I wish I could do more for them :'( - Therapist Plays Disco Elysium: Part 30

[@eurobrady]

Continuing our adventures into the fishing village! Parts 31 & 32 are up on the archive already for patreon supporters, coming to YT soon. Enjoy!

[@ThrashCommand]

Please take your time with your playthrough, Brady. This game is a work of art and your playthroughs are incredibly insightful.

[@pauliusbaranauskas7915]

Regarding the envelope: if you succeed at the skill check, you may get your weapon back without cooperating with Evrart Claire

[@stainie]

@@pauliusbaranauskas7915easy with the spoilers

[@Melgorias]

"Press your damn cheek against Lamby" (is what Kim will tell you if you say you don't deserve it)

[@lophiiformed4628]

omg I thought you were joking but I checked on the Fayde website and he really does

[@Melgorias]

@@lophiiformed4628 I would have loved to see Brady react to this interaction

[@weeklyfont]

I'm in the forensics side of the medical field and I completely feel you on how stuff that has to deal with kids can take a huge toll on your mental health. I had a mentor who has been in the field for over 40 years once tell me, "I've gone home and cried after some of the things that I've seen. The day you don't is when you know you've been doing this for too long."

[@dodiswatchbobobo]

I like that the game’s reward system is “say weirder and more inappropriate things, get deeper personal insights into the characters”

[@dzarko55]

And I like how Kim picks up on it, and accommodates it like it’s your interrogation technique. And gets mad when you stop doing it.

[@Karanthaneos]

It is exactly as you said, every time I have to tell of this game to anyone "It is the best book I've ever played". The level of depth, of humanity it displays, so succinctly and elegantly, is simply unparalleled. I love your relationship with Kim, because you realize that he has humanity, but he's also a man of his duty, and while you can allow yourself to escape the world and dream of what else is there and its possibilities, he knows he has to keep you on a short-enough of a leash if he has any hope of solving the case. On a related note, if you say that you're scum and refuse to rub your cheek on Lamby, Kim will bark at you and tell you to "Press your damn cheeks against Lamby, okay?" which is very telling of the kind of man he is.

[@plasticcoyote]

Once you are real you are shaped by love

[@brandonmadsen9591]

"The best book I've ever played" - this guy gets it

[@ondrejvasak1054]

Small tip for progression with no spoilers. Try to inspect the envelope that Everart gave you for the youth center.

[@alex11v3]

Yes but inspect it inside the home you just got

[@handoverthestromboli6715]

oh no... he didnt take on the tie... its * fusing * onto his body

[@bradskag3007]

He's just the foil we need to get Brady to embrace being cool and fun

[@FireheadLazzo]

With any luck, he'll keep forgetting. The tie IS his best friend, after all.

[@mamanjustwannabehedgehog2724]

I feel like the dregs of society. This morning, when I was leaving home for work, a neighbor's little boy greeted me. He was happy and said that he was going to the country with his mother today. I said, "Cool." When I got into the elevator, he waved at me. This moment sowed something good into my soul. I immediately remembered this when I saw the moment with the toy lamb.

[@sheepwshotguns42]

"a tub warm with water, white with soap. a man bathes while radio waves transmit the lottery numbers... a modern washing machine rattles a drawer full of silverware." this throw away line tells us so much. a man, soaking away the pain of his work day is trying to cleanse himself from drudgery. the radio transmits his hope and escapism. nerves shake in anticipation like silverware rattling in a drawer. he is the washing machine, churning out production, an existence in circles, a faith for miracles - the thrill to get to tomorrow. you can FEEL this mans life in 3 sentences...

[@billcipher3168]

Does listening to lottery while bathing makes your life miserable? I mean, guess it does, in the context of the game, metaphorically, but idk, it seems a lot like a normal life to be touching for me.

[@sheepwshotguns42]

@@billcipher3168 well yeah, i didn't say his life was right or wrong. its simply... his life. the question i get from this is, who am i in relation to my work and struggles, and what might my "lottery" be?

