I am expecting a lot of Disco Elysium, here…and nothing wrong with that!

A video gaming student organization I was once part of actually had a vote on their favorite sayings. The winner was the evergreen “Perhaps the same said could be said of all religions…” from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTizJemHO8

Later we had a second voting, which decided on the cult classic Trio the Punch’s “BAD CHOICE”! https://youtu.be/rIPtzZHJnkg?t=454

My personal favorite? It’s hard to say…but hey, that’s what the scientist in Half-Life can comment, word to word! So maybe I’ll put forward, said by the aforementioned: “My god, what are doing!?”

Tl;dr: Check title.

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    Spec Ops: The Line has some good quotes, especially in the loading screens.

    • Do you feel like a hero yet?
    • The US military does not condone the killing of unarmed combatants. But this isn’t real, so why should you care?
    • How many Americans have you killed today? sicko-pig
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        That’s true, but I think quite a few get what it’s trying to do and hate it for the same reason I hate Pathologic, or most Brecht play productions. They’re just not fun.

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            Oh, I like Brecht as a playwright, but his thoughts on “epic theatre” and keeping the audience emotionally detatched from the characters and constantly aware they’re watching actors on a stage requires a deft hand and a great sense of comedy, or it all falls apart.

            The best productions I’ve seen are the ones that ignore the stage directions and treat them as straight plays with suspension of disbelief.

            That said I dont like Mother Courage, and I think the Threepenny Opera is worse than the source material of the 18th century Beggars Opera.

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                  I’ll be honest, I’m blagging my way through a stagewriting degree right now as someone who’s seen 1000 films and read/watched about 30 plays, and that observation you just made has given me some much needed material to work with.

                  If you’ve got any anti-imperialist playwrights or even plays to recommend, I’d really appreciate it. I’m in the process of writing Operation Gideon by way of Dario Fo/Monty Python, and the writings coming along fine, but a chunk of the degree is justifying why I wrote what I wrote and who/what influenced it, which is what’s giving me a headache. Can’t art just be art for the sake of being, because it just feels right??? Ah well.

                  No worries if not. I don’t mean to outsource my work.

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                    I’m more familiar with pre-20th century stuff and tend more towards musicals and opera than straight plays, but I’m a big fan of the great 18th century Bourgois revolutionary operas William Tell (Rossini) and La Muette di Portici (Auber). The first was the trigger for the 3 days in July, the latter for the Belgian Revolution.

                    There’s also the ballad musical Reedy River, about the aftermath of the Australian 1891 Miner’s strike that triggered the formation of the Australian Labour Party, the first Social Democratic Party to take power in the world.

                    If your looking for Socialist Operas/Plays/Ballets, the Maoist era plays (often filmed before staged, but they’re all quite stagey in scripting) are better than their reputation suggests. The Red Detachment of Women is a particular favourite, though I prefer the ballet to the other adaptations.

                    For 20th-century straight plays, I recommend John Crawford, particularly his “Rocket Range” which examines the effect of the Woomera Rocket Range opening on local Aboriginal Communities.

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          The game is clever and well written but I’m not convinced the gameplay is generic on purpose. I’ve heard that before but never bought it.

          Now yeah the devs put in things to make you uncomfortable, like the white phosphorus thing or how you can accidentally shoot civilians. And the game mocks you. But the gameplay is otherwise kind of typical for the time. It does get needlessly difficult at certain parts, and that’s probably an aspect of the narrative, but the gameplay itself was probably intended to be functional and engaging.