CORRECTION: I messed up the caption for Dexbonus. It's her @ 2:35, 2:57, 07:07, 19:58. Sorry for that! Also, Andersonjph is only at 12:50, not before and after. MUSIC USED: Nichijou - Koigokoro wa Dangan mo Yawarakakusuru Nichijou - Kigen no Ii Hakase The Sims - Mall Rat Maurice Ravel - Bolero The Sims - BoSIM Nova Super Mario Sunshine- Pinna Park Animal Crossing New Horizons - Able Sisters The Sims - SIM Nights Nichijou - Shinonome Kenkyuujo no Mainichi Nichijou - Kitsune to Tanuki no Omanuke na Bakashi Ai
@JamrockHobo ah, I guess she's well-known? Haven't fallen down that particular VTuber rabbit hole yet. God help me if one of my oshis ever picks up this game.
For the record, the game wasn't telling him it was actually impossible for him. He didn't get the pheromones smeared on him, so the check is actually secretly impossible in that instance.
@@nathanrailsback9667 If you look at the check modifiers, you can clearly he that he laid the pheromone on thick. Either he was incredibly unlucky, or (what I think is probably the case) he had the The Precarious World thought equipped
@@wizardswine4621streamer's name is Asmongold, and he is that stupid. Like, if you take a metal bucket and start shouting in it, at least there will be air ripples in it.
@@martaszabo465 yeah, there's a passive check of I guess reasonably high difficulty while you're boiling the boots to clean them. It may also have some other passives tied to the full sequence, it's been a while.
I love how the most hardcore commie of these people was an anime catgirl who never heard the word "socialist" and pronounced bourgeoisie as "burger" That has to be the most DE energy ever.
The Phasmid is one of the many things in the game that reminds you there is more to the world, there is something *worthwhile* here, good, to be loved, and to love you back.
5:51 The voice actor for the Limbic System doesn't get enough love. Singing in that voice is A+ and these reactions wouldn't be half as good if he wasn't nailing that "too much booze, too much confidence, not enough filter" vibe.
technically, since he's also the voice actor of Ancient Reptilian Brain, he does get a lot of love and recognition; deservedly so. But I know what you mean.
alot of people think "capitalism is when big exploit" despite the defenition being the opposite of it you are entitled to the sweat of your own brow, and besides that its an economy managed by math. thats about it
I think the RNG may be predetermined by your stats, because changing your clothes almost always changes the outcome. Reloads didn't change outcomes on my playthrough either Update: I have been mistaken
That is one specific skillcheck that I will straight up say is the worst skillcheck in the game. Every other one actually encourages you to fail since even a failure helps to tell your story, but failing that one just... feels terrible. I don't know anyone who wouldn't immediately restart if they failed it.
I've beaten this game 5 times and I still cry every single time at "I exist." It's one of the most beautiful moments in any story I've ever read, seen, or played.
Half Light [ Medium - Success ]: "Posers. All of them. They paid the corrupt company for a now tainted game, and should be publicly denounced. Anonymously."
Thank you @JamrockHobo for featuring me in the previous video and this one. You brought quite a few people to my digital home, and I'm forever grateful for it. I loved seeing my reaction to the end game again. *Spoilers below.* Something those short clips can't show is the countless times I went back to those damn traps, over the course of my 200+ hours in Martinaise. Checking them again, and again. Just in case. Even after the task was deemed completed. Even after everyone else gave up on the phasmid. I couldn't. Neither can they show my constant conflict with Kim, and how important it was for me that he was seeing it too. To prove to myself that I wasn't crazy. That hope isn't always vain. I played Disco Elysium at a strange, difficult time in my life. It helped more than I can say. It offered not just an escape, but a mirror. A chance to think and reflect. And to heal. I can't wait to play it again, one day.
@@flipalha The moment that *really* hit me happened a few minutes after that, when the phasmid asked how it felt, for me, to exist. It was a complicated question at the time.
@@TheDanielMat Complicated questions with no linear answer are the best (in my book) @JamrockHobo I usually dont engage with fandoms and/or communities in general, but DE people (whatever that means) are the fucking best, and you are greatly responsible for that. Thank you, and please, don't stop.
That moment is truly magic. Kim is your +1 since the moment he's introduced to you as someone that would catch a bullet for you without hesitation. He morally supports you throughout the game and grounds you when you're having trouble in your head. He's the anchor that saves you from drifting away, the tether to the spaceship. You learn to rely on him when cold logic and professionalism is needed. You almost lose him in the tribunal and the mere thought is unbearable. Then you see the phasmid, and the very moment you do, all reality shattered, you grab onto Kim, your safety mechanism, and *he tells you you're not crazy, he sees it too* That is one climax that had the whole game as a build-up and it was amazing.
My friend played this game and I watched in laughter as he said "Why am I picking a fight with the fan" "Why is my apartment a shitty mess" "Where is the other shoe" Only to give up because he couldn't leave the apartment
Seeing people die in the starting bedroom reminds me of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy text adventure that got really pedantic having you wake up open your eyes and get out of bed, punishing you for forgetting one
I like how the narrator knows how some players will react, like "You don't know what the 'usual' is." Or the "You're welcome." on the Contact Mike bit.
My favourite are the ones who's egos are very evidently bruised. They really wanted to go through the game like an action hero, and the game is only too happy to reassert the fact that they are not an action hero.
@mikewaters2126 it seems to me it's a scale. Only political dorks (or people vaguely familiar with Nietzsche/modern philosophy) like myself and yourself would be familiar with the concepts presented in Fisher's thesis. For the everyman there is a lot to be gained in Pondsmith's cyberpunk. And just as I think it's hogwash to say the shadow puppet display of power put on by corporations today is real- I think the world of cyberpunk pondsmoth presents could have an out. I reject the state of stasis you'd put the series in. And if you're talking about the genre itself- come on now.
