"You were born in the year ‘07, in the last year of the Commune of Revachol, right before it fell. In the Old Military Hospital, on the ground floor where people usually came to die, during a snowstorm. The Revolution had about one year left to go and the fires were still burning bright. There were explosions in the blizzard. This was 44 years ago. You are 44 years old. The bloating might never leave your face, but beneath it -- you still have some years. You still have some hope."
By far the best thought cabinet reveal. This, and finding your clipboard in the trash and reading about my closed cases in the lights of Kim’s Kineema were some of the most powerful moments in the game for me. Realizing I’m not actually an irredeemable fuck up…
"Listen! If the stars are lit, Then someone must need them, of course? Then someone must want them to be there, calling those droplets of spittle pearls?"
It's such an understated story, especially compared to the soaring intensity of the Moralist quest, yet it carries such intense emotional gravity... because the meeting room is a ruin in a city where a communist revolution failed utterly, that happens to host the meeting of two young communists unwilling to accept the evil of their world for granted. They can't accept it, because they love too much.
@@cenkarslan7002 Sometimes we have to know how to make things easier on ourselves in order to succeed. Other times, we have to triumph in spite of self-inflicted adversity to give ourselves the confidence we need to push on.
Feigning slumber, as an entire city is held under artillery from airships in high atmosphere. Casting shadows in the moonlight. Ready to lay waste, should the working class rise.
Main reason that I try and adhere to the Terry Pratchett school of philosophy. If you try your damnedest to act according to what you yourself reasonably believe is right and just, as opposed to what is right and just as defined by law, politics or religion, it will all, more or less, turn out alright in the end.
Talking with the two communist youths about how maybe communism is a secular religion that replaced belief in a divinity with belief in humanity's future, and the idea of 'plasm', while this track is playing, is so magical.
there is some really high level emotional intelligence embedded in this track... you ask an artist what building something fragile in a state of naive, tentative optimism sounds like and this is the result... it's perfect.
whats the point i wish i could just creep into your house at night and say "hi" to you and your "youths" or watever you call your child s-ee-x partners haha.
Kim is such an interesting character. He is outwardly-facing a Moralist, and believes in the RCM and Moralintern, but there's a quiet doubt about him. The Bomber Jacket he wears, along with his affinity for Aces High, suggests...
Kim it probably someone that understands that there little to nothing you can do to changes how things are, he was someone that believed in the code of moralism, as the years go by he understands that even though the Coalition maintains somewhat peace they are not doing anything to make things better and little by little maybe he felt a admiration for what the revolution tried to do and, incorporate some of it in his style or maybe since the RCM is made from people from the revolution it might as well they probably carry many things from the revolution and that got incorporated into him little by little
weirdly even though it's ultimately a kind of silly side quest about tracking down Real Communists only to find two headass college students trying to build a matchbox tower, i feel like this piece of music and the communist side quest as a whole really gets at one of the core messages of the game: that even after catastrophic failure, there remains a spark of life that you can't extinguish. all the communards got killed years ago, but their ideas and the world they envisioned live on in the minds of these kids who believe that a better world could still exist, despite how miserable and bleak things are now. just like how harry fucked up his entire life so bad that he literally forgot everything, but at the end of it all he's still alive, still trying his best, still doing what little good he can, however insignificant that good might be. a thriving hostel where a pinball workshop once was. a dicemaker in an old chimney. a dance club in an abandoned church, pumping music and noise into a void that swallows sound. something new and true and beautiful can still be built on the bones of what used to be there.
something i liked about playing hardcore communist is that it gave the feeling of the detective, a severely hungover amnesiac with a lingering sense of unease about his past and a horrible feeling that there's nothing to live for, trying to find something to hold onto. a sense of hope and purpose and importance. a cause to live for and fight for. its just very apparent how much fun the detective has in the book club, viewing random subjects from a communist lens with two people who happily indulge and are very interested in what he has to say. then theres the lapse of faith in communism, in the bookclub, mirrored in steban for just a moment, before he reaffirms the purpose of their club and their beliefs. its just such a great sidequest.
You really feel Harry’s and your own soul in that moment. You can think communism doesn’t have to smell like failure nor does my life all while making an impossible structure. I may not have a very good idea of what it was trying to say but it felt good and hopefull.
Disco Elysium OST is one of the few things that keeps me conscious while real bombs are falling on my city. I just imagine I'm in Revachol. But this track is the scariest, because its first sounds are similar to the remote blows of air defense systems.
I am with you regarding that. Sometimes when I am looking at my city and what our enemy has done to it, there is a feeling that I am amidst Revacholianlian half-destroyed buildings. But we are strong and we will bear these tough times.
