Kill mesques. Behead mesques. Roundhouse kick mesques into the concrete. Slam dunk mesque babies into the trashcan. Crucify filthy mesques. Defecate in mesque food. Launch mesques into the Pale. Stir fry mesques in a wok. Toss mesques into active volcanoes. Urinate into mesques' gas tanks. Judo throw mesques into a wood chipper. Twist mesques heads off. Report mesques to the Moralintern. Karate chop mesques in half. Curb stomp mesques. Trap mesques in quicksand. Crush mesques in the trash compactor. Liquefy mesques in a vat of acid. Eat mesques. Dissect mesques. Exterminate mesques in the gas chamber. Stomp mesque skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate mesques in the oven. Lobotomize mesques. Mandatory abortions for mesques. Grind mesque fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown mesques in fried chicken grease. Vaporize mesques with a ray gun. Kick old mesques down the stairs. Feed mesques to alligators. Slice mesques with a katana. Toss mesques into a huge meat grinder. Rip mesques in half with a chainsaw. Grind mesque fetuses into blenders. Feed mesques to bloodthirsty cheetahs. Skin mesques alive. Char mesques with a flamethrower.
Cuno is fucking insufferable, Cuno should kill himself. Cuno is the most unfunny forced character of any CRPG and deserves an agonizing death, probably rape too.
>they nailed his character down on the first concept art and never looked back >harry in comparison has gone through a whole heap of concepts up until the end
I have no idea how they did it but I'd be remiss if I excluded divine intervention among the possible causes
>moved country a month ago >had to break up with gf who stayed in home country because I can't do long distance >miss her more than any of my family
I know I'll find somebody eventually. Maybe even somebody more beautiful. Maybe somebody better with money. Maybe somebody who can be a better influence on me and who helps me grow. I hope so at least....
It sucks and it's hard anon, but you'll make it. It ain't gonna be instant but eventually you'll find someone.
Had my Gf leave the country and we tried long distance for a bit, until her parents basically hauled her off to an arranged marriage since I wasn't directly around.
Fucking barely. I'm gonna try to kms next week on the shooting range with a shotgun. I don't need to have an instructor assist me because they have known me for a long time and they trust me with weapons.
Why not reach out to people? I've been to some low points myself. Surrounding myself with good people and reaching out to family is what lifted me out of my hole. Unless you've got physical/medical conditions which make living agony you can overcome anything. The mind can be a prison but no trauma is greater than the love and kindness you will find if you seek it
You know you're doing seriously selfish shit, you have a problem yet you refuse to get assistance because you try carrying your mishandled weight all alone.
Like you won't even bother touching a book to help you with that because why bother right? It's sure is easy to pretend your life doesn't matter
Please don't do it at the shooting range. You have no idea how much it traumatizes the other people there and even worse if someone brings their son to shoot their first .22 rifle. If you're going to have a nice day then please do it in the privacy of your own home so no one except the paramedics will see. Doing it at the range is incredibly selfish. I know you're hurting and I implore you to make true changes in your life instead of the rut you are in now in order to have the desire to go on (I used to wake up wondering if today would be the day I finally find enough motivation to finally go through with killing myself, I am 100% aware of what you are going through) and I promise you that it does get better, but you do actually need to put in the time and effort.
What is it with leftists and aimless, meaningless acts of violence against rich/influential people? You will achieve literally nothing by doing this, there will always be another person to take their place. It's really just an ape low on the totem pole chimping out and throwing rocks at the bigger ape because he makes him feel small and insignificant.
Leftists view everything through the lense of a power struggle, where the powerful constantly oppress the weak. If you've worked up ant amount of money or power it's because in the grand scheme you stole it from those who work harder and need it more than you, therefore they think they are in the right to just take it back. This is the actual core of the communist belief system. Don't ask them what happens when they become the oppressor though
Church worked for me the best but if you don't want to connect that way then just going out to random Cafe's and bars works too. Something as simple as "How's your day going?" Can lead to some incredible conversations. Some people have so much bottled up they'll tell you in detail how their life is falling apart, they hate their job, relationships on the rocks/just had a breakup or even more. Empathize with their situation. Relate it to a struggle of your own. You'd be surprised how much people enjoy speaking with complete strangers. I love conversation but I'm a Kiwi. Not every culture has our same attitude
>I love conversation but I'm a Kiwi. Not every culture has our same attitude
True. Things are so bad in some parts of Am*rica that if you tried that, you might get shot by some senile boomer.
when you feel lonely you feel like you'd appreciate having anyone to talk to
it's the worst that when i get to do it sometimes i can't really vibe with them and end up resenting the conversation, getting to know their personal life feels like a burden, i become the one who can't be assed with someone's life story, the same kinda guy i'm scared of when i decide to keep my life to myself
it's pathetic, and so perfectly ironic i've come to accept it as one of life's eternal jokes played on us, although it may just be me
The moment my parents drop dead, I am quitting my job, becoming a bum, cutting ties off with the rest of my family, and playing video games and working out till I die alone
Hell, if there was an irl cheat that let me get free shit for no money, I'd quit my job and become a bum this moment
The machine translation from the Russian fan translation and the recent "professional" translation, right? Or is there a third complete translation I missed?
afaik the machine translated one is from estonian into english and not from estonian into russian into english
I read the "professional" one and after I was done, I skimmed through the MTL one and they seemed pretty similar. The MTL reads a tad bit easier than the "pro" one, thoughever. The MTL tl seems more in line with DE terminology than the "pro".
Are you confusing the machine translated from russian one and the incomplete translation (only up to chapter 6) that's a heavily polished (with help from native speakers) machine translation from the Estonian?
That's the best outcome You can have Shanky run away before the shooting starts via stalling, but Titus Hardy mentions he's going to shoot him in the kneecaps for abandoning them
>that shoot Kim did to the full armored guy that hit to his eye >surely was a 3% hit success not only because the armor, because his bad sight even with glasses
That for sure was his best critical success of his life.
Unplug from social media. Humans are very easily influenced and there is a ton of negative content that will demoralize you without you consciously realizing it. I only use texts, calls and messenger to stay in contact with my friends+family these days
It's over, from now I hope to just channel Theo from CoM all the time.
It's over, life's fucking shit. If I wasn't afraid of death I'd blow my brains out.
Miss my ex too anon. Apart from that life is pretty great. Starting a new job in a couple weeks I'm excited to have some money rolling in again. Bit hard up financially but I live in a beautiful city and am flatting with friends who genuinely care about me. Feels good man. What do you miss most about your ex? You out looking again yet or taking some time to work on yourself?
The politics are merely a part of the story. When you get halfway through you'll realise the message of the game is about changing your ways/self destructive habits, finding purpose in life and overcoming heartbreak. I'm 28 and it's one of the greatest games I've ever played in my life. Top 10 easily maybe top 5
1. Final Fantasy X
2. The Warriors
3. Disco Elysium
4. The Talos Principle
5. Catherine
6. Command & Conquer (1995)
7. NieR
8. FTL
9. Metal Gear Solid IV
10. Prey (2017)
9.
I've been fed bad LSD. >blood pressure shoots to 200/120 and can barely move my body >permanent tremors, muscle weakness, confusion and no neurologist can find anything
At least drug test your shit or you will lose. Also you sound like a typical drug addict defending his behaviors, hardly enlightened.
>you sound like a typical drug addiction
I just said I haven't had any drugs in weeks lmfao. I enjoy the occasional trip but my life is great without it so I don't miss it. I am starting a new job soon, living in a beautiful city, have lots of friends and family who love me and enjoy a variety of hobbies. Not everybody has your temperament
Yea I've played through twice such an amazing game. Automata had it's moments especially ending B but it didn't hit me the same as NieR. The Lighthouse sidequest and Beepy's story damn they hit like a truck
>can't even quote the right words and is overly defensive about his life
Either very young or actualized dot org member.
I'm not "overly defensive" you're the one convinced I'm a typical drug addict and I'm merely explaining how I'm not. Good luck on your path
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Anonymous
Maybe not a typical drug addict, but a typical psychedelic user. No drug is good for you, it all has consequences. Literally nothing can be learned from drugs.
>got fired from job >mom threatening to kick me out >no funds saved up >communist friends refuse to rally together to fix this shit system
I fucking hate life.
Considering stopping sex therapy because I'm too broken of a person for focusing on one part of mentality if the rest of it is fucked. The only reason I started it was because I thought it was the worst issue, and while it's where I struggle the most to the point that I actively avoid it, I think the fact that I genuinely believe everything I do will end in failure is probably the bigger issue.
general therapy isn't a pancea but getting to bounce yourself off of someone else who's trained to be bounced off of can give you that 'aha' moment, or at least a thought that you can't seem to stop thinking until you do something about it
It really was an exceptional game. It sucks about Kurvitz being ousted from ZAUM but I hope he lands on his feet with another studio soon. Immensely talented
comparison of the first paragraph of each of the three complete translations if anyone's interested: >truri translation
This summer resort near Vaasa swallowed up four Lund girls. Along with their small bones and sunbathed skins, an entire era vanished. Six kilometres of winding coastline, a popular swimming spot in the ’50s; rows of changing cabins, high reeds rustling in the wind. There you can find the era conservatives mourn. Back when parents could send their kids to the beach unsupervised with two reál for ice cream and bus fare in their summer shorts pockets. Worriedly shaking their heads and hiding the news from Messina, Graad, and Gottwald, where – so it seemed to them – every week tiny skeletons were found cast into someone’s furnace. Every week, someone’s daughter, who had been kept in the basement for thirty years, escaped into the street and cried out for help.
download here: https://gofile.io/d/XR6BKy
>group ibex translation
It was a popular vacation area just outside of Vaasa that swallowed the four Lund girls. Along with their little bones and tan-lined skin, an entire era vanished. Six kilometres of winding coastline, a swimming spot popular in the fifties; rows of changing cabins, reeds rustling in the wind. Go there and find the age that conservatives long for. When parents could send children to the beach unsupervised, two reál for ice cream and bus fare in the pockets of their summer pants. Mum and dad would shake their heads in worry, keeping their children hidden from the news from Messina, from Graad, from Gottwald, where every week—it seemed to them-someone’s wee skeleton was found buried inside a stove wall. There, every week, someone’s daughter escaped onto the street after thirty years of captivity in a cellar and cried for help.
download here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uvtKvkqVp5gt-pVYqQOdf7WVzXgp_TRV/view
>machine translation from russian fan translation
This resort area on the outskirts of Vaasa swallowed up four girls, the Lund sisters. Together with their thin bones and tanned skin, an entire era faded into oblivion. Six kilometers of winding shoreline, a popular beach in the fifties; changing booths lined up, the wind rustling in the reeds. These are the times conservatives weep for. Times when parents could send their kids to the beach unsupervised, with two reals in their shorts pockets - for fare and ice cream. Fathers and mothers shook their heads anxiously and hid news from their children from Messina, from Graade, from Gottwald, where it seemed that every week they found the remains of little skeletons in the ovens. There every week someone's daughter would climb out of the cellar where she had been held for thirty years and call for help.
download here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gavinrj1/sata/main/sata.txt
Sure it is retard lol. I get why they censored gay though. chud media fags would have caused a huge stinky about it and tried to get it pulled from Steam if they hadn't. Devs have to pick their battles wisely
Unironically it’s because Harry is insane and doesn’t know what gay people are. Keep in mind that the game uses the uncensored version of gay after Kim comes out to you.
Second day of nofap.
Still haven't found a job.
Still a khhv.
Started to enjoy games again, just a tiny little bit.
Still a disappointment to myself and my family.
>lost my job in March >haven't been able to find a new one since >rejected from every PhD I applied for >no gf ever >closest friend killed himself a year and a half ago and I still miss him every day >stopped the only hobby I had because it was making me miserable
Is DE a game for this feel?
Absolutely. The biggest theme/message of the game is overcoming grief. You are entirely responsible for the direction of your life. Drowning in sorrow and trying to escape your pain with alcohol/drugs will only lead to greater hardship. When I played Disco Elysium the first time I was in a toxic relationship and dealing with heavy addiction issues. It helped me
Yes. I've only been playing DE for about 7 hours now, but the only way I can describe it is love at first sight.
The writing is great, and it really contorts around whatever you want to be. I actually restarted my game about 30ish minutes in because I kept getting glimpses of physicality skills talking to me, and I loved it. I ditched my shitty generic detective I was playing and instead opted for an alcoholic bruiser. I'm loving it so far.
Genuinely glad as fuck that this board is slowly healing and becoming able to discuss this game. It was completely fucking unmentionable before the 2020 election without summoning 400 million retarded tourists who really obviously don't even play video games and are just mad about online politics
Fuck
Well there's been a massive improvement anyway, which is good because this is absolutely one of my favourite games of all time. It's the only game I'd mention along with Planescape Torment as a worthy successor.
It's absolute kino on the same level as Disco Elysium. The first third is entirely world building and can be a bit of a slog. Once you find the person you're looking for, things just escalate. Make sure you put all stats into wis/int/chr regardless of your class.
Its a lot better than this overrated piece of dreck. This 'game'...its truly perplexing why anyone likes it but it made me realize how many brain-dead qseuds exist out there. No wonder the world is in such bad shape and probably always will be. Maybe I should just ape this guttural dogshit qseud style just to make money, any idiot could make this and you apes would lap it up and ask for seconds.
https://i.imgur.com/cyRMQyp.jpg
How ya holding up Ganker?
You fags are miserable because you play shit games, maybe go outside huh?
It still gets labeled a commie game fairly often. I've been here for 10 years but these days I spend a lot more time on Ganker than Ganker. The board is much slower but if you want in depth discussion about RPGs I'd highly recommend going there. You'll find regular threads on games like Disco Elysium, Dragon Quest, KOTOR, Tyranny etc that aren't full of shitposters
Not really. Ganker will always be a huge collection of varying opinions. I love the bants and shitposting so I don't get worked up when people call it a commie game/propaganda but some people like you obviously do. Care more about responding to people who talk in depth about it and don't give (You)'s to the ones shittting up the thread. It's that easy
I still come here because theres value to the chaos of it. There are no sacred cows and you can find discussion on some of the wildest most obscure shit. Big releases like zelda always fuck up the whole board though, just becomes an endless shitshow of whining and bitching.
It depends on where you came from. Ganker is a good board occasionally, especially when compared to the other large boards which either turned into dull and soulless replicas of other forums or became honeypots.
>does nothing for a week but sit around in a wig and seethe instead of doing his job >bails right before the tribunal >comes back only to try and get harry fired and is entirely willing to leave him to die in a shack
what the everloving fuck is his problem?
This guy is such a piece of shit it's unreal. >waaa, but harry was a bad partner!!
He left two fucking fellow officers and a bunch of civilians to die, and still pretended to have moral high ground. Fuck him.
I think he's just tired of Harry's shit. Look at his portait. This is a guy who works hard to have his shit together. Suit, tie, the whole thing. He's a professional. Harry has spent like 7 years going to pieces over a bad breakup and self-destructing on a regular basis. He fucks up hard, bumblefucks his way into cracking a case by all outside appearances(remember no one else is aware of Shivers), realizes he's gone too far, makes a round of apologies, tries to sober up and pull himself together, and is right back in the booze and drugs. It's exhausting. The only thing that keeps him from writing Harry off completely is that he was once one of the finest detective in the precinct who worked hard and had his act together, and even when he's face down in a puddle of booze puke and half-processed pills he's still a damn good detective. I dealt with a junkie alcoholic parent my whole life, and the pattern of abuse, anger, lashing out, falling apart, getting into trouble, begging forgiveness, and going right back into the trouble is a very familiar one. He didn't see my Harry stay bone dry and out of drugs for his whole playthrough, only permitting himself the occasional cigarette, all he sees is a near decade of a familiar pattern going around once again.