@@mikewaters2126 All art is inherently political. Modern Cyberpunk is absolutely Political, Mr Fisher literally wrote a book called 'Capitalist Realism'. And the concept of 'Corperate Colonialism' is objectively political as is the Cyberpunk Genre as a whole.
@@Shinny1338 His playthrough of DE genuinely lives upto its name. Even Harry's journey is more like a long therapy session rather than an alcoholic detective trying to do their work.
How in the actual fuck did this Lumin dude get to the END OF THE GAME and start saying "i hOpE thEY DoNt mAkE iT pOliTiCaL". Did he have his eyes, ears, and brain turned off for the previous 40 hours of playtime?
He means they better not make the scene political. We know that he knows it's s political game because there are clips where he talks about the politics in the game IN THIS VIDEO.
Empathy [Easy: Failure] - He is definitely being sincere. There are no indications or context clues that give any room for the possibility that he is making a joke. Half-Light [Medium: Success] - Time to get mad about it online. Remember to use the *power words*.
the "I stroke it gently" always gets a HUH out of me cause its not clear that it about the dead man's hair when the last three clips were about his genitals
@@Kitsuragi556in an old let’s play of final fantasy x, woolie was making jokes about the racial tension between the two groups in the game even comparing one of the playable characters to a grand wizard of the kkk levels of racist. When one of the characters gets kidnapped by the other group he screamed “the race war begins now!!!!” And it’s now associated with him ever since. He’s also one of those guys that loves laugh at racists and other people have compared it to Superman being able to feed off kryptonite
Praying for the day Our Father in Yolk Northernlion plays this game and makes it into a compilation. Manifesting this reality through my plentiful plasm, grasping at novelties sent through the Pale to make it real.
@@JamrockHobo It's true, he'd just talk over the dialogue 90% of the time while looking at chat for +2s and then make fun of the characters based on what reddit/twitter archetypes he thinks they are. It'd be peak psychic damage.
that is the worst idea ever. I love NL but he's gives zero shits about stories in game and would be too busy telling chat about his opinion on fruit shoppers or something to get anything out of the game.
I believe he's played it on his own, theres a clip of him saying "I think all games should remove dialogue... except disco elysium, it can keep it but everything else cant"
9:24 to elaborate, as a teenager Bricky kicked a mexican child in a mall in Santa Ana (i think that's the spelling) in the face then ran away. Homie passed the Physical Instrument check and then also the Savoire Faire to run away. Funnily enough he recently played the demo for a game called hollywood animal and the devs addd him as an easter egg character, but they trolled him since in game you can blackmail him with a pedophilia accusation and the code to unlock him is something like "15 is the best".
@@JamrockHobo i think it might have been a knee to the face instead of a kick but yeah other than that it's true, he told this story on stream once and even made it into a highlight video on his second channel (the one his disco elysium playthrough highlights are on), and people have been memeing it ever since.
All the kuno fails are really funny to me. Because I LOADED my detective with buffs to do the spining kick on Measure head. Soon as as that was done, I RUSHED to see Cuno cause I knew he was also a phys check. And yes, the idea of a man roundhousing a 6 foot plus wannabe addonis only to run down stairs, down a street and into an alley just to deck a child isn't lost on me.
Thank you so much, Jamrock Hobo. Your videos are a delight to watch. 29:34 "turn from the ruin. Turn and go forward. Do it for the for the working class." is one of my absolute favourite DE quotes for some reason. Thanks for putting it in. TalesOfLumin made the right choice here, despite being completely blind to the depth of this game and politics in general. A true moralist.
I love to see normal people fumble with the politics, I’m a polysci major so most of this stuff is just my regular ass lingo, so to see that most of this stuff goes over peoples heads is legitimately 1. Hilarious 2. Enlightening
I sided with the union initially, got the communism thing real early, decided to dial it back, and then had the game call me a centrist an hour later. 10/10, best political sim I've ever played. Also, to kinda spout off a bit, I think a common mistake a lot of people make with DE's internal politics is taking characters at their word, when none of them are perfect expressions of their systems. They're all unreliable narrators in their own way. The Deserter is a perfect example: he's not a mouthpiece for the devs, he's not justifying himself, he's an old man trapped in the past, so blinded by hate that he can't see there's no place for the world he envisions any more. He waited so long to kill a royalist that he'd built an intense parasocial relationship with that he died in his sleep without the Deserter even noticing. You're not *meant* to understand what he's on about, except that he's reciting propaganda by rote. He's the end stage of an extremist political system, a violent nobody trapped on a metaphorical, ideological and literal island, to whom the small gulf between his territory and the rest of the world is an impassable abyss. Of course he makes no goddamn sense.
@@Biscotum lol, i despised the union and the game told me that i was a centrist to later tell me i was a communist, at the end i think i made the game confused and i ended up a moralist (i blame the comfy blue pants)t, some of the dialogue is kinda exagerated in political believes in some part to show the absurdism that some people can go to defend their believes
mind you the term was made by Marx, who was a bourgeois himself (Rotchild) that unlike capitalists.. he didnt pay his own workers at all, dude did 10 times worse at everything he criticized others of
By the way, regarding the last clip, the game only rerolls when the roll modifiers change, hence why he kept failing the 97% roll. He should've changed his clothes, upgraded his character stats, done drugs, checked out the other dialogue options in order to get a new roll, or some combination of those, which almost definitely would have succeeded because of how high the percentage chance was. Edit: Oops, I got the explanation slightly wrong. The game rerolls whenever you do any game actions, not just those that affect modifiers, but because the game locks you into the dialogue once it starts the ways I mentioned are the only ways to force a reroll without restarting the entire dialogue sequence from the beginning.
