The voice acting is so good
In this house Everart is a working class hero
I dont know if he’s a scumbag tbh. He seems like he’s a committed socialist trying to get the system to sell them the rope by which they’ll hang the system.
I’m sure if the Bolsheviks were just getting started today they’d be doing crypto rugpulls and tax evasionThe game is very good at presenting no character as being purely good. Everyone’s got faults, contradictions, places where their personal interests are at odds with their ideological philosophy. The game wants to make sure that, regardless of which path you take Harry down, you’re swallowing something bitter in the process. A certain fault that’s a price worth paying for in the larger goal.
So with him, it’s overlooking the thinly veiled criminal element and graft as it’s outweighed by the labor militancy/socialism/anti-fascism.
I love him so much, he’s such a great depiction of what an actual socialist revolutionary can look like.
Yeah I think he supposed to come across as as slimey but it just ends up being grey at worst. I guess the drug trafficking thing is pretty shitty but that’s about the worst he does. Less scummy than the Ultraliberal Lady imo
I love him compared to her, because she is presented as a much more reasonable person. But the reality is reversed. The whole thing about it being more corrupt if he tried to look like he wasn’t is such a good framing - That’s her!
Doesn’t someone say that he’s corrupt but he’s corrupt for the union?
- “The bossman, Evrart, what can you tell me about him?”
CALL ME MEÑANA - “I think it’s best you make up your own mind, now that you’ve met him.” He shrugs. “In my eyes, he is a capable organizer and a decent businessman.” - “What does bossing the Union entail anyway?” CALL ME MEÑANA - “I guess you kinda get to be the village chief. He oversees the harbour, makes deals with the owners or other relevant parties. Watches out for his own.”
- “You mean corruption?” CALL ME MEÑANA - “By Heavens, why would he not be corrupt? We live in a harsh and disordered world, see. And in this world…”“… the old man is corrupt for our benefit and we know it. Appreciate it, even. He is, personally, not too lavish.”
- “That desk seemed lavish to me.” CALL ME MEÑANA - “He is reasonably lavish, sure. That’s his prerogative. It’s not like you want a saintly demeanour on a corrupt motherfucker. That would be a manipulative illusion.”“Besides, there are no non-corrupt systems in the world anyway. And moralism is the most corrupt of them all.”
“Bruh, its just a nice desk. Its not a mansion or something.”
mfer harry talking like working on a shipping container is lavish lmao
Well, the richest person in the entire game travels by shipping container.
Plus, his chair is lavish, while poor cops have to sit on the most uncomfortable chair known to man.
He is not corrupt, he is pragmatic.
I’m sure if the Bolsheviks were just getting started today they’d be doing crypto rugpulls and tax evasion
The DPRK siphoning people’s crypto wallets comes to mind
Mr. Evrart’s helping me find my gun, how could he be a scumbag?
more a slimeball than a scumbag
I only played like an hour and got stuck kind of quickly, but I think of Cuno all the time, his lines just really got me
Fucking pig got stuck, did he? Hahaha what a stupid f*****! Said he likes Cuno’s lines? That’s because Cuno’s lines are the best fucking lines! No one does lines like Cuno, Cuno’s the fucking king of coke lines, and the more lines Cuno takes up his nose the better his lines get! Fucking self-reinforcing loop and shit.
For a second when I saw this I forgot I was talking about Cuno and was like “well that’s a bit harsh” ahah
Having a ten year old call me a homo so hard that I die is how I wanna go out.
You know it’s a good game when it can contain the most heartbreaking and heartwarming emotional shit but you can also die because a chair is small
How’d you get stuck? Was it getting into the harbor or paying the hotel fees?
They kept having a heart attack in the uncomfortable chair maybe?
Yeah I had to get past the harbor strike I think and didn’t figure it out, it was a while ago, I’ve been meaning to come back to it but I’m not usually in the vibe for games of that genre
I feel that, both the harbor strike and the vibe. I know it’s a masterpiece but I find it hard to revisit
harbor spoilers
Iirc it’s basically two hard checks, either a red or yellow (the two stats players put the least points into imo), or you have to become the Race Understander. Not an easy choice
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so he wasn’t trying to help me???