He canonically has severe depression, diagnosed. >"Seven years and going strong!" He nods enthusiastically. "The head doctors are now calling it a medical marvel... no, wait, anomaly was the word they used."
Pretty good, honestly. When I went doomer, like actual full doomer, not "Life is shit and I'm depressed" doomer but actual pessimistic in the Ligotti sense, I felt a lot better mentally. Life is inherently shit, and I was depressed because my expectations did not meet with reality, turns out my expectations were wrong all along. Now I expect life to be shit, and I am never depressed or disappointed.
how do you anons cope with the fact that your life's an absolute mess? its nothing but a disturbing past, bleak future, and just rummaging for dopamine in every cesspit and orifice that life has to offer
KWAB. You either mixed it with alcohol/other substances or didn't take it in a safe space. I tripped probably 20 times last year. I went 8 tabs deep in my apartment. I time traveled, found my true name, danced like an archer, climbed mountains and built a fortress. Get on my level before you decay into nothing
Of course I mixed it. I think they laced it with something else, I've had tons of fun trips before but the last one felt like a stroke. Either way fuck psychedelics.
Well if you get laced shit or mix LSD with something else you're gonna have a bad experience. I've taken it 40-50 times in my life and only had 2 bad trips (one mixing with alcohol, one mixing with MDMA+alcohol) but that doesn't take away from the profound experiences I had all the other times. Be careful who you buy off. Enlightenment awaits
1 week ago
Anonymous
>Enlightenment awaits
Either that or permanent drug delusions, and there's very little difference.
1 week ago
Anonymous
LSD will not fuck you up permanently. I've never met anybody who has and I've met a ton of trippers. You've been fed propaganda
People always say that shit like LSD is enlightening but every druggie I’ve ever known was neurotic and self-absorbed. It’s like the more drugs you use the more far up your own ass you get.
I haven't had any drugs in weeks. Haven't had LSD in months. I'm always interested in others and learning their life stories. I go out to bars fairly often and always make a point of introducing myself to strangers and making friends. Anything can be addictive but LSD no more so than other substances. You need to be the master of your own vices. Moderation isn't hard if you have firm goals you are working towards
1 week ago
Anonymous
I've been fed bad LSD. >blood pressure shoots to 200/120 and can barely move my body >permanent tremors, muscle weakness, confusion and no neurologist can find anything
At least drug test your shit or you will lose. Also you sound like a typical drug addict defending his behaviors, hardly enlightened.
1 week ago
Anonymous
People always say that shit like LSD is enlightening but every druggie I’ve ever known was neurotic and self-absorbed. It’s like the more drugs you use the more far up your own ass you get.
1 week ago
Anonymous
I don't know about others but it used to give me crazy visuals when I was younger and nowadays it just gives me an excess of energy no matter who or where I buy it from. There's slight changes to personality and cognizance while on it but nothing like the shit when I first started. It's just a chimping drug.
Trying to be as virtuous as possible. I may be a walking corpse but I will never turn aside a friend in need, whether they need to pick my brain for something I know or just unload their problems. I will never throw another under the bus to save my own skin. I will never cheat or defraud or lie to my friends or to anyone in general and if I don't know something I will say just that. It doesn't help as much as you'd think it would, but it is better than being human scum and also being critically sick. I know for a fact it'd be worse if I didn't try and live as I thought a man *should* live.
>broke up 2 months ago with gf whom I've been with for the past 7 years >no friends left, about to finish uni and feel absolutely nothing >realize how awfully lonely I am
Does the loop gives you a little breathing room or is only gonna get worse in time?
Just started playing DE yesterday. Not very far, but I like Kim. Do I have to have a good esprit de corps to have a good relationship with him because I pretty much put all my points into my body because I thought the things it was telling me were funny.
> because I thought the things it was telling me were funny
This is how to have fun with the game. Go with what you think is interesting or funny.
As for Kim, try not to disappoint him too much, but he's very forgiving.
if you really want kim to like you go with moralfag options, i had an absurd amount of good cop/bad cop points by the end of my moralist run
otherwise just don’t be racist and he’ll like you just fine
Espirit de corps doesn't do much and you don't need it to get closer to Kim. Empathy is your best bet for getting closer to him and most others. This is true in the game as it is life
The game is legit the only good thing I've seen created by socialists. It was a really fun experience and I really liked Kim and would do anything for him.
>Play a 3/3/3/3 Henry >Succeed at rolls that I probably shouldn't have >Fail rolls that I probably should have succeeded
Destiny's the driver, I'm just along for the ride.
I did my entire first playthrough without it. I almost had a fucking heart attack pulling it off the fan so I figured it was just not possible to obtain given my low stats.
>5 point in physique >5 points in psyche >Focus on human instrument, electro-chemistry, empathy, inland empire, and half-life
Yes sir, looks like its time for another playthrough.
>How ya holding up Ganker?
the world sucks except for the parts that don't. i've been running out of options for years. there are less things i like in the things i like now. vidya being one of them. i still think things will turn out ok for humanity in the end but i'm running on fumes
I honestly don't know what to do with my life. I managed to pass my kali yuga, but now what? I feel utterly aimless. I wish I had little voices in my head like Harry so that I could at least have some direction. I get it that "a path is made by walking on it", but come on.
Yes he does. She outright tells you that the Moralists are after her and if you arrest her they'll find her and throughout your investigation on her you learn that this is true.
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Anonymous
Harry absolutely knows that the Moralintern will kill her because she literally admits to corporate espionage
Things Harry knows:
Klaasje claims the MoralIntern are after her for corporate espionage
Klaasje is lying through her teeth the entire conversation
Klassje is taken away by MoralIntern goons after she's arrested (because he has supernatural powers)
Things Harry Doesn't Know:
That Klaasje is actually at serious risk of being disappeared by the world elite
That Klassje is so at risk that she'll be caught within hours of being processed by the RCM
So when the question comes up "should I arrest this lying bitch for sabotaging a murder investigation", Klaasje's claims of imminent suicide by MIB is not a consideration
1 week ago
Anonymous
>is not a consideration
On the subject of potentially sending a woman to her death, yes it is a consideration. No reasonable mind would think 'maybe she'll die maybe not' and end up going with the outcome that risks her death.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Let's not send pedophiles to jail because they might get killed in prison.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Yes, that's correct. If we knew that sending a pedophile to jail would result in their death, we should not send them to jail. Your opinion on whether or not pedophiles deserve to live is irrelevant; they were not sent away to be killed and therefore their death is an injustice.
1 week ago
Anonymous
If they break the law they deserve whatever consequences they get.
1 week ago
Anonymous
No, because the law has determined that their punishment was jail time. They did not receive the death penalty.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Again, they broke the law and they received the just consequence of being imprisoned. Whatever happens after that is up to fate. A meme thought in your head saying she's going to die doesn't really change anything.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Just imagine that there was no Shivers check after arresting her. Imagine that her fate is not beamed into your brain by the soul of the fucking City of Revachol itself.
Your argument has zero weight, then. Because it's literally only that one check that makes you simp for her all the harder. If it was left unanswered, completely ambiguous, you would not be making these shitty arguments. The ONLY thing that says anything happens to her is tantamount to MAGIC.
1 week ago
Anonymous
If there was no shivers check to confirm that the Moralintern had indeed caught her then the choice would have an ambiguous outcome but the morality behind the decision remains the same. To the best of your knowledge, you are sending a woman that is being hunted to her death. You no longer know with certainty that she does die but that isn't relevant.
1 week ago
Anonymous
>To the best of your knowledge
[...]
Things Harry knows:
Klaasje claims the MoralIntern are after her for corporate espionage
Klaasje is lying through her teeth the entire conversation
Klassje is taken away by MoralIntern goons after she's arrested (because he has supernatural powers)
Things Harry Doesn't Know:
That Klaasje is actually at serious risk of being disappeared by the world elite
That Klassje is so at risk that she'll be caught within hours of being processed by the RCM
So when the question comes up "should I arrest this lying bitch for sabotaging a murder investigation", Klaasje's claims of imminent suicide by MIB is not a consideration
You're meta gaming. All Harry knows is that someone who has been lying to cover their participation in the obstruction of justice in a murder investigation is telling a story about how being punished will lead to their death. You do not take practiced liars at their word when they tell stories about their impending death. At no point in Klaasje's testimony do you suddenly break through to the truth and nothing but, she gives you zero reason to believe anything she says.
She even tells you to go find her real identity in a safe place and what's there when you find it? Another fake identity. She lied. AGAIN. Even after supposedly breaking down and playing the "I have no more lies left" card, she keeps on fucking lying to you. Shivers is just there to expose the bitter irony of a liar lying herself to her own grave when the truth could've prevented all of it.
1 week ago
Anonymous
You have no knowledge, she's an EXTREME LIAR, she LIES CONSTANTLY. So I have to ask you, you believe her on this point, question mark in bold, why?
She won't because a Call is the same thing as arresting her: putting her into the RCM's system, which means putting her in the line of fire of the MoralIntern.
Not even joking a Dutch woman fucked my shit up bad >huge narcissist >publicly verbally abusive >guilt trips constantly >isolated me from friends+family
I broke up with just over one year ago and I still haven't fully recovered. I'm happy most days but occasionally I'll ruminate on shit and think about old confrontations. Stay away from them
My favorite moment might have been after you learn about the Col Da Ma Ma Daqua and the INSTANT you walk outside you're like "What was that? Did I hear it? The legendary sound animal?" >Kim, do you hear- >I do not hear the Col Da Ma Ma Daqua and neither do you.
And then by internalizing the thought you get a huge boost on capturing the sound of silence in the church, which made me literally laugh out loud.
Too many come to mind >the chair >abusing Garte >climbing the statue+contacting the airship >meeting little Lily >Idiot Doom Spirals story >everything on the island
DE has too much sovl I swear
Do you guys all abuse Garte? I was bros with him when I played, he's just a stressed out man trying to run a business and get a girlfriend. We became just three bad ass men nodding stoically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy4jnONx_ZU
>Do you guys all abuse Garte?
Only at the start when he was a cunt to me (justified), after I advanced on the game I stopped being a piece of shit and started acting more like a detective. Even got him a new bird to display and told him about the pinball machines.
I played a heavy Inland Empire run and I wanted the phasmid to be real so bad, I checked all the cages an extra time even when it wasn't a quest just to be sure. I cried hard at the ending
I played a heavy Inland Empire run and I wanted the phasmid to be real so bad, I checked all the cages an extra time even when it wasn't a quest just to be sure. I cried hard at the ending
>the phasmid It really was one of the best moments in the entire game. The fact that the cryptozoologist was right, and how they were willing to help humanity even if they would bring the death of all. It felt like a ray of hope and wonder in the game's depressing themes.
I'm a senior product manager
and I hate it
I'm so tired of backlogs, feature requests, the CEO bothering me about shit, customer success blaming me for customers cancelling when I only have one dev for my FOUR FUCKING PRODUCT LINES, and sales signing on new customers with promises of doing whatever random fucking custom integration they can think of to land the deal
I'm gonna learn how to code so I can join the rest of the dev team in not giving a fuck about what execs think and going home at 5 every day while taking 20 days off a year because I've got recruiters literally throwing themselves at me
I'm not even making over 100k while most seniors are in the 150k range so I can't even say I'm making enough money for the stress to be worth it
I got out of the IT grind for the same basic reasons. Crap pay, crap leadership, everything is my problem, but any success gets attributed to someone else. Work hard, put on the brave face, smile wide and do the customer service voice, then get 2s and 3s across the board at my yearly review so they can deny me a raise. I quit and went blue collar. I'm outside a lot, I lost 70 pounds, and no one bugs me because I'm usually either somewhere you need a permit to access or I've got ANC earpro on, humming along to nightcore and swinging a 10 pound sledge into a piece of stubbornly secured broken equipment that needs to come loose for literally triple my old rate.
Based anon, just be sure you take care of your body while doing that, that kind of work can add up over the years. You gotta be able to stand upright like Rene instead of becoming broken down.
I'm honestly in the best shape of my life at 35 of all things. Coach Physical Instrument would be proud. I was a chubby, awkward nerd that put on a bunch of weight in college, then even more when I went into IT. Turns out a high stress, low physicality job coupled with stress eating doesn't do your body any favors. I used to groan when getting out of bed and was constantly hurting myself tripping over my own feet. Now I walk about 5-7 miles a day, I can run an eight minute mile and steadily working my way towards seven, and I can easily hoist my own weight in steel. Luckily I'm with a company that appreciates my unique skillset of staggering violence against inanimate objects and technical analysis and troubleshooting, so I'm a "soft" tradesman that only pulls standard work weeks and am encouraged to take time off for both mental and physical health as needed. My manager grumbles sometimes, but in his own words "I'd rather have you here healthy tomorrow than here today and out the rest of the week in worse shape."
I don't know. I can't tell if forgetting stuff is just because I'm getting older or if something wrong. I don't know if it's life routine or the weed gummies (which are definitely why I get paranoid about it). My grandfather got dementia and now my mother in law has it so I guess it's just something I worry about now. Sorry for the blog post but I had a huge existential crisis about it this morning. I think I'll lay off the weed gummies
Weed and THC gummies will fuck your shit up. I'm not anti weed in small doses to help with pain or insomnia but regular use is incredibly unhealthy. Take it from somebody who regularly smoked for years. Last 7 years of my life have been far better without it. Paranoia is a massive side effect that becomes more and more prevalent over time. No other drug or substance does that me like weed and I've tried almost everything
You hit the nail on the head my friend. A lot of people I know become so reliant on it that they stop enjoying things without it. They become shells. Paranoid shells. You need to keep your mind agile to keep learning/growing and weed is not a way to do that. Good luck on your path
Why DOES Klaasje hang around as long as she does? She's being "protected" by the Hardies, but like...she knows attention is being called to her, why didn't she bolt the night of the murder?
>full time office job >master dissertation due in a couple weeks >need 50 more pages >health has taken a turn
Once im done im doing another run of DE to shed these burdens
>know a girl for 5 years >friends for 3 >fwb for 1 >gf for 1 >break up recently after months of her being cold and me trying to give her space hoping she'll come around >I'm the only one who seems upset by this at all >tortured everyday because I still miss her and have to see her at work
I want off this ride
The secret is just don't give up, just do whatever the fuck and enjoy life. I'll just do my shit and be happy and if i bump into someone else that I can share it with, all the better.
Started DE earlier, only thing I don't like about the game is how hard you can skill into something and still fail checks. I feel like if you're very, very over-invested in something you should be given 100% chances. Failing a 95% check or even just an 80% always leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Then again on the other hand I also passed an 18% check once and I laughed out loud especially since it resulted in Kim giving me a high five.
I mean, that's what 80% means. "Very good odds but there's a chance it won't work."
It's not much of a game if you simply succeed at the things you want with no variance.