Actually i am pretty certain the check is an automatic failure because he didn't cover himself in the phasmid pheromones, so regardless of how high the chances are, you fail the check if you don't do that quest line properly
@@benjaminborkowski12 thats correct, straight up an impossible check despite the stated odds. happened to me my first playthrough because despite doing that whole quest fully on board, i didnt think stinking like bug was going to benefit me. had to open up my save data in a notepad to change the value. honestly it pisses me off to this day
TheDanielMat's reaction to the Phasmid was so on point to how i also reacted. at first it was shock and surprise and by the end of the conversation I was genuinely crying at how beautiful that scene was
I feel obligated to note that Juniperactias and Egghead highlight is originally like 30 minutes long of trying to get through Egghead's dialogue options. It was one of the funniest and painful streams to watch
god i need a supercut of exclusively vtubers playing this game, there's something so insane about the juxtaposition of an anime mothgirl vehemently denying her obvious shelter dog rizz with disco elysium's one-two punches of humor and darkness and i'm fucking addicted
About the three snake eyes in a row: I heard the game has some kind of seed system where in crucial checks it actually fixes the outcome after first try so people can't savescum and recognizes repetitive loads. It's not for nearly all checks, just a few red checks. He would've had to reset the seed by loading an earlier save and doing something before starting the encounter like talk to Kim
Woolie and Reggie's reaction to keeping the character in Justin Trudeau mode will forever be my favorite DE moment, next to PatStaresAt's reactions during the Tribunal.
Despite the awkwardness of some of the streamers discovering actual communist philosophy (and tripping over the pronunciation of "bourgeoisie"), before you get the urge to cringe, please consider this -- if not for this game, who knows if they would have encountered these ideas -- let alone engaged with them -- at all? While the story clearly gains a lot of value if you're already familiar with the theory, it's still remarkable to see a game that presents these ideas at all (largely unadulterated and only barely exaggerated, warts and all) get the attention that it does. Some people will bounce off it and get the wrong idea (or double down on wrong ideas they already had), and that's sad. But I think it's worth it just to see young and/or polticially naiive adults who are receptive to the ideas -- or at least previously unaware of them -- encounter them in such a highly visible (well, for this type of game), highly regarded video game and perhaps listen to what the game is saying about them. Maybe they're not ready for it now, but in a few years more of navigating the messed-up politics of our world, who knows? The Fortnite guy at the end exemplified it best. The lightbulb may only have flickered, but it finally came on, however briefly. A little bit of progress was made. (But probably too fast for the Moralists. Gotta dial it down a bit.)
@@Helda_Ilweranta I'm not jealous of them, I'm from the west and they disgust all of us that are actually globally aware. Most people in the west grapple with the guilt of their privilege in their teenage or early twenties, but I find that if it doesn't happen around that age, they tend to stay elitist and generally ignorant forever. I hope the best for all of us, but based on my experiences in my friend groups when I was that age, political beliefs are generational and only are broken if the child embodies something that the family politics reject, i.e a gay kid in a fundamentalist household will abandon fundamentalist thinking in order to survive, but that doesn't always happen, sometimes children take to the privilege and don't think twice about any of it for the rest of their lives.
@@Helda_Ilweranta If anything I hope the game can teach them that being apolitical is a political statement itself and you're actually just choosing the status quo.
This was my expience. The game served as a stepping stone for me to start reading marxist litterarute and books about communist movements throughout history. I never would have read black agiants empire if I hadn't played DE back in 2019.
Kim's final form is powered by The Green Sun shit wait that wasn't very good, let me hit that again 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗻 much better
5 หลายเดือนก่อน +14
sometimes I forget a lot of people have no knowledge of communist philosophy or socioeconomics or whatever and like 60% of the game's dialogue just flies over their heads.
Funny thing about the chair deaths: I once played with 1 health and found out it's possible to survive health damage if you use a healing item before the "health loss" animation finishes.
Punching Cuno is the best single skill check I have ever passed in any RPG ever. The punch just flies with absolutely zero telegraph, connects so squarely and makes an satisfying THUD. I stood up from my chair and cheered like I was watching prime Mike live when it landed.
He refuses to engage with any of the politics in the game - including the sections that call him out as being a coward for not engaging with politics - which is a little annoying
I don't know... being racist towards kim in an effort to get him to come out of his shell, then attributing kim gracefully shutting down that line of questioning to him being avoidant.... not a good therapist.
If you make another one of these videos check out Tenma Maemi. Not finished yet but her playthrough includes starting stream blackout drunk and sobering up at the motor carriage wreck. Perfect timing
I never thought that I would be watching Disco clips with the music from Nichijou playing in the background, but here we are. This is awesome, thank you, JH.
The Woolie/Reggie playthrough of Disco Elysium is one of those all-time internet let's-plays I think, it's in the hall of fame right next to TotalBiscuit Terraria or Funhaus Hitman
Imagine my surprise having this pop up in my recommended feed and getting jumpscared by my own clip! Happy to get featured 😊 (even if my perfect prediction of Electrochemistry doesn't quite fit the theme)
People are bemoaning in the comments so much that I feel obligated to say this: streamers play dumb a lot for humor and engagement. I guess some people just don't know that
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CORRECTION: I messed up the caption for Dexbonus. It's her @ 2:35, 2:57, 07:07, 19:58. Sorry for that!
Also, Andersonjph is only at 12:50, not before and after.
MUSIC USED:
Nichijou - Koigokoro wa Dangan mo Yawarakakusuru
Nichijou - Kigen no Ii Hakase
The Sims - Mall Rat
Maurice Ravel - Bolero
The Sims - BoSIM Nova
Super Mario Sunshine- Pinna Park
Animal Crossing New Horizons - Able Sisters
The Sims - SIM Nights
Nichijou - Shinonome Kenkyuujo no Mainichi
Nichijou - Kitsune to Tanuki no Omanuke na Bakashi Ai
sounds political
Also a couple moments where you put Joseph Anderson's name over a VTuber (I think it was Veibae?)