It is soul shattering, yet ironic. That even after what ZA/UM has done, Capitalism still ate their hearts. We will spread your remains Revachol. Your dream is not yet dead. Only scattered. In each of us. Like Arthropods.
The group name is dead but not the people nor their ideas, Disco Elysium showed the beauty that can be made in video games and how to make something transcendent when looked at with the materialistic lens of communism. The night is never truly dark comrade, there's still stars hinting that the sun will rise again...
I always saw Kitsuragi kinda of a Nerd but im imagining this is the face both (the amnesiac detective) and Kim do with the final confrontation. Kim looks badass and (amnesiac detective) looks scary.
This is the lullaby of the revolution. Now she is sleeping, after a tiring and eventful century. We will wait until she wakes up, comrades. We will help her wake up.
@@ArigatoMongolOn the ruins of the world's first socialist state. Looted. Humiliated. Transformed from an advanced superpower that launched a man into space into a colonial raw material appendage of the modern capitalist world.
I was gushing about how perfect this song is for DE's communist quest. What you learn about the history (and all the parallels to our own world). It has whimsy and militant stoicism. It’s childlike and austere, imaginative and stern, it’s a waltz and a march, it's like a funeral procession and like a lullaby. I consider myself more of an anarchist but I can never resist the aesthetic allure of communism, of telling its story at least, of paying respects: where it started from, what it became, what was lost, what could be again, what about it must die and what of it cannot die and never will.
It's the 19th century, the time of the enlightenment. The birth of liberalism and the time of democratic revolution. And so it happens, the king is killed, the system is overthrown, but a fascist faction of the revolution ends up taking controll. They erect a fascist dictatorship and call it a "liberal democracy". They make "elections" but only the party is allowed to vote. People suffer even more then under the King and the regime supresses any possibility for another uprising. Eventualy the dictatorship collapses and the monarchy is reestablished. You are still a liberal revolutionary. You still belive in true democracy. But every time you talk to someone they go "Oh democracy? But we had it just a couple of years ago, it didn't work. It was horrible. Liberalism will always produce authoritarianism. It doesn't work, leave me alone." This is what it feels like to be a communist. The soviet union was authoritarian, Stalin invaded Finland, allied with the nazis and and genocided Ukrainians in the Holodomor, the third largest genocide in human history. China is genociding uyghur and is creating the surveillance from 1984. These countries are fascist threw and threw. They call themselves communist but they are not. The 'communist' who defend them are indistinguishable from nazis in rethoric. In this environment, how does one advocate for communism? It is so difficult, but we have to try. I for myself have abandoned associating myself with communism and instead am simply advocating the ideas. Worker democracy, nationalisation of natural monopolys and a slow transition to the abolishment of private property, all threw the framework of a democratic government.
I’m not remotely a leftist, but even I think it’s easy to get wrapped up in the idealism and imagery of communism. That’s an intentional thing, it’s an ideology that wants to sell itself to dreamers and hopeful outcasts.
as historical materialism would have it, communism will always be an alternative to the misery and privation of the present, it's the hope of the last candle in the dark. anarchy and communism as ideals are abolished when both goals are met
@@Itgetsbetterofficial "not remotely a leftist but even I think it’s easy to get wrapped up in the idealism and imagery of communism." then shut up and go away, adventurist, this isn't for you, simply put
@@ILoveEvadingTax What a wonderful modus operandi, telling anyone who isn't already your ideology to bugger off. How do you suspect people become commuist; or any other ideology that their parents weren't part of for that matter? They aren't born with it, and they certainly don't adopt it when proponents of the ideology tell them to 'shut up and go away' for not already agreeing with them.
Even after the initial communards were brutally put down by firing squads, even though Revechol is a pit of despair made so by the moralintern and capitalists, there is still hope and in fact must be hope that life cannot be this way forever.
I've listened to this track more times than I'd like to admit over the past few days... something about it just touches my heart in a way I haven't had a song do in a long, long time. It's a mixture of sadness and hope. A tiny little glockenspiel in beat with a booming emptiness. It is a will to fight in a world that doesn't care, or worse, actively hates you. It is the stars, not going out, even in the darkest of times. One day, Ignus Nilsen and Kras Mazov will smile down on us as he sees the biggest of communisms built, but for now, we just gotta keep fighting for a better future.
I've been listening to Disco Elysium soundtrack for as long as I've finished the game. A masterpiece, really. It goes with every situation, every state of mind... and these two obviously don't disappoint. Thank you Zaum ; thank you British Sea Power.
