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grieving for Gandalf posted:I'm only at the end of Day 3 in Disco Elysium, but I am so utterly absorbed into the worldbuilding of this game it's not funny I can and have written pages and pages of navel-gazing bullshit about it, it's so loving good there's a novel set in the same world but it's written in loving Estonian. zaum said they were aiming to release a translation before the end of 2020 but they clearly focused on the final cut instead, which is only the latest in the long list of betrayals committed against me by the coward robert kurvitz
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World War Mammories posted:I can and have written pages and pages of navel-gazing bullshit about it, it's so loving good WHERE'S THE BOOK ROBERT?!? 
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Fuligin posted:I might be doing my latin wrong but 'deus in nobis' seems like gibberish and its botherin me a lot right now I guess you enjoyed the classic "Romans go Home" scene from Life of Brian
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genericnick posted:The pale is also climate change though I took it to be symbolic of the frontier problem. like at the dawn of time 0% of the world had been discovered by humans and then bigger percentages of it got discovered and it got to the point where the discovery was different groups of humans discovering parts of the world previously discovered by other groups of humans and now that there's a history ending global economy you don't have epicycles of discovery you just have one massive capitalism chipping away at a final 100% discovery. the pale is like that, a representation in flows or manifestations of memory that there's just no new ground to tread upon to the extent that there isn't even other peoples ground to tread upon
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this is kind of a long shot, but has anyone played drox operative 2? i kind of want to get it but it's early access and idk how early the access is soldak's games are all pretty decent, btw
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The Voice of Labor posted:I took it to be symbolic of the frontier problem. like at the dawn of time 0% of the world had been discovered by humans and then bigger percentages of it got discovered and it got to the point where the discovery was different groups of humans discovering parts of the world previously discovered by other groups of humans and now that there's a history ending global economy you don't have epicycles of discovery you just have one massive capitalism chipping away at a final 100% discovery. the pale is like that, a representation in flows or manifestations of memory that there's just no new ground to tread upon to the extent that there isn't even other peoples ground to tread upon I don't think this fits the metaphor. Take it to the point we're at today and we know the shape of the frontier and the effort that would be required to cross it, we have satellites, space telescopes, we know our place in the universe. In DE the nature of the pale is unknown and suggested to be unknowable. Governments may well be launching secret expeditions into it in the hopes of discovering new continents and hearing nothing back, the pale consumes them. If your metaphor held true they would end up in known places, finding that the pale was in fact knowable and crossable and there was nothing else to find. The world would be known, finished. The pale represents something else. Something partially spiritual. Or at least I hope it does. If it boils down to "An Ocean But Mysterious" I'll be awfully disappointed.
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Real hurthling! posted:use your word edit to increase drop rate dont cheat at nier, it robs you of the experience
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cumshitter posted:dont cheat at nier, it robs you of the experience I don't even know you anymore
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cumshitter posted:dont cheat at nier, it robs you of the experience You mother fucker!
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smarxist posted:The pale is a metaphor for extinction, you fools, you buffoons That's what genericnick says too but even then it's weird. Climate change or extinction to the outsider feels like a slow inexorable dread but that isn't what it is, it happens really suddenly and unexpectedly as some vital part of your supply chain disappears, and then you adapt or die. You can pencil the pale in as what extinction feels like from the perspective of people who aren't experiencing it, the fear of it, the anticipation of it, but the DE universe doesn't feel all that in dread of immediate pale collapse. People are just going about their poo poo, the pale isn't going to consume them on any timescale that anyone cares about. It's only the ultra elite that really worry about it which is the opposite of the climate collapse that only matters to the poor.
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uber_stoat posted:WHERE'S THE BOOK ROBERT?!? GIVE US THE loving BOOK ROBERT also whoa neat, the quoted color in dark mode is now a deep pink Often Abbreviated posted:That's what genericnick says too but even then it's weird. Climate change or extinction to the outsider feels like a slow inexorable dread but that isn't what it is, it happens really suddenly and unexpectedly as some vital part of your supply chain disappears, and then you adapt or die. You can pencil the pale in as what extinction feels like from the perspective of people who aren't experiencing it, the fear of it, the anticipation of it, but the DE universe doesn't feel all that in dread of immediate pale collapse. People are just going about their poo poo, the pale isn't going to consume them on any timescale that anyone cares about. It's only the ultra elite that really worry about it which is the opposite of the climate collapse that only matters to the poor. well, I guess in the setting most people don't know and/or think about it, but we do know how long until the pale eats everything twenty-seven years
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World War Mammories posted:well, I guess in the setting most people don't know and/or think about it, but we do know how long until the pale eats everything twenty-seven years well then it's just a metaphor for (Harry's personal) mortality which is cool and elegant and all but death already exists.