@@Scorpio3002 yeah that too but i thought that people would figure that out since its been established that its vei in the previous captions lol
@JamrockHobo ah, I guess she's well-known? Haven't fallen down that particular VTuber rabbit hole yet. God help me if one of my oshis ever picks up this game.
nichijou soundtrack gave my ass whiplash
Failing a 97% check three times in a row is like flipping penny and watching it land on its side.
And then flipping two more and forming a nice little stack of side standing pennies
For the record, the game wasn't telling him it was actually impossible for him. He didn't get the pheromones smeared on him, so the check is actually secretly impossible in that instance.
He had a thought equipped that makes all red checks fail regardless of chance.
@@nathanrailsback9667 If you look at the check modifiers, you can clearly he that he laid the pheromone on thick. Either he was incredibly unlucky, or (what I think is probably the case) he had the The Precarious World thought equipped
@@hago3779 I had that going during my playthrough too, and forgot, failed more than a few high percent red checks before remembering haha.
*In one of the final scenes of the game*
"They better not make this shit political"
Incredible stuff
Big "they shoved politics into fallout" vibe.
How do gamers do it? Is it innate talent or rigorous practice?
Both
I don't know the streamer but i have to believe it was an intentional joke, nobody is that stupid
@@wizardswine4621streamer's name is Asmongold, and he is that stupid. Like, if you take a metal bucket and start shouting in it, at least there will be air ripples in it.
@@wizardswine4621 You'd be surprised when it comes to the far right.
-I'm honouring myself, lieutenant!
-Well... uh... DON'T!!
I AM CRYING OH MY GOD HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS GAME
Kim: STOP HAVING FUN
Such a party pooper
Jokerge
It's wild when you remember this is Kim's VA's first job voice acting outside of commercials. He really nails his part.
"HOW DID I DIE FROM LOOKING AT A BOX OF CLOTHES!?" that's disco, baby
Finally, a game where you can actualy die from cringe
@@nacicomi *finally
@@iPlayDotaReligiously thank you, english is my 3rd languege
disco, dance!
an online acquaintance almost rage quit at the fake restart with the ledger, but the latency with chat was just low enough that I stopped him
oh and I once got the insta game over for letting half light make me try tasting the flesh from the boots, would have been a good reaction to record
@@Sam-lr9oi omg i never heard of this option, half light can do that???
@@martaszabo465 yeah, there's a passive check of I guess reasonably high difficulty while you're boiling the boots to clean them. It may also have some other passives tied to the full sequence, it's been a while.
Oh I did that once actually!
@@Sam-lr9oi What'd it taste like though? Asking for a friend.
I love how the most hardcore commie of these people was an anime catgirl who never heard the word "socialist" and pronounced bourgeoisie as "burger"
That has to be the most DE energy ever.
This is how we can stop centrism
Nah, bro, she's operating on a higher plane.
She meant bürgher.
*borger
Tis true femboys tend to political extremism.
Veibae isn't really a commie, she was just getting into the game. Vei is.. divisive let's say.
"i don't wanna be a racist!" [quicksaves]
Haha
Just in case...
The phasmid being real and discovering it is better than ANY twist they could have done with the killer and that’s why this game is beautiful.
The killer was a russian soldier: Okay. Cool.
The giant stick insect you've been trying to catch is real: OH MY GOD! YEAH! THIS IS HAPPENING!
Just the "I exist" "I exist too..." exchange made me start happy crying. It just poked my heart in a way I wasn't expecting
The Phasmid is one of the many things in the game that reminds you there is more to the world, there is something *worthwhile* here, good, to be loved, and to love you back.
@@rosenrot234 "You are the type of animal I want to be" really sticks with me. I don't know why
@@genericname2747 it STICKS with you?
5:51 The voice actor for the Limbic System doesn't get enough love. Singing in that voice is A+ and these reactions wouldn't be half as good if he wasn't nailing that "too much booze, too much confidence, not enough filter" vibe.
a truly soulful performance
I actually love both versions.
The voice actor of the lymbic system is the same as for the reptilian brain.
@@flourbvoy1269 I do too, but I never see anyone compliment the Limbic System version, hence my shouting it out. Everything on this OST goes so hard.
technically, since he's also the voice actor of Ancient Reptilian Brain, he does get a lot of love and recognition; deservedly so. But I know what you mean.
Ok that end is great.
"It's kinda like capitalism if you really think about it"
"Oh shit I found peter griffin and i'm killing him."
When I watched Octo finish the game I just KNEW that it needed to be the next ending clip haha
alot of people think "capitalism is when big exploit" despite the defenition being the opposite of it
you are entitled to the sweat of your own brow, and besides that its an economy managed by math. thats about it
@@DarkMark-cf1ec Most politically & economically astute capitalist:
@@cam4636 most well read Marxist who forgot "jewish question" and "the mule race of man" cause it benefits him lying to people he calls the N word:
@@cam4636 Real hustler shit right there.
I just CANNOT get over Juniper's images of herself drunk as the various skills, it gets me every single time
the vtuber with the cat ears that had never heard the word bourgeois ever before genuinely gave me a whiplash
Same
Reloading at the phasmid check is morally right
The fucking 0.003% chance to fail three maxed out checks in a row is TOO REAL
I think the RNG may be predetermined by your stats, because changing your clothes almost always changes the outcome. Reloads didn't change outcomes on my playthrough either
Update: I have been mistaken
I'd be willing to bet, with my whole chest, he was researching The Precarious World.
