#disco algorithm

[grandwitchbird]

Various game shops’ recommended games based on liking Pathologic are always funny. No I do not care about your vague ‘lovecraftian’ or ‘atmospheric’ or survival games. I like post-Soviet doomed settings with deeply humane ethics.

[derseprinceoftbd]

The thing that gets me about the reaction to The Alps Tweet is that... Disco Elysium is *so unique* that it has both what cannot be carried over (the aesthetic, the portrayal of a mind, the engagement with politics) and what *very much can, like that is my stance on the matter* (the mechanics, the humor, the dialogue basis) all to itself. Like don't let the poor phrasing and odd complaints about that Tweet distract you from the fact that yeah more games should play like that. I would totally play a game where a lot of it is, like, instead of a rather fractured psyche, different spells arguing about what actions the witch should take, and instead of being aligned with politics as a subtext, they instead keep looping around to why they should be used. Like Disco had a lot that should really be spread around. Don't act like the *format* was inseparable from the tone and subject matter. Don't act like you wouldn't play the witch cat find alps game thing.

[worldsofzzt]

Source “Algorithm Part 1: Disco For Justice!” by Aeris (2008) Published by: Awesome Corps [ALGORITH.ZZT] - “Don't trust those evil horsies�� Play This World Online ---- Discover More Information About This World on the Museum of ZZT

[awkward-teabag]

Tumblr's algorithm is a hot broken mess (good thing) but I swear it weighs Disco Elysium more heavily than anything else.

Like something? That's a lot of posts. Reblog something? Your feed is DE now and you better like it. Think of DE in passing but not do anything on the site or say anything a mic could pick up? Have some posts anyway.

And it doesn't matter how much time passes, if you have ever interacted with a DE post, the algorithm will forever show you other DE posts mixed in with other things it thinks you'll like.

[childoftheriver]

T’is the season

[loz-tearsofahomo]

its such a shame brendon urie is a shit person because he has the absolute most cunty voice of the 21st century

[ponycycle]

accidentally ingesting brain poison while already not feeling great about everything

[autistic-shaiapouf]

Is 8tracks a good website again, does the music play now

[insertdisc5]

I finished ISAT yesterday and I can't get it out of my head. I will spread it to as many friends as possible. Thank you so much for making it. How else can we support In Stars and Time after buying the game?

that is a lovely question to ask!!! um um um this applies to all indie games and all cool stuff you like btw <3

✨✨✨ How To Support Something Cool After Having Bought The Something Cool ✨✨✨

-if you bought the game on steam, leave a review on steam! Reviews tell the Steam Algorithm(tm) that the game is worthwhile and cool, and so the algorithm will be more likely to show off the game!!!

-if you bought it elsewhere uuuuh leave a review on metacritic i guess????

-word of mouth!!! tell your friends!

here's a tangent.

Word Of Mouth For Dummies (written by me, a professional Word Of Mouther) ok so if you wanna make your friends play the game. here is my advice. or at least thats how i do it. i made all my friends play disco elysium and. ive even made one. play. umineko (everyone gasps in amazement) 1. dont be too insistent about it. so, GO CRAZY AAAH GO STUPID AAAH only ONCE. and explain the game in thirty pages there if you want. ONCE. THIS IS YOUR CHANCE. 2. if you know them well and what they like, personalize the paragraph. you like timeloops? thats for you. you like old ladies? thats for you? you keep beating me at rock paper scissors? Do I Have The Game For You. 3. now that you've gone crazy aah stupid aah Once, you have successfully PLANTED THE SEED. like in inception. no need to go crazy stupid again for a while. i know it's hard. but you don't wanna go crazy stupid too much. control yourself. for the Thing. 4. from that point on though, when the game is on sale, just go "hey btw the cool game i told you about is on sale! smiles smiles smiles". 5. every six months go "i was just thinking about a cool game again." "what cool game?" "IN STARS AND TIME" and you can go crazy aaah go stupid aah again. 6. after Some Time (from 2 weeks to 5 years) they will play the game. yes i said 5 years. word of mouthing is a WAITING GAME. little sprouts grow into trees. 7. they play the game 8. ???? 9. profit <3

-word of mouth, 2!!!! SOCIAL MEDIA!!!! tweet about the game! reblog other people's posts! make fanart! make fanfic! write a long essay about which parts made you cry! cosplay as the characters! make a video essay! just yell!!!!! you know how you only got into That One Thing because someone made a post about it? you could be The Post.

-(this one is if you want more merch specifically) buy the merch if it's available! the only reason we have a second Loop wave with the Yetee is because the first wave sold so well ;w;

-ummm that's it really????? that's already a bunch!!! but yeah!!!!!!!!!! ty!!!!!!!!!!

[attentialkane]

Late night post let's see what the algorithm does.

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Two weeks left to claim this month's patreon drop!!

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If I had a penny for every tragic character named Jean that's connected to horses thats in a media I've consumed I'd have two pennies, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

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This week I made 3 people start playing disco elysium and at this point I'm not even sorry.

