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You can absolutely meet the drug runner. In fact I almost thought that was mandatory.

How is reznov a terrorist? War criminal yes, terrorist no

Tanks do “exploit” their surroundings. The original idea for the tank was the cross open ground impervious the enemy fire, but by the Second World War tanks and their crews were trained to know how to avoid enemy fire

Oh heart of the reich there is a lovely part where if you go to the left side of the bridge your ai teammates will let the enemy flank you from the right and vice versa for the right side

Really wish you didn’t have these idiots from bullet points with you, or at least were willing to challenge them when you clearly disagree

Sub machine guns in ww2 had as much or less recoil than sub machine guns today. They fire low power bullets at fairly slow fire rates (compared to today)

The game tries to portray the red army as evil without being nazi apologists. Which fails because most people will look at the third reich and agree with what the red army does in the game. Because the game doesn’t distort history and pretend nazis were something they’re weren’t it ends up vindicating the atrocities that it tries to smear the red army with

The best example of the racism is when the red army burns people with molotovs it’s presented as this terrible moral choice, whereas the pacific campaign gives you a flamethrower at the start of the mission and tell you to “burn em out”

WAW BABY WOOOOOOOO

Damn, The Darkness going "Jaaaacckkiiieee" is burnt into my dome and it's so fucking awesome hahah

6:02 FUCK YEAH DARK SECTOR MENTIONED!! :DD

Man I'm really glad Jacob brought up the graffiti behind the scenes because that's one of my favorite touches

As someone with a super Italian family (Mom's side is at least 98% Italian lol) the names are pretty accurate. Joey Bananas is a very real name and my Grandpa knew him 😅

We already know Blake is gonna love the scene in the police station! Gooood shit hahah

I always think of the song "Jenny is crying" by Dope when I think of this game.. man the boys are in for such a gut-punch with the ending (and again with the ending of 2!)

Wait WHY DOESNT JACOB LIKE SLIPKNOT!?

I personally felt like the moment where Max is digging his own grave at gunpoint of the guys son he killed is a really great scene. Max reacts in a very human way.. too bad they called him fucking ToNy RaviOli and how Max shrugs off the suicide bomber later 😅

59:03 Very American.

Why does my Egghead impression always sound like someone from Kennebunkport, Maine

Holy shit YES dude, that kim fanart is mona lisa for me

Is it too late to do the Whirling-in-Rag secret passage, Cindy the Skull, and karaoke side quests? All of those are excellent! Sacred and Terrible Air, Kurvitz's novel that Disco Elysium's world is based on, goes more in depth on The Pale.

the episode was originally released as a podcast in Feb 2023.

the episode was originally released as a podcast in Feb 2023.

Similar to how the last of us is a better tv show than a game, Disco Elysium feels better to read as a book than an interactive experience.

the D20 system is why I think DnD should never be adapted into a video game ever again, BG3 is probably the game I've enjoyed playing the least.

I assumed Revochal was an analogy to Quebec with all the French accents and North American aesthetics.

I actually succeeded running away from Garte before he talked about the fee on my very first playthrough. I immediately walked back to the bar.

Completely agree with Geller about the way that the prestige Cinema games are boring and using Wolfenstein as the counter-example. I was so absorbed by New Order because of the cinematic storytelling they managed to do.

1:35:39 It's called Disco Elysium for a reason. It really was all to set up for a bigger exploration of the world.

I have to say, I do not at all understand this extended criticism of Druckmann talking about the moment that inspired the story. Artists do that all the time, and having greater context for where a story came from in the artist's mind is always a good thing for analysis. Criticizing Druckmann for this has an overwhelming overtone of just, "Ah, Israel makes me feel uncomfortable," and like, yeah, it should. Druckmann isn't talking about this moment with pro-Israeli slogans, and he didn't put out a piece of art that champions Israel, this is a man raised in a culture reckoning with the hatred and violence done by that culture and the parts of that he internalized. Why are we allowed to do that in America but he isn't? Because Israel makes westerners feel bad? I've read the Vice article, which tries very hard to make the case that a game that is very clearly interested in portraying both sides as violent, that casts as it's most evil villain the leader of the faction the article claims stands in for Israel, as pro-Israel. It also, off-topic, brings up crunch, which in the context reads as nothing more or less than a thinly-veiled effort to turn the audience on Druckmann before the actual conversation has even begun. The only truly potentially valid criticisms are that the Seraphites reflect stereotypes of Palestine and that the Jewish temple section presents the survival aspects of Jewish identity in isolation in an effort to bring the audience onto the side of Israel as a nation permanently under siege. The claim that the Seraphites represent Palestinian stereotypes is utterly undercut by the fact that the only example cited that indicates a prejudice against one side, rather than just portraying a neutral cultural element (a cultural focus on martyrdom, which is even framed as humanizing in the scene, and feels directed at a western audience as a parallel to Christ, i.e. expected to be received very positive) or taking a world-building element from a real world example of how to fight against a superior force (tunnels and sky bridges) is literally from documents being printed by the fascist remains of the American government. I'm sorry, are you reading the documents printed by FEDRA as the moral statement the game is trying to make? With regard to the Jewish temple section, the article rather disregards that opening up, exploring, and ultimately deconstructing the Jewish survivor identity is the stated fucking point of Druckmann's story. Can we take you to the same place of hate that I was in when I heard about those two IDF soldiers? Can I make you feel hatred and then guilt like I did? So I find it hard to take the claim that a section in the first hours of the game, in the immediate aftermath of Joel's death where that hatred should be strongest for the player, invoking the Jewish survivor identity is supposed to be a moral statement as opposed to making that parallel in its darkest form so it rings through the rest of the story. Finally, all of these criticisms fail to reckon with the fact that Ellie, the main POV character, is an outsider to both these groups. In all, I think the criticism of Druckmann is vastly overblown (at least this criticism, I understand he has since taken a pro-Israel stance in the current conflict, which we can dissect). But as far as what's in TLoU2, if you want to read the game in the context of his comments, it reads as an Israeli man reckoning with the hatred and violence done by his nation and the way he has internalized and even cheered on that hatred and violence. Am I supposed to hate him for that?