Martinaise is a world of its own. The pavement destroyed by bombs is the same where two old men play pétanque. The remaining communists stay at a building that was smashed to bits by artillery. The abandoned church with a 2mm hole into the pale can host an anodic dance music club. The world is scarred by the past but we won't find the joys of it if we don't look past the misery.
there is no other track in the game that is so sad and so full of hope and light at the same time. a lot of this game is crushingly sad, but the reading group is one of the best scenes in the whole game for putting such an incredible twist on that same sadness. so glad i waited to finish the game in full because my opinion of this game as a leftist work would not at all be the same without this scene. that moment when it holds, and the impossible becomes possible for just a second...and that undercurrent of finding hope and faith in each other's pure desire to see out a better future. no matter how crushing it feels sometimes. it really embodies all that it feels like to be a communist/anarchist "communism doesn't dangle any promises of eternal bliss or reward. the only promise it offers is that the future can be better than the past, if we're willing to work and fight and die for it"
Word. This whole scene brought back memories of being a young communist, like I was looking down on my friends and I any given night ten or twelve years ago. If Steban and Ulixes don't succeed, I hope they at least end up doing alright.
I only played the first three days of the game, and none of the stuff added into the final cut was out yet then, but the description for finishing thinking about Communism definitely hit home with how it feels sometimes. "Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself _sad_. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov _fucked him over_ personally with his socio-economic theory."
I keep being mesmerized by the portraits. It would be a perfect picture if they were both surrounded by the Dried May Belles simbolizing they are confronting the "final boss"
I listen to this when I’m feeling hopeless, it makes me feel like there is a light shining in the darkness that is this capitalist world. That someday we might be able to build a better world from the rubble when the system finally implodes on itself. One day, we will live in a kinder world.
All the films, shows, books and fairytales I have seen and read never spoke on Hope and Resilience like Disco Elysium. Because it's brave enough to commit to an answer. Something to hope for in the real world, something I can hope for.
Disco elysium es arte, arte magistral, arte superior. Disco elysium es EL VIDEOJUEGO, es el "Ciudadano Kane" de los videojuegos. Esta obra no solo ha confirmado la elevación de los videojuegos al estatus de arte, sino que también ha puesto al videojuego a la altura de Picasso, por ejemplo. Tendrían que matarme para eliminar este pensamiento.
I always think of DE as sort of Maxim Gorky's Lower Depths (Na Dne, literally "At the bottom") of our generation. It's a famous play, written by revolutionary social realist playwriter, about several marginalized dwellers of the night lodging.
This song rather adequately sums up what it is to be a communist in the 21st century. The overwhelming melancholy of the background contrasts with the hopeful jingle of the fore. The revolutions of the 20th century are over, the states they established have either collapsed or decayed into a twisted mockery of what they could have been, either way killing millions, and yet, we idealistic fools can't let go of a nearly two-hundred-year-old dream. To any like-minded individuals reading, don't stop hoping. It's better to be optimistic and naïve than pessimistic and jaded. After all, what harm could a little extra will to live do nowadays?
I have a bug in a game. I turn it off, go on with my life, but Inland Empire, Half Light and Electro-Chemistry still talks to me. Is new patch going to fix it?
I always wondered where and when Disco Elysium takes place. On Earth, in a vastly different timeline? A human colony on another planet, left to its own devices? This one could explain the strange admixture of high and low tech. Or just an Earth-analogue, in a more abstract sense?
It's an Earth analogue, another planet that evolved humanity, but also created the pale as a side effect of that. It comes from the developer's old TTRPG world, that they developed into the 8000 years of History present in the world of Elysium.
What I want to tell Revachol, to scream at the top of my lungs until alveoli rupture and I manage only foam; At one point, so long ago now, the midwives of capitalism had only managed to build 0.0001% of it.
This goes extremely hard by playing Coheed and Cambria's The Final Cut immediately after - I don't know how to explain it, I do not do music theory, but it is really suiting in a lot of ways???
I am so sorry, bê, for everything bad I caused you. I am sorry for everything good I caused too. As a person, the only thing I know for certain is that we crave for caress and good feelings. I remember the moment before our first kiss, watching the ebb and flow on an artificial river on a mall. I remember how we could easily read each other eyes and guess almost every time what was going on inside. I know I have been thru really dark times. Wished many times I could had been stronger for both of us. Remember the night we woke up and I thought there was a robber inside the apartment? How you went to check up and it was just a squirrel? I easily laugh remembering your face towards the afraid of mine. We have said very nasty and bad things towards each other. It just doesnt feel like the most (and I mean really most) of time we spend together. It was always just ok and comfy, and that was perfect and so obvious to me. I never had an outside playful momment at a garden with anyone, and there was you. Remember that afternoon at your auntie? We drink a few of gin after that. I remember you sad cause you couldnt help my sadness after sapphire and the rescued baby kitten died. Up to this day sorry I didnt play your favorite game titles elder scrolls, fallout or disco elysium. Sorry I made only up to undertale. I am sorry I wasnt next to you the day lucy died. My ego prevented the caring you needed. I cant believe i lost someone that endured sleeping in the streets with me. Sorry I failed you, bê.
