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failworse · 3 years ago

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a lovely thing about disco elysium is that it doesn't just resort to the quasi-absurdist "failure is inevitable, but we will keep trying", it proudly asserts "failure is inevitable and also extremely sexy"

#disco elysium #and an even neater thing is how easy it would be to frame it in a very boring and irresponsible way #like i have a lot of issues with the fact that the protagonist is a cop #i don't agree that the critical value of this choice outweighs its harm #but with the specific theme of failure cops are actually a potent narrative device #as they very clearly show the issue with blanket statements like 'failure is revolutionary'#it can be. when a cop fails to do their job and it actually saves the community for the harm the cop'd otherwise inflict #and disco says that explicitly #but it also presents you with situations in which harry's failures cause irreparable horrible damage #so no. failure in itself is not revolutionary. because there's no blueprint for revolution and no immediate answer #no matter how harry's communist-posturing might communicate otherwise #this ambiguity and affinity for failure as something unexpected is what earned disco so much criticism i think #the deviation from hard marxism is perceived as centrism. when it is in fact quite anarchist imo #but yeah choosing to reward failure is very comrade of the devs. love it #panoptalkon

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