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:I tried to play max payne 3 but couldnt beat the unskippable cutscnes at the beginning. I hear theres a mod for that though? yea there is big recommend https://www.nexusmods.com/maxpayne3/mods/5
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lol Hasan is playing REVIII, we are rapidly approaching an incredible horny singularity on Twitch
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Reasons why Ethan is good: gets his hand cut off again, picks it up, escapes from vampire lady, puts it back on
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Shear Modulus posted:how much of the game is about the giant lady anyway "How much do you want it to be?" - some Capcom exec realizing they ton of DLC on their hands
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Shear Modulus posted:how much of the game is about the giant lady anyway like less than 1/3, she's part of a group of villains
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Grapplejack posted:like less than 1/3, she's part of a group of villains letdown of the year
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Often Abbreviated posted:well then it's just a metaphor for (Harry's personal) mortality which is cool and elegant and all but death already exists. a blog post on zaum's website specifically says that "twenty-eight years remain until the end of the world" and by god I will not brook anything except literalism
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World War Mammories posted:a blog post on zaum's website specifically says that "twenty-eight years remain until the end of the world" and by god I will not brook anything except literalism It's absolutely an interpretation, and DE is a brilliant piece of writing partly because it creates and allows for variance in interpretation. My feeling is more like "The world is created for every person who lives within in it, and it dies whenever they die", their perspective of the universe dies with them. The clock-to-the-end-of-the-world is something I've seen in other homebrew settings and whether the creators accept it or not I think it exists as a struggle with mortality. We're more comfortable with creating and ending a world in it's entirety. We don't want to create a thing and have it go on without us - even having children is traumatic in that it creates something to persist beyond ourselves. The pale exists to put an end date on the world. But DE is weird and transcendental enough that I think it's just Harry's world that's ending. The end of the world is relative to the viewer, and objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are.
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is there a better pure "turn off your mind and drink up the dopamine" game out there than EDF because I posit no
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World War Mammories posted:a blog post on zaum's website specifically says that "twenty-eight years remain until the end of the world" and by god I will not brook anything except literalism oh please, those people keeping banging on about "peak Pale" like it''ll ever realistically be a problem. Before it gets that bad moralist innovation will surely find a solution. Often Abbreviated posted:It's absolutely an interpretation, and DE is a brilliant piece of writing partly because it creates and allows for variance in interpretation. My feeling is more like "The world is created for every person who lives within in it, and it dies whenever they die", their perspective of the universe dies with them. The clock-to-the-end-of-the-world is something I've seen in other homebrew settings and whether the creators accept it or not I think it exists as a struggle with mortality. We're more comfortable with creating and ending a world in it's entirety. We don't want to create a thing and have it go on without us - even having children is traumatic in that it creates something to persist beyond ourselves. The pale exists to put an end date on the world. But DE is weird and transcendental enough that I think it's just Harry's world that's ending. The end of the world is relative to the viewer, and objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are. you can tell the Moralintern about the pale spot in the church and they black bag you and disappear you, so they clearly know the end is nigh and are trying to keep a lid on it pentyne has issued a correction as of 03:16 on May 8, 2021 |
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Casey Finnigan posted:giant lady turns out to be three small ladies standing on each others' shoulders I don't trust like that
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Casey Finnigan posted:giant lady turns out to be three small ladies standing on each others' shoulders like the eric andre sketch, "I don't trust like that"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olYCsHuqjOo I saw this and now you have to too
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Still trying to figure out what dingaling meant about lisa https://twitter.com/DingalingGames/status/1179047757027237890?s=20
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DoubleDonut posted:three villainous ladies, each larger than the last tell me more
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I mean the entirety of the series is about how Lisa was abused and basically tortured by her dad, and everything in the following games spins out from that idea, including the cycles of abuse w/r/t marty / lisa / buzzo / brad / buddy even after she dies lisa basically haunts them
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Bideo James posted:lmao lesbian furries, too dark and unknowable to even speak of in the noble light of court 
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smarxist posted:The pale is a metaphor for extinction, you fools, you buffoons it's a metaphor for how only the power of anodic dance music can stave of extinction
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is that furry adventure game on ps5 still not out yet lmao im gonna buy and play the poo poo out it, hahah, as a joke, hahaha, wouldnt that be hilarious, im gonna do it for laughs lol
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