[@TessHKM]

​​@@billcipher3168 actively playing the lottery kind of implies that your life is so unsatisfying you will regularly devote unknown amounts of your hard-earned money towards the most infinitesimal chance of getting saved from it. Or it just means you have a gambling addiction. Either way, I don't think the writers of this game waste words, especially on shivers/motoricz checks. Each line is packed to convey the most meaning in the least word possible. Telling you that a character plays the lottery - and how they play it - can communicate a lot about their personality. Do they never play the lottery? Occasionally? Obsessively? Do they regularly buy tickets yet make it a point to never check the numbers?

[@kylejeboss1469]

Brady: Thank you for changing my life 5 yr old: I’m literally just a kid

[@Tjnestor]

You are approximately half way through the game, but the actual game length depends on how quickly you progress on the murder case. When day 3 dawns, new physical areas of the game open up and are available. However, to open up any more areas requires progress on the actual murder case. The game clock just measures the time between times that you can sleep. There is no fixed time that the game will end. Only solving the case triggers the end game sequence.

[@terrancamaclang]

This entire playthrough has been lovely but this was a particularly beautiful episode. In my mind, Lilienne's proclivity towards gratitude and empathy comes FROM her difficult environment. When you don't have the opportunity to choose your boats, choose your tools, it becomes all the more important to care for them. To quote Firefly: "You take a boat out in the water that you don't love, she'll shake you off sure as a turn in the world. Love keeps her flying when she ought to fall down, tells you she's hurting before she keens. Makes her a home."

[@DudokX]

Shivers is written so well, it instantly creates a whole atmosphere in my mind with few sentences. There is even a tragic Esprit de corps check in that shivers check if EdC is high enough.

[@weeklyfont]

Shivers feels like the Dale Cooper stat and I love it so much

[@sheepwshotguns42]

people have hour long video's just breaking down the artistic portraits in the game. the depth and beauty of the world and its inhabitants in a transition state, perfectly portrayed within the confines of a still image.

[@kaschey6145]

I'm enjoying this playthrough so much! Your reactions, roleplay, analysis - it's amazing. I even learnt some new things I wasn't taught in my University. By the way, if you try to refuse the Lamby, Kim would grab your shoulder and ominously say, "Press your damn cheek against Lamby!" I'm not even kidding XD

[@petesematary]

"it's Lamby, he's my friend" Pain loading in 10, 9, 8...

[@jefftheboxboy]

You should definitely try to ask lilianne out, it won't go how you expect and I think it will give you quite a bit to say

[@tharfagreinir]

This has to be my favorite game playthrough ever. The game has incredible depth and your approach to it deepens it even further and really makes you think about all its themes. The way the game keeps literally reading your mind speaks to how thought out it is and it's also very fun to see.

[@klodtwentytwo2242]

27:00 I don't know why, but this line got me very emotional. The idea that these kids were robbed of their childhood, their education and their comfort just because adults decided to play War. They might not feel it now, but it will affect them till the end of their lives.

[@billcipher3168]

eeh, well, you don't need wars for schools to close down

[@jnada161]

​@billcipher3168 does this game not specifically deal with the state of the world in the long echoes of the aftermath of a failed global revolution

[@billcipher3168]

@@jnada161 Technically, it wasn't quite a global revolution, it happened in 3 places including Revachol, over 40 years ago. Presently, in-game, Revachol isn't engaged in any war. All of its structural disrepair is due to economical recession and poor bureaucratic practices, factors which are way more banal than war. But yeah, the game does imply that post-revolutionary cities are not doing well, I was just saying it doesn't have to do with any war directly

[@jnada161]

@@billcipher3168 okay 👍

[@gimpscam9976]

About the games length, it’s as long as you want! You can play as many days although something’s are time/day oriented. For instance, water lock on day 3, which you’ve experienced. I’m not going to get into more as they would spoil. You’ll know when the game is going to end. You’ll get a prompt eventually that tells you, after this you can’t go back. Maybe that’s a spoiler but just saying you have nothing to worry about until that text prompt.

[@romeyperakovich7935]

I don't want to spoil anything, but for the love of god help the cryptozoologist and get the pheromone sprayed on you

[@nuchar]

I like how your cat's enjoy being on your lap :(

[@exwhyzee8904]

The cat takes this playthrough from a 10 to a 12

[@raphaelaviz9784]

I've been watching the series from episode 1 and I feel like it's getting better and better. Absolutely loving your takes and the way you're slowly finding out how much of a masterpiece this game is

[@rattled6732]

Concerning this being the best book you’ve ever played, there are actually books that take place in the world of disco Elysium

[@tomaszkietyka2325]

Well, there's *a* book. A single one.

