Bonus: Disco Elysium Spoilercast

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🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 166 minutes

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Summary

Disco Elysium, by and large, came out of nowhere for a lot of people, including us. A powerful story about the fallout of a failed political revolution and the people left in the rubble, portrayed through the lens of an alcoholic who’s just woken up from a bender so powerful it’s legitimately caused amnesia. And while a lot of games claim to embrace the idea of choice, few grant the player with the shocking granularity offered by Disco Elysium.

It’s also a hard game to talk about without really digging into what happens—because a lot happens. Disco Elysium might take place in a small location, relative to a lot of video games, but it’s utterly dense. It does not require more. Austin and I managed to tiptoe around a bunch of stuff on Waypoint Radio, but with both of us having recently finished the game, it seemed like a good idea to sit down and talk through the whole damn experience.

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0:00.0	What's good internet? It's Monday January 20th and you are listening to a special episode of the Waypoint Radio. I'm your host Austin Walker. Happy Martin Luther King Day. That's today, right? That's why I'm not in the office because I'm not.
0:29.0	Actually recording this on the 16th, right?
0:31.0	We're recording some Thursday early early to get this in the can so we can not come into the office on Monday.
0:36.0	I'm joined by Kato here in the studio. Hi and Patrick Kleppik. Superstar cop. That's my guess. My guess is superstar cop.
0:45.0	Patrick Klepp. We should actually.
0:48.0	It's sweet. Kato, are we going to end up spoiling the game? Yeah. Yeah. We are. He's not even done day one.
0:54.0	We're here to talk about this. I'm sorry cop. I bet. I mean, I will say that the best part is in some way in some ways we can't spoil it for you. Right. That was my thought.
1:07.0	Yes and no. Like if we talk about. Yes and no. Yeah. Yes and no. It's fine. I've given it into the spoilers. It's fine. It comes with the territory of being part of the recording team for this.
1:21.0	Yeah. So can you just can you just load up your achievements? Can we just read those without before we get into anything?
1:28.0	I can do that. Do you have your stats on hand to?
1:33.0	Where would I do the game? Hope can you open your game? I can open I can open the game. There's two achievements and then I'll open the game.
1:40.0	Achieve I've eight out of 21 achievements. I have nine. Wow. Okay. All right. I'll go. Yeah. Go ahead. I got him. I'll go.
1:50.0	I don't I'm not super high on like the new steam interface. In some ways it's better. In some ways it's worse. So you click on it's you can there are a cheat. There's an achievement thing at the top.
2:00.0	But you click that it brings you down to your like status or like your Facebook like stream. But then to the right. It has achievements and it says view.
2:08.0	You click through there where you can find. Yeah. All right. So nine of 21 hyperstellar law official say seven arranged superstar lines.
2:19.0	Literally the sorry is cop on earth. Apologize 10.
2:24.0	Exclamation mark. Escalation. Yes.
2:26.0	That's the whitish Larry as college prevails start 1980 are four in one month and so gators say Ohio.
2:34.0	And so it's a second grades 7 versus dedication mark times.
2:40.0	And so any dash34.
2:42.0	Yeah you don't know how to pronounce this.
2:50.0	The.
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