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submitted 3 weeks ago by Dort_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] CredibleBattery@hexbear.net 31 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

before i had played the game, someone spoiled me on the thing at the end. So when i was playing through it i started developing a theory that the Bug and the Detective had somehow managed to switch minds and you were playing as the bug and that's why you couldn't remember jackshit, cause the entire time you were a fucking arthropod. Of course that's not what happened but its still pretty funny to think about

[-] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

That ending would have felt like a cop-out (put intended) in any other game with lesser writing, but I could dig it with DE.

[-] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

Needs to be said that Kafka's "Metamorphosis" is not about being scared of becoming a bug, it's about being so socially isolated and invisible in the modern world because you're just a cog in a machine that you feel as if you're nothing better than a bug. And once you can't contribute anymore, once you can't labour even your family will discard of you like the bug you are.

[-] Bruja@hexbear.net 20 points 3 weeks ago

disco elysium is kafkas metamorphosis for the modern age. no one is scared of becoming a bug anymore. the true nightmare? waking up one day and finding out your a cop

and you CANT QUIT cuz there is a CUTE GUY YOU HAVE TO IMPRESS

it's multilayered though bc the cute guy is not only a cop, he's a liberal

https://its-a-hil.tumblr.com/post/745380002921660416

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

it's multilayered though bc the cute guy is not only a cop, he's a liberal

I think this is missing the important layer that Kims style of liberalism in the world is both religion and political ideology. He's "culturally christian" translated to the real world, he believes in the good things it all puts forth, he believes in doing his job to do well unlike half of the police department that he reports as going for fucking kill streaks. My man's checked out of it due to the horrors, preferring to isolate himself from any broader topic and focus on the work at hand.