I haven’t finished the base game yet! I fell off a year or so ago and have meant to get back into it, but just haven’t gotten there yet. I know that the DLC is supposed to be harder, but still, coming off the baseline talos1 being what it was, I still wanted a higher bar to enter, so to speak, with the challenge puzzles being even more difficult (without being TOO arbitrary and overly convoluted, obv).
1 was great but flawed. Just play it blind and finish it.
2 the puzzles were bizarrely easy, but an incredibly gorgeous game.
Both have great soundtracks too. Definitely a go-at-your-own-pace franchise and very antithetical to modern AAA gaming. Know who Croteam are and Devolver Digital, and their relationship and what they make and what they stand for.
I adore both games and think quite highly of them. Again though, don’t look anything up, ever.
Don’t buy this game or anything by the studio ever.
It was a good studio and is a great game, but it was taken over by some really really shitty people in a hostile takeover. A bunch of the core employees got superfucked and have spoken out against it. It was 100% offensive greed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_Elysium#Breakup_of_ZA/UM
Oh god. Looking at the Wikipedia entry, it was apparently super messy and still is. I’m not sure what to go by, now. I’d probably still suggest playing it if you care about depth and intelligence of dialogue, which in my book, in this game is SS-Tier.
Some games give you options to pick what to say, you choose one, and your character says something stupid that has nothing to do with what you thought. This game is like the total opposite of it, in that you can 100% read into the perspective and intent, and try to infer several steps out. Super super fun stuff. Very very satisfying.
If you don’t enjoy philosophy and rhetoric, probably pass on the game. Ngl. But, if this type of thing interests you at ALL, give it a shot.
But probably pirate it.
I’m not sure when the Wikipedia page for “generations” was implemented, but I have a feeling the current generational definitions have been defined a lot longer than the past 5 years. Unless your parents are post-end ww2 baby boomers, I see no way for you to have ever been technically considered gen-y.
That being said, I feel like culturally, it wasn’t really until the massive uptick in school shootings (I’m also making a big assumption that you’re American, here) that gen-z was really defined. From memory, I think the high profile Columbine shooting happened in 1999-2001, but school shootings weren’t really considered commonplace until at the earliest the late 2000s, or even early 2010s.
Assuming they weren’t held back in school, the youngest millennial would still have been in highschool until 2014, maybe 2015. Compare that to the oldest millennial, who would have potentially graduated highschool in 1999, maybe 1998.
And since you aren’t even 30 yet (let’s assume 29), that would have the earliest you’d have been slated to graduate highschool at 2014, making you solidly in the shooter generation, gen-z. Again, though, this is assuming you’re American, and the only real culture and history I’m remotely familiar with.
Counterpoint b, though, a lot of people considered people “growing up around the turn of the millennium” to be a millennial. Sooo, yeah. Culturally, sure, close enough, I guess. But technically, nah.
I’ve noticed there’s a thing where our brains filter out fine details, especially in mirrors. When I have a lot of time to pluck and want to try to get everything, you can sway left-right in the mirror to try to add a kind of dither, visually, and that helps see stuff you wouldn’t, otherwise. However, knowing this is terrifying because then you start seeing all kinds of stuff that other people probably see that you normally don’t and now I wanna die. So, use this knowledge with caution.
That’s my theory for old people with sudden face hair. Not that it grows, but it’s hard to see.
Imagining the entire populace becoming old men
Shudders…
I remember seeing a research thing showing that mid to late 20s was the average time people started to get married. But keep in mind, that’s average. And as soon as you’re any flavor of queer or there’s conflict near you (like war) throw those numbers out the window.
As of 2026, millennials span 45-30 years old, give or take a year in each direction because of birth month/day.
So you must know only the absolute youngest millennials.
Ever notice how conservative companies that deal with information don’t need money?
Better a known locked door than inviting them into your home
Ah yes, the elimination of jobs is always good for society.
How about them Epstein files though?
I guess we’re gonna all find out
Why not non “western” people and content, too?
And this is why you don’t give microslop anything
Communists are authoritarians because that’s what communism is, like by definition; it’s hard-left but also authoritarian. That’s literally what separates lib-left from auth-left, the same obviously being for lib-right and auth-right (I’m just going off of the standard four-quadrant political compass, which probably has its own deep, foundational issues).
I have friends who are self proclaimed “tankies”, and talking to them a lot about it, my best understanding of the way they put it is basically:
You need an Iron Fist® to fix anything, and an Iron Fist® to keep it that way.
I also think that .ml probably has a percentage of people from those locations, and most people, period, tend to think their way is the best way. Which is also fairly hard to prove because history keeps being altered and destroyed and humans only live for like 60-90 years and we don’t have a very advanced intergenerational memory. Or maybe we do but just don’t know how to learn very well from it when all it seems to scream is “BREED, EAT, SLEEP, STINKY, TRIBE, SCARY, RUN, FIGHT, SAFE, LOVE”. It’s like some people’s own evolutionary biology tells them to prevent others from learning history to establish dominance and power.
Hard to say whether or not we’ll make it. The solution-path definitely has a lot of construction and destruction.
Basically: fucked up laws
I’m just gonna take it as: people are confident in a belief system that is strongly heiarchial, and therefore can just tell you to fuck off.
…Which, to my brief reading of the neo-c and normal-c Wikipedia entries… Feels antithetical to what I read. But a lot of it seems to just explicitly go against Buddhist and Taoist teachings, and I don’t have the patience to read any more old Chinese philosophy in this context to just understand why the doctors would turn somebody pregnant away.
Also don’t be fucking insane or evil? I feel like that doesn’t need to be said, but it 100% does, apparently.
I blame Microslop