i could not be trusted to make this game because my immediate thought is that the game advertises and markets itself as what op intended but steadily and then rapidly becomes very clear that instead of a cozy cute cottagecore “mystery” the story SHOULD be about the blatant corruption, cruelty, systemic oppression, and persecution and bigotry of her neighbors, but the main character is desperately clinging to the original genre of omg cozy cute and cottagecore because she feels overwhelmed by the potential responsibility to enact meaningful change rather than feel-good aesthetic positivity, thus becoming actively complicit in the town’s crimes through her not mere inaction but in fact conscious choice to decide that she will be the protagonist of a cozy cute genre game rather than a story which might challenge her preconceptions of the world and the state of her own community.
Honestly, good impulse. I have no idea how you could recreate Disco Elysium’s “wonderful writing” if you had to rip out the politics. They’re kinda central to the game’s themes!
Even then, I’m not sure how well that would work. Revachol has cops and libertarians and unions and fascists and communists and militias and churches and secular moralists corporate conglomerates and urchin gangs, and the only reason it can hold so many groups with such diverse opinions is because it has a lot of people.
A small mountain village is just too small for that kind of worldbuilding. At most, it might have one egalitarian-pantheist and one dwarf supremacist who get into barfights most Friday nights, no matter how often the mayor and policeman scold them. The scale is completely different. Everyone knows everyone, so people with extreme beliefs either need to un-extreme them or keep their politics away from “polite society”.
You can write stories in small villages, but you can’t write them like Disco Elysium. “Wonderful writing” isn’t fungible like that.
thats weird because ive lived in plenty tiny villages and their worlds may not be as wide but they sure as hell run plenty deep enough for compelling narrative storytelling.
everyone welcome @jirnkirks to the apparently EXTREMELY exclusive club of “people who saw this post and Actually Got It”
the social norm of “its your ethical responsibility to be constantly aware of, and angry about, every bad thing happening in the world at all times, even if you can’t possibly do anything about it” is possibly the best way I can imagine to create burnout and cynicism and depression in a population, so good job guys
I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.
You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!
I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.
You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me or buying a print or sticker on ko-fi here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!
vampire hunter? no i said vampire HAUNTER. this jerk sucked all my blood out so now i spend my afterlife knocking over shelves and scaring off potential victims and just making the castle generally pretty cold
it’s always ‘bleh why are the plates floating’, 'gah who knocked over my blood goblet’ and never 'sorry for killing you’ ok starve then!
and what are you going to do about it? have a priest exorcise the place? yeah good luck with all the crosses and holy water you piece of shit
It’s a lovely morning in the gothic castle, and you are a horrible ghost.
I am once again BEGGING people to turn timestamps on and pay attention to them.
Helpful Tip: Turn timestamps on. And if you see a post about a contentious topic that was made more than six months ago with reblogs turned off and notice that no one has left a reply in months. Please don’t then go through and respond to a dozen or more of said old replies, potentially restarting like ten different arguments OP is going to have to deal with clogging up their notes.
This has happened to me like three times now and I wanna say the whole “don’t worry about how old a post is just interact liking and reblogging old posts isn’t taboo here” thing does not apply to old discourse posts where it’s clear this is no longer a place of honor and everyone would prefer to move on. You don’t need to restart years old arguments. Please just make your own post or something. Please.
This thing has one of the most even reblog to like ratios I’ve seen in a while, I assume I am not the only person who’s had to deal with this.
Remember kids! If you don’t like a trans woman, you can just ostracize her from entire communities! It’s easy! Fun! Other trans women will help! Unperson your local trans woman today! Bonus points if she’s a rape victim!
trans women are very safe people to bring into your life! they’ll love you, support you, care for you, and when you get bored of them there’s no messy break up, ‘cause everyone else you know will immediately believe you when you tell them she turned out to be an awful bitch! they’ll all drop her like a sack of shit and you won’t have to worry about literally any social repercussions or even seeing her again 'cause she’ll never be able to interact with your social circle ever again! she may even move away out of sheer desperation!
Hey I really respect how each of these posts feel like I’m a kid putting pages from a book at the entrance to my closet and some unseen monster is grabbing it in the night and vomits it into the foot of my bed with its edits of how many eggs there are. It’s all I could ever ask for
in the age of remote work we should all be visiting friends like they did in jane austen times. is it raining? stay overnight, you’ll catch a chill. coming for a visit? why not stay for a couple months, until the roads…get better?
Do this for any reason! Yesterday the subway was down and I was tired so I texted my friend and spent the evening resting on their couch. We had dinner together. Totally unexpected, but you’re basically never going to impose on your FRIENDS. They want you around!!
reblogging this again because i can’t stop thinking about “where’s the wretch?”
i have hundreds of thousands of words of writing asks on this blog spanning a decade. i’ve read dozens of craft books. i’ve been teaching creative writing for 8 years. and “where’s the wretch” might be the best craft advice i’ve ever heard.
I think they have a bit slavic vibes cuz I was drawing them while listening to my favorite band Nervy (or Nerves) and they are ukrainian (so vibes were half intentional)
just an excuse to talk about them cuz I love their songs a lot :3
I think they have a bit slavic vibes cuz I was drawing them while listening to my favorite band Nervy (or Nerves) and they are ukrainian (so vibes were half intentional)
just an excuse to talk about them cuz I love their songs a lot :3
Begging everyone on the internet to stop smoothing out their middle aged men and draw wrinkles for the love of god I promise it’s so fun you’ll love it Come into my wine cellar
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