That's how life works. Just because something seems like to work out doesn't mean it will. Some fails have more interesting outcomes than the successes. DE has immense replay value I've gone through 3 times now and still haven't done one of the big routes where you get a different partner
to be fair it’s sometimes hard to tell whether harry is hallucinating, having actual physic visions, or some combination of the two (ie talking to the hanged man)
For the love of fuck the word is spelled "psychic." Just try pronouncing the thing you wrote and you can tell you got it wrong. I know you're like "hmm, there's a mystery h somewhere in there, maybe here?" but like for fuck's sake just...learn. Be better.
>for fuck is sake
have a nice day for being this much of an ESL. Make it quick, please. This world does not need you.
1 week ago
Anonymous
...Buddy. Do you not understand how the possessive apostrophe works? In the use of that oath and its many forms (Pete's sake, Christ's sake, etc) there is an entity whose sake is being invoked. The sake is possessed by the entity, thus, the possessive apostrophe is used. Holy shit dude, you're a special level of stupid.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Why are ESLs always the ones that try and call out ESLs?
holy fuck you got trolled
1 week ago
Anonymous
Like goddamn poetry.
1 week ago
Anonymous
Why are ESLs always the ones that try and call out ESLs?
Talking to the corpse is an Inland Empires check which means it's full on inside his own head and based on things he already knows, or suspects, twisted through the lens of imagination
I figured it was real because you needed to be sprayed with the pheromones to be able to talk with it. And the voice Harry hears is just how he interprets its pheromone messages. That's why it required an Electrochemistry and Inland check.
It says right there it barely has the brain power to recognise the world around it, at no point is that thing having a conversation about the history of humanity and the impending extinction event of the Pale, on any level.
But by your own argument, it could not be saying that as instead Henry would be the one thinking that. As for complex thinking, it appears to be well connected to other's of its species. That along with the fact that it uses and communicates with pheromones makes it similar to ant colonies, which also uses pheromones to achieve levels of thought outside the powers of their brains.
>it could not be saying that as instead Henry would be the one thinking that
Yes, the entire conversation is the fullest manifestation of Harry's personality disorder. He has created a new "outside" personality to give a voice to it, to "explain" things he knows but can't quite directly access due to his three day bender. Like the corpse talking about things Harry could easily have learned and then "forgotten" in those three days of binge drinking. In this case it's just a bunch of knowledge about stick insects and the Pale.
I'd also point out that it also states it lives a solitary life and once ate one of its own children. The closest thing it has to a connection with another living thing is the addiction its neurotoxin causes in the Deserter.
1 week ago
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I don't disagree that Harry had created a personality to give it voice, but the conversation feels to real to simply be something inside Harry's head. With the way it acts around Harry, it felt like there was some kind of connection between the two.
Also, I would not call what the corpse said as easily learned. That would have required Harry to have done far more investigating and interrogating than what was shown that he did during his drunken bender. A psychic/pale phenomenon would unironically be an easier way of explaining how had gotten that information. Especially since Revachol is located in an area with a growing pale presence.
1 week ago
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The thing is attracted to the pheremones sprayed all over him, it does nothing but stand there the entire time. Kim even says Harry zoned out completely for the duration.
And the only thing the corpse says that's a stretch is that Communism killed him. Lely fucking Klaasje was common knowledge, in the autopsy you even get a Good Cop point for insisting he was "enjoying himself" at the moment of his death and later learning he died with his dick wet, so "love did me in" is a given. Inland Empire as a whole says a lot of things that are true like Encyclopedia, just filtered through layers of bullshit.
1 week ago
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"Love did me in" specifically refers to the motive of the murder, not the actual murder itself. The common knowledge was that the corpse was hanged by workers as an act of protest, not that he was fucking klajsee. That information was kept hidden to avoid suHispanicion landing on her. And Harry only arrives after the murder so he wouldn't have known about their relationship.
>First time playthrough >Using drugs, alcohol, smokes >All in on red skill tree >Being as aggressive, superstitious, and belligerent as possible >Kim helps me pay for my room >Now want to be a better cop for him
Damn man this game's writing is pretty good. I always play as a renegade asshole in these types of games and now I actually feel bad about it.
If I say fuck it and keep being an irresponsible belligerent alcoholic will Kim leave me?
Part of the charm the game does a great job of giving you options to be an asshole/druggie but makes you feel the sting of it too. No to your question btw
He'll stay with you but he won't respect you. And if you go full racist you'll permanently break your bonds, even if he's a big enough man to stay with you out of professionalism.
>it's revealed that Harry The Human Can Opener actually thinks and talks in dialogue trees, it's not just a gameplay thing >only Harry can get through to Egghead because he's literally just persevering through the batshit dialogue trees to find a way forward with the conversation like a gamer playing a videogame rather than a human talking to another person
Because I've got nothing in my current life. A dead end job with rising rent that's slowly draining my savings. No prospects.
This is my version of killing myself, I'm just walking away.
why not go homeless? im not trying to convince you or life or death, just, why go so extreme, so sudden.
1 week ago
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I mean in all likelihood I will, just in another country.
1 week ago
Anonymous
okay, thats makes a little more sense. its not a death date, its the point of no return.
1 week ago
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It's the death of my current self. To everyone in my life, I may as well die on that day.
1 week ago
Anonymous
well thats a bit extreme. are you gonna be debt free and actually clear when you go? again, im not for/agaisnt, ive actually travelled continents mostly to get away. why not plan to succeed or live well when you get away?
1 week ago
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>why not plan to succeed or live well when you get away?
Exactly what do you propose I do? I'm not making money where I am and I don't have desired skills to improve my situation.
1 week ago
Anonymous
your already considering topping yourself, literally how could it get worse? move to some literally who location who will hire literally whose. fuck it.
1 week ago
Anonymous
>move to some literally who location who will hire literally whose
Not him but where do you find stuff like this?
1 week ago
Anonymous
That's what I'm doing, guy.
1 week ago
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oh. well. try to have some plans for the future. kingpin of insert3rdworldhere is a legit goal, if you dont care about dying. whats to lose.
You have to have a decent vocabulary to appreciate DE imo. I think the game explains the concepts of things very well if you ask enough questions however of you don't understand the words being said maybe look them up. Thesaurus can help. Synonyms are a great avenue to expand your linguistic ability and become a champion of free flowing Disco conversation. You'll be matriculating your limbs through the valleys of speech and climbing whatever horizons you can manifest in that stunning cranium of yours, Harry
That was probably the biggest gut punch for me. I don't think she ever even says that her husband is missing, right? You're just weird and assume that. Then he is.
why was endurance such a bitch anyways?
savoir faire may bring her up a couple of times but you can completely ignore the whore if you want to, while in the fascist quest you just can't
My favorite thing about this game is how difficult it is to actually learn about the pale while playing it. It gets mentioned every now and then, but nobody explains it to you. In fact, most people don't want to talk about it. I have two friends who beat the game and they had no idea of what the pale was, even though its such an important part of the DE world.
>nobody explains it to you
Joyce told me all about the pale on the first day.
Well yeah, i phrased it wrong. Joyce does tell you about it, but you need to pass some very hard checks for her to actually do it, which is why its easy to miss it entirely
>but nobody explains it to you
Joyce has a whole lecture on it, which unlocks further information on it at the Church.
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Well yeah, i phrased it wrong. Joyce does tell you about it, but you need to pass some very hard checks for her to actually do it, which is why its easy to miss it entirely
The Pale is a placeholder for any kind of religious/higher power/afterlife belief you as the player may hold. That's why the pale is so present in the church. That's where you'll find God
The Pale is a stand-in for a lot of things. One of them is climate change. It's a reason why it's so horrifyingly described.
You go and read Joyce talking about it, and you think: >how the FUCK are they just living there, completely aware that the world is slowly dying and there's nothing they can do?
But we do the same thing. We just have our lives to live, and we can't meaningfully interact with climate change in an individual level. Just like you can go your entire life doing your damndest to be original and one fuckass Innocence can show up and great like 3.000 times the novelty you destroyed your entire life in a single day, we can do all the stuff we do to be environmentally responsible and some corpo can show up and dump a billion tons of oil in the Pacific. So we just... ignore it. It never even passes through our heads that the world is collapsing.
This applies to a lot of things, too. Do you think people didn't just pretend nothing was happening, during military dictatorships? Where every day your neighbor or your family members could vanish? Or during the wars in the middle-east or the Palestinian crisis, where every day an Israelite missle can level your house? Do you think those people worry? Of course they do. But they also try and not care. They try to live their lives despite the fact the world is ending, no matter what this end of the world is.
It's all they can do.
You sound blackpilled. People don't know what happens in The Pale just that it covers a lot of the world of DE. It could be paradise or it could be damnation. Of you interpret it as damnation/climate change/war/strife etc that is a mirror of your own beliefs and nothing more
>People don't know what happens in The Pale
They know full well what happens in the Pale except at the very deepest parts of it where it's impossible for people to exist. They travel through it all the time. They force dimensions on it so they can have international radio. They bury bottles of vodka in it, shitty new age books advocate taking healthy walks in it. It's been part of human history on the planet for all 6000 years of it.
>They know full well what happens in the Pale except at the very deepest parts of it where it's impossible for people to exist.
Read that sentence then reread my post here
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The Pale is a placeholder for any kind of religious/higher power/afterlife belief you as the player may hold. That's why the pale is so present in the church. That's where you'll find God
You'll see exactly what I mean
1 week ago
Anonymous
I know you're trying to act like a religious sperg but no, it's a scientific fucking certainty what happens in the Pale.
1 week ago
Anonymous
No. It isn't
1 week ago
Anonymous
The game literally tells you that it's raw information
Like the backyard in guilty gear
1 week ago
Anonymous
Spiritualism is raw information. Raw. You can cook it a little with scripture, fellowship etc but true faith comes from inside you. It's a truth you've known all your life but didn't know how to find
It's not a placeholder, it's a reduction. The only place gods undeniably exist is in the human mind. As information. And when millions of people have that same information at the same time, it starts leaking out. Because it has to go somewhere. And a backchannel is created. And it just keeps going.
The pale is a psychic dumping ground for unresolved angst, it has tendrils in places like the church and the doomed commercial district because these places were always full of people in constant states of despair.
The whole game is about trying to learn how to reconcile failure/defeat and the pale is a metanarrative reflection of that of that process, it will consume you entirely if you let it.
>The pale is a psychic dumping ground for unresolved angst, it has tendrils in places like the church and the doomed commercial district because these places were always full of people in constant states of despair.
Agree to an extent >The whole game is about trying to learn how to reconcile failure/defeat and the pale is a metanarrative reflection of that of that process, it will consume you entirely if you let it.
Disagree. The game isn't about reconciling failure/defeat its about reconciling trauma and heartbreak. The Pale is not a reflection of trauma and heartbreak it's a reflection of your beliefs about spiritualism. If you view it as a reflection of reconciliation it's likely you hope to be reconciled yourself through spiritualism whatever form that may come. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism etc it's obvious you're hoping for that yourself. Tell me you've got true faith and prove me wrong. Go ahead and say it if I truly am
I mean, we have the other books and tabletop stuff for DE, and we know that the Pale is largely the collective catastrophic buildup of unrealized futures overtaking the fabric of the past[spoiler].[/spoiler]
For pure fun factor? Physical instrument. At high levels it interjects a lot, and it's always to talk shit and make Harry feel like a God.
For utility? Empathy and inland empire pop up a ton. I've never bothered looking them up but I would bet money they are among the top 5 in skills that can pop up the most. To be honest, I feel like all of psyche is very prominent in the game. Intellect is probably slightly less.
Still drudging to the middle of the week, At least Monday is a federal holiday in the land of the *free* and I get a three day weekend. Can't bitch too much.
Got back into anime by pirating from nyaa Blurray 1080p Dual Audio 10 bit x265 rips and watching it on my HDR 4k monitor.
I feel immense guilt for having stopped watching anime years ago just because 90% of what's out today is low-effort isekai slop when I've been watching masterpiece after masterpiece these past few months.
Replaying DS3 with the Farron Greatsword, nothing in Elden Ring scratches that acrobatics itch. Better shadows mod helps the graphics a touch. Afterwards I'll finally finish Rainworld and start animating Aerith in my own custom game.
Well in my opinion they're masterpieces, but lately I've watched >LAIN (obviously) >TRIGUN >Berserk golden age >Made in Abyss (season 2, just finished the movie) >A few Ghibli films >Haibane Renmei (In all honesty I enjoyed this one, but it was a little boring at times).
And I'm about to start rewatching Gurren Lagann, haven't seen that one since it first aired. Times goes by fast.
Mob Psycho is great. FLCL is one of those anime that I watched as a young teen, again in my 20s, and most recently in my 30s, and I've come away with a new interpretation each time regarding the themes. It's truly a masterpiece of the animation art form.
>tell Garte I'm a feminist only to piss him and make him mad >if I become a feminist it gives me +2 authority against men >it never comes in play
I think I wasted a cabinet slot on this shit.
I'm starting to get better with my life. I have a stable job, been able to buy things I want for my hobbies and saving up for a beater car, probably a corolla or camry.
I think once I start to stabilize myself, probably look into going to community college just so I have a degree of some sort.
There's some nights where I just kinda fall into despair and want it all to end but if I do that, everything I worked for and all the effort and love my family and friends put into me would go to waste, so I don't wanna do that to them.
>probably look into going to community college just so I have a degree of some sort.
Not a bad idea anon. Uni's are just a scam. Just get a simple degree to get your foot in the door of someplace that dosen't flip burgers for lard buckets. Get that sweet easy salaryman job.
Yeah, CCs are reasonably affordable for a two year program and in my experience doesn't have as many hoops to jump through for financial aid
I remember being in high school my guidance counselor mocked the kids going into CC saying they were going to miss out on REAL experience which was some insane shit
wonder if guidance counselors and shit get kickbacks from getting kids into certain unis and signing them up for loans
The recruiters definitely do. I think the GCs just get hyperfixated on the deification of the conventional 4+ year post-secondary education system, hallowed be its name. I learned a lot in college, but I ultimately didn't end up using my degree per se, just a lot of the general problem solving skills I honed while in college.
I was poor and got grants and didn't pay for my community/state college -> transfer to uni undergrad degree. Then I fell for the master's scam and am in debt and unhired because I'm white with a dick ROFL
>Then I fell for the master's scam and am in debt and unhired
Explain this, because I'm in the process of looking at master's programs that I have no passion about.
My program was overtly sexist in favor of women, and overall very hands-off (nobody in my 6 person cohort graduated on time, for example). Funny how some of the most ignorant and judgmental people are psychologists
Sacrifice your pride and go into social work, its basically a meat grinder with terrible churn and burnout on account of having to stare into the face of human misery constantly, but at least there is always jobs open.
And once you get some experience you may just be able to get an actual psychology job.
Fine, I am done with school for a few months so i'll play vidya, take my father to some cool places, watch movies and shows and come back to practice swimming.
Right now, I am addicted to Hi-Fi Rush.
sometimes I think of giving up, but then I think "that commie autist who spams shill disco E threads on Ganker like clockwork everyday hansn't given up, why should I?" then I come back and check just to make sure you're still at it. still shilling. still knowing nothing about anything. an inspiring example to us all.
The job I've been at for four years basically admitted I'm now at a dead end, and I'm not even a manager.
I have a small amount of gray hairs from this job. At 26.
I spent my entire life preparing to work. It's all I have. But it's not enough to impress anyone.
I've sold my life for $70,000 (bonus included).