ALSO I figured out how to make RCM patches so that I can be a proper nerd at the Sea Powers concert (I'm going to the Manchester date btw if anyone is too feel free to dm me! Brighton and London were already sold out so..)

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Cool things dropping for 500 followers, patreons already had access to them though sO if you want to be early and also snatch the feb drop link is in bio.

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I don't have much to say about this drawing I actually wanted to go for a completely different mood because I was listening to man of war on repeat but I couldn't put down the idea I had in mind for the life of me so have this instead.

BUT I switched back to ibis paint finally and I think you can tell, csp is good for effects and all but my god it's so clunky I hate it.

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[neobohemiancollective]

The Neo-Bohemian Manifesto

Art is the revolution. Beauty is the weapon. Spirit is the fire.

I. The Event of Becoming

We are the inheritors of fire, sensual mystics born from the ruins of empires and algorithms.
We declare a new aesthetic and ethical horizon—a living synthesis of Marxist thought, metaphysical multiplicity, radical embodiment, and ecstatic beauty.

We are not utopians. We are event-makers.
Truth occurs in rupture. Art is the ritual of fidelity.

II. Art is Praxis

Creation is sacred disobedience.
We reject the commodification of art as luxury, as property, as prestige.
We affirm art as action, process, sacrifice, transformation.

Inspired by the lineage of Bohemians, Libertines, Decadents, the sexual revolution, Viennese Actionism, and Disco,
we dance at the edge of taboo, we bleed color into the void,
we sculpt time with our bodies and dreams.

III. Philosophy is Flesh

We live in the multiplicity of Being.
We embrace the evental philosophy of Alain Badiou,
where fidelity to truth outlives the spectacle.
We hold that the world is not one, but many—fractured, vibrant, incomplete.

We are Four-Dimensionalists:
Time is a lover. Memory is sculpture. Identity is motion.

IV. Beauty is Resistance

Following France J. Kovach, we affirm beauty as metaphysical revolt.
Beauty is not decoration; it is revelation.
It pierces, it intoxicates, it dismantles.
To live beautifully is a political act.

V. The Erotic is Sacred

Queer theory and Trans-Feminism are not adjuncts to our vision—they are its soul.
We honor the fluidity of desire, the spectrum of gender, the sovereignty of the body.
The erotic is holy. The perverse is prophetic.

Our movement is clothed in lace and leather, wrapped in metaphor,
fueled by disco beats and orgasmic truths.

VI. Allegory is Authority

We read all scriptures, all myths, all systems through the lens of metaphor and mystery.
We reject literalism, dogmatism, and theological tyranny.
We embrace mysticism as the poetry of spirit.

Our temples are adorned with symbols.
Our scriptures are written in image, dream, and dance.

VII. Compassion is Praxis

We carry the ethical torch of Buddhist wisdom:
Non-harm, mindfulness, the liberation of all sentient beings.
We see suffering not as abstraction, but as structure.
To act against oppression is to align with compassion.

VIII. A Multicultural Aesthetic Future

We are international, interspiritual, intersectional.
We celebrate hybridity, diaspora, indigeneity, and diasporic memory.
We create in many tongues, many rhythms, many rituals.

We honor the mystical schools of all traditions:
Kabbalah, Sufism, Tantra, Gnosticism, Zen.
We are the bridge between temple and nightclub, gallery and sanctuary.

IX. The Commune of Dreamers

We reject the individual as isolated monad.
We build communes of becoming—salons, sanctuaries, collectives, and digital covens.
We share resources, visions, wounds, and wine.

We believe in joy as method.
We believe in beauty as law.
We believe in the erotic as light.

X. Our Vow

We vow to live as art.
To think dangerously.
To feel boundlessly.
To love rebelliously.
To dissolve the border between the mystical and the political, the philosophical and the erotic.

We are the Neo-Bohemians.

[heymrspatel]

✨pinterest mood board✨

rules: go to pinterest, search "your name + core + aesthetic" and let the pinterest algorithm create a mood board for 2025!

(i did 9 pictures, but you can do any amount that speaks to you 🥰)

aside from being poisoned, this is pretty great! alsdkfj

i'll tag @whatthebodygraspsnot @catgrassplantdad @whatwouldmickeydo @gallawitchxx @gardenerian @howlinchickhowl @iansfreckles @rereadanon @crossmydna @mmmichyyy @mybrainismelted @michellemisfit @deedala @thepupperino @darlingian @doshiart @gallapiech @femboymilkovich @sgtmickeyslaughter @sam-loves-seb @jrooc @blue-disco-lights @stocious @spookygingerr @sickness-health-all-that-shit@creepkinginc @energievie @ian-galagher @kiennilove @kiinard if you would like to play! if not, this is just me wishing you a lovely and beautiful and magical new year! ✨✨✨✨✨

[blackbearmagic]

what kind of music do you like?

Folky, boppy, bouncy stuff. Stomp-and-holler, clap-your-hands-and-say-yeah kinda shit.

But also that weird genre of music that sounds like it's floating towards you from a distance through the foggy woods and you feel vaguely in danger but not enough to leave.

Also pagan folk and rock.