I loved this quest because before the final Communist quest in the game, the overall satire and criticism of Communist was to remind of the massive murder and death associate with communism, and communism aiming to kill even more. But in the final act of the satire the only actual communists we see are only interested in philosophical debate, harmless and the criticism is their lack of concrete action.
"You were born in the year ‘07, in the last year of the Commune of Revachol, right before it fell. In the Old Military Hospital, on the ground floor where people usually came to die, during a snowstorm. The Revolution had about one year left to go and the fires were still burning bright. There were explosions in the blizzard. This was 44 years ago. You are 44 years old. The bloating might never leave your face, but beneath it -- you still have some years. You still have some hope."
By far the best thought cabinet reveal. This, and finding your clipboard in the trash and reading about my closed cases in the lights of Kim’s Kineema were some of the most powerful moments in the game for me. Realizing I’m not actually an irredeemable fuck up…
It's a crime that this isn't in Spotify
"'In dark times, should the stars also go out?'"
"Listen!
If the stars are lit,
Then someone must need them, of course?
Then someone must want them to be there,
calling those droplets of spittle pearls?"
More and more like a metaphor for ZA/UM as a company lol
Well, once there was only dark. You ask me, the light’s winning.
SOME WAVE
@@mmrmyamnmn2882mayakovsky sounds beautiful in english
I never thought that building a hipster-jenga tower with two failed university students could be so touching
It's such an understated story, especially compared to the soaring intensity of the Moralist quest, yet it carries such intense emotional gravity... because the meeting room is a ruin in a city where a communist revolution failed utterly, that happens to host the meeting of two young communists unwilling to accept the evil of their world for granted. They can't accept it, because they love too much.
@@dsch0 lovely comment, if only i could save it
they're not failed ! just a bit naive and innocent, as almost every young uni student ! :))
@@limcw6092 you can screenshot! :)
@@dsch0"Failed utterly" Yes being massacred and suppressed en masse is failure, got it
One more run, Harry. Get dressed detective, we have a case to solve.
What if I literally die trying to get my tie off the fan?
@@CoyoteHaHaHa First stop the fan, then take the tie. It hurts otherwise.
@@cenkarslan7002 What if I want it to hurt?
@@UncleCloud In the end, that's why you're playing Disco Elysium, right?
@@cenkarslan7002 Sometimes we have to know how to make things easier on ourselves in order to succeed. Other times, we have to triumph in spite of self-inflicted adversity to give ourselves the confidence we need to push on.
A lullaby that slowly swells in volume, until nobody dares to sleep.
So well put
Feigning slumber, as an entire city is held under artillery from airships in high atmosphere. Casting shadows in the moonlight. Ready to lay waste, should the working class rise.
Every school of thought and government has failed in this city, but I love it nonetheless. It belongs to me as much as it belongs to you.
Best person EVER.
Resembles the world we live in lol. Idiealogy has got us nowhere
@@spritualelitist665 semi-related ua-cam.com/play/PLAO1qOle8Cu0VPvPee23oNSv_CV3Vpdmc.html
Main reason that I try and adhere to the Terry Pratchett school of philosophy. If you try your damnedest to act according to what you yourself reasonably believe is right and just, as opposed to what is right and just as defined by law, politics or religion, it will all, more or less, turn out alright in the end.
Where’d my other two comments about the devs deifying Stalin, Marx, and Engels disappear to?
Talking with the two communist youths about how maybe communism is a secular religion that replaced belief in a divinity with belief in humanity's future, and the idea of 'plasm', while this track is playing, is so magical.
there is some really high level emotional intelligence embedded in this track... you ask an artist what building something fragile in a state of naive, tentative optimism sounds like and this is the result... it's perfect.
Commie fig. It was a way for ewws to take over russia muder millions of white peasants and establish is-real
whats the point i wish i could just creep into your house at night and say "hi" to you and your "youths" or watever you call your child s-ee-x partners haha.
Kim is such an interesting character. He is outwardly-facing a Moralist, and believes in the RCM and Moralintern, but there's a quiet doubt about him. The Bomber Jacket he wears, along with his affinity for Aces High, suggests...
Sympathy, a rebellious streak.
I've got a collection of Luftwaffe memorabilia, that doesn't make me a Nazi
@@adriangoodman8901 It certainly makes people look at you weird.
