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.

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    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? sicko-pig
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        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.

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            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.

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                  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.

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          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.

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    "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”

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    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 soypoint-1

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    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.

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      Masterpiece of a game

      spoiler

      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."

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    “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.

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    tequila-sunset 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.”

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      “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.

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        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.