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.

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.

"'In dark times, should the stars also go out?'"

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...

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.

"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."

Precinct 57’s finest.

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.

Songs to rebuild 0.0001% of communism too

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.

I never thought that building a hipster-jenga tower with two failed university students could be so touching

One more run, Harry. Get dressed detective, we have a case to solve.

A lullaby that slowly swells in volume, until nobody dares to sleep.

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.

In dark times, should the stars also go out?

It's a crime that this isn't in Spotify

Un Jour Je Serai de Retour Prés de Toi

When Vaasan communist revolutionary Ignus Nilsen was in hiding, he stayed in a hut on the boreal plateau for ten months.

He is very tired, but the dark circles under his eyes make him look younger, not older.

I may not know a lot about Intra-Materialism... But have you heard of a little thing called... ‘The Alphabet’?