Kim it probably someone that understands that there little to nothing you can do to changes how things are, he was someone that believed in the code of moralism, as the years go by he understands that even though the Coalition maintains somewhat peace they are not doing anything to make things better and little by little maybe he felt a admiration for what the revolution tried to do and, incorporate some of it in his style or maybe since the RCM is made from people from the revolution it might as well they probably carry many things from the revolution and that got incorporated into him little by little
He tells you outright he isn't a moralist. I really don't know why people say this.
weirdly even though it's ultimately a kind of silly side quest about tracking down Real Communists only to find two headass college students trying to build a matchbox tower, i feel like this piece of music and the communist side quest as a whole really gets at one of the core messages of the game: that even after catastrophic failure, there remains a spark of life that you can't extinguish. all the communards got killed years ago, but their ideas and the world they envisioned live on in the minds of these kids who believe that a better world could still exist, despite how miserable and bleak things are now. just like how harry fucked up his entire life so bad that he literally forgot everything, but at the end of it all he's still alive, still trying his best, still doing what little good he can, however insignificant that good might be. a thriving hostel where a pinball workshop once was. a dicemaker in an old chimney. a dance club in an abandoned church, pumping music and noise into a void that swallows sound. something new and true and beautiful can still be built on the bones of what used to be there.
Disco Elysium is fundamentally a game about hope.
Exactly. Also it’s strongly implied the Return happens that spring.
Something beautiful is going to happen
Thank you @@bruh-my1uy
something i liked about playing hardcore communist is that it gave the feeling of the detective, a severely hungover amnesiac with a lingering sense of unease about his past and a horrible feeling that there's nothing to live for, trying to find something to hold onto. a sense of hope and purpose and importance. a cause to live for and fight for. its just very apparent how much fun the detective has in the book club, viewing random subjects from a communist lens with two people who happily indulge and are very interested in what he has to say. then theres the lapse of faith in communism, in the bookclub, mirrored in steban for just a moment, before he reaffirms the purpose of their club and their beliefs. its just such a great sidequest.
You really feel Harry’s and your own soul in that moment. You can think communism doesn’t have to smell like failure nor does my life all while making an impossible structure.
I may not have a very good idea of what it was trying to say but it felt good and hopefull.
As a communist, I love Harry DuBois.
And I am incredibly upset with myself for missing out on it due to my own foolishness.
All this discourse about "The Cause" reminds me of the beginning of "In dubious battle"
@@theasparagus1769 Ah, but it is a failure.
You'll never have her again. You cannot go back.
Precinct 57’s finest.
When Vaasan communist revolutionary Ignus Nilsen was in hiding, he stayed in a hut on the boreal plateau for ten months.
That would do things to a mans psyche, I think the song really conveys that; it feels distant and fading towards the end
@@disko247 Just look at The Deserter, a clear example of what you said...
I think this is just a reference to Lenin, who hid in a hut in the Finnish wilderness for several months after the February Revolution
He is very tired, but the dark circles under his eyes make him look younger, not older.
Disco Elysium OST is one of the few things that keeps me conscious while real bombs are falling on my city. I just imagine I'm in Revachol. But this track is the scariest, because its first sounds are similar to the remote blows of air defense systems.
Damn dude.
Stay safe
I hope you're doing okay. Ukraine strong; Revachol forever.
I am with you regarding that. Sometimes when I am looking at my city and what our enemy has done to it, there is a feeling that I am amidst Revacholianlian half-destroyed buildings. But we are strong and we will bear these tough times.
@@diogenesdubiuk431 after the Pale, the World again. Stay strong 🖤
Well, I hope that music played in Zigi's head everytime he saw Ignus Nilsen
Un Jour Je Serai de Retour Prés de Toi
I may not know a lot about Intra-Materialism... But have you heard of a little thing called... ‘The Alphabet’?
Good. I also know The Alphabet.
It is soul shattering, yet ironic. That even after what ZA/UM has done, Capitalism still ate their hearts. We will spread your remains Revachol. Your dream is not yet dead. Only scattered. In each of us. Like Arthropods.
The group name is dead but not the people nor their ideas, Disco Elysium showed the beauty that can be made in video games and how to make something transcendent when looked at with the materialistic lens of communism. The night is never truly dark comrade, there's still stars hinting that the sun will rise again...
stay strong comrades
The Final Cut is gonna be HAAAAARDCOOOOORE! 😎👌
EAT THE POOR, YEAH!!!!
Hardcore to the Mega!
@@TheAlderFalder ALLCORE!
Is it, though?
@@UriclubTK no really, *is it?*
I always saw Kitsuragi kinda of a Nerd but im imagining this is the face both (the amnesiac detective) and Kim do with the final confrontation. Kim looks badass and (amnesiac detective) looks scary.
