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YOU — I don't have enough money to pay every woman what she deserves... I can, however, steal from men. THOUGHT GAINED: Bridging the gap

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Thank you for your additions! You gave me an idea for a comic, haha

Based on those lines from DE, I tried to estimate Harry's salary in USD, using prices in Ukraine as a starting-off point (pros of being Eastern European...?)

And I also estimated the price of Whirling's special borsht.

This is not a serious math solution; I took a lot of liberties to round the numbers and didn’t spend much time looking for equivalent products. I mostly settled for the cheapest items sold at big chains of supermarkets.

Methodology here is not great. This is just for fun. I'm not good at math and statistics, sorry TT

What I did:

found the UAH prices for analogues of some items sold in the game

averaged the UAH/reál ratio to estimate the price of 1 reál

then converted the final result to USD

Price of 1 reál

Starting from the game items to feature in those calculations, Frittte products are probably the easiest to find analogues for. As for pawn shop and book items from the game, it’d be hard to estimate, I think, the prices vary a lot. Especially for second-hand items that have lower prices.

FALN pants were an exception, because maybe Cuno sells you the new ones? I took the average price of sweatpants made by a local brand popular among young people.

With magnesium I’m also not sure, turns out it's rarely sold by itself without added minerals or vitamins, such as B6. Medications in Ukraine are most frequently sold in blisters, not small plastic bottles like the one in the game art, so I chose the price for a small tube of water-dissolvable tablets.

The price of Drouamine is taken from the price of Ibuprofen.

The final number was an average of all UAH prices divided by reál prices

So, with those loose calculations, the price of 1 reál is around 41,7 UAH, by today’s exchange rates it’s pretty close to 1 USD.

2. Harry's salary

This is the numbers we get.

With his monthly salary Harry can buy, uuuh, 91 bottles of Commodore Red or 152 bottles of Potent Pilsner or 19 112,50 hryvnias.

Just for comparison,

Data for salaries is taken from the biggest work searching website in the country. Couldn't find the median salaries, though.

The price of a motor carriage Harry destroyed is ~40 000 USD/1 668 000 UAH. It'd take him 7 years 4 months to repay.

3. Conclusions

For a competent detective with a high rank who spent 18 years of his life working in RCM? I thought it’d be more. For lower ranks it'd be much harder to get by, puts into perspective how he lived with Dora.

Vibe-based? Livable, especially if Harry owns an apartment and doesn’t have to pay rent. If we say he spends around half of his salary on rent+bills, he can survive on inexpensive food (if he wants to also by substances).

Genuinely scared of thinking how Jean lives with an even lower monthly pay. Judit has three children... oh god. I hope Harry bought them a lot of kebabs (the price of a very delicious big kebab a friend bought me once was 120 UAH /~3 USD).

4. Bonus: the price of Gorący's special borscht

That's right, we're so normal about borscht here that we have something called "Borscht index". It's the price of ingredients used to cook this essential dish that helps to track inflation.

Information from the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine (March, 2025).

If we say Gorący's pot is 20 L (19 L borscht + 1 L vodka), the price would be around 1394 UAH or 33 reál.

Unless he's cooking the Polish barszcz czerwony, which is pretty different from Ukrainian borscht, if I remember correctly.

So, yeah, if we use Ukraine as a stand-in Eastern European country for Revachol, it'd be like this. Thank you for reading! Sorry if the math is very bad TT

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Based on those lines from DE, I tried to estimate Harry's salary in USD, using prices in Ukraine as a starting-off point (pros of being Eastern European...?)

And I also estimated the price of Whirling's special borsht.

This is not a serious math solution; I took a lot of liberties to round the numbers and didn’t spend much time looking for equivalent products. I mostly settled for the cheapest items sold at big chains of supermarkets.

Methodology here is not great. This is just for fun. I'm not good at math and statistics, sorry TT

What I did:

found the UAH prices for analogues of some items sold in the game

averaged the UAH/reál ratio to estimate the price of 1 reál

then converted the final result to USD

Price of 1 reál

Starting from the game items to feature in those calculations, Frittte products are probably the easiest to find analogues for. As for pawn shop and book items from the game, it’d be hard to estimate, I think, the prices vary a lot. Especially for second-hand items that have lower prices.

FALN pants were an exception, because maybe Cuno sells you the new ones? I took the average price of sweatpants made by a local brand popular among young people.

With magnesium I’m also not sure, turns out it's rarely sold by itself without added minerals or vitamins, such as B6. Medications in Ukraine are most frequently sold in blisters, not small plastic bottles like the one in the game art, so I chose the price for a small tube of water-dissolvable tablets.

The price of Drouamine is taken from the price of Ibuprofen.