And also the emo-y punk-y rock that made up all of my high school listening, for nostalgia's sake and because American Idiot (2004) is and will always be the best thing that ever happened to music.

(Spotify also keeps trying to show me more artists like Yugo Kanno and Taku Iwasaki, but that's because I cannot figure out how to tell the algorithm that while I'm sure those other artists are great, I really only listen to the first two because they did most of the soundtracking for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, and I binge the shit out of those.)

If you're looking for artist names, we've got:

The Oh Hellos, The Last Bison, Lord Huron, Hozier, Iron & Wine, The Paper Kites, The Arcadian Wild, Run River North, Cold Weather Company, The Weepies, Birdtalker, Flannel Graph, San Fermin, OMNIA, S. J. Tucker, Faun, Valravn, Green Man, Damh the Bard, Blackmore's Night,The Moon & The Nightspirit, Woodland, Qntal, Trobar de Morte, Irfan, Wardruna, and then we're gonna round that wildly disjointed list off with your classics like Fall Out Boy, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, early-00s Panic! at the Disco, and AFI.

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Miguel meets Disco-Spider Diane

Miguel: Losing my daughter was one of the hardest things I've ever experienced. I long for children everyday and seeing Peter and Mayday physically hurts-

Diane: So just make one???

Miguel:... What?

Diane: I said, just make one?? You can do that.

Miguel: No, I can't.

Diane: Did you make that little yellow watch chick?

Miguel:.... Lyla? Yes, but-

Diane: So what's the problem? Just make a little girl then. Seems like you're overcomplicating it-

Miguel: Lyla is an algorithm. She's a HOLOGRAM. I can't touch her and hold her and tuck her in at night like a child.

Diane: Yeah, you're probably right.

Miguel:...

Diane: Now-hold-tha-damn-phone, Ain't I JUST see a little black girl doing all that, though? We even hugged and stuff?? Sista said her name was Margo, she might be able to help you-

Miguel: Diane, cut it out. I can't make a daughter like that. She wouldn't be my real daughter-

Diane: But Gabbie wasn't even your real daughter.

Miguel: That's it, give me back the watch.

Diane: Sir, do you want the child or not-

[mybrainismelted]

✨pinterest mood board✨

thanks for the tag @heymrspatel!

rules: go to pinterest, search "your name + core + aesthetic" and let the pinterest algorithm create a mood board for 2025!

I feel like pinterest is trying to tell me something....

tags under the cut

@blue-disco-lights, @ms-moonlight-inn, @notherenewjersey, @suzy-queued

@francesrose3, @sickness-health-all-that-shit, @sleepyfacetoughguy, @deedala, @thepupperino

@femboymilkovich, @stocious, @creepkinginc, @crossmydna, @too-schoolforcool

@michellemisfit, @themarchg1rl, @kiennilove, @energievie, @sam-loves-seb

@callivich, @sgtmickeyslaughter, @deathclassic, @darlingian, @palepinkgoat

@lingy910y, @silvanshadow, @spoonfulstar, @spookygingerr, @gardenerian

[lilyminer]

One thing I find endlessly fascinating about fandom cultures is how different fandom communities can become so heavily linked together. Becoming like one community of fans who feel drawn to a group of similar pieces of media because of how many fans they have in common.

Some of them are fairly obvious, like some I’ve run into over the years. Like fans of the book series Warrior Cats also tend to get into the book series Wings of Fire. Both are fantasy xenofiction books with intricate world building. Hell for a while there a lot of the most popular creators from one fandom were also popular in the other. Or people who get into The Magnus Archives also tend to find other podcasts like Welcome to Nightvale interesting. Once again they share a medium and similar appeals.

And this effect can lead to situations like I just found myself in where I get into one fandom just to have both fandom discussions and algorithms alike pull me into a circle where multiple pieces of media are so often brought up together they form a subgroup of a fandom space.

My current interests have led me to what I’ve affectionately nicknamed “the depressed Northern/Eastern European video game complex” which from what I’ve seen contains the game I initially showed interest in Fear and Hunger, Pathologic, and Disco Elysium.

Before anyone pulls out their pitchforks I’m in no way saying these games are the same. First of all they do have quite distinct tones. Especially if you, say, compare Disco Elysium (a game filled with so much hope it’s bursting at the seams) to Fear and Hunger, (a game which aims to make progress feel hopeless at every turn). All I’m saying is the second I started looking up Fear and Hunger on sites like YouTube I might as well have typed in Pathologic by how often I saw content for that game instead. And when I did look up Pathologic the algorithm seems all too ready to introduce me to Disco Elysium too.

As a Canadian these games, to me, look like they were developed in pretty close proximity to each other, European standards of distance might say differently idrk. But the vibes and environments of these games feel so similar to me. So yes, there’s certainly debate to be had about if the inspiration behind each games vibe comes from a common experience but to me there’s definitely something there.

Well anyways I find that collective of close-knit fandoms very interesting. I’ve gone as far into Fear and Hunger as I safely can, did a wonderful play through of Disco Elysium. And now I’ll take what seems like everyone’s advice on my next game. See y’all after I play some assortment of the Pathologic games!