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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 52m

SUGGESTION - They're leaving. They're all turning away from you.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - No. You can figure it out. *Replace* it! Replace the alcohol with amphetamine. Or GBL! Fuck it -- morphine! Graffito removal agent! Anything. It'll buy you time. All you need is time.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1h

HALF LIGHT - Look at his shit-eating grin... He knows there's nothing you can do to him. He's bullying you and you are helpless. Kill him. Kill him now. He won't see death coming.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 2h

KIM KITSURAGI - “We might need your help with something later,” he adds, suddenly regaining his confidence.

AUTHORITY - As if he recalled that he's, in fact, a decorated police lieutenant, and not a naughty boy.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - The two aren't mutually exclusive.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 3h

YOU - “So I should just... just... get a hat and FUCK it, right?!” (Point at your head, where the hat should be.) “Engage in sexual intercourse with a hat right here in front of you, because you told me so? On the SEA ICE?!”

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 4h

You're *pursued* by a hunter. Smelling of apricots and sorrow. And the past.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 5h

YOU - I'm not drunk or high, I'm just... hurt... why does it hurt to talk to you?

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 6h

Hard facts from the man you are. You once jerked off in the locker room and were caught. You held a young woman by the arm and kept her in your apartment for 20 minutes against her will. That's right, these are not flights of fancy. These are *real deeds*, Harry

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 7h

VOLITION - I can't help you. I am totally useless. Everything I've said is lies. I want the exact same bad things you want. To stand here, like a pillar of salt.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 8h

No. This is somewhere to be. This is all you have, but it's still something. Streets and sodium lights. The sky, the world. You're still alive.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 21h

YOU - Hold on, is architecture also art?

CONCEPTUALIZATION - Of course not, it's autism. Box-drawing. Masturbation with a ruler and a sextant or whatever they use. You should demean and criticize the genteel institution of architecture. While extolling the virtues of the *pure* arts.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 22h

VOLITION - Any plan to call him Pinball or Kimball is immediately wiped from your neocortex, as if with some sort of mind altering device. It is simply not going to happen.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 23h

YOU - Suffering will only make me stronger.

ENDURANCE - It's probably this way of thinking that got you where you are.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

INLAND EMPIRE - So tell me, how does it feel -- to be close to someone, skin to skin?

YOU - It's good, but I'd prefer a man. A solid muscularity would support me better.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

MEASUREHEAD - AND THE WOMEN. WOMEN WHO SHAVE AND ARE CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING CONCEPTS LIKE POLYAMORY AND *COITUS CASUALIS* -- THE KOJKO AND THEIR PROMISCUITY ARE AT THE FOREFRONT OF ALL THAT.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - Revachol was founded to resolve history. It's the most important city in the world.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

KIM KITSURAGI - Never fuck with Kim Kitsuragi.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

It would take a million years of evolution – or a total reversal in the condition of the world – for your pain to end.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

JOYCE MESSIER - Don't worry, Kras Mazov shot fifteen million people in the head. But that was all the way over in Graad.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - “Promiscuity -- you mean the *cock carousel*.” (Twirl your hand around in the air.)

MEASUREHEAD - YOU USE VULGAR HUMOUR TO DISTRACT YOURSELF FROM THE PAIN THAT WOMEN HAVE CAUSED YOU. IMPOTENT RAGE AT THEIR PROMISCUITY WILL NOT HEAL YOU. AND IT *REPELS* WOMEN.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

SAVOIR FAIRE - But Savvy's got your back. Savvy's going to book you a charter flight with eighty birds of prey on board, to a land where the streets are paved with krugerrands and fixed-income securities. You'll try again, but this time with *money*. You'll win her back.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

ENCYCLOPEDIA - Contemporary Revacholians prefer Drouin (a local blend from the southern islands) or Astra, a legendary cigarette from Graad. Tioumoutiri is favoured by older men who like its old fashioned paper filter tips, insane amount of tar and the sweet smells of colonialism and halva.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

ENCYCLOPEDIA - The South Safre conflict is an ongoing proxy war between Graad and Safre. It has been hot for 12 years with the atrocities piling on. Mostly committed by the Graad.

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

GASTON MARTIN - “It is what it is... part of life,” he mumbles, only half-listening to you. “But to know someone for 79 years, then one day they're just *gone*...”

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Disco Elysium Quotes @discoelysiumbot.bsky.social · 1d

YOU - Johnny Law is about to tear it up. Sad-style.

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