[@thankfullydaniel4212]

I hope Brady doesn't rush through the game. So far he isn't, but there's so much more to experience. I wouldn't mind if he's still playing a year from now.

[@meu02136]

He’s on day 3 after about 5 months, he’s definitely not doing that.

[@FlameHidden]

You are not the first one to be in love with Shivers. It breathes live into Revachol and its Revacholians so masterfully, it has caught the eyes of Woolie, who did a playthrough with his friend, and evoked an entire essay by Jacob Geller called 'SEARCHING FOR DISCO ELYSIUM' which you should totally save to watch later after you beat the game.

[@sobutto5698]

It might be worth going into your inventory and investigating the papers that Evrart wants you to sign more closely, and seeing if a deeper understanding of them presents any new solutions to the moral quandary they represent...

[@TheBeyspieler]

"This is the best book I have ever played" is a very accurate description for this game.

[@MagusMirificus]

"I wish I could do more for them..." Psst. Yeah, you. Word on the street is....

[@JoeMenjivar]

LIttle Lilly quietly humming "Instrument of Surrender," the music that comes on when you step outside the Whirling in Rags, distracting me from whatever Brady is saying.

[@kiraboom1104]

i highly recommend dropping more points into shivers to get more of it!

[@logicallydashing]

In case you don't know him already, check out Gabor Mate. He's a great source of information when it comes to childhood trauma and how to treat it. Second point, I can't wait for your cat's playthrough of Disco Elysium.

[@eurobrady]

I'm familiar with him! Incredible perspective on addiction as well, highly recommend people check him out.

[@pigeotto3574]

Revachol is just how eastern europe feels like

[@yoavbartov2147]

I totally agree, I am also a mental health professional and therapist and I keep looking for let's plays of this game because of the depth of this game and how easy it is to reflect on so many exsitenal and psychological themes of a personal nature no matter who you are. Really enjoying your playthru ❤

[@imranhodzic8160]

Disco elysium vid on my birthday just as i made my coffee ? Lets go

[@skinnermclane4467]

Happy birthday!

[@imranhodzic8160]

@@skinnermclane4467 thanks man :)

[@pomamoba]

The bike metaphor-someone show Brady Bojack It gets easier. But you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part. But it does get easier.

[@BrandonRotkel]

Brady in episode 10: "I'm just a therapist. I'm not able to give smart commentary on this stuff. My fear is that I end up pursuing a political path that I find at the end that I totally don't align with. I don't know if I'm centrist, I genuinely don't know!" Brady in episode 30: "Fucking Garte, he's a sick capitalist! I'm embracing my anti-capitalism! The people over here are free! They're free from the shackles of the gods of economics!" We got another one, boys!

[@Alex-xk9yd]

Hey Brady - small tip. Your best friend volition is low right now. Why don't you visit Frittte girl and restock on magnesium? It will be good for you

[@GayleenFroese]

As long as you're recommending The Body Keeps the Score, I have a related book to recommend: Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

[@spectral_force5097]

Without spoiling too much at all, I'd say crossing the bridge marks the end of Act 1 and beginning of Act 2.

[@ЙенФенФыр]

I don't like shivers, but I like that Brady enjoys it

[@GreedoShot]

i never saw the calvin and hobbes comparison but i'll never be able to unsee it now, i wonder if there's some inspiration because it's pretty spot on

[@CurlyHooligan]

Disco Elysium rewired my brain and and set off a turbulent few years of self discovery in my life. It's monumental.

[@rrael]

I've bought this game for 2 friends cause I thought they'd love it. I told them it was like playing the greatest, deepest book / game of all time. Despite their love of epic fantasy and sci-fi books, DnD, etc, they still haven't played it years later. I dunno what else to say at this point. I think they're missing out on something beautiful.