When I was 20 it felt like I had infinite time, 26 now and realizing how short life is. I finally started drawing for the first time in my life after realizing I want to actually try and create something
Feeling empty mostly. I left the Army to go to College on some gibs and be with my friends and family more often back home. Now I'm starting to realize that maybe the friends I made in the Army are the ones I wanna spend more time with since I'm usually second fiddle to my friends at home. Got a dead end job til college starts so hopefully once I start school I can socialize again and meet new people but I can be pretty abrasive. So its not all bad but I just can't help but feel incredibly lonely for some reason. Oh well, at least the internet let's me play video with the boys still serving, and Anime Expo is coming soon so I've got one thing to look forward to in the short term.
>MISTER DUBOIS PLEASE DON'T ASK THAT ELDERLY WOMAN FOR MONEY >MISTER DUBOIS PLEASE DON'T LICK THAT RUM STAIN ON THE COUNTER >MISTER DUBOIS PLEASE DON'T SING KARAOKE TONIGHT >MISTER DUBOIS PLEASE D-
>27 >want to move out and finally be an adult >but don't want to be alone (not because I can't take care of myself, I just know I can't handle the loneliness) >therapist and doctor recommended me antidepressants
shall I take the personality replacement pills
Do not under any circumstances take SSRI's. Absolute garden gnome shit that will make you feel like a zombie. Connect with others around you. Go out and get some sunlight. Improve your physical health. It's not an easy fix but pills are no fix at all. You're still going to have anxiety but if you have friends/family to lean on when you're struggling (because some parts of living alone will be a struggle) you can get through it
>Connect with others around you.
Be more specific please? How do I make friends at 27? I work on a team of two other people that are constantly busy. I'm too nervous to go to clubs alone. I have two friends that live in town and one isn't adventurous at all, and the other never invites me to do anything despite me showing interest in accompanying him - although I realize this is with a separate group of friends. Can't get laid either because I live at home and I've been terrified of sex since I was 17.
For me it was going out and meeting people. I had a local Cafe and just started talking to strangers asking "How's your day going?" Same thing at bars just playing pool or out in the smokers area.. I also found a church but it may not be an avenue you're comfortable with
>pushing meme tier "just live your life better bro" advice
For people with actual depression, you know, actual mental illness, none of that shit works. The answer isn't pharmaceutical pill peddling either but for the love of god stop pretending like a damaged brain cares how well you're living your life or how often you go for a walk.
I've been through actual depression and you assuming I haven't shows a massive lack of empathy. I was stuck in Melbourne during 2020 lockdown. 156 days all we could do was go to work, get groceries and go home. You had to have a pass to go more than 5km from your residential address. Nobody could see family or friends. Fuckwit cunt you don't know shit about my experiences in life
>pushing meme tier "just live your life better bro" advice
For people with actual depression, you know, actual mental illness, none of that shit works. The answer isn't pharmaceutical pill peddling either but for the love of god stop pretending like a damaged brain cares how well you're living your life or how often you go for a walk.
Chemical theory of depression has been knocked down quite a few pegs, and most doctors and psychiatrists worth a damn would not recommend SSRIs without other lifestyle interventions.
Fucking bullshit, don't talk about what you don't know. I'm a psychiatric PA and have been for a long time, lithium toxicity and serotonin syndrome are all very real and fatal, not to mention the long-term effects of antidepressants that health professionals still don't fully understand. Antidepressants and mood stabilizers both are fucking horrible and should only be offered after lifestyle changes.
RETARDS like you spouting your less-than-worthless opinions about subjects you DON'T UNDERSTAND are better off dead. You didn't deserve this reply, your value is less than a worm in the dirt.
That post was meant to be the opposite of an endorsement, just trying to explain /why/ they're prescribed so often. GPs generally won't give this stuff much thought, at least where I live. Personally, I've declined antidepressants twice because their efficacy is so low.
I'll be more careful with my words next time.
SSRI's should only be taken if your literally at the "can get out of bed or shower because your to depressed" stage and only then take them only until you get the momentum going on being a person again.
Like 80% of the time depression is more a symptom of Shit Life Syndrome that causes minor brain damage which can be healed over time by not falling back into a shit life.
The other 20% is like actual brain issues that you need to figure out how to work around for dopamine but at that point your better off just micro dosing on brain altering drugs and hoping that Universal RNG gets you into a better state of mind.
Really if you need them just take them till you get into a better situation where your actually out and functioning but know that your going to need to get off them eventually and the sooner the better.
I was OP been here the whole thread contributing memes and giving advice. O love DE like you wouldn't believe. I'll make another tomorrow morning. Good luck on your path friend
>parents are the only people I truly feel close to who I believe actually love me >they're getting older and the thought of them being gone one day haunts me every day >nowhere near where I wanted to be at my age >constantly want to improve my life but lack the drive and motivation to change >trying my hand at dating after putting it off for years since my last exes ruined me >seeing how women and people in general are nowadays has made me feel even more hopelessly alone
Really just doesn't seem like there's much here for me anymore. Not even my hobbies can distract me anymore
Everything in our world has a boring explanation, though. Black holes are now theorized to not even be holes.
Besides, it's not like I can just walk into one.
Even if the career fraudsters were right about the creators being sexist, the entire thing would still be ridiculous.
>be mean to some hoes >you no longer have creative rights to the thing you created
Even if someone had committed a heinous crime they still shouldn't lose the rights to something they created.
Money isn't even an issue, Robert Kurvitz still profits from the game as he is still a shareholder. He just can't create anything related to his universe anymore.
Pray for her
Spend as much time as you can asking questions about family heritage/ancestors/stories
If she goes (hopefully not soon) you'll be the torch bearer for your family line
I've come to fully understand that I'm a useless piece of shit and it's hard to see a future where my self esteem recovers but im still trying to live life
my upbringing and the ways i've attempted to cope have given me such a level of jadedness that my standards for everything are rock bottom and i feel like I'm already too satisfied just being independent and I don't really know what I want out of the rest of my life and i'm tired of the endless distractions
I just realized I'm reaching desperation after losing my 7 year relationship. My last date pretty much told me outright that I seemed desperate because of how I tried to rush to a relationship with that person just because of minute things in common. I never felt more embarrassed in my life.
I wasted every opportunity I ever had, I've literally never known the touch of a woman in an intimate, romantic way. Sounds like you had more luck than me anon, although sometimes I think I might be the one who's actually lucky.
Sleeping around won’t make you happy, anon. I personally believe doing so fucks anyone up in one way or another, but it’s specially harmful to sensitive autists, which most of us are. The best advice I can give you is to be the kind of person you think your ideal woman deserves to be with. Not for her, but because living closely aligned to your values will bring you contentment by itself. The cuties who may notice that and feel attracted by it are just a plus.
I want to try be the best I can be, it's hard though. I think I just need to meet new people in real life, because with my current circle I always get these gnawing feelings in my head like "they don't actually want to hangout with me" "they're just putting up with me because we've known eachother for a long time" etc. It's not even their fault I just can't dig myself out of this rut I fall in sometimes, despite always being able to muster a facade of cheerfulness whenever someone asks me how I'm doing.
I'm OP and I want 500th. You anons were a treat to converse with. Keep fighting. Everyday we are born again. Good luck on your path
Have a good one OP, I'm glad to have been able to participate in a Disco Elysium thread which wasn't just predominantly people flinging shit at one another.
>My last date pretty much told me outright that I seemed desperate because of how I tried to rush to a relationship
Some women think that any guy who doesn’t roleplay as some dark triad sociopath is too desperate. >I tried to rush to a relationship with that person just because of minute things in common.
Yeah, rushing into a relationship is usually a disaster in my experience, especially because women who enthusiastically accept getting into one out of the blue with some guy they don’t even know well are usually bpd. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t value similarities and feel excited about getting to know her. This is just me, but after two terrible relationships I decided I’ll either have the kind of cheesy relationship I always liked hearing about or nothing at all. Life’s too short to settle on the important things. Cool Johnny btw.
I've been playing monster hunter world and just recently got into the dlc area. I got stuck on one of the earlier monsters and decided to kill a few early vanilla monsters to unwind. They beat my arse too. Is this what it feels to get old as a vidya enjoyer?
Kill mesques. Behead mesques. Roundhouse kick mesques into the concrete. Slam dunk mesque babies into the trashcan. Crucify filthy mesques. Defecate in mesque food. Launch mesques into the Pale. Stir fry mesques in a wok. Toss mesques into active volcanoes. Urinate into mesques' gas tanks. Judo throw mesques into a wood chipper. Twist mesques heads off. Report mesques to the Moralintern. Karate chop mesques in half. Curb stomp mesques. Trap mesques in quicksand. Crush mesques in the trash compactor. Liquefy mesques in a vat of acid. Eat mesques. Dissect mesques. Exterminate mesques in the gas chamber. Stomp mesque skulls with steel toed boots. Cremate mesques in the oven. Lobotomize mesques. Mandatory abortions for mesques. Grind mesque fetuses in the garbage disposal. Drown mesques in fried chicken grease. Vaporize mesques with a ray gun. Kick old mesques down the stairs. Feed mesques to alligators. Slice mesques with a katana. Toss mesques into a huge meat grinder. Rip mesques in half with a chainsaw. Grind mesque fetuses into blenders. Feed mesques to bloodthirsty cheetahs. Skin mesques alive. Char mesques with a flamethrower.
BASED. Mesques will *LITERALLY* destroy the world.
>best vidya character in years
how did they do it?
That's not Cuno
*pull my gun*
Cuno is a retarded drugged up kid and in no way cool at all
CUNO DOESNT FUCKING CARE
Cuno is fucking insufferable, Cuno should kill himself. Cuno is the most unfunny forced character of any CRPG and deserves an agonizing death, probably rape too.
>t. cuno's bitch
>they nailed his character down on the first concept art and never looked back
>harry in comparison has gone through a whole heap of concepts up until the end
I have no idea how they did it but I'd be remiss if I excluded divine intervention among the possible causes
if anything this is pretty fitting to their characters
fine, considering
Fuck off back to reddiƫ, communist.
>moved country a month ago
>had to break up with gf who stayed in home country because I can't do long distance
>miss her more than any of my family
I know I'll find somebody eventually. Maybe even somebody more beautiful. Maybe somebody better with money. Maybe somebody who can be a better influence on me and who helps me grow. I hope so at least....
It sucks and it's hard anon, but you'll make it. It ain't gonna be instant but eventually you'll find someone.
Had my Gf leave the country and we tried long distance for a bit, until her parents basically hauled her off to an arranged marriage since I wasn't directly around.
Fucking barely. I'm gonna try to kms next week on the shooting range with a shotgun. I don't need to have an instructor assist me because they have known me for a long time and they trust me with weapons.
Don't do it anon. The world needs your light
The only light the world will see is the quick flash my shotgun will make when I pull the trigger
Why not reach out to people? I've been to some low points myself. Surrounding myself with good people and reaching out to family is what lifted me out of my hole. Unless you've got physical/medical conditions which make living agony you can overcome anything. The mind can be a prison but no trauma is greater than the love and kindness you will find if you seek it
You know you're doing seriously selfish shit, you have a problem yet you refuse to get assistance because you try carrying your mishandled weight all alone.
Like you won't even bother touching a book to help you with that because why bother right? It's sure is easy to pretend your life doesn't matter
NTA, but it’s also selfish to demand someone who wants to die keep living just to make you feel better.
Please don't do it at the shooting range. You have no idea how much it traumatizes the other people there and even worse if someone brings their son to shoot their first .22 rifle. If you're going to have a nice day then please do it in the privacy of your own home so no one except the paramedics will see. Doing it at the range is incredibly selfish. I know you're hurting and I implore you to make true changes in your life instead of the rut you are in now in order to have the desire to go on (I used to wake up wondering if today would be the day I finally find enough motivation to finally go through with killing myself, I am 100% aware of what you are going through) and I promise you that it does get better, but you do actually need to put in the time and effort.
>You have no idea how much it traumatizes the other people there
i think thats exactly what he's "gunning" for
Carlos you motherfucker
You've gone too far this time
I'd have killed you myself if it were not for the nature of this site
If you're gonna have a nice day you might as well make a scene out of it
At least take out a politician or insurance company executive with you.
What is it with leftists and aimless, meaningless acts of violence against rich/influential people? You will achieve literally nothing by doing this, there will always be another person to take their place. It's really just an ape low on the totem pole chimping out and throwing rocks at the bigger ape because he makes him feel small and insignificant.
Leftists view everything through the lense of a power struggle, where the powerful constantly oppress the weak. If you've worked up ant amount of money or power it's because in the grand scheme you stole it from those who work harder and need it more than you, therefore they think they are in the right to just take it back. This is the actual core of the communist belief system. Don't ask them what happens when they become the oppressor though
They'll just tell you what anyone honest would anyway. That it'll be justified. All power operates on this hypocrisy. Literally all of it.
>all power operates on the nihilistic sociopathy that I operate on
That's correct yes. Everything else is just narrative.
im falling apart
Gotta make some soul ties homie. Reach out to people. Everybody on Earth just wants to feel understood and validated
reach out to who? and how? i dont think i can just go up to someone and tell them im dying inside lol.
Church worked for me the best but if you don't want to connect that way then just going out to random Cafe's and bars works too. Something as simple as "How's your day going?" Can lead to some incredible conversations. Some people have so much bottled up they'll tell you in detail how their life is falling apart, they hate their job, relationships on the rocks/just had a breakup or even more. Empathize with their situation. Relate it to a struggle of your own. You'd be surprised how much people enjoy speaking with complete strangers. I love conversation but I'm a Kiwi. Not every culture has our same attitude
ive considered trying to go to church despite me not being very religous. but ill remember what you said, thanks anon
You're very welcome my friend. Good luck on your path
Michael Heiser is pretty good regarding religious stuff
>I love conversation but I'm a Kiwi. Not every culture has our same attitude
True. Things are so bad in some parts of Am*rica that if you tried that, you might get shot by some senile boomer.
when you feel lonely you feel like you'd appreciate having anyone to talk to
it's the worst that when i get to do it sometimes i can't really vibe with them and end up resenting the conversation, getting to know their personal life feels like a burden, i become the one who can't be assed with someone's life story, the same kinda guy i'm scared of when i decide to keep my life to myself
it's pathetic, and so perfectly ironic i've come to accept it as one of life's eternal jokes played on us, although it may just be me
Fall apart with a better image
Can we get the text style of this one with the art of
this one.
The moment my parents drop dead, I am quitting my job, becoming a bum, cutting ties off with the rest of my family, and playing video games and working out till I die alone
Hell, if there was an irl cheat that let me get free shit for no money, I'd quit my job and become a bum this moment
I kicked ass with container missiles yesterday, but I have nobody to brag about it to.
I don't know what that even means anon but it looks like my kinda autism and you are heckin valid :3
Thanks brah. You should get the game if you like 3D RTS's.
what game
YWNBAW
Reminds me of From the Depths, they have a similar missile design system
Good, now that there's TWO fan translations of Sacred and Terrible Air out!
The machine translation from the Russian fan translation and the recent "professional" translation, right? Or is there a third complete translation I missed?
afaik the machine translated one is from estonian into english and not from estonian into russian into english
I read the "professional" one and after I was done, I skimmed through the MTL one and they seemed pretty similar. The MTL reads a tad bit easier than the "pro" one, thoughever. The MTL tl seems more in line with DE terminology than the "pro".
Are you confusing the machine translated from russian one and the incomplete translation (only up to chapter 6) that's a heavily polished (with help from native speakers) machine translation from the Estonian?