@@EvanH2000 But they did on mine
I can't blame him for quitting there. This did ruin the moment.
pretty sure it always fails unless you did some of the quests about that thing
I get so scared whenever someone tries to get Kim to dance. The consequences of failing are devastating
That is one specific skillcheck that I will straight up say is the worst skillcheck in the game. Every other one actually encourages you to fail since even a failure helps to tell your story, but failing that one just... feels terrible. I don't know anyone who wouldn't immediately restart if they failed it.
@@LinkleMcA Story wise, I get it. But it's unfair to randomly ruin your relationship with Kim
*traumatic flashbacks*
That shit is heartbreaking. The moment was building up and then wham... reloading a save never felt so bitter.
Save scumming is valid to avoid the consequences of failing this specific check. As an Asian American, I will not do that to Kim. I refuse.
never have a seen a man so happy to have not been killed by a chair, so Disco
Best Dark Souls Boss battle.
I've beaten this game 5 times and I still cry every single time at "I exist." It's one of the most beautiful moments in any story I've ever read, seen, or played.
me too!
I got the same feeling here as finishing Outer Wilds😭
14:37 Amazing reverse "how do you spell burgoise" bit
"Reggie, do you understand what a 'Tankie' is?" HAD ME ROLLING
Volition [ Godly - Success ]: "A warm breeze fills your heart as the channel shifts with an update. A new video has come."
Rhetoric [heroic - Success ]: "You should write a coment of that exact thought, people will relate and give it traction."
Half Light [ Medium - Success ]: "Posers. All of them. They paid the corrupt company for a now tainted game, and should be publicly denounced. Anonymously."
Electrochemistry [ Easy - Success ]: "You should watch the video... The WHOLE video!"
God I love this comment section
Hand/Eye Coordination [ Easy - Failure ]: "Tihs is hte best youtbu c hannel"
“I’m not killing the kids…
Wait, but what if it makes them respect me?”
Now THIS is Disco
Buddy had an IRL Authority passive check.
Thank you @JamrockHobo for featuring me in the previous video and this one.
You brought quite a few people to my digital home, and I'm forever grateful for it.
I loved seeing my reaction to the end game again. *Spoilers below.*
Something those short clips can't show is the countless times I went back to those damn traps, over the course of my 200+ hours in Martinaise. Checking them again, and again. Just in case.
Even after the task was deemed completed. Even after everyone else gave up on the phasmid. I couldn't.
Neither can they show my constant conflict with Kim, and how important it was for me that he was seeing it too. To prove to myself that I wasn't crazy. That hope isn't always vain.
I played Disco Elysium at a strange, difficult time in my life. It helped more than I can say.
It offered not just an escape, but a mirror. A chance to think and reflect. And to heal.
I can't wait to play it again, one day.
I'm glad you liked it!
Dude, your reaction to the phasmid made me tear up aggressively. The stuff of life. Thank you ❤
@@flipalha The moment that *really* hit me happened a few minutes after that, when the phasmid asked how it felt, for me, to exist.
It was a complicated question at the time.
@@TheDanielMat Complicated questions with no linear answer are the best (in my book)
@JamrockHobo I usually dont engage with fandoms and/or communities in general, but DE people (whatever that means) are the fucking best, and you are greatly responsible for that. Thank you, and please, don't stop.
That moment is truly magic.
Kim is your +1 since the moment he's introduced to you as someone that would catch a bullet for you without hesitation. He morally supports you throughout the game and grounds you when you're having trouble in your head. He's the anchor that saves you from drifting away, the tether to the spaceship. You learn to rely on him when cold logic and professionalism is needed. You almost lose him in the tribunal and the mere thought is unbearable.
Then you see the phasmid, and the very moment you do, all reality shattered, you grab onto Kim, your safety mechanism, and *he tells you you're not crazy, he sees it too*
That is one climax that had the whole game as a build-up and it was amazing.
"I know what the usual is"
The game, just KNOWING and IMMEDIATELY calling her out: "You have no idea what the usual is"
That was too perfect
My friend played this game and I watched in laughter as he said
"Why am I picking a fight with the fan"
"Why is my apartment a shitty mess"
"Where is the other shoe"
Only to give up because he couldn't leave the apartment
Seeing people die in the starting bedroom reminds me of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy text adventure that got really pedantic having you wake up open your eyes and get out of bed, punishing you for forgetting one
Its pretty funny that Harry failing the *PUNCH CUNO* prompt is him punching with his right or left hand.
true, it's similar to how you fail to punch Measurehead when you try to land a right hook. A jab does it for Cuno and a spinning kick for Measurehead
4:39
Ending it with "Please don't clip-", bro knew what he was doing.
I like how the narrator knows how some players will react, like "You don't know what the 'usual' is." Or the "You're welcome." on the Contact Mike bit.
6:43 "The Whirling is now empty. Most heads have gone out for a cigarette. None of them are smokers."
lmao I love Reggie
I can't believe he just pulled that out of nothing. It could've fit perfectly in the game's script XD
i was just listening to this half-asleep and i legit just thought it was LMAO it literally couldn't fit better
Also, keep in mind Woolie got an actual back injury from laughing too hard at this game.
"Thanks." "You're welcome." Was so fucking good.
My favourite are the ones who's egos are very evidently bruised. They really wanted to go through the game like an action hero, and the game is only too happy to reassert the fact that they are not an action hero.
"This better not be political."
*has Cyberpunk 2077 poster in the background*
It's beyond parody. The skull of fans like this have a 255 mm thick bone. More lead then flesh too prolly.
Modern cyberpunk is absolutely not political, except as a demonstration of recuperation and Mark Fisher's thesis.
@mikewaters2126 it seems to me it's a scale. Only political dorks (or people vaguely familiar with Nietzsche/modern philosophy) like myself and yourself would be familiar with the concepts presented in Fisher's thesis. For the everyman there is a lot to be gained in Pondsmith's cyberpunk. And just as I think it's hogwash to say the shadow puppet display of power put on by corporations today is real- I think the world of cyberpunk pondsmoth presents could have an out. I reject the state of stasis you'd put the series in. And if you're talking about the genre itself- come on now.