This is the lullaby of the revolution. Now she is sleeping, after a tiring and eventful century. We will wait until she wakes up, comrades. We will help her wake up.
Rot Front from Russia, comrade. Where are you from? It is interesting to know what state your left forces are in.
@@ArigatoMongolOn the ruins of the world's first socialist state. Looted. Humiliated. Transformed from an advanced superpower that launched a man into space into a colonial raw material appendage of the modern capitalist world.
@@ArigatoMongol Have you more information about the rot front? Un abrazo desde argentina!
Sounds like broken dreams and lingering hopes, I love it.
I was gushing about how perfect this song is for DE's communist quest. What you learn about the history (and all the parallels to our own world). It has whimsy and militant stoicism. It’s childlike and austere, imaginative and stern, it’s a waltz and a march, it's like a funeral procession and like a lullaby. I consider myself more of an anarchist but I can never resist the aesthetic allure of communism, of telling its story at least, of paying respects: where it started from, what it became, what was lost, what could be again, what about it must die and what of it cannot die and never will.
It's the 19th century, the time of the enlightenment. The birth of liberalism and the time of democratic revolution.
And so it happens, the king is killed, the system is overthrown, but a fascist faction of the revolution ends up taking controll. They erect a fascist dictatorship and call it a "liberal democracy". They make "elections" but only the party is allowed to vote. People suffer even more then under the King and the regime supresses any possibility for another uprising. Eventualy the dictatorship collapses and the monarchy is reestablished.
You are still a liberal revolutionary. You still belive in true democracy. But every time you talk to someone they go "Oh democracy? But we had it just a couple of years ago, it didn't work. It was horrible. Liberalism will always produce authoritarianism. It doesn't work, leave me alone."
This is what it feels like to be a communist. The soviet union was authoritarian, Stalin invaded Finland, allied with the nazis and and genocided Ukrainians in the Holodomor, the third largest genocide in human history. China is genociding uyghur and is creating the surveillance from 1984. These countries are fascist threw and threw. They call themselves communist but they are not. The 'communist' who defend them are indistinguishable from nazis in rethoric. In this environment, how does one advocate for communism? It is so difficult, but we have to try. I for myself have abandoned associating myself with communism and instead am simply advocating the ideas. Worker democracy, nationalisation of natural monopolys and a slow transition to the abolishment of private property, all threw the framework of a democratic government.
I’m not remotely a leftist, but even I think it’s easy to get wrapped up in the idealism and imagery of communism.
That’s an intentional thing, it’s an ideology that wants to sell itself to dreamers and hopeful outcasts.
as historical materialism would have it, communism will always be an alternative to the misery and privation of the present, it's the hope of the last candle in the dark. anarchy and communism as ideals are abolished when both goals are met
@@Itgetsbetterofficial "not remotely a leftist but even I think it’s easy to get wrapped up in the idealism and imagery of communism." then shut up and go away, adventurist, this isn't for you, simply put
@@ILoveEvadingTax What a wonderful modus operandi, telling anyone who isn't already your ideology to bugger off. How do you suspect people become commuist; or any other ideology that their parents weren't part of for that matter? They aren't born with it, and they certainly don't adopt it when proponents of the ideology tell them to 'shut up and go away' for not already agreeing with them.
how can this be so sad and hopefull, pure feels
Even after the initial communards were brutally put down by firing squads, even though Revechol is a pit of despair made so by the moralintern and capitalists, there is still hope and in fact must be hope that life cannot be this way forever.
I've listened to this track more times than I'd like to admit over the past few days... something about it just touches my heart in a way I haven't had a song do in a long, long time.
It's a mixture of sadness and hope. A tiny little glockenspiel in beat with a booming emptiness. It is a will to fight in a world that doesn't care, or worse, actively hates you. It is the stars, not going out, even in the darkest of times.
One day, Ignus Nilsen and Kras Mazov will smile down on us as he sees the biggest of communisms built, but for now, we just gotta keep fighting for a better future.
Thank you, Sea Power and Studio ZA/UM.
It’s like a whimper of hope longing to be heard
The Communist Vision Quest was one of my favourites, in a very Disco fashion, it provided one of the few bright spots in the gloomy world of Revachol.
I've been listening to Disco Elysium soundtrack for as long as I've finished the game.
A masterpiece, really. It goes with every situation, every state of mind... and these two obviously don't disappoint.
Thank you Zaum ; thank you British Sea Power.
Martinaise is a world of its own. The pavement destroyed by bombs is the same where two old men play pétanque. The remaining communists stay at a building that was smashed to bits by artillery. The abandoned church with a 2mm hole into the pale can host an anodic dance music club. The world is scarred by the past but we won't find the joys of it if we don't look past the misery.