I might. The MTL tl I skimmed is the one by group ibex.
oh i missed that, that genuinely is a third full translation
you mean 28 years, as your picture says
Don't be dumb, anon
what am i missing? does
not say "28 years remain until the end of the world"? does it not refer to the apocalypse caused by the filthy mesques?
Kim will be 70 after 27 years. The world will end "the year after".
unless he cops it in the world war and rapid pale expansion before the actual end, which seems highly likely
There's only one thing that can unite our fractured political landscape, and that is hating women
Playing now, just passed the tribunal, was very tense.
Shame about hose hardy guys that died.
How many of them survived?
Is easier if I tell you who died, Glen, Shanky, Theo and Angus.
That's the best outcome
You can have Shanky run away before the shooting starts via stalling, but Titus Hardy mentions he's going to shoot him in the kneecaps for abandoning them
>that shoot Kim did to the full armored guy that hit to his eye
>surely was a 3% hit success not only because the armor, because his bad sight even with glasses
That for sure was his best critical success of his life.
I agree that it was likely a 3% roll, but apparently man's surprisingly not bad with a gun
hate it here. Some days think shooting myself would be better than this pointless struggle.
I feel fat as fuck
Unemployed, recently got fired
can't find another job
worried about the economy
worried about climate crisis
worried about the WEF
Unplug from social media. Humans are very easily influenced and there is a ton of negative content that will demoralize you without you consciously realizing it. I only use texts, calls and messenger to stay in contact with my friends+family these days
It's over, from now I hope to just channel Theo from CoM all the time.
It's over, life's fucking shit. If I wasn't afraid of death I'd blow my brains out.
Miss my ex and feel like shit about it
How're you OP?
Miss my ex too anon. Apart from that life is pretty great. Starting a new job in a couple weeks I'm excited to have some money rolling in again. Bit hard up financially but I live in a beautiful city and am flatting with friends who genuinely care about me. Feels good man. What do you miss most about your ex? You out looking again yet or taking some time to work on yourself?
>mfw comfy DE thread
Tell me your troubles anons I just got cosy
Why Kim? You deserve to live at least 90 years.
>pale consumes everything in 27 years
>kim is 43
>43 + 27 = 70
bros…
It's a meta joke about the world canonically ending the year after
It dosen't end the year after, though.
It ends 20 years later.
Isn't this referring to the nuking of Revachol, not the Pale, so not really the end of the world itself?
The life expectancy in Revachol is probably very low.
Finished my fifth year of medicine without a single failed subject. Feeling pretty good,
Still not gonna play your shitty commie game tho.
>commie game
The politics are merely a part of the story. When you get halfway through you'll realise the message of the game is about changing your ways/self destructive habits, finding purpose in life and overcoming heartbreak. I'm 28 and it's one of the greatest games I've ever played in my life. Top 10 easily maybe top 5
1. Final Fantasy X
2. The Warriors
3. Disco Elysium
4. The Talos Principle
5. Catherine
6. Command & Conquer (1995)
7. NieR
8. FTL
9. Metal Gear Solid IV
10. Prey (2017)
9.
>7. NieR
Which one
The best one
>you sound like a typical drug addiction
I just said I haven't had any drugs in weeks lmfao. I enjoy the occasional trip but my life is great without it so I don't miss it. I am starting a new job soon, living in a beautiful city, have lots of friends and family who love me and enjoy a variety of hobbies. Not everybody has your temperament
>The best one
Incomprehensibly based
Yea I've played through twice such an amazing game. Automata had it's moments especially ending B but it didn't hit me the same as NieR. The Lighthouse sidequest and Beepy's story damn they hit like a truck
I'm not "overly defensive" you're the one convinced I'm a typical drug addict and I'm merely explaining how I'm not. Good luck on your path
Maybe not a typical drug addict, but a typical psychedelic user. No drug is good for you, it all has consequences. Literally nothing can be learned from drugs.
>can't even quote the right words and is overly defensive about his life
Either very young or actualized dot org member.
Was it canonical that the world looked like a disco ball because of The Pale or was that just my head canon?
Yes
Then what about the disco ball picture on the game exectuable? Is that supposed to be both a picture of the world and a discoball too?
Yes
Wait i thought their attempts at using satellites and high altitude probes also showed that the world isn't a sphere...[/spoiler[
>got fired from job
>mom threatening to kick me out
>no funds saved up
>communist friends refuse to rally together to fix this shit system
I fucking hate life.
>never had a crush on anyone
>never felt the need to get into a relationship
My autism grows stronger, and in six years, I will become a wizard
After playing this game I started to embrace communism....also I'm considering transitioning but that's incidental
Considering stopping sex therapy because I'm too broken of a person for focusing on one part of mentality if the rest of it is fucked. The only reason I started it was because I thought it was the worst issue, and while it's where I struggle the most to the point that I actively avoid it, I think the fact that I genuinely believe everything I do will end in failure is probably the bigger issue.
general therapy isn't a pancea but getting to bounce yourself off of someone else who's trained to be bounced off of can give you that 'aha' moment, or at least a thought that you can't seem to stop thinking until you do something about it
Mandatory watching
pure kino
Fuck, I've only seen the shootout part. This is insane.
It really was an exceptional game. It sucks about Kurvitz being ousted from ZAUM but I hope he lands on his feet with another studio soon. Immensely talented
while we're at it
comparison of the first paragraph of each of the three complete translations if anyone's interested:
>truri translation
This summer resort near Vaasa swallowed up four Lund girls. Along with their small bones and sunbathed skins, an entire era vanished. Six kilometres of winding coastline, a popular swimming spot in the ’50s; rows of changing cabins, high reeds rustling in the wind. There you can find the era conservatives mourn. Back when parents could send their kids to the beach unsupervised with two reál for ice cream and bus fare in their summer shorts pockets. Worriedly shaking their heads and hiding the news from Messina, Graad, and Gottwald, where – so it seemed to them – every week tiny skeletons were found cast into someone’s furnace. Every week, someone’s daughter, who had been kept in the basement for thirty years, escaped into the street and cried out for help.
download here: https://gofile.io/d/XR6BKy
>group ibex translation
It was a popular vacation area just outside of Vaasa that swallowed the four Lund girls. Along with their little bones and tan-lined skin, an entire era vanished. Six kilometres of winding coastline, a swimming spot popular in the fifties; rows of changing cabins, reeds rustling in the wind. Go there and find the age that conservatives long for. When parents could send children to the beach unsupervised, two reál for ice cream and bus fare in the pockets of their summer pants. Mum and dad would shake their heads in worry, keeping their children hidden from the news from Messina, from Graad, from Gottwald, where every week—it seemed to them-someone’s wee skeleton was found buried inside a stove wall. There, every week, someone’s daughter escaped onto the street after thirty years of captivity in a cellar and cried for help.
download here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uvtKvkqVp5gt-pVYqQOdf7WVzXgp_TRV/view
>machine translation from russian fan translation
This resort area on the outskirts of Vaasa swallowed up four girls, the Lund sisters. Together with their thin bones and tanned skin, an entire era faded into oblivion. Six kilometers of winding shoreline, a popular beach in the fifties; changing booths lined up, the wind rustling in the reeds. These are the times conservatives weep for. Times when parents could send their kids to the beach unsupervised, with two reals in their shorts pockets - for fare and ice cream. Fathers and mothers shook their heads anxiously and hid news from their children from Messina, from Graade, from Gottwald, where it seemed that every week they found the remains of little skeletons in the ovens. There every week someone's daughter would climb out of the cellar where she had been held for thirty years and call for help.
download here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gavinrj1/sata/main/sata.txt
barely
Man, I don't know after today. But I think I've got it figured out. Hopefully.
Well Ganker, are you a pissgay or a Fuck the world kind of person?
Why is gay the only censored slur in the game
Because "gay" is one of the only slurs that we also use, the racial ones are made up because the races are a little different than ours.
You can call Cuno a retard though. Evrart also calls you one.
>Evrart also calls you one.
He's just jealous of my ultraliberal grind
retard is not a slur
I'm sorry retard but it definitely is.
Oh no, is that too real in the game about some suicidal dude?
Sure it is retard lol. I get why they censored gay though. chud media fags would have caused a huge stinky about it and tried to get it pulled from Steam if they hadn't. Devs have to pick their battles wisely
>the racial ones are made up
you can literally call kim a yellow monkey fucker directly to his face
Unironically it’s because Harry is insane and doesn’t know what gay people are. Keep in mind that the game uses the uncensored version of gay after Kim comes out to you.
>STILL posting this shit after all these years
It wasn't true when the game first came out and it hasn't become true since
Definitely a pissgay, though some days I feel more like a fuck the world
pissgay is the stronger of the two sentiments
Probably the closest to suicide I've ever been
Just wish it was over now, dont even want things to get better
Second day of nofap.
Still haven't found a job.
Still a khhv.
Started to enjoy games again, just a tiny little bit.
Still a disappointment to myself and my family.
I relate far too much to Harry, it's quite concerning.
Had a bit in my eye all day today, apart from that I feel ok.
>lost my job in March
>haven't been able to find a new one since
>rejected from every PhD I applied for
>no gf ever
>closest friend killed himself a year and a half ago and I still miss him every day
>stopped the only hobby I had because it was making me miserable
Is DE a game for this feel?
unironically yes
Absolutely. The biggest theme/message of the game is overcoming grief. You are entirely responsible for the direction of your life. Drowning in sorrow and trying to escape your pain with alcohol/drugs will only lead to greater hardship. When I played Disco Elysium the first time I was in a toxic relationship and dealing with heavy addiction issues. It helped me
Yes. I've only been playing DE for about 7 hours now, but the only way I can describe it is love at first sight.
The writing is great, and it really contorts around whatever you want to be. I actually restarted my game about 30ish minutes in because I kept getting glimpses of physicality skills talking to me, and I loved it. I ditched my shitty generic detective I was playing and instead opted for an alcoholic bruiser. I'm loving it so far.
>this is what doomed the entire world
Genuinely glad as fuck that this board is slowly healing and becoming able to discuss this game. It was completely fucking unmentionable before the 2020 election without summoning 400 million retarded tourists who really obviously don't even play video games and are just mad about online politics
Careful anon, they still lurk among us, the lot of them are probably sperging out in another thread
Fuck
Well there's been a massive improvement anyway, which is good because this is absolutely one of my favourite games of all time. It's the only game I'd mention along with Planescape Torment as a worthy successor.
I bought Planescape Torment on a whim last month because I saw it was on sale for dirt cheap, how is it?
It's absolute kino on the same level as Disco Elysium. The first third is entirely world building and can be a bit of a slog. Once you find the person you're looking for, things just escalate. Make sure you put all stats into wis/int/chr regardless of your class.
Its a lot better than this overrated piece of dreck. This 'game'...its truly perplexing why anyone likes it but it made me realize how many brain-dead qseuds exist out there. No wonder the world is in such bad shape and probably always will be. Maybe I should just ape this guttural dogshit qseud style just to make money, any idiot could make this and you apes would lap it up and ask for seconds.
You fags are miserable because you play shit games, maybe go outside huh?
It still gets labeled a commie game fairly often. I've been here for 10 years but these days I spend a lot more time on Ganker than Ganker. The board is much slower but if you want in depth discussion about RPGs I'd highly recommend going there. You'll find regular threads on games like Disco Elysium, Dragon Quest, KOTOR, Tyranny etc that aren't full of shitposters
>winning move is to get off of Ganker
makes sense
Not really. Ganker will always be a huge collection of varying opinions. I love the bants and shitposting so I don't get worked up when people call it a commie game/propaganda but some people like you obviously do. Care more about responding to people who talk in depth about it and don't give (You)'s to the ones shittting up the thread. It's that easy
I still come here because theres value to the chaos of it. There are no sacred cows and you can find discussion on some of the wildest most obscure shit. Big releases like zelda always fuck up the whole board though, just becomes an endless shitshow of whining and bitching.
It depends on where you came from. Ganker is a good board occasionally, especially when compared to the other large boards which either turned into dull and soulless replicas of other forums or became honeypots.
It is a commie game, but who cares? It's competently written regardless of its doting on lefty shit.
Womty Dompty Dom Center is so fucking broken btw
Did you just say wompty dompty dom center??!
So is Art Cop, and you get Art Cop way earlier.
Womty Dompty Dom Center? Are you insane? Who in their right mind would call something that?
Very true. Actual lodsamone
Is the Wompty Dompty Dom Center meant to be the Centre Pompidou? Always thought that was a stupid name too.
>does nothing for a week but sit around in a wig and seethe instead of doing his job
>bails right before the tribunal
>comes back only to try and get harry fired and is entirely willing to leave him to die in a shack
what the everloving fuck is his problem?
>what the everloving fuck is his problem?
Harry, Harry is his problem
This guy is such a piece of shit it's unreal.
>waaa, but harry was a bad partner!!
He left two fucking fellow officers and a bunch of civilians to die, and still pretended to have moral high ground. Fuck him.
he's a tsundere
I think he's just tired of Harry's shit. Look at his portait. This is a guy who works hard to have his shit together. Suit, tie, the whole thing. He's a professional. Harry has spent like 7 years going to pieces over a bad breakup and self-destructing on a regular basis. He fucks up hard, bumblefucks his way into cracking a case by all outside appearances(remember no one else is aware of Shivers), realizes he's gone too far, makes a round of apologies, tries to sober up and pull himself together, and is right back in the booze and drugs. It's exhausting. The only thing that keeps him from writing Harry off completely is that he was once one of the finest detective in the precinct who worked hard and had his act together, and even when he's face down in a puddle of booze puke and half-processed pills he's still a damn good detective. I dealt with a junkie alcoholic parent my whole life, and the pattern of abuse, anger, lashing out, falling apart, getting into trouble, begging forgiveness, and going right back into the trouble is a very familiar one. He didn't see my Harry stay bone dry and out of drugs for his whole playthrough, only permitting himself the occasional cigarette, all he sees is a near decade of a familiar pattern going around once again.
>he was once one of the finest detective in the precinct
and he still is. i will not be accepting rebuttals
He canonically has severe depression, diagnosed. >"Seven years and going strong!" He nods enthusiastically. "The head doctors are now calling it a medical marvel... no, wait, anomaly was the word they used."
>what the everloving fuck is his problem?
He's working for a deranged drug addict/alcoholic.
Pretty good, honestly. When I went doomer, like actual full doomer, not "Life is shit and I'm depressed" doomer but actual pessimistic in the Ligotti sense, I felt a lot better mentally. Life is inherently shit, and I was depressed because my expectations did not meet with reality, turns out my expectations were wrong all along. Now I expect life to be shit, and I am never depressed or disappointed.
how do you anons cope with the fact that your life's an absolute mess? its nothing but a disturbing past, bleak future, and just rummaging for dopamine in every cesspit and orifice that life has to offer
Counciling
Meditation
LSD
Seeking God
Forgiving yourself
There is no trauma or emotional hurt you can't overcome
Honestly, this guy is right. LSD is the way.
[fake] LSD literally ruined my life. Psychedelics are the worst drugs.
>t. didn't hang on to his ego
More like physical problems that haven't gone away in over a year, then again I was taking other shit too. Research chemicals are cancer.
>taking research chemicals and fake LSD
You have only yourself to blame, retard.