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All art is inherently political.
Modern Cyberpunk is absolutely Political, Mr Fisher literally wrote a book called 'Capitalist Realism'.
And the concept of 'Corperate Colonialism' is objectively political as is the Cyberpunk Genre as a whole.
@@NgaMarsters And modern cyberpunk is the best possible demonstration of capitalist realism you could ever ask for. It's only accidentally political.
7:25 That’s the real life Harry Dubois right here
I can't even imagine how many playthroughs of this game you have played and seen played by other people. The pure dedication is impressive.
every night my "disco" alarm goes off on my phone and i watch the last 24h's most viewed disco elysium clips lol
@@JamrockHobo at what time do you set your disco alarm, asking for a "friend"
@@JamrockHobo Hope Euro Brady has been on your radar. He had a moment talking on the roof of Whirling that was fucking amazing
@@Shinny1338 His playthrough of DE genuinely lives upto its name. Even Harry's journey is more like a long therapy session rather than an alcoholic detective trying to do their work.
This game operates with real-life logic, which means - if you CAN do something, that doesn't mean you SHOULD
they just let you shoot that kid. amazing game
I tried to shoot Cunoesse but failed. Am I supposed to be happy or sad now? I'm still confused..
@@flourbvoy1269 Don't be sad you failed, be sad you attempted in the first place ✨😌🙏
_More games should give you this option_ 💀
How in the actual fuck did this Lumin dude get to the END OF THE GAME and start saying "i hOpE thEY DoNt mAkE iT pOliTiCaL". Did he have his eyes, ears, and brain turned off for the previous 40 hours of playtime?
I hope there's no politics in this game.
Ah heck
Volition compels me to assume it's a bit
He means they better not make the scene political. We know that he knows it's s political game because there are clips where he talks about the politics in the game IN THIS VIDEO.
Empathy [Easy: Failure] - He is definitely being sincere. There are no indications or context clues that give any room for the possibility that he is making a joke.
Half-Light [Medium: Success] - Time to get mad about it online. Remember to use the *power words*.
@@Watsuda He also plainly states that he doesn't understand any of it, and may be using the modern definition of "political".
the "I stroke it gently" always gets a HUH out of me cause its not clear that it about the dead man's hair when the last three clips were about his genitals
No one out-reacts Woolie and Reggie, every clip destroys me
You can't have a race war without woolz and reggie involved yknow what I mean~?
@@zomboids2100 No.
@@Kitsuragi556in an old let’s play of final fantasy x, woolie was making jokes about the racial tension between the two groups in the game even comparing one of the playable characters to a grand wizard of the kkk levels of racist. When one of the characters gets kidnapped by the other group he screamed “the race war begins now!!!!” And it’s now associated with him ever since. He’s also one of those guys that loves laugh at racists and other people have compared it to Superman being able to feed off kryptonite
Praying for the day Our Father in Yolk Northernlion plays this game and makes it into a compilation. Manifesting this reality through my plentiful plasm, grasping at novelties sent through the Pale to make it real.
NL is my favourite streamer and DE my favourite game but they would be a match made in hell I think lol
@@JamrockHobo It's true, he'd just talk over the dialogue 90% of the time while looking at chat for +2s and then make fun of the characters based on what reddit/twitter archetypes he thinks they are. It'd be peak psychic damage.
that is the worst idea ever. I love NL but he's gives zero shits about stories in game and would be too busy telling chat about his opinion on fruit shoppers or something to get anything out of the game.
I believe he's played it on his own, theres a clip of him saying "I think all games should remove dialogue... except disco elysium, it can keep it but everything else cant"
@@JamrockHobo imagine the anecdotes when he start interacting with cuno though, my god
I've never heard Kim so shock until the "honouring my self" bit.
Kim HATES honor smh
9:24 to elaborate, as a teenager Bricky kicked a mexican child in a mall in Santa Ana (i think that's the spelling) in the face then ran away. Homie passed the Physical Instrument check and then also the Savoire Faire to run away. Funnily enough he recently played the demo for a game called hollywood animal and the devs addd him as an easter egg character, but they trolled him since in game you can blackmail him with a pedophilia accusation and the code to unlock him is something like "15 is the best".
Chat is this true
@@JamrockHobo i think it might have been a knee to the face instead of a kick but yeah other than that it's true, he told this story on stream once and even made it into a highlight video on his second channel (the one his disco elysium playthrough highlights are on), and people have been memeing it ever since.
@@JamrockHobo in his playthrough he also punched Cuno I believe
Skipped some pretty important notes there. Like the fact that the kick was an accident lmfao.
@@hammeroftyr that is also part of the joke, that everyone implies that it was on purpose.
All the kuno fails are really funny to me. Because I LOADED my detective with buffs to do the spining kick on Measure head. Soon as as that was done, I RUSHED to see Cuno cause I knew he was also a phys check. And yes, the idea of a man roundhousing a 6 foot plus wannabe addonis only to run down stairs, down a street and into an alley just to deck a child isn't lost on me.
Thank you so much, Jamrock Hobo. Your videos are a delight to watch.
29:34 "turn from the ruin. Turn and go forward. Do it for the for the working class." is one of my absolute favourite DE quotes for some reason. Thanks for putting it in. TalesOfLumin made the right choice here, despite being completely blind to the depth of this game and politics in general. A true moralist.