I need to listen to this to cure my anxiety attacks.
Hope it gets better!
there is no other track in the game that is so sad and so full of hope and light at the same time. a lot of this game is crushingly sad, but the reading group is one of the best scenes in the whole game for putting such an incredible twist on that same sadness. so glad i waited to finish the game in full because my opinion of this game as a leftist work would not at all be the same without this scene. that moment when it holds, and the impossible becomes possible for just a second...and that undercurrent of finding hope and faith in each other's pure desire to see out a better future. no matter how crushing it feels sometimes. it really embodies all that it feels like to be a communist/anarchist
"communism doesn't dangle any promises of eternal bliss or reward. the only promise it offers is that the future can be better than the past, if we're willing to work and fight and die for it"
Word. This whole scene brought back memories of being a young communist, like I was looking down on my friends and I any given night ten or twelve years ago. If Steban and Ulixes don't succeed, I hope they at least end up doing alright.
For a single, insane moment Detective Lieutenant Double-Yefreitor Harrier "Tequila Sunset" Du Bois built communism.
I only played the first three days of the game, and none of the stuff added into the final cut was out yet then, but the description for finishing thinking about Communism definitely hit home with how it feels sometimes.
"Evil child-murdering billionaires still rule the world with a shit-eating grin. All he has managed to do is make himself _sad_. He is starting to suspect Kras Mazov _fucked him over_ personally with his socio-economic theory."
I keep being mesmerized by the portraits. It would be a perfect picture if they were both surrounded by the Dried May Belles simbolizing they are confronting the "final boss"
In dark times, should the stars also go out?
This is fantastic. If it wasn't part of an already amazing game, i would still listen to it.
Never thought I'd be so emotionally attached to a fictional city.
Sunrise, parabellum
I always go back to this. It's a shame it isn't on Spotify. It's one of my favorite tracks in the game
Wow, the portrait art on these two songs is amazing. Are there versions without the text anywhere?
Its in the subreddit now
On the discord and artist's twitter too!
@@Crowborn what's the artist's name?
@@jackliu8991 sadly i can't remember but hes on the discord and linked everyone to the full resolution piece.
@@jackliu8991 Aleksander Rostov.
I enjoy thinking about truly fundamental concepts, like the alphabet for instance.
huge pog moment
no u
Didn't realize Haedox liked Disco Elysium too. You should do a vid about it!
I listen to this when I’m feeling hopeless, it makes me feel like there is a light shining in the darkness that is this capitalist world. That someday we might be able to build a better world from the rubble when the system finally implodes on itself. One day, we will live in a kinder world.
ploddding through another march we raise our hands in generous defeat
Deny. Defend. Depose
Amazing art! Best partner in crime.. I mean Revachol.
Thank you so much for blessing the world with the experience that is Disco Elysium ZA/UM
this game makes me feel so many emotions at once
thank u for this. truly
All the films, shows, books and fairytales I have seen and read never spoke on Hope and Resilience like Disco Elysium. Because it's brave enough to commit to an answer. Something to hope for in the real world, something I can hope for.
Disco elysium es arte, arte magistral, arte superior. Disco elysium es EL VIDEOJUEGO, es el "Ciudadano Kane" de los videojuegos. Esta obra no solo ha confirmado la elevación de los videojuegos al estatus de arte, sino que también ha puesto al videojuego a la altura de Picasso, por ejemplo. Tendrían que matarme para eliminar este pensamiento.
I always think of DE as sort of Maxim Gorky's Lower Depths (Na Dne, literally "At the bottom") of our generation. It's a famous play, written by revolutionary social realist playwriter, about several marginalized dwellers of the night lodging.
Kim is looking at me like I did something wrong and he's listening to Half Light.
This song rather adequately sums up what it is to be a communist in the 21st century. The overwhelming melancholy of the background contrasts with the hopeful jingle of the fore. The revolutions of the 20th century are over, the states they established have either collapsed or decayed into a twisted mockery of what they could have been, either way killing millions, and yet, we idealistic fools can't let go of a nearly two-hundred-year-old dream.
To any like-minded individuals reading, don't stop hoping. It's better to be optimistic and naïve than pessimistic and jaded. After all, what harm could a little extra will to live do nowadays?
Why does my husband look so haggard in this picture?
It's a tough job being precinct 57th's finest.
Can't fuckin wait for another run, HAAAAARDCORE MODE
In the dark times, should the stars also go out?