Of course he’s trying to help you! But it’s just a lost gun, Harry. It’s not like you left it loaded. You didn’t lose a loaded gun. Local children aren’t out there playing with it right now, pointing it into their own mouths
Authority: legendary success.Pointing it into their mouths is MY job. CUNOESSE, C’MERE, I NEED A GAME OVER SCREEN.
I’d take him to
and the 
any day lolIt’s been a while since I played it, but I remember being a bit disappointed when they redid his voice
It annoys me every time I go back that you can’t select the original audio. I get why they changed it but the characters feel all wrong to me whenever I revisit it.
It double annoys me they added a legacy audio mode or whatever they call it and it still isn’t the original audio.
Why did they redo it? I wonder which version I played.
Originally they only had voice acting for a handful of characters and dialogues. A number of Left Twitter micro-celebrities played acting roles including the Chapo boys. After the game was a success, they recorded voices for the entire script, but the original voice acting was replaced in the process.
It was fairly unpolished ngl but also it included a bunch of controversial people including Virgil and (I think?) the Red Scare girls
Matt as the angry union guy and Felix as the “RIGHT TO WORK!” idiot we’re classic though
You could say it was lo-fi socialist junk but I like lo-fi socialist junk
Nonono don’t look at the speakers, look at the sneakers!
If you’re slightly technical at all and purchased the game on Steam, I believe these instructions still work for restoring the game to its old state before the new voiceovers were added:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/632470/discussions/0/3094515496023119603/
Thanks!
Let me know if it still works!
I love listening to our communal large adult son Matt Christman pretend to be tough, but playing the game without Lenval Brown’s narration feels so weird now.
4th wall breaking charisma
Is that PragerU?
Yes
spoiler
Actually it’s a character from Disco Elysium
he is one of the more moral characters in the game i think
Bro knew about the deserter the entire fucking time. That makes all interactions with him even funnier.
Actors have a lot of fun playing total scumbags and it’s great! A lot of actors also say villains are way more fun to play than heroes.
Villains have more to work with generally cause they’re usually the ones doing the stuff that makes the plot go and have more complex motives comparatively cause a hero’s primary motive is stopping the villain. Villains are generally active where heroes are reactive. This is cause most movies think the best outcome is a return to status quo for everyone but the hero who gets personally rewarded.
Great example is Fargo. Both the TV series and the movie.
Reminds me next Saturday I am reserving the noon to 2pm slot on bloop to stream the series.
Speaking from when I did community theatre - Villains are also allowed to be more everything, which is just fun.
There’s no clean hands in a dirty world. I just wish he was played by the same dude as Frank Sobotka from The Wire for an alternate Silly Voice version.
He’s corrupt, but he’s corrupt for the union
When the world is at stake, I would rather have people playing to win on my side. And i firmly believe if you’re not trying to cheat you’re not trying to win. The concept of the ends not justifying the means is lib as hell. The ends are literally what justifies the means in any decision making process. I dont have confidence in the non ruthless. Its a sick and twisted game and you’re not gonna win if you don’t play
Absolutely and it’s that realisation in my twenties that got me to ditch liberal parties. The way the right would never play by the rules, would be scummy as hell and yet the supposed ‘opposition’ would always play fair with them was so frustrating. I remember thinking “these guys are a threat, you can’t afford to play with them like they’re acting in good faith anymore!” But the idea of anything outside of the two party system didn’t occur to me until I discovered that not only are there plenty of actual communists out there, that they’re not evil like I had been taught to believe and they actually wanted to do something to fix things and they were willing to treat the right like the threat they really are. No one else was saying “Actually, the right needs to be stopped and they aren’t going to just roll over and let us. Let’s actually punch the shark in the nose instead of patting it and hoping it won’t bite”.
Tldr the so called liberal progressives weren’t going to fight for me when the chips were down so I no longer felt like I could trust them with my safety.