[@Il_Cobo]

One thing that I don't know if you noticed, the portraits is how our detective sees the person

[@KeyanGootkin]

it’s so gratifying watching you fall in love with this game. and you have so much left to discover. even when the game ends it stays with you

[@middenrat1433]

Poor kids got flashbanged with that lighter

[@AlasBanquo]

Adding a commentfor the algorithm, and to say this is an incredible experience to have with Brady and others watching. Also, fwwi, Evrart isn't remotely as straightforward as you might think, though he is cynical about a great many things. Like all characters in DE, he's an actual person.

[@OddMusician]

I was hoping you’d see the dialogue if you try not to pet Lamby you get another fun Kim line

[@MychikPhan]

I think I'm developing a crush on Brady: cat dad, loves kids, empathetic and also good looking 🙈

[@ЙенФенФыр]

the cats playing in the background are awesome!

[@therealmrglanet2127]

Small tip from the loading screens: If you see a dialogue starting with "Wait," or "Hold on,", it's a dialogue freebie to get more information from characters you meet. I feel like using this strategy in real life also works, to get a clearer picture of things. Been using it since playing this game, and I feel like it's just a great thing to add to a conversational repertoire

[@GarrusMason]

THE episode I cried the most so far. Absolutely loving the playthrough and the insights. Brady, thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing this, you're doing so much more than you think you are with this playthrough.

[@enby_clown]

man goes to a dying village becomes charmed by poverty

[@birdup1_2]

Oh just wait till he reaches the (spoilers below so u don’t get knowledge u don’t want) The speedfreaks, they’re the people I think he’d resonate with almost the most, close to as much as frittte girl

[@pomamoba]

Just FYI you can read those documents, they are in your inventory

[@disnagburnazog9552]

About progression btw, i think you have Motorway South to retry Hardy Boys, and a skill poiint to retry again if needs must

[@stainie]

I like that Lily is humming the background melody from the city, nice little detail

[@limo_was_here]

i'm always looking forward to these uploads :3 also about the shivers moment at 26:00, i think it is referring to the past more than the present or future. About what this distract was...and was supposed to be.

[@nikicherry1234]

it's nice watching you play Disco Elysium

[@evanriddle4138]

You should see to resolving that Everett letter quest before the third day comes to a close...

[@severallemmings]

Even tho it's exaggerated, watching Brady get radicalized in real-time is hilarious

[@crimsonharvest]

I have had a lot of fun in my life playing with just rocks and dirt, not really in the damp part of spring though those kids must be even more miserable thanks to the season

[@RoundHouseDictator]

All this misery in the name of Le f#%king price stabilite

[@jnada161]

Many such cases

[@Safiyahalishah]

I genuinely bawled my eyes out during this part of the game, running around the dilapidated areas around the fishing village, talking to its stoic impoverished people, all to the tune of this devastating music. I was a complete wreck.

[@varsoonhks3211]

Very glad you ended up with good Shivers and Espirit De Corp. The Noir-like 'visions' and third-person narration they give is some of my favorite prose in the game.

[@supertavio2]

This really is the best videogame that has ever been made :')

[@shotguncrucifix]

The Lamby moment is my favourite moment in the game. Harry needed that. Also Garte rocks hard.

[@billyalarie929]

36:39 “tabula rasa” is a great way to describe it. Some people have called it a Visual Novel, which I think is really nice too

[@severallemmings]

You're still firmly in act 1 lol You're slow going, the depth of your analysis is well worth it tho.

[@djeka415]

Thank you for your videos!

[@CurlyHooligan]

Can someone edit a montage together of all the times Brady says Disco Elysium is the best game, is genius, etc. so we can send it to people who haven't played it yet?

[@Clairembify]

29:47 Hell yeah, and you haven’t even gotten to several of my favourite, similarly brilliantly written scenes yet.

[@gimpscam9976]

Later in the episode when talking about lilienne, it made me think of Karl pilkington. It’s animated but they cover his diary and it’s all such simple things but the man is extremely intelligent.