KWAB. You either mixed it with alcohol/other substances or didn't take it in a safe space. I tripped probably 20 times last year. I went 8 tabs deep in my apartment. I time traveled, found my true name, danced like an archer, climbed mountains and built a fortress. Get on my level before you decay into nothing
Of course I mixed it. I think they laced it with something else, I've had tons of fun trips before but the last one felt like a stroke. Either way fuck psychedelics.
Well if you get laced shit or mix LSD with something else you're gonna have a bad experience. I've taken it 40-50 times in my life and only had 2 bad trips (one mixing with alcohol, one mixing with MDMA+alcohol) but that doesn't take away from the profound experiences I had all the other times. Be careful who you buy off. Enlightenment awaits
>Enlightenment awaits
Either that or permanent drug delusions, and there's very little difference.
LSD will not fuck you up permanently. I've never met anybody who has and I've met a ton of trippers. You've been fed propaganda
I haven't had any drugs in weeks. Haven't had LSD in months. I'm always interested in others and learning their life stories. I go out to bars fairly often and always make a point of introducing myself to strangers and making friends. Anything can be addictive but LSD no more so than other substances. You need to be the master of your own vices. Moderation isn't hard if you have firm goals you are working towards
I've been fed bad LSD.
>blood pressure shoots to 200/120 and can barely move my body
>permanent tremors, muscle weakness, confusion and no neurologist can find anything
At least drug test your shit or you will lose. Also you sound like a typical drug addict defending his behaviors, hardly enlightened.
People always say that shit like LSD is enlightening but every druggie I’ve ever known was neurotic and self-absorbed. It’s like the more drugs you use the more far up your own ass you get.
I don't know about others but it used to give me crazy visuals when I was younger and nowadays it just gives me an excess of energy no matter who or where I buy it from. There's slight changes to personality and cognizance while on it but nothing like the shit when I first started. It's just a chimping drug.
Trying to be as virtuous as possible. I may be a walking corpse but I will never turn aside a friend in need, whether they need to pick my brain for something I know or just unload their problems. I will never throw another under the bus to save my own skin. I will never cheat or defraud or lie to my friends or to anyone in general and if I don't know something I will say just that. It doesn't help as much as you'd think it would, but it is better than being human scum and also being critically sick. I know for a fact it'd be worse if I didn't try and live as I thought a man *should* live.
Is there anything he can't do?
what's your starting 4 digit combination anon?
>broke up 2 months ago with gf whom I've been with for the past 7 years
>no friends left, about to finish uni and feel absolutely nothing
>realize how awfully lonely I am
Does the loop gives you a little breathing room or is only gonna get worse in time?
I was you last year. Exercise, don’t let yourself become a neet and leave your house from time to time.
Just started playing DE yesterday. Not very far, but I like Kim. Do I have to have a good esprit de corps to have a good relationship with him because I pretty much put all my points into my body because I thought the things it was telling me were funny.
> because I thought the things it was telling me were funny
This is how to have fun with the game. Go with what you think is interesting or funny.
As for Kim, try not to disappoint him too much, but he's very forgiving.
you should ask him what he thinks of the mug
It's just a racist mug
if you really want kim to like you go with moralfag options, i had an absurd amount of good cop/bad cop points by the end of my moralist run
otherwise just don’t be racist and he’ll like you just fine
Good and Bad Cop points are earned by being a good or bad cop, nothing else matters. You can earn like 6 good cop points in the autopsy alone.
I AM RAPHAEL AMBROSUS COSTEAU!
I AM RAPHAEL AMBROSUS COSTEAU!
I AM RAPHAEL AMBROSUS COSTEAU!
Espirit de corps doesn't do much and you don't need it to get closer to Kim. Empathy is your best bet for getting closer to him and most others. This is true in the game as it is life
you dom't really need to do much to get close to kim. We were close by the end despite my harry being a communist anti cop retard
The game is legit the only good thing I've seen created by socialists. It was a really fun experience and I really liked Kim and would do anything for him.
doing my best to cope with the fact that I will never truly connect with another human being.
I've kind of given up tbh.
keep on kicking Anon, you can do it
>Play a 3/3/3/3 Henry
>Succeed at rolls that I probably shouldn't have
>Fail rolls that I probably should have succeeded
Destiny's the driver, I'm just along for the ride.
>Not going all in on physique and putting what's left into psyche
NGMI
Perhaps but succeeding at shit like roundhouse kicking measurehead despite having a middling physique is hilarious.
why the hell am i turned on by a fucking whore that does nothing but smoke all the time?
pic unrelated, im referring klassje of course
Don't be ridiculous, klasje doesn't smoke anywhere near as much as she dodges responsibilities.
Your mind has been compromised
fuck you. like hell i am
you should probably think about that, for 8 hours at the very least
>best character in the game is a piece of clothing
Why the fuck are you wasting time in this thread, Bratan??! Get off your ass and play the damn game
I did my entire first playthrough without it. I almost had a fucking heart attack pulling it off the fan so I figured it was just not possible to obtain given my low stats.
The tie talking to you was some so random tier bullshit, like it was early draft stuff they didn't remove on time
>he isn’t tiepilled
Sad!
for me it's
>best character is a corpse
>5 point in physique
>5 points in psyche
>Focus on human instrument, electro-chemistry, empathy, inland empire, and half-life
Yes sir, looks like its time for another playthrough.
finally got out of neetdom and about to graduate
kinda afraid what to do after now i have no singular purpose to keep off the despair away
>How ya holding up Ganker?
the world sucks except for the parts that don't. i've been running out of options for years. there are less things i like in the things i like now. vidya being one of them. i still think things will turn out ok for humanity in the end but i'm running on fumes
i don't want to be this kind of animal anymore...
I honestly don't know what to do with my life. I managed to pass my kali yuga, but now what? I feel utterly aimless. I wish I had little voices in my head like Harry so that I could at least have some direction. I get it that "a path is made by walking on it", but come on.
I took an energy drink earlier and my leg can't stop twitching, might have to lay off the caffeine for a while
Daily reminder to arrest Klaasje.
But then she dies.
And?
Why should she die? Morals aside, why would any detective knowingly and willingly send her to her death?
Because that's meta knowledge of the game Harry doesn't have
Harry absolutely knows that the Moralintern will kill her because she literally admits to corporate espionage
>she said so so it must be true
Just like everything else she said right?
Yes he does. She outright tells you that the Moralists are after her and if you arrest her they'll find her and throughout your investigation on her you learn that this is true.
Things Harry knows:
Klaasje claims the MoralIntern are after her for corporate espionage
Klaasje is lying through her teeth the entire conversation
Klassje is taken away by MoralIntern goons after she's arrested (because he has supernatural powers)
Things Harry Doesn't Know:
That Klaasje is actually at serious risk of being disappeared by the world elite
That Klassje is so at risk that she'll be caught within hours of being processed by the RCM
So when the question comes up "should I arrest this lying bitch for sabotaging a murder investigation", Klaasje's claims of imminent suicide by MIB is not a consideration
>is not a consideration
On the subject of potentially sending a woman to her death, yes it is a consideration. No reasonable mind would think 'maybe she'll die maybe not' and end up going with the outcome that risks her death.
Let's not send pedophiles to jail because they might get killed in prison.
Yes, that's correct. If we knew that sending a pedophile to jail would result in their death, we should not send them to jail. Your opinion on whether or not pedophiles deserve to live is irrelevant; they were not sent away to be killed and therefore their death is an injustice.
If they break the law they deserve whatever consequences they get.
No, because the law has determined that their punishment was jail time. They did not receive the death penalty.
Again, they broke the law and they received the just consequence of being imprisoned. Whatever happens after that is up to fate. A meme thought in your head saying she's going to die doesn't really change anything.
Just imagine that there was no Shivers check after arresting her. Imagine that her fate is not beamed into your brain by the soul of the fucking City of Revachol itself.
Your argument has zero weight, then. Because it's literally only that one check that makes you simp for her all the harder. If it was left unanswered, completely ambiguous, you would not be making these shitty arguments. The ONLY thing that says anything happens to her is tantamount to MAGIC.
If there was no shivers check to confirm that the Moralintern had indeed caught her then the choice would have an ambiguous outcome but the morality behind the decision remains the same. To the best of your knowledge, you are sending a woman that is being hunted to her death. You no longer know with certainty that she does die but that isn't relevant.
>To the best of your knowledge
You're meta gaming. All Harry knows is that someone who has been lying to cover their participation in the obstruction of justice in a murder investigation is telling a story about how being punished will lead to their death. You do not take practiced liars at their word when they tell stories about their impending death. At no point in Klaasje's testimony do you suddenly break through to the truth and nothing but, she gives you zero reason to believe anything she says.
She even tells you to go find her real identity in a safe place and what's there when you find it? Another fake identity. She lied. AGAIN. Even after supposedly breaking down and playing the "I have no more lies left" card, she keeps on fucking lying to you. Shivers is just there to expose the bitter irony of a liar lying herself to her own grave when the truth could've prevented all of it.
You have no knowledge, she's an EXTREME LIAR, she LIES CONSTANTLY. So I have to ask you, you believe her on this point, question mark in bold, why?
>that's meta knowledge of the game Harry doesn't have
>There's no logical way to know if she'd die or not
did you fuckers speedrun the game and skip every piece of dialogue or what?
>dialogue
Yeah let's believe dialogue when even your own subconsciouss gets fooled by it. The law is the law.
>Arrest known conspirator/criminal
>this is somehow bad
There's no logical way to know if she'd die or not. And it wouldn't be your fault anyways.
yh.we know
I gave her a slip. I trust her to honor it.
She doesn't.
She will. Eventually.
Besides, the Moralintern can go fuck itself.
She won't because a Call is the same thing as arresting her: putting her into the RCM's system, which means putting her in the line of fire of the MoralIntern.
I trust in her.
>but-
I TRUST IN HER
FUCK OFF MORALINTERN SHILL
THE VOICES IN MY HEAD TOLD ME TO TRUST HER
Klaasje did nothing wrong.
She's dutch.
Execution.
A dutch WOMAN.
Not even joking a Dutch woman fucked my shit up bad
>huge narcissist
>publicly verbally abusive
>guilt trips constantly
>isolated me from friends+family
I broke up with just over one year ago and I still haven't fully recovered. I'm happy most days but occasionally I'll ruminate on shit and think about old confrontations. Stay away from them
Except repeatedly messing with your crime investigation
when society collapses I am fucked as mixed race, given that tribalism will return
Just move to America or Brazil.
I mean America, all larpers of all races are fucking my reputation in the future.
I literally have to put all my bets on globohomo
Favorite moment? I think getting Kim to dance was genuinely the happiest I’ve ever felt playing a video game.
My favorite moment might have been after you learn about the Col Da Ma Ma Daqua and the INSTANT you walk outside you're like "What was that? Did I hear it? The legendary sound animal?"
>Kim, do you hear-
>I do not hear the Col Da Ma Ma Daqua and neither do you.
And then by internalizing the thought you get a huge boost on capturing the sound of silence in the church, which made me literally laugh out loud.
Too many come to mind
>the chair
>abusing Garte
>climbing the statue+contacting the airship
>meeting little Lily
>Idiot Doom Spirals story
>everything on the island
DE has too much sovl I swear
Do you guys all abuse Garte? I was bros with him when I played, he's just a stressed out man trying to run a business and get a girlfriend. We became just three bad ass men nodding stoically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy4jnONx_ZU
>Do you guys all abuse Garte?
Only at the start when he was a cunt to me (justified), after I advanced on the game I stopped being a piece of shit and started acting more like a detective. Even got him a new bird to display and told him about the pinball machines.
I was okay when that lawyer bitch died.
I played a heavy Inland Empire run and I wanted the phasmid to be real so bad, I checked all the cages an extra time even when it wasn't a quest just to be sure.
I cried hard at the ending
The island, especially the phasmid was a moment of absolute awe and wonder. Genuinely amazing.
>the phasmid
It really was one of the best moments in the entire game. The fact that the cryptozoologist was right, and how they were willing to help humanity even if they would bring the death of all. It felt like a ray of hope and wonder in the game's depressing themes.
>I exist.
>I exist too.
I think I'm banned for being a gay, let's see.
I'm a senior product manager
and I hate it
I'm so tired of backlogs, feature requests, the CEO bothering me about shit, customer success blaming me for customers cancelling when I only have one dev for my FOUR FUCKING PRODUCT LINES, and sales signing on new customers with promises of doing whatever random fucking custom integration they can think of to land the deal
I'm gonna learn how to code so I can join the rest of the dev team in not giving a fuck about what execs think and going home at 5 every day while taking 20 days off a year because I've got recruiters literally throwing themselves at me
I'm not even making over 100k while most seniors are in the 150k range so I can't even say I'm making enough money for the stress to be worth it
I got out of the IT grind for the same basic reasons. Crap pay, crap leadership, everything is my problem, but any success gets attributed to someone else. Work hard, put on the brave face, smile wide and do the customer service voice, then get 2s and 3s across the board at my yearly review so they can deny me a raise. I quit and went blue collar. I'm outside a lot, I lost 70 pounds, and no one bugs me because I'm usually either somewhere you need a permit to access or I've got ANC earpro on, humming along to nightcore and swinging a 10 pound sledge into a piece of stubbornly secured broken equipment that needs to come loose for literally triple my old rate.
Based anon, just be sure you take care of your body while doing that, that kind of work can add up over the years. You gotta be able to stand upright like Rene instead of becoming broken down.
I'm honestly in the best shape of my life at 35 of all things. Coach Physical Instrument would be proud. I was a chubby, awkward nerd that put on a bunch of weight in college, then even more when I went into IT. Turns out a high stress, low physicality job coupled with stress eating doesn't do your body any favors. I used to groan when getting out of bed and was constantly hurting myself tripping over my own feet. Now I walk about 5-7 miles a day, I can run an eight minute mile and steadily working my way towards seven, and I can easily hoist my own weight in steel. Luckily I'm with a company that appreciates my unique skillset of staggering violence against inanimate objects and technical analysis and troubleshooting, so I'm a "soft" tradesman that only pulls standard work weeks and am encouraged to take time off for both mental and physical health as needed. My manager grumbles sometimes, but in his own words "I'd rather have you here healthy tomorrow than here today and out the rest of the week in worse shape."
I don't know. I can't tell if forgetting stuff is just because I'm getting older or if something wrong. I don't know if it's life routine or the weed gummies (which are definitely why I get paranoid about it). My grandfather got dementia and now my mother in law has it so I guess it's just something I worry about now. Sorry for the blog post but I had a huge existential crisis about it this morning. I think I'll lay off the weed gummies
Having a memory disease sounds like a horrible existence, hope that's not the case for you Anon
Thanks anon, me too.
Weed and THC gummies will fuck your shit up. I'm not anti weed in small doses to help with pain or insomnia but regular use is incredibly unhealthy. Take it from somebody who regularly smoked for years. Last 7 years of my life have been far better without it. Paranoia is a massive side effect that becomes more and more prevalent over time. No other drug or substance does that me like weed and I've tried almost everything
I'm positive they keep me in a fugue way after I come down. I need to stop that shit and pay attention. This isn't worth it
You hit the nail on the head my friend. A lot of people I know become so reliant on it that they stop enjoying things without it. They become shells. Paranoid shells. You need to keep your mind agile to keep learning/growing and weed is not a way to do that. Good luck on your path
Thanks anon. I think I really needed to hear that
I drank the tequila
qrd on the publisher dilemma?