Kim's face when you show him the racist mug
the music when you get to the communist book club but you havent done the reading yet
Don't call it a book club
@@loganreed23 achievement unlocked: avowed infra-materialist
这曲子太美了！
I have a bug in a game. I turn it off, go on with my life, but Inland Empire, Half Light and Electro-Chemistry still talks to me. Is new patch going to fix it?
would love to have the piano sheets for this beautiful piece of art, incredibly evocative
Zakid has the piano sheets on his UA-cam channel
love everthing about this game, perfect ost
I AM LA REVACHOLIERE.
I always wondered where and when Disco Elysium takes place. On Earth, in a vastly different timeline? A human colony on another planet, left to its own devices? This one could explain the strange admixture of high and low tech. Or just an Earth-analogue, in a more abstract sense?
It's an Earth analogue, another planet that evolved humanity, but also created the pale as a side effect of that. It comes from the developer's old TTRPG world, that they developed into the 8000 years of History present in the world of Elysium.
@@lyricsystem4646 Cool! Thanks for the info.
the best way I can summarise Elysium as a world is if it's like if the computer revolution came before air travel
One day til final cut lets goooooooo
This feels like a song you play when you murder someone who deserves it, but it's sad.
Songs to rebuild 0.0001% of communism too
What I want to tell Revachol, to scream at the top of my lungs until alveoli rupture and I manage only foam;
At one point, so long ago now, the midwives of capitalism had only managed to build 0.0001% of it.
I AM... *THE LAW*
fantastic
This comment section is one of the best on YT.
Every school of thought and government has failed in this city -- but I love it nonetheless. It belongs to me as much as it belongs to you
HARDCORE TO THE MAX
I follow my self.
My face when a kid established authority over me.
This goes extremely hard by playing Coheed and Cambria's The Final Cut immediately after - I don't know how to explain it, I do not do music theory, but it is really suiting in a lot of ways???
Please Upload the ost to Spotify
My idol.
man im depresseed
I am so sorry, bê, for everything bad I caused you. I am sorry for everything good I caused too. As a person, the only thing I know for certain is that we crave for caress and good feelings. I remember the moment before our first kiss, watching the ebb and flow on an artificial river on a mall. I remember how we could easily read each other eyes and guess almost every time what was going on inside. I know I have been thru really dark times. Wished many times I could had been stronger for both of us. Remember the night we woke up and I thought there was a robber inside the apartment? How you went to check up and it was just a squirrel? I easily laugh remembering your face towards the afraid of mine. We have said very nasty and bad things towards each other. It just doesnt feel like the most (and I mean really most) of time we spend together. It was always just ok and comfy, and that was perfect and so obvious to me. I never had an outside playful momment at a garden with anyone, and there was you. Remember that afternoon at your auntie? We drink a few of gin after that. I remember you sad cause you couldnt help my sadness after sapphire and the rescued baby kitten died. Up to this day sorry I didnt play your favorite game titles elder scrolls, fallout or disco elysium. Sorry I made only up to undertale. I am sorry I wasnt next to you the day lucy died. My ego prevented the caring you needed. I cant believe i lost someone that endured sleeping in the streets with me. Sorry I failed you, bê.
Kim :)
i've got some "Lost River" vibes from this song
Will these tracks be added to the iam8bit OST vinyl records that are yet to be released?
If this were made into a film/tv series fo any actors come to mind to cast Kim?
a full voice over makes this game completely different
they fully voiced it?
Yes!
One million words, fully voiced. Half of them by the same lad.
This song reminds me of Little nightmares ost
Kim here looks so angry lol
Will the ost be updated as well as the game ?
DISCO INFERNO
DISCO INFERNO!
HARDCORE TO THE MEGA!
INTERNALLY COHERENT!
Spotify?
Wake up Hobocop, we've got a Murder to solve.
When does this play in the game
Communist quest
Is it just me or does this song sound very Kingdom Hearts ish ?
When does this play?
In the book club during the communist vision quest.
Italianoooooooooo
I loved this quest because before the final Communist quest in the game, the overall satire and criticism of Communist was to remind of the massive murder and death associate with communism, and communism aiming to kill even more.
But in the final act of the satire the only actual communists we see are only interested in philosophical debate, harmless and the criticism is their lack of concrete action.
are women bourgeois?
You have to let go.
She's never coming back.
A man can dream
In dark times, should the stars also go out?
What a moment
What scene is that line from? I just beat the game but didn't come across it.
@@BeeBee-uc6wz it's in the scene that this song plays, the Communist vision quest
@@ntp4003 The book club? I must have missed that, because I got to the book club, read the Ignus Nilsen book, and never saw this line.
@@BeeBee-uc6wz Yes, it's the last line in this quest line if you do it all the way through. So you need to read the book then come back to them.