Is the person not being sarcastic? I read it as sarcasm
I love to see normal people fumble with the politics, I’m a polysci major so most of this stuff is just my regular ass lingo, so to see that most of this stuff goes over peoples heads is legitimately 1. Hilarious 2. Enlightening
My experience was quite similar. All the funnier when someone who has never heard of "communism" before admits that the game reeled her in
I sided with the union initially, got the communism thing real early, decided to dial it back, and then had the game call me a centrist an hour later. 10/10, best political sim I've ever played.
Also, to kinda spout off a bit, I think a common mistake a lot of people make with DE's internal politics is taking characters at their word, when none of them are perfect expressions of their systems. They're all unreliable narrators in their own way. The Deserter is a perfect example: he's not a mouthpiece for the devs, he's not justifying himself, he's an old man trapped in the past, so blinded by hate that he can't see there's no place for the world he envisions any more. He waited so long to kill a royalist that he'd built an intense parasocial relationship with that he died in his sleep without the Deserter even noticing. You're not *meant* to understand what he's on about, except that he's reciting propaganda by rote.
He's the end stage of an extremist political system, a violent nobody trapped on a metaphorical, ideological and literal island, to whom the small gulf between his territory and the rest of the world is an impassable abyss. Of course he makes no goddamn sense.
@@Biscotum lol, i despised the union and the game told me that i was a centrist to later tell me i was a communist, at the end i think i made the game confused and i ended up a moralist (i blame the comfy blue pants)t, some of the dialogue is kinda exagerated in political believes in some part to show the absurdism that some people can go to defend their believes
Americans trying to understand the definiition of "bourgeois": "Imagine a burgher..."
It's so beautiful. Well preformed or dumb as bricks. I laugh.
mind you the term was made by Marx, who was a bourgeois himself (Rotchild)
that unlike capitalists.. he didnt pay his own workers at all, dude did 10 times worse at everything he criticized others of
@@DarkMark-cf1ec Outstanding! This dude never lands his shot!
@@cam4636 Truly incredible a zero percent success rate, astounding!
@@cam4636 Never lands his shot, kind of like communism.
"Holy freakin crap, this is even worse than that time I was assigned to work a murder case in Martinaise!"
there are Zappa dogs outside my house
This whole game caught me off guard
This shit is 30 minutes. This is my sleepover and I get to pick the movie.
Dying because I tried to grab a tie off of a ceiling fan and missed was the perfect way for me to be introduced to DE
By the way, regarding the last clip, the game only rerolls when the roll modifiers change, hence why he kept failing the 97% roll. He should've changed his clothes, upgraded his character stats, done drugs, checked out the other dialogue options in order to get a new roll, or some combination of those, which almost definitely would have succeeded because of how high the percentage chance was.
Edit: Oops, I got the explanation slightly wrong. The game rerolls whenever you do any game actions, not just those that affect modifiers, but because the game locks you into the dialogue once it starts the ways I mentioned are the only ways to force a reroll without restarting the entire dialogue sequence from the beginning.
Ooh that makes sense!
Actually i am pretty certain the check is an automatic failure because he didn't cover himself in the phasmid pheromones, so regardless of how high the chances are, you fail the check if you don't do that quest line properly
@@benjaminborkowski12 thats correct, straight up an impossible check despite the stated odds. happened to me my first playthrough because despite doing that whole quest fully on board, i didnt think stinking like bug was going to benefit me. had to open up my save data in a notepad to change the value. honestly it pisses me off to this day
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dont play with the bug if you cant handle the stink.
@@colbyzimmermann7920 Arrrrr, ye weren’t committed enough to huntin’ down the phasmid…
TheDanielMat's reaction to the Phasmid was so on point to how i also reacted. at first it was shock and surprise and by the end of the conversation I was genuinely crying at how beautiful that scene was
30 minutes of people discover so many forms to die here, physically and mentally
Me whenever Electrochemistry talked: "No! NOO!!!"
I feel obligated to note that Juniperactias and Egghead highlight is originally like 30 minutes long of trying to get through Egghead's dialogue options. It was one of the funniest and painful streams to watch
Babe wake up, we made it into a Jamrock Hobo Disco Elysium compilation!
This game was such a perfect gem of its time and its people.
There will never be another one like it.
god i need a supercut of exclusively vtubers playing this game, there's something so insane about the juxtaposition of an anime mothgirl vehemently denying her obvious shelter dog rizz with disco elysium's one-two punches of humor and darkness and i'm fucking addicted
most vtubers being unaware and/or dumb as rocks - rotbrains is only amusing to a point for me. the moth one was the only acceptable one imo.
@@bluelover929ok! I don’t care what you think :)
Loved juniper run she was an absolute menace
Dude I have to stream disco
just make sure to link me the stream! :D
About the three snake eyes in a row: I heard the game has some kind of seed system where in crucial checks it actually fixes the outcome after first try so people can't savescum and recognizes repetitive loads. It's not for nearly all checks, just a few red checks. He would've had to reset the seed by loading an earlier save and doing something before starting the encounter like talk to Kim
Dog i was literally JUST looking for more disco highlight edits
What timing, good stuff as always
shoutout to thedanielmat for having the exact same reaction to the ***SPOILERS REDACTTED*** as i did. genuine awe and wonder are a beautiful thing
lmao poor guy at the end probably had the precarious world thought
Woolie and Reggie's reaction to keeping the character in Justin Trudeau mode will forever be my favorite DE moment, next to PatStaresAt's reactions during the Tribunal.
I'm so sad we will never get a sequel to this masterpiece. Wish I could wipe my memory and replay,
We will, but in a different setting. After all, they promised: "UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOI"
Despite the awkwardness of some of the streamers discovering actual communist philosophy (and tripping over the pronunciation of "bourgeoisie"), before you get the urge to cringe, please consider this -- if not for this game, who knows if they would have encountered these ideas -- let alone engaged with them -- at all? While the story clearly gains a lot of value if you're already familiar with the theory, it's still remarkable to see a game that presents these ideas at all (largely unadulterated and only barely exaggerated, warts and all) get the attention that it does.
