A video essay on the difference between Disco Elysium's treatment of politics and the woke propaganda of other games. Ultimately, it's a difference of genuin...
This idiot seems like he’s never heard of left wing ideology before and primarily views the world through a cringe/based internet fascist filter. He talks about his surprise that leftists are actually against large corporations, which he also says he’s against from an opposite angle. Except he says he’s against corporations for having women in pantsuits and woke agendas. Ok, so imaginary problems you’re against for gibberish reasons.
And he says being a fascist in DE isn’t punished, which is fundamentally false. The game becomes deliberately tedious and sad if you make poor HDB become a reactionary. It’s the only political quest that does physical and mental damage to you, it rewards you with far less XP and money than the other routes, and I don’t think there are any Thought Cabinet ideas that give you extra stuff for saying fascist things. In fact, saying too many fascist things will reduce your total health. If that’s not punishment, I don’t know what is.
More than that, it’s the only political route where Kim will get repeatedly tired of your shit. Anything else, even being a commie, he’ll entertain. He might think you’re weird or embarrassing, but he won’t raise his voice. The fascist route gives you multiple lectures where Kim calls you a racist piece of shit, culminating in a fight where Kim refuses to have anything beyond a professional working relationship with you. To become a fascist in DE involves betraying the one person who believed in you from the start.
This idiot seems like he’s never heard of left wing ideology before and primarily views the world through a cringe/based internet fascist filter. He talks about his surprise that leftists are actually against large corporations, which he also says he’s against from an opposite angle. Except he says he’s against corporations for having women in pantsuits and woke agendas. Ok, so imaginary problems you’re against for gibberish reasons.
And he says being a fascist in DE isn’t punished, which is fundamentally false. The game becomes deliberately tedious and sad if you make poor HDB become a reactionary. It’s the only political quest that does physical and mental damage to you, it rewards you with far less XP and money than the other routes, and I don’t think there are any Thought Cabinet ideas that give you extra stuff for saying fascist things. In fact, saying too many fascist things will reduce your total health. If that’s not punishment, I don’t know what is.
More than that, it’s the only political route where Kim will get repeatedly tired of your shit. Anything else, even being a commie, he’ll entertain. He might think you’re weird or embarrassing, but he won’t raise his voice. The fascist route gives you multiple lectures where Kim calls you a racist piece of shit, culminating in a fight where Kim refuses to have anything beyond a professional working relationship with you. To become a fascist in DE involves betraying the one person who believed in you from the start.