The final number was an average of all UAH prices divided by reál prices

So, with those loose calculations, the price of 1 reál is around 41,7 UAH, by today’s exchange rates it’s pretty close to 1 USD.

2. Harry's salary

This is the numbers we get.

With his monthly salary Harry can buy, uuuh, 91 bottles of Commodore Red or 152 bottles of Potent Pilsner or 19 112,50 hryvnias.

Just for comparison,

Data for salaries is taken from the biggest work searching website in the country. Couldn't find the median salaries, though.

The price of a motor carriage Harry destroyed is ~40 000 USD/1 668 000 UAH. It'd take him 7 years 4 months to repay.

3. Conclusions

For a competent detective with a high rank who spent 18 years of his life working in RCM? I thought it’d be more. For lower ranks it'd be much harder to get by, puts into perspective how he lived with Dora.

Vibe-based? Livable, especially if Harry owns an apartment and doesn’t have to pay rent. If we say he spends around half of his salary on rent+bills, he can survive on inexpensive food (if he wants to also by substances).

Genuinely scared of thinking how Jean lives with an even lower monthly pay. Judit has three children... oh god. I hope Harry bought them a lot of kebabs (the price of a very delicious big kebab a friend bought me once was 120 UAH /~3 USD).

4. Bonus: the price of Gorący's special borscht

That's right, we're so normal about borscht here that we have something called "Borscht index". It's the price of ingredients used to cook this essential dish that helps to track inflation.

Information from the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine (March, 2025).

If we say Gorący's pot is 20 L (19 L borscht + 1 L vodka), the price would be around 1394 UAH or 33 reál.

Unless he's cooking the Polish barszcz czerwony, which is pretty different from Ukrainian borscht, if I remember correctly.

So, yeah, if we use Ukraine as a stand-in Eastern European country for Revachol, it'd be like this. Thank you for reading! Sorry if the math is very bad TT

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Had a lot of thoughts about Harry's wardrobe.

Descriptions in alt, my notes typed out below.

Image 1: Mid 20s

Gym teacher.

Around the time he met Dora. She finds his crooked jaw cute.

Kissed men while drunk at the club, but "This is manly and doesn't count as gay."

Posters of Contact Mike and Guillaume le Million in his apartment are not gay either. Harry just likes their physique.

Smokes hemp and sometimes drinks in the bars or clubs.

The last outfit is the one he met Dora in. Tight T-shirt for that muscle definition.

Image 2: Early 40s

~ Year '49 when he just started working with Jean.

Has a drinking problem, but "keeps it under control".

Drinks too much on Friday/Saturday nights and a little in the evening on weekdays.

"I can stop anytime & everyone drinks, it's normal."

Funny and charismatic, Jean likes to be around him and admires Harry to some extent.

Soon things will go south, but not now.

Less flashy clothes.

Lost some muscle and health problems are getting worse. Tries speed for the first time to help with the pain.

High-functioning depression/seasonal affective disorder?

Sometimes wears vibrant clothes, but within reason.

Gets worse in the winter.

Image 3: Autumn '50 - Winter'51

Washed out Disco star.

God, please take him to a good doctor.

Stopped caring about his clothes and appearance at this point.

Probably can't even dress for the weather because he's so wasted. Goes to work wearing a blazer in -15C and snowstorm. No winter boots, scarf or a hat. Jean has to keep an extra patrol cloak for him.

"Shitkid, if you freeze to death, I'm not digging your body out of the snow until spring comes."

Wears the first thing he picked up from the floor in the morning.

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Harry practice

Bonus shaved version below

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translations and descriptions in alt

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what if they met as children for a single day and then kept wondering if they'd ever see each other again

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I feel like you should know your art was reposted (with credit!) to Facebook Disco Elysium groups and people are obsessed. I think they're creating Disco Elysium/Potop crossover right now

OH MY GOD 😭 thank you for telling! this makes me so happy!

harry waking up from kim's horse and then forgetting what a horse is, i love it 😭

i had an unposted sketch with "mr.evrart is helping me find my stamp seal and my shotgun", so gonna leave it here

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i rememberd there was a tag about harry speaking to his sash instead of a necktie

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I feel like you should know your art was reposted (with credit!) to Facebook Disco Elysium groups and people are obsessed. I think they're creating Disco Elysium/Potop crossover right now

OH MY GOD 😭 thank you for telling! this makes me so happy!

harry waking up from kim's horse and then forgetting what a horse is, i love it 😭

i had an unposted sketch with "mr.evrart is helping me find my stamp seal and my shotgun", so gonna leave it here

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У вас є телеграм/твітер/блускай канал/-и??

привіт, поки тільки тамблер

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