Some people will bounce off it and get the wrong idea (or double down on wrong ideas they already had), and that's sad. But I think it's worth it just to see young and/or polticially naiive adults who are receptive to the ideas -- or at least previously unaware of them -- encounter them in such a highly visible (well, for this type of game), highly regarded video game and perhaps listen to what the game is saying about them. Maybe they're not ready for it now, but in a few years more of navigating the messed-up politics of our world, who knows?
The Fortnite guy at the end exemplified it best. The lightbulb may only have flickered, but it finally came on, however briefly. A little bit of progress was made. (But probably too fast for the Moralists. Gotta dial it down a bit.)
I'm just jealous of westeners that can afford to be apolitical...
@@Helda_Ilweranta I'm not jealous of them, I'm from the west and they disgust all of us that are actually globally aware. Most people in the west grapple with the guilt of their privilege in their teenage or early twenties, but I find that if it doesn't happen around that age, they tend to stay elitist and generally ignorant forever.
I hope the best for all of us, but based on my experiences in my friend groups when I was that age, political beliefs are generational and only are broken if the child embodies something that the family politics reject, i.e a gay kid in a fundamentalist household will abandon fundamentalist thinking in order to survive, but that doesn't always happen, sometimes children take to the privilege and don't think twice about any of it for the rest of their lives.
@@Helda_Ilweranta I'm Black. I literally am political just continuing to breathe. Believe me I don't have that privilege.
@@Helda_Ilweranta If anything I hope the game can teach them that being apolitical is a political statement itself and you're actually just choosing the status quo.
This was my expience. The game served as a stepping stone for me to start reading marxist litterarute and books about communist movements throughout history. I never would have read black agiants empire if I hadn't played DE back in 2019.
That sims music is on point. Hardcore to the mega.
I love how measurehead needs his own section intro
The measured panic of "As in kick them. As in kick them."
"Oh damn, is that a new Streamers react vide- 30 MINUTES!?"
A Disco Elysium streamer compilation is never complete without Woolie faced with racism
I love the vtuber who changed the skill portraits to another picture
Tequila sunset resonates with everyone on some level
the ending was CHEF'S KISS
when i watched octo do the phasmid a few months ago i just KNEW that will be the ending
1:13 What the fuck? Jade Homestuck?
Kim's final form is powered by The Green Sun
shit wait that wasn't very good, let me hit that again
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗦𝘂𝗻 much better
sometimes I forget a lot of people have no knowledge of communist philosophy or socioeconomics or whatever and like 60% of the game's dialogue just flies over their heads.
Glad to know that the first video I made it into as a streamer was me enouraging kids to smoke ciggies!
Funny thing about the chair deaths: I once played with 1 health and found out it's possible to survive health damage if you use a healing item before the "health loss" animation finishes.
Punching Cuno is the best single skill check I have ever passed in any RPG ever. The punch just flies with absolutely zero telegraph, connects so squarely and makes an satisfying THUD. I stood up from my chair and cheered like I was watching prime Mike live when it landed.
Jamrock Hobo arriving on the scene!
Not sure if it's mentioned here, but a guy called Eurobrady, a psychologist/therapist in the US has been doing a playthrough recently
He refuses to engage with any of the politics in the game - including the sections that call him out as being a coward for not engaging with politics - which is a little annoying
@@internalorgancritic2862 Typical psychologist behaviour
@@wernerbeinhart2320 as a psychology student from brazil, I would say it's a behavior more typical of american psychologists lol
@@internalorgancritic2862 Yeah this is definitely a colossal caveat. The "I don't want to get political" angle is a wild one for sure
I don't know... being racist towards kim in an effort to get him to come out of his shell, then attributing kim gracefully shutting down that line of questioning to him being avoidant.... not a good therapist.
“They better not make this shit political” while playing DISCO ELYSIUM is CRAZY work
If you make another one of these videos check out Tenma Maemi. Not finished yet but her playthrough includes starting stream blackout drunk and sobering up at the motor carriage wreck. Perfect timing
That boss battle with Egghead was so real. I also forgot how Woolie got his hackles up about communism lmao
do you know what episode this was?
I love the contrast between the vtuber avatars and the game
And the one who didn't even knew words like "socialism" went full comrade, lets goo
I never thought that I would be watching Disco clips with the music from Nichijou playing in the background, but here we are. This is awesome, thank you, JH.
You don't expect it, but the choreography in the little action scenes is SO GOOD.
I'm suprised i never heard Horrific Necktie sing.
Also Harry's the most relatable character.
These are literally my favorite videos on TH-cam, I could watch these compilations indefinitely. Thanks for all the effort!
Watching this video makes me realize just how little of the game I've actually experienced, because I don't remember a good 2/3 of these
Thank you Jamrock Hobo, I needed this today...
this video brought me so much joy, thank you
The Woolie/Reggie playthrough of Disco Elysium is one of those all-time internet let's-plays I think, it's in the hall of fame right next to TotalBiscuit Terraria or Funhaus Hitman
Eating a delicious cheese-bourgeois while I watch this 🍔
Imagine my surprise having this pop up in my recommended feed and getting jumpscared by my own clip! Happy to get featured 😊 (even if my perfect prediction of Electrochemistry doesn't quite fit the theme)
This game was magic. I tried playing it again, but it tugs at the feels too hard after knowing the destiny of this wonderful and damaged universe.
the last words in the video being "oh shit i found peter griffin and im killing him" is perfect
People are bemoaning in the comments so much that I feel obligated to say this: streamers play dumb a lot for humor and engagement. I guess some people just don't know that
IKR!🤦♂
Seeing that guy discovering the phasmid and being so emotional made me relive when I did. Most magical moment in video games, true art.