Gangsters strong armed the company into being owned by them so the DE was literally stolen from the devs
Why DOES Klaasje hang around as long as she does? She's being "protected" by the Hardies, but like...she knows attention is being called to her, why didn't she bolt the night of the murder?
Martinaise is the only part of Revachol where the RCM and, by extension, the MoralIntern don't go, it's as close to safe as she can get.
>tfw René dies
>full time office job
>master dissertation due in a couple weeks
>need 50 more pages
>health has taken a turn
Once im done im doing another run of DE to shed these burdens
>know a girl for 5 years
>friends for 3
>fwb for 1
>gf for 1
>break up recently after months of her being cold and me trying to give her space hoping she'll come around
>I'm the only one who seems upset by this at all
>tortured everyday because I still miss her and have to see her at work
I want off this ride
>getting together with someone from work
You've only got yourself to blame
It's the only place I ever see women but I see the wisdom in those words now. Never dating a co-worker again.
I had to learn the hard way too ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I agree and got no clue where else, I'll just try and let my coworkers hook me up with someone instead if it comes down to it.
Sorry to hear that bros, I hope you both find happiness.
Oh I'm already married. Now I just deal with crippling existential problems
The secret is just don't give up, just do whatever the fuck and enjoy life. I'll just do my shit and be happy and if i bump into someone else that I can share it with, all the better.
Never EVER date coworkers man.
She sounds bipolar, good riddance.
kill the man who stole her love so she has no choice but to reinvest in you
i kind of want a drink but i have been drinking every night for the past 4 nights, i think i should give my liver a break
I've been drinking for 5 months, no big deal
Started DE earlier, only thing I don't like about the game is how hard you can skill into something and still fail checks. I feel like if you're very, very over-invested in something you should be given 100% chances. Failing a 95% check or even just an 80% always leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth.
Then again on the other hand I also passed an 18% check once and I laughed out loud especially since it resulted in Kim giving me a high five.
I mean, that's what 80% means. "Very good odds but there's a chance it won't work."
It's not much of a game if you simply succeed at the things you want with no variance.
just savesscum most of the white checks like i did
>b-but thats not the intended experience
don’t care i like experiencing content
That's how life works. Just because something seems like to work out doesn't mean it will. Some fails have more interesting outcomes than the successes. DE has immense replay value I've gone through 3 times now and still haven't done one of the big routes where you get a different partner
>big routes
It's only for the island and shares a LOT of dialogue with Kim
Ok, I really wasn't expecting this, and even less that Kim can see it too.
>there are people who read this exact dialogue and still don't get that the entire conversation is Harry making it all up inside his head
to be fair it’s sometimes hard to tell whether harry is hallucinating, having actual physic visions, or some combination of the two (ie talking to the hanged man)
For the love of fuck the word is spelled "psychic." Just try pronouncing the thing you wrote and you can tell you got it wrong. I know you're like "hmm, there's a mystery h somewhere in there, maybe here?" but like for fuck's sake just...learn. Be better.
im sorry anon i love you
>fuck's
Oh the irony
Are you retarded?
>for fuck is sake
have a nice day for being this much of an ESL. Make it quick, please. This world does not need you.
...Buddy. Do you not understand how the possessive apostrophe works? In the use of that oath and its many forms (Pete's sake, Christ's sake, etc) there is an entity whose sake is being invoked. The sake is possessed by the entity, thus, the possessive apostrophe is used. Holy shit dude, you're a special level of stupid.
holy fuck you got trolled
Like goddamn poetry.
Why are ESLs always the ones that try and call out ESLs?
Talking to the corpse is an Inland Empires check which means it's full on inside his own head and based on things he already knows, or suspects, twisted through the lens of imagination
I figured it was real because you needed to be sprayed with the pheromones to be able to talk with it. And the voice Harry hears is just how he interprets its pheromone messages. That's why it required an Electrochemistry and Inland check.
It says right there it barely has the brain power to recognise the world around it, at no point is that thing having a conversation about the history of humanity and the impending extinction event of the Pale, on any level.
But by your own argument, it could not be saying that as instead Henry would be the one thinking that. As for complex thinking, it appears to be well connected to other's of its species. That along with the fact that it uses and communicates with pheromones makes it similar to ant colonies, which also uses pheromones to achieve levels of thought outside the powers of their brains.
>it could not be saying that as instead Henry would be the one thinking that
Yes, the entire conversation is the fullest manifestation of Harry's personality disorder. He has created a new "outside" personality to give a voice to it, to "explain" things he knows but can't quite directly access due to his three day bender. Like the corpse talking about things Harry could easily have learned and then "forgotten" in those three days of binge drinking. In this case it's just a bunch of knowledge about stick insects and the Pale.
I'd also point out that it also states it lives a solitary life and once ate one of its own children. The closest thing it has to a connection with another living thing is the addiction its neurotoxin causes in the Deserter.
I don't disagree that Harry had created a personality to give it voice, but the conversation feels to real to simply be something inside Harry's head. With the way it acts around Harry, it felt like there was some kind of connection between the two.
Also, I would not call what the corpse said as easily learned. That would have required Harry to have done far more investigating and interrogating than what was shown that he did during his drunken bender. A psychic/pale phenomenon would unironically be an easier way of explaining how had gotten that information. Especially since Revachol is located in an area with a growing pale presence.
The thing is attracted to the pheremones sprayed all over him, it does nothing but stand there the entire time. Kim even says Harry zoned out completely for the duration.
And the only thing the corpse says that's a stretch is that Communism killed him. Lely fucking Klaasje was common knowledge, in the autopsy you even get a Good Cop point for insisting he was "enjoying himself" at the moment of his death and later learning he died with his dick wet, so "love did me in" is a given. Inland Empire as a whole says a lot of things that are true like Encyclopedia, just filtered through layers of bullshit.
"Love did me in" specifically refers to the motive of the murder, not the actual murder itself. The common knowledge was that the corpse was hanged by workers as an act of protest, not that he was fucking klajsee. That information was kept hidden to avoid suHispanicion landing on her. And Harry only arrives after the murder so he wouldn't have known about their relationship.
Shaving his beard, failing to fix the smile, and finding out I couldn't turn back time hit way too close to home bros.
You have to be older than 30 to fix his smile.
Anybody have any skill recs for a first time playthrough? Heard encyclopedia is good for lore but that's about it
Pick one of the premade builds and just go for it. It really doesn't matter.
3/4/3/2 statline is solid and your chosen skills don't matter too much. The bottom row doesn't get enough use to justify any more then 2 points in it.
Bottom row talks to me all the time, it's a valid choice.
MOT has nothing to say outside Perception, which you can boost ridiculously high with thoughts
>Detective... you're reading this in my voice aren't you?
chud game and pretty much a faggy general.
>First time playthrough
>Using drugs, alcohol, smokes
>All in on red skill tree
>Being as aggressive, superstitious, and belligerent as possible
>Kim helps me pay for my room
>Now want to be a better cop for him
Damn man this game's writing is pretty good. I always play as a renegade asshole in these types of games and now I actually feel bad about it.
If I say fuck it and keep being an irresponsible belligerent alcoholic will Kim leave me?
Part of the charm the game does a great job of giving you options to be an asshole/druggie but makes you feel the sting of it too. No to your question btw
Kim will stay with you until the bitter end.
He'll stay with you but he won't respect you. And if you go full racist you'll permanently break your bonds, even if he's a big enough man to stay with you out of professionalism.
Kim can leave you but it's related to a red skill check that WILL happen in the future and the odds are affected considerably if he trusts you or not
Keep your head up bros
I chose the album cover of a band I'd never heard of and keep forgetting the name of
HARDCORE
SKIBADEE SKIBADANGER
I AM THE REARRANGER
>it's revealed that Harry The Human Can Opener actually thinks and talks in dialogue trees, it's not just a gameplay thing
>only Harry can get through to Egghead because he's literally just persevering through the batshit dialogue trees to find a way forward with the conversation like a gamer playing a videogame rather than a human talking to another person
Don't mind me, just posting the best thought in the game
"No"
not good. but you are all my frens
About to walk away from my life and commit the suicide of self. One month and one week left.
pretty specific, any note worthy reason for the date?
That's when I bought my plane tickets for.
your gonna go and kick off in some foreign land? why?
Because I've got nothing in my current life. A dead end job with rising rent that's slowly draining my savings. No prospects.
This is my version of killing myself, I'm just walking away.
why not go homeless? im not trying to convince you or life or death, just, why go so extreme, so sudden.
I mean in all likelihood I will, just in another country.
okay, thats makes a little more sense. its not a death date, its the point of no return.
It's the death of my current self. To everyone in my life, I may as well die on that day.
well thats a bit extreme. are you gonna be debt free and actually clear when you go? again, im not for/agaisnt, ive actually travelled continents mostly to get away. why not plan to succeed or live well when you get away?
>why not plan to succeed or live well when you get away?
Exactly what do you propose I do? I'm not making money where I am and I don't have desired skills to improve my situation.
your already considering topping yourself, literally how could it get worse? move to some literally who location who will hire literally whose. fuck it.
>move to some literally who location who will hire literally whose
Not him but where do you find stuff like this?
That's what I'm doing, guy.
oh. well. try to have some plans for the future. kingpin of insert3rdworldhere is a legit goal, if you dont care about dying. whats to lose.
Don't. Even. Try. It. You've got gas in the tank to this day. Pure diesel. Get a fucking hold of yourself.
i love this game but it's normalfag community is the textbook definition of a circlejerk
I'm too dumb for this game. There are long swathes of conversations where I have no idea what is being said. The accents don't help.
I don't know or give a shit about politics so the long tirades about communism or whatever is lost on me and I just mash a to get them over with.
You have to have a decent vocabulary to appreciate DE imo. I think the game explains the concepts of things very well if you ask enough questions however of you don't understand the words being said maybe look them up. Thesaurus can help. Synonyms are a great avenue to expand your linguistic ability and become a champion of free flowing Disco conversation. You'll be matriculating your limbs through the valleys of speech and climbing whatever horizons you can manifest in that stunning cranium of yours, Harry
Doing words good is my thing! MINE!
Stay in your lane you political shitheel!
>reach day 3
>find the cockatoo lady's husband
>he's dead
>I have to tell her what happened
God fucking damnit.
That was probably the biggest gut punch for me. I don't think she ever even says that her husband is missing, right? You're just weird and assume that. Then he is.
>fuck up the conversation
>close the door
>The Expression looks at you from the HUD
You didn't say it did you?
imagine this guy showing up at your doorstep and telling you your loved one has died. with that shit eating grin frozen on his face.
why was endurance such a bitch anyways?
savoir faire may bring her up a couple of times but you can completely ignore the whore if you want to, while in the fascist quest you just can't
>drug addled freak got overly attached to a girl who didn't give a shit about him
>acts like the world is ending because they split up
Yeah, but at least I have video games to distract me.
>see this apply to mmos and digital pixels
men, not even once. unless they are cute, like girls.
My favorite thing about this game is how difficult it is to actually learn about the pale while playing it. It gets mentioned every now and then, but nobody explains it to you. In fact, most people don't want to talk about it. I have two friends who beat the game and they had no idea of what the pale was, even though its such an important part of the DE world.
>nobody explains it to you
Joyce told me all about the pale on the first day.
>but nobody explains it to you
Joyce has a whole lecture on it, which unlocks further information on it at the Church.
Well yeah, i phrased it wrong. Joyce does tell you about it, but you need to pass some very hard checks for her to actually do it, which is why its easy to miss it entirely
Imagine not becoming best buds with the Pale Driver.
The Pale is a placeholder for any kind of religious/higher power/afterlife belief you as the player may hold. That's why the pale is so present in the church. That's where you'll find God
It's okay if you didn't get it. A lot of people are filtered by spiritualism. Keep growing and you'll find your version of God one day
The Pale is a stand-in for a lot of things. One of them is climate change. It's a reason why it's so horrifyingly described.
You go and read Joyce talking about it, and you think:
>how the FUCK are they just living there, completely aware that the world is slowly dying and there's nothing they can do?
But we do the same thing. We just have our lives to live, and we can't meaningfully interact with climate change in an individual level. Just like you can go your entire life doing your damndest to be original and one fuckass Innocence can show up and great like 3.000 times the novelty you destroyed your entire life in a single day, we can do all the stuff we do to be environmentally responsible and some corpo can show up and dump a billion tons of oil in the Pacific. So we just... ignore it. It never even passes through our heads that the world is collapsing.
This applies to a lot of things, too. Do you think people didn't just pretend nothing was happening, during military dictatorships? Where every day your neighbor or your family members could vanish? Or during the wars in the middle-east or the Palestinian crisis, where every day an Israelite missle can level your house? Do you think those people worry? Of course they do. But they also try and not care. They try to live their lives despite the fact the world is ending, no matter what this end of the world is.
It's all they can do.
You sound blackpilled. People don't know what happens in The Pale just that it covers a lot of the world of DE. It could be paradise or it could be damnation. Of you interpret it as damnation/climate change/war/strife etc that is a mirror of your own beliefs and nothing more
>People don't know what happens in The Pale
They know full well what happens in the Pale except at the very deepest parts of it where it's impossible for people to exist. They travel through it all the time. They force dimensions on it so they can have international radio. They bury bottles of vodka in it, shitty new age books advocate taking healthy walks in it. It's been part of human history on the planet for all 6000 years of it.
>They know full well what happens in the Pale except at the very deepest parts of it where it's impossible for people to exist.
Read that sentence then reread my post here
You'll see exactly what I mean
I know you're trying to act like a religious sperg but no, it's a scientific fucking certainty what happens in the Pale.
No. It isn't
The game literally tells you that it's raw information
Like the backyard in guilty gear
Spiritualism is raw information. Raw. You can cook it a little with scripture, fellowship etc but true faith comes from inside you. It's a truth you've known all your life but didn't know how to find
Oh you're just retarded okay
It's not a placeholder, it's a reduction. The only place gods undeniably exist is in the human mind. As information. And when millions of people have that same information at the same time, it starts leaking out. Because it has to go somewhere. And a backchannel is created. And it just keeps going.
The pale is a psychic dumping ground for unresolved angst, it has tendrils in places like the church and the doomed commercial district because these places were always full of people in constant states of despair.
The whole game is about trying to learn how to reconcile failure/defeat and the pale is a metanarrative reflection of that of that process, it will consume you entirely if you let it.
>The pale is a psychic dumping ground for unresolved angst, it has tendrils in places like the church and the doomed commercial district because these places were always full of people in constant states of despair.
Agree to an extent
>The whole game is about trying to learn how to reconcile failure/defeat and the pale is a metanarrative reflection of that of that process, it will consume you entirely if you let it.
Disagree. The game isn't about reconciling failure/defeat its about reconciling trauma and heartbreak. The Pale is not a reflection of trauma and heartbreak it's a reflection of your beliefs about spiritualism. If you view it as a reflection of reconciliation it's likely you hope to be reconciled yourself through spiritualism whatever form that may come. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism etc it's obvious you're hoping for that yourself. Tell me you've got true faith and prove me wrong. Go ahead and say it if I truly am
I mean, we have the other books and tabletop stuff for DE, and we know that the Pale is largely the collective catastrophic buildup of unrealized futures overtaking the fabric of the past[spoiler].[/spoiler]
Best skill?
1. Empathy
2. Composure
3. Rhetoric
4. Inland Empire
5. Logic
For pure fun factor? Physical instrument. At high levels it interjects a lot, and it's always to talk shit and make Harry feel like a God.