[@dzarko55]

3:40 “these kids know nothing” not talking about this specifically, but people always know more than they think. Like Sunday friend

[@pocketraccoons]

-play disco elysium -feels more like a book than a videogame -best game ever made

[@stevenstulock1217]

I knew Brady would come around to being comfortable discussing politics in his own way! 😊

[@disnagburnazog9552]

awesome, tis an Episode of Many Highlights Furry kim, children being uncomfortably real, Lamby, "this is the best book i've ever played", "gratitude and empathy arent free"

[@jamesk7335]

Doom spiral aka plague of gripes coming up

[@lezerchil4931]

you are about 1/2, maybe 1/3 in. Especially if we gonna take to account how much talking your character will do in the future. Prepare yourself for another 50 episodes or so

[@armyrbot]

my favorite spot in the game

[@AbrahamsterLincoln]

Hell yeah.

[@lesleychandel5791]

I’m gonna say that Lilliene one of two fictional characters I crush on. She’s a great mom, hard working, pragmatic, subtle sense of dry humor but nothing she says is insincere. I do try to get Harry to go on the date with her, it’s really difficult to pass the check but it’s sweet and wholesome if you can.

[@mutzielen]

I know it's well hidden but I hope he picks up on Evrart having a bit more depth than how he presents himself

[@slamduncan4794]

you are a ripple in this wiggly universe. to me, it looks like a very beautiful ripple. that is all I can say.

[@Blumble]

Loving this series

[@manpotion]

When one of these drops the first thing I do is let my girlfriend know so we can view it together.

[@wszczeklypiesz]

Did you just call Kim a furry? I can't un-imagine this concept now.

[@ehsanghazavi470]

Kind of late to ask this, but has he opened the compartment in Harry's notebook and read the "letter"?

[@svolozhanin7627]

How can you try to help someone, when your character can’t even help himself?)

[@DanAlom]

Brady, how do you deal with the emotions when your heart breaks for someone else? It feels unhealthy to ferment in that feeling but also is to just push it away. I wonder what is the healthy way to process it.

[@eurobrady]

It can be hard to separate that for sure. You just have to learn what your emotional bandwidth is, and be careful not to let so much of it be taken up by what you feel for others. You also have to thrive in your own life, and that takes emotional energy, so it is not selfish at all to put up boundaries that keep you from becoming too invested. Boundaries can be rigid or porous (either fully closed or with gaps), and with people you care for you can let yourself feel for them, but only until the point that it does not disrupt your life as well. It's a tricky balance, and every person is different, but it's something you can only learn with practice!

[@ImVeryOriginal]

I really, really hope you get to talk to Evrart Claire again later on in the game and learn more about him. I'm very curious what would your thoughts be.

[@eurobrady]

We will definitely check in on some of the people we've met with again as we keep going! I've got unfinished business with Evrart

[@ImVeryOriginal]

@@eurobrady Can't wait! I just became a patron - your playthrough is one of the best ones out there, keep it up!

[@attentivechair3248]

YES PLEASE make a video about Lamby 🐑🐑🐑

[@petesematary]

It really is the best game

[@billyalarie929]

Brady, I don’t mean to come off any type of aggressive or untoward way, and I do apologize if it does do that. But just so you know, “prosaic” is not the word you should be using when describing something like Shivers. Per Oxford Languages, here is what that word actually means: “Having the style or diction of prose: lacking poetic beauty.”1 “Commonplace; unromantic.”2 An example sentence (or fragments thereof) for each are given thus: 1 “prosaic language can’t convey the experience” 2 “the masses were too preoccupied by prosaic day-to-day concerns” Hope this helps, man!

[@eurobrady]

Oh hah no worries, seems like one of those words that means the opposite of what it sounds like it means

[@billyalarie929]

@@eurobradyI used to do it constantly because it ABSOLUTELY SOUNDS LIKE the opposite of what it means… it’s such a pretty word! But I’ve been *retch* shamed for it enough, that I’ve been “scared straight” (lol) out of using it incorrectly again.

[@sobutto5698]

@@eurobrady Think of 'prosaic' being the opposite of 'poetic' and it makes more sense, (though I've no idea if that's the actual root of the word).

[@Anna-zi7sx]

Finally we’ve broken the anti politics mask.

[@jnada161]

He will be dancing to disco music in no time.

[@thelxr]

Commenting for algo sake ;) Doing god's work, mate :3

[@jizburg]

What i have learned today is that kim is a furry, on the inside ❤