For the FT this weekend, I wrote about the foundation and fallout of Disco Elysium: how two Estonian novelists' successes and failures in literature led to the creation of a video game masterpiece, and an endless font of strife.

www.ft.com/content/5ae5...

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Terrific piece about how the team that made Disco Elyisum fell apart. They never should have set up in that Doomed Commercial Area, I guess:

Excellent long read on the weird, amazing creative folks behind a truly unique game.

on.ft.com/45beFip The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made

Duncan Fyfe on the making of Disco Elysium in the FT!

Subscription link (I read through an iOS app subscription that is pretty reasonable fwiw) digitaleditionapp.ft.com/i9DX/8iojqfgt

Little fires everywhere; the Financial Times writes about Disco, ZA/UM, and all the offshoots.

www.ft.com/content/5ae5...

I feel like the FT doing a big piece on Disco Elysium is an acknowledgment of its Marxist readers

For the FT this weekend, I wrote about the foundation and fallout of Disco Elysium: how two Estonian novelists' successes and failures in literature led to the creation of a video game masterpiece, and an endless font of strife.

www.ft.com/content/5ae5...

this is like thinking the point of eating a meal is to experience having shat

From the Seattle Times website: 'The protest did get a surprise guest: Former Gov. Jay Inslee spoke to the crowd, urging people to stand up “for democracy.” Inslee called the unusual demonstration inspiring, saying “the only king” he recognizes is “Neptune, king of the sea.”' 🧜‍♂️

I just think anyone upset at the sight of a Mexican flag is clearly upset at the sight of Mexican people and are thus not rational political actors who should get to draw the lines of our discourse

also: to how many readers can this possibly be relevant

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What happened with Polygon today is so fucked. Vox Media has made some atrocious decisions in my six years here but this is really something else. And to do this in the middle of us bargaining a new union contract, where they scold us for asking for better protections, is just unconscionable.

So sorry Matt, you all deserve so much better.

This sounds post-apocalyptic, but aspiring filmmakers and writers really should find and collect DVD commentaries.

So much applicable advice you’d never get in film school because it was discovered in the circumstances of making that movie.

Big cultural step backward to lose easy access to these.

friends are calling this unhinged but I am calling it honest 💜

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

The computer science student never posed for the covers of successive editions because a jealous flatmate intercepted the letters from the studio and destroyed them

www.vice.com/en/article/p...

Remember: all computing history is important and should be archived and studied, so we can understand the good ideas and mistakes of history.

Except this button. This button should not have been archived and remembered.

this is a good post and "decadence" is a good way to think about a lot of things. true decadence is, eg, thinking you could let an insurrection go unpunished and the country would just keep chugging along nbd

guess i'll just write my little essays

With apologies to Ireland, I will not