Oh, you mean exactly like said in the linked clip? Yeah thanks for your input.

Evolution of hiphop:

1970: “The revolution will not be televised”

1979: “He can’t satisfy you with his little worm, but I can bust you out with my super sperm”

Plug them all in, and you’ve got a Cronenbergesque sculpture underscoring the protagonist’s descent into the more surreal corners of the unfolding story.

Took me a little while to realize it’s not a condom or a weird hotdog on the flag.

It’s just that I made a resolve recently-ish that I need to properly get into stories in games. Unlike back in the day, when I played through ‘Half-Life’ 1 and 2 and gathered pretty much nothing about the plot. ‘Disco Elysium’ seems to be the type of a game where a lot of the story is in the details dropped by the characters, reading materials, etc.

I’ve been recently replaying the original ‘Deus Ex’, and had Denton crawl around every level for hours, reading each newspaper and poster he comes across. The papers do in fact frame the main story, clarifying the relations between factions and such.

An extreme case of this is apparently the ‘Elder Scrolls’ universe, with which the community gathered sizeable lore and history that goes several layers deep. I’ve never played the games (perhaps for the best), and only happened upon a tangential discussion about this, but the impression was that they’re deciphering it like ‘Ulysses’.

One would think that a place with a beach has a body of water that retains heat into the night. Seaside or lakeside places usually tend to have a milder climate.

Stuff about the setting that I learn from the characters. Perhaps you have better memory than me.

Steam has notes built in

This is great to know. I need to see if Steam accepts my copy of the game, for which I didn’t pay to the company after what they did to the developers.

But he’s a professional detective, presumably with the skill to gather information and put it together. Meanwhile I’m a professional scatterbrain who writes down notes for programming projects that take more than a day. It would be unrealistic for me to roleplay as him, especially if I step away from the game for a couple weeks and forget most of the details. If I can code while hungover, he probably can do detective stuff while hungover.

Even a man as oblivious to history as he is

‘Americans Don’t Know History smdh’

To quote someone from that comment section:

Autistic enough to not know the 90 year old history of the Nazi salute but not so autistic to not know about the 2000 year old Roman salute.

Okay, name three of his articles.

That’s prosopagnosia. We have hardware in the brain, wired to recognize faces — which is probably why pareidolia, aka ‘Jesus on a toast’, is a thing. Only, for some people this chunk doesn’t work as it should.

I myself have poor memory for faces if I don’t hang out with a person for a while. This presented challenges when I worked from home, but occasionally showed up at the office and was greeted by people with whom I only communicated through chat and saw on minuscule userpics.

Well, you can live in a cave now. It’ll still be uncomfortable as heck, however.

Merriweather is great for longer texts. I use it in all book reader apps.

Anonymous Pro is my coding font of choice.

Back in the 2010s, Egypt’s tourist cities became a popular destination for Russians, and in just a few years all the hotel staff and street vendors switched from speaking English to everyone speaking Russian. It was very impressive as to what the promise of money can do.

I love everything about ‘Disco Elysium’ in isolation. Art style? Gorgeous. Grimy noiry mood, right up my alley. I love isometric RPGs, though it’s been a while since I played any. Writing is great, from what I’ve heard. Novel mechanics, probably beautiful.

Only, I get into a couple dialogs and realize I need a second computer on the desk, to type up notes. Ain’t no way I’m remembering any of that, especially since I tend to take long breaks in a playthrough. And I just decided in recent years that I need to pay closer attention to stories in games, which I neglected to do back in my youth.

I’ve put twenty notes into the phone (with swipe-typing, thankfully), and that ended my initial experience.

That’s the most forties thing I’ve heard about Superman.

(Only, that’s not a typesetter. Seems rather to be an editor. A typesetter put letters in a printing press, or did page layout with computers in early digital era before WYSIWYG. The profession is probably obsolete now.)

They didn’t live in those, either. Just sheltered from rain, and did rituals in there.

Living in a cave is a sure way to get arthritis.

People didn’t actually live in caves, for the reason that caves are crappy to live in. (The video has English subtitles.)

There are river dolphins, even.