of a city builder, it's pretty lib but the whole thing is parodic so it's easier to go along with it. Plus, there's something cool in the way that both the "communism" and "free market" constitutions result in the exact same game where you're only real goal is to perpetuate the power structures that already existed on the island.
This line is a masterstroke, even by DE's standards. I still think about it from time to time when I find myself talking about how bad the status quo is too much.
disco elysium's prose is god tier. i'm not even remotely interested in being a writer and somehow i'm jealous of it.
Also I knew the writers were communists or at least leftists of some kind because no one else could possibly write such viscerally real and often comedic lines about communism. If it were anyone else it would have been "ha ha no food" all the way down i'm sure lol.
Oh they 100% are.
Aw Yeah I remember that they did that bc I was like "fuuuuuuck yea" haha. I think thats why I got the game in fact.
Did you mean: Tropico?
lol i never got into those 4x games, (tropico's a 4x game right?) but yea i always cringe when the topic is brought up in most media because it's always so shallowly done.
It's more of a city builder, it's pretty lib but the whole thing is parodic so it's easier to go along with it. Plus, there's something cool in the way that both the "communism" and "free market" constitutions result in the exact same game where you're only real goal is to perpetuate the power structures that already existed on the island.