For utility? Empathy and inland empire pop up a ton. I've never bothered looking them up but I would bet money they are among the top 5 in skills that can pop up the most. To be honest, I feel like all of psyche is very prominent in the game. Intellect is probably slightly less.
Good, actually.
Ever since I came to this board almost a month ago it's been helping me rekindle a ton of things.
Still drudging to the middle of the week, At least Monday is a federal holiday in the land of the *free* and I get a three day weekend. Can't bitch too much.
you a disgusting piece of humanity who should be the level of dirt? memes aside what is your drudgery
Got back into anime by pirating from nyaa Blurray 1080p Dual Audio 10 bit x265 rips and watching it on my HDR 4k monitor.
I feel immense guilt for having stopped watching anime years ago just because 90% of what's out today is low-effort isekai slop when I've been watching masterpiece after masterpiece these past few months.
Replaying DS3 with the Farron Greatsword, nothing in Elden Ring scratches that acrobatics itch. Better shadows mod helps the graphics a touch. Afterwards I'll finally finish Rainworld and start animating Aerith in my own custom game.
>masterpiece after masterpiece
what have you been watching?
Well in my opinion they're masterpieces, but lately I've watched
>LAIN (obviously)
>TRIGUN
>Berserk golden age
>Made in Abyss (season 2, just finished the movie)
>A few Ghibli films
>Haibane Renmei (In all honesty I enjoyed this one, but it was a little boring at times).
And I'm about to start rewatching Gurren Lagann, haven't seen that one since it first aired. Times goes by fast.
Oh, and the original FLCL and Mob Psycho I also watched and enjoyed recently.
Mob Psycho is great. FLCL is one of those anime that I watched as a young teen, again in my 20s, and most recently in my 30s, and I've come away with a new interpretation each time regarding the themes. It's truly a masterpiece of the animation art form.
lmao How drunk Harry got in the past that his partner prefers drugs than alcohol on him now?
>tell Garte I'm a feminist only to piss him and make him mad
>if I become a feminist it gives me +2 authority against men
>it never comes in play
I think I wasted a cabinet slot on this shit.
You use Authority against men all the time.
It stops giving you +2 Authority when you finalize it
We're all going to make it brothers and sisters.
some must fall
Or you can fight.
The only way to load the dice is to keep on fighting.
and some do, and they still fail. ill give it a shot, not expecting anything.
I'm starting to get better with my life. I have a stable job, been able to buy things I want for my hobbies and saving up for a beater car, probably a corolla or camry.
I think once I start to stabilize myself, probably look into going to community college just so I have a degree of some sort.
There's some nights where I just kinda fall into despair and want it all to end but if I do that, everything I worked for and all the effort and love my family and friends put into me would go to waste, so I don't wanna do that to them.
>probably look into going to community college just so I have a degree of some sort.
Not a bad idea anon. Uni's are just a scam. Just get a simple degree to get your foot in the door of someplace that dosen't flip burgers for lard buckets. Get that sweet easy salaryman job.
Yeah, CCs are reasonably affordable for a two year program and in my experience doesn't have as many hoops to jump through for financial aid
I remember being in high school my guidance counselor mocked the kids going into CC saying they were going to miss out on REAL experience which was some insane shit
wonder if guidance counselors and shit get kickbacks from getting kids into certain unis and signing them up for loans
The recruiters definitely do. I think the GCs just get hyperfixated on the deification of the conventional 4+ year post-secondary education system, hallowed be its name. I learned a lot in college, but I ultimately didn't end up using my degree per se, just a lot of the general problem solving skills I honed while in college.
I was poor and got grants and didn't pay for my community/state college -> transfer to uni undergrad degree. Then I fell for the master's scam and am in debt and unhired because I'm white with a dick ROFL
>Then I fell for the master's scam and am in debt and unhired
Explain this, because I'm in the process of looking at master's programs that I have no passion about.
My program was overtly sexist in favor of women, and overall very hands-off (nobody in my 6 person cohort graduated on time, for example). Funny how some of the most ignorant and judgmental people are psychologists
Sacrifice your pride and go into social work, its basically a meat grinder with terrible churn and burnout on account of having to stare into the face of human misery constantly, but at least there is always jobs open.
And once you get some experience you may just be able to get an actual psychology job.
Fine, I am done with school for a few months so i'll play vidya, take my father to some cool places, watch movies and shows and come back to practice swimming.
Right now, I am addicted to Hi-Fi Rush.
you teach swimming? scholastically?
sometimes I think of giving up, but then I think "that commie autist who spams shill disco E threads on Ganker like clockwork everyday hansn't given up, why should I?" then I come back and check just to make sure you're still at it. still shilling. still knowing nothing about anything. an inspiring example to us all.
>shilling
The devs actively encourage people to pirate the game. Who's shilling what?
The job I've been at for four years basically admitted I'm now at a dead end, and I'm not even a manager.
I have a small amount of gray hairs from this job. At 26.
I spent my entire life preparing to work. It's all I have. But it's not enough to impress anyone.
I've sold my life for $70,000 (bonus included).
When I was 20 it felt like I had infinite time, 26 now and realizing how short life is. I finally started drawing for the first time in my life after realizing I want to actually try and create something
Feeling empty mostly. I left the Army to go to College on some gibs and be with my friends and family more often back home. Now I'm starting to realize that maybe the friends I made in the Army are the ones I wanna spend more time with since I'm usually second fiddle to my friends at home. Got a dead end job til college starts so hopefully once I start school I can socialize again and meet new people but I can be pretty abrasive. So its not all bad but I just can't help but feel incredibly lonely for some reason. Oh well, at least the internet let's me play video with the boys still serving, and Anime Expo is coming soon so I've got one thing to look forward to in the short term.
Pretty ironic what happened to the za/um studio
nice ass
anon
buddy
its just armor
its a solid plate of ceramic
she could have the flattest pancake granny ass under there
I want to die
>MISTER DUBOIS PLEASE DON'T ASK THAT ELDERLY WOMAN FOR MONEY
>MISTER DUBOIS PLEASE DON'T LICK THAT RUM STAIN ON THE COUNTER
>MISTER DUBOIS PLEASE DON'T SING KARAOKE TONIGHT
>MISTER DUBOIS PLEASE D-
Back on pills.
>27
>want to move out and finally be an adult
>but don't want to be alone (not because I can't take care of myself, I just know I can't handle the loneliness)
>therapist and doctor recommended me antidepressants
shall I take the personality replacement pills
Do not under any circumstances take SSRI's. Absolute garden gnome shit that will make you feel like a zombie. Connect with others around you. Go out and get some sunlight. Improve your physical health. It's not an easy fix but pills are no fix at all. You're still going to have anxiety but if you have friends/family to lean on when you're struggling (because some parts of living alone will be a struggle) you can get through it
>Connect with others around you.
Be more specific please? How do I make friends at 27? I work on a team of two other people that are constantly busy. I'm too nervous to go to clubs alone. I have two friends that live in town and one isn't adventurous at all, and the other never invites me to do anything despite me showing interest in accompanying him - although I realize this is with a separate group of friends. Can't get laid either because I live at home and I've been terrified of sex since I was 17.
For me it was going out and meeting people. I had a local Cafe and just started talking to strangers asking "How's your day going?" Same thing at bars just playing pool or out in the smokers area.. I also found a church but it may not be an avenue you're comfortable with
I've been through actual depression and you assuming I haven't shows a massive lack of empathy. I was stuck in Melbourne during 2020 lockdown. 156 days all we could do was go to work, get groceries and go home. You had to have a pass to go more than 5km from your residential address. Nobody could see family or friends. Fuckwit cunt you don't know shit about my experiences in life
>pushing meme tier "just live your life better bro" advice
For people with actual depression, you know, actual mental illness, none of that shit works. The answer isn't pharmaceutical pill peddling either but for the love of god stop pretending like a damaged brain cares how well you're living your life or how often you go for a walk.
Chemical theory of depression has been knocked down quite a few pegs, and most doctors and psychiatrists worth a damn would not recommend SSRIs without other lifestyle interventions.
Don't, keep pushing anon I know you can make it
Antidepressants are prescribed because they have a good safety profile. Their efficacy is low; about as effective as placebos.
Fucking bullshit, don't talk about what you don't know. I'm a psychiatric PA and have been for a long time, lithium toxicity and serotonin syndrome are all very real and fatal, not to mention the long-term effects of antidepressants that health professionals still don't fully understand. Antidepressants and mood stabilizers both are fucking horrible and should only be offered after lifestyle changes.
RETARDS like you spouting your less-than-worthless opinions about subjects you DON'T UNDERSTAND are better off dead. You didn't deserve this reply, your value is less than a worm in the dirt.
That post was meant to be the opposite of an endorsement, just trying to explain /why/ they're prescribed so often. GPs generally won't give this stuff much thought, at least where I live. Personally, I've declined antidepressants twice because their efficacy is so low.
I'll be more careful with my words next time.
You were very clear, don't worry about it.
That anon was nasty, maybe he's stressed from working a demanding job.
SSRI's should only be taken if your literally at the "can get out of bed or shower because your to depressed" stage and only then take them only until you get the momentum going on being a person again.
Like 80% of the time depression is more a symptom of Shit Life Syndrome that causes minor brain damage which can be healed over time by not falling back into a shit life.
The other 20% is like actual brain issues that you need to figure out how to work around for dopamine but at that point your better off just micro dosing on brain altering drugs and hoping that Universal RNG gets you into a better state of mind.
Really if you need them just take them till you get into a better situation where your actually out and functioning but know that your going to need to get off them eventually and the sooner the better.
Just buried my dog
Was Ruud Hoenkloewen the guy behind the factory door on day 1?
>DE thread was actually good for once
i love you disco bros. we’re all gonna make it
I was OP been here the whole thread contributing memes and giving advice. O love DE like you wouldn't believe. I'll make another tomorrow morning. Good luck on your path friend
>it's getting harder to just keep going
Wasn't expecting colloquial Mexican words in this game.
Anon, one of the criminal gangs Kim mentions is named "la puta madre".
Yeah, I'm including that one.
ok but what is he doing up there
Losing his mind to the pale (intentionally)
Just hanging out.
doing leagues better than you chucklefucks and we can thank natural selection for that
>parents are the only people I truly feel close to who I believe actually love me
>they're getting older and the thought of them being gone one day haunts me every day
>nowhere near where I wanted to be at my age
>constantly want to improve my life but lack the drive and motivation to change
>trying my hand at dating after putting it off for years since my last exes ruined me
>seeing how women and people in general are nowadays has made me feel even more hopelessly alone
Really just doesn't seem like there's much here for me anymore. Not even my hobbies can distract me anymore
A shame you can't talk to Evrart again after the tribunal event, wanted to see what he would say.
A lot of things about DE remind me of Dishonored, the Pale/Void and leftist themes, and existentialism.
I wish something like the Pale existed in our world. I would just run towards it's center.
>I wish something like the Pale existed in our world.
Sup
Everything in our world has a boring explanation, though. Black holes are now theorized to not even be holes.
Besides, it's not like I can just walk into one.
I would be fascinated to explore the world of Disco Elysium in person, just the absurdity of an alternate earth is exciting.
great. We keep destroying people that are attacking gaming.
yup, gatekeeping has never been stronger. our enemies have never been weaker
6/1/1/4 is the canonical harry
I'm gonna do a hardcore run with this stats. Which main skill should I take? Authority?
What was Dolores Dei? Was she even human?
I think Innocences are just humans with some supernatural powers. Harry might be one.
>Harry might be one
Shit I never thought of that
He's absolutely a magpie.
Amazing
Is Shivers a nationalist
those fucking horns man at 2:45
there is nothing else like this game. I want to live in it.
Even if the career fraudsters were right about the creators being sexist, the entire thing would still be ridiculous.
>be mean to some hoes
>you no longer have creative rights to the thing you created
Even if someone had committed a heinous crime they still shouldn't lose the rights to something they created.
Money isn't even an issue, Robert Kurvitz still profits from the game as he is still a shareholder. He just can't create anything related to his universe anymore.
I'm at the fucking edge man
just found out my mom got cancer
Pray for her
Spend as much time as you can asking questions about family heritage/ancestors/stories
If she goes (hopefully not soon) you'll be the torch bearer for your family line
the government doesn't want you to know this but you can cure cancer with alternative pale-based treatements
I've come to fully understand that I'm a useless piece of shit and it's hard to see a future where my self esteem recovers but im still trying to live life
my upbringing and the ways i've attempted to cope have given me such a level of jadedness that my standards for everything are rock bottom and i feel like I'm already too satisfied just being independent and I don't really know what I want out of the rest of my life and i'm tired of the endless distractions
you sound like the average impoverished person anywhere in space and time
I'm firmly middle class in a country with a high cost of living but I can see how it's average for those types of people
What I learned from church camp is that god seeks those who need it the most
Fuck church camp. Seek God by yourself. Pray in hidden places. Solitude. No man or woman should walk alone. You've got a battles you can't fight alone
Seek God. Unironically. The path may not be easy but its better than doing nothing
life suck
Playing this for the first time while on ketamines
you're in for a ride man, the artstyle is perfect for acid
be sure to check out the raver kids
My man
I just realized I'm reaching desperation after losing my 7 year relationship. My last date pretty much told me outright that I seemed desperate because of how I tried to rush to a relationship with that person just because of minute things in common. I never felt more embarrassed in my life.
I wasted every opportunity I ever had, I've literally never known the touch of a woman in an intimate, romantic way. Sounds like you had more luck than me anon, although sometimes I think I might be the one who's actually lucky.
Sleeping around won’t make you happy, anon. I personally believe doing so fucks anyone up in one way or another, but it’s specially harmful to sensitive autists, which most of us are. The best advice I can give you is to be the kind of person you think your ideal woman deserves to be with. Not for her, but because living closely aligned to your values will bring you contentment by itself. The cuties who may notice that and feel attracted by it are just a plus.
I want to try be the best I can be, it's hard though. I think I just need to meet new people in real life, because with my current circle I always get these gnawing feelings in my head like "they don't actually want to hangout with me" "they're just putting up with me because we've known eachother for a long time" etc. It's not even their fault I just can't dig myself out of this rut I fall in sometimes, despite always being able to muster a facade of cheerfulness whenever someone asks me how I'm doing.
Have a good one OP, I'm glad to have been able to participate in a Disco Elysium thread which wasn't just predominantly people flinging shit at one another.
>My last date pretty much told me outright that I seemed desperate because of how I tried to rush to a relationship
Some women think that any guy who doesn’t roleplay as some dark triad sociopath is too desperate.
>I tried to rush to a relationship with that person just because of minute things in common.
Yeah, rushing into a relationship is usually a disaster in my experience, especially because women who enthusiastically accept getting into one out of the blue with some guy they don’t even know well are usually bpd. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t value similarities and feel excited about getting to know her. This is just me, but after two terrible relationships I decided I’ll either have the kind of cheesy relationship I always liked hearing about or nothing at all. Life’s too short to settle on the important things. Cool Johnny btw.
I've been playing monster hunter world and just recently got into the dlc area. I got stuck on one of the earlier monsters and decided to kill a few early vanilla monsters to unwind. They beat my arse too. Is this what it feels to get old as a vidya enjoyer?
I'm OP and I want 500th. You anons were a treat to converse with. Keep fighting. Everyday we are born again. Good luck on your path