God, it’s 2 in the morning. Why do you do me like this.

The North Dakota cop isnt a sad sack waste of a man. Hes a mirror for Max, a constructive charity worker with a living family. Their final conversation in the airport makes that clear. They're parallels. Who's doing more good in the world is an interesting question at the end of the game; the quiet, milquetoast, mission tourist, or the one man tornado on a crusade.

The Dishonored comparison is so good, around the 8 min mark. The games are so different but in each one I've just been OVERWHELMED (in a good way) with the depth of the world, and the endless knowledge the characters and npc's have. Some of my favourite games. Edit: glad you delved even deeper I should've watched it all before commenting lol

A game I felt was overtly mindful of its female audience, with an older female protagonist who is portrayed as isolated, unloved and invisible to society (a narrative you don’t usually see in any kind of media) that I would argue is fairly rotten is “The Cat Lady”.

I’m a long time Nebula subscriber but I watch these videos on CZcams instead as well as basically all the other creators I subscribed to Nebula for. The lack of an ability on Nebula to create playlists to set to auto play as well as a few other issues means I hardly use it except to check out new videos and creators occasionally or to specifically watch videos with extra and/or uncensored content by creators I follow. I hope the viewers like me aren’t messing up the algorithm on either platform. 😬

Episode 1: we discuss the first day of Disco Elysium for an hour and three quarters. How long does it actually take to play that day? :P

Raz being like, I am ambivalent to the online left infighting.

You guys gotta try and bring on Max Derat sometime if it lines up.

"I'll really love it. So I'll definitely get to it later" Cheese and crackers man thank you for framing it properly for me! (My thoughts dont word rightly!) To add another touch. It also means I want to enjoy it properly, so it takes energy to turn it on and engage myself in it. Rather than allow the media/project/whatever to engage me. So- 'to much effort, I'll save it for later' is a thought that joins the fray. Lovely. 😞 🤔 Fun podcast as always, I love listening to the scattered thoughts of people who focus on details. ('Scattered' this is a well structured podcast. Still, more lax than the regular videos)

YES

This video is so stacked with talent, it's insane to me that it doesn't have more views

You also had your dead boyfriend’s head hanging off your waist in “Lollipop Chainsaw”. It took me a little while to get past remembering that and get into the spirit of this game at first.

AT LAST

I really like the commentary on Otacon's storyline. As someone who got into the series heavily pre--MGS4, there was kind of a hope that E.E. was going to be a big shatter point for Otacon. His sister's death at the hands of Vamp, the big trauma stuff, there was a sense that it was building to something. I was a very big fan of the character in my younger days. And then early character designs leaked for MGS4 and he was this very shadowy mysterious figure, you got this sense that he had been galvanized into something else. And then the game dropped and uh. Yeah. So its a storyline that feels VERY gratuitous in hindsight, and was compounded by MGS4-5. And I think its kinda Kojima at his worst? Both in lack of growth and casual violence against women and uh...Peeing.

CAUGHT THAT NILERED REFERENCE THERE AT THE END

Geriatric millennials represent. 90s kids were born in the mid-80s, aka geriatric millenials. Have a childhood memory of pogs being popular? Congrats, you're a 90s kid.

Just came here from spotify, and Max is having a "Guaraná", widely famous soda pop in Brazil

1:23:36 I think (to entertain the thought that Heather killed humans) that maybe Alyssa doesn't see the cult members as humans and thus Heather didn't see them as people.

He was drinking pop !!!!

Hell yeah