Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun Watch her in HD: https://youtu.be/OkXG9cyZlpo

mr evrart is helping me find my gun

mr evrart is helping me find my gun

mr evrart is helping me find my gun

mr evrart is helping me find my gun

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I FORGOT SHIVERS DOES THIS. QUEEN OF COMMITTING TO THE BIT

mr. evrart is helping me find my gun.

mr. evrart is helping me find my gun.

mr. evrart is helping me find my gun.

mr. evrart is helping me find my gun.

mr. evrart is helping me find my gun.

mr. evrart is helping me find my gun.

This is my favourite example of recursive dialogue in DE: where sufficiently high Inland Empire will allow you to talk to inanimate beings to the extent you will be called out for thinking you can talk to inanimate beings, by the very inanimate beings who are talking to you via Inland Empire in the first place

Once again annoyed that most of the DE discussion is about Jean (and occasionally Judit) I'm sorry they're not the side characters of the hour of the minute of the second. Cindy sweep

bats my eyelashes. lenval brown did a fucking spectacular job with the skills voices and no one could ever replace him but what if. i made a skills voice headcanon list. what if i did that (is going to do that once she finishes all of the skills designs)

Mr Everart is helping me find my gun (Link to video)

Does anyone else think that there’s a chance Harry's memory loss was caused, not by pale exposure or acute encephalopathy triggered by alcoholism, but by his skills trying to save his life?

(I’m a latecomer to the fandom so my apologies if this has already been discussed ad nauseam!) At the second tribunal, Judit mentions Harry has lost his memory before; after two cases that would've been triggering for Harry.

JUDIT MINOT - "But, Detective Vicquemare," she interjects. "He *has* blanked out before." YOU - "I have?" JUDIT MINOT - "Yes, a couple of times. After some of the more... serious benders." She pauses, remembering. "One was after the Two Drunks case, the other when we looked into that mural."

I think after each of these cases, Harry could’ve hit crisis mode: in the former, the sheer horror/disgust at what he’s done and how he’s become the type of cop that nearly beats someone to death, and in the latter for the mural dredging up bad Dora feelings.

Then, when talking to Joyce, and getting stuck in the "Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun" loop, the skills have an interesting little exchange:

CONCEPTUALIZATION - He seems to be in some sort of *loop*. ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Well, *that's* not good. Looks fine over here. You sure it's not some sort of *glandular* problem? REACTION SPEED - No, it's not that -- it's... I have no idea. This is bad. VOLITION - Executive function is completely shot. I keep pushing buttons and nothing is happening. ... LOGIC - How do we get out of here? SUGGESTION - What makes you think we *will*? INTERFACING - Yeah, we need to pull the plug, there's nothing else to do. EMPATHY - Are you not afraid it'll kill him? ENDURANCE - *Physically* he should be fine. Or at least no worse than usual... ENCYCLOPEDIA - What if he forgets everything *again*? INTERFACING - Okay, I'm gonna do it. Hold on...

What if after THE UNSOLVABLE CASE, THE NEXT WORLD MURAL, and his bender/breakdown/rock-bottom in Martinaise, Harry attempted suicide and his skills, in order to stop him, "rebooted" his brain causing him to have amnesia? Perhaps they act due to the influence of Shivers/the spirit of Revachol to save Harry because she needs him to save her?

I do wish there was more discussion about Harry’s disabilities and how chronic illness and addiction often go hand in hand.

I got a lot of responses from people who didn’t know he had polio, has a speech impediment, a bad jaw etc. This is information unlocked via the Law Jaw thought project, Harry realizes when he says law his jaw goes wonky and his voice gets more guttural.

(I feel like you can kind of hear these in the dialogue for Ancient Reptilian Brain and the new recorded stuff for Bloated Corpse Of A Drunk)

There’s a lot to say about Harry having infant polio, about the conditions of his birth in a war torn Revachol in a hospital surrounded by dying communards, about encephalopathy and about how his verbal loops (Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun) sound a bit like an epileptic episode.

There’s even more to say about the nightly descriptions of Harry's chronic pain, struggling to get comfortable and fall asleep.

LIMBIC SYSTEM: Here we are again, my broken bird. The waves are coming... carrying you away... but you can't go. No -- you have to stay. Always half-aware of yourself.

LIMBIC SYSTEM: You're not *cooperating* brother-man.

YOU: Why?

LIMBIC SYSTEM: It's your disgusting *body*. Even through your sleep, you feel a vague discomfort suffusing it. Your belly and your sides are unpleasantly tender. You wish you could curl up into a foetal ball of safety, but you cannot -- because of the PAIN.

PAIN THRESHOLD: And there's a lot of it. Ever present in your organs. It's like every one of them has their own *nasty* song to sing.

LOGIC: That pain in your right side is your enlarged liver, by the way. As for your kidneys... you've really been compounding the damage lately. And, trust me, you don't want me to do the maths.

EMPATHY: Every cell in your body is moaning in agony, asking, "What did we ever do to you?"

Yes, he’s done a lot of damage to his body with substance abuse but Harry is in the age range where his health decline lines up with the onset of Post Polio Syndrome. It’s very likely he was struggling with post viral effects like fatigue and chronic pain etc and self medicating.

I'm not a dnd player or even a ttrpg player, so sorry if this is a dumb question, but in one of your latest dnd complaints (love these posts btw) you mentioned the d20 pass/fail system as a negative. Could you maybe explain why? The concept reminds me a lot of how disco elysium's skill check system works, which I enjoyed a lot, and I think I'm just not knowledgeable enough to see any meaningful difference here?

Thank you for your time :]

the key difference is that disco elysium consistently 'fails forward' -- when you fail a check in disco elysium hdb often does or saus something ridiculous and you get to experience some of the best dialogue of the game (ice-cop-hat-fuck-show, i want to have fuck with you, mr. evrart is helping me find my gun, limbic system karaoke, going to the island with cuno). the plot or scenario develops--the failure changes the situation in some way, or leads to a new interaction that spotlights a side of a character you wouldn't have seen otherwise.

and while this could happen in your dnd game if you houseruled it in, as the rules stand, the default outcome on a failure is 'nothing happens'. and this doesn't have to be the case! powered by the apocalypse / forged in the dark games have for a long time now made 'failing forward' (as in, failure always results in Something Happening, the plot moving forward, even if that thing is bad) a core part of their resolution systems. that's the main reason why binary 'you do the thing' or 'you don't do the thing' systems are kind of lame.

i mean, i think anyone who's played dnd can attest that casting a save-or-suck spell and having the enemy save or use a legendary resistance, or swinging for your one attack for a turn and missing, fucking sucks and is disappointing and boring. and these mechanics are in the game because of dnd's origin as an adaptation of wargames -- but in wargames you're usually rolling tons of dice because you're making 'saves' or 'to hit' rolls for dozens of individual units, so the chances of nothing happening are extremely slim.

so ultimately the difference is that failed rolls in dnd can (and most often do) result in boring anticlimax. also, because disco elysium uses 2d6, the roll distribution is a bell curve, which means you can be more sure you're going to be able to do something you're good at, while dnd is wildly swingy.

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