lmfao, !

the worst person you know just posted something funny

fuckign hated the braithwaites 1 and the braithwaites 2

i can't believe Raytracing would do this

fucked up pps-43

If Palestinians want freedom they can fight for it

last time that happened you called it a ''massacre'' and cried for a week straight

Chris Pratt doing his best attempt at a french accent

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there is an unspoken, powerful element in this image; the CONTINUE button.

i am ready for the future, however stupid it may be.

in honor of the tragedy of Disco Elysium, i will be posting in the general megathread for the first time

the core team? none, Kurvitz and Rostov, inseparable bunch, have founded their own company, ''Red Info'' with backing from NetEase, yet to this day have released absolutely no further information; zero, nada, zilch.

however, there were more people involved in the making of Disco Elysium other than them, Argo Tuulik, another estonian artists to have worked on DE, has grabbed as many of these other former devs, and started a new studio, SUMMER ETERNAL, the most promising of the bunch solely because Tuulik has a very noticeable passion about making games as art (that and also the fact that they are the only studio that can reasonably claim being the ''successor'' to ZA/UM due to sheer volume of ex-DE devs they have) and their manifesto doesn't sound like some sad corporate piece trying to sound * hip * and * cool * and ''disco''

kill the yankee dogs

death to amerikkka, death to israel

i gues the third time is uhhh ......not the charm?

ah well, nevertheless

Harry or Kim were never going to show up again anyways, if that was your concern

none of them can, kinetically or psychically, because the IP is stuck in limbo. ZA/UM is the only one that could, technically, but they're too busy imploding while they strip the copper pipes from the walls

The original (mostly) estonian team that used to work out of a re-converted house/wharehouse building, there were a bunch of them, so it depends on what you measure ''original'' as; Kurvitz, Rostov and Hindpere are notoriously touted as THE original core team (understandably so, Disco Elysium was born out of a setting they had come up with for a TTRPG campaign almost 15 years prior).

They were apparently fired after they had discovered a scheme by Toni Haavel and Ilmar Kompus (allegedly with help of Kaur Kender) to pipeline money out of the funds for a side-project and straight into buying up a majority of shares in the company, effectively wrestling out the ownership of both the IP and the ZA/UM corporation (not to be confused with the ZA/UM artist collective, founded by Martin Luiga, which was disbanded for semi-unrelated reasons after his apparent internment in a psychiatric facility).

But Kurvitz's core team weren't the only ones that contributed to bringing Disco Elysium to life; Argo Tuulik, Dora Klindzic and Justin Keenan, by example, remained in the company for quite some time after the ownership legal fiasco had happened, with Argo himself even being interviewed in the infamously biased People Make Games docu-report, this would later lead to a ''humiliation campaign'' by the managers in ZA/UM targetting Tuulik, resulting in his demotion and subsequent firing from the company.

the last bunch of original developers that had contributed to Disco Elysium were either fired along with Tuulik during company re-structuring events or had already left the company beforehand. If im correct, Summer Eternal seems to be made up of this last wave of original devs, since it does not include any of the aforementioned Core Writers. SE also seems to be the only ''successor company'' to actually proudly announce the amount of original devs it actually has, unlike Longdue and Dark Math who constantly parade two or three graphics and environment designers as proof of their legitimacy as ZA/UM successors or something

The original pitch for Disco Elysium, for Harry, for Martinaise, its people and the humiliated city-state of Revachol, was as a ''match-book world'', a short(lol) detective game, meant to be a small window at more to come, they had built Disco Elysium as an introduction to its massive universe, for future games and works to come.

It's abundantly clear that that's not happening anymore, but Elysium was always meant to become a franchise of some sort.

edit: i can't seem to find it right now but if i recall correctly, Kurvitz already had an idea for a DE sequel, it was going to be about a pregnant woman, but i don't remember the details.

i love(hate) the Kid-Killer Kamala campaign because every time their poll numbers go down they just go ''BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN BIPARTISAN'' as if it was some sort of dark eldritch incantation

on a quick glance, it would seem it is, unless its some highly dedicated fan that really likes posing as the official twitter of a company that has existed for double digit hours and constantly shares the official links to their site, which, yknow, could be entirely possible!

Y'all be cautious about XXX Nightshift, the current director is Heiti Kender, Kaur Kender's brother (kaur kender himself used to be the director until he resigned last year), he was involved in the deeply shady shareholder-scheme fraud that stole the studio, the IP and got the original devs fired