We keep joking about PC Gamer being a communist magazine but holy shit we've straight up got links to marxist.org in the article

Ah, I have the season pass too I just uninstalled cos I needed space on my hard drive for other stuff haha

I guess I meant more as in that Chapo's audience has moved further left than them, and are looking for more "serious" analysis.

Deprogram is more internationalist (which is good) but it also tends to draw out the class reductionist (which isn't as good).

Do you have the new Spheres of Influence dlc? Thinking of reinstalling to try it out

Based on my launch experience (some of the patches and dlc change up the game a ton):

It’s not that hard to pick up once you figure out the UI. But also most of the game is fucking around with different inputs until you get the results you want e.g. building up enough infrastructure so you can set up paper mills so you can set up universities so you can expand the intelligentsia so you can start passing liberal laws, etc. In the late game everything becomes kinda automated and you end up just kinda sitting back and enjoying your little communist utopia.

The biggest points of friction were all the “gamey” elements they put on top of the simulation, which end up with weird results like France balkanizing into a million different states after the Paris Commune or World War 1 starting because Brazil declares war on Argentina. But I dunno how fun a pure simulation would be so idk

As for the users, there's overlap between r/TheDeprogram, r/LateStageCapitalism, r/WorkersStrikeBack... and here and Lemmygrad, but I don't envy anyone who stayed on reddit cos the place is hella astroturfed right now, between Zionists and Liberal "Harm Reduction" Dems (I know I repeat myself, but still).

Yeah, I think everyone who was a fan of Chapo/Trueanon in 2016 has moved on to The Deprogram / Blowback / Democracy Now! etc.

I still tune in to Hasan and Chapo if a topic interests me, for things like movie reviews and stuff.

(Also Hasan has been blowing up in my feed because of all the Twitch drama atm)

Did they say something cringe recently?

I still listen from time to time. Not to my knowledge. Hell they're one of the handful of left media figures who've been consistently good on Palestine.

I hope he fucking drives a tank to your house

Ah whoops thanks for the correction

(In order) Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia (or maybe more specifically the Soloman Islands), Fiji and the cherry on top of this shit sundae New Zealand. Half of these are Muslim majority countries. IMAGINE

I notice Singapore is excluded which is fucking hilarious considering that it's the only country in this region that has an actual history of espionage against Australia.

Legit?

Can you tell us about the staff working on the game? Details are kinda scant

To be fair, that stance was probably from before he was fired.

• ZA/UM itself, or it's shambling corpse.

• Red Info. The company Kurvitz and Rostov founded after they left ZA/UM, funded by Netease. Unfortunately we don't know much about what they are doing, other than that they have a project. Understandably the legal battle for the rights of Disco Elysium probably came first.

• Longdue. Unfortunately we know the least about this studio, just some concept art and some PR speak.

• Dark Math. This studio has a trailer for a game that's um... a little familiar, it's also associated with Kaur Kender who was one of the people involved in the shenanigans that went down at ZA/UM. Article

• and now Summer Eternal, who don't have a trailer or proof of concept or pretty much anything except a manifesto (and are therefore the true inheritors of the crown, imo). That said, they're explicitly set up as a worker's co-op with a structure that's designed to prevent a hostile takeover, so it seems some hard lessons have been learnt

The scuttlebutt is that ZA/UM's non-compete clause for their ex-staff expired today, which is the reason for all these announcements, but that's speculation that can't be corroborated so take it with a pinch of salt.

The 5th studio

Art imitates life...

Kurvitz and Rostov have their own company, Red Info ltd. that is funded by Netease and is apparently working on something, but we probably won't get more news until the legal trouble with Disco Elysium itself is resolved

XXX Nightshift is the name of the game being made by Dark Math Games

At time of this article's publishing the companies were: ZA/UM itself, Red Info (Kurvitz and Rostov's company), Long Due and Dark Math Games.

Now there's another co-op Summer Eternal, bringing the total to 5

I’ve got good news for you!

https://killsixbilliondemons.com/comic/kill-six-billion-demons-chapter-1/

Is where “reach heaven through violence” is quoted from. It’s good stuff, written by an actual leftist too

Well...

Edit: Ah cool he covers it at the end of the video